Abigél by Magda Szabó5/13/2023 ![]() If you’re in trouble, it’s said, leave a message with Abigail and help will be on the way. Caught and brought back, there is nothing for Gina to do except entrust her fate to the legendary Abigail, as the classical statue of a woman with an urn that stands on the school’s grounds has come to be called. She fights with her fellow students, she rebels against her teachers, finds herself completely ostracized, and runs away. She is even more aghast at the grim religious institution to which she soon finds herself consigned. Gina is devastated when the general tells her that he must go away on a mission and that he will be sending her to boarding school in the country. Gina is the only child of a general, a widower who has long been happy to spoil his bright and willful daughter. Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szabó’s books in her native Hungary. ![]()
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Lord sunday garth nix5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() As he shouted, he and Chen started shooting at the beastwort. “Get ready to run,” whispered Chen, so low Leaf almost couldn’t hear her. Walk to me, child, ere I set the beastwort upon your companions.” Major Penhaligon was whispering on his radio again, and Chen had moved her aim to the green Denizen. “Leaf-girl, your presence is required by my Master. “I am commonly called the Reaper, and that will suffice,” replied the Denizen. “What…Who are you?” replied Major Penhaligon. ![]() Leaf noticed that his thumbnails were a darker green than his skin, so dark they were almost black. “I have come for the girl called Leaf,” said this figure, clearly a Denizen. It was made from some dark metal that did not reflect the light. The staff of the scythe was at least nine feet long, and the curving blade stretched behind him, from shoulder to shoulder. In his right hand he held a scythe, the butt planted upon the ground. ![]() Only You by Aimee Nicole Walker5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() When you play with fire, someone is bound to get burned. Scarier than The Purists’ elusiveness is their ability to turn public opinion in their favor, creating unrest and threatening anarchy by fanning flames and fear. The investigation quickly takes a twisted turn, leading them to an enemy who thinks purification by fire is the only way to save the city. Someone is harassing the mayor of Savannah, and Locke and Key are tasked with finding out who. After asking Sawyer to take a chance on him, Royce will need to back up his pretty words with fearless action instead of being his own worst enemy. What he desires most is Sawyer Key-his partner on the force and the man he’s falling in love with. ![]() Devil’s hour, noun: the hour when the demon or devil who leads hell is at its strongest.īorn on the wrong side of the tracks, Royce Locke is no stranger to scrapping and fighting for the things he wants. ![]() Andrew compton exquisite corpse5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Exquisite Corpse confirms Brite as a writer who defies categorization. Brite dissects the landscape of torture and invites us into the mind of a killer. ![]() Swiftly moving from the grimy streets of London’s Piccadilly Circus to the decadence of the New Orleans French Quarter, Poppy Z. Together, Compton and Byrne set their sights on an exquisite young Vietnamese-American runaway, Tran, whom they deem to be the perfect victim. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his “art” to limits even Compton hadn’t previously imagined. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his “art” to new heights. To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. From the author of Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, and Wormwood comes a thrilling and chilling novel that bestselling author Peter Straub says serves as a “guidebook to hell.” ![]() Revival by stephen king5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() They live in Harlow, Maine, his parents are normal and decent, as are his siblings. He’s the youngest of five children and part of a loving family. The story begins in the 1960s, when Jamie Morton is six years old. It’s hard to put my finger on it, but there’s something about the voice that stands apart from King’s other books. Revival doesn’t start out seeming like it will be a dark book, but it does have a different feel to it. ![]() It’s relentlessly bleak from the beginning. The first time I read Pet Sematary, I had to put it down from time to time because I could see where King was headed and I wasn’t ready to go there yet. Pretty disturbing.Īre comparisons between Revival and Pet Sematary appropriate? Well, yes and no. How bad could it be? As it turned out, pretty gruesome. His wife concurred, so a mythos developed around it. After he finished writing that book, he deemed it too gruesome and disturbing to be published. Those comments, along with his publisher’s statement on the back of review copies that she asked him whether the book “really had to be this dark,” will probably remind people of King’s thoughts about Pet Sematary. ![]() If you’re going to buy it, better tone up your nerves.” I don’t even want to think about that book anymore…It’s a nasty, dark piece of work.” A couple of months later, on his Twitter feed, he described it as “a straight-ahead horror novel. In an interview in June, King revealed his first thoughts about Revival. ![]() Out of Focus by Margaret Buffie5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Margaret is the recipient of the prestigious Vicky Metcalf Award for Body of Work (For writing inspirational to Canadian Youth) The Young Adult Canadian Book Award is a two time winner of the McNally Robinson Book for Young People award and has been shortlisted for many other awards and honours. Margaret's books have been published in the United States, Norway, Italy, Sweden, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, China and other