![]() ![]() " Everything Under is about fluidity - of water, of words and their meanings, and of identity. The result is an uncanny update of ancient storytelling." -The Atlantic She coins words, channels outlier voices, and fractures chronology. pulls off several marvels at once in Everything Under. By breaking it down to its barest parts, she fits us into tapestries of her own making-holding up a mirror to us before shattering and reassembling it." - Entertainment Weekly deliberately fashions language as a 'character'. "Johnson is one of her generation's most intriguing authors. Johnson has done all this in a book that will probably be read, like Ali Smith's How to Be Both, for years to come as a part of the reclaiming of narrative territory." - The Boston Globe It takes a bold mind to steer so many elements through one tale, and an even stronger stylist to render them in a narrative that heeds, but seems not to, the laws of nature. Her sentences have an aqueous quality." - The New Yorker ![]() Johnson's own writing summons the just-off-ness of the uncanny she is capable of passages of exquisite creepiness. Johnson carries on this grand tradition by making something very old uncannily new." - The New York Times Book Review ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() For the past year, Naomi has began to doubt her future with Nicholas, but with so many deposits already placed (including the wedding dress her not-so great mother-in-law basically chose), Naomi knows the only way out of her engagement is to make Nicholas break off the engagement. This debut novel follows fiancés Naomi Westfield and Nicholas Rose, who are anything but ready for marriage. Sarah Hogle’s You Deserve Each Other is the funniest contemporary romance novel that I’ve ever read. Because now that they have nothing to lose, they’re finally being themselves–and having fun with the last person they expect: each other. When Naomi discovers that Nicholas, too, has been feigning contentment, the two of them go head-to-head in a battle of pranks, sabotage, and all-out emotional warfare.īut with the countdown looming to the wedding that may or may not come to pass, Naomi finds her resolve slipping. Naomi wants out, but there’s a catch: whoever ends the engagement will have to foot the nonrefundable wedding bill. And she is miserably and utterly sick of him. They’re preparing for their lavish wedding that’s three months away. Naomi Westfield has the perfect fiancé: Nicholas Rose holds doors open for her, remembers her restaurant orders, and comes from the kind of upstanding society family any bride would love to be a part of. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only, all these secrets give Portico the worry wiggles, the frets, which his mom calls anxiety. ![]() They’re trying to hide it by repeatedly telling Portico to go check on a neighbor “in the meantime.” But Portico knows “meantime” means his parents are heading into the Mean Time which means they’re about to get into it, and well, Portico’s superhero responsibility is to save them, too-as soon as he figures out how. In fact, he’s the only reason the cat, New Name Every Day, has nine lives.Īll this is swell except for Portico’s other secret, his not-so-super secret. And behind those fifty doors live a bunch of different people who Stuntboy saves all the time. ![]() ![]() But a building with fifty doors just in the hallways is definitely a castle. His mom calls where they live an apartment building. He lives in the biggest house on the block, maybe in the whole city, which basically makes it a castle. No one in his civilian life knows he’s actually…Stuntboy!īut his regular Portico identity is pretty cool, too. Portico Reeves’s superpower is making sure all the other superheroes-like his parents and two best friends-stay super. NAMED A 2023 ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN’S RECORDING!Ī Schneider Family Award Honor Book for Middle Gradeįrom Newbery Medal honoree and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a hilarious, hopeful, and action-packed middle grade novel about the greatest young superhero you’ve never heard of, filled with illustrations by Raúl the Third! WINNER OF THE 2023 AUDIE AWARD FOR MIDDLE GRADE! ![]() ![]() Newberry's own words, "Every word of marshmallow is true, even to the drawing of them wrapped in each other's arms. I know people find this hard to believe, but the bunny was so little and was so convinced that Oliver was his mother, what could Oliver do but be his mother the best way he could?" This is the true story of how Oliver and Marshmallow become friends.Clare Turlay Newberrys lifelong passions for cats and for drawing come together in this. She received the Caldecott Honor for four of her books: T-Bone, The Baby Sitter (1951) Marshmallow (1943) April's Kittens (1941) and Barkis (1939). Read moreabout condition Price: US 5. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. She studied art at the University of Oregon, School of the Portland Art Museum, the California School of Fine Arts, and La Grand Chaumière in Paris, France. Marshmallow by Newberry, Clare Turlay by Newberry, Clare Turlay PB Acceptable Marshmallow by Newberry, Clare Turlay Item Information Condition: AcceptableAcceptable Readable copy. Clare Turlay Newberry (1903-1970) was born in Eugene, Oregon. ![]() ![]() Each chapter explores the crimes and history of a different subject, and then proceeds to unpack her legacy and her portrayal in the media, as well as the stereotypes and sexist cliches that inevitably surround her. ![]() Though largely forgotten by history, female serial killers such as Erzsebet Bathory, Nannie Doss, Mary Ann Cotton, and Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova rival their male counterparts in cunning, cruelty, and appetite for destruction. ![]() Lady Killers, based on the popular online series that appeared on Jezebel and The Hairpin, disputes that claim and offers fourteen gruesome examples as evidence. In fact, serial killers are thought to be so