![]() ![]() The story will intrigue you with its whispers of fantasy and mystery, and the colorful pictures Bayron weaves of the settings, dresses, and balls. A quick and fun read, it was a joy to follow its heroine – a young, queer, Black girl – on her quest to set things right.Īs a lesbian, I’m constantly on the lookout for books that incorporate my two favorite things – magic and LGBT characters. ![]() This exciting new YA fantasy novel dives headfirst into a society that only looks like a fairytale on the surface. She only dreams of escaping with (and marrying) her best friend, Erin, and living as her true self. She doesn’t want to attend the ball, she doesn’t want a husband, and she doesn’t want to live the life her parents and her king tell her she must. Our heroine, Sophia, wants nothing to do with the barbaric tradition young women are forced into. In the new release Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella’s death 200 years prior has led to a patriarchal and ruthless society ruled by men, where women are nothing more than prizes to be claimed at the annual ball. We all know the story of Cinderella, but what if the story we’ve learned is only just the beginning? “The palace underestimates the resourcefulness of women forced into a dark and dangerous place.” ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Owl becomes a nexus of good in a difficult world for Esme-but will it be enough to sustain her when Mitchell, glittering with charm and danger, comes back on the scene? The Bookstore is a celebration of books, of the shops where they are sold, and of the people who work, read, and live in them. The Owl is a shabby all-day, all-night haven for a colorful crew of characters, such as handsome and taciturn guitar player Luke and George, the owner, who lives on spirulina shakes and idealism. Stubbornly determined to master everything from Degas to diapers, Esme starts work at a small West Side bookstore to make ends meet. Before she has a chance to tell Mitchell about her pregnancy, he abruptly declares their sex life is as exciting as a cup of tea, and ends it all. When she falls in love with New York blue-blood Mitchell van Leuven, with his penchant for all things erotic, life seems to be clear sailing, until a thin blue line signals stormy times ahead. Love doesn’t always go by the book Ardent and Idealistic, Esme Garland has arrived in Manhattan with a scholarship to study art history at Columbia University. ![]() ![]() ![]() With Youngbloods, master storyteller Scott Westerfeld decisively brings back his most iconic character and merges his Impostors and Uglies series into a breathtaking tale of rivalry, rebellion, and repercussion. ITS TIME TO COME OUT OF HIDING Frey has spent her life in a family of. As the world is propelled further into conflict and conspiracy, Frey and Tally join forces to put a check on the people in power, while still trying to understand their own power and where it belongs. Buy Youngbloods: Impostors 4 by Scott Westerfeld for 30.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. The thrilling final book in the New York Times bestselling Impostors series. Freedom, she observes, has a way of destroying things. Editions for Youngbloods: (Kindle Edition published in 2022), 133815155X (Hardcover published in 2022), 1760528277 (Paperback published in 2022), (Kindle. Now she sees that the revolution she led has not created a stable world. New York Times bestselling author of UGLIES and IMPOSTORS SCOTT WESTERFELD YOUNGBLOODS 1 YOUNGBLOODS SCOTT WESTERFELD SCHOLASTIC PRESS. ![]() But for over a decade, she's kept to the shadows, allowing her myth to grow even as she receded. Tally was once the most famous rebel in the world. ![]() Free from them at last, she is finding her own voice - and using it to question everything her family stood for. ![]() IT'S TIME TO COME OUT OF HIDING Frey has spent her life in a family of deceivers, a stand-in for her sister, manipulated at her father's command. The thrilling final book in the New York Times bestselling Impostors series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Ghosts trying to get laid, an “erotic” burning bush, forbidden love between sea monsters and more fill this collection of Torah-influenced bizarro, horror, and pulp fiction. Garrett Cook, author of A God of Hungry Walls "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() The Anarchist Kosher Cookbook is a strange, surreal, and hilarious ride.” –Danger Slater, author of I Will Rot Without You and DangerRAMA You gotta dig any book that has a recipe for a skinhead-killing Golem.” –Jeff Burk, editor of Deadite Press and author of Shatnerquake “Maxwell Bauman’s writing is wacky and weird. Bauman’s work is a genuine surprise.” –Garrett Cook, author of A God of Hungry Walls “Ghosts trying to get laid, an “erotic” burning bush, forbidden love between sea monsters and more fill this collection of Torah-influenced bizarro, horror, and pulp fiction. PRAISE FOR THE ANARCHIST KOSHER COOKBOOK “Fresh, weird and funny. ![]() The Anarchist Kosher Cookbook is the perfect Bubbe approved Chanukah gift. These stories transcend the mundane mashugana of life through page turning plots and memorable mensch and schmuck characters. Drop your dreidel and feast your eyes on The Anarchist Kosher Cookbook! Maxwell Bauman’s debut collection of strange Jewish-themed stories will shock and entertain with a modern twist on burning bushes, virgin ghosts, leviathans, Baphomitzvahs, and how to create your own golem to fight off Neo Nazis. