![]() ![]() If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the hill folks, she's going to have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachias and suspicion as deep as the holler. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble. ![]() Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter.Ĭussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. ![]() The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything-everything except books, that is. The perfect addition to your next book club! The bestselling historical fiction novel from Kim Michele Richardson, this is a novel following Cussy Mary, a packhorse librarian and her quest to bring books to the Appalachian community she loves, perfect for readers of William Kent Kreuger and Lisa Wingate. RECOMMENDED BY DOLLY PARTON IN PEOPLE MAGAZINE! ![]()
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![]() My first professionally published book, Life Lessons, came out from MLR Press in May 2011. Minnesota’s a kind, quiet (if sometimes chilly) place and it’s home.I’ve been writing far longer than I care to admit (*whispers – forty years*), mostly for my own entertainment, usually M/M romance (with added mystery, fantasy, historical, SciFi.) I also have a few Young Adult stories (some released under the pen name Kira Harp.)My husband finally convinced me that after all the years of writing for fun, I really should submit something, somewhere. ![]() ![]() “Kaje” is pronounced just like “cage” – it’s an old nickname, and my pronouns are she/her/hers.I was born in Montreal but I've lived for 30 years in Minnesota, where the two seasons are Snow-removal and Road-repair, where the mosquito is the state bird, and where winter can be breathtakingly beautiful. ![]() ![]() ![]() Along with her team of bombshell investigators, Jamie suddenly finds herself in the middle of a cold case that's heating up the media, dodging old grudges and new enemies, and questioning the motives of those closest to her. In fact, if Jamie didn't know better, she'd say he's even trying to stop her from looking into it. Is this the connection Jamie's been waiting for to finally nail her father's shooter? But, oddly enough, Derek Bond doesn't seem interested. ![]() But three years later, the PI is shocked when the gun that wounded her father surfaces during a high-profile murder trial. Catching cheating husbands became Jamie Bond's life when her father was shot and wounded on the job, forcing Jamie to take over the family business: The Bond Agency. ![]() From #1 Amazon, New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author Gemma Halliday comes a fashion model turned PI juggling two hot men, one cold case, and a whole lot of trouble. ![]() ![]() This review has been corrected a previous version incorrectly stated the title of the author's previous book. Heres the publishers description: Its been a century of peace since Earth became a colony of an alien race. Agent: Jim McCarthy, Dystel, Goderich, and Bourret. Fonda Lee is joining us today with her novel Exo. Things perhaps come a bit too easily to Donovan at times, but the story’s open-ended conclusion begs for further development and exploration. Lee ( Zeroboxer) constructs a plausibly alien future society and uses the premise to offer thought-provoking questions on occupation and colonization, placing her hero in a murky state of morality as she explores divided loyalties and conflicting obligations. ![]() Still loyal to the zhree and to his father, Donovan is conflicted determined to preserve peace and lives on both sides, he disobeys orders, questions procedure, and eventually stumbles on terrible hidden truths. When he’s captured by the resistance group Sapience, he’s thrust into unfamiliar and dangerous territory, which grows even more complicated after he discovers a personal connection to one of its members. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Donovan Reyes has it all: his father is the “Prime Liaison” between humanity and the alien zhree, who conquered Earth a century ago, and Donovan himself, a technologically enhanced “exo,” is part of SecPac, enforcing the law and dealing with human insurrection. ![]() ![]() ![]() These two parts, one for each man, presumably resemble the lectures these men are traveling around the world to give, to show how peace and friendship can evolve from even the worst circumstances. ![]() He further explains that Rami and Bassam have allowed him "to shape and reshape their words and worlds," which of course is necessary for a novel, but also a little unsettling as that's then always in the back of our minds: "What here is real?"įor that reason, for me, the best part of this nearly 500 page novel is the 30 page section right in the middle when McCann lets Rami and Bassam tell their stories in their own words. These men are real people, as McCann tells us in his author's note. (If "countably infinite" sounds like an oxymoron to you too, well, you also must've missed that day in advanced geometry.)īut beyond the literary calculus, there is also a pretty fascinating story here: It's about an Israeli man named Rami and a Palestinian man named Bassam who both have lost daughters to violence. In total, it's a novel about mathematics, music, silence, water, borders, birds, violence, grief, peace, and about a hundred other things.īut to back up and clear up the first question: An apeirogon is a shape with a "countably infinite number of sides" - essentially what appears to be a circle. It's a novel told in 1,001 sections, each sometimes a few pages, sometimes a single sentence. Colum McCann's new novel Apeirogon is certainly ambitious. