It’s NO surprise that Smith, as an illustrator, has delivered another gorgeous picture book. Specifically, I’m talking about his latest picture book, Grandpa Green, a book that I think, stands as a big shift in tone for the author, but it’s a shift that pays off beautifully.įirst, don’t get me wrong. And we very purposely don’t own either title, because, when we take them out from the library, she sees it as an enormous treat.Īll that being said, with the regard that we have for Smith’s body of work, it’s really spectacular to know that he can still surprise us as a creator. My daughter swears up and down that Smith’s The Big Elephant in the Room and The Happy Hocky Family – two books that he both wrote and illustrated – are two of the funniest books she’s ever read. We are huge fans of his work as an author and illustrator across a whole slew of titles like The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Seen Art?, Madam President, Cowboy and Octopus, Princess Hyacinth, It’s a Book… the list goes on and on. Lane Smith is one of those creators that my family completely takes for granted.
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So when the wallbanging threatens to literally bounce her out of bed, Caroline, clad in sexual frustration and a pink baby-doll nightie, confronts Simon Parker, her heard-but-never-seen neighbor. And since Caroline is currently on a self-imposed dating hiatus, and her neighbor is clearly lethally attractive to women, she finds her fantasies keep her awake even longer than the noise. Thanks to paper-thin walls and the guy’s athletic prowess, she can hear not just his bed banging against the wall but the ecstatic response of what seems (as loud night after loud night goes by) like an endless parade of women. The first night after Caroline moves into her fantastic new San Francisco apartment, she realizes she’s gaining an intimate knowledge of her new neighbor’s nocturnal adventures. Genres: New Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Enemies to Lovers "Highly original stuff, episode after amazing episode, full of color, life, and death. "I always loved science fiction, but I didn’t feel I was part of it-until I read first Octavia Butler, and now Nnedi Okorafor." -Whoopi Goldberg “The most imaginative, gripping, enchanting fantasy novels I have ever read!” -Laurie Halse Anderson, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Speak Le Guin, award-winning author of A Wizard of Earthsea "There’s more imagination on a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics." -Ursula K. “Okorafor’s novels tend to reflect both her West-African heritage and American experiences, but in this series she creates a stunningly original world of African magic that draws on Nigerian folk beliefs and rituals instead of relying on the predictable tropes of Western fantasy novels.” "The book puts a unique, inclusive spin on the timeless tale of the misfit chosen to save the world." One of Time Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy and Young Adult Books of All Time! The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling and punctuation reflects the original. On a full moon Serilda saves some moss maidens and when confronted by the Erkling, she weaves a tale of spinning straw into gold. Meyer’s weaved elements a horror into this dark fable from the creatures to the poor souls who heard the call. I loved the Wild Hunt and the ghosts, slaves and happenings within the Erkling’s keep. They are known for stealing young children and hunting wild creatures. The townsfolk avoid the forest and live in fear of the full-moon when Erkling and his dead hunt. She received her gift from the god Wyrdith and we learn how that came to be in the opening chapter. Most of the village fear her, but the children adore her and the stories she weaves about the Erkling, woods and creatures found there. Serilda lives with her father, the local miller, and has golden wheeled eyes that make the villagers blame her for all their woes. Fans of German folklore will appreciate the research Meyer did in bringing Grimm’s Rumplestiltskin’s tale to life, but also the stories of the Erlking, Shrub Grandmother and Nachtkrapp. I love slipping into the worlds Meyer creates and while I am familiar with the story of Rumpelstiltskin she put a spin on it that drew me in. Where interpreters have traditionally viewed the wave of witch-hunting as one last outburst of medieval superstition in a world that had not yet become fully modern, Federici argues that we need to see the witch-hunts as integral to what is euphemistically called “the transition to capitalism.”