![]() ![]() However, there’s a particular small element of the book that makes me geek-out. I love that my protagonist is a healer, that my world tree is disgruntled, that my gremlins manage to be green, cute, and ugly all at once. It’s my debut novel, so I’m ecstatic that the thing exists at all. It’s hard to narrow down my favorite bit in The Clockwork Dagger. But the danger is only beginning, for Octavia discovers that the deadly conspiracy aboard the airship may reach the crown itself. Suddenly, she is caught up in a flurry of intrigue: the dashingly attractive steward may be one of the infamous Clockwork Daggers-the Queen’s spies and assassins-and her cabin-mate harbors disturbing secrets. But the airship on which she is traveling is plagued by a series of strange and disturbing occurrences, including murder, and Octavia herself is threatened. Gifted with incredible powers, the young healer is about to embark on her first mission, visiting suffering cities in the far reaches of the war-scarred realm. ![]() ![]() Orphaned as a child, Octavia Leander was doomed to grow up on the streets until Miss Percival saved her and taught her to become a medician. Beth Cato is joining us today with her novel The Clockwork Dagger. ![]()
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These teens must master the "art" of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own. ![]() ![]() Now scythes are the only ones who can end life-and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.Ĭitra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice with a scythe-a role that neither wants. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Two teens must master the "art of killing" in this New York Times bestselling, Printz Honor–winning series from Neal Shusterman.Ī world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. ![]() ![]() Horowitz ( Facebook, Twitter) is well-known for the New York Times bestseller "Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know," and How do dogs "see" with their noses?-a highly-viewed TED-Ed video. So it shouldn't surprise anyone that it takes a dog's nose to invigorate the spirit of all noses, which is where Alexandra Horowitz comes in. ![]() We spend most of our time in our visual worlds and are even likely to focus on the visual aspects of the nose (think rhinoplasty) rather than dwell on its inner workings. Which is to say, we all have noses! Not that we pay them much mind, though. You notice skunk and car exhaust without needing to see them, and your nose is to blame (at least mine is) when I order french fries at a diner after smelling the Potato God brought to a nearby table. You may not broadcast your nasal discoveries, but that doesn't mean they aren’t there. It was a hot summer day in Manhattan, and, as any New Yorker knows, I was observing the obvious. ![]() "And that's dog pee," I offer confidently a while later. "Pee," I inform my walking companion, who frowns in agreement. ![]() ![]() I was amazed at how comfortable they looked, living on the street. Women squatted on sidewalks, totally at home in this open-air kitchen. ![]() In front of dilapidated huts, made entirely of recyclable material, stoves were already lit, heating up steaming pots of food. We zoomed through the streets of the city as it stirred to life. ![]() Will their separate goals pit them against each other, or can they set aside their differences in this epic quest for friendship and adventure? About the author And when Ro’s family problems threaten to cut the trip short, it seems like the two friends can’t agree on anything anymore. He loves it all, and it’s a great distraction from what’s happening at home, but he’s always one step away from disaster, despite warnings from Rohit and his mom. Mumbai is nothing like New York City, as Dylan discovers in his daily encounters with intense heat, massive crowds, filthy streets, and strange customs. How hard can it be for a street-smart New Yorker to navigate India? When aspiring photographer Dylan Moore is invited to join his best friend, Rohit Lal, on a family vacation to India, he jumps at the chance to escape his parents’ bitter fighting and go on an exciting journey just like his Lord of the Rings heroes, Frodo and Sam - except with less walking and lots of amazing food and photo ops. ![]() Travel to the colourful and chaotic streets of India from the comfort of your home in this hilarious and heartfelt story about friendship and family. Two friends, one deep alliance, the trip of a lifetime! ![]() ![]() ![]() Growing up living next door to each other with parents that are best friends will do that to you. ![]() Suddenly, his predictable life is bursting with colors. What happens when Weston finally convinces Ember to give him a chance? Fireworks.ħ6 pagesRetail copy, but no TOC or copyright pagemfm menageRoman and Flynn have always been close. He can't wait to get back to his life in New York but then he walks into his rented cabin and finds a red-haired beauty. Pigeon Forge doesn't need another hotel, it needs more of a town. ![]() ![]() Five minutes in this sleepy town and he knows that this trip was a waste of his time. He's an investor and he's used to trusting his gut when it comes to big decisions. Then she meets Weston. Weston Xavier is only in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee to meet with a hotel developer. She dreams of getting out and seeing more of the world than just this small town where nothing ever happens but that would mean finding a way to free herself from her mother’s tight clutches. She lives and works at the cabin rental agency that her mom owns and spends most days cleaning cabins or checking guests in. 47 pagesRetail copy, but no copyright pageEmber Marx lives a pretty boring existence. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why would her model husband Mike want her dead? Hasn't she been the perfect wife? Or has her karma finally caught up with her-making her pay for her former transgressions? The final countdown begins and now Sarah has to race against time to find out what went wrong in her marriage and find a way out of this nightmare. She is offered two weeks to come up with a counteroffer or die. She wouldn't jeopardize her comfortable but dull life for anything.īut Sarah's world is about to crumble around her when she receives a phone call from a man with a heavy foreign accent telling her that her perfect husband has put a price on her head. To avoid any kind of confrontation at home she doesn't read her husband's emails or spy on him like most jealous wives do. After the tragedies in her youth, Sarah deemed living a lie easier than dwelling on the past and facing her everyday failures. This title has been lingering on my TBR for quite some time so I decided that it was high time I read it. Whelan also writes YA romantic fantasies inspired by her fascination with ancient Egyptian culture, nineteenth-century London, and our vast universe. ![]() ![]() ![]() At least, that's what she's been telling herself for years. Whelan is the bestselling author of the psychological thrillers 14 Days to Die and As Sick as Our Secrets. Stay-at-home mom Sarah Johnson has the perfect family-a handsome, hardworking husband and two healthy and beautiful children. To what extent would you go to avenge your husband's infidelity? ![]() ![]() ![]() "If she was not a woman," the wind says of Gbessa, "she would be king." In this vibrant story of the African diaspora, Moore, a talented storyteller and a daring writer, illuminates with radiant and exacting prose the tumultuous roots of a country inextricably bound to the United States. ![]() Moore's intermingling of history and magical realism finds voice not just in these three characters but also in the fleeting spirit of the wind, who embodies an ancient wisdom. When the three meet in the settlement of Monrovia, their gifts help them salvage the tense relationship between the African American settlers and the indigenous tribes, as a new nation forms around them. Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him. ![]() June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper and left for dead, but still she survives. ![]() Wayétu Moore's powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia's early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. 25 works of fiction from around the world to watch for in fall 2018. ![]() ![]() The mass incarceration and abuse of people who are mentally ill over centuries? The infection of patients with hepatitis B and HIV? The deaths and suffering that result from 10% of all patients admitted to hospital suffering an adverse event and 1% dying? The torturing of the dying? The many unnecessary operations? The widespread overtreatment? Healthcare’s considerable contribution to ecological disaster and climate change? Ivan Illich would say the destruction of cultural mechanisms for responding to the suffering, pain, death, and grief that are part of being human, but the burgeoning epidemic of deaths from opioids must rank high. The half a million and still rising deaths from opioid overdoses in the US, together with increasing numbers in other countries, is surely medicine’s biggest failure. ![]() Richard Smith reviews Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty and concludes that the US opioid epidemic could not have happened without doctors and the whole medical establishment playing a part ![]() ![]() Lampert's book is excellent, and what makes it stand out and capture the reader's attention is his organizational style, which approximates an ordered and precisely executed military campaign. Almost three decades later, we now seem more confident about Nietzsche and ready to confront and contest Nietzsche's discursive formations without necessarily referring to other philosophers. ![]() In 1975, Tracy Strong said in Political Theory that until 1960 most books on Nietzsche tried to show how much Nietzsche resembled other political philosophers and theorists. Yet there appears to be a third category of books about Nietzsche, and this new one by Lampert offers an interesting instance. Two main kinds of books exist about Nietzsche: one offers a comparative philosophical perspective, while the other presents a direct explication of Nietzschean texts. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the chapters that follow, the author moves the reader back and forth between examples of the world’s fascination, and at times obsession, with dead Jews and the antisemitic events of Pittsburgh ( 2018), San Diego ( 2019), and Jersey City ( 2019). ![]() As Horn concludes in her introduction, the goal of People Love Dead Jews is “to unravel, document, describe, and articulate the endless unspoken ways in which the popular obsession with dead Jews, even in its most apparently benign and civic-minded forms, is a profound affront to human dignity.” Weaving together history, social science, and personal story, she asks readers to think critically about why we venerate stories and spaces that make the destruction of world Jewry a compelling narrative while also minimizing the current crisis of antisemitism. Why society is fascinated with the death of Jews but cares little for living Jews is the subject of Dara Horn’s newest book. ![]() |