Waterhole by Fiona Bell7/4/2023 ![]() And when she sees her mother's ghost, she starts to lose faith in the only person she can rely on. When Sunny learns that a local teenage boy has disappeared, she joins in the search along the gorge and at the waterhole - a beautiful pool tainted by a suspicious number of tragic drownings. But Kevin is the only family she has left and Sunny's got nowhere else to go. She dreads the idea of spending the long summer with her distant stepfather, the person she blames for her mother's death. a car accident, Sunny has been feeling lost and alone. Ever since sixteen-year-old Sunny Maguire's mother died in. There's the first meal, the first time you watch a TV show you both liked, the first time you laugh, the first day of the Christmas holidays. There are a lot of firsts to deal with when someone dies on you. ![]() ![]() There are a lot of firsts to deal with when someone dies on you. ![]()
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Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() To begin, what is Elder Race about and what kind of a world is it set in?Įlder Race is the story of a feudal fantasy world where the queen’s errant youngest daughter goes on a quest to destroy a demon threatening her land (and world), for which she must recruit an ancient semi-human wizard of immense power known only through legends and old family histories.Īt the same time, Elder Race is also the story of a junior anthropologist studying the post-tech culture that an old Earth colony has devolved into, battling loneliness and depression after he gets cut off from Earth, and who unexpectedly gets approached by one of the locals and ends up, very much against his best judgment, accompanying her on some kind of epic journey. In the following email interview, Tchaikovsky explains what inspired and influenced this genre-mashing story. Clarke famously once said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” It’s an idea that fellow science fiction (and fantasy) writer Adrian Tchaikovsky is putting to the test in his new sci-fi / fantasy novella Elder Race ( paperback, Kindle). ![]() Aimee world of wonders7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() She is author of four poetry collections. They live in Oxford, Mississippi, with their two sons. She is married to the writer Dustin Parsons. ![]() ![]() She is professor of English in the University of Mississippi's MFA program. She has also taught at the Kundiman Retreat for Asian American writers. In 2016–17 she was the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi's MFA program. Nezhukumatathil received her BA and MFA from the Ohio State University. Nezhukumatathil draws upon her Filipina and Malayali Indian background to give her perspective on love, loss, and land. Aimee Nezhukumatathil ( / ˈ eɪ m i n ə ˌ z u k u m ə ˈ t ɒ t ɪ l/ Malayalam Abugida: നേഴുകുമറ്റത്തിൽ Malayalam: born in 1974 in Chicago, Illinois ) is an American poet and essayist. ![]() Exquisite corpse book7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() At the very least, they helped popularize the expensive rites (satin-lined open caskets, lavish limousine processions) we’re accustomed to today. It could be argued, in fact, that they invented the American funeral as we know it. Butterworth and his sons were innovators. But he puts his foot down when it comes to talk of corruption.Į. R. Reporters have been requesting interviews (usually around Halloween) since the late ’80s. ![]() “With all due respect,” he boomed through the phone on a recent afternoon, “you have no idea what you’re talking about.” The 63-year-old retired funeral director is good-humored about the ghoul stories associated with his family’s business. ![]() Butterworth’s great-great grandson-says it ain’t so. The implication was that the Butterworths were among the hearse racers. Butterworth and Sons, she said, were “accused of collecting corpses for cash.” The reference was to a book titled Cemeteries of Seattle, which reports that in the early 1900s undertakers raced each other to stockpile dead bodies, for which the city would pay $50 a head. KOMO interviewed an internationally known paranormal investigator who said, “This place was the site of a very corrupt mortuary.” A KOMO newscaster spared no alliteration to elaborate. In November 2010, KOMO 4 ran a news segment titled “Ghost Hunt,” filmed on location at Kells Irish Pub, which now occupies the ground floor of the former Butterworth funeral home. The chapel is the money shot on the Market Ghost Tour. ![]() The hidden oracle series7/4/2023 ![]() But though the battle may have been won, the war is far from over. ![]() Somehow Apollo has made it out alive, with a little bit of help from the Hunters of Artemis. Tarquin and his army of the undead have been defeated. But being an awkward mortal teenager is the least of his worries right now. Well, for one thing, he's been turned into a human and banished from Olympus. The former God Apollo is having a pretty rough time of it. Then, defeat the most vicious of three very vicious Roman Emperors. For his third trial, Apollo must journey through the Labyrinth to free an Oracle who only speaks in puzzles. The only way out is a series of scary and dangerous trials, of course. There are a few things standing in his way though. Apollo must head to the American Midwest where, rumour has it, a haunted cave may hold answers. ![]() There's only one way he can earn back Zeus' favour, and that's to seek and restore the ancient oracles - but that's easier said than done. It's the first time he's been without his powers, and he has to survive in the modern world. Cast down from Olympus, he's weak, disorientated and stuck in New York City as a teenage boy. So, how do you punish an immortal? By making him human. Apollo has angered his father Zeus for the last time. ![]() A certain hunger book buy7/4/2023 ![]() Something she's finally ready to confess. ![]() From her idyllic farm-to-table childhood (homegrown tomatoes, thick slices of freshly baked bread) to the heights of her career as a food critic (white truffles washed down with Barolo straight from the bottle) Dorothy has never been shy about indulging her exquisite tastes - even when it lead to her plunging an ice pick into her lover's neck.There is something inside Dorothy that makes her different from everybody else. You have to read it.' Bon AppetitDorothy Daniels has always had a voracious - and adventurous - appetite. 