![]() "The Devouring Wolf" is Parker’s middle grade fantasy debut. "The King Will Kill You" is the final installment in Henning’s YA fantasy trilogy, Kingdoms of Sand and Sky. Fantasy YA Fiction SARAH HENNING is a recovering journalist who has worked for Palm Beach Post, Kansas City Star, and the Associated Press, among others. Parker! Henning and Parker will be in conversation with one another about their writing for young readers, while we celebrate getting to dive into their new titles. The King Will Kill You is the epic, pulse-pounding conclusion to Sarah Henning’s Kingdoms of Sand and Sky trilogy. Head over to the Raven on August 2 to enjoy the sparkling iridescence of two brand new book covers from local authors-"The King Will Kill You" by Sarah Henning and "The Devouring Wolf" by Natalie C. That is…except for a double book launch! And here’s some good news! We’ve got one of those coming up ![]() There’s not much better in this world than a double rainbow. *Attendance at in-person Raven events requires face masks and proof of vaccination against Covid-19.* ![]()
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![]() ![]() Torn Together is technically my first novel, although it's my third published.ĭo you have a day job, or is being an author your career? That gave me the courage and consistency to write novels. ![]() Really, I started writing seriously about two-and-a-half years ago when the local paper offered me a book review column. I tried writing screenplays in high school but never got very far with those. In fifth grade, I wrote a short MG novel. I wrote and illustrated children's books for my younger brothers when I was still in grade school. I've always loved inventing stories or "tall tales" as my parents call them. I've been writing since before I could write, if you know what I mean. But seriously, I do believe writers are born into the craft - we haven't got much choice, but it's a great calling to have. I was born with a fountain pen grasped firmly in my left hand. Welcome to Jersey Girl Book Reviews Emlyn! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Please contact this project's researchers if you are aware of an award not listed. From the adventures of lawman Bass Reeves, to Henry Box Brown’s daring escape from. Each of the nine illustrated chapters chronicles an uncelebrated African American hero or event. These beautifully illustrated stories offer a refreshing look at remarkable African Americans. Strange Fruit Volume I is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity. Joel Christian Gill offers historical and cultural commentary on heroes whose stories are not often found in history books, such as Cathay Williams, the only known female buffalo soldier, and Eugene Bullard, a fighter pilot who flew for France during World War I. Each of the eight illustrated chapters chronicles an uncelebrated African American hero or event. ![]() Summary: A collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity.Strange Fruit, Volume II: More Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History. Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History by Joel Christian Gill (text) & illus. Contributors: words and pictures by Joel Christian Gill foreword by Dr. Like all legends, people fade away, but not before leaving an incredible legacy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Uniformed in pink saris and carrying pink batons, they aim to intervene wherever other women are victims of abuse or injustice. ![]() Poor and illiterate, married off around the age of twelve, pregnant with her first child at fifteen, and prohibited from attending school, Sampat Pal has risen to become the courageous commander and chief of a women’s brigade numbering in the tens of thousands. In a region plagued by corruption, an incident like this might have gone unnoticed-except that it captured the attention of Sampat Pal, leader of India’s infamous Gulabi (Pink) Gang. This is one explanation for how Sheelu, a seventeen-year-old girl, ended up in jail after fleeing her service in the home of a powerful local legislator. In Uttar Pradesh-known as the "badlands" of India-a woman’s life is not entirely her own. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the two find themselves on a breakneck journey across Britain to stop a wedding, the duke has no choice but to follow her across Britain on a trip filled with bad weather, bad luck, and a surprising lack of beds. Henry Carrington, Duke of Clayborn, has spent a lifetime living in perfection and has no time for the scandals that arise every time Adelaide ends another groom. His own reputation is impeccable-and the last thing he needs is a frustrating, fascinating woman discovering the truth of his past, or the secrets he holds close. Raised among London’s most notorious criminals, a twist of fate landed Adelaide Frampton in the bright ballrooms of Mayfair, where she masquerades as a quiet wallflower-so plain and unassuming that no one realizes she’s the Matchbreaker…using her superior skills as a thief to help unwilling brides avoid the altar, all while hiding her own scandalous past. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean follows her highly acclaimed Bombshell with Heartbreaker, featuring a fierce, fearless heroine on a mission to steal a duke’s secrets…and his heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is co-originator of the database WIKED (Women's International Knowledge Encyclopedia and Data) and founding editor of the Athene Series and Pandora Press, commissioning editor of the Penguin Australian Women's Library, and associate editor of the Great Women Series (United Kingdom). She started lecturing at James Cook University in 1974, before going to live for a while in London and publishing the book Man Made Language in 1980. In the later half of the 1960s she also taught English Literature at Dapto High School. In her youthful days she was a Miss Kodak girl. She attended the Burwood Girls High School, in Sydney. The eldest of three, she has a younger sister Lynne, and a much younger brother Graeme. Spender was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, a niece of the crime writer Jean Spender (1901–70). Dale Spender (born 1943) is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marcellus Pye was the only known individual who fully knew the secrets of how to make the Fyre, though he later taught some of the details to his Alchemie Apprentices Septimus Heap and Simon Heap. The Ice Tunnels melted not long after the Fyre was reopened, and the tunnels went back to how they were supposed to be about 500 years before. In the book Fyre, it is revealed that Julius Pike is the one who had caused the Great Alchemie Disaster. However, the Great Alchemie Disaster had the Chamber of Fyre and Alchemical Fyre shut down by former ExtraOrdinary Wizard Julius Pike, and the tunnels that were used to spread heat and water through the castle were frozen, later called the Ice Tunnels. It has the power to transmute lead into gold and can be used to heat the Castle. Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk (released March 2005) Septimus Heap, Book Two: Flyte (released March 2006) Septimus Heap, Book Three: Physik (released March 2007) Septimus Heap, Book Four: Queste (released. The following is a list of books written by Angie Sage. She has also written a great number of children's books. It is a beautiful living substance that requires water, but can be suppressed by special cannel coal. Angie Sage (born 1952) is the prolific author of all the Septimus Heap books. This special, Magykal fire differs from normal fire in a number of ways. įyre, or more formally Alchemical Fyre, is a special type of fire that can only be created by Alchemists. ![]() ![]() Keane's portrait is at once sympathetic and unsentimental the rocky relationship between Mary and her on-again off-again beau Alfred is particularly well drawn. Mary is quarantined (or, in her mind, incarcerated) on the otherworldly North Brother Island. But in 1907, a medical engineer looking to make a name for himself suggests to the New York City Health Department that Mary, though herself immune, may be passing typhus to people through their food. It was just a sneakier death, a crueler death, in a way, because it always seemed to come by surprise." Never does Mary suspect that she might be carrying the contagion that has been killing the people nearest her. Yes, Mary Mallon had noticed that many members of the upper-class families she cooked for fell ill with fevers, but "the old country was full of death. ![]() In Keane's assured hands, she becomes a sympathetic, complex and even inspiring character. ![]() The real Mary Mallon, however, was an Irish immigrant supporting herself in New York with her talent for cooking. There are some lives too complex to remain a footnote in history, and as Mary Beth Keane proves with her intriguing second novel, Typhoid Mary was one of them-the woman so roundly reviled to this day for supposedly spreading typhoid fever during the epidemic of the early 1900s. ![]() ![]() But the story is so fun, you’ll want to overlook all that. ![]() The premise, if looked at too closely, does not make a lot of sense (no newspaper would hire an eleven-year-old by mistake–there are too many legal forms). ![]() Instead, she’s sneaking around trying to find a way into NYC so she can write a secret review of a new dessert restaurant. Now Gladys is supposed to be going outside and making friends, like a “normal” middle school kid. And then immediately forbid her to use it. Only when she accidentally sets the kitchen curtains on fire do they discover her secret cooking talent. Eleven-year-old Gladys Gatsby is, unbeknownst to her fast food-loving parents, a foodie. ![]() Can Gladys write the review, hiding the fact that she’s only in sixth grade? Or will her parents catch onto her scheme before she can submit her story?Īll Four Stars is kind of a silly story, in the best possible way. But now she’s been contacted to write a restaurant review for a prestigious newspaper. Gladys Gatsby loves eating and cooking gourmet food, but her fast food-loving parents have banned her from the kitchen. ![]() ![]() ![]() The text is therefore useful for anyone concerned with the social or political dimensions of games. ![]() The Grasshopper is rewarding not because it establishes apparently universal truths, but because it situates these truths in social context. As a transparently, reflectively Socratic dialogue, The Grasshopper works not only by mounting a discourse in which interlocutors arrive at a series of rigorous definitions, but by inviting the reader to read between the lines. While it is cited in early works important to the field, it is less frequently cited than one might expect moreover, these citations are rarely substantive, often remaining restricted to his definition of gameplay as "the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles." This paper responds to this general disregard by highlighting the productive ambiguities of the text, particularly with regard to the relationship between games and society. His landmark book, The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia, is rigorous but playful, offering a series of definitions, parables and puzzles on its way to a quixotic conclusion concerning the relationship of play to the good life. Reconsidering The Grasshopper: On the Reception of Bernard Suits in Game Studies by Liam Mitchell Abstractīernard Suits can be counted alongside the likes of Johan Huizinga and Roger Caillois as one of the progenitors of game studies. ![]() |