![]() "Readers can hope this is the beginning of many adventures with this crew, but if it turns out to be the end of both series, well, it’s an utterly satisfying one." - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "Hatke offers up a hit parade of characters both human and otherwise, with plenty of fearsome creatures in his classic style." - Booklist "Retaining the humor, daring exploits, and dynamic cartooning of Hatke’s previous books, the crossover is enjoyable and satisfying, if at times a tad predictable, and could serve as either a solid epilogue to both series or as the start of a new chapter in a larger shared universe." - Publishers Weekly ![]() ![]() "Hatke's latest adventure is a wonderful and exciting page-turner, seamlessly blending dragons, giants, robots, and portals to other worlds, creating instant appeal for almost any young fan of graphic novels, fantasy, fairy tales, or science fiction.Perfection." - Kirkus, starred review ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Angela must summon her own hidden gifts to face the timeless adversary stalking her in her grandmother’s house.Īvailable in print, online, and as an e-book on OverDrive. Since Angela Toussaint left her hometown under horrific circumstances, there have been more senseless tragedies, and she wonders if they are related somehow. ![]() Maryse Boudreaux, a sword wielding bootlegger, with the help of her friends Sadie, a brash sharpshooter, and Chef, a female veteran of WWI, battle against the literal demons of the Ku Klux Klan.Īvailable as an e-book and audiobook on Overdrive. Kindred by Octavia Butler (1988)ĭana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own.Īvailable in print, as an e-book and audiobook on OverDrive. Connecting horror story tropes to African American narratives didn’t start with Jordan Peele’s Get Out! African American novelists have long been writing horror and suspense books that tell distinctly African American stories. You’ll find some of the classics of the form, by masters from Octavia Butler to Colson Whitehead, on this list compiled by Gregg Moore, manager of the Stone Center Library.Īn amnesiac discovers that she is a vampire, with a difference: she is a new, experimental birth with brown skin, giving her the fearful ability to go out in sunlight.Īvailable in print and an audiobook on OverDrive. ![]() ![]() Another theory proposes partial origin from a Late Latin Constantiana, perhaps influenced by the Greek pronunciation *Cosandiana. She is sometimes called Rora and Rozuna, which, according to Paliga, contains the word for "dew", which - he argues - connects her to a dawn and vegetation deity. ![]() Romanian linguist Sorin Paliga also lists several alternate names for the character: Ileana Simziana, Floarea Florilor ("the Flower of Flowers") Frumoasa lumii ("The Beauty of the World") Zâna dobrozâna ( zânǎ, from Latin Diana, meaning fairy, and, according to him, the Slavic word dobr 'good'). įolklorist Lazar Saineanu translated her name as Hélène aux cheveux d'or ( sic) ("Helen with Golden Hair"). Īccording to Adela Ileana Draucean, the name Ileana derives from Elena, and cosânzeana is linked to sânziană, a Romanian holiday and another term to designate fairies in Romanian mythology. She can also be described as "Queen of Flowers". ![]() ![]() ![]() She is represented as a beautiful good-natured princess or daughter of an Emperor, or described as a fairy with immense powers.Īccording to professor Nina Cuciuc, her name can also be translated or written as the following: Cosînzeana, Cosenzeana, Sânziana, Sînziana, Ileana Kossinzana, Hélène Cossinzana and Ileana Cosînzeana Sora Soarelui ("Sister of the Sun"). Ileana Cosânzeana is a figure in Romanian mythology. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Upon inspection, this book looks very similar in length to its forerunner, THE BLADE ITSELF. To all reports, all three books have been completely written (hopefully not akin in any way to Rothfuss’s definition of “completely”), and we’re going to be getting the sequels at one-year intervals. His response was a little bit “Yes”… and a little bit “No”.Ī LITTLE HATRED ( Amazon) is the first book in the planned Age of Madness trilogy from Orbit. ![]() Guy just knows how to do story right, and I was hoping that he’d continue that trend. Was the beginning of my first love affair with the works of Abercrombie. I won a contest over at Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist back in the day and inherited all three books of the original First Law trilogy, published by Pyr. Thus, I’d be painting the canvas pretty thin indeed if I were to say, for instance, that I was stupid-excited to finally read this thing. Real quick US publication timeline for those of you that aren’t immediately aware: 3 years since Sharp Ends (last short stories), 4 years since Half a War (last YA), 7 years since Red Country (last stand-alone), and 11 years since The Last Argument of Kings (last series book). So, it’s been a while since we’ve had a book like this from Abercrombie. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this spectacular sixth book in the New York Times and USA Today best-selling Keeper of the Lost Cities series, Sophie must uncover the truth about the Lost Cities’ insidious past, before it repeats itself and changes reality. And with time running out, and mistakes catching up with them, Sophie and her allies must join forces in ways they never have before. The problems they’re facing stretch deep into their history. ![]() ![]() But nothing can prepare them for what they discover. Maybe even time for Sophie to trust her enemies.