But there were a few stand-out stories in this collection. I can have a hard time connecting with the characters in such a short amount of time. But calling them "graphic short stories" doesn't work either because that doesn't seem quite clear enough.) (I felt weird calling these "graphic novels" since both were so short. I found it interesting that this collection of short stories featured two comic strip/graphic novel stories. The Silk Road Runs Through Tupperneck, N.H.The Missing Person by Jennifer Finney Boylan.Dyke March by Ariel Schrag (another graphic-novel-type-short-story).My Virtual World by Francesca Lia Block.Happily Ever After by Eric Shanower (graphic-novel-type-short-story).A Word From the Nearly Distant Past by David Levithan.It features short stories from these authors: "An array of gay, lesbian, and transgender characters explore the common theme of identity." How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity.
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I grew up with this book and have loved it all my life, so it’s hard for me to tell how well it’s aged. In several of the books (most notably The Case of the Vanishing Boy,) Key portrays some sort of communal withdrawing from society with a group of like-minded individuals. The protagonists of Key's books are often ostracized, feared, or persecuted due to their abilities or alien origin, and Key uses this as a clear metaphor for racism and other prejudice. In The Strange White Doves, he professed his belief that animals are conscious and aware, and have subtle ways of communicating, perhaps via telepathy. He is known for his portrayals of alien but human-like people who have psychic powers and a close communion with nature, and who can speak with animals. His novel The Incredible Tide became a popular anime series, Future Boy Conan. His novel Escape to Witch Mountain was made into a popular film in 1975 and again in 1995. After he began writing novels for young people, he moved his family to the North Carolina mountains, and most of his books include that wild and rugged landscape. He became a nationally known illustrator before he became an author. There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this nameĪn American science fiction writer, most of whose books were aimed at a juvenile audience. The astronomers' interest is further piqued when they realise the asteroid has an extremely rapid rotation period of four minutes and is exceptionally large. Its speed (100,000 km/h – 62,150 m/h) and the angle of its trajectory clearly indicate it is not on a long orbit around the sun, but is an interstellar object. It is detected by astronomers in the year 2131 while it is still outside the orbit of Jupiter. The "Rama" of the title is an alien starship weighing at least ten trillion tons, initially mistaken for an asteroid categorised as "31/439". The concept was later extended with several sequels, written by Clarke and Gentry Lee.Īfter an asteroid falls in Northeast Italy on 11 September 2077, creating a major disaster, the government of Earth sets up the Spaceguard system as an early warning of arrivals from deep space. The novel won both the Hugo and Nebula awards upon its release, and is regarded as one of the cornerstones in Clarke's bibliography. The story is told from the point of view of a group of human explorers who intercept the ship in an attempt to unlock its mysteries. Set in the 2130s, the story involves a 50-by-20-kilometre (31 by 12 mi) cylindrical alien starship that enters the Solar System. Rendezvous with Rama is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Hugo Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award for Best Novel, John W. They are my reward for struggling through denser stuff. I’ll dole those out because they are such a source of pleasure. I’ll also still pick up a Stephen King novel. I’m also reading a book on synthetic genomics called “The Genesis Machine” by Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel. I recently finished “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy” by Cathy O’Neil, and “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now” by Jaron Lanier. A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Markley’s other books include the memoir Publish This Book and the travelogue Tales of Iceland. Now, I’m interested in the damage social media and American capitalism are doing to our brains and society. Stephen Markley is the acclaimed author of Ohio, which NPR called a masterpiece. For the last decade that has been a ton of climate change tomes. MARKLEY: I’m also a big nonfiction reader, mostly for research. Maybe it’s why I could write a 1,000-page novel over 10 years. This is why I’m somewhat terrified of starting a novel because I know I will plow through it regardless. There are maybe three books in the last decade that I haven’t finished. MARKLEY: I am a total psychotic completist. It’s about the wars between the Indigenous people and settlers in Ohio in the 18th century.īOOKS: Do you read every book to the end? Another one, which I read longer ago, is “The Frontiersman” by Allan W. I love a big novel that you can vanish into. MARKLEY: I just read Larry McMurtry’s “Lonesome Dove.” I found it in a little library seven years ago. Hilarious!" - Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants and Dog Man They sound like the Bad Guys, they look like the Bad Guys. The third laugh-out-loud Bad Guys episode by award-winning creator Aaron Blabey, now in full colour. We challenge anyone to read this and keep a straight face." - Kirkus Reviews And the nasty little furball wants revenge! Will they survive? Will they be heroes? And will they ever stop trying to eat each other?!?It's time for the Bad Guys to spring into action! ABOUT THE SERIES Full of hilarious line illustrations throughout Fans of Dog Man, Cat Kid and Captain Underpants will love this series Perfect for children who a struggling with reading - or who just want to laugh their socks off Praise for The Bad Guys: "his book instantly joins the classic ranks of Captain Underpants. Wolf and his bad buddies have messed with the wrong guinea pig - one who is secretly an evil mad scientist. But Mr Wolf, Mr Piranha, Mr Snake and Mr Shark are about to change all of that - whether you want them to or not! The Bad Guys are about to have a very BAD day! Mr. Quora is where I first saw her writing and its a natural progression to recount these experiences in the form of a book.