![]() ![]() Their challenges play out in a dazzling, fully realized world of abandoned highways and empty houses, horses working the fields and rivers, no longer polluted, and replenished with fish. There may be a president, and he may be in Minneapolis now, but people aren't sure. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and energy, and the outside world is largely unknown. For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is nothing like they thought it would be. In World Made by Hand, an astonishing work of speculative fiction, Kunstler brings to life what America might be, a few decades hence, after these catastrophes converge. In The Long Emergency celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production, combined with climate change, had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. ![]()
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![]() ![]() |a Toad (Fictitious character : Lobel) |v Juvenile fiction. |a Frog (Fictitious character : Lobel) |v Juvenile fiction. |t Frog and Toad all year - |t Frog and Toad are friends - |t Frog and Toad together - |t Days with Frog and Toad. Their every adventure is filled with the magic of true friendship, whether they're telling ghost stories, searching for a lost button, or eating too many cookies. |a A collection of four stories about two friends, Frog and Toad. |a One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for playback. ![]() |a Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. |a Previously released by Harper Children's Audio. |a digital |b non-volatile flash memory |2 rda. |a 1 audio media player (90 min.) : |b digital, HD audio |c 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. |a Solon, OH : |b Playaway Digital Audio/Findaway World, LLC, |c |a Frog and Toad audio collection / |c Arnold Lobel. |a Lobel, Arnold, |e author, |e narrator. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These robots are giant and more primitive than Speedy (for comparison, check out the history of cellphones to see how we got from giant, diesel-operated mobile communication to Angry Birds). There are some 10-year old robots lying around from the first (failed) expedition to Mercury.Powell and Donovan need to get Speedy back, but they can't do it themselves their inso-suits (insulation suits) will only keep them safe for 20 minutes in the sun (30). ![]() ![]() Still, when Asimov wrote this in the 1940s, that's what he thought, which is why Powell and Donovan need to worry about burning up: their HQ is always in the light. So we had this idea of Mercury having a sunny side and a dark side, which is a pretty cool image, but not actually true.
![]() ![]() Nielsen is solely responsible for the mental and physical health of all fellow inhabitants stranded at the station through the winter. Joining a team of researchers, construction workers and support staff, Dr. Conditions at the station will be far from manageable, with winter temperatures as low as 100 degrees below zero. Jerri Nielsen in the true story of the cancer-stricken physician stranded at a South Pole research station who, under dangerous circumstances, and with the help of co-workers, treats her own illness.īased on the New York Times best-selling book Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole, the movie tells the story of how, in 1999, 46-year-old physician Nielsen decides to leave Ohio and spend a year at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station on Antarctica, one of the most remote and perilous places on Earth. Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole is a 2003 made-for-television film starring Susan Sarandon as Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() "It's clear that these historical romance dynamos know their craft and can make any dubious reader believe in a happily-ever-after. ![]() A solid and varied collection for readers who adore a holiday setting." This fanciful Regency anthology will keep readers warm all winter." "The passion is hot enough to melt a snowbank. Now snowed in with Castleton at a remote lodge, will she surrender to the passion still burning hotly between them? ONE WICKED WINTER NIGHT by Mary Jo Putneyĭressed as a veiled princess, Lady Diana Lawrence is shocked to discover that the mysterious corsair who tempts her away from the costume ball is the duke she once loved and lost. For he, secretly a fortune-hunter, must marry for money to save his estate-and Cass, secretly an heiress, will accept nothing less than Whisked away from a wintry ball by the officer she knew only through letters, Cassandra Isles struggles with her feelings for the commanding Colonel Lord Heywood. ![]() Yet once in close quarters, she finds herself beholden to their smoldering connection. Ĭaroline Dunham has a bone to pick with notorious rake Baron Thornhill-and a creative plan to insure his undivided attention. plus one or two dukes, one heiress, and one headstrong beauty-to a surprise snowstorm, the comfort of a blazing fire, and the heat of a lover's kisses. THIS WINTER, STEAL AWAY WITH THE REIGNING QUEENS OF REGENCY ROMANCE ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s found her final candidate.