![]() ![]() It should be noted then that if character development is important to you, you'll want to start at the beginning of the series, however the novel can be read as a standalone.īlackwater Farm was a great setting, but the 'whodunnit reveal' came from left field and to be honest I felt a little jibbed. Unfortunately this was just an okay read for me.ĭC Knight's abilities weren't explained well enough for my liking, although to be fair, this is the third in the Detective Jennifer Knight series by Mitchell. Add to that the case of a missing nine year old twin and a suitably creepy cover, and I was ready to fall in love with The Silent Twin. ![]() The Silent Twin is my first Caroline Mitchell novel and features one of my favourite tropes, a detective (in this case DC Knight) who uses their supernatural abilities to solve crime. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Aelia plans to use Orsina as protection as she hunts down the magical relic that will free her from her mortal body.Īs Aelia and Orsina grow closer to one another, Aelia wrestles with her own desire to tell Orsina the truth about who she is, and her fear that Orsina will turn on her if she does. ![]() So Aelia pretends to be a mortal woman who is fleeing an abusive family. During a run-in with Orsina, she is trapped in a mortal body, rendering her unable to leave Inthya.Īelia is found by Orsina again, but this time Orsina does not recognize her in her new body. The Order of the Sun has classified her as a chaos goddess, meaning that her worship has been outlawed. ![]() But after two years of fighting monsters and demons and evil gods, she does not seem to be any closer to her goal-or ever returning home.Īelia is the Goddess of Caprice, the personification of poor decision-making. She has been ordered to leave her home and travel around Vesolda in search of a great evil she is supposedly destined to destroy. Orsina of Melidrie is a paladin of the Order of the Sun, sworn to drive out corruption and chaos wherever she finds it. ![]() ![]() It is rooted in the misogyny and cruelties of the Hades/Persephone myth and contains sensitive material not suitable for all readers. No matter the cost, Hades intends to keep her.Ĭaptive in the Underworld is a standalone dark lesbian romance novel set in mythological ancient Greece. With her tears and pleas for freedom ignored by pitiless Hades, Persephone must learn to satisfy her keeper in all ways, lest she suffer the consequences.Īnd though she cannot deny that something blooms within her, something forbidden, Persephone despairs of ever feeling the sun upon her skin once more. ![]() Still, when Hades pulls her into the dark realm of the underworld, Persephone longs for the world above, even if it means an eternity under her mother's thumb. Demeter has rebuffed all her daughter's suitors, but she is not yet satisfied she strives to crush Persephone's spirit. Innocent Persephone chafes beneath her mother's hawkish gaze and mercurial temper. Hades gets what she wants-always-and what she wants is a certain goddess of the springtime. ![]() In the land of the dead, Queen Hades' word is law. A dark lesbian romance retelling of the Hades/Persephone abduction story, set in mythological ancient Greece. ![]() ![]() ![]() LUNA's return to comics after three years off since the end of THE His life, he discovers she is more than just a robot.? This will be JONATHAN Wanted was an X5, the latest in realistic androids. 20XX : TRANSPORT JONATHAN LUNA TRANSPORT ICHORAGE SCHO One - Shot, 32 Pages ALEX + ADA with SARAH VAUGHN ALEX + ADA JONATHAN LUNA SARAH VAUGHN VOLUME 1 Vol. art & cover JONATHAN LUNA 32 PAGES FC Dec.12.07 2.99 Dara’s involvement with the sword propels her into a world of extreme danger as the three powerful strangers stop at nothing to get a hold of her. THE SWORD, Spider-Woman, ULTRA) and SARAH VAUGHN (Sparkshooter) comes ALEX +ĪDA, a sci-fi drama set in the near future. "Though this is a fairly classic sci-fi storyĪnyone who loves a good sci-fi tale will find plenty of thought-provoking stuffĪrtwork possesses a beautiful simplicity that reinforces the importance of the Vaughan's Saga orĪnyone who loves a good sci-fi tale will find plent. Plot perfectly, particularly his ability to bring nuance and feeling to faces The complexities of what it is to be human. ![]() ![]() ![]() Line, Luna and Vaughn's sensitive plot and careful pacing keep it exciting,Įspecially as they strip away preconceived notions and use the tale to examine "Though this is a fairly classic sci-fi story English 1 volume (unpaged) : 26 cm The last thing in the world Alex wanted was an X5, the latest in realistic androids. ![]() ![]() ![]() In May 2010 Power and Majesty, Book One of the "Creature Court trilogy", was published by HarperCollins Voyager. Each book in the Lost Shimmaron series was written by a different author. Seacastle is the first book in the seven-part children's book series, "The Lost Shimmaron". In 2007 her children's novel, Seacastle, was published by ABC Books. Ink Black Magic was shortlisted for the Best Fantasy Novel category of the 2013 Australian Aurealis Awards. A sequel, Liquid Gold, and the chapbook novelette Hobgoblin Boots are also both set in the comic fantasy world of 'Mocklore.' The books have subsequently been republished in ebook by FableCroft Publishing, with a third novel in the series, Ink Black Magic, also being published by FableCroft Publishing in 2013. In 1998, Roberts won the inaugural George Turner Prize for Splashdance Silver (1998, Bantam). ![]() She currently lives with her husband and two daughters in Tasmania. