![]() ![]() ![]() Dana Chamblee Carpenter is the angels’ new champion in the timeless battle between darkness and light. ĭana Chamblee Carpenter is the author of The Devil’s Bible, the sequel to Bohemian Gospel, a supernatural historical thriller which won the 2014 Killer Nashville Claymore Award and which Publisher’s Weekly called “a deliciously creepy debut.” Edgar Award nominee and author of Bliss House and The Abandoned Heart, Laura Benedict says, “Look out, Dan Brown. Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ) Ĭatch author Dana Chamblee Carpenter signing the final book in The Bohemian Series Monday, October 22, at Off Square Books. ![]()
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![]() Retailers purchasing 1000 combined copies of Codename Ric Flair: Magic Eightball #1 Cover A, Cover B and Cover C will receive a copy of the Metal Cover E by Dave Dorman signed by Ric Flair and James Haick III. Retailers purchasing 100 combined copies of Codename Ric Flair: Magic Eightball #1 Cover A, Cover B and Cover C will unlock unlimited orders of the Metal Cover E by Dave Dorman. Retailer Incentives: Retailers purchasing 25 combined copies of Codename Ric Flair: Magic Eightball #1 Cover A, Cover B and Cover C will unlock unlimited orders of Cover D by Luca Merli. ![]() Codename Ric Flair: Magic Eightball follows one of Flair's missions in the late 1980's. ![]() The series purports that Flair, who did in fact travel around the world for wrestling matches, was also a secret agent for the US government, using his persona as the ultimate wrestling heel as the perfect cover. This brand-new original comic details his fact-or-fiction forays as an international superspy in the 1980s and 1990s. THE NATURE BOY RIC FLAIR, the Rolex wearing, diamond ring wearing, kiss stealing, wheelin' dealin',limousine ridin' jet flyin' son of a gun who is regarded by many as the greatest professional wrestler of all time, finally has his own comic series. ![]() ![]() There was an extremely pink series in which Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen solved low-stakes mysteries (fictional, presumably, though it wasn’t totally clear). What were they about? What weren’t they about? There was a tie-in novelization of every Hollywood movie, plus one tie-in novelization of a tie-in TV show of a Hollywood movie. They weighed, and cost, approximately nothing. Their pages were off-white and delicate as Pringles, their covers so shiny they were almost slimy, and they became polka-dotted by your fingerprints as soon as you touched them. How do I convey the overflowing surplus of books in the nineties? They had their own aisle in every supermarket and spilled over into the checkout lane so you could impulse-buy them along with gum and nail clippers. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her monthly column, YA of Yore, Frankie Thomas takes a second look at the books that defined a generation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Old worlds and new collide against the tapestry of contemporary India in this exciting new Middle Grade adventure story from prolific author Mahtab Narsimhan.Īvijeet is a modern kid, used to a life of technology and comfort in his home city of Delhi. Definitely going to be adding this to my reading list for upper elementary and middle school workshops. I'd be comfortable giving this to an eight-year-old, or even a precocious seven. ![]() Great, action-packed light horror/spooky paranormal fantasy for boys and girls at middle elementary and up, with crossover potential to YA. Multigenerational family challenges with estranged and economically insecure elders bump up against bullying, fraud, exploitation and abuse of leadership, as well as racism/classism based on the lingering remnants of the caste system in rural areas. Eastern Gothic? Asian Gothic? Anyway, I really liked that it delivered on its paranormal promise (no "Scooby-doo" ending) and has some eerie moments without getting hide-under-the-covers scary.Īmidst the adventure and shiver-inducing thrills, there's also a lot of heart. ![]() ![]() Avi's plight of being dropped off with an estranged and out-of-touch grandparent with no Wi-Fi is all too sympathetic, and the author really brought the setting in rural India to life.īetween the death and destruction prophecies, exile to a crumbling old "mansion," getting locked in the attic, and various brushes with death, it has some strong neo-gothic vibes. Fantastic creepy adventure for middle-grade readers. ![]() ![]() 2023 CWA Dagger Shortlists Revealed - CWA Chair Maxim Jakubowski Talks to Liz Robinson About Them.60 spectacular LGBTQIA+ books to read this Pride Month and every month.May Bookshop Chat - Books With Buzz May 2023.2023 British Book Awards Are Celebrated At Star-Studded Ceremony - We Love The #Nibbies.Put your Feet up and Catch up on Our May Summary of Highlights and Reading Recommendations.We mourn the loss of celebrated British author Martin Amis.Industry Insights May 2023: James Kellow, Ultimo Press. ![]() ![]() Prepare to Celebrate the Nation's Favourite Genre with National Crime Reading Month.Caffè Nero launches a major new set of book awards - The Nero Book Awards.TikTok launching its own book awards to celebrate titles, authors, content and creators of BookTok. ![]() ![]() ![]() Known by the police of twenty-six foreign countries and all fifty states