![]() Her celebrated essay "Thin Places" (Best American Essays 2016), about an experimental neurosurgery developed to treat severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, asks how putting the neural touchpoint of the soul on a pacemaker may collide science and psychology with philosophical questions about illness, the limits of the self, and spiritual transformation. Not sure why her religious conviction had come or where it had gone, she did what anyone would do: "You go about the great American work of assigning yourself to other gods: yoga, talk radio, neoatheism, CrossFit, cleanses, football, the academy, the American Dream, Beyoncé." A curiosity about the subtle systems guiding contemporary life pervades Kisner's work. She was, she writes, "just naturally reverent," a fact that didn't change when she-much to her own confusion-lost her faith as a teenager. Magazine March pick A Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Book In this perceptive and provocative essay collection, an award-winning writer shares her personal and reportorial investigation into America's search for meaning When Jordan Kisner was a child, she was saved by Jesus Christ at summer camp, much to the confusion of her nonreligious family. ![]() ![]() A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Lit Hub Chicago Review Ms. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It’s one book I wish I would have owned as a kid. ![]() It is not a narrative, but it accomplishes exactly what Green set out to do. In my opinion Green succeeded! He created a book of legends that, while not having a lot of dialogue, succeeds in transporting the reader to a very different time. Roger Lancelyn Green attempted to merge the many legends into one cohesive story, basing his work mostly on Le Morte d’Arthur (1485) by Sir Thomas Malory. The legends of King Arthur and his knights have been traced as far back as the 11th century, but it is possible that they are even older! They tell the stories of a young king doing his best to tame the land during a time of magic, dragons and quests. ![]() … Ever wondered where to find accurate, clean representations of these age-old stories? Well, look no further than King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (1953) by Roger Lancelyn Green. The Sword in the Stone, Lancelot, the quest for the Holy Grail. ![]() ![]() I therefore found this to feel a bit 'samey' (and I wasn't reading it in extended reading sessions). There are also a handful of stories that have been included because they seemed thematically appropriate, even if they don't fit the 'Manifold' sequence.I came to this book directly after reading the whole trilogy, but that meant that I'd already lived with different versions of the same characters in quite a few instances. Some are stories involving characters from one or another of the novels (not forgetting that the three novels in 'Manifold' depict different universes but have the same characters ) others appear to be variant stories or even early thoughts on some of those novels. A collection of stories, for the most part connected with Baxter's 'Manifold' trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. Full of short, simple words and silly rhymes, this book is perfect for reading alone or reading aloud with Dad The rollicking rythym will keep kids entertained. ![]() ![]() and he has his sights set on Emma.Ĭaptivating, harrowing, and chilling, None Shall Sleep is an all-too-timely exploration of not only the monsters that live among us, but also the monsters that live inside us. But while Simon seems to be giving them the information they need to save lives, he's an expert manipulator playing a very long game. Working against the clock, they must turn to one of the country's most notorious incarcerated murderers for help: teenage sociopath Simon Gutmunsson.ĭespite Travis's objections, Emma becomes the conduit between Simon and the FBI team. But when the team is called in to give advice on an active case - a serial killer who exclusively hunts teenagers - things begin to unravel. This months issue contains: the death of Anne Perry, SOME SHALL BREAK preorder info and launch events, all the other stuff Im doing, and our usual. From the start, Emma and Travis develop a quick friendship, gaining information from juvenile murderers that even the FBI can't crack. ![]() In 1982, two teenagers - serial killer survivor Emma Lewis and US Marshal candidate Travis Bell - are recruited by the FBI to interview convicted juvenile killers and provide insight and advice on cold cases. ![]() The Silence of the Lambs meets Sadie in this riveting psychological thriller about two teenagers teaming up with the FBI to track down juvenile serial killers. ![]() ![]() ![]() They go outside of their comfort zones and the reader watches as Amanda considers her family and friends from a wide variety of perspectives. ![]() In addition to that, Leo takes the notion that since they are repeating this day with no consequences, they might as well do things