![]() ![]() But before long, he is faced with a terrible conflict of loyalties. With his quick aptitude and modest nature, Dantala becomes a favored apprentice to the mosque’s benevolent sheikh. He makes his way to a mosque that provides him with food, shelter, and guidance. When their attempt to burn down the opposition’s local headquarters ends in disaster, Dantala must run for his life, leaving his best friend behind. During the election, the boys are paid by the Small Party to cause trouble. ![]() In the far reaches of northwestern Nigeria, Dantala lives among a gang of street boys who sleep under a kuka tree. Born on a Tuesday is his stirring, starkly rendered first novel, about an intelligent young boy struggling to find his place in a society that is fracturing along extreme religious and political lines. Trained as a lawyer and coming to prominence as a cultural commentator and satirist, Elnathan John is a dynamic young voice from Nigeria. ![]()
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![]() Cut off from communication and their only supply line, the Americans learn about their enemy and themselves, as young men witness for the first time the horror of war. As the Americans fight their way inland, both sides understand that the inevitable final conflict will come at the gates and fortified walls of the ancient capital, Mexico City. Obsessed with glory and his place in history, Santa Ana arrogantly underestimates the will and the heart of Scott and his army. ![]() Scott leads his troops against the imperious Mexican dictator, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana. Lee, a forty-year-old engineer, a dignified, serious man who has never seen combat. ![]() They are led by the army's commanding general, Winfield Scott, a heroic veteran of the War of 1812, short tempered, vain, and nostalgic for the glories of his youth. ![]() ![]() Navy delivers eight thousand soldiers on the beaches of Vera Cruz. Now, in Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back fifteen years before that momentous conflict, when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War. With his acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, Jeff Shaara expanded upon his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels-ushering the reader through the poignant drama of this most bloody chapter in our history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kerman is in Sydney for the All About Women festival at the Opera House. Her memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, topped the New York Times bestseller list and inspired the international hit Netflix series. There, surrounded by hundreds of other women, most from far less privileged backgrounds than her own, she understood that her experience was not just about the consequences of her crime, but part of a much bigger issue. ![]() It was some time later before she was actually charged Kerman plead guilty and was sentenced to 15 months in prison. When she was asked to carry a bag of drug money, she crossed the imaginary line in the sand that she never thought she would cross. Instead of running off and finding better friends, Kerman followed the older woman all over the world. When she finished university in her early 20s, she got caught up with a woman she felt was incredibly sophisticated and worldly, and whom she eventually discovered was involved in narcotics. Ten years after deciding to carry a bag of money for a drug cartel, Piper Kerman entered the US prison system. ![]() ![]() Through his bond with his owner, aspiring Formula One race car driver Denny Swift (Milo Ventimiglia), Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition and understands that the techniques needed on the racetrack can also be used to successfully navigate the journey of life. Like the novel, the film is narrated by the wise and philosophical dog, Enzo (voiced by Kevin Costner). In addition, Bomback has advised at the Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Story Lab, and has taught screenwriting at his Alma mater, Wesleyan University. While primarily a writer of feature films, Mark Bombck recently created the limited series Defending Jacob for Apple +. It’s probably one of the most critical tools I had in trying to adapt the story, says Bomback, who dealt with another kind of animal when he wrote the screenplays for The War for the Planet of the Apes, and Wolverine. In this film, we have the opportunity to enter Enzo’s head through voiceover and his narration. ![]() You wish you could get into the interior lives of characters in other ways, like novelists do, but you only have these two things. “Oftentimes when you’re writing a screenplay, you have two tools only: dialogue and action, that’s it. ![]() ![]() For screenwriter Mark Bomback it was a gift to adapt Garth Stein’s beloved novel The Art Of Racing In The Rain, which features a wise and philosophical dog who longs to be reincarnated as a human. ![]() ![]() ![]() Following the paper hearts is the most spontaneous thing Ella has ever done. and take her on a journey she never imagined. The hearts contain clues to help Ella remember her life before. Now, a year later, she begins receiving paper hearts from a mysterious admirer who seems to have the answers she craves. ![]() or anything about the weeks before it, including the reason she broke up with her boyfriend. When Ella woke up in the hospital, she couldn’t remember the accident. But then something completely unexpected happened: a car accident after a Valentine’s Day dance. She had a circle of close friends, a jam-packed social life, and an amazing boyfriend. Perfect for fans of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and The Kissing Booth, this teen romance is about a girl who follows a trail of paper hearts from her mystery admirer and learns that sometimes love can find you in mysterious ways.