![]() Since planetfall, or the day the colonists left the ship in orbit to reach the new planet’s surface, an entire society has been formed around the base of the planet’s only indigenous structure-a giant, enigmatic biological tower that the colonists call “God City.” When we first encounter Ren in the novel, she and the other colonists have been living quiet lives in a small community on the alien world to which The Pathfinder led them. To much fanfare, these “colonists” built a vessel known as The Atlas and set out among the stars. Suh, later known as “The Pathfinder” garnered a group of scientists, philosophers, and experts in various fields to solve the riddle of long-distance spaceflight in order to reach this new world. When Suh awoke from this coma, she had heightened intelligence and a clear vision that a creator-being was waiting for her on a distant world. Twenty years prior to the beginning of this novel, while still on Earth, Ren (then a young scientist) fell in love with a woman named Lee Suh-Mi, or “Suh,” who went into a coma during a hike, after encountering an alien plant growing in a forest. Renata “Ren” Ghali, is a woman who lives in a time surprisingly near to our own, but on a different planet. ![]() ![]() This is the central question at the heart of Emma Newman’s 2015 novel, Planetfall. What if someone offered you the chance to escape all of the issues you face in your life and start over on a distant planet with a new society? Would you take it… even if it came at a hidden price? ![]()
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![]() ![]() Solidly researched and beautifully written, this is storytelling at its finest. Set against a forbidding landscape, the bright promise of freedom is illuminated in all its myriad shapes and forms. “In Freewater, Amina Luqman Dawson shines a bright light on a little-known piece of history. In this society created by formerly enslaved people and some freeborn children, Homer finds new friends, almost forgetting where he came from. But when he learns of a threat that could destroy Freewater, he crafts a plan to find his mother and help his new home.ĭeeply inspiring and loosely based on the history of maroon communities in the South, this is a striking tale of survival, adventure, friendship, and courage. Through tangled vines, secret doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the swamp. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there’s no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail. ![]() Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Debut author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children’s escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom. ![]() ![]() ![]() The clean, bright artwork is enhanced by panels of varying shapes and clear, easy-to-follow speech bubbles. An unexpected twist toward the end of this fast-paced adventure that reveals the truth behind the camp will surprise readers. The story smoothly incorporates STEM facts with insets on the page to define and highlight terms or tools. It quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary outdoor adventure, and Vega and her fellow campers try to figure out what is really going on. ![]() ![]() Vega is not exactly eager to go but makes a deal with Wes, agreeing to try out camp as long as he tries to make a new friend too. Vega’s dad Javi thinks making new friends will help her adjust, so he signs her up for Camp Very Best Friend, which is designed to help introverted local children build new friendships. Vega is not happy about this change and doesn’t want to leave her best friend behind, worrying they will grow apart. When astronomy-obsessed 9-year-old Vega’s dad Wes gets a new job, the family moves from Portland to Seattle. After moving to a new city, a girl attends a wilderness camp to help her make new friends. ![]() ![]() Read online and download as many books as you like for personal use. 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Teacher Man is also an urgent tribute to teachers everywhere. Now, here at last is McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer. Then came 'Tis, his glorious account of his early years in New York. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teaching and about how one great storyteller found his voice.įrank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bookselling This Week: Happy Place alternates chapters between what Harriet describes as her happy place versus real life. ![]() It was the best of times it was the worst of times. Only Emily Henry can write a book where the message is the happy place is the friends we made along the way and make it not hopelessly cheesy. Emily Henry is the master of the romance novel and Happy Place is her best one yet Here, Henry discusses her writing process with Bookselling This Week. There’s also the sudden death of a loved one in the book’s second act, complete with psychological fallout, as well as plenty of picturesque outdoor dining and leisure activities. Emily Henry Happy Place Paperback 4.5 6,727 ratings Amazon Charts 2 this week See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 17.53 25 Used from 17.49 33 New from 12.75 Paperback 26.94 3 New from 16.99 Audio CD 29.64 20 Used from 26.54 19 New from 27. ![]() Meanwhile, Sabrina and Cleo, in the book’s