they would never do in “normal” life. Once they get that the other is part of this loop, they start to reconnect and fix the friendship that had been broken the year before. They don’t realize that this repetition is happening to the both of them until Amanda decides to ditch school for the day. Now as they hit their 11th birthdays (they were born on the same day in the same hospital), something strange seems to be happening as they find themselves repeating that day over and over. Were best friends, until their 10th birthday when Leo learned that there were words that once said couldn’t be unsaid. They were best friends since their first birthdays when they were pushed into sharing a party. The concept of this book is fun, if not highly reminiscent of the movie Groundhog Day. ![]() Thanks to an afternoon of flying, I finished it rather quickly. I listened to snippets with her when she was going to sleep, and was intrigued enough myself that I figured I should pick it up. She listens to audiobooks at night and picked this one and was quickly sucked in. My younger daughter has recently gotten into the Wendy Mass series “Willow Falls” which starts with the book 11 Birthdays. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her husband doesn’t seem to complain, however. She’s a sucker for a good romance and gets giddy anytime there’s kissing, much to the embarrassment of her three daughters. With over 1 million books sold, Laurelin Paige is the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling Author of the Fixed Trilogy. You think because she’s on bedrest you can protect her? How sweet.Īdd: Goodreads // Buy: Kobo | Amazon | iBooks | Nook Watch Laurelin Paige Read the Synopsis here! With your perfect child and your perfect home. You act so high and mighty, you and your perfect pregnant wife Alayna. Which is why I am super excited about the latest novel in that instalment! I can’t wait to catch up with all the characters and see what delicious drama Laurelin Paige has in store for us! And rightfully so! I love adore this series with all my heart. I’m not even kidding! My review of that series is one of my most popular posts year to year since I wrote it in 2014. Not only is the Fixed Series one of my all time favourite contemporary romance series, but it is also one of my most viewed blog posts in the years since. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I’m fine,” Petunia said, not caring that she didn’t sound fine, or very gracious, either. “I’m just trying to help.” He held up his hands in a placating gesture. “All right, there?” Oliver tried to take hold of her arm, but she shook him off. Petunia pulled her cloak closer around her, but it caught on the basket and nearly made her stumble. The sun, which had been shining bravely through the trees as they set off, was now hiding behind gray clouds that threatened snow. Was it because of her nightmares? Had he heard her? He was definitely watching her, but was that only so she wouldn’t run away? They had been walking for an hour now, and Petunia could not have been more lost. ![]() Looking at Oliver sidelong as they trudged through the woods, Petunia wondered if he was staring at her more than usual today. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This dark magic puts them at the heart of a battle of good versus evil and a fight for the soul of the family-and perhaps for all of the world. He meets a strange boy who becomes his best friend, a boy with secrets of his own, and a taste for dark magic. Now Nate and Maddie are married, and they have moved back to their hometown with their son, Oliver.Īnd now what happened long ago is happening again…and it is happening to Oliver. Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of their hometown in rural Pennsylvania. ![]() Long ago, Maddie Graves was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn’t-and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures. Long ago, Nathan Graves lived in a house in the country with his abusive father-and has never told his family what happened in that house. A family returns to their hometown-and to the dark past that haunts them still-in this masterpiece of literary horror by the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is quite fucked up, yet strangely entertaining. Incubus guy, Tarrick, kidnaps Matthew and so begins the torture. Then he comes across an incubus, something he didn’t even know existed. Matthew lives alone and tries not to kill too many people. The main characters is a vampire and he’s been one for only a few years. The reason is mostly the fact that I couldn’t rate it and I just don’t know what to think. And now that it’s been a couple of weeks since I finished it, and though this post will be pretty review-like, I’m still not calling it a review. ![]() I knew before I even finished reading that I wouldn’t be writing a proper review for the book. Series: Beautiful Monsters #1 (the series has at least three more books) Genre: Paranormal, Fantasy, M/M, (not really) Romance ![]() |