![]() ![]() Fans of gentle, smart, and hopeful science fiction will delight in this promising series starter. It is the first book in the Monk & Robot duology, followed by A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, which was released on July 12, 2022. Their plans quickly go awry when they are approached by Mosscap, an inquisitive robot elected by its fellows to make first contact with humanity and find the answer to the question: what do humans need? Written with all of Chambers’ characteristic nuance and careful thought, this is a cozy, wholesome meditation on the nature of consciousness and its place in the natural world. A Psalm for the Wild-Built is a 2021 solarpunk novella written by American author Becky Chambers, published by Tor.com on July 13, 2021. Seeking solitude, they venture into the protected wilderness zone, where no human has set foot in centuries. When Sibling Dex, a tea monk, leaves The City, Panga’s only metropolis, to travel the countryside offering tea and a listening ear to anyone who needs it, they are forced to acknowledge a deep sense of dissatisfaction with their life. Hundreds of years ago, when the robots of Panga first gained sentience, they chose to retreat from human society rather than live in it as free citizens-and they haven’t been seen since. Hugo Award winner Chambers (the Wayfarers series) launches the Monk and Robot series with this contemplative, bite-size novel. ![]()
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Nancy Jaax, and The Hot Zone - the National Geographic Channel miniseries based on Richard Preston’s bestseller - is her story. ![]() And in the late 1980s, when it first appeared on American soil, one United States Army researcher was at the forefront of keeping it from infecting the populace. ![]() ![]() ![]() And this just in: it's a nominee for the AGATHA AWARD and the MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD! And now, breaking news, it is also a DAPHNE AWARD nominee! Associated Press calls it "stellar" and Publishers Weekly calls it "thrilling" "unflinching" and "gratifying." ![]() Her thriller SAY NO MORE, is a Library Journal BEST OF 2016. The Booklist *starred review says ".it's a knockout. Mary Kubica says: "Dazzling!" and Lisa Gardner says "Mesmerizing!" Her first psychological standalone, TRUST ME (now in paperback), is an Agatha Award nominee, and was named BEST of 2018 by the New York Post, Real Simple Magazine, BookBub, Crime Reads, and PopSugar. ![]() Her earlier psychological thrillers include,THE FIRST TO LIE (with several starred reviews) an Agatha Award and MAry HIggins CLark award nomination) and THE MURDER LIST, which won the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the year, and was ]an Agatha, Macavity and Mary Higgins Clark Award nominee, a number one legal thriller on Amazon, and a USA Today Bestseller. Her current thriller, HER PERFECT LIFE, received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly, calling it "Stellar." ![]() Murrow awards, Hank's won dozens of other honors Hank is also an award-winning investigative reporter at Boston's WHDH-TV. Watch for THE HOUSE GUEST (Gaslight meets Thelma & Louise) coming in February 2023!) National reviews have called her a "master at crafting suspenseful mysteries" and "a superb and gifted storyteller." Hank Phillippi Ryan is the USA Today bestselling author of fourteen award winning novels of suspense. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stephanie Meyer has stated that the inception of the series came from a dream, in which a human girl finds and falls in love with a much older, but still young-looking vampire. ![]() These include the view of vampires as monsters, Edwards attempts to protect Bella from other vampire coven, and the rogue clan of werewolves that befriends Bella. Focusing on the romance of a human teenager, Isabella “Bella” Swan, and and centenarian vampire Edward Cullen, as they navigate the complexities of a relationship governed not only by their hearts, but also the underlying ramifications of their cross cultural relationship. Introduced in 2005 with the first novel in the series, Twilight, it was immediately met by wide critical and commercial success. ![]() The Twilight series, written by Stephanie Meyer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Steam-London is a city of sky-scrapers, the tops of the swaying buildings held in place by helium-filled balloon-like sky-anchors. Thus the city hisses with myriad "cognoggin" gadgets of every size and purpose, including self-propelled Refuse-Agitators and Night-Illuminators, steam-powered lifts and trolleys, mechanized Tome-Selectors and corset removers, Steam-Stream guns and finger-sized steam throwers, and clockwork