Ī New Journey borrows heavily from the author’s experiences while working as a teacher for kids in a school in Kerala. She has a great following and her honest answers have won her a lot of fans. Review: Samantha Kannan is very active on quora where she recounts her experience of working and travelling in India. Based on the author’s real experiences, you’re sure to be on the edge of your seat. See India from her eyes as she narrowly escapes an arranged marriage, learns where cashews come from, encounters a king cobra snake, and finds love in the most unexpected of places.Ĭome along with Jurnee as she learns about herself and about a whole new world. Overcoming anxiety, self-doubt, and cultural differences, she finds a home in her new surroundings. Discouraged, she happens upon a chance opportunity to teach in a village in southern India. Book Blurb: Jurnee is a recent college graduate struggling desperately to find a job as a teacher. best friend / boyfriend / whatever isn't doing so well. Rikker didn't exactly expect a warm welcome from Graham. As the satellite trucks line the sidewalk outside the rink, his new teammates are not amused.Īnd one player in particular looks sick every time he enters the room. And it's worse than usual, because the media has latched onto the story of the only "out" player in Division One hockey. With one loose word, the team's new left wing could destroy Graham's life as he knows it. For Graham, there is only one possible reaction: total, debilitating panic. So it's a shock when his past strolls right into the Harkness College locker room, sporting a bag of hockey gear and the same slow smile that had always rendered Graham defenseless. Since then, he's made an art of hiding his sexual orientation from everyone. Until now.įive years ago, Michael Graham betrayed the only person who ever really knew him. What happened in high school stayed in high school. “You didn’t force me to do anything.” He looked at her, his dark eyes grave. “Do you regret it? Do you hate me for forcing you to give up your memories of Clara?”Ī corner of his mouth tipped up. She opened her eyes, twisting to face him. You did come,” he said simply, a statement of fact. “I think had you not come into my life I would’ve stayed a celibate hermit. “Yes, it was very real.” She felt the press of his hands on her shoulders. “How … how can you reconcile it, though? The love you felt? It was real, wasn’t it? Strong and true?” She inhaled, her heart beating wildly, not entirely sure she wanted to hear this. I’ve learned, I think, in these last weeks, to set aside what I felt for her so that I can feel something else with you.” “I loved Clara deeply and I will never forget her, but she’s gone. “No.” She felt him come nearer, standing near enough that the warmth from his body reached out to her. “Do you feel guilty when you make love to me?” The question was too personal, too intimate, but she waited, breath held, for his answer. She looked away, concentrating as she carefully folded the letter and placed it with the others. He attended Kettering Grammar School where he developed a strong interest in local history and archaeology as well as plants, and the University of Reading, where he received his B.Sc. Peter Crane was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire in the United Kingdom. His popular writing includes Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot, a book that traces the evolution and cultural history of Ginkgo biloba to the present day. He is best known for his work on the origin and early evolution of flowering plants ( angiosperms) based on studies of the plant fossil record. In addition to his work in leading and developing educational and natural history organizations, including the Field Museum in Chicago and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, he has had a long career as a professor and researcher in both the U.K. Sir Peter Crane, FRS (born 18 July 1954) is the current President of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation and Senior Research Scientist in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. For the director, see Peter Crane (director). For the cricketer, see Peter Crane (cricketer). Her books are available in print on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and as e-books for most popular e-devices. The full series of Carlo the Mouse and her new book That Is How Things Are (two connected stories): The Autumn Wind and The Kitten and the Sparrow, The Mysterious Life Inside a Closet, and three rhyming stories in Who Is Most Important in the Fridge? will be published in the near future. include Carlo the Mouse on Vacation, The Trees Have Hearts, The City Kittens and the Old House Cat, Good Morning, World!, The Royal Palm, Runaway Clothes, The Little Girl Praying on the Hill, and Carlo the Mouse, Book 1: Too Many Rules for One Little Mouse. She lives in the famous town of Smithville, NJ, with her husband Patrick and a meticulous old cat named Nyda. She is a member of SCBWI and speaks a few languages fluently. Two of her children’s books, The Trees Have Hearts and Good Morning, World, won Mom’s Choice Awards in 2013. In 2011, she began her career as a writer, focusing on writing children’s books that have meaning and provide valuable lessons. In 1992 she immigrated to the USA with her two small daughters and for years worked in her own business. She lived in the historical city of Lviv, where she studied business in Lviv Business College and worked in the food industry. The Little Girl Praying on the Hill is a bittersweet story based on the emotional childhood memories of a young girl trying to understand God’s will. (Olga D’Agostino), an award-winning children’s author, was born in western Ukraine. |