as ‘The Skywayman’, Abagnale lived a sumptuous life on the run – until the law caught up with him. In his brief but notorious career, Abagnale donned a pilot’s uniform and co-piloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded as a member of hospital management, practised law without a licence, passed himself off as a college sociology professor, and cashed over $2.5 million in forged checks all before he was twenty-one. Frank W Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams and Ringo Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters and escape artists in history. ![]() I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world’s most famous beaches’. ![]() ‘I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes and other sensual goodies. ![]() ![]() I’ll make a tea cake or a loaf cake over any other kind of cake any day. But these days if I’m feeling super prepared I’ll make a loaf cake. They’re so good! They’re like a mix between a Frito and a Cool Ranch Dorito. When I go to Trader Joe’s I can’t not purchase the Elote Corn Dippers, which are just like the greatest chip of all time. What’s an edible impulse buy that you can never resist? ![]() This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. We keep a lot of fun, interesting wines on hand. Maybe this is too much, but a bottle of wine kind of feels like the perfect amount of wine for two people for a night. I’m not really a cocktail-while-I-cook person, I just love the tradition of opening a bottle of wine with someone. He’s the vibes creator, and it’s different every night. Usually my husband curates the sounds in our space! He’s big into music, and I’m usually too caught up in my cooking world to remember to put anything on. ![]() That’s like a treat for me-a lot of tomatoes and a little bit of lettuce. There’s so much out there that isn’t in the supermarket, and I love a beautiful, unique mix of lettuces, because I eat lots of salads along with my food and along with a lot more indulgent things. And four of those dollars on some kind of beautiful greens that I can’t get in a supermarket. It depends what the season is-in the summertime I’ll probably spend 16 of those dollars on tomatoes. What would you buy with $20 to spend at the farmers market? ![]() ![]() RELATED: Set It Up – A Girl-Guy Meet-Cute Romantic Comedy in the Workplace Her mother is determined to find Dimple the I.I.H., or Ideal Indian Husband, while Dimple is too busy for romance. Although she loves her parents, she’s frustrated with them often. She has been excepted to Stanford to study web design. Character One-Dimpleĭimple Shah is a young Indian American woman who has just graduated high school. In When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon, I got to see both! This is a fantastic young adult novel full of humor and heart. I love watching the characters either fall in love gradually or fight tooth and nail against the whole idea. ![]() Stories about arranged marriages are fascinating to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I will say that each word was clearly enunciated and easy to understand. It seemed to me as if she held the culture and all the characters in disdain. I understand having a different narrator from the first three books, as the primary character changed. The author's storytelling skills barely saved this book. My imagination does a better job than a director could do. The entire book sounded as if the narrator was reading the story word by word, with no concept of reading a sentence in its entirety, or of telling a story to the listener, rather than just saying a series of disconnected words.Ĭould you see Jilo being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be? But I do not believe I would ever get past her clipped, .no.emotion delivery. I might be able to get past the fact that she demonstrated NO feel for the language of Savannah, the flow and softness of music of the dialect and accent her enunciations might suit a more modern, less culturally specific story. Would you be willing to try another one of Mia Ellis’s performances? I couldn't help comparing it to the first three in the series. What other book might you compare Jilo to and why? I liked getting some background on a beloved character from the first three books in the Witching Savannah series. What did you like best about Jilo? What did you like least? ![]() ![]() But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and as his cousin Roran fights a new battle back home in Carvahall, Eragon is put in even graver danger. ![]() It is the journey of a lifetime, filled with awe-inspiring new places and people, each day a fresh adventure. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesméra, land of the elves, for further training in magic and swordsmanship, the vital skills of the Dragon Rider. ![]() With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller for guidance, can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders?Įragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Overnight his simple life is shattered and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic and power. But when the stone becomes a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. When Eragon finds a polished stone in the forest, he thinks it is a lucky discovery - perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. ![]() |