![]() ![]() ![]() Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the isolated travelers to the brink of madness. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. My podcast DAMNED HISTORY, which I talk about the history behind my books, is now available on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and Soundcloud.Ī tense and gripping reimagining of one of America’s most fascinating historical moments: the Donner Party with a supernatural twist. Winner – 2019 Western Heritage Award for Best Novel Nominated for Locus Award for Best Horror Novel of 2018 ![]() Nominated for Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Novel of 2018 WINNER Best Novel (Translated) of 2019, Celsius 232, Spanish festival of science fiction, fantasy, and horror NPR, Esquire: one of the best horror novels of all time ![]() Oprah Magazine, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, Book Riot, the NY Times and many more One of the Most Celebrated Horror Books of 2020 “Supernatural suspense at its finest” – N.Y. Katsu is an exceptionally gifted writer and the dread-soaked pages are with me every day as both a writer and a scaredy cat.”” – Author of YOU Caroline Kepnes on “E qual parts unputdownable and must-put-it-down-or-I-am- going-to-have-a-heart-attack… You travel into this book and there is no escape. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I happened to have read this on the train on the way to my class and when I came in the room I pulled the book out of my backpack, gave it to my three hijab-wearing Muslim students who hovered around it together, delighted with it, and that moved me a lot (see above, Grandma's comment). One thing I like is that the antagonistic boys are depicted non-racially, just plain brown, so that makes it see less judgmental about a particular race.ĭave: 4 I liked this on first read, thought maybe 3 stars, as I found it good, okay, about the hijab, sisters, bullying, the story and art just fine, but I was influenced by other factors in my rating, finally. If I go by how it was for me as a reader, and my interests, I would say 4 stars, I liked it, but if I can imagine an audience of hijab-wearing girls, I would say definitely 5 stars. And dealing with prejudice, staying strong through that. Wait, what's with all the counting (steps, and so on) and numbers in this book?! This book is really about celebrating differences. Olympic medalist and social justice activist Ibtihaj Muhammad. ![]() It was written By Olympic medalist, social activist (and hijab-wearing!) athlete Ibtihaj Muhammed with the help of (writer) She. This is book #18 (of 20) of 2019, and we liked it. My family reads all the Goodreads-award-nominated picture books every year. ![]() ![]() ![]() Writing with the wit and power that have enthralled millions, Stephen King has taken the classic fairy-tale form and transformed it into a masterpiece of fiction that will captivate readers of all ages. ![]() The last bastion of hope lies at the top of the Needle, the royal prison where Peter plans a daring escape. But Thomas has a secret that has turned his days into nightmares and his nights into prayed-for oblivion. Flagg saw it all and smiled, for now Prince Thomas, a young boy easily swayed to Flagg's own purposes, would rule the kingdom. Yet a tiny mouse is enough to bring him down, a mouse that chances upon a grain of Dragon Sand behind Peter's shelves and dies crying tears of fire and belching gray smoke. Roland's time is nearly over, though, and young Prince Peter, tall and handsome, the measure of a king in all ways, stands to inherit the realm. Featuring 21 charming illustrations by David Palladini, this is an adventure fantasy for young adultsor very old prepubescentsand among Kings most accomplished works (though readers who groan at Kings unremitting vulgarity in his adult novels will again have a few quarrels to pick). Through the spyhole it conceals, the court magician observes King Roland-old, weak, yet still a king. In four hundred years, he has walked it many times, in many guises, but now the passage serves its true purpose. The passage through the castle is dim, sensed by few and walked by only one. A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards-as only Stephen King can tell it! ![]() ![]() ![]() It was the sight of a horrible tragedy, which may be why the Claires got it so cheap. And they all know about the Vayle place, which has just been purchased by a young married couple: George Claire (James Norton), a recent addition to the local private liberal-arts college, and his wife, Catherine ( Amanda Seyfried). The residents of the region, at least in the early 1980s, seem to accept this as a fact of life some even view it as a perk. ![]() There are ghosts that haunt the houses of New York’s Hudson Valley, we’re told early on in Things Heard & Seen (now streaming on Netflix) - the spirits of former owners who may have unfinished business in this realm, or who may be protecting new occupants from possible danger, or who may be right evil bastards waiting to inspire the living to embrace their own inner darkness. ![]() ![]() Mélisande is an amalgamation of a lot of artists I have known over the years. There were so many that I suspect she didn’t own them, they owned her. ![]() You had to constantly move them out of your way. ![]() I have a very vague recollection of going to visit her once and you couldn’t sit down for cats. My Babcia (Polish for grandmother) had a friend who was an artist who painted our family portraits and who also owned a lot of cats, but the similarities and the inspiration end there. Salamandre Explores Grief In A World Where Art Is Outlawed An exclusive preview of this provocative graphic novel can be viewed below. As Kaspar grapples with a recent loss, he discovers a world filled with art revolutionaries, espionage, and the Secret Police who may not be what they seem. There, flowers are considered contraband while music is illegal and art is prohibited. The grandfather in question lives behind the Iron Veil, a foreign land that is ruled over by an oppressive emperor. Culbard follows a young artist named Kaspar who is sent to stay with his charismatic grandfather. ![]() Related: Kevin Smith's Movie Heroes Collide in New QUICK STOPS Comic Series (Exclusive) Salamandre by I.N.J. Now, he's working closely with Dark Horse Comics and Berger Books to produce Salamandre as a brand-new piece of work straight out of his own mind. Additionally, Umbrella Academy fans will remember him for his contributions in producing art for Tales from the Umbrella Academy: You Look Like Death. ![]() ![]() ![]() You probably know just by looking at its remarkable cover whether or not this book is for you. Winters moves the milieu to a bizarre aquatic world populated by pirates and monsters, full of desert islands and undersea domes. After their father dies, under the strict (and unfair) laws of primogeniture, the family estate must go to their half-brother and his wicked wife. Don’t worry, Sea Monsters still tells the protofeminist tale of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (sense) and Marianne (sensibility) as they try to navigate the upheaval of their changing fortunes. