![]() This spotlight has been long time coming: LaCour’s YA debut Hold Still, a tender story of grief and hopeful queer love, came out in 2009. ![]() You’ve probably seen the gorgeous cover of Yerba Buena, LaCour’s atmospheric adult debut about two star-crossed young women navigating trauma, family, and romance, anywhere from Book of the Month to Target’s book club. These days, thanks to the tireless and trailblazing work of authors like LaCour, it’s easier than ever to find lesbian books. Without a local indie full of helpful queer booksellers to guide me, I walked into Barnes & Noble armed with a listicle of queer books, typed Nina’s name into the computer in the young adult section, and went home with Everything Leads To You. Books like that weren’t easy to come by in 2014. The first time I ever bought a romance about two girls at a bookstore, Nina LaCour’s name was on the spine. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Night Vale PTA treasurer Diane Crayton's son, Josh, is moody and also a shape-shifter. ![]() Jackie is determined to uncover the mystery of King City and the man in the tan jacket before she herself unravels. Everything about him and his paper unsettles her, especially the fact that she can't seem to get the paper to leave her hand and that no one who meets this man can remember anything about him. ![]() Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked "KING CITY" by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deerskin suitcase. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge. Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. Belongs to a particular strain of American gothic that encompasses The Twilight Zone, Stephen King and Twin Peaks, with a bit of Tremors thrown in." ( The Guardian) Performed by Welcome to Night Vale podcast narrator Cecil Baldwin and special guests Dylan Marron, Retta, Thérèse Plummer, and Dan Bittner, with music by Disparition.įrom the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves.no matter where we live. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She speaks to her son, Kuno, via The Machine, temporarily emerging from isolation to her dismay, he has a request: “I want to see you not through The Machine … I want to speak to you not through the wearisome Machine …” Vashti cannot contemplate a journey through the surface of the earth, which she describes as “only dust and mud”. While lecturing, she turns on her isolation switch when she finishes she turns it off again, and immediately all the accumulations of the last three minutes burst upon her … what was the new food like? Could she recommend it … etc.’ She’s been lecturing from underground most of her life – ‘the clumsy system of public gatherings had been long since abandoned neither Vashti nor her audience stirred from their rooms…’ In a sealed room, somewhere within the bowels of the earth, a woman named Vashti is lecturing to her unseen listeners. ![]() ![]() ![]() Philby’s formative years didn’t contain any events which might have overtly pushed him over the edge to become a traitor. One of the most prolific spies in the history of the practice, he was an MI6 agent who spent just over three decades spying on his own kind for his handlers in the Soviet Union. To those interested in the subject, the name is well-known to the point of being legendary, and there has never been a shortage of studies on his biography. Relatively little might be known about the spies of today, but over the years many of those from the past have emerged with their stories, and arguably few present as fascinating a case as Kim Philby, whose life is explored in Ben Macintyre‘s A Spy Among Friends. The Crucial Connections in A Spy Among Friendsīen Macintyre Offers Perspective on Kim PhilbyĮspionage between powerful countries doesn’t elicit the same interest from the public as it did during the years of the Cold War, slipping into the realm of shadows and clever technology as it ought to.Ben Macintyre Offers Perspective on Kim Philby. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a delightful caper complete with chase scenes, a strong female heroine, and a swoon-worthy hero. But, like most Witemeyer novels, A Worthy Pursuit is a worthy and charming read. The A Worthy Pursuit series consist of 1 historical books written by Karen Witemeyer. After all, it’s about a teacher on the run and a ruthless bounty hunter. The premise of this story seems a bit far-fetched at first. What they don’t expect, of course, is to end up trusting and loving each other. Stone realizes he must work with Charlotte to find a way out of this muddle. Instead, he finds a frightened but steely woman, protecting three marvelous children. But when he finally catches up with Charlotte, he doesn’t find the evil kidnapper that he is expecting. Stone is every bit his name – rugged, hard, and merciless. Lily’s wealthy grandfather has indeed hired a bounty hunter, Stone Hammond, to track Lily down. She decides to run away with the children so Lily can be safe. When the school suddenly closes, Charlotte fears that Lily’s dastardly grandfather is to blame. ![]() In 1891, Texas, Charlotte Atherton, headmistress at Sullivan’s Academy for Exceptional Youths, becomes legal guardian to Lily, a spunky seven-year-old whose mother has died. