![]() Meanwhile, Apollo - stunned by the realization that there are things mortals understand better than he does - has arranged to live a human life, and has come to the City as one of the children. The teacher Maia was once Ethel, a young Victorian lady of much learning and few prospects, who prayed to Pallas Athene in an unguarded moment during a trip to Rome - and, in an instant, found herself in the Just City with grey-eyed Athene standing unmistakably before her. The student Simmea, born an Egyptian farmer's daughter sometime between 5 A.D, is a brilliant child, eager for knowledge, ready to strive to be her best self. Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future - all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Bringing back Emily Shaw from the earlier audio The Last Post is also a nice plus, and some might appreciate the fact that, aside from the Doctor himself, it's an all-female cast. The setting, much of it in a former medieval nunnery, evokes the Gothic feel of the Hinchcliffe era (as has also been done successfully in other releases of this particular "season" of 4th Doctor audios). It's a well-done story, fitting neatly within its one-hour time slot. ![]() The Doctor and Leela investigate ghostly goings-on at a fictional Oxford college in the 1970s. There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name He’s also written documentaries and for TV sketch shows. Releases include a full-cast adaptation of Charles Dickens' The Chimes', an original play, 'When Michael Met Benny', and three episodes of a SF sitcom, 'Dick Dixon in the 21st Century'.įor details visit He also originated his own series, Vienna and script-edited the Nigel Planer series 'Jeremiah Bourne in Time'. Recently he has started his own audio production company, Average Romp. He has also written numerous comic strips, most of which were collected in 'The Child of Time', and audios for BBC Audio and Big Finish, including the highly-regarded comedies 'Max Warp' and 'The Auntie Matter', as well as the adaptation of Russell T Davies’ 'Damaged Goods'. Jonathan Morris is one of the most prolific and popular writers of Doctor Who books, including the highly-regarded novels 'Festival of Death' and 'Touched by an Angel' and the recent guide to monsters, 'The Monster Vault'. ![]() ![]() * FIRST THINGS FIRST: So You Need a Place to Stay, (ms) The Essential Bordertown, ed.* Famous Last Words, (ms) The Essential Bordertown, ed.* Donkeyskin, (pm) The Armless Maiden, ed.* CULTURE CLASH #2: A Trueblood Guide to Human Peccadillos, (ms) The Essential Bordertown, ed.* CULTURE CLASH #1: A Human Guide to Elvin Etiquette (with Mimi Panitch), (ms) The Essential Bordertown, ed.* The Color of Angels, (nv) The Horns of Elfland, ed.* Brother and Sister, (pm) The Armless Maiden, ed.* Afterword: Surviving Childhood, (ar) The Armless Maiden, ed.WINDLING, TERRI (1958- ) see pseudonym Bellamy Bach (books) (chron.) * Rocket Scientists, (cs) Kimota #5 1996.* The Sentinel at the Edge of the World, (nv) Tales of the Witch World 2, ed.Forrest J Ackerman, General Publishing Group 1997 * A Question of Priorities, (ss) Perry Rhodan #65 1975. ![]() Stories, Listed by Author The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998 ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() The problem with hidden bodies is that they don’t always stay that way. But while others seem fixated on their own reflections, Joe can’t stop looking over his shoulder. He eats guac, works in a bookstore, and flirts with a journalist neighbor. In Hollywood, Joe blends in effortlessly with the other young upstarts. Now he’s heading west to Los Angeles, the city of second chances, determined to put his past behind him. In the past ten years, this thirty-something has buried four of them, collateral damage in his quest for love. In Hidden Bodies, the basis for season two of the hit Netflix series, You, Joe Goldberg returns. In the compulsively readable sequel to her widely acclaimed debut novel, You, Caroline Kepnes weaves a tale that Booklist calls “the love child of Holden Caulfield and Patrick Bateman.” “Obsessed.” -Jessica Knoll, New York Times bestselling author “Delicious and insane.The plot may be twisty and scintillating, but it ’s Kepnes’s wit and style that keep you coming back.” -Lena Dunham “Kepnes hits the mark, cuts deep, and twists the knife.” - Entertainment Weekly THE RIVETING SEQUEL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING YOU ![]() ![]() The beautifully simple pictures are a sweet, kid- and parent-appealing blend of comic-strip style and fine art the cast of children depicted is commendably multiethnic.Īlthough the love comes shining through, the text often confuses in straining for patterned simplicity. Some of the wordplay, such as “more can than knot” and “more pause than fast-forward,” will tickle older readers with their accompanying, comical illustrations. The line reads: “I wish you more treasures than pockets.” Most children will feel the better wish would be that he had just the right amount of pockets for his treasures. ![]() Then there's a picture of a boy on a beach, his pockets bulging with driftwood and colorful shells, looking frustrated that his pockets won't hold the rest of his beachcombing treasures, which lie tantalizingly before him on the sand. His feet are visible, but it's not clear whether he's floating in the deep end or standing in the shallow. ![]() ![]() The line “I wish you more tippy-toes than deep” accompanies a picture of a boy happily swimming in a pool. It starts out simply enough: two children run pell-mell across an open field, one holding a high-flying kite with the line “I wish you more ups than downs.” But on subsequent pages, some of the analogous concepts are confusing or ambiguous. A collection of parental wishes for a child. ![]() ![]() ![]() Margarita, congratulations on your newest novel-in-verse, The Wild Book (see my review of the book here). Click on the image to be taken to Fats’ review of the book. We have been enchanted by Margarita’s writing ever since we discovered her multi-award-winning novels-in-verse for our Poetry theme November/December of last year – and we have been forever changed by her narratives.