![]() It seems as if there should be a marketing trick responsible or some blatant appeal to prurient interest, but this is no “Fifty Shades of Wool.” It’s the real deal. But what sets it apart from hundreds of thousands of self-published e-books is that it’s a good and compelling story, and well told. Well before any print edition rolled off a press, “Wool” had sold more than 400,000 e-books and was optioned by Hollywood. ![]() Rapidly rising sales led him to continue the story in four additional installments. ![]() It was discovered by fans of dystopian sci-fi adventure, and they quickly spread the word. ![]() In the summer of 2011, a 36-year-old jack-of-all-trades named Hugh Howey self-published a short story on the Web. Even if it were just a run-of-the-mill post-apocalyptic novel about a society forced to live underground, “ Wool” would still be quite a tale. ![]()
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Turns out, rock bottom looks a lot like the bars of a jail cell. ![]() But life had another hard lesson for him: With drugs, the only way is down.ĭominic hits rock bottom when he’s twenty-three. Anything was better than being conscious. It didn’t cure the ache, but it made him forget it for a while. ![]() ![]() Or, maybe, it was that he couldn’t even imagine what being loved should feel like.ĭrugs washed all that away. Maybe it began the first time an adult plied him with drinks just to watch him stumble about. Maybe it started when he was six, hiding beneath his blankets as the wild animal noises of one of mom’s parties echoed in his head. ![]() Dominic has lived with an empty ache inside him for as long as he could remember. ![]() ![]() ![]() May 24 LiSA Enters the Spider-Verse for Japan-Exclusive Theme Song, Jacket Art.09:45 Voice Actresses Chinatsu Akasaki, Naomi Ōzora Announce Pregnancies.10:45 MyAnimeList, Honeyfeed Announce 3rd Web Novel Contest.11:45 Fate/Grand Order Arcade Game No Longer Adding New Servants.12:45 Japan's Self-Defense Force Band Performs Uma Musume Songs at Tokyo Racecourse.Apr 8 Oshi no Ko is a Dark Look at the Entertainment Industry.Apr 10 Anime Boston 2023: What It's Like to Work in Anime (UPDATED).Convention reports chronological archives.Drops to #2, IDOLiSH 7 CG Concert Opens at #5 in Japan 05:40 Live-Action Kocchi Muite yo Mukai-kun Show Reveals 3 Cast Members.08:00 Delicious in Dungeon Anime's Teaser Trailer Reveals Main Cast, More Staff, January 2024 Debut.09:15 Japanese Animation TV Ranking, May 8-14.10:15 'Died a Slave, Reborn a Noble' Manga Listed as Ending with 5th Volume.11:00 Transformers One Animated Prequel Film Delayed to September 2024.11:15 Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless Game's Story Trailer Reveals October Release in West.12:38 The Eminence in Shadow: Master of Garden Game Launches for PC with Cross-Platform Play.16:00 North American Anime, Manga Releases, May 21-27. ![]() ![]() 17:00 3rd Live-Action Kingdom Film Casts Eri Murakawa, Hinako Sakurai. ![]() ![]() If the movement is two inches a year, which it often is, we can expect Los Angeles to arrive off Anchorage in about seventy-six million years. The city of Los Angeles is now some twenty-four hundred miles south of central Alaska, and since it is moving slowly northward as the San Andreas fault slides irresistibly along, the city is destined eventually to become part of Alaska. The reader follows the development of the Alaskan terrain over millennia. Plot summary Chapter I: The Clashing Terranes Ī sweeping description of the formation of the North American continent. The third item offers the reader an insight into what occurred in real life and what the author invented. Along with the reading, Michener provides a table of contents, a list of acknowledgements, and a Fact and Fiction section. Plot introduction Īlaska is 868 pages long. Like other Michener titles, Alaska spans a considerable amount of time, traced through the gradual interlinking of several families. ![]() Alaska is a 1988 historical novel by James A. ![]() ![]() (Please go and give her some love – she’s been feeling kind of sick!!! □ ) ![]() You can connect with her on Facebook, Pinterest, Goodreads, Twitter, Instagram, and her blog When she isn’t writing, she can be found pursuing backwoods adventures across the country. She lives in Michigan with her family and their pack of pets. Tricia Mingerink is a twenty-something, book-loving, horse-riding country girl. What will it take to deliver Acktar from itself? Bitterness divides town against town, neighbor against neighbor. While healing from the torture he received at Nalgar Castle, he struggles to find his new role. No matter how far he runs, he can’t lose his guilt. After torturing his best friend, he doesn’t belong anywhere in Acktar. ![]() I think that you remember the books that I reviewed: The Blades of Acktar ( Dare, Deny, Defy, Destroy)? Well TODAY is the release day of the final book: Deliver by Tricia Mingerink! Guys, I’m soooo sad.