![]() ![]() “The kind of book that immediately feels like an old friend.”-Melissa Caruso, author of The Tethered Mage But, as is the way in stories of princes and the impossible, these tasks are only the beginning of Marra’s strange and enchanting journey to save her sister and topple a throne. If Marra can complete three impossible tasks, a witch will grant her the tools she needs. But after years of watching their families and kingdoms pretend all is well, Marra realizes if any hero is coming, it will have to be Marra herself. From the safety of the convent, Marra wonders who will come to her sister’s rescue and put a stop to this. Her older sister wasn’t so fortunate though, and her royal husband is as abusive as he is powerful. ![]() Marra - a shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter - is relieved not to be married off for the sake of her parents’ throne. This isn't the kind of fairy tale where the princess marries a prince. Kingfisher comes an original and subversive fantasy adventure. From Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author T. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Human beings are just one among an infinite number of entities, living or otherwise, that exist on the earth. "But I don't necessarily understand why it's evil per se. "I understand why murder is considered a crime," the Nietschean-in-the-making Shuya explains, with cold theatricality, later in the tale. These include Shuya, a seemingly narcissistic boy with a knack for electronics and a masochistic mother fixation, and his more guilt-prone accomplice Naoki, a sort of Japanese Leopold and Loeb who, for reasons that become clear only slowly, murder the beloved 4-year-old daughter of their middle school teacher. ![]() As its title suggests, "Confessions" is a pulp-fiction tell-all of sorts: a collection of unburdenings by participants in a series of chillingly calculated crimes that come to seem less the work of psychopaths than of ordinary (if extraordinarily wounded) people, some of whom happen to be 13-year-olds. ![]() ![]() ![]() But what happens when those he would save are turned into weapons against him? When gangs of elderly residents leave a trail of bizarre violence, Moon Knight must put his body, mind and very soul on the line to end the carnage! But while Khonshu languishes in prison, Moon Knight’s duty still must be observed: the protection of those who travel at night. ![]() Marc Spector, in whichever guise he dons, is back on the streets, a renegade priest of an unworthy god. The Moon Knight stalks the rooftops and alleys marked with his crescent moon tag, bringing violence to any who would harm his flock. Knight has opened his Midnight Mission, his people petitioning him to shelter them from the weird and horrible. 1: The Midnight Mission by rapidly rising star creator Jed MacKay and Alessandro Cappuccio released this month. ![]() With a Disney+ series scheduled for a release in March, we have Moon Knight Vol. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is true that during the 1970s heyday of Black Power and Black Arts, Ellison’s embrace of a Western cultural lineage for his art placed him at odds with many vocal partisans of the Black Aesthetic. Old news, though, is hardly the phrase one associates with Invisible Man these days. ![]() But the decision itself, which would declare unconstitutional the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’, was still a couple of years off. In the years that Ellison wrote his novel, the political and social agitation and decisions in lower court cases that would lead to the US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brown v Board of Education had already signalled that a major social change might be imminent. Although the rigour with which the dictates of this regime were enforced varied from time to time and place to place, the society in which Ellison came of age was one where openly discriminatory actions and policies had the sanction of both law and custom. ![]() When Ellison’s novel, which chronicled the erratic journey of its unnamed protagonist from the segregated American South to New York City’s Harlem teetering on the brink of social upheaval, appeared in 1952, the United States was still a ‘Jim Crow’ nation. Although hardly unique in this regard, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man shows how affirming the capacity of a work to speak to all times (or, at the very least, to our own time) might stand at odds with understanding that work in its own moment. