Akata Warrior blends mythology, fantasy, history, and magic into a compelling tale that will keep listeners spellbound.Īnother fantastic African cultural adventure Much-honored Nnedi Okorafor, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards, merges today's Nigeria with a unique world she creates. With the support of her Leopard Society friends Orlu, Chichi, and Sasha, and of her spirit face, Anyanwu, she will travel through worlds both visible and invisible to the mysterious town of Osisi, where she will fight a climactic battle to save humanity. Now, stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny is studying with her mentor, Sugar Cream, and struggling to unlock the secrets in her strange Nsibidi book.Įventually, Sunny knows she must confront her destiny. As she began to develop her magical powers, Sunny learned she had been chosen to lead a dangerous mission to avert an apocalypse, brought about by the terrifying masquerade Ekwensu. A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born Nigerian girl, was inducted into the secret Leopard Society.
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Tom Perrotta is the author of six previous work of fiction: The Abstinence Teacher, Bad Haircut, The Wishbones, Election, and the New York Times bestselling Joe College and Little Children. "bad" characters, but recognizing all as merely human-ordinary peopleĭealing with an extraordinary situation." ‘The Leftovers’ Creators Damon Lindelof & Tom Perrotta On Their Story Of Survivors By Matt Grobar J9:00am Ben King/HBO In the making of HBO ’s The Leftovers which recently. It is mainly empathic, never drawing a distinction between "good" and Though the tone is more comic than tragic, Something crucial about themselves, as radical upheaval generates a With those who have changed their lives radically or discovered Startling (certainly for the characters involved). Most ambitious book to date.The premise is as simple as it is The Leftovers By: Tom Perrotta Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins 3.7 (1,432 ratings) Try for 0. 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Flora Rheta Schreiber, the author of ''Sybil,'' a best-selling book about a woman with multiple personalities, and ''Shoemaker,'' a portrait of a Philadelphia murderer, died of a heart attack yesterday at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan. Ronald Reagan's trickle-down economics has been trickling upon the American populace for nearly eight years. Intelligence agency black budgets are on the rise. Bush is calling the shots as Vice President. OCTOBER 1988: It's morning in America again. In Crash Gordon and the Revelations from Big Sur, Derek Swannson combines these elements into a comic and subversive international thriller. A notorious starlet attending the wrap party for her first major Hollywood movie assassinates a Moscow journalist with a bottle of radioactive nasal spray. A stoned surfer trespassing on Hearst Castle property gets hauled up into the sky by a massive flying black triangle. 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Fearing for her daughter’s sanity, Daire’s mother sends her to live with the grandmother she’s never met. Crows mock her, glowing people stalk her, time stops without warning, and a beautiful boy with unearthly blue eyes haunts all her dreams. Strange things are happening to Daire Santos. Gasping when I stare into a pair of icy blue eyes banded by brilliant flecks of gold that shine like kaleidoscopes, reflecting my image thousands of times. I melt against his chest-lift my gaze to meet his. I feel so secure, so at home in his arms. I shove through the crowd, knocking into girls and bouncing off boys, until one in particular catches me, steadies me. Until now, he's existed only in her dreams -īut fate is about to bring them together. It almost felt like I’m either reading a textbook or a scientific paper. After about 20 pages or so, it became clear to me that the language was a bit too dry for my taste. Here’s the thing with reading non fictions sometimes it’s enjoyable if when you read one, it feels like you’re being narrated by someone, and to an extent I do feel like I’m in a class about ancient Rome when I read the first few pages of this book. Nevertheless, I plan to pick this book up sometime in the future (though not so near, as I genuinely find this book too dry for my test, and besides the book has gone inside my cargo box, ready to be shipped back to Indonesia). I was having difficulties with reading at the end of 2019, and it wasn’t until I started reading non fictions that I start pulling myself out of a reading slump, and I was really excited about reading this book, so to not actually finished it, I really want to chastise myself for it. This is genuinely my first DNF book of 2020, which I’m a bit bummed about. It ended up being a really fun read and a couple of the issues I had at the start turned out to have plot-related explanations, so color me shocked and intrigued! I originally gave up on this maybe a quarter of the way through, but as I had requested a copy for review on Netgalley, I felt guilty about abandoning it and decided to return and try to power through. There’s only one problem…She doesn’t know which of her thoughts are her own anymore. Someone intent on becoming the world’s puppet master.Ĭas should run, like she usually does, but for once she’s involved. Someone who can reach directly into people’s minds and twist their brains into Moebius strips. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight, and she’ll take any job for the right price.Īs far as Cas knows, she’s the only person around with a superpower…until she discovers someone with a power even more dangerous than her own. Cas Russell is the geek’s Jack Reacher… ZERO SUM GAME is a smart, accessible sf thriller with blockbuster appeal.Ĭas Russell is good at math. Ross Perot who lost $450 million in one day, Saul Steinberg's attempt to take over Chemical Bank, and the fall of America's "Last Gatsby," Eddie Gilbert. Included are the stories of such high-profile personalities as H. It was a time when greed drove the market and fast money was being made and lost as the "go-go" stocks surged and plunged. The Go-Go Years is the harrowing and humorous story of the growth stocks of the 1960s and how their meteoric rise caused a multitude of small investors to thrive until the devastating market crashes in the 1970s. You read it because it is a wonderful description of the way things were in a different time and place." You do not read this book to see our present situation reenacted in the past, with only the names changed. "The Go-Go Years is not to be read in the usual manner of Wall Street classics. |