SUMMARYĮbony is a sheltered, naïve sixteen year old who doesn’t know she is really a kidnapped angel, hidden away in a valley while her real family searches for her. Ebony still doesn't know that she's a stolen angel, but now that the heavens have found her, they want her back. It's as if something explodes inside of her-something that can be seen from the heavens. On one fateful night, Ebony meets Jordan and she's intensely drawn to him. She's growing more beautiful by the day, she's freakishly strong, and then there's the fact that she's glowing. Confined to her home in a secluded valley, home-schooled by her protective parents, and limited to a small circle of close friends. Buy from Amazon | Buy from The Book Depository | Publisher pageįor as long as Ebony can remember, she's been sheltered.
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Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways.But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals. With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of-passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum. One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives-Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud’s vast inheritance. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves-fingersmiths-for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. They seemed to fall a little flat and felt a bit one-sided the first time around, but with this sequel, I felt as if the characters were actually connecting. There is a mysterious blackmailer threatening both gangs with the release of the bugs, and with tensions rising between the nationalists and the communists, Roma and Juliette must put their feelings aside to figure out who this black mailer is before everything they’ve worked toward is destroyed.ĭuring the second book, I felt myself connecting more to the characters then I did while reading the first. Both of them, however, could never have guessed or prepared for the moment when their fathers tell them that the two of them must work together to find out who has been black mailing the gangs. Roma is left feeling lost and heartbroken after Juliette betrayed him by murdering his best friend, and Juliette is left searching for a way to keep both Roma and herself safe by hiding the truth of what actually happened on that dreadful night. It picks up a few months after the conclusion of the previous book with Juliette and Roma at each other’s throats… again. Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong continues to tell the story of Roma and Juliette. There’s romance, betrayal, intrigue, death, and even monsters. Our Violent Endsis everything we could wish for in a retelling of Romeo and Juliette. And more congratulations to the ACX team at Audible. So huge congratulations to Jonathan and to narrator Edoardo Ballerini. It was one of my first choices for Neil Gaiman Presents. It's a magical, spooky novel for anyone who has ever wanted to go too deeply into a book they loved. Was once asked to pitch it as a movie by the producer who controls it, and I did, and was sad it wasn't picked up. I have loved LAND OF LAUGHS ever since I first read it, in 1983 or 1984. I'll put it up here.)Īnd a book from the Audible Neil Gaiman Presents line is nominated: Jonathan Carroll's novel THE LAND OF LAUGHS. (Congratulations to the wonderful cast - and to Nicole Quinn, the contest winner, who won a part in it.) (Which reminds me - someone asked me for the list of who played what in the Audio. I narrated the Coming To America bits in that, and I wrote the book. (Congratulations to Ellen Kushner and Sue Zizza and Simon Jones and all involved)Īmerican Gods (10th Anniversary Full Cast Audio) was nominated. Three of them are for things I was involved in. The news just came in on the nominations for Audies, the Audiobook awards. Now, some twenty-odd years later, this book stands as both a classic and a still-revolutionary work-one that continues to push us gently but profoundly to the furthest borders of the gender frontier. Gender outlaw is the work of a woman who has been through some changes a former heterosexual male a one time scientologist and ibm salesperson now a lesbian. Gender Outlaw was decades ahead of its time when it was first published in 1994. This project begins perhaps with gender as the common coin of the bodys cultural intelligibility, but. But this particular coming-of-age story is also a provocative investigation into our notions of male and female, from a self-described nonbinary transfeminine diesel femme dyke who never stops questioning our cultural assumptions. Kate Bornstein is writing about 'the rest of us' - those who do not accept the facticity of naturalized gender as part of nature, and who are ready to question at the root the way identity is formed in post-Enlightenment Western culture. On one level, Gender Outlaw details Bornstein’s transformation from heterosexual male to lesbian woman, from a one-time IBM salesperson to a playwright and performance artist. “I know I’m not a man…and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either… The trouble is, we’re living in a world that insists we be one or the other.” With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. He was calling for people to rethink their knee-jerk hostility to the project of mission.” The late Lamin Sanneh taught Christianity’s world history “at a time when