![]() ![]() Read chapter 1 of Dragon Rider: The Aurelia Curse By Rowan and Yew by Melissa HarrisonĪs autumn begins, Moss and friends travel to their former home in Ash Row, to find the rare mortal child who can both see and talk to them. The third book by the queen of middle-grade fantasy in the bestselling Dragon Rider series from bestselling author Cornelia Funke. In the end though, it may take the arrival of the original silver dragon, Firedrake, to help save them all. It’s a race against time to protect it, for if the Aurelia is hurt, all fabulous creatures will vanish from Earth. ![]() Rising from the sea, it will bring either darkness or light to whoever it first encounters. Not even baby dragons can keep Ben and the Greenblooms from heading to California, where it is said that the most extraordinary being of all will soon appear – a vast, mythical Aurelia. We have you covered with our two brilliant October books! Dragon Rider: The Aurelia Curse by Cornelia Funke It's officially autumn – and if you're ready to curl up in front of the fire with an excellent new read, look no further. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The tension between his fundamental sweetness and this sharper edge give Telegraph Avenue a tone more intriguing than its predictable plot would suggest. He may be at his best when he momentarily abandons the effort to be nice and fair, and looks with a more jaundiced eye at a place where “fearsome-looking, old, ex-nun-style, Communist, lesbian retired piano teachers” take courses in the films of Quentin Tarantino at the local senior center, and the typical doctor’s office is a combination of “a secondhand furniture showroom, a real estate title company, and the Ministry of Truth from 1984.” ![]() Sometimes, the novel seems like a long exercise in nostalgia for leisure suits and obscure record albums (all of which are described in detail in the text with release years and producers, in case the reader wants to track them down).Ĭhabon can craft breathtaking, multi-page sentences, and his little world is fully inhabited by a range of strange, likable characters. He doesn’t have much new to say about the necessity of forgiveness or the complicated relationship between fathers and sons. ![]() But apart from the sprawl, Chabon still manages to find the novelistic. Apparently, it started out as a TV pilot for TNT, and the abundance of characters and the proliferance of character actions definitely provide enough fodder to fill a whole TV season. The characters are run through paces that seem less of their own making than of Chabon’s. Yes, Telegraph Avenue, at 468 pages, is a huge, messy sprawl of a novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() As with any popular form of media, though, that's bound to cause some audience fatigue. ![]() It's not a brand-new phenomenon - Roots, starring LeVar Burton, was on screens all the way back in 1977 - but it does seem to be picking up steam as of late. ![]() Instead of chasing renewal, in other words, the program is pre-approved for a set number of episodes, telling its story from beginning to end over the course of only one "season." (AKA: About six to eight hours.)įar from a trend at this point, the limited series is a very popular structure on almost any streaming platform, from HBO ( Chernobyl) to Netflix ( Unorthodox). A limited series, or miniseries (the consensus seems to be that these are mostly the same thing, but that limited series might be a tad bit longer), is a television series with a set beginning and end date. If you're a regular television viewer, you may have noticed a trend across platforms over the last few years: The rise of the limited series. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoir-winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and finalist for the Kirkus Prize-genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon “provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man, and in turn crafts an essential polemic against American moral rot” ( Entertainment Weekly). ![]() ![]() *Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics* ![]() ![]() ![]() Tilly: Mummy sometimes says she wonders what I’ll be when I grow up. Daddy and Tilly reading Dream Big Little One. And you know what? I have a keyboard like Nina Simone’s (except gray and not black, but Mommy says the keys are the same), and I play it just like she does, and sometimes I even sing. I have no hair, so I hope having hair isn’t a prerequisite for any of these. I have a book called I Want to be an Astronaut, and the girl astronaut has skin that’s almost the same color as mine, and blonde hair. What do you reckon? Do you need to have dark skin to do all those things? ![]() My hair is the same colour as them though. All the women in the book have skin darker than mine, so maybe I can’t do all the things they can. Tilly: This book shows lots of different women all doing different things. Welcome to another baby book club! Today we are discussing Dream Big, Little One by Vashti Harrison, which is the board book version of her book Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her decisions have the power to change her fate-and the fate of time itself.