![]() Biddy must venture into the outside world to save him from his enemies, but the more she learns about her past, the more she questions Rowan and herself. That chance comes when her guardian, a magician named Rowan, doesn’t return from his mysterious travels. Her life on the hidden magical island is quiet, a reality she finds increasingly stifling, and she longs for a chance to explore the outside world. ![]() Hy-Brasil is the only home Biddy has ever known. As the city falls into ruin-Pampa is at the center. But as time goes on, the city becomes more complex and its leaders more corrupt. ![]() Over the next 250 years, the city grows from the magical seeds Pampa sewed herself into a society where women have agency in a patriarchal world. She is given her powers and is told she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnaga or “victory city”. In the fourteenth-century in southern India, nine-year-old Pampa encounters a goddess. From 14th century India to 20th century New York, the time and place for fantasy lovers to step into is vast and exciting as ever.Ī goddess speaks through Pampa Kampana. ![]() Feature image doesn’t love the immense world building and incredible characters found in the fantasy genre, but throw in some real-life historical flare to pull all the magic into our own world and we are hooked! This year there are so many great historical fantasy books coming out it was hard to choose just a few. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Encountering the great inventor, Cravath is intimidated by Edison, who appears here as a single-minded bully: “ ‘If you think you can stop me,’ Edison said softly, ‘go ahead and try. Electricity, we are told, is a mixed blessing. Hurrying to a meeting with Edison, he witnesses the horrific electrocution of a workman hanging power lines. ![]() Our way into the tale is the real-life lawyer Paul Cravath, a prodigy in his mid-20s hired by Westinghouse to defend his growing empire from Edison’s attack.Ĭravath arrives as an underdog on the very first page. Specifically, it explores Edison’s attempts to drive Westinghouse (and his superior A/C current) out of business. What makes a fictional story feel true and a true story feel fictional? This is a question I considered often while reading “The Last Days of Night,” a novel by Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “The Imitation Game” and author of the 2010 novel “The Sherlockian.” His new book is a thriller built around the so-called electricity wars fought over a century ago between the rival inventors Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. THE LAST DAYS OF NIGHT By Graham Moore 368 pp. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thompson-Spires fearlessly shines a light on the simmering tensions and precariousness of black citizenship. In the title story, when a cosplayer, dressed as his favorite anime character, is mistaken for a violent threat the consequences are dire in another story, a teen struggles between her upper middle class upbringing and her desire to fully connect with so-called black culture. Some are darkly humorous-two mothers exchanging snide remarks through notes in their kids’ backpacks-while others are devastatingly poignant. “Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with race, identity politics, and the contemporary middle class in this “vivid, fast, funny, way-smart, and verbally inventive” (George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo) collection.Įach captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of utterly original characters. The Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires Super excited to announce that our May Book Club selection is: ![]() ![]() In this setting, it is the norm for the people of Chicago to set a particular day every year to allow for changing of factions. Given an opportunity, she would change her environment to be identified by another virtue she believed she had. She considered selflessness a virtue she did not possess nor exude. ![]() Well, like some people who feel caught up in the wrong family, miss Prior felt misplaced in the Abegnation family. ![]() This family is identified by its salient feature of selflessness. One particular faction known as the Abegnation family is where Beatrice Prior is born. Thereafter, they are at liberty to choose whether to remain in their faction or migrate to another. Each person is born into the faction and has to remain in it until the age of sixteen. Flash forward, years into the future, and the society in Chicago is composed of five different factions based on virtues unique to every faction. ![]() The sixteen year old character holds a major role in the storyline of this awesome series.Hers is a story that unfolds in a futuristic setting in which the city of Chicago is portrayed in a dystopian manner. Beatrice Prior is a household name in circles where the Divergent Trilogy series is familiar. ![]() ![]() ![]() The audio version became the first non-fiction audio-book in U.S. This best-known book of Covey has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide since its first publication. He further claims that effectiveness can be expressed in terms of the P/PC ratio, where P refers to getting desired results and PC is caring for that which produces the results. ![]() He illustrates this by referring to the fable of the goose that laid the golden eggs. Covey presents an approach to being effective in attaining goals by aligning oneself to what he calls "true north" principles based on a character ethic that he presents as universal and timeless.Ĭovey defines effectiveness as the balance of obtaining desirable results with caring for that which produces those results. