![]() ![]() ![]() At Stuyvesant, Razia meets Angela and is attracted to her in a way that blossoms into a new understanding. When Razia is accepted to Stuyvesant, a prestigious high school in Manhattan, the gulf between the person she is and the daughter her parents want her to be, widens. They embark on a series of small rebellions: listening to scandalous music, wearing miniskirts, and cutting school to explore the city. She finds solace in Taslima, a new girl in her close-knit Pakistani-American community. ![]() When a family rift drives the girls apart, Razia’s heart is broken. ![]() "- AudioFile Razia Mirza grows up amid the wild grape vines and backyard sunflowers of Corona, Queens, with her best friend, Saima, by her side. As Razia begins rebelling in small ways, Rehman adds a layer of emotional intimacy to Razia's conflicted feelings. For fans of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Muslim-American community "I LOVED EVERY MOMENT." -Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! "ENCHANTING." -Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk "Bushra Rehman performs her novel of a queer Pakistani American girl who is coming of age in the 1980s and '90s. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And suddenly, after her own secret is revealed, Alex finds herself confronted with two men vying for her heart: the safe and steady Rylan, who has always cared for her, and the dark, intriguing Damian. The longer Alex is held captive with both Rylan and the prince, the more she realizes that she is not the only one who has been keeping dangerous secrets. But when a powerful sorcerer sneaks into the palace in the dead of night, even Alex, who is virtually unbeatable, can’t prevent him from abducting her, her fellow guard and friend Rylan, and Prince Damian, taking them through the treacherous wilds of the jungle and deep into enemy territory. ![]() Forced to disguise herself as a boy and serve in the king’s army, Alex uses her quick wit and fierce sword-fighting skills to earn a spot on the elite prince’s guard. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Chelsea Ichaso has without a doubt written the breakout thriller of the year."-Dana Mele, author of People Like Us Now it's up to Cassidy to figure out what's really going on, before the truth behind Melody's disappearance sets the whole town ablaze. And then she gets a chilling text from an unknown number: I'm so glad we're in this together. She even planned out the perfect way to do it. She knows she should go to the cops, but.she recently joked about how much she'd like to get rid of Melody. In Melody's eyes, Cassidy is a murderer and always will be.Īnd then Melody goes missing, and Cassidy thinks she may have information about what happened. ![]() ![]() But her town's bullies, particularly the cruel and beautiful Melody Davenport, have never let her live it down. She's pretty sure she didn't mean to do it. She can't remember anything from that day. When she was a child, Cassidy Pratt accidentally started a fire that killed her neighbor. From breakout debut author Chelsea Ichaso comes Little Creeping Things, a compulsively readable YA suspense novel with a narrator who can't be trusted, perfect for fans of Natasha Preston. ![]() ![]() ![]() What I didn’t realize, though, is that it represented a point where Saunders was still finding his voice, to some degree. I didn’t realize when I chose CivilWarLand in Bad Decline as my follow-up that it was Saunders’ earliest collection I knew it was acclaimed, like most of his work, and had a lot of love, and had a pretty great title. I was floored and thrilled here, I thought, was a short story writer who got away from tales of ennui and angst, telling stories that had a point but entertained, made you laugh, and still worked as rich, well-written works. What I expected was stories about “upper class white people problems” what I got was a collection of funny, sharp, satirical looks at America, with stories ranging from Renaissance Fairs to futuristic nightmares to corporate torture memos. ![]() A little over a year ago, I picked up Tenth of December, the much-acclaimed short story collection by George Saunders, and was blown away. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After returning to New York in 1973, she changed her named to Jamaica Kincaid to be anonymous as she tried her hand at writing. Eventually, she won a scholarship to Franconia College in New Hampshire, but dropped out after two years. As she worked, Kincaid acquired her general equivalency diploma and started taking photography classes at the New School for Social Research. She remained with the Arlen family for four years. She stayed in Scarsdale for a few months, before moving to Manhattan to be an au pair for the family of Michael Arlen, a New Yorker writer. She left Antigua at age seventeen and moved to Scarsdale, New York to work as an au pair. After her father fell ill, however, Kincaid, as the girl in the family, dropped out at the age of thirteen. Kincaid won a scholarship to the Princess Margaret School and excelled as a student, despite her occasionally mischievous attitude. Jamaica Kincaid's mother taught her to read at the age of three. Annie and David Drew had three subsequent children, all boys. Kincaid considers Drew her father and he serves as the model for the fathers in each of her novels. Her mother, Annie, married her stepfather, David Drew, soon after Kincaid's birth. Her parents were not married and her biological father never played a role in her life. ![]() She was originally named Elaine Potter Richardson. ![]() Annie John Context Jamaica Kincaid was born was born on at Holberton Hospital in St. ![]() ![]() Alone and unsure, Louise began to fight her way to a place where Caroline could not reach. But the dream did not satisfy the woman she was becoming. The war unexpectedly gave this independent girl a chance to fulfill her childish dream to work as a watermen alongside her father. While everyone pampered Caroline, Wheeze (her sister's name for her) began to learn the ways of the watermen and the secrets of the island, especially of old Captain Wallace, who had mysteriously returned after 50 years. Growing up on a tiny Chesapeake Bay island in the early 1940s, angry Louise reveals how Caroline robbed her of everything: her hopes for schooling, her friends, her mother, even her name. ![]() ![]() Caroline, her selfish younger sister, was the one everyone loved. "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." With her grandmother's taunt, Louise knew that she, like the biblical Esau, was the despised elder twin. