What he doesn’t know yet is that this season is not only going to change the Dragons’s lives, but his own life as well. He knows he has to follow this epic to its end. Once Gene gets to know these young all-stars, he realizes that their story is just as thrilling as anything he’s seen on a comic book page. Each victory brings them closer to their ultimate goal: the California State Championships. A personal memoir (a first from the author), a history, an underdog tale Dragon Hoops spins multiple narratives with ease. The men’s varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that’s been decades in the making. It’s a wonderful and enveloping quilt, a heartwarming and triumphant look at the redemptive power of basketball (in this case, high school basketball) to bring a community together. On one level, Dragon Hoops is like a fast-paced documentary, intercutting the Dragons thrilling wins and crushing losses with basketballs own turbulent. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. As a kid, his friends called him “Stick” and every basketball game he played ended in pain. And the hero always wins.īut Gene doesn’t get sports. Gene understands stories―comic book stories, in particular. In his latest graphic novel, Dragon Hoops, New York Times bestselling author Gene Luen Yang turns the spotlight on his life, his family, and the high school where he teaches
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An international bestseller that remained on the NYT list for over a year, it was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her first selection for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0, and adapted by Nick Hornby into a hit film starring Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern. In the 2012 backpacking memoir Wild : From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Strayed traces her treacherous solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail, from southern California to Oregon, following a messy divorce and the death of her mother. Her work’s been translated into nearly forty languages around the world. She started writing the weekly advice column “Dear Sugar” for The Rumpus in 2010, and has since hosted two hit podcasts for The New York Times based on the cult favorite. Cheryl Strayed is the bestselling author behind the novel Torch, and nonfiction books Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things and Brave Enough. She captures the heart of the King.īut Henry knows nothing of Katheryn's past - one that comes back increasingly to haunt her. 'Alison's sensitively drawn novel will change everyone's preconceptions'Ī NAIVE YOUNG WOMAN AT THE MERCY OF HER AMBITIOUS FAMILY.Īt just nineteen, Katheryn Howard is quick to trust and fall in love. It is a profoundly moving story that lingers long after the last page is turned' 'Conveys the heart-rending pathos of a young woman executed, whose only real crime was her naivete and her desire to be loved. 'With characteristic verve and stunning period detail, this novel will captivate you and break your heart. 'This six-book series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction' The TimesĪlison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times- bestselling Six Tudor Queen s series, relates one of the most tragic stories in English history: Katheryn Howard, Henry VIII's fifth queen. The fifth spectacular novel in the highly acclaimed SIX TUDOR QUEENS series by historian and Sunday Times bestselling author, Alison Weir. In this novel, the prosaic and law-abiding inhabitants of Lud-in-the-Mist, a city located at the confluence of the rivers Dapple and Dawl, in the fictional state of Dorimare, must contend with the influx of fairy fruit and the effect of the fantastic inhabitants of the bordering land of Faerie, whose presence and very existence they had sought to banish from their rational lives. Lud-in-the-Mist's unconventional elements, responsible for its appeal to the fantasy readership, are understood better if they are analyzed in the context of her whole oeuvre. The book is dedicated to the memory of Mirrlees's father. Lud-in-the-Mist begins with a quotation by Jane Harrison, with whom Mirrlees lived in London and Paris, and whose influence is also found in Madeleine and The Counterplot. It continues the author's exploration of the themes of Life and Art, by a method already described in the preface of her first novel, Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists (1919): "to turn from time to time upon the action the fantastic limelight of eternity, with a sudden effect of unreality and the hint of a world within a world". Lud-in-the-Mist (1926) is the third and final novel by British writer Hope Mirrlees. But after a civil war, North Korea turned to communism, while South Korea embraced markets and, eventually, democracy. Eighty years ago, the two were virtually indistinguishable. A good example is North Korea and South Korea. 6."