![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she's left her cup of tea. The Continuum will be available in trade paperback and ebook via World Weaver Press and other online retailers, and for wholesale through Ingram. For the first time ever, she's the one out-of-date, out of place, and quickly running out of time. Someone has to ensure that travel to the past isn't abused, and most days she welcomes the challenge of tracking down and retrieving clients who have run into trouble on their historical vacations.īut when a dangerous secret organization kidnaps her and coerces her into jumping to the future on a high-stakes assignment, she's got more to worry about than just the time-space continuum. For years, Elise has been donning corsets, sneaking into castles, and lying through her teeth to enforce the Place in Time Travel Agency's ten essential rules of time travel. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Now with the story fleshed out on the page, Brooks and Legendary have teamed up once again to realize it as a movie. The novel was published on June 16 by Del Rey and has, thus far, received a generally warm reception from critics. Eventually, the project switched mediums and Brooks reimagined it as a novel. Max Brooks had originally been developing the idea with the studio as a movie alongside Jack Bender and David Leslie Johnson. Though it seems to be in the very early stages. No screenwriter is attached currently and it isn't clear who may be eyed to direct the adaptation. Interestingly, it brings the project full circle, as it dates back nearly a decade.Īccording to a new report, Devolution has officially been optioned by Legendary. ![]() The book only just hit shelves, but Legendary didn't waste any time in getting this tale into development as a feature. The studio has picked up the rights to Devolution, the latest from author Max Brooks. Legendary Pictures is looking to bring Bigfoot to the big screen. ![]() ![]() ![]() A MAN NAMED DAVE: The gripping conclusion to this inspirational trilogy. THE LOST BOY: The harrowing but ultimately uplifting true story of Dave's journey through the foster-care system in search of a family who will love him. ![]() This is an inspirational look at the horrors of child abuse and the steadfast determination of one child to survive despite the odds. Throughout, Dave kept alive the dream of finding a family who would love and care for him. His bed was an old army cot in the basement and when he was allowed food it was scraps from the dogs' bowl. ![]() No longer considered a son, or a boy, but an 'it', Dave had to learn how to play these games in order to survive. A CHILD CALLED 'IT': Dave Pelzer's story is of a child beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is known as a proponent of bad taste and ugliness as an alternative aesthetic. John Waters is a filmmaker and artist born and raised in Baltimore, US. Who is John Waters? John Waters signing the jacket sleeve of a fan in 1990, photo by David Phenry In the meantime, the news about John Waters’ collection is a much needed break for the museum. ![]() Even if the sale is canceled, the museum has not left this story behind it yet. This decision came after heavy criticism and reactions from professionals and a great part of the public. However, it canceled the scheduled sale at the last minute. The museum had announced a controversial auction of three artworks by Still, Marden, and Warhol from its collection. The Baltimore Museum of Art could use some positive coverage after weeks of negative publicity. According to the New York Times, the BMA will also name a rotunda and two bathrooms after the director. The artworks come from his personal collection and it is possible that they will also be exhibited at the BMA in 2022. View of John Waters: Indecent Exposure Exhibition, photo by Mitro Hood, via Wexner Center for the Arts Playdate, John Waters, 2006, via Phillips John Waters, by PEN American Center, via Wikimedia CommonsĪmerican filmmaker and artist John Waters has promised to donate his collection of 372 artworks to the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) upon the event of his death. ![]() ![]() Nita lives in a world where supernatural beings are prized for their parts but despised for their being, but also look exactly like other humans. ![]() I never knew what was coming next - all I knew was that I was desperate to find out.Īnd better yet, this book features some seriously cool worldbuilding. It's almost a thriller and almost an urban fantasy book and either way, it's so fun to read. So first of all, this book is impossible to put down and so addicting. Not Even Bones follows Nita, a girl who dissects other supernatural beings for the black market - until she’s sold into the black market herself. You know how sometimes, you read YA fantasy and you just feel like it could have gone darker and it doesn’t? Not Even Bones just keeps Going There. This is a deeply fucked up book, in a good way. the "Dexter meets This Savage Song" comparison really encapsulates this? This was not the most well-written thing I have ever read but I really really enjoyed my time reading it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their mission: to convince Leven Thumps that he has the power to save Foo and help him reach the hidden gateway and