![]() Still, I enjoyed seeing this new perspective on The 100 and I will definitely be reading the other books in the series. There’s no Finn or Raven in the books, Wells doesn’t die, and we see life on the ship through the eyes of a character named Glass, not through any of the adults’ eyes. I had heard that the book and the show were quite different, so I was prepared for that going in. And, of course, after watching the show, I was curious to read the book that had started it all. I just basically marathoned the entire first season and half of the second season over Christmas break. ![]() To survive, they must learn to trust - and even love - again. But they're haunted by their past and uncertain about the future. ![]() Confronting the dangers of this rugged new world, they struggle to form a tentative community. After a brutal crash landing, the teens arrive on a savagely beautiful planet they've only seen from space. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents are being sent on a high-stakes mission to recolonize Earth. But faced with dwindling resources and a growing populace, government leaders know they must reclaim their homeland. No one knows when, or even if, the long-abandoned planet will be habitable again. ![]() ![]() In the future, humans live in city-like spaceships orbiting far above Earth's toxic atmosphere. My content rating: YA (Nothing more than kissing, Some violence) Genres: Action & Adventure, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Young Adult Published by Little Brown Books for Young Readers on 9/3/13 ![]()
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![]() ![]() They all think it's a funny prank until Sawyer sees the mannequin walk out of the theater at the movie's end. Sawyer Grimes is one of five bored teens who decide to pose a discarded store mannequin as though it's a real patron in a movie theater in a suburb of Dallas, Tex. Jones (The Only Good Indians) tiptoes the border between supernatural and psychological horror in this weird and wild novella. "Suffused with questions about the nature of change and friendship, “Night of the Mannequins” is a fairy tale of impermanence showcasing Graham Jones’s signature style of smart, irreverent horror." - The New York TimesĪt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. That's the thing about heroes-sometimes you have to become a monster first. ![]() He'll do whatever he needs to so he can save the day. ![]() He'll save everyone to the best of his ability. Bringing a mannequin into a theater is just some harmless fun, right? Until it wakes up. One last laugh for the summer as it winds down. We thought we'd play a fun prank on her, and now most of us are dead. Award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen prank goes very wrong and all hell breaks loose: is there a supernatural cause, a psychopath on the loose, or both? ![]() ![]() And all three of them–Zee, Elijah, and Nellie–will have to work together if they want to give their ghost story a happy ending. Everyone’s most selfish wishes start coming true in creepy ways.To fight for what’s right, Zee will have to embrace what makes her different and what makes her Ghost Girl. Worse, mean girl Nellie gives Zee a cruel nickname: Ghost Girl.But whatever the storm washed up isn’t going away. a ghost.When she tells her classmates, only her best friend Elijah believes her. From the author of Ghost Girl comes another standalone spooky middle grade for fans of Nightbooks and Ghost Squad, about a terrifying house and the girl haunted by her experience with cancer, grief, and healing. ![]() ![]() And Zee is seeing frightening things: large, scary dogs that talk and maybe even. There’s a creepy new principal who seems to know everyone’s darkest dreams. When the skies clear, everything is different. She just never expected to be living one.It all starts with a dark and stormy night. Perfect for fans of Small Spaces and Nightbooks, Ally Malinenko’s debut is an empowering and triumphant ghost story-with spooky twists sure to give readers a few good goosebumps! Zee Puckett loves ghost stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One moment, Lainey is reciting SAT vocabulary definitions and the next, she’s conjuring freak storms. In her debut, Chance gives readers a mix of clichéd moments and interesting plot devices. Now he has his eye on Lainey, but with her best friend (who is black) and a hot, new protector (who is white) in tow, she’s not going down without a fight. ![]() For centuries, he’s been killing her ancestors in an effort to unlock the spell. Unfortunately, the Grimoire is in the hands of the Master, a powerful warlock who wants to harness all of the magic in the supernatural world. As a Keeper, it is up to Lainey to protect her family’s Grimoire, a book of spells that only she can unlock. After some digging and a few supernatural flashbacks, Lainey finds out that not only is the woman, Josephine, a witch, but that she herself is a descendant of Josephine and the last in a line of Keepers. Lainey, a white teen, would like to focus on acing the SATs, but strange things have been happening, beginning with the apparition of a bloody woman that has started following her. In this urban fantasy series debut, one teen comes to grips with her destiny. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |a Presents the life and accomplishments of the African American scientist, whose keen observations of sea creatures revealed new insights about egg cells and the origins of life. ![]() |a 38 unnumbered pages : |b color illustrations |c 29 cm |a Life of scientist Ernest Everett Just. |a The vast wonder of the world : |b biologist Ernest Everett Just / |c Mélina Mangal illustrated by Luisa Uribe. |a NJQ/DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d OCLCF |d YDX |d BDX |d DLC |d ZVR |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d FSP |d CGP |d JAO |d CKE |d NYP |d PFLCL |d EHH |d OCL |d Y#4 |d OCLCO |d JPI |d ISI |d UO6 |d COM ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, the Gothic-ness of Queer Theory is so automatic that the latter frequently becomes a genre of Gothic fiction. Leckie’s “Ancillary Justice” posits that the queerness of Gothic literature is so deeply embedded that it creates a queer philosophy of its own. Thus, Leckie connects the concepts in question, arguing that discursive space is occupied by issues of difference, otherness, marginality, and the culturally created limits between what is normal and what is abnormal, much like queer theory. Specifically, Leckie points out that queer criticism has always been intrigued with the Gothic, but since Gothic texts were always fascinated with the “queer,” to the point where the genre can be intuitively read as something that is dedicated, in no minor part, to talking about the “queerness” that strikes at the core of cultural production. ![]() In her book “Ancillary Justice,” Leckie explores the Queer Theory is a literary and cultural approach that rejects standard definitions of sexuality and gender in favor of a more inclusive view of the world. ![]() ![]() This makes it not only a decisive answer (nay!) to the age-old question “Is long-form monster poetry dead?” but also a perfect marriage of form and subject: Both the werewolf and the verse novel (which lopes across the centuries from Pushkin to Browning to Vikram Seth) are shaggy hybrids that appear once in a blue moon and terrify everyone in sight.Īccording to his back-cover micro-bio, Barlow is the creative director of a large advertising agency-and Sharp Teeth shows signs of having been creatively directed rather than merely written. ![]() ![]() Toby Barlow’s first book, Sharp Teeth, is a verse novel about werewolves. Let’s say that you’ve recently polished off your local library’s collection of vampire sonnets, and perhaps even flipped, with a melancholy hand, the final page of your older brother’s three-volume haiku sequence about a marauding colony of Minotaurs-that you’ve exhausted, in other words, the literary exploration of monster subcultures written in obscure forms. ![]() ![]() Indeed, whenever Nixon faced a crisis, as in his 1952 “Checkers” speech, he portrayed himself as a scrappy underdog battling against elites and privilege. Perlstein says that this mind-set stayed with Nixon (“a serial collector of resentments”) throughout his life and was the essence of his worldview. He named the club “The Orthogonians,” and told its members that they were “upright” and “straight shooters.” Nixon’s penchant for defining issues as “us” against “them” started when he was an undergraduate at Whittier College and sought to join a “circle of swells” called the “Franklins.” He was rebuffed and started his own group made up of young people like himself – quiet, hardworking strivers. How this happened, according to Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland, is largely the story of Richard Nixon and his ability to identify the resentments of middle-class Americans, articulate them, and turn them into votes. Yet just eight years later, the Democratic Party was in a complete shambles and Richard Nixon won 49 states. ![]() In 1964, Lyndon Johnson was elected president in a landslide so definitive that political observers saw it as the emergence of “a liberal national consensus” or, as Johnson himself said later that year when lighting the White House Christmas tree, “These are the most hopeful times since Christ was born in Bethlehem.” ![]() ![]() A few years can make a big difference in the life of a nation. ![]() ![]() When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. Publishing Info: Penguin Classics, October 2006 (First Published in September 1932)īook Description from Goodreads: ‘I saw something nasty in the woodshed’ So feel free to read along with us or use our book selections and questions in your own bookclub! Book: “Cold Comfort Farm” by Stella Gibbons We’ll also post the next book coming up in bookclub. Our current theme is “Books with Movie Adaptations.”įor this blog, we will post a joint review of each book we read for bookclub. ![]() ![]() Each “season” (we’re nerds) we pick a theme and each of us chooses a book within that theme for us all to read. We are part of a group of librarian friends who have had an ongoing bookclub running for the last year and a half. ![]() ![]() ![]() There he finds his mother held captive by the power-mad Queen May and learns he is half-human and half-fey-a Haffling. ![]() Frantic, he tracks her to a remote corner of Manhattan and is transported to another dimension-the land of the Unsee, the realm of the Fey. When Alex's mother goes missing, everything falls apart. Having a fairy on his shoulder only he can see doesn't help, and his mom's schizophrenia places him and Alice in constant jeopardy of being carted back into foster care. Strapped with a mentally ill mother, Alex fears for his own sanity. Sadly, wanting something and getting it are very different. ![]() That, and he'd like his first kiss, preferably with Jerod Haynes, the straight boy with the beautiful girlfriend and the perfect life. The Haffling: Book One All sixteen-year-old Alex Nevus wants is to be two years older and become his sister Alice's legal guardian. ![]() |
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