This year, Curtis Wilcox has been killed on the highway after hailing a tractor-trailer, and now his teenaged son Ned wants the lowdown on the station’s cover-up about the Buick 8. Lead investigator is Trooper Curtis Wilcox, who dissects the strange bat and finds egglike one-eyed baby bats inside. Then a girl-battering tattooed kid gets sucked in. All this began 20 years ago, and the troopers have watched the car go through otherworldly shifts: it gives birth to a big batlike thing a sofa-sized fish unfamiliar green beetles a lilylike plant and it has sucked one trooper into its trunk, teleporting him God knows where. Then the vehicle starts to make local earthquakes and gives off a purple light that outlines the nails in the shed walls. Why? Because the car is only a poor simulation of a car: the battery’s not hooked up, the dashboard is stage-dressing, and most of the car seems made of unknown materials. Troopers come and move the Buick to Shed B out behind their precinct house. A strange “man” in a black coat and hat pulls up to a nearly deserted gas station in rural western Pennsylvania in a weird Buick 8 Roadmaster and, while his tank is being filled, disappears behind the station. His latest is less gross-out than police procedural. Why does King ( Dreamcatcher, 2001, etc.) write such gross stuff (“I have the heart of a small boy.
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The novel, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, follows a Swedish immigrant during the California Gold Rush. An illusion we’ve all agreed to support.”ĭiaz’s first novel, In the Distance, published in 2017, also reimagines America’s particular illusions. As one character declares halfway through, “Money is at the core of it all. The novel features a New York financier and his wife, moving between genres (a novel, a memoir, a diary) and time periods (the Gilded Age, the roaring twenties, the Great Depression, the eighties) while exploring the fabular nature of capitalism. Taking the mechanics of capital as its inspiration, Trust seeks to fill this gap. Money? Not so much,” Hernan Diaz observed during a conversation in early spring about the impetus behind his latest novel, Trust. Money talks-so goes the truism-but rarely is it the subject of fiction. "Breathtakingly beautiful.Woodfolk has a way of making words sing and burst with light." -Tiffany D. Despite budding friendships with other classmates-and a raging crush on a gorgeous boy named Dom-Cleo's turbulent past with Layla comes back to haunt them both.Īlternating between time lines of Then and Now, When You Were Everything blends past and present into an emotional story about the beauty of self-forgiveness, the promise of new beginnings, and the courage it takes to remain open to love. But pretending Layla doesn't exist isn't as easy as Cleo hoped, especially after she's assigned to be Layla's tutor. Now Cleo wants to erase every memory, good or bad, that tethers her to her ex-best friend. Ashley Woodfolk For fans of Nina LaCours We Are Okay and Adam Silveras History Is All You Left Me, this heartfelt Random House Childrens Books. Nearly a month since Cleo realized they'll never be besties again. It's been twenty-seven days since Cleo and Layla's friendship imploded. You can't rewrite the past, but you can always choose to start again. "Stunning." -Nic Stone, bestselling author of Dear Martin and Odd One Out Teens will identify with the way they feel about each other. Cleo and Laylas friendship is at the core of the story, moving between the then and now timelines seamlessly. The way girls can feed each others souls the way girls can tear each other into pieces. “For fans of Nina LaCour's We Are Okay and Adam Silvera's History Is All You Left Me, this heartfelt and ultimately uplifting novel follows one sixteen-year-old girl's friend breakup through two concurrent timelines-ultimately proving that even endings can lead to new beginnings. In When You Were Everything, Ashley Woodfolk captures all that is girl friendship. The sensational high fantasy series that is like Game of Thrones for teens.Īuranos has been conqured and the three kingdoms-Auranos, Limeros, and Paelsia-are now unwillingly united as one country called Mytica. Who will emerge triumphant when all they know has collapsed?īook 2 of Falling Kingdoms | Penguin Razorbill (Dec. The only outcome that’s certain is that kingdoms will fall. Magnus: Bred for aggression and trained to conquer, a firstborn son begins to realize that the heart can be more lethal than the sword… Lucia: A girl adopted at birth into a royal family discovers the truth about her past-and the supernatural legacy she is destined to wield. Jonas: Enraged at injustice, a rebel lashes out against the forces of oppression that have kept his country impoverished-and finds himself the leader of a people’s revolution centuries in the making. Amidst betrayals, bargains, and battles, four young people find their fates forever intertwined.