Įlla’s life was picture perfect. ![]() ![]() It is suspected that the entire planet has been surveyed in one effective sweep. In the year 2082, thousands of large, coordinated objects of an unknown origin, dubbed "Fireflies", burn up in the Earth's atmosphere in a precise grid, while momentarily broadcasting across an immense portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, catching humanity off guard and alerting it to an undeniable extraterrestrial presence. Its sequel (or " sidequel"), Echopraxia, came out in 2014. ![]() ![]() The novel explores themes of identity, consciousness, free will, artificial intelligence, neurology, and game theory as well as evolution and biology.īlindsight is available online under a Creative Commons license. The story follows a crew of astronauts sent out as the third wave, following two series of probes, to investigate a trans-Neptunian Kuiper belt comet dubbed "Burns-Caulfield" that has been found to be transmitting an unidentified radio signal to an as-yet unknown destination elsewhere in the Solar System, followed by their subsequent first contact. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. It won the Seiun Award for best translated novel and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the John W. Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this breathtaking sequel to City of Bones, Cassandra Clare lures her readers back into the dark grip of New York City’s Downworld, where love is never safe and power becomes the deadliest temptation.Īll right, so when we last left our creepy incestuous couple, Draco had just found out his dad was Voldemort, not Lucius Malfoy. How can Clary stop Valentine if Jace is willing to betray everything he believes in to help their father? Is Valentine behind the killings-and if he is, what is he trying to do? When the second of the Mortal Instruments, the Soul-Sword, is stolen, the terrifying Inquisitor arrives to investigate and zooms right in on Jace. To complicate matters, someone in New York City is murdering Downworlder children. ![]() And Clary’s only chance to help her mother is to track down rogue Shadowhunter Valentine, who is probably insane, certainly evil-and also her father. But the Shadowhunting world isn’t ready to let her go-especially her handsome, infuriating, newfound brother, Jace. ![]() But what’s normal when you’re a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters behind, it would mean more time with her best friend, Simon, who’s becoming more than a friend. Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. ![]() ![]() Some parts are even genuinely funny, and it's a positive read overall. Still, even given the '90s setting and YA trends back then, this short novel isn't quite as corny as I thought it might be. ![]() The characters' actions and reactions didn't always seem to mesh right away either. It's easy to read, of course, but for lack of a better way to put it, I couldn't tell at first exactly where certain details and comments were coming from, and then they wouldn't feel spot-on when they landed. ![]() I found this story to be fairly interesting, though I couldn't get the best grip on the writing style. It's clearly the type of book that would be "coolest" for preteen kids to read while they'd still only be imagining what high school would be like. The other day, when I saw a book description calling 18 Pine St., a series created by Walter Dean Myers, "the first major young adult series to focus on multicultural characters," I was curious to see if "multicultural" would be a code word for "Black." As I got into this first book, I did indeed find the core gang of friends to be multicultural, matching the back cover picture. ![]() I'm pretty sure someone I know used to read copies from the library. Wow! I vaguely remember seeing books from this '90s YA series back in the day. ![]() ![]() ![]() She became a sheep breeder and farmer while continuing to write and illustrate children's books. In her forties, she married a local solicitor, William Heelis. Potter eventually published 24 children's books, the most recent being The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (2016), and having become financially independent of her parents, was able to buy a farm in the Lake District, which she extended with other purchases over time. In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit and became secretly engaged to her publisher, Norman Warne, causing a breach with her parents, who disapproved of his social status. Because she was a woman, her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology. She had numerous pets, and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developed a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, mycologist, and conservationist who is best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit.īorn into a wealthy household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. ![]() ![]() Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Now, in the graphic novel series adaptation ![]() In this desolate reality-a dangerous land filled with ancient technology and deadly magic, and yet one that mirrors our own in frightening ways-Roland is on a spellbinding and soul-shattering quest to locate and somehow save the mystical nexus of all worlds, all universes: the Dark Tower. Roland is the last of his kind, a "gunslinger" charged with protecting whatever goodness and light remains in his world-a world that "moved on," as they say. "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." With these unforgettable words, millions of readers were introduced to Stephen King's iconic character Roland Deschain of Gilead. Enter once more the world of Roland Deschain-and the world of the Dark Tower.presented in a stunning graphic novel form that will unlock the doorways to terrifying secrets and bold storytelling as part of the dark fantasy masterwork and magnum opus from #1 ![]() |