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book by Hall seeks to redress that problem he has collated and synthesized these extensive studies (to which the 27-page bibliography attests), and provides a Gestalt of the overall field regimes of England and the systems of each major region, as well as a more nuanced description of field practices within each region. While providing a great deal of new information regarding field regimes, it also created a mass of individual local studies from which drawing a broader picture of the medieval landscape would require extensive research and reading on the part of any individual scholar. This flood of new information was both a blessing and a bane. His work contributed greatly to what has been called the Quantitative Revolution, the flurry of field surveys and village excavations that began in the 1980s. He has written books and articles dealing with local field surveys, the nature and extent of open-field use in England, as well as Late Anglo-Saxon agriculture. ![]() Jay who has studied English medieval rural society or agricultural history is familiar with David Hall, currently the general editor at the Northamptonshire Record Society. ![]() ![]() As she uncovers hidden resilience, Georgia's sudden midlife shift forces her to consider who she is and what she truly values. ![]() Their wonderland was built on lies.Īs the family attorney scours emptied bank accounts, Georgia must not only look for a way to support her family, she needs to face the revelation that Ben was not the perfect husband he appeared to be, just as her daughters-now ensconced back at home with secrets of their own-have to accept that they may not be returning to their lives in Paris and at Stanford subsidized by the Bank of Mom and Dad. It's only when Ben suddenly drops dead from a massive coronary while training for the New York City Marathon that Georgia discovers her husband-a successful lawyer-has left them nearly penniless. ![]() Georgia Waltz has things many people only dream of: a plush Manhattan apartment overlooking Central Park, a Hamptons beach house, valuable jewels and art, two bright daughters, and a husband she adores, even after decades of marriage. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mysterious new gamer TheRuiNar is turning heads in the 2067 Junior Dayhold Tournament. ![]() Agent: Penny Moore, Aevitas Creative Management. A hardworking prodigy takes the gaming world by storm, one epic battle at a time. An insular-feeling first-person narration underlines how Reyna’s intense focus in the high-pressure environment can leave her feeling isolated. Combining ruthless online rivalry and real-life dilemmas, Zhao ( How We Fall Apart) pushes her inspirational heroine to the limit in the pursuit of success, validation, and financial security. Having promised her parents, who are coping with her mother’s breast cancer, to give up her dream of becoming a pro gamer if she doesn’t win, Reyna is determined to show everyone that she has what it takes to be a Dayhold champion-until an opponent who knows her identity threatens to dox her unless she withdraws. But no one knows of her success-to fit into the male-dominated scene and avoid racist and sexist bullying, Reyna keeps her identity as TheRuiNar a strict secret. Currently attending its 2067 summer camp session on a full scholarship, Chinese American 12-year-old Reyna Cheng is a rising superstar, poised to excel in the Junior Dayhold Tournament, whose prize is $10,000. ![]() A virtual reality game that draws inspiration from various Asian cultures, Dayhold is a global phenomenon, with its own academy dedicated to training the next generation of players. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A story that does all these things doesn't seem quite right, though, and the one thing the whole family can agree on is that the best story has to be your own.Anne Wilsdorf's hilarious illustrations perfectly capture this colorful family and their outrageous stories in Eileen Spinelli's heartfelt tale about creativity and finding your own voice.", And Aunt Jane tells her that the best stories have to make people cry. Her father thinks the best stories are the funniest. The library is having a contest for the best story, and the quirky narrator of this book just has to win that rollercoaster ride with her favorite author But what makes a story the best?Her brother Tim says the best stories have lots of action. ![]() "item_description" : "The best story is one that comes from the heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Fury is a profoundly, ecstatically affirmative work of fiction. “Salman Rushdie’s great grasp of the human tragicomedy – its dimensions, its absurdities and horrors – has made him one of the most intelligent fiction writers in the English language.” – Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe twinkles brightly in tragicomic passages.” – The Miami Herald “Well, here it is, then, his first 3-D, full-volume American novel, finger-snapping, wildly stupefying, often slyly funny, red-blooded and red-toothed. All of Rushdie’s synthesizing energy, the way he brings together ancient myth and old story, contemporary incident and archetypal emotion, transfigures reason into a waking dream.” – Los Angeles Times Book Review “Rushdie’s ideas–about society, about culture, about politics–are embedded in his stories and in the interlocking momentum with which he tells them. An astonishing work of explosive energy, Fury is by turns a pitiless and pitch-black comedy, a love story of mesmerizing force, and a disturbing inquiry into the darkest side of human nature. He arrives in New York at a time of unprecedented plenty, in the highest hour of America’s wealth and power, seeking to “erase” himself. There’s a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and world-famous dollmaker, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family in London without a word of explanation, and flees for New York. ![]() |