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both are published by Penguin in one volume entitled Red Dwarf Omnibus. Better Than Life was the not-very-long-awaited sequel. ![]() Red Dwarf was an enormous bestseller when published as a Penguin paperback in 1989. They can still taste the cheese 'n' onion toasties. They also spent almost two years on the night shift loading paper into computer printers at a mail-order factory in Ardwick. ![]() They have made a living variously by being ice-cream salesmen, shoe-shop assistants and by attempting to sell dodgy life-assurance policies to close friends. Among other things, they spent three years in the mid-eighties as head writers of Spitting Image wrote Radio 4's award-winning series Son of Cliche, penned the lyrics to a number one single and created and wrote Red Dwarf for BBC Television. The first body is called Rob Grant, the second Doug Naylor. They attended the same school and the same university, but, for tax reasons, have completely different wives. ![]() The product of a horribly botched genetic-engineering experiment, which took place in Manchester in the late fifties, they try to eke out two existences with only one mind. Grant Naylor is a gestalt entity occupying two bodies, one of which lives in north London, the other in south London. ![]() ![]() ![]() She valiantly fights for the sake of her friends and her mother and to speak and act for those who have no voice. Only one person can stop her-Candy Quackenbush from Chickentown, U.S.A., a heroine who has traveled between the Hereafter and the Abarat. ![]() When evil begins rising from the sea, tumbles The Great Head, and sets islands aflame, the Abarat is filled with fear. Her hour has come-she is prepared to unleash the end of the world. ![]() Mater Motley plans to create a darkness so complete that it blots out every glimpse of the light and vanquishes the sun, moon, and stars from the Abarat, ending all hope and happiness. With villains resurrected and morphed and the Old Mother of darkness herself, Mater Motley, at the heart of a ruthless scheme, Abarat is in danger of being destroyed forever. ![]() Abarat: Absolute Midnight continues the thrilling adventures of Candy Quackenbush in the Abarat, a vast archipelago where every island is a different hour of the day-from The Great Head that sits in the mysterious twilight waters of Eight in the Evening to the sunlit wonders of Three in the Afternoon, where dragons roam, to the dark terrors of Gorgossium, the island of Midnight, ruled over by the evil Mater Motley. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I forget the author of this work, but it sounds like a polished NPR piece. This is a wonderful little window into the kind of work Studs Terkel was responsible for. Radio edit of historical Terkel interview samples Four decades later, we hear from some of these same people as they reflect on their original interviews - and on the startling changes in their lives since. The result is a stunning audio documentary that captures the voices of Americans from vastly different backgrounds, each reflecting on the rewards, the challenges, and the often surprising value of work in their lives. Partnering with the Chicago History Museum and the Studs Terkel Archives, Project& was given exclusive access to the original recordings and spent a year working with Radio Diaries preparing them for the world to hear as part of the national multimedia initiative Working in America. The great interviewer of his day, Terkel celebrated the uncelebrated, and Working elevated the stories of ordinary people and their daily lives.įor over four decades, the Working tapes were packed away in Terkel's home office and remained unheard - until now. The result was the best-selling book Working. ![]() In the early 1970s, author and radio host Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The complete audio documentary as broadcast by NPR, plus exclusive bonus interviews and commentary. ![]() ![]() ![]() provides a rich setting for drama with its endless plots and conniving courtiers." Associated Press"Gregory. In the absence of a son and heir, he ruthlessly uses the two girls as pawns but they, in their own right, are thoughtful and powerful actors.Against the backdrop of the court of Edward IV and his beautiful queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne turns from a delightful child growing up in intimacy and friendship with the family of Richard Duke of York to become ever more fearful and desperate as her father's enemies turn against her, the net closes in and there is, in the end, simply nowhere she can turn, no one she can trust with her life. " The Kingmaker’s Daughter is Gregory in fine form. ![]() 'I have lost my father in battle, my sister to Elizabeth Woodville's spy, my brother-in-law to Elizabeth Woodville's executioner, my nephew to her poisoner, and now my son to her curse.'The gripping and ultimately tragic story of Anne Neville and her sister Isabel, the daughters of the Earl of Warwick, the most powerful magnate in England through the Cousins' Wars. ![]() ![]() Where did the idea for Absolute Love Publishing come from? Shearer.) I am also heavily involved in making appearances to promote my book “Women Will Save the World.” I am also helping clients – aspiring authors- to realize their own publishing dreams through Spirited Press, the assisted self-publishing imprint of Absolute Love Publishing. I am working on a couple of New Thought min-e-books™, and the second book in the Adventures of a Lightworker series (see “Dead End Date” by Caroline A. Intuitively guided, Caroline has a remarkable ability to unite others along a path of progressing and celebrating the experience of humanity. She is regularly featured as a luminary in print, broadcast, and online media, offering guidance and sharing positive stories of her personal spiritual journey toward a more abundant, joyful, and light-filled life. ![]() ![]() Known as a fresh, distinctive, spiritual voice, Caroline’s visionary leadership is uplifting, gently blending love and inspiration. Shearer is the founder of Absolute Love Publishing, which was born out of a mission to create and publish projects promoting goodness in the world. The quality of who you are is reflected in what you do and what you produce, the respect you command and the knowledge you have, and that’s what matters.Ĭaroline A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Isabel Culpeper is one of the only characters in the book to really make him show some emotion, and even that he recoils from. He wears his good looks like armour, and he has mastered the "whatever" attitude. ![]() He creates an aura around him that oozes arrogance and superiority, but beneath the skin he's a broken man who just wanted to escape from the pressure of his past life. He hoped to escape his past life by spending every minute he could as a wolf.Ĭole is a complex character. However, he recoiled from the expectations and whilst touring the country with his band his life slowly spiralled downwards until he got bitten by Beck. He was an incredibly intelligent young man with the potential to follow in the footsteps of his father, who was a genius. Cole grew up in America and he was the lead singer in the well known band NARKOTIKA. ![]() |