![]() Read this one with the lights on!"-Beth Revis, New York Times bestselling author of the Across the Universe series and Star Wars: Rebel Rising"Erin Bowman's Contagion is everything I want in my science fiction: a cast of smart characters on a desperate rescue mission forced to confront an elusive and unstoppable enemy. ![]() As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are best left buried-and some monsters are only too ready to awaken.ADVANCE PRAISE FOR CONTAGION: "Gripping, thrilling and terrifying in equal measures, Contagion is the perfect intersection of science fiction and horror-I couldn't look away."-Amie Kaufman, New York Times bestselling author of Illuminae and Unearthed"Few understand the true horror that lies in the empty unknown of space, but Erin Bowman nails it in Contagion. of the Taken trilogy.After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission.When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project-including its members' dead bodies. Edgar Award Nominee for Best Young Adult MysteryPerfect for fans of Madeleine Roux, Jonathan Maberry, and horror films like 28 Days Later and Resident Evil, this pulse-pounding, hair-raising, utterly terrifying novel is the first in a duology from the critically acclaimed author. ![]()
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![]() Beyond that, it provides a compelling portrait of small-town life, while examining the ways in which lovelessness and systematic abuse eat away at the fabric of family and community life. It is, of course, a horror novel, and it delivers more than its share of profoundly disturbing moments. Perhaps its most impressive aspect is the confidence with which Chbosky deploys the more fantastical elements of his complex narrative, using the baroque, hallucinatory imagery of horror fiction to tell a very human story with universal implications. Beyond that, Imaginary Friend is a radical departure on virtually every level. To be sure, the underlying sensibility that characterized Wallflower is present in the new book, particularly in its empathetic portraits of people struggling to recover from personal tragedy. ![]() ![]() an all-out, not-for-the-fainthearted horror novel, one of the most effective and ambitious of recent years. ![]() ![]() Though the Gunslinger’s quest remains mostly the same in the book and movie, everything is different in the movie. ![]() Does Roland Know All This in the Book(s)? “It’s the only thing keeping the Darkness where it belongs.”Īs such, the base quest of the Gunslinger in both the books and the movie is the same: Pursue the Man in Black and protect the Tower from being destroyed. “If you let that Tower fall, billions of people will die.” After all, Roland does also say that Gunslingers are knights “sworn to protect us from the coming of the Dark.” The Tower’s role, in some sense, is remarkably similar to the metaphor of the island from Lost being the cork that plugs the bottle that might unleash darkness upon the world. “Your world might be gone, but mine isn’t,” Jake says to Roland during a pep talk. ![]() ![]() ![]() These books are also very sensual and earthy in tone!įrom left to right: The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong, Delirium by Lauren Oliver, Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson, Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi, For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund, Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr, Wild by Alex Mallory GEMINI (May 22 – June 21) We chose books featuring dependable, loyal characters that are very chill. ![]() ![]() The Bull sign is known for being independent, down-to-earth, sensual, patient and practical. You are bold, brave, spontaneous and adventurous and the books we chose for you all fit those categories! Each one of these books features characters that are very similar to the Aries personality!įrom left to right: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, Endgame: The Calling by James Frey, The Orphan Queen by Jodi Meadows, The Brokenhearted by Amelia Kahaney, Reboot by Amy Tintera, Divergentby Veronica Roth, Don’t Turn Around by Michelle Gagnon, I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore, Mila 2.0 by Debra Driza. Your next read is written in the stars! Yesterday on our Instagram we put together YA book recommendations based on astrological signs and their personality traits, so scroll on down to find your sign and discover what you should read next! ARIES (March 21 – April 20)Īries are a fiesty bunch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dutifully, she tries to accommodateshe eats insects, hangs head up, and sleeps at night, as Mama Bird says she mustbut once Stellaluna learns to fly, it's a huge relief when her own mother finds her and explains that the behavior that comes naturally is appropriate to her. This award-winning book by Janell Cannon has sold over 500,000 copies and was on the bestseller list for more than two years. Stellaluna will be on released on Digital HD on Novemand DVD, Blu-ray on Decemby Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Attacked by an owl, Stellaluna (a fruit bat) is separated from her mother and taken in by a bird and her nestlings. Stellaluna is the tender story of a lost young bat who finally finds her way safely home to her mother and friends. The movie will be released on July 2, 2025. The film is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for some rude humor and mild peril. But when the same owl, along with three marabou stork goons, plans to destory Stellaluna and the baby birds, they get lost in the African savanna and make new friends while Stellaluna tries to find out who she truly is. In an African forest, an