William Bradford was among the first to write about their journey. They had lost their homes and their land, and they were searching for a new place to live. #4 The Pilgrims were a group of English people who were almost always on the move. They were well prepared to face the difficulties of a strange and hard land, and they were knit together as a body in a most strict and sacred bond. Nathaniel Philbricks book Mayflower appears at first glance to be merely a recounting of the Pilgrims journey to the New World and their miraculous survival. #3 The Puritans believed that they were pilgrims on a divinely ordained mission to establish a Christian colony in America. They were mostly families who were willing to endure almost anything if it meant they could worship as they pleased. #2 The English Puritans who founded the colony of Virginia Company in 1607 were a very different sort of group than the typical noblemen, craftsmen, and servants who had founded Jamestown in Virginia. This is a charming early memoir of midlife by the bestselling author of Mayflower and In the Heart of the Sea, recounting his attempt to recapture a. They had endured long delays, seasickness, and cold weather, but they had helped the carpenter repair the ship’s fractured beam. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Mayflower had set sail with three pregnant mothers: Elizabeth Hopkins, Susanna White, and Mary Allerton. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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It took me a minute to get past what a stupid name “Pony” is, but I accepted it because of the The Outsiders homage (for the record: I love that book but Ponyboy is a dumb name there, too also, it feels like every time I hear something about SE Hinton lately it’s bad, so…). Is it maybe a little too cute for the seriousness of the end of Stay Gold? Yeah, possibly. I mean, look at it! It’s so adorable! I love this art style, and in fact it was the covers that first brought me to Tobly McSmith’s books. For that reason I decided to break out an old review format: I liked / I didn’t like. On the whole I enjoyed reading Stay Gold, but there were a lot of things that bothered me the more I thought about them. When he meets Georgia, a popular and beautiful cheerleader, his decision to stay under-the-radar starts to look decidedly less attractive. After being bullied at his last school after coming out, Pony decides to go stealth because he can pass, he decides that there’s no reason to tell anyone that he’s trans. This time, though, switching schools feels like an opportunity rather than a hardship. Pony is an army brat, so he’s used to moving around all the time. I’d been meaning to read Stay Gold ever since I enjoyed Tobly McSmith’s sophomore novel Act Cool.I bought it ages ago, and it finally made it to the top of my pile. Jackie’s main objective is to create awareness and find long-term solutions to eradicate social ills. Her stories are raw, well researched and extremely thought-provoking. Jackie’s work revolves around the narrative of women and children in Africa. She is also listed as one of the most influential educators of 2020 by Generational Wealth Foundation. She also won an award for her Social Activism at the Women of wonder awards ceremony in 2020. Jackie, also went on to be listed by Google as the most searched personalities in South Africa in 2020. Her second novel BARE: The Cradle of The Hockey Club was released in June 2019 and won the South African best fiction award in 2020. Her second book titled I tweet what I like was inspired by the late struggle icon Steve Biko, I write what I like. Her debut novel BARE: The Blesser’s Game, was published in 2017 and was awarded the African Icon Literary Award in Lagos, Nigeria in 2018. Jackie Phamotse is a writer, businesswoman, social activist and philanthropist. Welcome you are at my door step so come on in! I guess you found me. Rent-a-cop Berry Rydell loses his job due to a hacker's prank, so he teams up with Lucius Warbaby to track the stolen shades, only slowly realizing that Warbaby and his former employers are tied in with the evil corporate scheme revealed by the glasses. Chevette Washington, a bicycle courier, impulsively steals a pair of ``virtual light'' glasses that feeds images directly to the optic nerve, not realizing that it contains extremely valuable secret data that its owners will stop at nothing to recover. As in his previous novels, Gibson's plot is very simple. It's California, circa 2005: the rich are even richer and the poor, of course, poorer the Medellin crime cartels move not only drugs but illicit data the Reverend Fallon preaches a television-worshipping religion and legions of the homeless have seized San Francisco's Bay Bridge and turned it into a bizarre, jury-rigged shantytown. In his first solo novel in five years, Gibson ( Neuromancer ) hasn't entirely left his cyberpunk baggage behind, but he has brought his vision closer to home. Otherwise, oceans will rise, plague will spread, sky will fall and darkness will ensue. Leonard explains the family that they have been chosen to make a willing sacrifice for the sake of humanity. Andrew believes he knows Redmond but can’t place it. The two women introduce as Sabrina and Adriane. They both woke up tied to the chairs with Wen nestled on the floor between them, watching cartoon. The others follow soon and, in a race to get away, Eric stumbles on a weapon, hitting his head and getting a huge cut. Eventually, one of them- Redmond- breaks through the back screen door and Andrew jumps at him, hitting him constantly. They see the 4 strangers outside, talking about apocalypse and how they’re all chosen to make a choice to save humanity.