![]() "A magnificent tour de force, skillfully written and full of original and disturbing ideas." -Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Carey, bestselling author of The Girl with All the Gifts There are echoes of Neuromancer and Arrival in here, but this astonishing debut is beholden to no one." -M. Fabulous!" -Ann Leckie, award winning-author of Ancillary Justice Innovative and genre-bending, Tade Thompson's ambitious Afrofuturist series is perfect for fans of Jeff Vandermeer, N. The fugitive known as Bicycle Girl, Kaaro, and his former handler Femi may be humanity's last line of defense. Operating across spacetime, the xenosphere, and international borders, it is up to a small group of hackers and criminals to prevent the extra-terrestrial advance. A sharply satirical, ingenious thriller about an alien invasion thats disturbing familiar. And the city's alien inhabitants are threatening mass murder for their own sinister ends… The Seattle Review of Books on Rosewater. ![]() Nigeria isn't willing to let Rosewater go without a fight. The Mayor finds that debts incurred during the insurrection are coming back to haunt him. ![]() Life in the newly independent city-state of Rosewater isn't everything its citizens were expecting. ![]() The Rosewater Redemption is the powerful conclusion to the award-winning Wormdwood trilogy, by one of science fiction's most engaging voices. ![]()
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![]() In books such as Cathedral and the later tales included in the collected stories volume Where I?m Calling From, Carver revealed himself to be a more expansive writer than in the earlier published books, displaying Chekhovian sympathies toward his characters and relying less on elliptical effects. ![]() Carver?s stories were brilliant in their detachment and use of the oblique, ambiguous gesture, yet there were signs of a different sort of sensibility at work. Suggestive rather than explicit, and seeming all the more powerful for what is left unsaid, Carver?s stories were held up as exemplars of a new school in American fiction known as minimalism or ?dirty realism,? a movement whose wide influence continues to this day. ![]() Beneath his pared-down surfaces run disturbing, violent undercurrents. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge of poverty and other deprivations. ![]() Raymond Carver's spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and ?80s. ![]() ![]() The Earthlings, as the new arrivals are called, interfere with this delicate balance, causing divisions in the colony and amongst themselves. Stevland oversees a fragile peace between the Pax humans and the Glassmakers. ![]() On Pax the new arrivals find descendants of the original colonists living side-by-side in a glass city with alien arthropod-like Glassmakers, and Stevland, a sentient rainbow bamboo. Contact with the Pax colonists had been lost soon after they landed on the planet. The novel takes place on the planet Pax about 100 years after the events in Semiosis when a new expedition from Earth arrives.Ībout a hundred years after the events in Semiosis, a new expedition to Pax from Earth is launched. Interference was first published in October 2019 in the United States by Tor Books. It is the second novel of her Semiosis Duology series, the first being Semiosis (2018). Interference is a 2019 science fiction novel by American writer and translator Sue Burke. ![]() ![]() ![]() And they still haven't told anyone.īut the cottage is for sale so this is the last time they'll all be here together. Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.Įvery year, they take a holiday from their lives to drink far too much wine with their favourite people in the world.Įxcept this year, they are lying through their teeth, because Harriet and Wyn broke up six months ago. 'Smart, sunny, sexy and also a gorgeous story of female friendship' Beth O'Leary, THE FLATSHARE 'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, IT ENDS WITH US 'At turns hilarious and wise, another knockout from the champ' Taylor Jenkins Reid, DAISY JONES AND THE SIX
![]() ![]() ![]() As the industrial terrorist plot unravels and the death toll climbs, Ariel and Sera must recall the sisterhood that once sustained them as they try to save themselves and each other on the longest night of their lives. Only Sera, who forges an unlikely alliance with Hudson Winters, knows where her friend could be. Ariel escapes into the hidden tunnels in the family mansion, where she and Sera played as children. As the entire party is taken hostage, the girls are forced apart. Only moments after the concert begins and the lights go down, thugs open fire on parents and schoolmates alike, in a plot against Ariel's father that quickly spins out of control. They have no idea just how right they are. Thrown together, Ariel and Sera can agree on one thing: this could be one very long night. ![]() Sera has been the school pariah since she betrayed Ariel, and she now avoids Ariel and their former friends. The only person who's dreading the party is Sera, Ariel's former best friend, whose father is forcing her to go. Ariel's birthday weekend looks to be the event of the season, with a private concert by rock star Hudson Winters on the grounds of her family's east coast estate, and all of Ariel's elite prep school