įar from an anachronistic holdover, in Federici’s account the witch-hunts were the most extreme and vicious outgrowth of a broader campaign to discipline female bodies, and particularly their reproductive power, in ways that would support the demands of capitalist accumulation. Along with her work and advocacy in wages for housework campaigns, she is best known for her book Caliban and the Witch, which advances a daring reinterpretation of the phenomenon of witch-hunting in early modern Europe and the colonial world. Silvia Federici is a feminist activist and scholar with vast interdisciplinary reach. "A masterfully crafted, brutally compelling Norse-inspired epic." -Anthony Ryan It’s everything I’ve come to expect from a John Gwynne book." -Robin Hobb “There is not a dull chapter in this fantasy epic.” -Vulture (Best of the Year) A book of forbidden magic with the power to raise the wolf god Ulfrir from the dead…and bring about a battle that will shake the foundations of the earth. Their only hope lies within the mad writings of a chained god. Yet even the might of the Bloodsworn and Battle-Grim cannot stand alone against a dragon god. Now she plots a new age of blood and conquest.Īs Orka continues the hunt for her missing son, the Bloodsworn sweep south in a desperate race to save one of their own–and Varg takes the first steps on the path of vengeance.Įlvar has sworn to fulfil her blood oath and rescue a prisoner from the clutches of Lik-Rifa and her dragonborn followers, but first she must persuade the Battle-Grim to follow her. THE DEAD GODS ARE RISING.Lik-Rifa, the dragon god of legend, has been freed from her eternal prison. Packed with myth, magic, and bloody vengeance, John Gwynne's "masterfully crafted, brutally compelling, Norse-inspired epic" (Anthony Ryan) continues in The Hunger of the Gods. Recommendations from the African Diaspora.Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Arrow Icon. There, he meets Madeleine Wallace, a brilliant killer with ties to the Nightwalkers. But on the way home from his birthday party, he makes an impulsive choice that leads to community service at Arkham Asylum, the infamous prison. The new, eagerly anticipated BATMAN YA novel is an action-packed thrill ride that could only be penned by 1 New York Times bestselling author MARIE LU. Bruce is turning eighteen and inheriting his family's fortune, not to mention the keys to Wayne Industries and all the tech gadgetry that he could ever desire. The Nightwalkers are terrorizing Gotham City, and Bruce Wayne is next on their list. Im not a huge fan of Batman, but Marie Lu just convinced me that. Its captivating and colorfully descriptive. A reckless boy willing to break the rules for a girl who may be his worst enemy. Marie Lus writing never ceases to amaze me. This dark and twisty BATMAN in the blockbuster DC Icons series is an action-packed thrill ride from #1 New York Times bestselling author MARIE LU.īefore he was Batman, he was Bruce Wayne. The brutal camp conditions were documented by Searle in a series of drawings that he hid under the mattresses of prisoners dying of cholera. He spent the rest of the war a prisoner, first in Changi Prison and then in the Kwai jungle, working on the Siam-Burma Death Railway. After a month of fighting in Malaya, Singapore fell to the Japanese, and he was taken prisoner along with his cousin Tom Fordham Searle. In January 1942, he was stationed in Singapore. He trained at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, currently Anglia Ruskin University, for two years, and in 1941, published the first St Trinian's cartoon in the magazine Lilliput. In April 1939, realizing that war was inevitable, he abandoned his art studies to enlist in the Royal Engineers. He started drawing at the age of five and left school at the age of 15. He is also the co-author (with Geoffrey Willans) of the Molesworth series. Best known as the creator of St Trinian's School (the subject of several books and seven full-length films). Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI, is an influential English artist and cartoonist. Her formidable mother, a home health care aide, has plummeted into a second severe depression, and their family pastor has dispatched the limp woman toward Gifty via airplane from Huntsville, Alabama, “folding her up the way you would a jumpsuit.” The first episode, when Gifty was 11, arrived after an opiate overdose stole the life of 16-year-old Nana, the firstborn son and more cherished child. It unspools entirely in the voice of watchful, reticent, brilliant Gifty, 28, nearly finished with her doctorate in neuroscience at Stanford’s School of Medicine. A scientist weighs the big questions that her private trauma bequeaths her.Īfter Homegoing (2016) swept through seven generations, Gyasi’s wise second novel pivots toward intimacy. |