'Irresistable.' Megan Abbott'A gory, gorgeous feast of a book.' Kiran Millwood Hargrave'This book is crazy. ![]() ![]() It was a Junior Library Guild Selection and received a starred review from School Library Journal. ![]() ![]() Nominated for a Mythopoeic Award and winner of the Rainbow Project Book List Award, Darkest Part of the Forest also won an I ndies Choice Book Award -Young Adult Book of the Year from the American Bookseller’s Association in 2015. But swept up in new love, shifting loyalties, and the fresh sting of betrayal, will it be enough? AWARDS The boy has slept there for generations, never waking.Īs the world turns upside down and a hero is needed to save them all, Hazel tries to remember her years spent pretending to be a knight. Hazel and Ben were both in love with him as children. It rests right on the ground and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointy as knives. Or she did, once.Īt the center of it all, there is a glass coffin in the woods. The faeries’ seemingly harmless magic attracts tourists, but Hazel knows how dangerous they can be, and she knows how to stop them. Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for. ![]() A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. The Darkest Part of the Forest is bestselling author Holly Blacks triumphant return to the opulent, enchanting faerie tales that launched her YA career. ![]() Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() The process that presents something to be perceived as beautiful is of the same kind as the semiotic process that builds something to become beautiful. Perfection is not omnipotence, it only means the omnirelational semiotic fitting in the umwelt, or harmony with context. Defining the beautiful as the perfect semiotic fitting corresponds to the common conceptualisation of the aesthetic as well as extends it over all umwelten. ![]() Habit by itself is not good or bad, it is good or bad because of semiotic fitting. In parallel with habit-taking, which is responsible for generating semiotic regularities, there is another process, the semiotic fitting, which is responsible for generating aesthetic relations. ![]() We propose a model which argues that aesthetics is based on biosemiotic processes and introduces the non-anthropomorphic aesthetics. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is one of those rare books that after you get a few pages into it you say: Oh man, this is gonna be really good, then shove everything else aside and dive in head first. My 5-Star Review of DANCING WITH A DEAD HORSE by Danielle DeVorĭanielle DeVor’s ‘Dancing With A Dead Horse’ is one of the best whodunnits I’ve read in a long time. ![]() Jason is left with a choice: To run and hide or to clear his name and find out why the killer is targeting him before it’s too late. But if finding a body wasn’t bad enough, when a horse doll made of human skin and hair is found in his locker, the entire town accuses Jason of the murder.Īs the body count rises, so does the hostility. ![]() When he finds the body of the most popular girl in school, he has a major freak-out session, and then calls 911. Sixteen-year-old, Jason Miller, wants three things: to become a professional Mixed Martial Arts fighter, graduate from high school, and avoid his mother’s ballet classes. ![]() Yvette's Haven by Tina Folsom7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Sign up for her newsletter on her website to be kept apprised of new releases: She now has 18 novels in English and dozens in other languages. In New York she studied drama at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts then moved to Los Angeles a year later to pursue studies in screenwriting. But after 8 years she decided to move overseas. Tina has always been a bit of a globe trotter: after living in Lausanne, Switzerland, she briefly worked on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, then lived a year in Munich, before moving to London. ![]() Tina Folsom was born in Germany and has been living in English speaking countries for over 25 years, the last 13 of them in San Francisco, where she's married to an American. Her books are available in e-book format, as paperbacks, as audio books, and in foreign languages. She writes constantly and translates her own books into German, her native language. She loves vampires and the concept of immortality, and now also writes contemporary romance and has launched the Eternal Bachelors Club series. Fast-paced plots and steamy scenes are her specialty. Tina writes about hot alpha heroes, bad boys, and kick-ass heroines. She's always been self-published and has found tremendous success with her paranormal series, Scanguards Vampires, Venice Vampyr, and Out of Olympus, selling more than 2 million copies of her 50 titles (which includes titles in German, French, and Spanish) in almost 4 years. Tina Folsom is a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author. ![]() |