"Kowal's book was revelatory for me, because here is a version of history where men eventually, finally, listen to women."- Tor.com "Readers will thrill to the story of this "lady astronaut" and eagerly anticipate the promised sequels."- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "In The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal imagines an alternate history of spaceflight that reminds me of everything I loved about Hidden Figures."-Cady Coleman, Astronaut "This is what NASA never had, a heroine with attitude."- The Wall Street Journal Kowal masters both science and historical accuracy in this alternate history adventure."-Andy Weir, author of The Martian " The Calculating Stars is a wonderful, scientifically accurate view of what might have been. "This was a fabulous sequel."- Marzie Reads "This is by no means just for Sci Fi lovers."- Caroline Bookbinder "From dangers on Earth from wild protestors, to the dangers of a three-year trip to Mars, the tale is an exciting, yet well-researched tale. "An alternative look at the midcentury space race led by an intelligent, well-meaning, but flawed heroine."- Booklist "The Lady Astronaut series might be set in an alternate past, but they're cutting-edge SF novels that speak volumes about the present."- The Verge "An immersive world that will stay with the reader well past the final page."- Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Woolf’s essay, although a work of non-fiction, shows the same creative flair we find in her fiction: her adoption of the Mary Beton persona, her beginning her essay mid-flow with the word ‘But’, and her imaginative weaving of anecdote and narrative into her ‘argument’ all, in one sense, enact the two-sided or ‘androgynous’ approach to writing which, she concludes, all authors should strive for.Ī Room of One’s Own is both rational, linear argument and meandering storytelling both deadly serious and whimsically funny both radically provocative and, in some respects, quietly conservative. This will allow writers to encompass the full range of human emotion and experience. In other words, writers should write with an understanding of both masculinity and femininity, rather than writing ‘merely’ as a woman or as a man. Woolf concludes by arguing that in fact, the ideal writer should be neither narrowly ‘male’ or ‘female’ but instead should strive to be emotionally and psychologically androgynous in their approach to gender. In a world where most of the earth has become a harsh desert, the Rainbow Council of the Peace Corps has a growing crisis on its hands. Let's say the climax of bonus chapter slapped my mind. A powerfully imagined vision of the future from Taiyo Matsumoto, creator of the Eisner Awardwinning Cats of the Louvre and Tekkonkinkreet. The fifth star on Volume 1 is due to author's effectively using bonus chapter at the end of the book. The strength of this manga is the stylish execution of the story. The first three volumes are for character introductions and slice-of-life theme in Edo period. The main story itself is simple for me, but the author only revealed the main plot on Volume 4. Except the bonus chapter, but I will get to there. 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Both will have to make terrible sacrifices to find each other, save each other, and eventually… make peace with who they are.Īmy Harmon is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and New York Times Bestselling author. Ripped apart, they can’t turn back, they can’t go on, and they can’t let go. When a horrific tragedy strikes, decimating Naomi’s family and separating her from John, the promises they made are all they have left. John’s heritage gains them safe passage through hostile territory only to come between them as they seek to build a life together. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts work to keep them apart. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both.īut life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. In this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector find their way through peril, uncertainty, and loss. The 19-year-old daughter of a wealthy family, she is Mina Murrays best. It can be read as a stand-alone, but it's recommended you read the books in order to get maximum enjoyment out of the series. Lucy Westenra is a fictional character in the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Kidnapped by human traffickers, abused, and without family or friends looking for her, Fiona knew wishing for rescue was as realistic as having a big, juicy hamburger fall from the sky.Unbeknownst to Fiona, the SEAL team, including Cookie, were on the way, but their assignment didn't consist of rescuing her.**Protecting Fiona is the 3rd book in the SEAL of Protection Series. Little did he know the SEAL team's latest mission to Mexico would change his life forever.Fiona Storme resigned herself to the fact that it was highly unlikely she would make it out of the jungle alive. Cookie knew if he had a woman who belonged to him, he'd never let her go. Ever since two of his teammates found a woman that completed them, their dangerous Ops seemed a bit more intense. His SEAL team relied on him to do his job, just as he relied on them to do theirs. Cookie "Hunter" Knox was good at his job, infiltrating behind enemy lines was one of his specialties. And I think children like to find themselves in books." And in my childhood, many years ago, children's books seemed to be about English children, or pioneer children. "I wanted to read about the sort of boys and girls that I knew in my neighborhood and in my school. That's what I wanted to read about when I was growing up," Cleary told NPR's Linda Wertheimer in 1999. "I think children want to read about normal, everyday kids. Generations of readers tore around the playground, learned to write in cursive, rebelled against tuna fish sandwiches and acquired all the glorious scrapes and bruises of childhood right along with Ramona.Ĭleary's simple idea - to write about the kids in her own neighborhood - ensured that her books have never gone out of print. Cleary was the creator of some of the most authentic characters in children's literature - Henry Huggins, Ralph S. Mouse).Ĭhildren's author Beverly Cleary died Thursday in Carmel, Calif., her publisher HarperCollins said. Beverly Cleary was the author behind many beloved characters, including Henry Huggins, Ellen Tebbits, Otis Spofford, and Beezus and Ramona Quimby (as well as Ribsy, Socks and Ralph S. He's not at all sure that just dumping the archive onto the Internet, before he's gone through its millions of words, is the right thing to do. He can't even attend a demonstration without being dragged onstage and handed a mike. He's surrounded by friends who remember what he did a few years ago and regard him as a hacker hero. Marcus can leak the archive Masha gave him-but he can't admit to being the leaker, because that will cost his employer the election. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained and tortured Marcus years earlier. It's incendiary stuff-and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. Soon his former nemesis Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco-an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state.Ī few years later, California's economy collapses, but Marcus's hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform. |