![]() You see, in this world, women supposedly harbor a dangerous form of magic within their very beings, one which allows them to manipulate, seduce and otherwise control men. They’re allowed to aspire to little beyond a life of marriage and childbirth, and if they aren’t chosen for such by a man, they’re sent to the fields and workhouses for the rest of their lives. In the world of Garner County, women are not to be trusted. (It’s that last bit I think we all really need to hear right now, just saying.) It not only acknowledges the terrible nature of world these young women find themselves in, it empowers them to come together and change their fates. ![]() ![]() Kim Liggett’s The Grace Yearis a dystopian tale in the vein of The Power and The Handmaid’s Tale, but one that has a slightly more hopeful and activist ending than either of those two stories. ![]() ![]() It’s not an accident that some of the most affecting stories of 2019 deal with female anger and empowerment in a world that both scoffs at their pain and devalues their contributions to the world around them. Basically, it’s exactly the story we need in 2019. By Lacy Baugher 3 years ago The Grace Year is a harrowing dystopian tale about female rage in a world full of male oppression. ![]()
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![]() Romance, and has been a constant darling of reviewers, fans, and her peersĪlike, garnering accolades for her work from the likes of The Wall Song in 1994, she has been leading the charge for multicultural Literature, was featured both in the documentary “Love Between the Covers” and She has been nominated for the NAACP Image Award in The recipient of the 2017 Romance Writers of America Nora Roberts LifetimeĪchievement Award, as well as the 2016 Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Awardįor historical romance. Sometimes a journey backwards moves you forward… But on the way, Crystal learns some home truths about Go back home, but Crystal thinks they’re wrong, and heads back to Dallas, to Loves her new life and family…but she misses her friends and being free. Should count her blessings, part of her wants to scream at all the rules! She Inside story of fan-favorite, Crystal Chambers Brown’s adventures as a runaway.īe the everything that teenaged Crystal ever wanted but though she knows she Bestseller, and NAACP Image Award Nominee, a story from Beverly Jenkins’s ![]() ![]() ![]() Small Favors is a beautifully creepy, gothic tale, loosely based on the fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin. Ellerie finds herself in a race against time before all of Amity Falls, her family, and the boy she loves, go up in flames. But their true intentions are much more sinister. ![]() ![]() Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Small Favors. They point to a tribe of devilish and mystical creatures who promise to fulfill the residents' deepest desires, however grand and impossible, for just a small favor. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. But when a supply party goes missing, some worry the monsters that stalked the region have once more returned.Īs fall turns to winter, more strange activities plague the town. Though the early townsfolk fought off the devils in the woods, to this day visitors are few and rare. The Downings are beekeepers by trade and the honey their hives produce is celebrated and revered throughout Amity Falls. Craig, the New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows.Įllerie Downing lives in the quiet town of Amity Falls in the Blackspire Mountain range-five narrow peaks stretching into the sky like a grasping hand, bordered by a nearly impenetrable forest of tall pines. It's The Village meets Needful Things in this mesmerizing and chilling novel set in the secluded town of Amity Falls-Ellerie has the chance to have her secret wishes come true, but there's a price to pay. From the New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows comes a mesmerizing and chilling novel that's The Village meets Needful Things about what lurks in the shadows of the people you think you know. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winner of the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year and overall Book of the Year, selected as the Waterstones Book of the Year, and a Costa Book Award Finalist ![]() TolkienĪ Kirkus Review Best Book of 2017 and a Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. ![]() By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C. ![]() Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games
![]() ![]() Leaving my friends in town, I trudged across the athletic fields, hoping reports of the asylum’s demolition had been overblown. I took the news like the news of a sudden death. Plus the asylum was the inspiration for my first novel, Dysphoria, and I was still basking in the glow of graduating from aspiring writer to published author. After all, my wife married me, so the asylum date must have worked. This summer, I thought I’d go back to pay homage. My wife married me, so the asylum date must have worked. ![]() ![]() I had to impress her so I bought a bottle of cognac and took her drinking in the woods behind the asylum. Plus, she was incalculably rich–in my barely-post-college estimation–that is to say, she had a real job. She was 32, classy, tough, and athletic–a perfect combination. The asylum had been the site of one of my first dates with my wife. Eighteen, Gen X, and goth, this impressed me immensely. What English major and aspiring writer doesn’t want to go to school in the shadow of a Gothic castle in which people were once shocked, water-boarded, and sent into insulin coma? The Smith girls brave enough to enter the asylum said the walls were smeared in blood. One of the things I liked most about attending Smith College in the mid 90′s was the abandoned mental asylum located just beyond the athletic fields. ![]() ![]() In Batman: Beyond the White Knight #4 written and drawn by