universally, overwhelmingly male that in 1998, FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood infamously declared in a homicide conference, 'There are no female serial killers'. ![]() But what about Tillie Klimek, Moulay Hassan, Kate Bender? The narrative we're comfortable with is the one where women are the victims of violent crime, not the perpetrators. ![]() When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are ones like Jack the Ripper and Ted Bundy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Is this account laced with ancient wisdom real or an epic novel of fantasy and time travel? Join Kara, Brittany and Amy as they discover dreams and reality are best layered with laughter, excitement and intrigue. Penny has been writing since she was young and is self-published. MUGGLES LEARNS TO READ, an illustrated children's picture book for children 4 years and older and STOLEN SPIRITS, a contemporary murder mystery. Brittany juggles a new love life and university assignments as she sifts through secret lives of Kara to record adventures of history and culture. Author of CAVE OF JOURNEYS, a family novel for youth 10 years and older, BIRD OF PARADISE DRUMS BEATING, a tale of reincarnation, MRS. As Kara channels the lives of famous women, Amy embraces her Metis culture. From a Mayan peasant about to be sacrificed, to a famous singer afflicted by anorexia, and a queen paraded up the Nile on a state barge, to a princess bewitched by a handsome vampire in a forest, Brittany and Amy follow Kara through an ancient labyrinth of stunning proportion. How do the typical lives of eighteen-year old Brittany and her mother Amy mesh with a woman who claims she was Cleopatra, Nellie McClung, Pauline Johnson, Marie-Anne Lagimodiere and other legendary women? Find out as Karas secrets are exposed through startling revelations. How do the typical lives of eighteen-year old Brittany and her mother Amy mesh with a woman who claims she was Cleopatra, Nellie McClung, Pauline Johnson, Marie-Anne Lagimodiere and other legend. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Victoria Nelson/Blood Books series of vampire novels began with Blood Price (1991), and continued with Blood Trail (1992), Blood Lines (1993), Blood Pact (1993), Blood Debt (1997), and collection Blood Bank (2008). Most of her novels are series works, including her debut, the Wizard Crystal series, Child of the Grove (1988) and The Last Wizard (1989). Huff’s first professional fiction sale was ‘‘Third Time Lucky’’ to Amazing Stories in 1985. She lives in rural Ontario with her wife of 23 years, writer Fiona Patton. In 1992, she moved out of the city and became a full-time writer. She worked in game and bookstores in Toronto in the ’80s and early ’90s, including famed SF bookstore Bakka-Phoenix. She attended Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto, graduating in 1982 with a degree in Radio and Television Arts, part of the same graduating class as Robert Sawyer. She joined the Canadian Naval Reserve, where she served as a cook from 1975-79. ![]() She made her first sale at age ten – two poems to The Picton Gazette. ![]() Tanya Sue Huff was born Septemin Halifax, Novia Scotia and grew up in Kingston, Ontario. ![]() ![]() Indeed, for many years, “Portnoy’s Complaint” was banned in many public libraries due to the use of unpolished language and an explicit description of masturbation. Roth wrote the novel voiced as a stream of consciousness that many considered obscene to the point of being worthy of censorship. ![]() The book became a fast best-seller and a source of controversy that haunted Roth throughout his career and life as a novelist.Ī polarizing and confrontational book, “Portnoy’s Complaint” brought to the forefront the inner machinations of the mind of a character portraying the direct opposite of the idealized Jew in America. Philip Roth wrote several books before publishing his novel, “Portnoy’s Complaint,” which hit the book stores in 1969. “She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Raechel's candor is refreshing, and as such, her personality shines through with every word she writes. RUST BELT FEMME is a love letter to the good, the bad, and the Very Bad incidents, people and places which have coalesced, forming Raechel into the person and the destiny that had been hers all along. ![]() "In between and now are Northeast Ohio landmarks that left scars, sometimes like kisses and sometimes like razor blades." Every bit of it turned me into the queer femme feminist writer I am today." "This story, then, is about growing up in poverty in rural Ohio, finding hope in the alternative culture I'd discovered in Cleveland, and how my complicated love for these people and these places is a tenacious part of everything I've done since leaving it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Additionally, Knausgaard has happily joined the marketing circus, which is why I find Ferrante’s presumed exhibitionism a lot more palatable. The autobiographical component is official in case of Knausgaard and alleged in Ferrante’s. ![]() Personally, I find this whole mystery of little interest as I share her view that all that the author wants to say she should say in the book and there is no need for the entire marketing circus.įerrante’s Naples novels have been compared to Knausgaard’s magnum opus because both authors can be characterised by their hyperreal scrutiny which seemingly can only be achieved in autobiographical novels. No review of Ferrante’s book is complete without a mention of how no one knows who Ferrante is or even if she exists as an individual woman at all. So despite the terrible cover, and a rather idiotic blurb I knew it would be a fine book. ![]() Before you start wondering what sort of wonderful place I worked at, let me clarify it was a literary agency, so such things were totally commonplace. ![]() In fact, everyone in the office received a copy – that’s how much our boss wanted us to read it. I received this book as a Christmas present from my boss over a year ago. ![]() |