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They are: Serendipity, The Dream Tree, Wheedle on the Needle, and The Muffin Muncher. The first four books of the Serendipity Series were released in December of 1973. After receiving an offer to publish the books only in hardcover, Cosgrove created his own publishing company - Serendipity Press. After finding primarily large expensive books, Cosgrove teamed up with illustrator James to create low cost softcover books. The books are short stories with colorful illustrations that have a moral perspective.Ĭosgrove wrote the books after searching for an easy to read book with a message to read to his then three-year-old daughter. The books were written by Stephen Cosgrove and illustrated by Robin James. Serendipity is a series of children's books about animals and other creatures. JSTOR ( June 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Serendipity" book series – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Parker Ross Macdonald & Margaret Millar Shel Silverstein Stanislaw Lem Stephen King Toni Morrison Ursula K. Wodehouse Philip Roth Rachel Carson Ralph Ellison Randy Watts Ray Bradbury Robert A. Tolkien Kurt Vonnegut Lee Child Loren Eiseley Louise Erdrich Louise Penny Lovecraft and Howard Malcolm X Margaret Atwood Marianne Moore and Her World Mo Willems Neil Gaiman Norman Mailer Octavia Butler Pat LaMarche and the Charles Bruce Foundation P.G. Thompson & New Journalism James Baldwin Joan Didion John D. White, James Thurber, and Their World Eric Sloane Georges Simenon Hunter S. Authors Agatha Christie Albert Camus & His World Alistair MacLean Amy June Bates, Artist and Book Illustrator Anthony Burgess Arthur Conan Doyle Ayn Rand The Bronte Sisters Carl Hiaasen Charles Bukowski E.B.Lost Ocean: 36 Postcards - WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP Color in the cards to bring to life shoals of exotic fish, curious octopi, and delicately penned seahorses, and then share the magic with your friends that is. ![]() ![]() ![]() So whether you love bats or not, this book is certain to hold your attention. They shouldn't have been surprised though, because Airborn is brimming with imagination and creativity, just like Oppel's previous books. Needless to say, people were a bit surprised when he busted out one heck of a story about two young adults, airships, and wild adventures (though there is a creature with some bat-like qualities in this book, too). Part of the reason Airborn gained so much attention is because Oppel was already well-known for his Silverwing series, in which all of the characters are bats (yes, bats-you read that correctly). It won the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature, the Red Maple Award (OLA), plus other super prestigious honors they hand out in Canada (where Oppel lives and works). No wonder it gained a ton of critical acclaim when it was published way back in 2004, right?Īnd by a ton of critical acclaim, we really do mean a ton. This book also has a spectacular shipwreck on an abandoned island, an entirely new species that is a cross between a panther and a bat, and a feud with some notoriously nasty pirates. What if airplanes hadn't been invented? In the world of Airborn, airships rule the skies." ( Source)Īnd the good times don't stop there, Shmoopsters. ![]() They were the biggest objects ever to fly. A luxurious passenger vessel bigger than the Titanic, yet lighter than air. When asked about the premise of his book, Airborn, Kenneth Oppel said: ![]() ![]() ![]() During this time, she experienced a religious conversion and became active in the nearby Methodist church. One morning before dawn, with a baby in her arms, she walked away from the Dumonts and took refuge with an abolitionist family who lived five miles away. On July 4, 1827, the New York State Legislature emancipated Isabella, yet her owners at the time, the Dumonts, would not comply because they claimed she still owed them work. She married an enslaved man named Thomas, and together they had five children. From a young age, she was bought and sold several times by slaveowners in New York. ![]() Born around 1797, Isabella (her birth name) was the daughter of James and Betsey, slaves of Colonel Ardinburgh Hurley, Ulster County, New York. Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist, women’s rights activist, emancipated slave and itinerant evangelist, became arguably the most well-known nineteenth century African American woman. ![]() ![]() ![]() His humorous romantic suspense, Bahama Breeze, remains a “blessed seller.” When he’s not writing or teaching at writers’ conferences, Eddie can be found surfing in Costa Rica or some other tropical locale. His “He Said, She Said” devotional column appears on ChristianDevotions.US (not “dot com”). He is also a writing instructor and cofounder of Christian Devotions Ministries. He is a three-time winner of the Delaware Christian Writers’ Conference, and his YA novel, The Curse of Captain LaFoote, won the 2012 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award and 2011 Selah Award in Young Adult Fiction. He also serves as Acquisition Editor for Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas. Couldn’t help but love the humor-filled, down-to-earth way he lives out his passion for the Lord and for the written word.Įddie is the author of eleven books and over 100 articles. I met Eddie at the 2011 Montrose Christian Writers Conference. Eddie claims he can’t carry a tune, so we’ll settle for hand-clapping and foot-stomping in the “joyful noise” pew. ![]() Today’s Faith Song is a duet with guest Eddie Jones. ![]() |