ĭrawing on decades of economic research, Why Nations Fail argues that political institutions - not culture, natural resources or geography - explain why some nations have gotten rich while others remain poor. "What surprises me is why it took until Jan. 6 was a singular day of failure," says Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Daron Acemoglu, who co-authored the book with University of Chicago economist James Robinson. We wanted to figure out if the insurrection is a sign that our nation is failing and, if so, whether there's anything we can do about it. We couldn't reach Clancy, so we called up the authors of Why Nations Fail instead. It's like we're living in a bad Tom Clancy novel. Our political situation feels shaky and our institutions fragile. About 20,000 National Guard troops will provide security on Wednesday - more than in Iraq and Afghanistan. As we approach Inauguration Day, exactly two weeks after the Capitol insurrection, Americans are on edge. Though surely people have had personal reading goals for as long as there have been books, the book-tracking social-media site Goodreads seems to have institutionalized and popularized the practice of setting yearly reading targets. “I just want to keep challenging myself to read as much as I can.” Still, “I can definitely do 50,” she said. She hasn’t hit that number yet-she said she usually makes it to 45 or so. Every January, she logs into her Goodreads account and sets a goal to read 50 books that year. Peters, now 31 and living in Swansea, Wales (though she grew up in the United States), started participating in reading challenges again in 2016, though no one is giving her free pizza for doing so now that she’s an adult. “When I was a kid, I read all the time, even if it wasn’t for school, so the idea of reading 200 books just so you could get a pizza was the best thing ever,” she told me. She remembers participating in Pizza Hut’s reading program, which still exists today, as her first experience with reading challenges. When Stevie Peters was a kid, she used to read books for pizza. Ito made his debut in 1987 when he submitted one of his stories to �Nemuki�s Halloween Monthly� magazine. No small feat in a country where nearly everyone reads comics. Since then Ito has become one of Japan�s most well known and influential manga artists. Ito decided to take up comics as a hobby, inspired by this unique form of storytelling and his older sister�s drawings. His comics have been so successful that several of his works have been adapted into films.īorn in Gifu prefecture in 1963, Ito�s interest in comic books began in grade school when his older sister lent him her Umezu Kazuo horror comics. Ito eventually dropped dentistry, opting to focus all his attention on comics. However, even after winning the �Umezu Kazuo,� Ito still continued filling cavities and straightening teeth. Since making that fateful decision, Ito created the ultra-popular manga series, �Uzumaki.� Ito is most well known for his critically acclaimed horror manga, �Tomie,� for which he received the �Umezu Kazuo� prize for excellence. In the early 1990�s, Junji Ito was faced with a life changing decision continue his promising career as a dental technician, or embrace his awesome talents as a horror manga artist.įortunately for his fans worldwide, he chose to pursue his passion for writing and illustrating original comics, trading the real life horror of dentistry for that of horror fiction. Illustrations from �Uzumaki,� courtesy of Viz Comics.Ī Conversation with Japanese Horror Maestro Junji Itoīy Mira Bai Winsby, translated by Miyako Takano | Feb - March 2006 Windows have been left open and every woodland creature has taken residence inside the house. When Katie arrives at this house, it’s not quite up to par. Katie leaves her husband, takes her beloved dog with her, and goes back to Maine, to live in the house her grandmother left her. He didn’t even pass on a message that her grandmother had died – so she missed the funeral and feels a ton of guilt about this. She is tired of being controlled and humiliated by the man who is supposed to love her. Katie has been trying to be the perfect wife for her controlling husband for years – but has never been thin enough, or pretty enough or the a good enough hostess etc… and when she finds evidence of him having an affair, she is done. I believe this is a debut author and I enjoyed her voice in this one. Welcome Home, Katie Gallagher by Seana Kelly I wrote my first novel, staying up all night and cramming in words with a tiny, ill boy on my lap. I had stories to tell and experiences to work through. When my husband, sweet disabled son, and I moved to Las Vegas, I simply exploded. I always wrote, but I needed to give myself permission to write as an adult. Mercedes lives and works in Las Vegas with her family and strange menagerie. She won the Bram Stoker Award for her story Little Dead Red and was a Bram Stoker Award nominee for her short story “Loving You Darkly” and the Arterial Bloom anthology. She is the author of Beautiful Sorrows, the Stabby Award-winning Apocalyptic Montessa and Nuclear Lulu: A Tale of Atomic Love, Pretty Little Dead Girls, and Nameless. Yardley is a dark fantasist who wears red lipstick and poisonous flowers in her hair. Woven with mystery and magic, love and lore, romance and suspense, this multi-author collaboration promises to make your heart pound and keep you reading late into the night. LEGENDS AND LOVERS is a collection of dark legends and star-crossed love stories from twenty bestselling authors. And if her brooding, devastatingly handsome new neighbor, Alder, is the only one that holds the key to her family's tragic past. When another woman vanishes, Fable begins to wonder if there is more to the dark legends that cling to the island like a cold ocean mist. She never expected to find herself embroiled in a cold case that has kept a tiny seaside village on edge for years. The first, that she was chosen at random for the summer study abroad program at her university, and the second, that she came to the wind-whipped Isle of Skye to research her family's mysterious Scottish ancestry. From USA Today bestselling author Adriane Leigh comes a novel woven with madness, revenge, tragedy, and the everlasting spirit of love.įable Prescott believes two lies. |