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, she holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons), and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Gorman was selected by President Biden to read her original poem “The Hill We Climb” for his Inauguration on January 20, 2021, making her the youngest poet to have served in this role. She previously served as the youth poet laureate of Los Angeles, and she is the founder and executive director of One Pen One Page, an organization providing free creative writing programs for underserved youth. In 2017, Gorman was named the first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States. She is the author of the The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country, the poetry collection Call Us What We Carry, and The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough. She graduated from Harvard University in 2020. The full text of the poem is available via this link.Ībout the Poet: Amanda Gorman was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. All are welcome and there are no wrong answers! But what did Amanda Gorman mean, or intend in "The Hill We Climb"? Join us as we discuss Gorman's original poem. ![]() Our country's first National Youth Poet Laureate certainly garnered a lot of attention at the inauguration on January 20, 2021. ![]() ![]() ![]() The greater challenge was being all alone for so long. I pointed out that the island was her home, and she was already comfortable there. We read Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell, and the girls were fascinated by how the main character, Karana, could survive alone on an island for eighteen years. The idea first came to me in a mother-daughter book club meeting when my daughter and her friends were in fifth grade. I think they’re marvelous people and I can’t imagine a more wonderful readership.Ĭongrats on your debut middle grade book, Alone! Tell us about the book and what inspired it.Īlone tells the story of a twelve-year-old girl who is left behind and has to survive on her own when her Colorado town is evacuated and abandoned. As an adult, I spent much of my professional career as an educator, so I was always around children. I loved reading and making books for the Young Authors’ Festival every year, and I think that’s where the idea of becoming a writer began. I went to a wonderful elementary school and we did a lot of creative writing. I live and write in northern Colorado now, but I grew up in the northeast corner of Los Angeles, in a little area called Eagle Rock. ![]() ![]() Tell us about yourself and how you came to write for children. Freeman and her debut MG verse novel, ALONE (Aladdin, Jan. We are pleased to feature author Megan E. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Such a life as Miss Brontë’s I have never heard of before,” she marvelled to one correspondent. ![]() Yet each was fascinated by the other.īrontë had soon invited Mrs Gaskell to Haworth, a rare honour, and Gaskell was also deeply impressed by her new friend. By contrast, Brontë (pseudonymously hiding behind “Currer Bell”) was a sickly, self-effacing, reclusive woman, appalled by children, who hardly ever ventured into literary London. Gaskell was beautiful, worldly and dizzyingly public: a mother of four familiar with Florence Nightingale, Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, and even Dickens, with whom she did not get on (“If I were Mr G,” exclaimed Dickens, “oh heaven, how I would beat her”). They were, in many respects, polar opposites. The two novelists first met in the Lake District in the summer of 1850. Perhaps it was this that inspired an extraordinary friendship between two great Victorian writers, which would ultimately blossom into one of the most remarkable literary biographies in English prose. Like Margaret Hale in North and South (1855), or Molly Gibson in Wives and Daughters (1864), she’d had to look after a widowed and cantankerous father in very difficult circumstances, facing the grim realities of sickness and death. ![]() ![]() C harlotte Brontë, who died in 1855 aged 38, might almost have been an Elizabeth Gaskell heroine. ![]() ![]() ![]() (“I was so sorry afterward I had not counted the number of spaceships that had exploded,” Asimov wrote in a withering review of the 1978 movie “ Battlestar Galactica.”) Their appeal is subtler, relying on the tension between Seldon’s plan and the individuals caught in its weave. The novels conspicuously lack aliens, mysticism, and other space-opera standbys, not least battle scenes. ![]() The Foundation confronts barbarian kingdoms, imperial revanchists, and shadowy telepaths who elude psychohistory’s grasp. Left ignorant of its details (such knowledge would play havoc with prediction), each generation must solve its own crises. His followers establish a Foundation on the frontier world of Terminus-a colony tasked with conserving all human knowledge-where they spend the next millennium fulfilling “Seldon’s plan” to reunite the galaxy. “The storm-blast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now.” “Interstellar wars will be endless,” he warns. Its inventor, Hari Seldon, lives in a twelve-thousand-year-old galactic empire, which, his equations reveal, is about to collapse. Isaac Asimov’s classic saga revolves around the dismal science of “psychohistory,” a hybrid of math and psychology that can predict the future. An innocent viewer of the new Apple TV+ series “Foundation”-a lavish production complete with clone emperors, a haunted starship, and a killer android who tears off her own face-might be surprised to learn that the novels it’s based on inspired Paul Krugman to become an economist. ![]() |