Īll paths lead to Nightfall - an ominous door to an even more ominous place - and Sophie and her friends strike a dangerous bargain to get there. The Neverseen have had their victories - but the battle is far from over. But she knows one thing: She will not be defeated. Find Nightfall (B&N Exclusive Edition) (Keeper of the Lost Cities 6) at Movies & TV, home of thousands of titles on DVD and Blu-ray. Sophie and her friends face battles unlike anything they’ve seen before in this thrilling sixth book of the New York Times and USA Today best-selling Keeper of the Lost Cities series. ![]() A California Young Reader Medal - winning series She sat between her bed and her lamppost, the furthest. ![]() ![]() It’s having the power to say what you need to say. It’s not having your body language undercut what you’re trying to express. Or, to quote Cuddy’s definition: “The state of being attuned to and able to comfortably express our true thoughts, feelings, values and potential.”Īmen. So I was thrilled to read Presence, because in it Cuddy clearly spells out the importance of both affirmation and strong body language to creating presence, which is what she calls the happy confluence of confidence, comfort, and expressiveness in the moment. I thought Cuddy was missing a trick by not addressing the whole unconscious mind – body movement – conscious thought progression. You also need to work directly on the unconscious mind by affirming your confidence or success or whatever is your particular need. That bothered me, because my experience and work with my clients suggests that the unconscious mind will still send up those little thoughts that undermine your confidence if all you do is power pose. ![]() ![]() By working assiduously, Menon rose through the ranks to become the highest serving Indian officer in British India. The son of a school headmaster in Kerala, Menon worked as a railway stoker, coal miner and Bangalore tobacco company clerk before gaining a junior post in the Indian Civil Service. ![]() ![]() Menon, was an Indian civil servant who played a vital role during the partition of India and the integration of independent India, from the period 1945-1950. In Patrick French's book, India - a portrait, it is mentioned that VP Menon moved in with his Keralite friends a Rao Bahadur Vappala Pangunni Menon CSI, CIE (30 September 1893 - 31 December 1965), also known as V. In 1946, he was appointed Political Reforms Commissioner to the British Viceroy. ![]() Rao Bahadur Vappala Pangunni Menon CSI, CIE (30 September 1893 - 31 December 1965), also known as V. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Voyant prison is a separate city, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. Paige is determined to fight Scion's power, and as part of the Seven Seals, Paige has found a use for her powers: She scouts for information by breaking into others' minds as they dream.īut when Paige is captured and arrested, she encounters a power more sinister even than Scion. Paige Mahoney, though, is a clairvoyant - and a criminal just for existing. In 2059, Scion has taken over most of the world's cities, promising safety for all the citizens it deems worthy and wiping out clairvoyants wherever it can find them. The New York Times best-selling first novel in the Bone Season series, an epic fantasy about a young woman fighting to use her powers and stay alive in an England entirely different from our own. Bloomsbury presents The Bone Season: A Novel by Samantha Shannon, read by Alana Kerr Collins. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel is really a question, instead of an answer. What I wanted to try in the novel was thinking, Could that still be true with Earth completely messed up by climate change? And I'm not sure. Not fully utopian, obviously, but that we have a growing industrial and technological and scientific power, and that when we wield it, if we could wield it, then we could get really a good civilization out of it. I felt like there was a need for a new look at the medium future, seen in a positive light. It's somewhat of a blank spot in our vision of the future. I agree with you, and I think it's a project that hasn't been tried by science fiction novelists for too long. : The whole book struck me as a really optimistic, hopeful take on the future: We might have to put a lot of trust into computer systems, into society in general, but here's a plausible picture of how this could actually all work out. This artist's illustration depicts a 'Plymouth Rock' asteroid mission with astronauts and NASA's Orion spacecraft as envisioned by Lockheed Martin. ![]() ![]() ![]() We meet her again about half-way through the novel, and, eventually learn that she’s there to find her long separated children and spouse. The plot kicks off when a mysterious woman-the orcamancer-rides an orca to the city, polar bear at her side, triggering rumors and speculation about who she might be, and why she had come. ![]() Themes like hybridity and diaspora, alienation and found family, greed, religious intolerance and genocide, class struggle, revenge, and rebellion are all seamlessly woven together in a tale told in the floating Arctic city of Qaanaaq, a city peopled with refugees, run by artificial intelligence, and owned by the mega-wealthy. Miller creates a vivid, if daunting and dystopian, future after climate change has so ravaged the world that the great powers have fallen and nearly everyone is a refugee. ![]() |