![]() If you want to connect with him on social media here are some links. Note: Nicholas is no longer an active user on Goodreads and does not use the platform. Subscribers will also receive access to exclusive giveaways. ![]() Sign up for Nicholas's spam-free newsletter to learn more about future releases, how to claim a book patch, special offers, and bonus content. He is an Ironman triathlete and lives in Iowa with his wife, their dogs, and a house full of books. When he isn't writing or daydreaming about the apocalypse, he enjoys running, biking, spending time with his family, and traveling the world. ![]() He worked for Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management in disaster planning and mitigation before switching careers to focus on his one true passion-writing. His other work includes the Extinction Cycle series, the Trackers series, and the Orbs series. Nicholas Sansbury Smith is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Hell Divers series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() VanderMeer's fiction is noted for eluding genre classifications even as his works bring in themes and elements from genres such as postmodernism, ecofiction, the New Weird and post-apocalyptic fiction. ![]() VanderMeer has been called "one of the most remarkable practitioners of the literary fantastic in America today," with The New Yorker naming him the "King of Weird Fiction". He has also edited with his wife Ann VanderMeer such influential and award-winning anthologies as The New Weird, The Weird, and The Big Book of Science Fiction. Among VanderMeer's other novels are Shriek: An Afterword and Borne. The trilogy's first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards, and was adapted into a Hollywood film by director Alex Garland. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, VanderMeer crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy. Jeff VanderMeer (born J) is an American author, editor, and literary critic. Nebula Award for Best Novel, Shirley Jackson Award, World Fantasy Award ![]() ![]() Wells uses this format to preach to the reader just what his ideas of an ideal world would result in in terms of organization and justice.Ģ2nd century London is enclosed, massive, and disorganized. He has arrived when the people have just about had enough and rise up in revolt. ![]() We get a picture of this future and all that is wrong with it when Graham manages to get out and about. Turns out that Ostrog is just another power-hungry man fronting for the Sleeper while aggrandizing himself. Graham, the Sleeper, meets the man who has been ruling the world in his name for many years - Ostrog. He is known as "The Sleeper," and is worshiped as a saviour by the masses. ![]() ![]() He awakes two-hundred-three years later and discovers that he owns half the world through the miracle of compound interest on his investments. A young man - 30-years old - falls into a trance in Victorian England. ![]() ![]() ![]() First the Greystones’ mother disappears into it after learning of a family that has unsettling commonalities with their own. In Margaret Peterson Haddix’s middle-grade series Greystone Secrets- The Strangers(Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins, 2019) and The Deceivers (April 7)-the Greystone kids (Chess, Emma, and Finn) and their friend Natalie discover a parallel world. Novels that explore the idea of parallel universes or alternate life paths might feel especially relevant to young readers right now. The gap between reality and what should have been feels unusually vivid. ![]() Across the country there are ever changing guidelines and ongoing uncertainty, and after being stuck at home for months, many children and teens now face.being stuck at home for months. heads into summer vacation, young people are facing a reality that diverges dramatically from what they originally dreamed of-whether that was a sleepaway or day camp, a job or internship, hanging out with friends, or just a break from school. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is a good dad to Noah, and is working hard to save for a home for the three of them. ![]() He has become a tad controlling and she feels claustrophobic in his presence. She adores her baby boy, but doesn’t love his father, her boyfriend. She is taking college courses to become a social worker. She is extremely lonely and desperate to know what became of her beloved daughter Tallulah.Ģ017 – Tallulah is a devoted young mother who is quiet and studious. She is filled with anger at the way her life has panned out. Her son has moved out to live with his girlfriend, so Kim has no adult company. Kim’s life is now a never-ending cycle of caring for Noah and working some shifts in the local pub. Then, on a hot night in June her daughter goes missing… 2018 – Kim‘s daughter and her boyfriend have been missing a full year. Her daughter goes to college and she cares for baby Noah part-time. ![]() She lives in a modest house in the Surrey Hills with her teenage daughter Tallulah ( the baby’s mother), and her teenage son, Ryan. 2017 – Kim is an attractive woman of thirty-nine who is a grandmother of a one year old named Noah. ![]() ![]() ![]() And 2022 sees the advent of the standalone book MinaLima Magic, an interactive look into their creative process. The Potter books are a smidge shorter than the children’s classics, but follow the same construction and interactive design techniques as the classics series. ![]() In 2020 they expanded this line with the first of (presumably) seven volumes of the Harry Potter novels in similar style. Best known for their design work on the Harry Potter franchise, in 2015 they committed to producing a 12 volume series of interactive children’s classics in conjunction with Harper Design, and to date (2022), eight of these volumes have been released. Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima are the graphic design duo affectionately known as MinaLima. ![]() ![]() ![]() As you think of it, consciousness is barely – barely – half developed. ![]() Your conscious concepts must enlarge so that the conscious self can understand its true nature. ![]() As Seth states in Volume I, “The Unknown Reality sustains you and the web of life as you understand it. To a large degree our current world problems are the result of a lack of understanding of the true nature of our being and universe. These versions are as real as ours, and each individual has probable selves that exist in these “parallel” universes.Īccording to Seth, the exploration of the unknown mechanics and dimensions of our being is the next step in our evolutionary development. According to this theory there are other probable versions of history that exist in alternate dimensions. It is one of the most important and complex concepts contained in the Seth material for it explains the actual mechanics involved in the materialization of events into our daily lives. ![]() This concept is the metaphysical counterpart of the parallel universe theory presented in Quantum Physics. Both of these volumes are primarily devoted to the concept of probable realities, a concept originally introduced in SETH SPEAKS. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the unlikely friendship between Herb and Dee Dee deepens, we see how as one life is closing down, another opens up. And the two take off north out of Key West, soon setting off a Silver Alert. So, he suggests one last joy ride in his Porsche. ![]() She is actually named Dee Dee, and she’s fleeing a dark past.Īnd Herb can’t just let go of all that he has ever had. So much had seemed as if it could change for Renee, who is not the happy, uncomplicated young girl she pretends to be. She sings to Susan during manicures, gets her to paint, and brings her a sense of contentment.īut then Herb and Susan’s adult children arrive to stage an intervention on their stubborn, independent father, and as a consequence, Renee’s gig with Susan-and her grand plans for her own life-start to unravel as well. The one bright spot is the arrival of an endlessly optimistic manicurist calling herself Renee. Susan now needs constant care, and Herb is in denial about his own ailing health. This funny and endearing novel of family, secrets, and aging follows an elderly man who heads off on a joyride with a new young friend-who may have some secrets of her own.Ī driving force in literature, the one and only Lee Smith returns with a road trip novel, a story full of hope and humor about not going away quietly-at any age.Īging Herb’s charmed life with his dear wife, Susan, in their Key West house is coming undone. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first novel Madapple, published in the United State in 2008, was a finalist for the William C. ![]() ![]() Her most recent novel is Amaryllis In Blueberry, published in 2011. She is an award-winning author and an attorney. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family and is on the advisory board of the West African micro-financing organization, Women of the World Investments. She was an intern with the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, Switzerland, and a litigator at the law firm of Shearman & Sterling. After working in grassroots development in Africa, she earned her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. Christina Meldrum received her Bachelor of Arts in religious studies and political science from the University of Michigan. ![]() ![]() A posse caught up with Garner, who killed her youngest daughter and attempted to do the same to her other children rather than let them return to bondage. While compiling research for 1974's The Black Book, Morrison came across the story of Margaret Garner, a runaway slave from Kentucky who escaped with her husband and four children to Ohio in 1856. Here are some notable facts about Morrison’s process and the novel’s legacy. All the awards aside, Beloved is a testament to the horrors of slavery, with its narrative of suffering and repressed memory and its dedication to the more than 60 million who died in bondage. The book won the Pulitzer Prize and was a key factor in the decision to award Morrison the Nobel Prize in 1993. ![]() Toni Morrison-who was born on February 18, 1931, and passed away on August 5, 2019-made a name for herself with The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Song of Solomon, but it wasn’t until 1987’s Beloved, about a runaway slave haunted by the death of her infant daughter, that her legacy was secured. ![]() |