![]() ![]() ![]() Slate is a forger, Brenner is an assassin, Caliban is a paladin who has a dead demon rotting in his skull, they're on this trip in hopes of a pardon if they survive. Queer Rep Summary: Bi/Pan Main Character(s).īleak and humorous, CLOCKWORK BOYS follows three convicted criminals and a scholar sent to find out what they can about the terrifying and murderous "Clockwork Boys" who have been devastating their towns and villages.Īs a journey narrative, CLOCKWORK BOYS focuses on the dynamic between the members of the party, as well as the internal struggles of the two point-of-view characters. It also requires them to refrain from killing each other along the way! At turns darkly comic and touching, Clockwork Boys puts together a broken group of people trying to make the most of the rest of their lives as they drive forward on their suicide mission. If they succeed, rewards and pardons await, but that requires a long journey through enemy territory, directly into the capital. Kingfisher’s new novel begins the tale of a murderous band of criminals (and a scholar), thrown together in an attempt to unravel the secret of the Clockwork Boys, mechanical soldiers from a neighboring kingdom that promise ruin to the Dowager’s city. ![]() ![]() It’s not the start of a joke, but rather an espionage mission with deadly serious stakes. A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. ![]()
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![]() ![]() So Zack is woefully unprepared when he discovers he was born to host the spirit of the First Emperor of China for a vital mission: sealing the leaking portal to the Chinese underworld before the upcoming Ghost Month blows it wide open. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by, and his schools never taught anything except Western history and myths. Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. ![]() ![]() Percy Jackson meets Tristan Strong in this hilarious middle grade “edge-of-your-seat adventure” (James Ponti, New York Times bestselling author of City Spies) that follows a young boy as he journeys across China to seal the underworld shut and save the mortal realm. ![]() ![]() Here Donaghue brings a uniquely Irish perspective to the time. Even as people were killing each other on the battlefields of the First World War, an even more deadly killer was spreading from person to person through love, kindness, touch. The 1918 influenza was a devastating pandemic. Trying, against horrendous odds, to deliver healthy living babies. It was a surprisingly emotional journey following Julia through her day as a nurse, trying to keep fevers down and despair at bay. It takes place over only a few days and barely moves outside of the single room in which Nurse Julia Power cares for those who are pregnant and in quarantine. It's a book that goes a lot deeper than you may first expect. The Pull of the Stars is set in Ireland in 1918. Because I keep reading these books that were written pre-COVID and pandemics seem to be stalking me.Īnyway, I really liked this understated exploration of healthcare, illness, maternity, and all kinds of power abuses. ![]() Serious question: were there always this many books about pandemics? Is this like one of those things where you learn about something you'd never heard of before and then, suddenly, it's EVERYWHERE. Here we are in the golden age of medicine- making such great strides against rabies, typhoid fever, diphtheria- and a common or garden influenza is beating us hollow. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please click the EMU First Start Checklist below for information on installation of the EMU Black, EMU Classic, and PnP adapter along with additional procedures that will improve your experience with engines. This document, the EMU Black Training Manual, and the "?" Help buttons found in the EMU Client software tuning parameter windows will help you learn how circuits work and how fuel injected engines are controlled. ![]() Setting base ignition timing along with setting and testing inputs and outputs are critical steps to know everything is working correctly before trying to start the engine on a base map. Certain functions are very important to test and set for an engine to start and run. Step 1: Below is the link to the EMU First Start Checklist and FAQ and Troubleshooting document links. ![]() The majority of Support questions for procedures, installs, and other subjects are covered in the document. The " EMU First Start Checklist" must be read first before an email is sent to Support for troubleshooting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() THE SCORE, the third book in Kristen Proby's Single in Seattle series, is full of everything that I love about this big, boisterous, talented family, and it was a true pleasure to read. The Montgomerys are back, and I am loving it. Is letting him in a mistake? Or will it be the best thing I’ve ever done? I have the mended broken heart to prove it and have no intention of doing it again.Įxcept the frustrating man is convincing, and my walls are quickly lowering-especially when I feel responsible for possibly upending his career. All I knew was that I was suddenly pinned under some solid, sexy body, unable to breathe.īut even now, I keep running into Ike in the most unexpected places.Īnd he’s doing everything in his power to convince me that he’s not just a player-in any form of the word.īut I’ve been there, done that. Of course, at the time, I didn’t realize it was the Isaiah “Ike” Harrison, Seattle’s hot new quarterback. It was actually during one of those jogs through the park that I ran into him. I walk the walk-or rather, I run the run. I’m not a trainer who only talks the talk, either. I have millions of followers on social media, and it has absolutely nothing to do with my last name. ![]() An all-new meet-cute sports romance from New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kristen Proby, featuring Sophie Montgomery! