Once again featuring Brom’s chillingly beautiful artwork throughout, Krampus the Yule Lord is a feast of wonder straight from the kitchen of Sweeney Todd. Gone) works his dark sorcery from the shadows. Norrell) in the realm of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, as Clive Barker ( Mr. Krampus the Yule Lord is Gregory Maguire ( Wicked) meets Susanna Clarke ( Jonathan Strange & Mr. Set in Appalachia, Krampus the Yule Lord is a twisted fairytale about a failed West Virginia songwriter who gets ensnared on Christmas Eve in an eternal war between a not-so-saintly Saint Nick and his dark enemy Krampus, aka Black Peter, an ancient trickster demon. Here's hoping that he will continue to share his dark and often beautiful dreams with us for many years to come." -Christopher Paolini, New York Times bestselling author of EragonĪcclaimed author and artist Brom raised eyebrows and pulse rates with The Child Thief, his grim, brilliantly audacious, gorgeously illustrated reimagining of the Peter Pan legend. So what does this innovative fantasist do for an encore? He tinkers darkly with the beloved mythology of Santa Claus. "Brom is that rare breed: a person who is skilled in more than one area of artistic expression. It hooked me and I couldn’t put it down.” -Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy
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Strange Relations: Five novelettes of unbounded imagination telling of strange-and often deadly-encounters between human and alien. It shocked and fascinated readers at the time. and unless he could escape, he would be the guest of honor at a fertility rite which would conclude with his very unpleasant death. Philip José Farmer’s novella The Lovers (1952) is, without doubt, historically important for the development of the SF genre as it introduced a transgressive mix of sex (mostly implied), unusual xenobiology, and colonial critique. He was crowned the “Sunhero,” which was a very dubious honor. A standard sized paperback Good used condition paperback with light edge wear and light. But Yarrow’s lifelong conditioning was no match for his strange attraction to Jeanette.įlesh: The starship captain had been on a voyage lasting 800 years, and returned to find an Earth ruled by revived ancient pagan rituals. For sale a copy of Strange Relations by Philip Jose Farmer. Unconsecrated contact with any female was forbidden to Yarrow-and love for an alien female was an unspeakable abomination. Sent by the religious tyranny of a future Earth to the planet Ozagen, Hal Yarrow met Jeanette, an apparently human fugitive, hiding in ancient ruins built by a long-vanished race. The Lovers: One of the most controversial and groundbreaking novels in science fiction. Two complete novels and five novelettes that broke new ground in science fiction and established Philip Jose Farmer as a master of the genre: (BTW, what you see up in the previous paragraph is the very definition of a mixed metaphor. pretty much whatever we found laying around the kitchen that we wanted to throw into the pot. Modern English is a rich, delicious gumbo full of Latin, Old Norse, French. We're linguistically Germanic at our roots, but that's like saying a terrier used to be a wolf. Because of the way it's structured, French rhymes very naturally.Įnglish, on the other hand, is a total mutt of a language. The problem is this, the play was originally written in French, which is a relatively pure language, linguistically speaking. In my opinion, the Brian Hooker translation is the best of these, head and shoulders above the rest. Over the years, I've read many translations of the original and seen many different movies and stage productions. I wanted my characters to be as good as this.Ī couple months later, I started writing The Name of the Wind. I decided if I ever wrote a fantasy novel, I wanted it to be as good as this. The second half of the book broke my heart. For the first half of the play I was amazed at the character, I was stunned by the language. Up until that point in my life, the vast majority of the books I'd read were fantasy and science fiction. I read this book in 1994, and it changed the way I thought about stories. Unfortunately, responsibilities and earlier due dates prevented me from diving right in until now. Ever since I finished the first book, I couldn’t wait to get into the rest of the series. These books have been burning a hole … on my shelf? Is that even a term? Oh well, it is now. But now, like Ronan’s secrets, it is beginning to rise to the surface-changing everything in its wake. The path to Glendower has long lived as an undercurrent beneath town. Ronan is one of the raven boys-a group of friends, practically brothers, searching for a dead king named Glendower, who they think is hidden somewhere in the hills by their elite private school, Aglionby Academy. One secret: Ronan can bring things out of his dreams.Īnd sometimes he’s not the only one who wants those things. If you could steal things from dreams, what would you take? But when she does, it gets her booted from her organization of all-female spies before a human trafficking takedown. With all the ferocity of Sadie and I’m The Girl comes Shamim Sarif’s The Athena Protocol, an action-packed tale of female spies gone rogue. With Ashley’s sister, Nora, at her side, Georgia must question everything she has ever believed about wealth. After she discovers the body of thirteen-year-old Ashley James, Georgia’s investigation steeps her deep within the world of privilege and power. Sixteen-year-old Georgia knows she is beautiful, and she knows she deserves more than hardship. I’m The Girl by Courtney SummersĬourtney Summers stuns again with I’m The Girl, an uncomfortable yet unflinching exposé of the way the wealthy wield their power. Sadie will linger and haunt you long after you turn the final page. Sadie doesn’t know that her revenge quest will soon be told to millions-and listeners wait with bated breath to learn Sadie’s fate. Sadie alternates between nineteen-year-old Sadie’s voice as she hunts her little sister’s killer and the podcast that tracks the clues Sadie left behind. Sadie by Courtney Summersĭaring and dark, Courtney Summers’ Sadie pierces the chilling heart of a girl’s disappearance. If you’re looking for more like The Cellar, settle in with these twenty twisties, read-in-one-sitting YA thrillers, and suspense novels. Half want me dead, half want me alive, and the only people willing to protect me are the very ones I hate-her included. When things go horribly wrong, and a price is put on all of our heads from my Family back home-I'm forced to stay in Chicago, offer not just my gun but my protective services to the young girl I saved while also making sure nobody touches her. One more job for the Italian Americans, and I'm done.