![]() The best kind of science fiction' – Barack Obama 'A collection of short stories that will make you think, grapple with big questions, and feel more human. These are tales that tackle some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries that only Ted Chiang could imagine. Although dark in premise, these parables – threaded through with references to ancient mythology and folklore – are filled with hope and humanism: a balm for anxious souls.’ – Daily Telegraphįrom the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others – the basis for the Academy Award nominated film Arrival – comes a groundbreaking second collection of short fiction: nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories. ‘One of the most exciting writers in science fiction. Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary subjects Hong Kong Golden Dragon Books 2022-2023. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In Things We Couldn't Say, Jay Coles, acclaimed author of Tyler Johnson Was Here, shows us a guy trying to navigate love in all its ambiguity - hoping at the other end he'll be able to figure out who is and who he should be. There are no easy answers to love - whether it's family love or friend love or romantic love. especially because he's not sure what he wants from anyone right now. Are they friends? More than friends? At first, Gio's not sure. Can he forgive her like she wants to be forgiven? Or should he tell her she lost her chance to be in his life? Complicating things further, Gio's started to hang out with David, a new guy on the basketball team. ![]() ![]() and now, just as he's started to get his life together, she's back. For eight years, he never heard a word from her. No, the hole in Gio's life takes the shape of his birth mom, who left Gio, his brother, and his father when Gio was nine years old. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. Not because his father has some drinking issues. Not because he's into both guys and girls. There's always been a hole in Gio's life. and facing the return of the mother who abandoned his preacher family when he was nine. From one of the brightest and most acclaimed new lights in YA fiction, a fantastic new novel about a bi Black boy finding first love. ![]() ![]() ![]() When opportunity to seek refuge arises, they board a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda to Chile, the promised ‘long petal of sea and wine and snow’. Together with his sister-in-law, the pianist Roser, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile. ![]() THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER’One of the strongest and most affecting works in Allende’s long career’ New York Times Book Review’A defiantly warm and funny novel, by somebody who has earned the right to argue that love and optimism can survive whatever history might throw at us’ Daily TelegraphSeptember 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles’ splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe.Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life – and the fate of his country – forever changed. ![]() ![]() Soon, he’ll discover his ability to wield magical powers long forbidden to men, throwing his life and lives all around him into turmoil. A humble farmer’s son, he lives a quiet life-until a pair of mysterious travelers arrive in his small village. In the Third Age, the Age of Prophecy in which the novels take place, they are preordained to face off in the Last Battle to determine the fate of the world. ![]() ![]() Battles between the Dragon and the Dark One are part of a cycle that’s been repeated countless times, age after age, as the Dragon is continuously reborn. Spanning multiple eras and generations, the Wheel of Time focuses on the final confrontation between a great hero known as the Dragon and an evil entity known as the Dark One. ![]() Taking place in both our past and our future, this epic fantasy traces the saga of a young man destined to face the Evil One-and tells the story of an entire world’s struggle with war and change, destruction and hope. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s also less problematic, although by Yoneda’s standards, NightS isn’t all that troublesome from an ethical standpoint… granted, I think for some readers the particular aspect which is may be a pretty huge dealbreaker (if you loathe cops in your fiction, may be best to skip in favor of just reading the other bits of this volume). The other, Reply, is less instantly salacious, as it instead takes place within a car dealership, where one of the mechanics is falling for the top salesman. ![]() Luckily, these are the stronger works of the piece the title one focuses on familiar ground for Yoneda, as its about a man who transports smuggled goods and the man who hires him for a job. ![]() NightS is a short story collection, albeit one in which two of the stories get the bulk of the page count, as they each span multiple chapters. I’d enjoyed some of Yoneda’s stuff in the past (although have not read Twitter Birds*, both as the synopsis didn’t interest me and as I will not buy titles from licensor DMP), and I was hankering for some yaoi featuring adults, so picked this up on a whim. Kou Yoneda’s surely a familiar name to yaoi fans most of her work’s gotten published in English, and her Twittering Birds Never Fly series is one of the works to get the movie treatment by Blue Lynx, who also made the Given TV series and anime. Yakuza, mechanics, and others fall in love… oh, and some high school kids, but who cares about them? ![]() ![]() But with Stella he’s kind.