owl knocks Stellaluna out of her mother's safe embrace, falls into the forest and ends up in a sparrow's nest where the mother bird will let Stellaluna be part of her family and learn how to fly. ![]() ![]() Jeff Bridges playing Rooster Cogburn, surprisingly, didn’t bother me at all. It gave different eyes to the whole experience of the film. I feel that sticking to the PoV of Mattie Ross–played by the absolute revelation of Hailee Steinfeld–was a perfect choice. ![]() Let’s start with my impressions of the Coen Bros. That’s right! I went for the whole experience! film, Netflixed (yes it’s a word…now) the John Wayne original and bought the original novel by Charles Portis (which I had not read previously). So what’s a guy to do? Simply put, I bought tickets to the Coen Bros. Reviews started trickling in, nearly all of them positive. Honestly I originally planned on sitting this movie out. ![]() It was with mixed emotions that I first saw the trailer for the Coen Bros. ![]() My grandparents owned a video rental store, so when I wasn’t watching Transformers, Voltron or G.I. For whatever reason I absolutely loved his movies– The Longest Day, McLintock! and El Dorado being among my favorites. I grew up a John Wayne fan I readily and unashamedly admit it. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Edible Woman uses elements of the surreal as it follows a young woman named Marian whose engagement sets off an increasingly bizarre series of events, which include the loss of her ability to eat. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award.Storyline. The novel that put the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments on the literary map. Atwood's brilliant first novel, The Edible Woman, was released in Canada in 1969 and won in 20 Richard C. The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood: 9780385491068 : Books The novel that put the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments on the literary map. ![]() Atwood is the two time Governor General's Award winner. ![]() with slight wear to book and small chips on top borders dust jacket not price clipped, and small mark on back cover, designed by Charles Pachter and mylar protected. Original Maroon cloth book, with gilt lettering on spine, with a small vertical stain on the right side of the front end paper, otherwise in near fine condition.Inscribed by Atwood in blue ink on the title page "For Mary Lou - Best Wishes, from this decorative cake - Margaret Atwood 1971". ![]() ![]() LOC Classification QC794.6 Physics > Nuclear & Particle Physics > Radioactivity > Grand Unified Theories CONTENTS & SUMMARYĬhapter One begins by asserting that Philosophy is dead because it has not kept up with modern science, and as such, scientists are the ones who hold the answers that explain the existence of all things. ![]() GENREĭewey Classification 530.142 (Theories of Mathematical Physics) The dust jacket sets this book forth as the only plausible explanation for the origin of the universe and everything in it other than the idea of a benevolent creator. ![]() It would seem that we’ve done a good enough job that the leading atheistic minds have abandoned the Big Bang and moved on to a new theory, known as String Theory, M-Theory, or the Multiverse Theory, which he hails as “the only viable candidate for a complete ‘theory of everything’” (emphasis his). The church is familiar with the narrative of the Big Bang and has spent a few decades learning how to refute that theory. ![]() ![]() ![]() The stories included in Volume II are: Jourdan Anderson who requested payment from his former slave owner Stagecoach Mary Fields, the first African-American female star route mail carrier Willie Kennard, the Sheriff of the Colorado gold mining town of Yankee Hill Cathay Williams, the only known female Buffalo Soldier Blind Tom Wiggins, an autistic musical prodigy Millie and Christine McCoy, conjoined twins known as "The Two-Headed Nightingale" Victor Green, the creator and publisher of "The Green Book for the Negro Motorist" and Eugene Bullard, a fighter pilot who flew for France during WWI. These beautifully illustrated stories offer a refreshing look at remarkable African Americans. ![]() Joel Christian Gill offers historical and cultural commentary on heroes whose stories are not often found in history books, such as Cathay Williams, the only known female Buffalo Soldier, and Eugene Bullard, a fighter pilot who flew for France during World War I. A collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity. Strange Fruit, Volume II: More Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity.Įach of the eight illustrated chapters chronicles an uncelebrated African American hero or event. ![]() Like all legends, people fade away, but not before leaving an incredible legacy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In her novel the simple act of hiring a governess raises the spectres of murder, disguise, and adultery. The plot is implausible at times, depending on a woman disguising herself to work for her former husband and his second wife, but the themes of infidelity and destitution were very real concerns for the mid-Victorian middle classes, and the novel clearly delineates the sexual structure of a society in which female personality is suppressed by masculine will.Įllen Wood played upon the anxieties of the Victorian middle classes who feared a breakdown of the social order as divorce became more readily available and promiscuity threatened the sanctity of the family. When the aristocratic Lady Isabel abandons her husband and children for her wicked seducer, more is at stake than moral retribution. First published in 1861, "East Lynne" was Ellen Wood's second of over 30 novels. ![]() |