Ĭleo: A princess raised in luxury must embark on a rough and treacherous journey into enemy territory in search of a magic long thought extinct. Three kingdoms grapple for power-brutally transforming their subjects’ lives in the process. In a land where magic has been forgotten, but peace has reigned for centuries, a deadly unrest is simmering. Book 1 of Falling Kingdoms | Penguin Razorbill (Dec. Whilst Fitzgerald plays with Fritz's elevated thinking (which touches on humorous madness at times), there was so much more to this novel than simply being an account of the early life of this renowned man of literature and philosophy. Yet as he studies, Fritz's predisposition for thought and romanticism leads to him becoming utterly entranced with the 12 year old Sophie whom he believes to be his muse.The Blue Flower was a lot more 'readable' than I'd expected. Born into a noble, pious family, young Fritz's future has already been mapped out for him he will follow in his father's footsteps in the Salt Mines Directorate. Set in the late 1700s in Germany, The Blue Flower is a fictional account of the life of Fritz von Hardenberg, who would later become known as the romantic poet and philosopher Novalis. What results is the first full account of the tragedy that ended a golden age in mountaineering. He consults not only mountaineers but also experts in disciplines including meteorology, forensics, and psychology. Tabor draws on previously untapped sources: personal interviews with survivors and those involved in the aftermath, unpublished diaries and letters, and government documents. Reckoning by lives lost, it was history's third-worst mountaineering disaster when it occurred―but elements of finger pointing, incompetence, and cover-up make this disaster unlike any other. This book begins as a classic tale of men against nature, gambling―and losing―on one of the world's starkest and stormiest peaks. And, for reasons that have remained cloudy, there was no proper official investigation of the catastrophe. Ten days passed with no rescue attempt, while more than half an expedition was stranded and dying at 20,000 feet during a vicious Arctic storm. Tabor (Author), Scott Brick (Narrator) 209 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 10. In July 1967, seven young men―members of Joe Wilcox's twelve-man expedition―died on Mt. Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters Audio CD CD-ROM, Januby James M. Now, I carry Strout’s stories and words around with me, a kind of mental inspiration board designed by my own personal muse, as I work on my novel. While reading Strout’s masterpiece of thirteen interwoven short stories, I finally (FINALLY) came up with a plan for my own novel, an idea I came up with a long time ago but couldn’t figure out the structure I wanted to deploy. If you read my review of Strout’s Oh William, you know that I was introduced to Strout’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Olive Kitteridge by my local librarian. Elizabeth Strout changed my life as a reader, and more importantly, as a writer. When Christina’s reckless bid to win her husband’s love goes awry and thrusts them into danger on the eve of war, Tor will face his ultimate battle: to save his wife and to open his heart-before it’s too late. But the only warmth she feels is in their bed, in glorious moments of white-hot desire that disappear with the dawn. The treacherous chit who made her way to Tor’s bed may have won his hand, but she will never claim his heart.Īlthough her husband’s reputation is as fierce as his manner, Christina Fraser believes that something softer hides beneath his brutal shell. Dedicated to his clan, the fiercely independent chief. Dedicated to his clan, the fiercely independent chief answers to no one-especially not to his alluring new bride, bartered to him in a bid to secure his command of the deadliest fighting force the world has ever seen. First in the Highland Guard Series a Bit Slow with a Whiny Heroine I just don’t get the 5 star ratings on this one. A Highland warlord and a swordsman without equal, Tor MacLeod has no intention of being drawn into war. The ultimate Highland warlord and a swordsman without equal, Tor MacLeod has no intention of being drawn into Scotland’s war against the English. And to lead his secret Highland Guard, Bruce chooses the greatest warrior of all. They are the best of the best, chosen for their superior skills in each discipline of warfare. Scouring the darkest corners of the Highlands and Western Isles, Robert the Bruce handpicks ten warriors to help him in his quest to free Scotland from English rule. AN ELITE FIGHTING FORCE UNLIKE THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN. They rang the phone as people walked past and watched to see if people would answer the phone, take the phone and attempt to call someone in the pre-programmed contacts later, or simply pocket it. Reporters from the magazine Reader’s Digest planted 960 “lost” cell phones in 30 public places in 32 cities around the world to test people’s reactions in a cell phone honesty test. If you were walking along and spotted a cell phone, would you pocket it or try to find its owner? An international survey found people were more honest than expected, with Slovenians leading the pack. A passer-by takes a cell phone picture of a replica display of Apple's iPhone at the Fifth Avenue Apple store in New York, June 25, 2007. This is how John's Irving tenth novel begins it seems, at first, to be a comedy, perhaps a satire, almost certainly a sexual farce. But the husband is alive, relatively young and healthy. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the one-handed reporter her husband's left hand - that is, after her husband dies. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation's first hand transplant meanwhile, in the distracting aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, the surgeon is seduced by his house-keeper. While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion millions of TV viewers witness the accident. The Fourth Hand asks an interesting question: "How can anyone identify a dream of the future?" The answer: "Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those who love." |