īut in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four. ![]() When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka’s ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. ![]() A Barnes & Noble Best Science Fiction Book of 2021.New York Public Library Top 10 Book of 2021.2022 Stonewall Book Award WinnerA National (LA Times) Bestseller.Finalist for Locus Award, Ignyte Award, and Dragon Award.Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki’s Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California’s San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. ![]() ![]() – Jenny Blackhurst, author of How I Lost You With I See You, Clare Mackintosh has achieved something not every author can and produced a book superior to her phenomenal debut. – B A Paris, author of Behind Closed Doors ![]() – Mary Kubica, New York Timesbestselling author of The Good GirlĪ brilliant second novel by one of Britain’s most exciting newcomers.– Jeffrey Archer, #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Was a ManĪccomplished, addictive and thought-provoking. – Fiona Barton, author of The WidowĪn intense psychological thriller that I inhaled with my heart in my mouth, I See You is an unsettling and claustrophobic read. “Anyone who’s ever looked over their shoulder when they heard footsteps behind them, or quickened their pace in a deserted underpass, will shudder with recognition at Clare Mackintosh’s deliciously creepy tale of urban paranoia.”- Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10 ![]() I See You is the must-have thriller of 2017– Bustle ![]() ![]() As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just beginning. With her impending marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future, a future that only she can shape. Still, the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship remain, and the gulf between their worlds is too vast to ignore. ![]() Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, is now engaged to another man, but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories. Noah, thirty-one, is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned home from World War II. The Notebook is an achingly tender story about the enduring power of love, a story of miracles that will stay with you forever. A woman experiencing a morning ritual she doesn’t understand. ![]() July 15th, 2017 – July 22nd, 2017 Rating: Format:Ī man with a faded, well-worn notebook open in his lap. ![]() ![]() The school, situated at the top of a hill in the tiny town of Marchburg, Virginia, accepts only 200 new students a year, making it one of the most challenging to get into in the U.S. The Goode School is a “Silent Ivy” - sought after for its reputation of being a feeder school to the Ivy League. ![]() When students begin dying around her, she realizes someone has been looking into her past - and is about to reveal her most shocking secret.Īsh Carlisle has crossed continents to attend an exclusive, prestigious prep school in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The follow up to JT Ellison's critically acclaimed stand alone novels Lie to Me and Tear Me Apart, Good Girls Lie is a dark psychological thriller.Īsh Carlisle is British, beautiful, hip, a sought-after transfer student at the elite prep school, The Goode School. ![]() Join us in welcoming JT Ellison in conversation with Alma Katsu discussing Ellison’s new novel Good Girls Lie! ![]() ![]() ![]() Switching was easy for me since my first two novels were created from short stories. I put the sequel aside and began writing short stories to pass the time. My short stories were born out of frustration in trying to finish a sequel to my first novel. I find that I love writing short stories because each word has importance more so than a novel.ĭo you find it difficult to switch from one writing type to another? What techniques do you use that help you switch “writing gears”? My third novel is a novella and short stories. Most of the stories are based on people I know, incidents I’ve encountered, or stories I’ve been told. I write novels taking place in the 60s and 70s typically in and around the Cleveland, Ohio area. What type of writing do you do? If you do more than one kind or prefer one genre over another, what type is your favorite or most satisfying? For more about Prewitt, visit his website, read his blog or follow him on Facebook and Twitter YOURSELF AS A WRITER In this four-part interview, he shares information about his writing process, goals and future projects. His first novel, Snake Walkers, also an award winner, was inspired by stories he heard as a child dealing with racial retribution, rebellion and confrontation. Everett Prewitt, his military experience as an Army officer in Vietnam provided valuable insights for his award-winning novel, A Long Way Back and his novella, Something About Ann. It’s been said that writers should write what they know. ![]() |