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, first published in 1989, is a business and self-help book written by Stephen R. The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness ![]() ![]() I thought the book was very modern in its portrayal of Molly’s attitude towards her sexuality, and instead of caring what others thought she just got on with what she wanted to do. I liked how headstrong Molly was at this stage in the book, as she was happy to sleep with whom she pleased- boy or girl- without confining her sexuality to a specific label. ![]() Part 2 follows Molly’s high school days, discussing her first sexual experiences as she begins to realise she enjoys sleeping with girls more than boys. Unlike other girls in her town, Molly is “boy-ish”, preferring to work in the fields and play with her “cousin” Leroy than following the prim and ladylike standards encouraged by her mother. Bright but downtrodden by her harsh mother, Molly helps out her poor family but dreams of one day escaping to college. ![]() The first part starts with Molly as a young school girl. ![]() ‘Rubyfruit Jungle’ is about a young girl, Molly, growing up as the adopted daughter of a large, poor American family during the 1950s. Even though we’re coming to the end of June now, it’s always great to diversify your reading habits- and this book is a great choice for celebrating the LGBTQ+ community of the past all year round. I recently put together a great, diverse list of Pride reads for this June, including this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Based on the synopsis, the filmmaker won’t be straying too far from her 365 Days territory. Now, Bialowas is embarking on the adaptation of Fewings’ novel. ![]() '365 Days' Sequels: Netflix Filming Parts 2 And 3 Of Popular & Controversial Polish Erotic Drama A petition to remove it from Netflix received close to 90,000 signatures, though the streamer declined to take it down. The singer Duffy wrote in an open letter to Netflix chief Reed Hastings that the film “glamorizes the brutal reality of sex trafficking, kidnapping and rape”. It received criticism for its depiction of imprisonment and sex crimes. ![]() ![]() Billed as an erotic drama, the story follows a young Polish woman imprisoned by a Sicilian gangster who gives her one year to fall in love with him. The controversy emerged from its subject matter. Prior to its streaming bow it had also been a box office hit in Poland, grossing $9M. EXCLUSIVE: The co-director of controversial Polish movie 365 Days, Barbara Bialowas, has been attached to direct an adaptation of the first novel in Vanessa Fewings’ romance series The Enthrall Sessions.ģ65 Days was a major talking point after its Netflix release this summer, sitting in the streamer’s top 10 chart after its release in numerous international territories. ![]() ![]() In addition to his Churchill work, Gilbert has been a pioneer in the design and publication of historical atlases, and has written a general history of the Holocaust, one-volume histories of the First and the Second World War, and a three-volume history of the twentieth century. He has also published, as part of the biography, Churchill: A Photographic Portrait (also available in Pirnlico). In addition to these narrative volumes, Gilbert has continued to edit the multi-volume documentary series of Churchill's letters and documents. The eighth and final volume was published in 1988. On Randolph's death in 1968, Gilbert was asked to complete the biography. In 1962 he was elected to a Fellowship at Merton College, Oxford, and in the same year became one of the research assistants to Randolph Churchill, then writing the first two volumes of his father's official biography. After two years' National Service he read Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford. ![]() CHURCHILL A Life Martin Gilbert was born in London in 1936. ![]() ![]() Readers who want thrilling carnage, sharp dialogue, and sapphic romance mixed into their teen dramas will devour this transformative tale. Female friendship sits front and center in this supernatural vigilante story, even when plans unravel. Arianna, the alpha, dons a high pony queer, Asian Becca dresses casually Marley, who’s white, is the bubbly, girly blonde and Amanda, who’s Black, rocks natural hair that is sometimes braided, sometimes springy and cloud-like. Squad - by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Paperback) About the Book Becca. Sterle uses her illustrations-rendered in a classic teen style, with stylish outfits and deliberate linework-to differentiate the girls. Noise : A graphic novel based on a true story (Paperback) Teenage Books To Read. Every full moon, they hunt predatory dudes-and they need a fourth member to help eat the evidence. ![]() When a drunk bro tries to assault Becca at a Bay Area beach party, her new, popular friends intervene, revealing that they are not a squad so much as a pack. ![]() After a friendly exchange of menstrual products, cool-girl Marley invites new-girl Becca to join her clique, thus setting into motion a Heathers-esque tale about a smart teen who discovers the darker cost of fitting in. ![]() ![]() ![]() Armand deduces that the police must've already been compiling this information on Stephen before the attacks. Armand and his family are questioned aggressively by the police, and they oddly have a lot of dirt on Stephen's family, despite him being the victim and them only having begun the investigation a few hours ago. ![]() Reine-Marie learns that both Claude and Thierry Girard, Claude's former second-in-command, wear the same cologne. They also find out that Stephen had an interest in a large engineering company called GHS, which is having a board meeting at a nearby hotel soon.Īrmand and his wife Reine-Marie find it suspicious that the room had smelled like Claude, the Prefect of Police in Paris, when they'd entered to find Plessner's body. Initial investigation reveals that he man is Alexander Plessner, a venture capitalist, who had clearly known Stephen well (he's found with a special business card marked JSPS permitted access to any of Stephen's accounts). However, Stephen is intentionally hit by a car while crossing the street and the next day the body of an unknown man is found in Stephen's apartment. Armand Gamache, a senior officer in the Québec police, and his godfather, billionaire Stephen Horowitz, are in Paris for the birth of Armand's granddaughter. ![]() |