there was a lot of academic skepticism. “My father in his own way was not afraid to take a position outside of academic consensus,” Sanneh says. Is Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” a country song? Does hip-hop have to be political or philosophical to be “good”? Why was disco’s massive appeal so abruptly short-lived? Is it the bluesy bluster of Grand Funk Railroad, or the androgynous power ballads of the hair-metal band Poison, or the scabrous grunge of Nirvana? Could any of those bands have anticipated the variations that followed? “What does it mean to be a rock band? What does rock sound like? How does rock define itself?” “I wanted to tell the story of these genres - and by genres, I kind of mean communities - how a lot of times these communities are defined by arguments,” he says. Kelefa Sanneh (center) and a couple of friends on the T in 1994. For him, they were both ways to appreciate and describe the beauty of nature.ĪD: You have written biographies on Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, and Leonardo da Vinci, which is to say you know these men better than almost anyone else ever will. In fact, I don’t think he made much of a distinction between art and science. The dissection of lips at the same time he was painting the Mona Lisa is an example. WI: What surprised me most was how closely his science was connected to his art. When he died on May 2, 1519, in Amboise, France, that very painting was in his bedroom, with him to the very end. Today, it's one of the most famous paintings in history. He adored his painting, the Mona Lisa ( La Gioconda), a work that took him 16 years to complete. In so many ways Leonardo was unlike anyone before him, yet he had very human impulses and desires. What Isaacson offers us is a peek into the life of a man who cared more about knowledge for its own sake than the fame that would come later. Which is why so many rushed to read the most recent biography about Leonardo, courtesy of master biographer Walter Isaacson, who has previously written about other luminaries: Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jobs (who handpicked Isaacson to write his biography). Every year there seems to be a new revelation about his life as biographers have pursued the clues Leonardo left us: He was a vegetarian, ambidextrous, bisexual, unfazed by deadlines, etcetera. Society's fascination with Leonardo seems to have grown with each passing generation. Join us for an invigorating discussion about Adriana’s journey to writing romance, representation in romance, how her work as a trauma therapist informs her writing, the writing workshops she teaches, fanfiction, and more. In this episode, we are joined by USA Today bestselling author and trauma therapist Adriana Herrera, author of romance novels with “unapologetic happy endings.” Her most recent release and first in a new series, A Caribbean Heiress in Paris, is out on May 31st 2022 – preorder now! Find more information about our podcast, including links to our guests’ books here. In this episode, we are joined by USA Today bestselling romance author and trauma therapist Adriana Herrera (author of Finding Joy, A Caribbean Heiress in Paris, and more) who spoke to us about her writing journey, representation in genre fiction, and more. #292 – Unapologetic Happy Endings with Adriana Herrera State Fair by Earlene Fowler 246 copies, 13 reviews Tumbling Blocks by Earlene Fowler 364 copies, 7 reviews Sunshine and Shadow by Earlene Fowler 375 copies, 4 reviewsīroken Dishes by Earlene Fowler 368 copies, 5 reviewsĭelectable Mountains by Earlene Fowler 367 copies, 6 reviews Steps to the Altar by Earlene Fowler 386 copies, 5 reviews Seven Sisters by Earlene Fowler 410 copies, 4 reviewsĪrkansas Traveler by Earlene Fowler 370 copies, 5 reviews Mariner's Compass by Earlene Fowler 414 copies, 9 reviews Goose in the Pond by Earlene Fowler 428 copies, 5 reviewsĭove in the Window by Earlene Fowler 372 copies, 3 reviews Kansas Troubles by Earlene Fowler 417 copies, 4 reviews Irish Chain by Earlene Fowler 456 copies, 6 reviews Fool's Puzzle by Earlene Fowler 586 copies, 16 reviews From this we get the vision of Medusa we all know, her hair turned to snakes and her gaze that turned those she looked at to stone. The interpretation of this myth does change slightly between authors but all tell the story of a young woman, a gorgon herself, who is punished by Athena after she is raped by Poseidon in her temple as she can’t punish the God. Stone Blind is the second book I have read this year on the myth of the Gorgon Medusa and the Hero Perseus, and how their fates entwine. Retelling of the Greek and Roman Myths seems to be very popular at the moment, and I have to say they are brilliant stories hero, heroine, good against evil and some wonderous characters. The punishment is that she is turned into a Gorgon: sharp teeth, snakes for hair and a look that turns other to stone. Athene, furious at the sacrilege committed, directs her revenge on Medusa. When, in Athene’s temple, desire pushes Poseidon to commit the unforgivable, Medusa’s mortal life is changed forever. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know. Growing up with her sisters, she quickly realizes that she is the only one who gets older, experiences change, feels weakness. Synopsis Medusa is the only mortal in a family of gods. Follow me Publisher : Mantle Main Market edition (15 Sept. |