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters adds giant mutant crustaceans, two-headed sea dragons, and rampaging narwhals to the mix. ![]() Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is a mannered romance about class and love, family and duty, and the fine balance between logic and emotion. ![]() ![]() ![]() Intimidation must have been part of the plan when, on 18 September this year, Russian coastguards descended from helicopters onto the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise and seized everyone on board – Captain Wilcox, 27 other activists from 18 countries, including Dimitri Litvinov, a descendant of Stalin's foreign minister but a Swedish and American citizen, and two journalists – at knife and gunpoint. They had not intended to kill anyone – they had assumed that the crew would remain onshore after they first bomb – but they had certainly meant to intimidate. The French government saw Greenpeace protests against its nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific as a threat to its national interests and had ordered its agents to plant the bombs. ![]() A second bomb exploded, sending the ship to the bottom and drowning him. After a few minutes, with all quiet and the ship having settled but not sunk, the photographer Fernando Pereira went back on board to retrieve equipment. Captain Peter Wilcox and his crew of twelve disembarked. The ship, which was docked in Auckland harbour, began to list. ![]() On 10 July 1985 a limpet mine attached to the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior exploded, tearing a hole the size of a car in its hull. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jack, however, could feel the thrum of excitement from the children. People had finished shopping and were heading to their apartments and penthouses and homes. It muffled the sounds of the city, though New York was already quieting down. It was a sapling when the city was still called New Amsterdam and there were more Native Americans than settlers living in the swampy forests of Manhattan Island.īy this Christmas Eve 1933, millions of people lived within shouting distance of this noble oak, but its secrets were still more absolute than they had been when flintlocks or bows and arrows were the order of the day.Ī heavy snow was falling over all of the East. ![]() This tree was much older than the park it stood in and was even older than the city of New York itself. A thousand people, maybe more, walked past it daily and had done so for many years, but not one of them knew that Jackson Overland Frost was very often living inside it. Jack’s tree was the oldest in Central Park. And for the last few decades or so, he had spent that day in his favorite place: his tree. ![]() The Pause that Thickens (the Plot, that Is)ĬHRISTMAS EVE WAS JACK’S favorite day of the year. In Which We Get to the Root of the Matter The Greatest Library the World Has Never Known What’s Good for the Goose Is Grand for the Ganderly ![]() ![]() Chambers’s clean, careful prose and beautiful pacing and structure keep the narrative engrossing from beginning to end. ![]() Simultaneously, Pepper’s backstory as a cloned factory slave on a rogue planet that doesn’t adhere to galactic laws is brought to the forefront, since not everything from her past can or should remain in the past. Now, assisted by friendly tech Pepper, Lovelace has to figure out her new identity and make a new life for herself, including how to hack various portions of her own code to keep from being caught and destroyed. It’s illegal for AIs to have bodies that can be mistaken for those of other sentient beings, but Lovelace downloaded herself into a human-form body on her first day of existence, more to help her ship’s crew than by her real choice. In many ways, A Closed and Common Orbit is every bit as good as Chambers’ debut novel. This time, though, there’s more emotional weight and depth, adding a necessary ominous shading to Chambers’s generally calming voice. There are fewer characters in this cast, but the novel covers much more ground as it explores issues of personhood, attachment, and our responsibilities to those we love. ![]() ![]() This worthy sequel to Chambers’s lovely debut, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, again features marvelously detailed aliens, a universe full of carefully observed peculiarities, and a friendly, soothing atmosphere. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() George Cukor is historically known as Hollywood's "women's director," turning out hit after hit with films with inspired performances by female leads. ![]() The novel was adapted routinely for the stage and on the screen. Loos retired from screenwriting in 1945, after doctoring the script for "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." In 1925, just prior to the advent of the talkies, Loos wrote her first novel, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," which would become one of the most famous books of the Jazz Age, and the work for which Loos would become best known. She was known as a writer who could save any adaptation, taking over the adaptation of the now-legendary pre-Code film "Red Headed Woman" after F. She was a celebrity on the level of Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford, unheard of at the time (or any other time) for screenwriters. Anita Loos was arguably the most famous of the many women screenwriters of the silent era and remaining so well after the change to talkies. ![]() INSCRIBED by Anita Loos to director George Cukor on the front endpaper some years later: "Ap/ So now after 25 years you want my autograph! / My love you've always had / Anita." With Cukor's illustrated deco bookplate on the facing front pastedown. Thirteenth printing, published in May 1926 (first printing having been published in November 1925). ![]() |