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dex custom-blends tea to fit the people's needs and personalities, and they confide their misgivings to the monk. On a moon called Panga where AI and robots are a distant myth, Dex is an adventurous and friendly tea monk who travels the human-populated areas of their moon meeting villagers and townsfolk. By the time of the first novella's release in 2021, the 36-year-old Chambers, living in northern California, had won the Hugo Award for Best Series for the Wayfarers series whose fourth novel, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, had been published earlier that year. Clarke Award and she would continue writing that series as she worked on these new solarpunk novellas. Chambers's debut novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (2014), and its sequel, A Closed and Common Orbit (2016), in the Wayfarers series, had both been nominated for the Arthur C. In 2018, for its Tor.com Publishing imprint, Tor Books commissioned science fiction author Becky Chambers to write a two-book novella series within the emerging solarpunk genre. ![]() It is the first book in the Monk & Robot duology, followed by A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, which was released on July 12, 2022. A Psalm for the Wild-Built is a 2021 solarpunk novella written by American author Becky Chambers and was published by Tor.com on July 13, 2021. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anna herself has another destination in mind: a lonely stretch of road outside of Winnemucca where the 16-year-old boy she once was ran away from the whorehouse he called home. Some members of Anna’s family are bound for the otherworldly landscape of Burning Man, the art community in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert where 60,000 revelers gather to construct a city designed to last only one week. Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her “logical family” in San Francisco: her devoted young caretaker Jake Greenleaf her former tenant Brian Hawkins and his daughter Shawna and Michael Tolliver and Mary Ann Singleton, who have known and loved Anna for nearly four decades. ![]() Now ninety-two, and committed to the notion of “leaving like a lady,” Mrs. ![]() The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead Maupin’s bestselling “Tales of the City” series, follows one of modern literature’s most unforgettable and enduring characters-Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane-as she embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her past. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book won the 2015 Novel of the Year award from the Chicago Writers Association and was named a best book of 2014 by BookPage. It received starred reviews in Booklist, Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. Her second novel, The Hundred-Year House, is set in the Northern suburbs of Chicago, and was published by Viking/Penguin in July 2014. It was a Booklist Top Ten Debut, an Indie Next pick, an O Magazine selection, and one of Chicago Magazine's choices for best fiction of 2011. ![]() Makkai's debut novel, The Borrower, was released in June 2011. She met her husband, Jon Freeman, at Bread Loaf. She has two children and lives in Lake Forest, Illinois. Makkai has also taught at Lake Forest College and held the Mackey Chair in Creative Writing Beloit College. She is the artistic director of StoryStudio Chicago. Makkai has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada University and Northwestern University. She later earned a master's degree from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English. Makkai graduated from Lake Forest Academy and attended Washington and Lee University where she graduated with a B.A. Her paternal grandmother, Rózsa Ignácz, was a well-known actress and novelist in Hungary. She is the daughter of linguistics professors Valerie Becker Makkai and Ádám Makkai, a refugee to the US following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Rebecca Makkai (born April 20, 1978) is an American novelist and short-story writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, this novel was my first ever preorder on Audible. Not only that, I consider Wil Wheaton’s voice reading John Scalzi’s words to be ** ** chef’s kiss. I filled the lonely hours working on our new home with Scalzi’s Old Man’s War series. Before the move, I had to do some work painting and remodeling the kitchen before our moving in. ![]() I took advantage of working from home and listened to The Interdependency series, along with the Lock In Series.ĭuring the fall of 2020, my new (and newly expecting) bride and I found ourselves moving. Once I discovered him, the works of John Scalzi kept me company those first few months of lockdown. It wasn’t until the early part of 2020 that I came across John Scalzi’s work. ![]() Years ago I started listening to audiobooks to help pass the time. This is my first endeavor in this, so I hope you bear with me.Ī quick background on myself I spend anywhere from 2 to 6 hours a day on the road for work. I have never written a review for an audiobook. ![]() He said that this was “ the right novel, at the right time, for me” and frankly, I felt that for myself as well, after listening to Wil Wheaton’s voice, read Scalzi’s words. This entire review of John Scalzi’s newest book, The Kaiju Preservation Society, exists solely because of the author’s Afterword. ![]() |