Dry by Neal Shusterman5/24/2023 Agent: Andrea Brown, Andrea Brown Literary. It is also thoroughly effective as a study of how extreme circumstances can bring out people’s capacity for both panic and predation, ingenuity and altruism. The lack of warning before the long-looming crisis breaks may require some initial suspension of disbelief, but the palpable desperation that pervades the plot as it thunders toward the ending feels true, giving it a chilling air of inevitability. The dynamic core-character relationships are satisfying, and the intersection of their narrative with the snapshots adds depth to briefly glimpsed characters and illuminates the full scale of the disaster. This thriller alternates between the teens’ distinct and plausible viewpoints, occasionally supplementing with brief “snapshots” of others (a fleeing family, a news anchor) dealing with the escalating catastrophe. Along the way, the siblings pick up three teens: their survivalist neighbor Kelton, unpredictable lone wolf Jacqui, and calculating opportunist Henry. When their parents vanish while seeking desalinated water, 16-year-old Alyssa and 10-year-old Garrett embark on a harrowing journey, searching for their parents and fending for themselves as society deteriorates. In Neal Shusterman ( Thunderhead) and son Jarrod’s near-future or alternate-present America, a prolonged drought (“the Tap-Out”) results in the sudden curtailment of Southern California’s water supply. Dry, by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman With Dry, dystopian fantasy and sci-fi powerhouse Shusterman is joined by his son, debut novelist Jarrod, for a near-future tale about a California suburb’s descent into survivalist hell.
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Be my love kit pearson5/24/2023 In Smith’s telling, the laws of Web traffic, shaped by social media and their ability to disseminate material at exponential, “viral” rates, unseated old power structures. The decision to publish the Steele dossier originated with the reporter Ben Smith, then the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News and now the author of an illuminating book, “ Traffic” (Penguin Press), about the rise of online traffic-chasing as a twenty-first-century media norm. Its publication, in January, 2017, planted the unsettling suggestion that the next President of the United States lived under the thumb of a foreign government. The file referenced other points of purported Russian influence. The so-called “pee tape” was said to show Donald Trump’s berth being widdled on by sex workers at the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow, and its alleged existence had come to light in a thirty-five-page dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, a former M.I.6 officer, who suggested that the Kremlin held the tape as kompromat against the man with curious hair. According to a media report, there existed a video of the President-elect instructing well-hydrated strangers to urinate onto his hotel bed. Millions of people posted videos in which they doused themselves with ice-cold water to raise funds for motor-neuron disease.ģ. Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo5/24/2023 I see you’re still unwilling to say the words: “No, I didn’t read the book before publicly dismissing it.” You put your byline on the statement and sent it out for the public to digest–doesn’t matter if it’s in the NYT or a comments section, if you’re a real scholar and not a clown play-acting as one that’s the point at which you have to be able to stand by them. Mediocre adult contemporary crooner Lionel Richie would win a Grammy for the album that gives the book its title, while “When Doves Cry” by Prince, the year’s biggest hit, didn’t get a nomination. MTV, which barely showed any videos from Black performers, initially balked at “Beat It.” Herbie Hancock deliberately kept a low profile in the video for “Rockit.” But no matter: “In the August 25 issue of Billboard, for the first time ever Black artists accounted for six of the top ten pop albums and singles.” Still, the man’s preferences ran square. White radio listeners freaked out when their stations changed formats. One reason it was a breakout year is that the music industry, having been through a rough slump-“Physical” was 1982’s year-end top single on Billboard-finally started taking more risks with Black artists. White male mediocrity is, however, a through line in Michelangelo Matos’s Can’t Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop’s Breakout Year. Oluo doesn’t explore the entertainment world in her book. Crip Theory puts forward readings of the Sharon Kowalski story, the performance art of Bob Flanagan, and the journals of Gary Fisher, as well as critiques of the domesticated queerness and disability marketed by the Millennium March, or Bravo TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze thoroughly the ways in which these interdisciplinary fields inform each other.ĭrawing on feminist theory, African American and Latino/a cultural theories, composition studies, film and television studies, and theories of globalization and counter-globalization, Robert McRuer articulates the central concerns of crip theory and considers how such a critical perspective might impact cultural and historical inquiry in the humanities. A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studiesĬrip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Off armageddon reef series5/24/2023 The colony''s founders psychologically program the colonists to prevent the re-emergence of scientific inquiry, higher mathematics or advanced technology, which the Gbaba would detect and destroy. The survivors of the human race retreat to the planet Safehold, where they sacrifice basic human rights-and an accurate memory of the Gbaba-for the preservation of the species. This looks like the start of the biggest thing in science fiction since Isaac Asimov''s Foundation series." - Dave Duncan "Strongly recommended." - "Marvelously entertaining.Very good news for our reading