![]() ![]() ![]() But just know that in addition to the books listed above, I also read dozens and dozens of fantastic short stories, flash fiction, novelettes, fanfics, poems, and works-in-progress. My magazine reading has returned full force, and is now too numerous to list here. The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water ![]() Please enjoy the 2022 Year in Books: Title Some I DNFed, some weren’t my cup of tea, some made me angry in the best possible way, and others taught me something new. Quite a few this year made it onto my To Buy list, I am pleased to say, and even more are on my Explore More From This Author list. As it is, I was able to revisit some old favorites, discover new favorites, and chart a course into manga territory as well. This was the year for books, my friends! I definitely did not get to all the books I wanted to this year, but that just means more for next year. ![]()
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![]() I would definitely recommend this book to others. The writing was quite simple but it was enjoyable and it kept my attention throughout the entire book. ![]() The other characters were also all very three-dimensional, they felt so real and the relationships in the book had a lot of depth but they were still quite simple at the core so kids will have no problem with the book. This is one of those books where you will cry from sadness but also cry from happiness too. Everything isn't what it seems in the story and I just thought it played out very nicely. I won't say much about the plot because I don't want to ruin anything but the story was good and I loved the magical element. ![]() ![]() It sort of reminded me of A Monster Calls - only in the sense that it's about a young boy who is in a horrible situation that he was too young to understand and a magical creature comes to his house but the two are two completely different stories. Ventrella really did a fantastic job with Stanley, he really sounded like a naïve 12 year old boy who was losing his innocence because of situations he couldn't understand at the beginning. The best thing about the book is the fact that it's told from a 12 year old's point of view. It may be a children's book but it's definitely a book that can be enjoyed by adults and teens too, in my opinion. Holy crap this book was so beautiful and heartbreaking. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Sydney Cove (N.S.W.) - Juvenile fiction. | Australia - Social conditions - 18th century - Juvenile fiction. ![]() | Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850. | Health - Infectious diseases - Smallpox. | Literature and stories - Non indigenous - Fiction. | Interracial adoption - Juvenile fiction. This is also shown when he takes in Maria and Rachel and always tries to treat them respectfully. He is a kind and honourable man when he adopted Nanberry and raised him like a son of his own and never treated him any different. | Cadigal (Australian people) - Juvenile fiction. In the book Nanberry black brother white by Jackie French a young native boy, Nanberry is adopted by Surgeon White. 305-307)Ĭhildren's Book Council of Australia Honour Book: Younger Readers, 2012Ĭhildren, Aboriginal Australian - Juvenile fiction. The amazing story of Australias first surgeon and the boy he adopted. Seen through the eyes of the colony's only surgeon and Nanberry, the Aboriginal boy adopted by Surgeon White who finds himself uncomfortably between two worlds, it is a new perspective on Australia's earliest days of white settlement. The year is 1789, and in the newly created colony at Sydney Cove is struggling for survival. The year is 1788, and in the newly created colony at Sydney Cove is struggling for survival. Nanberry : black brother white / Jackie French Book Bib ID ![]() ![]() ![]() I tried to do as much as I could.”īut not just any Sherlock Holmes stories would do. I made the Baker Street Irregulars into Robins. But I didn’t want to get any of it wrong and I didn’t want to leave any Sherlockian stone unturned. “I grew up as a Holmes fan and my dad read it to me, and I read it to my kids. “I would say of the research I did, it was more in the Sherlock Holmes area,” Krieg says. But Krieg spent more time on iconic fiction of the era than he did on Ripperology when coming up with Gotham by Gaslight. Of course, there’s another inescapable work of comic book fiction that deals with Jack the Ripper, Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s indispensable From Hell, which, while fictional is exhaustively footnoted with other elements of Ripper research. If you see a mystery and you know the ending, it’s kind of a bummer. ![]() “And the other thing is that it’s a mystery. “If we gave you exactly what the original was it would be eleven minutes long,” Timm joked. After all, the original comic was only 48 pages long. ![]() But the animated version of Gotham by Gaslight isn’t a direct adaptation, and they had to add more in order to make it work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Together they can take the world by storm…but can the connection forged over long hours in the makeup chair ever hope to survive the glare of the spotlight?