Sean Murphy, with colors from Dave Stewart, and lettering by AndWorld Design, Murphy can play on that idea of reinventing a character, both with Terry McGinnis and Duke Thomas. Getting a chance to riff on what the audience expects and making a character feel new or original can breathe that life into one that feels lacking. ![]() This is usually thanks to the creative team bringing an outside perspective, and operating at a distance from canon to develop that reinvented world. For comics, an out-of-continuity story might see a genre aesthetic reinforce an aspect of the book, or give new life to an existing character. For a song, it might be a change to the tempo, genre, or instruments that make an existing work feel new and unique. ![]() Out of continuity, Elseworld-style stories work best when they’re treated like a song cover, in that all the core elements are there, but they’re rearranged and something new is brought to the existing elements. ![]() ![]() Then, during her trial, Isobel names thirteen others, calling them all witches. More important, Isobel’s trance experiences (or are they dreams?) lead her to confess to a wide range of sins, including consorting with the devil. Isobel seeks vengeance against the local lord who executed her mother for witchcraft. She has dark wishes as well, unknown to most people. While Margaret worries that being around Isobel could be dangerous, she also respects Isobel’s medical successes and comes to believe that acknowledging the efficacy of herbal remedies or believing in fairies does not challenge her Christianity.īut Isobel believes in more than cheery fairies and herbal medicine. She becomes interested in Isobel’s magic, in fairies, and in herbal remedies Isobel freely shares her knowledge. When Margaret stumbles across Isobel one day, it seems as though Isobel is commanding the dolphins in the ocean to dance. The story is told by Isobel herself and also by Margaret Hay, a fictionalized seventeen-year-old noble woman. ![]() ![]() ![]() I received a free copy of Bitter Magic by Nancy Hayes Kilgore from the author thanks to Caitlin Hamilton Summie at no charge for my honest review.īitter Magic, inspired by the true story of Isobel Gowdie and her witchcraft confession, reveals a little-known corner of history-the lives of both pagan and Protestant women in the Scottish Reformation of the 1600s as witch trials and executions threatened their lives, values, and beliefs. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a wonderful twist in keeping with the book’s opening premise of Earth being demolished to make way for a motorway, the Innsbruck field has since been paved over to make way for a stretch of autobahn.ģ. Adams famously came up with the need for a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk and poor in a field in Innsbruck, Austria, while backpacking around Europe before going to university.Ģ. ![]() Do you know where your towel is? Then we’ll begin. The answer to life, the universe and everything might be 42, but have we figured out the question? Over the four decades that the novel has existed, all sorts of trivia has emerged about it. It’s cherished by children and adults alike, as much for its cheering qualities – Adams was clear that one had to write about the future positively, in order to avoid ending up in Blade Runner – as for its author’s boundless inventiveness and wit. Originally written as a BBC radio series, Adams then wrote it as a novel, a 1981 TV series, stage play and record, adding and removing details each time, with a computer game following in 1984, and further books rounding out a five-book “trilogy”. ![]() The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams’s gloriously funny, inventive and chaotic story about a human fleeing to space with an alien friend to avoid dying on Earth, has had as many reinventions and retellings as the Guide. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() During the course of his life he was a hostage, first with Alaric and the Goths, and then with Rugila, King of the Huns. Aetius is one of the major figures in the history of the Late Roman Empire and his actions helped maintain the integrity of the West in the declining years of the Empire. Who was this man that saved Western Europe from the Hunnic yoke? While Attila is a household name, his nemesis remains relatively obscure. He was brought to battle on the Cataluanian Plain and defeated by a coalition hastily assembled and led by Aetius. Laying siege to Orleans, he was only a few days march from extending his empire from the Eurasian steppe to the Atlantic. In AD 453 Attila, with a huge force composed of Huns, allies and vassals drawn from his already-vast empire, was rampaging westward across Gaul (essentially modern France), then still nominally part of the Western Roman Empire. ![]() ![]() ![]() Duncan's thoroughly realized setting and subtle control of Ava's voice result in a powerfully immersive story that uses its far-future SF premise to thoughtfully explore gender politics. With a fierce desire to survive and with the help of a female spaceship captain named Perp%C3%A9tue, Ava escapes space for the deadly gravity of Earth, where she eventually discovers emotional, sexual, and intellectual liberation. ![]() Duncan makes an excellent debut with a novel that's part feminist polemic and part coming-of-age adventure. After further transgressing Parastrata's laws through a romantic encounter, she is cast out into the Void. Greenwillow, 17.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-06-222014-1. Ava is considered to be deviant for several reasons: she is of suspect Earthly descent, and she has a knack for both math and mechanical engineering, disciplines that are forbidden to women on her ship. In a space-faring future, supply ship "crewes" have developed into patriarchal tribes, with strict gender roles and a mythology to justify them: "Women of the air, stay aloft," the girls of the vessel Parastrata are warned. ![]() |