Įxcept this "one job" involves saving the boss's brother and sister. "There is always a beginning-I will be their end."įor ten years the Cosa Nostra has ruled with an iron fist in Chicago-their reign is about to end, and I'll be the one to bring them down. A mafia romance about family, loyalty, and love, Dissolution is the powerful conclusion to #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken's Eagle Elite series. Nel resolves never to let any black man look at her this way. Nel notices that the black people sitting in the train are glaring at Helene for her deferential behavior. On the train ride to New Orleans, a racist train conductor shouts at Helene, but Helene only responds by flashing him a dazzling smile. When Nel is a young girl, Helene takes her back to New Orleans to visit her grandmother Cecile (Nel’s great-grandmother). Helene quickly acquired a reputation for being a highly respectable woman, and she raised her daughter to behave the same way. Wright brought Helene to live in the Bottom, and together they had a daughter named Nel. As a young woman, she married Wiley Wright, a cook. Helene was born in New Orleans, and raised by her grandmother, who taught her to be pious and moral. At first, the people of the Bottom ignore Shadrack, but eventually, National Suicide Day becomes an accepted part of the calendar.Īnother resident of the Bottom is Helene Wright. Every year, he walks through the streets, ringing a bell and yelling. Shadrack then proposes a holiday for the people of Bottom: National Suicide Day. He witnesses great violence in Europe, and returns to the Bottom a broken man. In 1917, he goes off to fight in World War I. In the 1910s, there is a man living in the Bottom named Shadrack. The novel takes place in the neighborhood of Bottom, in the city of Medallion, Ohio-a place which, at present, is a golf course for rich white people, but which used to be a thriving black community. I've seen several harsh reviews from adult fans who apparently hadn't realised it was a YA book and clearly went into it with different expectations than I did, coming to it as a first time Reichs reader. And that's before a mysterious virus hits them all and leaves them with some very strange side effects.įirst things first, this is connected to Kathy Reichs' adult books through the relationship between the two main characters but from what I can gather - having never read any of her others - is a rather different style, focusing more on the adventure aspect, with a touch of sci-fi, than the mystery part. Desperately trying to find out what happened to the dead person, and cure a sick dog they've liberated from a laboratory on their island home, the quartet's lives have suddenly become rather complicated. Desperate to follow in her relative's footsteps, she seems to have little opportunity to do so living in South Carolina - but that quickly changes when she and her friends stumble on a decades old corpse. Tory Brennan is just a normal girl with an extraordinary aunt - the renowned forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan. The relationship between Cruz and Tenesse was cute and I was rooting for them the entire way. I liked this book because I felt like it was a fun read. The families are getting together to go on a cruise before the wedding but due to a mix-up, Dr Cruz Costello and Tenesse end up together on the wrong cruise ship. Tenesse’s sister is getting married to the brother of the town’s golden boy (and Tenesse’s enemy) Dr Cruz Costello. “Bad Cruz” is the story of Tenesse, who is the town’s bad girl simply because she made the mistake of getting pregnant at 16 (Did she make the child on her own?). location Published in 2021, this widely popular book has proven to serve its audience. I did hate how the cruel people went along with life as normal because it just felt like everyone was a a#hole to Tenesse. Shen is available now for quick shipment to any U.S. This was a light read that I did not take too seriously which is probably why I cannot personally find faults with it. I see the obvious problems pointed out by other readers but for me personally I loved this book. I made the mistake of reading other reviews before posting mine just so I could get the female main character’s name right and now I have mixed feelings about my review. That is also my goal as an educator and author. I want them to grow up empowered and ready to do their part to dismantle injustice and oppression. You can see a lot of anti-racist books and social justice-themed books on my shelves because I work hard to teach my kids to be aware and critical of the society in which we live. I try to fill our shelves with inclusive books that particularly highlight the stories and voices of people who have historically been marginalized. I have two goofballs – age 3 and 6 – and my favorite part of the day is snuggling them while we read books at bedtime. This is a picture of the bookshelf in my kids’ room. My day job is as the vice principal of a high school, and some of my responsibilities include working with students who are caught cutting corners and misrepresenting their work, so I felt some type of way about doing that for this photo! I thought about cheating and moving some books from my educator and YA shelves onto my kids’ bookshelves to show a wider range of books that I enjoy reading, but ultimately I decided not to. I have a lot of bookshelves around my little home. Joanna Ho with Eyes That Kiss in the Corners Joanna Ho’s Shelfie |
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