countries. She works at her home in Winnipeg during the winter and on the veranda of her cottage in Northwestern Ontario in the summer months. Since then Margaret has published nine more YA books. It quickly became a bestseller after appearing in bookstores in 1987. ![]() An artist for many years, Margaret decided to write a YA novel and Who Is Frances Rain? was published by Kids Can Press. Award winning author, Margaret Buffie, was born and grew up in the west end of Winnipeg, attended various schools - graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba. ![]() Firefly summer book5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, this happened after he’s already got engaged to his girlfriend (who incidentally isn’t that sure about marrying him). During episodes 10-16 Tully finally realized that she’s in love with her friend Danny Diaz. Meanwhile, on the romance front Firefly Lane season 2 part 2 had a lot to delight fans. ![]() Tully finally discovered what Kate had been going through and although she tried to be positive for her, she was absolutely terrified that she’d lose the one person who means so much to her. In season 2 part 2, she left Tully voicemails that let her friend know something was very much not ok and she immediately returned from Antarctica to be at Kate’s side. In an agonizing twist of fate, Tully had literally just gone off to undertake her assignment in Antarctica, leaving her none the wiser of how much Kate needed her and wanted her back in her life. The Firefly Lane season 2 part 1 ended with Kate being diagnosed with breast cancer and heading straight to her former friend’s apartment as she was the one person she wanted to speak to. Tully and Kate in Firefly Lane Season 2 Firefly Lane season 2 ending explainedĪfter not speaking for so long after Tully and Marah were involved in a car crash, Tully and Kate finally reconnect by the time of the Firefly Lane season 2 ending. ![]() Rooms by lauren oliver5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Trenton has clearly had a difficult time, too. Minna is caustic towards Trenton and indifferent toward her daughter. ![]() The Walker children don’t seem to have happy post-divorce memories of their father. ![]() He was the most beautiful child….” She can’t quite believe that the “absurdly tall, skinny adolescent, with the sullen look and dingy-dark hair” who stumbles into the house all these years later is the same boy. Alice has tender feelings towards Trenton, who she remembers as a young child claiming that “For years, I’ve longed to see Trenton. Sandra and Alice, in particular, are trapped by their memories, which Sandra claims are “thick as mud.” These two women watch the Walker family stumble around with varying degrees of affection and distaste. Mostly they are stories of loss and dysfunction. The house is inhabited by two ghosts: Sandra and Alice.Īll of these characters have stories to tell. Richard, Charlotte’s ex and the children’s father, has died and now it’s been left to them to pick up the pieces. They aren’t alone. They’ve returned to the house they once called home to pack things up. Rooms is the story of the Walker family, alcoholic mother Charlotte twenty-something Minna, her single-mother daughter, and Amy, her granddaughter and Trenton, her awkward teenage son. Lauren Oliver is well-known in the YA fiction world, but Rooms is her first novel for adults…although the distinction hardly matters, really. ![]() ![]() ![]() The restoration of these passages and their new translation gives a fuller picture of the extensive inner lives of the characters, especially the hero Gabriel Bagradian, his wife Juliette, their son Stephan""and Iskuhi Tomasian, the damaged, nineteen-year-old Armenian woman whom the older Bagradian loves. The Dunlop translation, had excised approximately 25% of the original two-volume text to accommodate the Book-of-the-Month club and to streamline the novel for film adaptation. The original English translation by Geoffrey Dunlop has been revised and expanded by translator James Reidel and scholar Violet Lutz. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, they fortified a plateau on the slopes of Musa Dagh""Mount Moses""and repelled Turkish soldiers and military police during the summer of 1915 while holding out hope for the warships of the Allies to save them. This is the story of how the people of several Armenian villages in the mountains along the coast of present-day Turkey and Syria chose not to obey the deportation order of the Turkish government. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is Franz Werfel's masterpiece that brought him international acclaim in 1933, drawing the world's attention to the Armenian genocide. ![]() The murderer ray bradbury5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then he killed the intercommunication system which made it impossible for his co-workers to work, then he killed his wrist radio He also hates the voices and sounds and pictures and ads you see all the time He hates the fact that everyone can call you at any time He started hating the telephone when his uncle called it the Ghost Machine, which scared him – he thinks the telephone takes your soul and changes everything The man tells him he turned the radio off because the constant music annoys himĪlbert Brock (the prisoner) takes the doctor‘s wrist radio and destroys itīrock starts telling that he killed the telephone and then the television The prisoner smiles which frightens the doctor (“a very sunny, pleasant warm thing, a thing that shed bright light upon the room”), and he feels uncomfortable The doctor enters, but the prisoner tells him to leave He gets the note that a prisoner was delivered to an interview chamber There is music everywhere and his wrist radio buzzes, he talks to his son Lee Technological progress and the negative consequences (how the electronic controls our life)īeing available all day long (mobile phones, Internet, …)Ī psychiatrist is in a lunatic asylum (Irrenanstalt) ![]() |