![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the ship’s sovereign falls ill and Aster’s friend and mentor, the Surgeon General Theo Smith-a member of the leadership class-asks for her help with his treatment, Aster finds herself thrown into the investigation of a personal mystery that is deeply entwined with the fate of the ship. Aster is an angry and strange young woman of the lower decks who struggles with deeply rooted anger and sadness but also provides medical care to her shipmates with great skill and compassion. Over generations, the ship’s decks have become harshly segregated by race and prosperity, and the corrupt leadership of the upper decks has imposed increasingly cruel rules, restrictions, and forced labor on the darker-skinned residents of the lower decks. The HSS Matilda is a massive spaceship that has carried a small contingent of humanity for many years away from a destroyed Earth and toward a hazy vision of a promised land. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Jemisin’s’ award-winning Inheritance Trilogy. Deadlinealso reports that Westbrook Studios is developing a TV show based on N.K. ![]() Jemisin’s Inheritance Trilogy is coming to TVĪnd that’s not the only influential sci-fi/fantasy story just announced for TV. And I guess Hulu is just the official home of Margaret Atwood stories now. There’s no word on when the MaddAddam show might come along, but it’s good to see ambitious stories like this getting adapted. The story takes place in a world dominated by huge corporations, where a brilliant bioengineer - that’d be Crake - conspires to create a miracle drug that will actually bring about human extinction, making way for Crake’s more peaceful group of genetically engineered humans. The first book in the MaddAddam series, 2003’s Oryx and Crake, is actually mostly concerned with what led up to the apocalypse. Hulu, of course, is in the midst of adapting Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, which is about a grim future of another sort. Deadlinereports that Hulu is adapting Canadian sci-fi icon Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy of books, about a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by a pandemic. The fantasy and sci-fi TV renaissance continues apace. ![]() ![]() The air is thick with dust, but through the impairing fog, I recognize my surroundings. ![]() My legs quake as I push to my feet, my fingers clutching at the chair to hold me to the one real thing in this delusion. The pain that consumed me before has diminished, but it’s replaced by fear, confusion, and disbelief, which all attack me at once, overpowering the part of my brain that might actually be able to comprehend what’s happening. ![]() When I open my eyes, the exam room is gone. 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The answer to that question will likely never be revealed, but Geary presents all of this with his signature appealing art style and expected well-researched text, including a fun and evocative history of New Orleans from its founding through 1918. Clues are sparse the police are baffled and the general populace is thrown into a vortex of paranoia. ![]() ![]() As the Jazz Age dawned in rollicking New Orleans, an unknown assailant targeted immigrants, mostly of Italian origin, broke into their homes and brutally assaulted them, resulting in grievous injury and several corpses. Having provided many fascinating accounts of gruesome true crime in his excellent A Treasury of Victorian Murder series, Rick Geary skips ahead in time to the days of WWI and chronicles the unsolved rash of axe murders committed by the titular killer. 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In the early 1960s right after the Cold War started CIA agent Solo (Henry Cavill) and KGB agent Illya (Armie Hammer) have to work together to find a kidnapped scientist who can make a nuclear warhead. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hoffman – eBook Detailsīefore you start Complete The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal PDF EPUB by David E. The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. “Non-fiction as rich and resonant as a spy novel by John Le Carre or Graham Greene.” – Mail on Sunday “An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an early contemporary feel.” – Brian Macintyre, The Times ![]() Drawing on previously classified CIA documents and interviews with first-hand participants, ‘The Billion Dollar Spy is a brilliant feat of reporting and a riveting true story from the final years of the Cold War. ![]() At enormous risk, Tolachev and his handlers conduct clandestine meetings across Moscow, using spy cameras, disguises, and secret codes to elude the KGB in its own backyard – until a shocking betrayal puts them all at risk. becomes one of the West’s most valuable spies. In the years that follow, that stranger, Adolf Tolkachev. 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Walking the shelves of a local independent bookseller last fall, I struck upon Berendt‘s The City of Falling Angels, which came out roughly 11-years after the first. ![]() Based on the eccentric characters of the movie Midnight, along with the suspense of the underlying mystery with the city as a strong central character, I was intrigued to get to know a different story as observed and told by John Berendt that would have me as intrigued. The book that forms prompted the screenplay for that movie was Berendt‘s book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story. I was first introduced to John Berendt‘s work as an author when I saw the movie based on based on his earlier book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Moreover, 17 of the 18 hottest years on record have occurred since 2001. Californians have seen three of the largest wildfires in the state’s history. 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So she strikes a deal with the universe: She'll enter a contest with a project about Cecilia Payne, the first person to discover what stars are made of. Nonny and her husband are in a financial black hole, and Libby knows that babies aren't always born healthy. When her big sister Nonny tells her she's pregnant, Libby is thrilled-but worried. But she has lots of people who love her, and that makes her pretty lucky. Libby was born with Turner Syndrome, and that makes some things hard. She's not great at playing piano, sitting still, or figuring out how to say the right thing at the right time in real life. Twelve-year-old Libby Monroe is great at science, being optimistic, and talking to her famous, accomplished friends (okay, maybe that last one is only in her head). ![]() ![]() ![]() From debut author Sarah Allen comes a pitch-perfect, heartwarming middle grade novel about growing up, finding yourself, and loving people with everything you're made of. ![]() |