Last month, Universal preemptively bought the film rights for, in her words, “more zeros than I’ve seen in my life”. A week later, Lightlark had gone to auction and she had a six-figure deal with Amulet Books. The next day, however, she woke up to see her video had been viewed more than a million times. Maybe there wasn’t a market for Lightlark, a young adult story she had been writing and rewriting for years, to no interest from publishers. Maybe the books world was right, she thought. Then, on 13 March 2021, she decided to take to TikTok, asking her followers if they would: “read a book about a cursed island that only appears once every 100 years to host a game that gives the six rulers of the realm a chance to break their curses.” One of the rulers must die, the short video revealed, “even as love complicates everything” for the heroine, Isla Crown.Īster didn’t expect much, especially when she checked in a few hours later to see that her post had only clocked up about 1,000 views. The book had tanked during the pandemic and she had been dropped by her literary agent. H aving finally published her first novel, Alex Aster was feeling disheartened.
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When orphaned young Maria Merryweather arrives at Moonacre Manor, she feels as if she's entered Paradise. Rowling, creator of the Harry Potter series. 'I absolutely adored The Little White Horse.'-J.K. In 1842, thirteen-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather arrives at Moonacre Manor, her family's ancestral home in an charmed village in England's West Country, and she feels as if she’s entered Paradise. from 15.24 4 Used from 15.24 4 New from 49.38 1 Collectible from 59.19. In this vibrant and original novel, Nicole Glover joins a roster of contemporary fantasy writers, such as Victor LaValle and Zen Cho, who use speculative fiction to delve into important historical and cultural threads. To solve this mystery, they will have to face ugly truths all around them, including the ones about each other. But the secrets and intricate lies of the elites of Black Philadelphia only serve to dredge up more questions. When they find one of their friends slain in an alley, Hetty and Benjy bury the body and set off to find answers. Now that the Civil War is over, Hetty and her husband, Benjy, have settled in Philadelphia, solving murders and mysteries that the white authorities won’t touch. Meet Hetty Rhodes, a magic-user and former conductor on the Underground Railroad who now solves crimes in post–Civil War Philadelphia.Īs a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Hetty Rhodes helped usher dozens of people north with her wits and magic. A compelling debut by a new voice in fantasy fiction, The Conductors features the magic and mystery of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series written with the sensibility and historical setting of Octavia Butler’s Kindred. Robinson, Peter 1979- Events ManagementĢ1. Maryport & Carlisle 150: Celebrating 150 Years of a West Cumbrian RailwayĢ0. Robinson, Peter 1966- New Zealand artist of Māori (Kai Tahu) descentġ9. 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(3) Peter Robinson (born 18 February 1953) is a British poet born in Salford, Lancashire - author of "Entertaining Fates" (2) Robinson, Peter, 1938- wrote Containers. (1) Peter Robinson (born 1950) is an English-born, Canadian-based crime writer - author of Inspector Banks mysteries. But when she is captured in a Philistine raid and enslaved in Ashdod, she is surprised to find that the brutal fighter known as Demon-Eyes is Lukio himself. But just as he is set to claim the biggest prize of all, the daughter of the king, his past collides with his present in the form of Shoshana.Īfter a heartbreaking end to her secret friendship with Lukio, Shoshana thought to never see the boy with the dual-colored eyes and the troubled soul again. Now the champion of Ashdod, Lukio has achieved every goal with the help of his ruthless cousin. Feeling betrayed by everyone, he returned to his birthplace in Philistia to become a famous fighter. Ten years ago Lukio fled Kiryat-Yearim, where he’d been adopted by the Levite family who guarded the Ark of the Covenant. Genre: Biblical Literature, Historical Fiction We value your privacy and use cookies to remember your shopping preferences and to analyze our website traffic. Finally, after centuries of these abusive, imperialistic tales which have been handed down from one male-biased generation to the next, James Finn Garner has taken it upon himself (that's right, yet another man) to enlighten and liberate these classic bedtime stories and retell them in a manner that is positive and self-esteem building to women, minorities, the hearing impaired, the sight impaired, the differently-abled, gays, the third world, trees, shrubs, bushes, anorexics, bulemics, those in recovery, and spotted owls. We have 22 copies of Politically Correct: The Ultimate Storybook for sale starting from 1.00. Get special offers, deals, discounts & fast. Problem was, these stories, many of which found their way into the general social consciousness were discriminatory, unfair, culturally biased and in general, demeaning to witches, animals, goblins, and fairies everywhere. Shop Politically Correct : The Ultimate Storybook by James Finn Garner 1998 online at a best price in Chile. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children. He performed comedy in Chicago nightclubs for a number of years and is the author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. " Once upon a time, in the olden days, heavy-set middle-aged men would congregate in their elitist clubs, sit in overstuffed chairs, smoke cigars, and pitch story ideas and plots to each other. James Finn Garner was born in Detroit and attended the University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood Award for one of his short plays. Lanik Mueller, the 16 year old heir apparent to the Mueller throne, makes a dark discovery about himself. Three millennia on, the families have become warring nations, fighting on horseback and with swords over the iron, each in a race to become the first family to finally build a spaceship and escape Treason. Place something of value in the Ambassador, and if The Republic deems it satisfactory, they will send back a lump of iron in its place. However, The Republic decided to throw the families a bone: small teleporters, given to each family, called "Ambassadors". Treason, despite being a habitable planet, contains very little iron (and none of it easily reachable by the surface), so the families were essentially doomed to live out the rest of their lives in primitiveness. On the titular planet, a group of families were banished by The Republic over three thousand years ago for arrogantly attempting to usurp the government and install a meritocracy where only the intellectual elite (read: them) would rule. A Planet Called Treason is a 1979 novel by Orson Scott Card, later slightly revised and re-released as simply Treason. Hades is after an ancient scroll from the lost city of Alexandria, which carries a key piece of information that could lead to the destruction of Earth. The only way that Allora, and her friends, can expose the traitor is to find the one item that he covets most. With his assassins dead, the King decides to activate Hades. The information he passed on to the King of Sonora led to the death of many high ranking agents in a secret organization called the Order. At the end of the Rebel Wars, a sleeper agent, code named Hades, wreaked havoc among the rebellion. Searching in the secret rebel base Shangri-La, Allora finds information that will lead them down a path of danger, and bring them face-to-face with one of the most dangerous of enemies. The key to unlocking the orb's mysteries may lie in an ancient scroll that was lost at the end of the Titan Wars. 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Listen to Ae-ran Kim's MY BRILLIANT LIFE audiobook excerpt, translated by Chi-Young Kim, read by Raymond J. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past-a journey that can only be guided by one’s own conscience. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town, and the people dearest to her. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch-“Scout”-returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Now available in a gorgeous, limited leatherbound edition, Harper Lee’s landmark #1 New York Times bestselling novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. |