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Publication date 2012 Topics, Individuality - Juvenile fiction, Emotions - Juvenile fiction, Thought and thinking - Juvenile fiction, Psychic ability - Juvenile fiction, Government, Resistance to - Juvenile fiction, Individuality - Fiction, Emotions - Fiction, Thought and thinking - Fiction, Psychic ability - Fiction, Government, Resistance to - Fiction, Science fiction, Emotions, Government, Resistance to, Individuality, Psychic ability, Thought and thinking, Psychics. ![]() ![]() ![]() As I stated in my review of UNRAVEL ME (find it here) I had already begun to ‘fall in love’ with Warner by the time I picked the second book up. This novella is told from the POV of Warner. Set after Shatter Me and before its forthcoming sequel, Unravel Me, Destroy Me is a novella told from the perspective of Warner, the ruthless leader of Sector 45. But when Warner’s father, The Supreme Commander of The Reestablishment, arrives to correct his son’s mistakes, it’s clear that he has much different plans for Juliette. Still as obsessed with Juliette as ever, his first priority is to find her, bring her back, and dispose of Adam and Kenji, the two traitors who helped her escape. But as she’ll learn in Destroy Me, Warner is not that easy to get rid of.īack at the base and recovering from his near-fatal wound, Warner must do everything in his power to keep his soldiers in check and suppress any mention of a rebellion in the sector. ![]() In Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me, Juliette escaped from The Reestablishment by seducing Warner-and then putting a bullet in his shoulder. ![]() ![]() Perfect for the fans of Shatter Me who are desperately awaiting the release of Unravel Me, this novella-length digital original will bridge the gap between these two novels from the perspective of the villain we all love to hate, Warner, the ruthless leader of Sector 45. ![]() ![]() ![]() » Rolling Stone «Lo que Raymond Chandler hizo por Los Ángeles, James Crumley lo hace por las carreteras del Oeste. » Dennis Lehane «El último buen misterio. Despiadado y divertido a un tiempo, brillantemente traducido por Enrique de Hériz, El último beso es no sólo un viaje trepidante a las entrañas de la condición humana, sino también, y por encima de todo, un libro extraordinario que ha influido como pocos en los grandes renovadores de la novela negra norteamericana de los últimos años. Como la compañía le resulta bastante agradable, el detective lo embarca en un periplo delirante en el que, a medida que crece la fascinación de Sughrue por la chica, las infinitas ramificaciones del caso parecen burlarse de él. Inmediatamente, recibe un nuevo encargo: hallar a Betty Sue Flowers, una enigmática joven de la que no se sabe nada desde hace diez años. Sughrue, detective privado de Meriwether (Montana) que pasa temporadas trabajando en un bar de alterne, es contratado un buen día para seguir la pista de Trahaerne, un escritor de best-sellers desaparecido, al que encuentra en un miserable antro de la Costa Oeste. Sughrue, un tipo de escasos escrúpulos que arrastra al lector hasta los rincones más escabrosos del Oeste norteamericano. Obra emblemática del magnífico James Crumley y auténtico libro de cabecera del género negro, El último beso presenta al inolvidable C. Una de las novelas negras más influyentes de todos los tiempos, escrito por una leyenda del género. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tade Thompson, author and psychiatrist is commissioned to write a piece inspired by Francis Bacon and his work. It is about what it takes to find inspiration, understand other people, and understand ourselves. This is not so much a novel about Francis Bacon himself but the creative process itself. As the tale and Thompson’s life unravel, it becomes clear to the reader that reality itself is perhaps on shaky ground. Which parts are authentic-and which imaginary-is left to anybody wishing to do some intense Googling. Tade Thompson tells the tale of a fictionalised version of himself tasked with writing a novella inspired by the life and work of the artist Francis Bacon. It is not a conventional fantasy story but an exploration of creativity, sanity, and perhaps even the nature of art and truth itself. Jackdaw is one of the most unusual novels I’ve read. ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Madge is right back at the Imperial with its great coffee and depraved cast, where things only get worse for her adopted greasy spoon family while her career as a cartoonist starts to take off. Told in the same brash yet earnest style as her previous memoir Over Easy, Pond’s storytelling gifts have never been stronger than in this epic, comedic, standalone graphic novel. Outrageous and loving tributes and takedowns of her co-workers and satellites of the Imperial Cafe create a snapshot of a time in Madge’s life where she encounters who she is, and who she is not. Oakland in the late seventies is a cheap and quirky haven for eccentrics and Mimi Pond folds the tales of the fascinating sleaze-ball characters that surround young Madge into her workaday waitressing life. The Customer is Always Wrong is the saga of a young naïve artist named Madge working in a restaurant of charming drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. A young woman’s art career begins to lift off as those around her succumb to addiction and alcoholism ![]() |