friends in attendance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Strangers in the Land is the third book in Stant Litore’s The Zombie Bible series which rewrites the Old Testament from the entirely plausible point of view that the events described were in fact part of a zombie apocalypse. Together they must travel across the Promised Land to Walls and beyond to rid the land of the undead scourge. Armed with just an iron blade, Devora is accompanied by the Nazarite Zadok, the warrior Barak and the slave girl Hurriya. Torn apart by memories of her first encounter with the walking dead, the prophetess Devora must face her greatest fears and face them head on. ![]() ![]() The ravenous dead stumble across the land in their endless pursuit of the living. ![]() ![]() ![]() Privatizing prisons has led to increased spending only to keep people in prison and benefit private service companies while hurting individuals, stripping them of access to rehabilitation. ![]() In fact, one in every three black men born in the US can expect to spend time in prison. Unfortunately, the CJS is deeply intertwined with the US’s history of racism, leading to African Americans being incarcerated at more than 5 times the rate of white Americans. ![]() Despite making up just 5% of the world’s population, the US has nearly 25% of the world’s prison population, with 3 million people in jail or prison. Today, the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Just Mercy is a book about the broken criminal justice system (CJS), arguing that the institution prioritizes criminalizing individuals over serving justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m a few months behind, but I’m really proud to say that I’ve finally finished House of Sky and Breath (HOSAB)! With two little ones, including a baby, I haven’t been reading much at all lately. Maas weaves a captivating story of a world about to explode―and the people who will do anything to save it. In this sexy, action-packed sequel to the #1 bestseller House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. And they’ve never been very good at staying silent. As Bryce, Hunt, and their friends get pulled into the rebels’ plans, the choice becomes clear: stay silent while others are oppressed, or fight for what’s right. ![]() But with the rebels chipping away at the Asteri’s power, the threat the rulers pose is growing. The Asteri have kept their word so far, leaving Bryce and Hunt alone. Genres: Fantasy, Fantasy & Magic, Fiction, Urban FantasyĪmazon | Book Depository | Angus & Robertson | Booktopia | Barnes & Nobleīryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal―they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax. Published by Bloomsbury Publishing on February 15, 2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() One puddle really caught his attention and he reached down and opened it up-just like you would a manhole in the road. He could see the pink sky and the white clouds reflected in the water. One part I really liked was when Sato was peering into large puddles on the ground after a rainfall. For example, white laundry hanging on the clothesline against a backdrop of long green grass eventually changes from billowing laundry to clouds floating in the sky, as the grass color changes from green to sky blue. It is fun to see how one scene morphs into another and creates special adventures for this little rabbit. ![]() Each story features a little boy named Sato, who is now a rabbit, and his adventures in nature. There are seven little stories in this book entitled “A Tiny Pond”, “A Sea of Grass”, “A Night of Stars”, “Watermelon”, “A Window to the Sky”, “Walnuts”, and “Forest Ice”. Then I realized that there are aspects of it that remind me a lot of Goodnight Moon, and then I realized young kids will enjoy it very much. It is very imaginative and creative, but I was concerned some of it might get lost on young children. ![]() To be honest, it took me a while to warm up to this book. ![]() ![]() To save her family and maybe the world, she’ll have to put her trust in Zayne. Eighteen-year-old Trinity Marrow may be going blind, but she can see and communicate with ghosts and spirits. ![]() Zayne has secrets of his own that will upend her world yet again-but working together becomes imperative once demons breach the compound and Trinity’s secret comes to light. Armentrout, Lauren Fortgang (Narrator) 4.10. Not the least because one of the outsiders is the most annoying and fascinating person she’s ever met. When Wardens from another clan arrive with disturbing reports that something out there is killing both demons and Wardens, Trinity’s safe world implodes. If the demons discover the truth about Trinity, they’ll devour her, flesh and bone, to enhance their own powers. Her unique gift is part of a secret so dangerous that she’s been in hiding for years in an isolated compound fiercely guarded by Wardens-gargoyle shape-shifters who protect humankind from demons. ![]() From the #1 New York Times, USA TODAY and internationally bestselling author of the fantastical Dark Elements and the Lux series comes a new novel set in a world of gargoyle protectors, rising demons and one girl with an explosive secret.Įighteen-year-old Trinity Marrow may be going blind, but she can see and communicate with ghosts and spirits. ![]() |