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Beyond its literary context, Roth's open declaration of her religion as a Christian has brought commentary from Christian communities both endorsing and challenging the novel. Its major plot device, the division of society into personality types, is one used in other science fiction works. Motifs considered within the post-apocalyptic society include the place of violence and social structure. In particular, the novel explores themes common to young adult fiction such as adult authority and the transition from childhood to maturity. The novel has been compared to other dystopian young adult books of the 21st century such as The Hunger Games (2008) and The Maze Runner (2009) because of its similar themes and target audience. ![]() ![]() Underlying the action- and dystopian-focused main plot is a romantic subplot between Tris and "Four" (born Tobias Eaton), one of her instructors in the Dauntless faction. In the story, Beatrice Prior joins the ranks of the Dauntless and explores her new identity as "Tris". This rigid system has removed the threat of anyone exercising independent will and re-threatening the population's safety. The society defines its citizens by their social and personality-related affiliation with one of five factions. The novel is the first in the Divergent series, a trilogy of young adult dystopian novels (plus a book of short stories) set in a post-apocalyptic version of Chicago. Divergent, the debut novel of American novelist Veronica Roth, was published by HarperCollins Children's Books in 2011. ![]() ![]() This allows the books to be appealing to readers and non-readers of an early age. The illustrations range from the parents looking under the bed to the boy making the food trail for the alligator to follow. Theres an Alligator Under My Bed Written by Mercer Mayer Part of the Theres a Nightmare in My Closet Book Series Hardcover 17.99 16. Children who cannot read yet and just want to enjoy the pictures would still be able to understand the idea behind the story. I can clearly make out what is going on without even reading the text below the pictures. All the pictures are rendered in watercolor. The illustrations are well thought out and drawn. As a reader, I connected with this idea and it brought me back to my childhood paranoia and having my parents peek under the bed to make sure nothing was there and I feel a lot of children can connect with this idea which can lead to children liking the book. This book connects to young readers in a more light-hearted and humorous way about having the fear of something "getting" you as you crawl under the covers at nighttime. Many children go through the fear of having something living under their bed at an early age, and it can be frightening. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Last House on Needless Street is being developed for film by Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish’s production company, The Imaginarium. Rights have been sold in twenty-nine territories, it was a Richard and Judy Book Club selection, a Times Book of the Month, Observer Book of the Month, March Editor’s Pick on Radio 4’s Open Book, a Between the Covers BBC2 book club selection and a Sunday Times bestseller. ![]() ![]() Esquire magazine listed it as one of the top 25 best horror novels of all time. Ward’s third breakout novel The Last House on Needless Street (2021 – Viper, Tor Nightfire)wonthe August Derleth Prize and has been shortlisted for the Kitschies, the British Book Awards, the South Bank Award, and the World Fantasy Award. Stephen King called Sundial ‘Authentically terrifying…. Her fourth novel, the gothic thriller Sundial (2022 – Viper, Tor Nightfire) was a Bram Stoker Award nominee, Observer Thriller of the Month and a USA Today, CNN and Apple Books selection for best new fiction. She read English at the University of Oxford and is a graduate of the Creative Writing MFA at the University of East Anglia. BIO: CATRIONA WARD was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Johnson dove headfirst into a five-year journey “deep into the feather underground, a world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, cokeheads and big game hunters, ex-detectives and shady dentists.” Everything the author touches in this thoroughly engaging true-crime tale turns to storytelling gold. ![]() The author became obsessed with the story of Edwin Rist, a young American flautist and expert tier of salmon flies, who, after performing at a June 2009 London concert, broke into the nearby British Natural History Museum at Tring to steal 299 rare bird skins, including 37 of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace’s “beloved” Birds of Paradise. Journalist Johnson ( To Be a Friend Is Fatal: The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind, 2013) was fly-fishing in a New Mexico stream when he first heard about the “feather thief” from his guide. A captivating tale of beautiful, rare, priceless, and stolen feathers. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s better.” -Dwight Garner, The New York Times ![]() I had no idea where it was going, in the best possible sense.It’s never quite the book you think it is. “ Devil House is terrific: confident, creepy, a powerful and soulful page-turner. He begins his research with diligence and enthusiasm, but soon the story leads him into a puzzle he never expected-back into his own work and what it means, back to the very core of what he does and who he is.ĭevil House is John Darnielle’s most ambitious work yet, a book that blurs the line between fact and fiction, that combines daring formal experimentation with a spellbinding tale of crime, writing, memory, and artistic obsession. ![]() Chandler finds himself in Milpitas, California, a small town whose name rings a bell––his closest childhood friend lived there, once upon a time. ![]() But now he is being offered the chance for the big break: to move into the house where a pair of briefly notorious murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected teens during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success-and a movie adaptation-to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable efforts. It’s better.” -Dwight Garner, The New York Timesįrom John Darnielle, the New York Times bestselling author and the singer-songwriter of the Mountain Goats, comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, and the dangers of storytelling. “It’s never quite the book you think it is. ![]() |