Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgmon5/22/2023 ![]() My love for writing started really young, and I was writing YA well before I was a teen. When did you first discover your love for writing? I’m also married with two kids and I live for flavored coffee and macarons. Thanks for having me again! For those who don’t know me, I’m an author (most recently of Home Field Advantage), anthologist (with a brand-new anthology called At Midnight), editor (currently for the interactive fiction platform StoryLoom), and book blogger (for a number of sites, but most notably my own site-and Buzzfeed Books). ![]() Hi, Dahlia! Welcome back! Can you tell our readers a bit about yourself? We chat with Dahlia Adler, editor of At Midnight, all about the anthology, writing, book recommendations, and more! Weaving fresh tales with unexpected reimaginings, At Midnight brings together a diverse group of acclaimed YA writers to breathe new life into a storied tradition. Fairy tales have been spun for thousands of years and remain among our most treasured stories. ![]()
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Gemini Cell by Myke Cole5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() With powers he doesn't understand, Jim is called back to duty-as the ultimate warrior. ![]() But Jim is raised from the dead by a sorcerer and recruited by a top secret unit dabbling in the occult, known only as the Gemini Cell. Nothing means more to Jim than protecting his loved ones, but when the enemy brings the battle to his front door, he is overwhelmed and taken down. But when he sees something he was never meant to see on a covert mission gone bad, he finds himself-and his family-in the crosshairs. US Navy SEAL Jim Schweitzer is a consummate professional, a fierce warrior, and a hard man to kill. Myke Cole continues to blow the military fantasy genre wide open with an all-new epic adventure in his highly acclaimed Shadow Ops universe-set in the early days of the Great Reawakening, when magic first returns to the world and order begins to unravel. ![]() Ten tiny breaths5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() There’s one big plot twist that is revealed but is easy to guess by the synopsis alone. Kacey’s trauma was treated appropriately and I appreciate that the author didn’t rush her healing or the ending itself. The story introduces us to many likeable characters, from the Barbie blonde next door to the burly bouncer at the strip club in which Kacey bartends. Tucker made me feel as though I was Kacey myself. Many times, the author is trying too hard to convince the reader to feel a certain way, but K.A. I truly felt Kacey’s pain and heartache I thought her inner dialogue and emotions were appropriately fleshed out. ![]() I applaud and appreciate any author who is able to influence the reader’s emotions into empathizing with the narrator. She’s offered a chance to create a new future with the help of her bubbly neighbor and irresistible love interest, but the past still finds its way to haunt her. Though she tries to leave the past where it belongs, it controls her every emotion and decision. Four years after the tragic death of her loved ones, she moves to Miami with her sister in tow. “See you above water.” Twenty-year old Kacey Cleary is running from her past. ![]() If Not, Winter by Sappho5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, Carson fully channels one of the most iconic yet least transparent Greek poets, whose work comes to us mostly in fragments. Her prose Eros the Bittersweet (1986) discussed Sappho's term "glukupikron" ("sweetbitter") among other Greek concepts, while the poems of Autobiography of Red (1998) reinvented surviving fragments of the Greek poet Stesichoros, to take just two examples. A classicist at McGill University, Carson has mined Greek literature, and Sappho in particular, to tremendous effect and acclaim in her poetry and essays. ![]() Inside the White House by Ronald Kessler5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() This is not the first Ronald Kessler expose surrounding the White House but it has information that any government agency would like not to be shared. presidents, because there is more than what meets the eye when it comes to the most powerful men in the world. With this book, you will get an eye-opening account of the happenings in the White House and around U.S. You may have seen them in films and on TV but trust me, unlike their onscreen depiction (and that of the President) there is a lot that you don’t know. This is one of the best and most interesting books by Ronald Kessler who talks about the people who protect the presidents of the United States – the United States Secret Service agents. ![]() In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents, They Protect ![]() Calamity physics5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() “Extravagant, witty and dark, Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a sprawling campus novel, an intricate murder mystery, a coming-of-age tale and a sly satire of intellectualism and academia. An escapist extravaganza packed with literary and pop culture allusions, mischievous characterizations, erotic intrigue, murders, and unstoppable narrative energy.” ![]() It’s always refreshing to find a writer who takes such joy in the magical tricks words can