destroy it before it is too late. ![]() Enter Clover, a wise-cracking, fuzzy, foot-high sidekick Winter, a girl with a spectacular gift of her own and Geth, the exiled but rightful ruler of Foo. But Foo is in chaos, and three transplants from that dream world have been sent to retrieve Leven, who alone has the power to save Foo. ![]() But his life is about to change and his destiny be fulfilled as he learns about a secret gateway that bridges two worlds - the real world and Foo, a place created at the beginning of time in the folds of the mind that makes it possible for mankind to dream and hope, aspire and imagine. Fourteen-year-old Leven Thumps lives a wretched life in Burnt Culvert, Oklahoma. Dust jacket and book has some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. BW6 - A 7th printing hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by author to previous owner on the front free endpaper in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. ![]() ![]() ![]() A parent whose problems your friends won’t understand. ![]() Stories About Our Secret Selves, edited by Ann Angel (Candlewick Press)įifteen top young-adult authors let us in on provocative secrets in a fascinating collection that will have readers talking. ![]() “Pulse of the Panthers,” set in 1968 California, in which a young girl helps her father host a Black Panther Party training weekend on their farm. They’re making their own way in often-hostile lands, using every weapon in their arsenals, facing down murderers and marriage proposals. They are monsters and mediums, bodyguards and barkeeps, screenwriters and schoolteachers, heiresses and hobos. Join fifteen of today’s most talented writers of young adult literature on a thrill ride through history with American girls charting their own course. Crisscross America - on dogsleds and ships, stagecoaches and trains - from pirate ships off the coast of the Carolinas to the peace, love, and protests of 1960s Chicago. 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers, and Other Badass Girls, edited by Jessica Spotswood (Candlewick Press)įrom an impressive sisterhood of YA writers comes an edge-of-your-seat anthology of historical fiction and fantasy featuring a diverse array of daring heroines. ![]() ![]() So, as soon as someone invented the idea of a "robot," their very next thought was obviously "robot rebellion."Īsimov called this "the Frankenstein complex"-the worry that the robots we make will turn against us-and he was sick of it. ![]() This basic robot-gone-rebel story even gets repeated in the very first work of science fiction to use the word "robot": Czech author Karel Capek's 1920 play RUR. By contrast, clocks rarely try to kill us-although there is the Melville story "The Bell-Tower," where a clock kills its creator, so maybe we should watch out for those sneaky clocks, too. This "technology out of control" story gets repeated a lot, especially if the technology at hand is a robot or computer. But at the same time, tons of science fiction stories out there warn us that our technology is going to kill us, from the novel Frankensteinto the movie…well, almost all science fiction movies tell us to watch out for technology: The Matrix, Terminator, Jurassic Park, Planet of the Apes, and the list goes on. ![]() That never happened to you? Actually, that never happened to us, either in fact, cases of malfunctioning and bloodthirsty technology are pretty uncommon. Do you remember that time your cellphone said, "I no longer work for you, puny human," and then tried to kill you? ![]() ![]() ![]() " Interesting and funny, though a lot more about religion than I would have guessed from the description on the back. This is one book that gives a realistic look at what it looks and feels like to grow up with OCD. " This is my favorite of the few existing memoirs written by those dealing with OCD. " The book started off great, then quickly went downhill and never recovered. Even when I was wincing at her behavior, I could still laugh because she realized the absurdity of her OCD. " Traig maintains a sense of humor about her travails. ![]() " The author was able to tell her story with her sense of humor intact. This is a humorous, painful, brutal and truthful look at one girl's voyage through the teens with all sorts of baggage in tow. " Being a teen is tough- but throw in extensive obsessive issues and it becomes a minefield. " The collision of teen angst and obsessive compulsive disorder fuels the author's autobiography. " Hilarious! I love when people can have a sense of humor about themselves. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:. ![]() ![]() ![]() They can solve problems without a brain, stretching traditional definitions of ‘intelligence’, and can manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. In this captivating adventure, Merlin Sheldrake explores the spectacular and neglected world of fungi: endlessly surprising organisms that sustain nearly all living systems. Its ability to digest rock enabled the first life on land, it can survive unprotected in space and it thrives amidst nuclear radiation. It can be microscopic, yet also accounts for the largest organisms ever recorded, living for millennia and weighing tens of thousands of tonnes. ![]() ![]() Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works. ![]() |