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But unlike them, Venter gets close enough to Adam to learn a dark secret. Like his parents before him, Venter is quick to fall under the spell of the device’s sweat-stained, profane, and surprisingly charming operator, Adam Lyons. So when Venter’s grandmother finally asks him to confront the epiphany machine and inoculate himself against his family’s mistakes, he’s only too happy to oblige. This stigma follows them when they move upstate, where Venter can’t avoid the whispers of teachers and neighbors any more than he can ignore the machine’s accurate predictions: his mother’s abandonment and his father’s disinterest. But, oddly enough, so might the device.Ī small stream of city dwellers buy into this cult of the epiphany machine, including Venter Lowood’s parents. This particular ad has been circulating New York since the 1960s and it works. It’s an old con, playing on the fear that we are obvious to everybody except ourselves. The product: a junky contraption that tattoos personalized revelations on its users’ forearms. *A Most-Anticipated book of 2017 by The MillionsĮveryone else knows the truth about you, now you can know it, too. *Best New Science Fiction for Summer by The Washington Post
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Death du Jour by Kathy Reichs6/12/2023 Temperance Brennan, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, digs for a corpse where Sister Élisabeth Nicolet, dead for over a century and now a candidate for sainthood, should be lying in her grave. Assaulted by the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, the American-born Dr. Now, in Death du Jour, the author who lives the life she writes about extends her reach while still building on the rich ensemble cast, page-turning suspense, and cutting-edge forensic detail that made Déjà Dead an international sensation. A New York Times bestseller, a number one bestseller in both Canada and Britain, and winner of the prestigious Ellis Award for Best First Novel of 1997, it was also a Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, with foreign rights sold to nineteen countries. Rarely has a first-time novelist made such a spectacular international publishing debut as Kathy Reichs did with her acclaimed forensic thriller Déjà Dead.
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Covered are the five basic positions of ballet, followed by a series of exercises just as they would be performed in class-barre exercises, such as plie and rond de jambe centerwork exercises, including arabesque and pas de bourree and such jumps and turns as changement, pique, and emboite. On the right, a group of younger kids who might be the reader's fellow students practice the moves, while brief text, written in the voice of a master teacher, explains exactly what to do. On the left, in a full-length, silhouetted photograph with callouts, a young ballerina named Rebecca demonstrates each move. Bailey, whose dance photography is part of the Lincoln Center Dance Collection, First Lessons in Ballet is an intimate and innovative approach that takes the reader right into the studio and teaches basic steps and positions.Each spread works as a lesson. Created by Lise Friedman, a passionate ballerina as a little girl who grew up to dance with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and photographed by K.C.
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In 2015, Silvia's debut, Signal to Noise, was named on seven year's best lists: B & N's Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, RT, BookRiot, Buzzfeed, i09, Vice, and Tor.com. Atl has to get out before Mexico City is upended, and her with it. When they start to raise the body count in the city, it attracts the attention of police officers, local crime bosses, and the vampire community. Paul Tremblay, Bram Stoker award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts. The wonderfully complex Atl and her 21st Century Renfield, Domingo, are revelations. And now, with the trend for vampires and horror coming back around, it’s only appropriate that this hidden gem gets to come back from the dead, now that Moreno. Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s gritty novel is steeped in the history of Mexico City and vampire lore and yet manages to deftly re-invent the bloodsucker. But Atl's problems, Nick and Rodrigo, have come to find her. Certain Dark Things is a revamped (haha) novel by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, published back in 2016, but suffered from setbacks in the market back then, leading it to go out of print. He clings to her like a barnacle until Atl relents and decides to let him stick around. Then he meets Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers. Here in the city, heavily policed to keep the creatures of the night at bay, Domingo is another trash-picking street kid, just hoping to make enough to survive. Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Summary: "Certain Dark Things combines elements of Latin American mythology with a literary voice that leads readers on an exhilarating and fast-paced journey.
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Verhalen uit Odessa by Isaac Babel6/11/2023 The literary scene here is small and underground, so we take what we can Only here, in freewheeling Odessa, could a Jew become “a lion … a tiger … a cat … can spend the night with a Russian woman”. A woman in a sundress reads from Odessa Tales, short stories in which Babel reimagines the city as a criminal hub filled with flamboyant gangster Jews. Other languages fill the air – Norwegian, Mongolian, French, Kazakh. One Ukrainian woman reads passages from Babel’s Red Cavalry in Japanese, a book describing the Polish-Soviet war of 1920 nearby a man reads the same book in Russian. Isaac Babel – Jewish chronicler of Odessa and victim of Josef Stalin’s purges – takes centre stage. Odessa Is Read”, is celebrating this complex Black Sea city’s vibrant literary past.