Īnd here’s the adorable cover, designed by Dawn Adams and illustrated by Colleen Reinhart! And yet when the beautiful star she’s been secretly crushing on admits to fears of her own, Noa vows to do everything in her power to help Lilah shine like never before. Keeping everyone happy is a full-time job, and she’s already run ragged. Noa Birnbaum may be a brilliant makeup artist and special effects whiz-kid, but cracking into the union is more difficult than she imagined. ![]() She’s been cast as the “final girl” in what could be her breakout performance…but if she wants to prove herself to everyone who ever doubted her, she’s going to need major help along the way. Lilah Silver’s a young actress who dreams of climbing out of B-list stardom. Is a happy ending finally in sight for Hollywood’s favorite scream queen? I’m so excited to be revealing the cover for contemporary f/f romance I Kissed a Girl by Jennet Alexander on the site today! It releases from Sourcebooks on August 3, 2021, and sounds cute as heck, with a cover to match! Here’s the story: ![]() ![]() ![]() ’70s and ’80s Horror Books and their CoversĬover by Terry Oakes from Birthpyre by Larry Brand, Corgi & Avon, 1980 ![]() The book’s eight chapters (with names like “Hail Satan,” “Weird Science,” and “Splatterpunks, Serial Killers, and Super Creeps”) dive deep into pulp publishing that in a way that will delight anyone with an interest in horror, design, illustration or the macabre.īelow are just a few of the images included in the book that has critics smiling. Paperbacks from Hell includes 350 full-color reprints of some of the “creepiest, weirdest and most gruesome covers ever produced” in the realm of fiction. ![]() This year, he’s back with a journey through one of the most fascinating eras in pop publishing. Last year, author Grady Hendrix released My Best Friend’s Exorcism -a comically horrific tale of teenage friends growing up in the ’80s dealing with something a little more devilish than puberty. This year I’m celebrating with some delicious pumpkin beer and reading from one of my newest favorites, Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction (Quirk Books). ![]() Who doesn’t like a good scare every once in a while? Not to mention the beautiful tradition of Samhain, welcoming the darker half of the year and celebrating the end of the Harvest season. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Halloween of course. FINAL EXTENDED DEADLINE: Logo Design Awards ![]() ![]() ![]() Written with the pacing of a thriller, Surprise, Kill, Vanish brings to vivid life the sheer pandemonium and chaos, as well as the unforgettable human will to survive and the intellectual challenge of not giving up hope that define paramilitary and intelligence work. ![]() Despite Hollywood notions of off-book operations and external secret hires, covert action is actually one piece in a colossal foreign policy machine. ![]() With unprecedented access to forty-two men and women who proudly and secretly worked on CIA covert operations from the dawn of the Cold War to the present day, along with declassified documents and deep historical research, Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen unveils - like never before - a complex world of individuals working in treacherous environments populated with killers, connivers, and saboteurs. ![]() Almost every American president since World War II has asked the CIA to conduct sabotage, subversion and, yes, assassination. Originally known as the president's guerrilla warfare corps, SAD conducts risky and ruthless operations that have evolved over time to defend America from its enemies. When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA's Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations force in the world. From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units. ![]() ![]() Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. The ALC's leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji's darkest secret: the cult's bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.īut when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him-the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. ![]() "A long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world like, well, a virus." -The New York Times Description A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. ![]() ![]() And it ends when the consequences of those acts come full circle. The story begins with an act of violence and an act of mercy. Jade City begins an epic tale of family, honor, and those who live and die by the ancient laws of jade and blood. The outcome of this clan war will determine the fate of all Green Bones-from their grandest patriarch to the lowliest motorcycle runner on the streets-and of Kekon itself. When a powerful new drug emerges that lets anyone-even foreigners-wield jade, the simmering tension between the Kauls and the rival Ayt family erupts into open violence. ![]() Ancient tradition has little place in this rapidly changing nation. ![]() ![]() They care about nothing but protecting their own, cornering the jade market, and defending the districts under their protection. Now the war is over and a new generation of Kauls vies for control of Kekon's bustling capital city. For centuries, honorable Green Bone warriors like the Kaul family have used it to enhance their abilities and defend the island from foreign invasion. Magical jade-mined, traded, stolen, and killed for-is the lifeblood of the island of Kekon. Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Publisher's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Source: purchased from Audible, supplied by publisher via NetGalleyįormats available: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1) by Fonda Lee ![]() ![]() ![]() Neglected and unloved, Eva has formed a close and inappropriate attachment to the builder - too close some of the villages think, and inappropriate because Pollock likes children just a little too much. Once fat, she appears to be starving herself, becoming thinner with each passing week. The walls ooze damp, stains come through layers of wallpaper, ceilings sag, and strange noises - voices - emanate from empty rooms.Īnd then there's her daughter, Eva, who has always been odd, but is now positively strange. They've taken on a local builder, but his efforts to knock two cottages into the bigger single house she envisages is fraught with problems. She and her family have recently moved into a new house in a small English village. A chilling, deeply creepy Hammer novella by Joanna Briscoe, author of the acclaimed, bestselling novel, Sleep With Me. ![]() |