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![]() ![]() ![]() When I found out they were releasing debut novels around the same time (Edan Lepucki’s California is out July 8, and Julia Fierro’s Cutting Teeth was released earlier this summer), and that both of these novels took vastly different approaches to the two pertinent subjects in the author’s lives - community and parenting, as well as a wild card: apocalypse - I decided to do a joint interview.Ĭalifornia, set a little later this century in the withering eponymous state, follows a pregnant couple, Frida and Cal, from isolation to forced communitarianism in the midst of a slow apocalypse - an environmental and societal deterioration catalyzed by the anxiety-inducing trends in contemporary American existence. In my own circuitous attempt to be a writer, I’ve been a transient member of both Lepucki and Fierro’s communities. Through Writing Workshops Los Angeles and The Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop, both Edan Lepucki and Julia Fierro have separately fostered not-so-small writing communities within America’s two largest metropolises, where the reigning writing asylums are a) prohibitively expensive and b) prohibitively exclusive MFA programs. ![]() Julia Fierro - photo by Natalie Brasington ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Falling in love with the clueless Royal makes Dmitry want to break the code, leave his empire and start a life far away from the perils of the Thieves-in-Law. What she does not know is that her knight in shining armor is also the head of the Medlov Organized Crime Family, a faction of the elite Russian mafia Vory v Zakone. After she accepts his job offer, she soon accepts his gifts, his bed and his lifestyle. What she finds is the seven-foot, blonde millionaire Dmitry Medlov, who offers her a job as the manager of his new boutique Dmitry's Closet. ![]() Orphaned virgin Royal Stone is looking for employment in one of the country's toughest recessions. Nelson, author of the epic romance Ivy's Twisted Vine, comes a story about Memphis, TN, a deadly faction of the Russian mafia and an innocent woman who dismantles an empire. ![]() ![]() Like his predecessors, Wood travelled through some of the harshest and most beautiful environments on earth, seeking to challenge our perceptions of this often-misunderstood part of the world. He moved through the Middle East for six months, from ISIS-occupied Iraq through Kuwait and along the jagged coastlines of the Emirates and Oman across a civil-war-torn Yemen and on to Saudia Arabia, Jordan, and Israel, before ending on the shores of the Mediterranean in Lebanon. Turkey and amidst the deadliest war of the twenty-first century, Wood set forth on a 5,000-mile trek through the most contested region on the planet. Starting in September 2017 in a city in Northern Syria, a stone's throw away from Following in the footsteps of famed explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer Levison Wood brings us along on his most complex expedition yet: a circumnavigation of the Arabian Peninsula. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trouble is, there are many who would see a god in their thrall, including the High Priest’s own doppelgangers, a Slaver no one can resist, and three slaves led by possibly the only sane man left.Īs these forces converge on the boy, there’s one more obstacle: time is running out. For the High Priest Konig, that means creating order out of the chaos in his city-state, leading his believers to focus on one thing: helping a young man, Morgen, ascend to become a god. Sustained by their own belief-and the beliefs of those around them-they can manipulate their surroundings. Violent and dark, the world is filled with the Geisteskranken-men and women whose delusions manifest. When belief defines reality, those with the strongest convictions-the crazy, the obsessive, the delusional-have the power to shape the world.Īnd someone is just mad enough to believe he can create a god. ![]() ![]() and the fulfillment of humanity’s desires may well prove to be its undoing. Brett, and Neil Gaiman conjures a gritty mind-bending fantasy, set in a world where delusion becomes reality. 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Recently divorced, waitress, Mira Hoskins finds herself daydreaming about the blue-eyed stranger during the busy shift at Mike's Diner. The sexual tension is intense, and the scenes are very descriptive. ![]() I have so far only read Witch Fire, but I am picking up the other 3 tonight. The books are in this order Witch Fire (Elemental Witches, Book 1), Witch Blood (Elemental Witches, Book 2), Witch Heart (Elemental Witches, Book 3) and Witch Fury (Elemental Witches, Book 4). I decided to pick it based on a free bookmark I received advertising the 4th book in this series, Witch Fury. This is the first series I have read that featured witches it is also the first book I have read written by Anya Bast. ![]() ![]() “It’s not up to us to trust him now,” Fireheart pointed out. “What’s the point of knowing the warrior code if all you do is ignore what it says?” ![]() “But no cat can trust him,” Graystripe growled. ![]() No cat can deny that he could make a good leader-he’s strong, he can fight and hunt, and he knows the warrior code by heart.” “Tigerstar might be different, now he’s got what he wants. “I don’t know what to make of it,” Fireheart admitted. ![]() Every cat is talking about Tigerstar.” When Graystripe had been a ThunderClan warrior, he and Fireheart had been the only cats to know the truth about Tigerstar’s murderous ambition, and that he had killed the former ThunderClan deputy, Redtail. The laughter died from Graystripe’s yellow eyes. “Never mind that,” he meowed, changing the subject. Maybe Sandstorm was becoming more than a friend. Graystripe wouldn’t be convinced not matter what he said-and besides, maybe he was right. She’s a very impressive cat.”įireheart opened his mouth and then closed it again. “Oh, sure, if you say so.” He strolled up the slope and lowered his head to butt Fireheart affectionately on the shoulder. ![]() His fur suddenly felt hot, and prickled as if ants were crawling through it. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Fireheart protested. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the spirited and resourceful Moon encounters constables, jails, institutions, lawyers, true friends, and true enemies, he adapts his wilderness survival skills and learns to survive in the outside world, and even, perhaps, make his home there.Īlabama Moon is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. But Moon is soon caught and entangled in a world he doesn't know or understand he's become property of the government he has been avoiding all his life. ![]() When Moon's father dies, Moon follows his father's last instructions: to travel to Alaska to find others like themselves. Fast Shipping All orders placed by 11 a.m. Orders can be picked up at our Mobile office during business hours. They keep to themselves, their only contact with other human beings an occasional trip to the nearest general store. 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The core of Rand’s philosophy - which also constitutes the overarching theme of her novels - is that unfettered self-interest is good and altruism is destructive. Among her devotees are highly influential celebrities, such as Brad Pitt and Eva Mendes, and politicos, such as current Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Thirty years after her death, her book sales still number in the hundreds of thousands annually - having tripled since the 2008 economic meltdown. They taught me to rely on no one but myself.”Īs I look at the freshly scrubbed and very young face across my desk, I find myself wondering why Rand’s popularity among the young continues to grow. ![]() “Ayn Rand is my hero,” yet another student tells me during office hours. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, a location tag like “Interior Chinatown” refers to a scene set inside a building in Chinatown. The book uses a screenplay structure to tell Willis’s story, and a physical location identifies each scene. It covers about five years of his life, while extensive flashbacks to prior periods in the main characters’ lives add context. The protagonist, twenty-something Asian American actor Willis Wu, narrates the story. Interior Chinatown is set in the Chinatown district of present-day Los Angeles. In addition, he’s worked as a scriptwriter for numerous television shows, most notably Westworld on HBO. Yu’s work as an author includes several earlier books- Third Class Superhero (2006), How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (2010), and Sorry Please Thank You: Stories (2012)-as well as articles and essays in national magazines, such as The Atlantic and The New Yorker. ![]() |