perform.” Pessl’s pyrotechnics place her alongside young, eclectic talents like Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Zadie Smith.” Pessl’s talent for verbal acrobatics keeps the pages flipping.” This skylarking book will leave readers salivating for more.” “The joys of this shrewdly playful narrative lie not only in the high-low darts and dives of Pessl’s tricky plotting, but in her prose, which floats and runs as if by instinct, unpremeditated and unerring. Q: Is Special Topics in Calamity Physics required reading for devotees of inventive new fiction? A: Yes.” “A whirling, glittering, multifaceted marvel, delivered in an irrepressibly smart and flamboyant new voice. Praise for Special Topics in Calamity Physics ![]() As you are by sarah m eden5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Not having been born into the landed gentry, I think he would have a very interesting perspective on the division between old money and new money. Bingley from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. One fictional character I would really like to meet is Mr. If you could meet/date any fictional character, who would it be? It’s a promise that we can find joy even in a difficult journey, and I love that. Even when the story touches on difficult things or the characters are enduring hardships, the ending is always a happy one, with the promise that the couple will weather the storms that are coming. I love that romance is, at its heart, hopeful. Eden What is your favorite thing about writing romance? Why do you think romance resonates with so many readers? Join us for a reading of Sarah’s work, followed by a Q&A and book signing. Eden is a USA Today bestselling author of witty and charming historical romances, including 2020’s Foreword Reviews INDIE Awards Gold Winner for Romance, Forget Me Not, and 2020 Holt Medallion finalist, Healing Hearts. ![]() Eden October 4 | 7 PM | Orem Library, Ashton Auditorium ![]() Tacky's revolt book5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() By tracking the colliding worlds of buccaneers, military deserters, and maroon communards from Venezuela to Virginia, Scott records the transmission of contagious mutinies and insurrections in unparalleled detail, providing readers with an intellectual history of the enslaved. Scott follows the spread of “rumors of emancipation” and the people behind them, bringing to life the protagonists in the slave revolution. This gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World is a powerful “history from below” delving deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English, and French. Julius Scott’s The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution is a remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era. ![]() ** Please note date and NEW start time: 1:30 p.m.** Co-sponsored by Duke's Forum for Scholars and Publics. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event. Scott and Brown will be joined in converation by historian Julia Gaffield. The Regulator welcomes authors Julius Scott and Vincent Brown for a reading and discussion. ![]() The pioneers mccullough5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() It is a story as resonant today as ever." The book also received rave reviews in Publisher’s Weekly, which says “Popular historian McCullough uses his well-crafted writing style and thorough research to highlight the evolution of the ‘Ohio territory’. ![]() In addition, McCullough was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal which says, “ has chosen to shine a lantern into the underappreciated corners of American history.'The Pioneers' is the account not just of one Ohio settlement but of myriad such places across America, where innumerable immigrants (as the settlers were known) came to make a fresh start in a strange land. David McCullough’s THE PIONEERS debuts at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller Hardcover Nonfiction List on Sunday, May 26, 2019. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's not exactly news that other lights of the Third Reich were succored on U.S. ![]() Indeed, he was the rock star of NASA's early days, celebrated by Walt Disney, and much honored. payroll.īut does time dull our capacity for outrage over Jacobsen's accounting? We've long known, after all, that a Nazi player such as Werner von Braun - so central to the sky-screaming V1 and V2 rockets, those Nazi "wonder weapons," or Wunderwaffe, that Hitler launched against Great Britain and northern Europe - was an indispensable factor in America's space program. With Operation Paperclip, Jacobsen shows how governmental secrecy and its blinkered morality veiled, for so long, the enormity of Nazi crimes perpetrated by the hundreds of technologists who were put on the U.S. As history, it certainly outdoes her best-selling exposé, Area 51, which sifted the truths and legends of the top-secret Nevada test site where spy planes were developed and to which rumors of UFO and alien capture will always cling. Operation Paperclip amounts to Jacobsen's J'Accuse, hurled at the hidden hive of America's postwar ambition. ![]() Such is the essence of Annie Jacobsen's important, superbly written yet grueling slog through mountains of documentation, much of it obtained by Freedom of Information Act requests and detailed here for the first time. ![]() |