Įven after trying, begging and threatening, the strangers don’t leave. Upon hearing Wen’s rapid frightened talk, they lock themselves in. Wen gets scared and when Leonard says her family has to make a choice, she runs inside. Dressed like Leonard, holding customized weapons. Wen is outside catching grasshoppers when suddenly a tall, huge guy comes and befriends her with stories about him, talking to Wen and getting to know her and helping her with the grasshoppers. Presently, she’s soon to be 8 and they’re on a vacation in a remote red cabin in New Hampshire. Andrew and Eric adopted Wen from an orphanage in China. There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. There isn’t all that much explicitly about the pandemic, or the Black Lives Matter demonstrations, and yet everything feels conceived under the pressure of those things happening, pushing out new meanings from old subjects. The book’s leanness feels like part of its aesthetic its thought-space is uncluttered and unfussy, and everything is lightly, delicately done. She doesn’t lay down the law, she argues with herself, so that the movement of her writing feels like the zigzag passage of perception inside a quick mind, not in love with its own opinions, uneasy with certainty. She writes as she thinks, and she thinks crisply and exactly, not in abstractions, but through the thick specificity of people and places, fragments of story. Smith is a wonderful essayist she’s a natural. Although it’s born out of the pandemic and the lockdown, it feels like a doorway into a new space for thought. I think this collection of little pieces by Zadie Smith will endure as a beautiful thing. His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a brilliant teller of ghost tales, and in the twenty stories presented here, which include his celebrated A Christmas Carol, the full range of his gothic talents can be seen.Ĭhilling as some of these stories are, Dickens has managed to inject characteristically grotesque comedy as he writes of revenge, insanity, pre-cognition and dream visions, he indulges also in some debunking of contemporary credulity. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits. Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens’ lifetime. Publication: The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens Publication Record 224753 Author: Charles Dickens Date: ISBN: 5-0 978-5-1 Publisher: Franklin Watts Price: 15.95 : US dollar Pages: 342 Format: hc Hardcover. He decided to start penning down his stories starting with the writing of screenplays before he shifted to long-form novels. However, it was not long before he realized that he had too much story in him to just limit himself to the creation of images. Robinson started his career illustrating comic strips and comic books and he would often freelance on a variety of independent projects. Who” all of whom would inspire his future writings. As a child, his father got all manner of comics and science fiction films and novels from the likes of “Godzilla,” “Superman,” “Star Trek,” “Batman, Star Wars,” “X-men,” “Battlestar Galactica,” and “Dr. Robinson was born in Beverly Massachusetts, a small seacoast town where he grew up loving science fiction and everything bizarre. Many of the novels he has written have been made into comics, optioned for TV and film, and been translated into more than a dozen languages. He is known for combining elements of mythology, history, and science and this has made him the foremost action-adventure and science-fiction novelist and also the best creature feature author. He is best known for the “Chess Team” and the “Nemesis Saga” series. The “Kaiju” series is a set of novvels by Jeremy Robinson who is also known as Jeremiah Knight, Jeremiah Bishop among other pseudonyms is a New York Times bestselling author of more than sixty novellas and novels. And when the opportunity to get closer to her arises, he breaks his own rules to offer her a deal she can’t refuse.Įvery monster has their weakness. She’s the object of his darkest desires, the only puzzle he can’t solve. He has little use for morals and even less use for love, but he can’t deny the strange pull he feels toward the woman living just one floor below him. Ana Huang has released the cover for Twisted Lies, book #4 in the Twisted series A scorchingly sexy fake dating romance, theirs is a love twisted with secrets and tainted by lies…and when the truths are finally revealed, they could shatter everything.ĬOVER DESIGNER: Quirah Casey, Temptation CreationsĬharming, deadly, and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in the perfectly tailored suits of a gentleman. |