hairclips and dragonfly pins. ![]() The story is set in a steampunk 1889 London, for Parliament has passed an act banning electricity and promoting steam power. And the girls quickly find themselves investigating a deadly scheme to bring the Egyptian goddess of death Sekhmet back to life. ![]() What a promising premise to Colleen Gleason's first "Stoker and Holmes" novel, The Clockwork Scarab (2013)! Irene Adler, AKA "the woman," the American opera singer who got the best of Sherlock Holmes in "A Scandal in Bohemia" and is now the keeper of British Museum antiquities, recruits Alvermina (Mina) Holmes, the great detective's niece, and Evaline Stoker, Bram Stoker's younger sister, to be secret agent/detectives discretely risking "life and limb for their queen, their countrymen, and the Empire," just as many young men but no other young women do. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each page featured smiling cartoon girls of all races and sizes demonstrating everything from how to shave your legs to how to shop for a first bra. The head-to-toe guide started by explaining that “ everybody” goes through puberty, and then broke down into sections on everything from regular body hygiene to getting your period for the first time. On the opening spread was a letter to readers: “The more you know about your body, the less confusing and embarrassing growing up will seem-and the easier it will be to talk about.” The book, which was published by American Girl, was called The Care and Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls. ![]() Just before I started middle school, my mom handed me a large white book with three cartoon girls on the cover, each wrapped in a towel, dripping wet, as though fresh out of the shower. ![]() I first learned about periods from a cartoon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the Caribbean, we are a mix of Indigenous, African, Asian, and European Peoples, who come from various socio-economic backgrounds. By Sabantho Aderi Corrie-Edghill (Lokono-Arawak)Īs a young Indigenous woman of Guyanese Lokono-Arawak Tribal origin and heritage, born and raised in Barbados, I feel responsible for amplifying the voices of my brothers and sisters who disproportionately face climate issues head on in the region. ![]() ![]() ![]() While at school, he attended lectures taught by Vladimir Nabokov, whose own playful prose style influenced him. Pynchon studied engineering physics at Cornell University, briefly interrupting his tenure there to serve in the U.S. Stencil wanders and swerves the open road. Profane’s journey largely happens on and under city streets. It focuses on the lives of Benny Profane, a war vet who wanders New York City searching for meaning, and Herbert Stencil, an intellectual on his own quest-he seeks a mysterious woman, V., described in his father’s diary. tells a story beyond the capabilities of traditional narrative. Pynchon came out of the batter’s box with a home run on his first swing. It stands as a testament to his talent that this first foray into the world of long-form prose arrived neither apocryphal nor underdeveloped. Thomas Pynchon has been able to fall asleep for the last 50 years knowing his first novel was V. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Philip's tactics, which range from flirting to indifference, soon backfire as he finds himself reluctantly enjoying Sorrel's company and, much to her dismay, Sorrel finds Philip's odd manner to be increasingly endearing. Doubly annoyed when they both end up at a party hosted by mutual friends, Philip and Sorrel privately declare war on one another. Indeed, Sorrel cannot believe the nerve of this gentleman, who rudely accuses her of theft and insults her feminine dignity. ![]() But at a traveler's inn, he encounters an unexpected and far more maddening foe-Sorrel Kendrick, a young lady who is strikingly pretty, shockingly outspoken, and entirely unimpressed with him. After five years of tracking and capturing spies on English soil, Philip Jonquil, Earl of Lampton, is in pursuit of his last quarry. ![]() ![]() ![]() Onyesonwu, the eponymous narrator, is an Ewu, a child of rape and violence. ![]() Although I didn’t enjoy this as much as I wanted to (and probably won’t watch its adaptation), I think I understand why it has captured the imaginations of so many people, and I think I’d enjoy seeing it become a classic. The narrative, while slightly more straightforward than Dhalgren, still challenges and requests a certain level of involvement. Nnedi Okorafor explores the intersections of tradition, sex, and sexuality of history and intertextuality. Who Fears Death reminds me a lot of Dhalgren, another seminal work of post-apocalyptic speculative fiction. ![]() |