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Stick with ‘the man,’ however, and you should be fine, for he (as well as his book-addict “teacher”) will tell you the blatant truth: “If you come near people here, they will ask you, what about you? “You may be tempted to stray because this character-driven narrative has a couple of perspective switches and some brief philosophical meanderings that will, at first, seem daunting. This novel is about the dung of life, and so it is not surprising that no words are minced: “Left-hand fingers in their careless journey from a hasty anus sliding up the banister as their owners returned from the lavatory downstairs to the offices above. In addition, it is an attempt to broadcast the voice of Ghana that was usually unheard: that of the poor–in most cases uneducated–village workers. The novel is seriocomic, a satirical attempt at showcasing the irony of Nkrumah’s leadership (and if you are familiar with Ghana during the Nkrumah years, you see why this is ironic indeed). This is Armah’s first novel added to Heinemann’s African Writers Series, and I am so glad that I have read and reread it. “The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born” is a hard-to-avert prophecy from a lamenting patriotic seer and ink bender who sits on the tallest African tree. Fatoumatta: Ghanian author Ayi Kwei Armah is not only a legend but one of the best ink molders of all time.
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Alexa donne brightly burning6/11/2023 When several attempts on his life spark more questions than answers, and the beautiful Bianca Ingram appears at Hugo's request, his unpredictable behavior causes Stella's suspicions to mount. Surrounded by mysteries, Stella finds her equal in the brooding but kind nineteen-year-old Captain Hugo. On the Rochester, there's no water ration, more books than one person could devour in a lifetime, and an AI who seems more friend than robot.īut no one warned Stella that the ship seems to be haunted, nor that it may be involved in a conspiracy that could topple the entire interstellar fleet. Stella Ainsley leaves poverty behind when she quits her engineering job aboard the Stalwart to become a governess on a private ship. Donne's atmospheric, twisty update of a cherished classic will keep you up late into the night!" -Elly Blake, NYT bestselling author of the Frostblood Saga "Brightly Burning delivers a brooding gothic mystery and a swoony romance, all set in space. "One of the most anticipated YA debuts of 2018, Brightly Burning is a gothic, romantic mystery with hints of Jane Eyre, Marissa Meyer, and Kiera Cass." -Entertainment Weekly
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Revolution book jennifer donnelly6/10/2023 She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. But the stuck-in-the-past thing only happens at the very end, before that she is merely depressed in general, then obsessed with the dead prince that looked like her brother. To sum it up (I had to peek ahead to see where any of this was going because I lost patience with the whole thing): Andi is depressed and possibly suicidal her brother died in a tragic accident involving perhaps a crazy person and a car? her mom is put in an insane asylum the estranged dad takes her to Paris where she finds striking similarities between her brother and Marie Antoinette's long-deceased son after some wild night she finds herself in some historic flashback that has to do with the French Revolution. Ok, I had some idea, but the story takes so long to unwind its not-actually-that-interesting secrets, and it's mostly just pages and pages of angst and the know-it-all attitude that comes from angsty teens. *SPOILER ALERT* I think this one has received good reviews, but after reading 100 or so pages I still had no idea where it was going and more importantly, didn't care. Teen fiction teen angst w/historical flashback.
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A little princess illustrated6/10/2023 When I first read the novel as a quiet “dreamer” third-grader, I was surprised and impressed by the way Sara conquers her troubles: by imagining that she is a princess. There are two intertwining themes in A Little Princess: the power of imagination and the power of kindness. However, Sara’s kindness, tenacity and imagination afford her new joys, eventually bringing her all the way to a happy ending. Transformed from a veritable princess into an unpaid scullery maid, she loses all the expensive comforts she is used to. But when Sara’s father suddenly passes away, leaving behind nothing but debt, her life is turned upside down. As she adjusts to her new life, her character turns out to be surprisingly different from that of the stereotypical rich, spoiled girl she uses her advantage and intelligence to help those of her classmates cast off by the other girls. The wealthy, pampered Sara Crewe finds herself alone in a new country when her doting father leaves her at a London boarding school. What does a person really need in order to be happy? If you were to lose every tangible thing which gives you joy now, what intangible things would make life still worth living? The novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett answers these two questions from the point of view of an eleven-year-old with a response which is ultimately simple, sweet, and surprisingly wise. Harper Classics: New York, 1998 originally published in 1905.
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Dean koontz false memory review6/10/2023 When Dusty leaves Skeet at the rehab center, he notices a shadow lurking in his brother's room window. Later, her condition worsens, and soon she becomes afraid of pointed objects, although she is actually afraid of the harm she might cause with them. Martie suddenly develops a mysterious case of autophobia, fear of oneself, and returns home to find herself frightened by her own reflection. Dusty decides to take him back to rehab due to drug overdose. Skeet was in rehab for drug use, and when he first appears in the story, he is high and tries to commit suicide by jumping off a roof. Martie's husband, Dusty Rhodes, tries to help his brother Skeet, by providing employment in his painting business. "Martie Rhodes helps her friend Susan Jagger, who suffers from agoraphobia, attend visits to psychologist Dr. |