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![]() ![]() old Jesse Rigsby and the wild adventures he encounters getting sucked into different video games. Homegoing is a tremendous reading experience, not to be missed, by an astonishingly gifted young writer. Trapped in a Video Game 3 : Robots Revolt - Paperback. ![]() Generation after generation, Yaa Gyasi's magisterial first novel sets the fate of the individual against the obliterating movements of time, delivering unforgettable characters whose lives were shaped by historical forces beyond their control. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia's descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. ![]() Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle's dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast's booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals.Įinstein, the classic #1 New York Times bestseller, is a brilliantly acclaimed account of the most influential scientist of the twentieth century, "an illuminating delight" ( The New York Times). His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. Einstein explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk-a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate-became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how Einstein's scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein. The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Imagine Welcome to Night Vale crammed inside Meow Wolf.) But there's more inside the warehouse known as The Wandering Dark than tricks and illusions - and there's more beyond it. When Noah is a boy, his father decides to build a haunted house, but one the likes of which the world has never seen - an immersive experience so frightening and seamless, it's like stepping into a shadow world of our own. Like Lev Grossman's The Magicians, only for horror instead of fantasy, the book examines the way we interact and fail to interact with each other, all bound together with genre delights that are mildly subverted even as they're adoringly celebrated.Įunice is the writer in her family, but Noah is Cosmology's focus and first-person narrator. ![]() It's a horror tale unafraid to tackle big issues of familial fealty, the architecture of fear, and the metaphysics of love, all while shocking the pants off the reader. That question lies at the heart of A Cosmology of Monsters, Shaun Hamill's debut novel. "How long until the world hollows me out?" Eunice Turner asks her younger brother Noah in one of her many letters to him - most of them suicide notes. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title A Cosmology of Monsters Author Shaun Hamill ![]() ![]() ![]() "Best Books of 2017" - PRISM International (x2) The best book of "Canadian poetry" of 2017 - CBC Books His poems upset genre and play with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where “everyone is at least a little gay.” Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to world inside.” Billy-Ray Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain like theirs without giving up on the future. ![]() A reckoning for and of the wreck - bravely buoyant, and finally here.” Ocean Vuong. ![]() That’s what This Wound is a World affords us: myth and hyperbole pressed into a lived and realized life. It is rare to be able to call a book something so grand and full - and have it be utterly true. “This book is a monument for the future of poetic possibility. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It opens with a flashback to 1999 that pulls back to 2002, from which vantage point the main character tells a story set in 1988, which serves to comment on the situation facing her family in 2002, though since the 1988 frame is absolutely the only part we care about, it's sort of a weird situation where the meant and potatoes of the novel is a metaphor for a conflict that we only really hear about secondhand and don't care about even though Sparks makes us sit through 30 pages wrapping it-up. Nights in Rodanthe, then, is just absolutely nuts about not working. Oh, my, much too early in the review to get snagged on a tangent like that. Nights in Rodanthe, the novel, is a holy terror, and possibly the worst book of Nicholas Sparks's "early" period, though I really don't have any idea where I'd set the end date on such a epoch, any more than I know if we're presently in Sparks's "middle" or "late" period, with my pessimistic suspicions favoring the former. ![]() ![]() ![]() After describing the odd times where she cannot recall what has happened she leaves in fear again. Poirot meets Norma at the café, where she mentions the death again. Mrs Oliver finds her in a café by chance with her boyfriend David. Norma does not return home after a weekend visit to her father and stepmother. Poirot and Mrs Oliver gather information, visiting her parents’ home and her apartment building. He believes there is a murder that prompted Norma's fears. He pursues the case finding that Ariadne Oliver sent Norma to him. ![]() When she sees him in person, she flees, saying he is too old. Norma Restarick seeks help from Poirot, believing she may have committed murder. It is uncommon in that the investigation includes discovering the first crime, which happens comparatively late in the novel. The novel is notable for being the first in many years in which Poirot is present from beginning to end. ![]() It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver. The UK edition retailed at eighteen shillings (18/-) and the US edition at $4.50. ![]() Third Girl is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1966 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. ![]() ![]() You can visit HarperCollins Children’s Books at and and HarperCollins Publishers at corporate.HC.com. Anne Bustard, Toad Hall Childrens Book Store, Austin, Texas. HarperCollins Children’s Books is a division of HarperCollins Publishers, which is the second largest consumer book publisher in the world, has operations in 17 countries, and is a subsidiary of News Corp. books (2 or more books in a series appear in a single review). ![]() Consistently at the forefront of digital innovation, HarperCollins Children’s Books delights readers through engaging storytelling across a variety of formats and platforms, including the largest young adult (YA) book community, Epic Reads. ![]() Respected worldwide for its tradition of publishing quality, award-winning books for young readers, HarperCollins is home to many timeless treasures and bestsellers such as Charlotte’s Web, Goodnight Moon, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Where the Wild Things Are, and The Hate U Give series including The Chronicles of Narnia, Ramona, Warriors, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Pete the Cat, Fancy Nancy, Divergent, and Red Queen and graphic and illustrated novels such as Nimona, Invisible Emmie, and New Kid. HarperCollins Children’s Books is one of the leading publishers of children’s and teen books. ![]() ![]() Clearly the individual plots of the series are enough to keep you engaged, but the true WINning factor (see what I did there?) is the character development. This flowed nicely and kept the suspense tight throughout even at 400 pages this book flew by so fast I half expected smoke to come off my fingertips. The book starts with immediate action, and the narrative is told alternating between Win and Myron’s POV (more Myron than Win though). Coben might have lost his touch in the years taken off from writing the escapades of his BFFs Myron and Win, but I’m happy to report that all is as it should be, and our dynamic duo is better than ever. I’ll admit, I was a little worried that Mr. ![]() I would highly recommend reading the rest of the series before picking up, say, book #11, but if you aren’t in it for the character development and solely for the mystery, I guess you could jump right in. It had been so long since I read book #10 ( Live Wire) that I had to search out some refreshers online to make sure I was up to speed, although it turns out I didn’t need them. ![]() ![]() My sister and I binge read books #1-10 of the series back in 2011 they were a different read for us as we don’t gravitate toward sports themed books, but I quickly fell in love with the quirky cast of characters, hilarious banter, and action packed mysteries found in each story. Oh my lucky stars, I cannot describe the high I am still riding after finishing this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Once Anniston Bennet is installed in his basement, Charles is cast into a role he never dreamed of. But financial necessity leaves him no choice. There is something deeper and darker about his request, and Charles does not need any more trouble. But Charles Blakey is black and Anniston Bennet is white, and it is clear that the stranger wants more than a basement view. The beautiful house has been in the Blakey family for generations, but Charles has just lost his job and is behind on his mortgage payments. The stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to spend the summer in Charles's basement, and Charles cannot even begin to guess why. The man at Charles Blakey's door has a proposition almost too strange for words. This masterpiece by celebrated New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley is the mysterious story of a young Black man who agrees to an unusual bargain to save the home that has belonged to his family for generations. ![]() |