īut in honor of that, I’m writing a review for that today! Yay! I hope that y’all enjoy! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() * "This is fairy-tale fantasy as its best, with evocative prose and simple storytelling deftly conveying a powerful emotional core that will haunt readers long after the pages end." "Told in a languorous, breathy first-person narrative, Hahn's debut novel follows tenacious Marni as she tries to find a home between to vastly different worlds." * "A dreamlike, poetic fantasy bildungroman explores the power of choice and the meaning of home.Hahn's debut is cumulatively stunning" "This book's greatest strength lies in the vivid woodland scenes and the rich detail that describes the mystical pieces of Marni's tale." "This debut novel is abundant with both magical images and realistic family conflict, melding them into a compelling story." ![]() * "In Hahn's polished, confident debut, the daughter of a runaway princess and a dragon comes of age.this profound and original story feels like a long-lost classic fairy tale." ![]() Franny Billingsley, National Book Award finalist for Chime I love the book and hope she dreams up many more.” Kristin Cashore, New York Times best-selling author of Graceling and Bitterblue “Rebecca Hahn captures that elusive sense of an experience just out of reach-a memory, a dream, a voice in the woods, a road not taken. This is a rare and special book, a magical book I’ve been searching for it and didn’t even know it.” She writes the sort of prose you give yourself to willingly. “Hahn writes with such beauty and persuasion that she could make me believe in anything. ![]() ![]() ![]() The adult list contains 126 books and includes links to the library catalog or e-Book editions. “The titles bridge the past and present of feminist movements, from Simone de Beauvoir’s The Independent Woman(1949) to Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist: Essays (2014), and from the earliest manifestos for equality to contemporary writings on intersectionality,” Valentina Di Liscia writes at Hyperallergic. These books can help create community and solidarity and inspire deep reflection as kids are pushed back into schools and parents and teachers try to help them cope. To illustrate the continued critical importance of feminist history, theory, and literature, the New York Public Library published reading lists for adults, kids, and teens on the 19th Amendment’s 100th anniversary. ![]() More than ever, feminist reading lists reflect the vast differences in collective and personal experience that fall under the label “Feminist.” ![]() Each generation of women, but most especially Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and LGBTQ women, must claim or reclaim basic rights, liberties, and protections. This is a history in which-whether rights were guaranteed by the constitution or not- people historically denied suffrage have always had to struggle. ![]() ![]() Often an instant classic and must-read for everyone.ĩ – Superb. ![]() A helpful and/or enlightening book that, in addition to meeting the highest standards in all pertinent aspects, stands out even among the best. Here's what the ratings mean:ġ0 – Brilliant. Books we rate below 5 won’t be summarized. Our rating helps you sort the titles on your reading list from solid (5) to brilliant (10). We rate each piece of content on a scale of 1–10 with regard to these two core criteria. ![]() ![]() Helpful – You’ll take-away practical advice that will help you get better at what you do. Whatever we select for our library has to excel in one or the other of these two core criteria:Įnlightening – You’ll learn things that will inform and improve your decisions. At getAbstract, we summarize books* that help people understand the world and make it better. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Kurda hires a pirate ship, the Seascab, captained by Plugg Firetail, to take her to Mossflower, where she must find the royal artifacts of Riftgard in order to seal her father's kingship. In the attempt, her friend Drufo is killed. One of the slaves, Trisscar, escapes with her friends Shogg and Welfo, southward to Mossflower. This was the first novel illustrated by David Elliot.Īt Riftgard, an isle in the far north, the ferret king Agarnu and his cruel offspring, Princess Kurda and Prince Bladd hold sway over a Ratguard army and enslaved creatures. It takes place after Taggerung in terms of storyline, and serves as a sequel. ![]() Triss marks the first appearance of the infamous Dibbun club, Dibbuns Against Bedtime. Triss is the 15th novel in the Redwall series, published in 2002. ![]() |