John scalzi agent to the stars5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() He'll need every ounce of his charm, wit and wiles. Yet it's one thing to land a client's blockbuster film role – and quite another to negotiate for an entire alien race. One problem: they're also hideous, and smell like rotting fish.įor Stein, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become the hottest name in Hollywood. ![]() The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to talk interstellar peace. But he's about to receive some out-of-this-world clients – literally. From New York Times bestseller and Hugo Award-winner John Scalzi, Agent to the Stars is a brilliantly witty first-contact story unlike any other.Īs an ambitious young agent, Thomas Stein knows all about the art of the deal, even if his actors aren't quite A-list material. Agent to the Stars Kindle Edition by John Scalzi (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 868 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. ![]()
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Fables vol 1 legends in exile5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Here, in this new, 10th anniversary edition, is a newly colored 8-page story from the Fables prose work Peter & Max A Fables Novel, as well as a beautiful new cover from series artist Mark Buckingham. Fables is the winner of 14 Eisner Awards and is one of the most enduring Vertigo titles ever. From their exclusive luxury apartment buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side, these creatures of legend must fight for their survival in the new world. Disguised among the mundys, their name for normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters created their own secret society that they call Fabletown. When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. ![]() Snow White, who runs things for King Cole, makes her biannual farm visit, with fractious sister Rose Red in tow. Disguised among the mundys, their name for normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters created their own secret society that they call Fabletown. In it the scene shifts from the New York enclave of the human Fableland exiles to the upstate farm their animal and insufficiently human-appearing fellows inhabit. ![]() ![]() Bonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a bi-annual week celebrating books first published in a particular year, and I’ve only been organized enough to participate once before but I have read lots of interesting posts over the past couple of years or more.īonjour Tristesse is a book (first published in French in 1954) that I have definitely read before, I think as a teenager, but could remember nothing of it, except that I liked it back then, and also maybe liked, even admired, the glamorous but rather diabolical 17-year-old protagonist, Cécile. I’ve been reading a couple of French books for the #1954club week, hosted by Simon at Stuck in a Book and Karen at Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings. ![]() Uptown by John Steptoe5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Baker worked to collect titles with a positive depiction of Black children and families, writing and publishing bibliographies to help guide colleagues across the country to do the same. Her anti-racist work began just as she surveyed the material in her collection and its poor and shameful depiction of people of African descent, most notorious among them Helen Bannerman’s, Little Black Sambo. At the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Baker was put in charge of the children’s room at the 135th Street Branch (now Countee Cullen Regional Branch), where she cultivated the young minds of such luminaries as Audre Lorde and James Baldwin. This month we celebrate the life and work of pioneering librarian, Augusta Baker. ![]() Zami: A Biomythography (Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1994), 22-23. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read, and that that could get me through.” Augusta Baker, the children’s librarian at the old 135th Street branch library… If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. ![]() ![]() ![]() It moves to the old manufacturing centers and coal fields that fueled the industrial revolution, but now lie depleted and in decay. The book starts in the western plains, where Native Americans were sacrificed in the giddy race for land and empire. ![]() Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is the searing account of their travels. They wanted to show in words and drawings what life looks like in places where the marketplace rules without constraints, where human beings and the natural world are used and then discarded to maximize profit. ![]() Two years ago, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas in America that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit, progress, and technological advancement. ![]() Garvey's Choice by Nikki Grimes5/26/2023 ![]() The chorus finds a new soloist in Garvey, and through chorus, Garvey finds a way to accept himself, and a way to finally reach his distant father-by speaking the language of music instead of the language of sports.ĪSchool Library JournalBest Book of the Year ![]() When his only friend encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey's life changes. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight, teased by bullies, and lonely. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading-anything but sports. This emotionally resonant novel in verse by award-winning author Nikki Grimes celebrates choosing to be true to yourself. When his only friend encourages him to join the school. ![]() ![]() ![]() Failure will mean Casiopeaâ?s demise, but success could make her dreams come true. She opens itâ?and accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan god of death, who requests her help in recovering his throne from his treacherous brother. Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfatherâ?s room. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. ![]() The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfatherâ?s house to listen to any fast tunes. NEBULA AWARD FINALIST â?¢ NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR â?¢ Tordotcom â?¢ The New York Public Library â?¢ BookRiot Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical fairy tale about identity, freedom, and love, and it's like nothing you've read before.â?â? Bustle ![]() ![]() Â? A spellbinding fairy tale rooted in Mexican mythology. HTML: The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore. ![]() Sophie's Secret by Tara West5/26/2023 ![]() She enjoys spending time with her family in the Texas Hill Country, saving abandoned rabbits, advocating for thyroid patients, interacting with her fans, and falling off her jetski. ![]() Sophie's BFFs, AJ and Krysta, are also 'gifted' with paranormal abilities. ![]() A former high school English teacher, Tara is now a full-time writer. After shedding 30 pounds of baby fat, Sophie Sinora has grown into a pretty, but insecure, teen in bloom. Queen Saga Dragon Song Dragon Storm Whispers Series Sophie's Secret Don't Tell. This book focuses on Sophie, but also introduces us to her two best friends AJ and Krysta. Eternally Yours Divine and Dateless Damned and Desirable. Tara West is a USA Today bestselling fantasy romance author, mom, and wife. Sophies Secret is the first book in the Whispers series by Tara West. ![]() The endgame by riley hart5/26/2023 ![]() When he asks for one night together so he can show me what it’s like to be with a man, I can’t say no. West’s the only person who knows all the parts of me, just like I know his. ![]() Though my identity doesn’t stay a secret from him for long.īetween texts and late-night phone calls, we get to know each other. At least he doesn’t know who I am-the best tight end in the NFL, playing for the Atlanta Lightning. No one has ever guessed my secret until the gorgeous man at a bar in DC. Pretending isn’t easy, but it means I can keep playing football. I’ve always known I’m gay, but never acted on it. So, when I’m in DC and see a beautiful guy at the hotel bar, I don’t hesitate to proposition him…right before he runs out on me, leaving his sunglasses behind like my very own Cinderfella. ![]() ![]() From college, to law school, to the United States Senate representing California, I’ve done it all as an out gay man. When I left home, I swore I’d never hide anything about myself again. ![]() Kafkaesque by Franz Kafka5/26/2023 ![]() In real life, people often apply the word Kafkaesque to situations that have similar elements, like navigating the healthcare system or attempting to reach a real, live customer service agent over the phone. In Kafka’s books and stories, notably the novel The Trial, characters are always dealing with bureaucracies in which things are absurdly complicated and even the bureaucrats themselves don’t seem to know the reasons for all the red tape. His day job was in the insurance business. Most of Kafka’s writing wasn’t published until after his death. Other common examples are Shakespearean, meaning “in the style of Shakespeare,” or Orwellian, which refers to literature or a situation resembling the literary work of George Orwell or the dystopia in his novel 1984. It’s just one of the ways we make adjectives out of people’s names. It’s formed from Kafka’s name and the suffix – esque, which indicates a style, resemblance, or distinctive character. The first records of Kafkaesque come from the 1940s. ![]() |