Ĭlick on the image to be taken to my review of the book. ![]() Click on the image to be taken to the websource. The 2012 National Poetry Month poster, designed by Chin-Yee Lai. How positively glorious that our Featured Story Teller is a novelist who shares her narratives in verse. We also feel that Margarita’s visit is in keeping with April being National Poetry Month. Interview Wednesday is hosted this month by Carmela Martino from Teaching Authors. It is with great pleasure and excitement that we welcome Cuban American award-winning author Margarita Engle in GatheringBooks for our Girl Power and Women’s Wiles theme. Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC)Ĭlick on the image to be taken to the websource.Literary Voyage Around The World Reading Challenge 2018.#WomenReadWomen2019 (A Year Of Women Reading Women) Reading Progress.#ReadIntl2020 (Year Of International Literature) Reading Progress.#DecolonizeBookshelves2022 Reading Progress.#DecolonizeReading2023 Reading Progress. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Breakthrough is a remarkable look at contemporary politics and an essential foundation for understanding the future of American democracy in the age of Obama. ![]() ![]() Over the course of her career, Gwen Ifill was awarded over 35 honorary degrees. In 2013, Ifill and Judy Woodruff became co-anchors and co-managing editors of NewsHour, becoming the first female team to anchor a network news program. Drawing on exclusive interviews with power brokers such as President Obama, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vernon Jordan, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, his son Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., and many others, as well as her own razor-sharp observations and analysis of such issues as generational conflict, the race/ gender clash, and the "black enough" conundrum, Ifill shows why this is a pivotal moment in American history. Her book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama was published in 2009. Congressman Artur Davis of Alabama (all interviewed for this book), and also covers numerous up-and-coming figures from across the nation. She offers incisive, detailed profiles of such prominent leaders as Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, and U.S. Ifill argues that the Black political structure formed during the Civil Rights movement is giving way to a generation of men and women who are the direct beneficiaries of the struggles of the 1960s. In The Breakthrough, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential victory and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book was followed by more than 75 others. Her first novel, a prairie love story titled Love Comes Softly, was published by Bethany House in 1979. ![]() Though she yearned to be a published novelist, she devoted herself to being a wife and mother because, she says, "there is no higher honor-that is my number-one priority." She began serious writing when her children were entering their teens. Edward eventually became president of Mountain View Bible College and recently established a coalition of colleges that became Rocky Mountain Bible College.ĭuring her earliest years, Janette sensed the desire to write. After graduating from Mountain View Bible College in Canada where she met her husband, Edward, they pastored churches in Canada and the U.S., and they raised their family of four children, including twin boys, in both countries. Janette was born during the depression years to a Canadian prairie farmer and his wife, and she remembers her childhood as full of love and laughter and family love. She also writes engaging children's stories and inspiring gift books that warm the heart. With over 23 million in sales, her historical novels portray the lives of early North American settlers from many walks of life and geographical settings. Janette Oke writes with a profound simplicity of what she knows best-real life, honest love, and lasting values. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, Cammie and her friends are crawling through walls and surveilling the school to learn the truth about Blackthorne and clear Cammie's name. Then she's blamed for a security breach that leaves the school's top secret status at risk. She and her friends learn that their school is going to play host to some mysterious guests-code name: Blackthorne. ![]() Like, will her ex-boyfriend even remember she exists? And how much trouble is she really in after what happened last semester? And most of all, why is her mother acting so strangely? Despite Cammie's best intentions to be a normal student, danger seems to follow her. Cammie may have a genius I.Q., but there are still a lot of things she doesn't know. But that's easier said than done when you're a CIA legacy and go to the premier school in the world. After staking out, obtaining, and then being forced to give up her first boyfriend, Josh, all Cammie Morgan wants is a peaceful semester. ![]() |