īut the Rochester harbors secrets: Stella is certain someone is trying to kill Hugo, and the more she discovers, the more questions she has about his role in a conspiracy threatening the fleet. When a private ship hires her as a governess, Stella jumps at the chance. The captain of the Rochester, nineteen-year-old Hugo Fairfax, is notorious throughout the fleet for being a moody recluse and a drunk. Her home is a floundering spaceship that offers few prospects, having been orbiting an ice-encased Earth for two hundred years. Seventeen-year-old Stella Ainsley wants just one thing: to go somewhere-anywhere-else. ![]() ![]() I actually bought this the day it became available at Barnes and Noble. I don’t know if I have ever been more excited by a book’s premise. You all probably already know this, because I’m the last to know about anything, but this is a retelling of Jane Eyre (one of my all-time favourite books) set in space. I have lost nearly all interest in YA, but I was so excited when I heard this book was coming out. In which I review Alexa Donne’s debut novel, Brightly Burning, which is a science fiction retelling of Jane Eyre. ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Is their meeting a coincidence? Destiny? Or part of a terrifying strategy? And will Zephyr keep Meadow from discovering the haunting truth about her family? Action-packed, blood-soaked, and chilling, this is a dark and compelling debut novel by Lindsay Cummings. The plot starts to thicken when Meadow meets Zephyr James, who is-although he doesn't know it-one of the MC's programmed assassins. The state is controlled by The Murder Complex, an organization that tracks the population with precision. ![]() Meadow Woodson, a fifteen-year-old girl who has been trained by her father to fight, to kill, and to survive in any situation, lives with her family on a houseboat in Florida. It's a must for fans of action-packed dystopians like The Hunger Games and Divergent."- Justine Magazine The nonstop action of The Murder Complex kept us guessing at every twist and turn. ![]() "Legend meets La Femme Nikita in this dark and dangerous bloody thriller. An action-packed, blood-soaked, futuristic debut thriller-set in a world where the murder rate is higher than the birthrate-by Lindsay Cummings, co-author (with Sasha Alsberg) of the New York Times #1 Bestseller Zenith. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her efforts did prove fruitful, as John Grisham successfully attended and graduated from Mississippi State University and later law school, graduating from Ole Miss. However, his mother had different aspirations for her son and began grooming him for college, although she herself had never received a formal education. They settled down again in Southaven, Mississippi and that is where the young John Grisham became determined to be a baseball player for his profession. However, the family began to move around to different areas, still south of the Mason-Dixon Line, while Grisham was in his youth. ![]() His father happened to be a cotton farmer at the time. He arrived in the world on February 8, 1955, when cotton was still a major product of the south. Although the land has been a place of much turmoil, some positive things have arisen for it, as it was in Jonesboro, Arkansas that John Grisham was born. The American south has long been a point of interest to historians as it was the place where slavery once boomed and racisim ran rampant. ![]() ![]() Pink draws on a rich trove of social science for his counterintuitive insights. ![]() As he did in Drive and A Whole New Mind, Daniel H. To Sell Is Human offers a fresh look at the art and science of selling. Whether we’re employees pitching colleagues on a new idea, entrepreneurs enticing funders to invest, or parents and teachers cajoling children to study, we spend our days trying to move others. Yes, one in nine Americans works in sales. Every day more than fifteen million people earn their keep by persuading someone else to make a purchase.īut dig deeper and a startling truth emerges: Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. ![]() #1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestsellerįrom the bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind comes a surprising-and surprisingly useful-new book that explores the power of selling in our lives.Īccording to the U.S. Look out for Daniel Pink’s new book, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing ![]() ![]() Duskova, Lois McMaster Bujold, Michaeline Duskova, Penric and Desdemona, Ron Miller Cover Art | 4 Comments Posted in Authors, Favorite Books, reading recommendations, Series | Tagged E.M. ![]() So, off I go for an afternoon and evening of good reading! See you next Saturday! ![]() Most of Lois’s stories can be read as stand-alones, and since this takes place two years (in book time) after “The Physicians of Vilnoc”, I think it’s safe to say you don’t need to read all nine to enjoy the tenth. The other Penrics are novellas, while this one’s word count launches it into the book arena. It’s a rare week that goes by that I don’t think of a quote from her collected canon to describe something going on in life or politics. Lois’s work has touched my life in so many ways, and shaped my thinking. Image via Goodreads Blog the cover art is by Ron Miller. The Assassins of Thasalon is the 10th Penric and Desdemona story from Lois McMaster Bujold. ![]() ![]() So, it’s quite a treat to find that Lois McMaster Bujold’s new ebook, The Assassins of Thasalon, came out May 10th! Believe it or not, it’s book 10 of the delightful Penric and Desdemona series, about the life of a young man who contracts a demon - a demon with the accumulated memory and personalities of 11 women, a mare and a lioness. It has been a hard week of gardening, muscle recovery from gardening, and dentistry, and I haven’t opened my computer for days. ![]() |