B-plot, suffer the pangs of estrangement - one hesitates to schedule a visit, the other feels stressed and isolated and less intimate than before. The protagonist, Harriet, is a burned-out medical professional considering a career change. What differentiates “Happy Place” from a standard love story is how much it’s a love-in-the-time-of-covid story, though inexplicably, neither covid nor the pandemic is referenced explicitly. All romances, be they comedies or dramas, demand that their leads get vulnerable and confess their feelings before is too late. “Happy Place” is funny at points, but it is also the closest that Henry has come to writing an old-school melodrama, a heart-rending plot that struggles to express the inexpressible. ![]() ![]() ![]() The beautiful people are dying…Ī malevolent power is attacking London’s bright young things, and the only clue to what's happening is written in ancient Egyptian script. ![]() And if the cult’s foul harvest isn’t stopped in time, Fallow will be only the first city to fall.įallow is the eighth book in the Whyborne & Griffin series, where magic, mystery, and m/m romance collide with Victorian era America. But as drought withers the crops of Fallow, a sinister cult sinks its roots deep into the arid soil. To keep Griffin’s estranged mother safe, they must travel to a dying town in Kansas. Once a simple farmer from Griffin’s hometown of Fallow, the assassin now bears a terrifying magical corruption, one whose nature even Whyborne can’t explain. When a man from Griffin’s past murders a sorcerer, the situation grows even more dire. His husband, Griffin Flaherty, wants to help-but how can he, when Whyborne won’t tell him what’s wrong? ![]() ![]() When Griffin’s past collides with his present, will it cost the lives of everyone he loves?īetween the threat of a world-ending invasion from the Outside and unwelcome revelations about his own nature, Percival Endicott Whyborne is under a great deal of strain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Curtis appears to devote himself to his parish and the new church they're building, but is he really focusing his attention on the female parishioners trying to lure him into bed? Suddenly Curtis and Charlotte find themselves slipping into dangerous territory, and not even Curtis' seven-figure salary can prevent what is about to happen. When confronted about her behavior Charlotte starts spending time away from home, all the while getting closer to her ex-boyfriend. Despite her best efforts to keep her feelings hidden, Charlotte resents Curtina, taking her emotions out on the young girl. ![]() ![]() While the living, breathing reminder of her husband's infidelity infuriates Charlotte, Curtis couldn't be happier to finally have his whole family together. But when Curtis' long-time mistress and mother of his illegitimate two-year-old, dies, he and Charlotte have no choice but to raise Curtina together. The infamous Reverend Curtis Black's sordid past is no secret, as his wife, Charlotte, is well aware. Indulge in more scandal in the New York Times bestselling Reverend Curtis Black series as Crutis and Charlotte find themselves slipping into dangerous territory. ![]() ![]() ![]() While getting to know each other both these wounded souls cannot ignore the instant attraction or the pulling of their hearts but in the background lurks several individuals who yearn to teach them both lessons in pain and revenge. After being married to a selfish and superficial woman, he decides that women are simply for his pleasure and to ranch alongside him and his family, never expecting the bundle of sensual energy that punches him in the gut after meeting his new neighbor. Jackson Powell, a huge handsome cowboy literally saves her life soon after she arrives in the town of his birth. ![]() She is yearning for the passionate life she wanted to live after a safe and comfortable marriage to her best friend. Billie Rothman, a beautiful widowed MD, leaves all that she knows behind attempting to follow her dreams to Stony Creek, Wyoming. Click to Purchase! New Release: Stony Creek Cowboy, Book 1 Stony Creek Seriesĭr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Holy Land, a sparse, yet pointed memoir … has quickly inserted itself into the canon of modern suburban and cultural landscape studies. – Ryan Enos, author of The Space Between Us (2017) More than anything I’ve ever read, ( Holy Land) captures the torment and tenderness of the mundane and how that is shaped by our environment. I'd put this book up against the best of Baudrillard and Banham. Waldie's meditation on suburbia finds the beauty in wonky detail and weaves a wholly unconventional narrative. – James Mustich, author of 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (2018) – Jean Walton, author of Fair Sex, Savage Dreams (2018)Īlthough it's labeled as such, to call a memoir does not quite do justice to the magic it works, invoking the numinous in the anonymous through an almost sacramental act of attention. Waldie’s spare and devastating Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir for its formal discipline, and for some kind of magic it performs in seamlessly linking the intimacy of the author’s lived experience of his family home in Lakewood, CA with the sweeping history of postwar suburban housing tracts. ![]() |