![]() Dance of Deception copyright © 2018 by Clara Kensie. The Goose Girl and the Artificial copyright © 2018 by K.M Robinson. The Pitiless Prisoner of Hamelin copyright © 2018 by Mark C. The Forest of Carterhaugh copyright © 2018 by Karissa Laurel. A Brackish Shore copyright © 2018 by Leigh Hellman. The Inventor’s Daughter copyright © 2018 by Selenia Paz. Magic All Around copyright © 2018 by Jane Watson. Tresses & Erubescence copyright © 2018 by Amy McNulty. Read moreĬompilation copyright © 2018 by Lyssa Chiavari.ĬinderellA.I. Featuring stories from bestselling and award-winning YA authors as well as emerging voices, this anthology will take you to distant worlds and back again-all just familiar enough to make you feel at home. These are just a few of the bewitching tales found within Magic at Midnight.įrom sci-fi to fantasy, contemporary to historical, paranormal and more, there's a fairy tale retelling in this collection for every reader. ![]() A modern teen is lured to the fantastical Land of the Dolls, and only her own cunning can help her escape. A gamer must save her true love from the mysterious, dark entity that has ensnared him in their MMORPG. An android wants to believe in her life, that the feelings she has are real-and that she might be just as beautiful as her famous stepsister. Turn the pages and fall into the enchanting worlds of beloved, age-old fairy tales made new again in this fifteen-story collection from Snowy Wings Publishing.Ī girl with long, long hair is trapped in an attic, ensnared by promises of immortality, the radio her only companion. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She nearly killed a boy with a shoe, which was why she went on the run. Action Girl: Jule is strong from swimming and, although she has no formal training, a pretty good fighter, usually with improvised weapons.The book tells the story in reverse order, going back through the last year of Jule's life and exploring how she ended up with her best friend's name, and what exactly she's running from. Besides being orphans and having slightly similar appearances, the girls seem to have very little in common, and yet when the story opens, Jule has taken on Imogen's identity and is hiding out in a hotel in Mexico. It tells the story of Jule, a social chameleon with a mysterious past and a bad habit of getting into fights, and Imogen, a wealthy heiress who reacts very negatively to having anyone else's expectations pushed on her. ![]() Genuine Fraud is a young adult mystery thriller by E. ![]() ![]() ![]() Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.įollowing this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors. Aaron decided he wanted to write comics as a child, and though his father was skeptical when Aaron informed him of this aspiration, his mother took Aaron to drug stores, where he would purchase books from spinner racks, some of which he still owns today.Īaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. ![]() His cousin, Gustav Hasford, who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers, on which the feature film Full Metal Jacket was based, was a large influence on Aaron. ![]() ![]() Jason Aaron grew up in a small town in Alabama. ![]() ![]() ![]() She also wrote a novelette titled The Phantom of Linkshire Manor under her pen name. Career īefore writing Cinder, Meyer wrote Sailor Moon fan fiction for ten years under the pen name of Alicia Blade. In an interview with Los Angeles Times, she said she attempted her first novel when she was sixteen. Meyer also says that her love of superheroes helped lead to the creation of Renegades. Growing up, Meyer admits that she had a strong love for fairy tales and one of her favorite shows was Sailor Moon, both of which later impacted her creation of Cinder. She later attended Pace University and received a Master's in Publishing. Meyer was born in Tacoma, Washington and attended Pacific Lutheran University, where she received a Bachelors in Creative Writing and Children's Literature. ![]() She is best known for her series The Lunar Chronicles, which includes her 2012 debut novel, Cinder. A large portion of her bibliography is centered on retellings of fairy tales. Marissa Meyer (born February 19, 1984) is an American novelist. Young adult fantasy science fiction romance ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first of these was The Goliath Bone (2008), in which Mike Hammer was updated to a post-9/11 21st century Manhattan, followed by The Big Bang (2010), which took place in the 1960s. Spillane with some scraps of stories the latter had started but never finished. ![]() Or perhaps it will someday? So far none of them have taken place during the 1952-1962 hiatus, but this is the third collaboration of Max Allan Collins with Mr. Let’s reverse that to say that what was undone can’t be done. I don’t suppose that I’m the only one who’s always been disappointed by that ten-year gap between Number Six ( Kiss Me Deadly, 1952) and Number Seven ( The Girl Hunters, 1962), but for whatever reason, it’s there and what’s done can’t be undone. The first six were gangbusters, though, and there are parts of them that once read are simply not forgotten. I am submitting this as a preface to the rest of the review just to let you know where things stand. I read the first six Mike Hammer books back when Mickey Spillane first wrote them – well maybe a little later - but I haven’t read them since, nor I have read anything else he wrote, except a short story, novelette or two. MICKEY SPILLANE & MAX ALLAN COLLINS – Kiss Her Goodbye. ![]() ![]() She and Michael became a picture-book husband-and-wife writing team, though they wrote only one truly collaborative novel, The Crown of Columbus (1991). After she was named writer-in-residence at Dartmouth, she married professor Michael Dorris and raised several children, some of them adopted. She attended the Johns Hopkins creative writing program and received fellowships at the McDowell Colony and the Yaddo Colony. She worked at various jobs, such as hoeing sugar beets, farm work, waitressing, short order cooking, lifeguarding, and construction work, before becoming a writer. Her fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother. Born in 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota, she grew up mostly in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her parents taught at Bureau of Indian Affairs schools. Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists. She is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant Native writers of the second wave of what critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance. She is an enrolled member of the Anishinaabe nation (also known as Chippewa). Her father is German American and mother is half Ojibwe and half French American. ![]() Karen Louise Erdrich is a American author of novels, poetry, and children's books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jewett's life may have inspired parts of The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories. Pointed Firs did little to assuage criticism over Jewett's non-linear plots, though the criticism was far more muted for this story than it was for earlier efforts like the novel Deephaven. Cather would eventually comment that, along with The Scarlet Letter and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Pointed Firs and its related stories were among the American texts most likely to stand the test of time. Reuben explains that critics praised the novella when it was first published. In his assessment of "Pointed Firs," Paul P. ![]() She had been receiving reviews from major figures such as William Dean Howells for nearly 20 years, and had befriended several other established literary personalities, including Willa Cather, a fellow novelist who would edit Jewett's work after she died in 1909. ![]() By the time Sarah Orne Jewett published The Country of the Pointed Firs in two parts in The Atlantic in 1896, she was already a respected and well-known author. ![]() ![]() ![]() This beautifully written book addresses a fundamental challenge for humanity: increasingly intelligent machines that do what we ask but not what we really intend. His new book will educate the public about AI more than any book I can think of, and is a delightful and uplifting read.-Judea Pearl Unlike outside alarmists and futurists, Russell is a leading authority on AI. Human Compatible made me a convert to Russell’s concerns with our ability to control our upcoming creation-super-intelligent machines. ![]() I’ve been curious about Russell’s research agenda, and also how Russell argued the case so convincingly as to garner the following acclamations from two Turing Award winners: Yesterday, I eagerly opened my copy of Stuart Russell’s Human Compatible (mirroring his Center for Human-Compatible AI, where I’ve worked the past two summers). The purpose of this book is to explain why might be the last event in human history and how to make sure that it is not… The book is intended for a general audience but will, I hope, be of value in convincing specialists in artificial intelligence to rethink their fundamental assumptions. ![]() ![]() "Keep a commitment that was not based on a feeling but on a choice" "He sacrificed His son to die in our place and it is not based on feelings or physical desire,it is based on a choice.A commitment that says i will seek your highest good above my won.I will lay down my life for you." ![]() "when we are physically attracted to someone,every time they walk into the room where we are,our fire lights and sparks inside us" "You can't loose my love because it is not a love I need to feel,It is a love that I have chosen to give" Immature love always compares and snivels and struggles with security of the relationship When we learn who God really is and we base our decisions out of passionate love for him,we find joy and delight in obedience to Him ![]() ![]() No matter how many rules we create for ourselves,rules don't create Godly relationships Sometimes in a relationship,we can be so caught up in our feelings for the other person that we squeezed God into the background. ![]() ![]() ![]() For a Tsurani, public displays of emotion are deemed shameful treachery is shunned only if the perpetrators are clumsy enough to get caught and slavery and ritual suicide are the norm.įoreign, dangerous, exciting: Kelewan is bizarre and colourful, and its inhabitants even more so. Kelewan: hot and exotic and home to the Tsurani society, an intriguing race who place great emphasis on honour, political maneuvering and social standing. A drastic departure from Feist’s Middle-Earth-ish Midkemia – with its forests and its mud and its grey skies – we now see the world on the ‘other side’ of the rift. The Empire trilogy is a stunning collaboration between Feist and fellow epic fantasy writer Janny Wurts. Why? Because I couldn’t wait to revisit one of my favourite series of all time: the Empire trilogy. I enjoyed the original trilogy, but all the while I kept urging myself to read faster. Feist, beginning (obviously) with Magician and the rest of the Riftwar Saga. ![]() A couple of years ago I embarked on a re-read of Raymond E. ![]() |