future!" - Vernor Vinge "Weber has done it once again." - Starlog "Weber launches an epic series with this gripping far-future saga, which springboards off the near-destruction of humanity in a massive war with the Gbaba. " Off Armageddon Reef shows David Weber at the top of his game." - David Drake "Vast, complex, intricate, subtle, and unlaydownable. Baby Steps by Matilda Martel5/24/2023 I didn't stand a chance against her fiery red hair and pale blue eyes. I followed it straight to sixteen-year-old Ginger Fox, the prettiest girl in our small town of Abbott and my eldest sister's best friend. When you're ten years old, you follow your heart. I didn't mean to fall in love with an older woman. I'm going after what I want and having the family I need. I'm tired of waiting for the right man to come along. Maybe I don't have a husband, but I've waited long enough. It's the perfect home to raise my family, and it's the ideal place to start over-my hometown. I find out my favorite house, the one I daydreamed about when I was young, is up for sale. One month from my thirtieth birthday, I decide I've had enough. Who says you can't leave the rat race? The call of money can be all-consuming, but it doesn't hold a candle to the biological clock that's been ticking since I turned twenty-eight. Keeper Of The Heart by Johanna Lindsey5/24/2023 So when Lady Rothley?s womanly wiles attract an invitation from none other than the Duke of Chevingham to join him in the South of France, it?s a Godsend. The death of her beloved father, has left artistic and idealistic Tempera and her stunning, scatterbrained stepmother Lady Rothley bereft not only of love but also of money. Could this modest, unassuming beauty be the ideal bride he seeks for Richard? Show book Like manna from heaven, a beautiful young grey-eyed waif calls to him for help for her ailing father as he rides through his estate. With Richard at death’s door, the Duke is determined that he shall find a more suitable young beauty to mend his broken heart to marry him and thwart Lady Delyth’s scheming ways. To the Duke’s horror, Richard’s heart is bewitched by society siren and acclaimed beauty Lady Delyth Maulden – and disaster turns to tragedy when Richard finds his beloved in the arms of another, shoots him and turns his gun on himself. To continue the family line, he is counting on his cousin and heir presumptive Richard to marry well and produce a son. Imperious, handsome and gallant in battle, the Duke of Kingswood has stolen the hearts of many society Belles – but he is ‘a block of ice which nobody can melt’, determined never to marry. The Duke & The Preachers Daughter Barbara Cartland Punching the air book cover5/24/2023 Moreover, they accurately depict the justice system as an engine fine-tuned to crush the urban poor and young Black men in particular. His experiences lend a visceral gravitas to Zoboi’s pen, and together they capture Amal’s emotional struggles as he grasps for hope despite his circumstances. Yusef himself was a victim of wrongful incarceration when he and four other young men were convicted of a crime they did not commit. Zoboi worked with prison reform activist Yusef Salaam to create Amal’s story in verse. Only Amal’s painting and poetry allow him to withstand the torture of physical beatings and solitary confinement. In prison, Amal gets a stark education on how unjust the justice system is as he witnesses guards abusing their power, administrators carelessly ignoring the welfare of the imprisoned as if their lives are disposable, and the avenues of “rehabilitation” proving to be decrepit and empty. All are sent to prison, while the white boys involved are not charged at all. Amal is found guilty of assault while his friends are given plea deals. A single punch leads to a fight between Amal and his friends-all Black-and a group of white boys from a gentrifying part of his neighborhood. Torchlight trilogy5/24/2023 What's wonderful is how Firestein always keeps the humanity under Arnold's occasional flamboyance very alive, as does Anne Bancroft as his 'difficult' mother. If Firestein's performance can occasionally feel theatrical, it's also entirely appropriate for the starting-to-age drag queen performer he plays. But beyond any politics or social significance this is also a very well acted, funny and moving look at one man, Arnold, (played by the unique and charismatic Harvey Firestein, who wrote the play and screenplay) as he looks for love – both romantic and familial in a sometimes very cold world. That's something the film only notes in the closing credits, and gives it a bit of a 'rose colored glasses' hue). (Although there is sad irony in the fact this huge hit play took so long to make it to the screen that AIDS had already totally altered the landscape by the time of its release. First, it was way ahead of America in being a relatively mainstream film that treated gay men as people of depth, value, humor and worth making a film about. Wrath of the storm jennifer nielsen5/24/2023 Can he manage to keep his friends and family safe, claim his own freedom once and for all, and rescue the Empire - before the magic gets the better of him?With twists and turns on every page, critically acclaimed author Jennifer Nielsen weaves an epic, action-packed conclusion to her extraordinary Mark of the Thief trilogy. He'll have to maneuver his way through scheming government officials and reawakened magical beasts to save the Empire. With Caesar's magic bulla, the Malice of Mars, and the possibility of a Jupiter Stone in play, all the powers of Rome are circling Nic. Trouble has a way of seeking out Nicolas Calva, and it's not likely to leave him alone any time soon. Nielsen delivers the action-packed conclusion to her magical Mark of the Thief trilogy! About the Book With twists and turns on every page, critically acclaimed and "New York Times"-bestselling author Nielsen weaves an epic, action-packed conclusion to her extraordinary Mark of the Thief trilogy.īook Synopsis NYT and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer A. |