įans of Victoria Aveyard, Kendare Blake, and Stephanie Garber will devour this lush novel's breathtaking action, incredible romance, and dangerous secrets. Soon she’s caught in a tangle of violent secrets and finds her heart torn between two people she thought she’d never see again. When Jules discovers that her father is dying, she knows that she must return to Everless to earn more time for him before she loses him forever.īut going back to Everless brings more danger-and temptation-than Jules could have ever imagined. ![]() A decade ago, she and her father were servants at Everless, the Gerlings’ palatial estate, until a fateful accident forced them to flee in the dead of night. No one resents the Gerlings more than Jules Ember. The rich aristocracy, like the Gerlings, tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries. ![]() In the kingdom of Sempera, time is currency-extracted from blood, bound to iron, and consumed to add time to one’s own lifespan. Everless gives new and terrifying meaning to the phrase running out of time." -Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval ![]() ![]() ![]() Can Cece channel her powers into finding the thing she wants most, a true friend? El Deafo is a book that will entertain children, give hearing-impaired children a hero of their own, and challenge others to consider an experience unlike their own. ![]() But the funny thing about being a superhero is that it's just another way of feeling different. Maybe even superpower! Cece is on her way to becoming El Deafo, Listener for All. With the Phonic Ear she can hear her teacher not just in the classroom but anywhere her teacher is in the school-in the hallway. ![]() Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. She's sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. #1 New York Times Bestseller! Now an Apple+ Animated TV Series! Winner, John Newbery Medal What does it take for a student with hearing loss and a hearing aid to become a superhero!!?!? Starting at a new school is scary, especially with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2013, Klune proposed to author Eric Arvin at the GayRomLit Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The historical absence of these communities in fiction has motivated choices in Klune's character development. Klune has been open about his lived experiences with asexuality, queerness and neurodiversity, and how they influence his writing. ![]() ![]() Klune's writing influences include Stephen King, Wilson Rawls, Patricia Nell Warren, Robert McCammon, and Terry Pratchett. His young work in poetry and short stories were the first to be published. He was eight years old when he first began to write fiction. His novel Into This River I Drown won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Romance in 2014. Klune has spoken about how his asexuality influences his writing. His fantasy novel The House in the Cerulean Sea is a New York Times best seller and winner of the 2021 Alex and Mythopoeic Awards. Travis John Klune (born May 20, 1982) is an American author of fantasy and romantic fiction featuring gay and LGBTQ+ characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was in this year that John Milton completed Paradise Lost, Frances Stewart posed for the iconic image of Britannia, and a young architect named Christopher Wren proposed a plan for a new London-a stone phoenix to rise from the charred ashes of the old city. ![]() While the central events of this significant year were ones of devastation and defeat, 1666 also offers a glimpse of the incredible scientific and artistic progress being made at that time, from Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity to the establishment of The London Gazette. Based in original archival research drawing on little-known sources, 1666 opens with the fiery destruction of London before taking readers on a thrilling journey through a crucial turning point in English history as seen through the eyes of an extraordinary cast of historical characters. Shedding light on these dramatic events and their context, historian Rebecca Rideal reveals an unprecedented period of terror and triumph. ![]() An outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War, and the devastating Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions. Xiii, 285 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm ![]() ![]() ![]() With his multivolume biographies of Eisenhower and Nixon now complete, Ambrose (History/Univ. Military Book Club main selection Literary Guild alternate. ![]() This is a terrific read for WW II actions buffs. ![]() ![]() The book is enlivened with pertinent comments by veterans of ``Easy Company,'' who recall not only the combat action but their relations with their officers (one company commander was a petty tyrant of the worst type, but his oppressive ways had much to do with the unit's impressive esprit de corps ) and their impressions of the countries through which they campaigned (hated the French, loved the Germans). Its troops saw their first action on D-Day behind the Normandy beachhead, took part in Operation Market Garden in Holland, held the perimeter around Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, and were the first to reach Hitler's Bavarian outpost at Berchtesgaden. Formed in July 1944 and deactivated in November 1945, E Company was one of the most successful light infantry units in the European theater. Army infantry company over its span of organizational life. Ambrose ( Pegasus Bridge ) narrates in vivid detail the adventures, misadventures, triumphs and tragedies of a single U.S. ![]() |