![]() ![]() At nightfall they’ll come for the rest of you.” Nightfall is, indeed, fast descending when Ollie’s previously broken digital wristwatch, a keepsake reminder of better times, begins a startling countdown and delivers a terrifying message: RUN. But the strange bus driver has some advice for the kids left behind in his care: “Best get moving. On the way home, the school bus breaks down, sending their teacher back to the farm for help. Could it be the story about the smiling man is true? Ollie doesn’t have too long to think about the answer to that. ![]() ![]() There she stumbles upon the graves of the very people she’s been reading about. Ollie is captivated by the tale until her school trip the next day to Smoke Hollow, a local farm with a haunting history all its own. As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who both loved her, and a peculiar deal made with “the smiling man,” a sinister specter who grants your most tightly held wish, but only for the ultimate price. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn’t think-she just acts, stealing the book and running away. After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. ![]()
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![]() We Have Always Been Hereis about Habib's childhood in Pakistan, arriving in Canada as a refugee and coming out as a proud queer Muslim woman. We Have Always Been Hereis her first book. She is also the creator of the photo documentary project Just Me and Allah, in which she travelled the world to document the diverse stories of LGBTQIA Muslims. Her work has been featured in publications like the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post and Vanity Fair. Habib is also a journalist and photographer. The program will include a series of lectures exploring the intersection of politics, religion and gender. ![]() As they face the escalating dangers around them, Hosseini shows how love inspires their unlikely friendship and heroic acts of self-sacrifice. ![]() Set in Kabul, Afghanistan - where Hosseini was born - A Thousand Splendid Suns tells the story of two women brought together by war and loss. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dryads sacrifice themselves to stop a fire with mentions of the great fire of Rome and how tens of thousands of people died. A mention that two satyrs die of wounds and that a main character's father was killed. Teens disappear, and one girl is carried off by giant ants and wrapped up as food for later. Some teens are kidnapped and almost burned as torches, with talk of how Christians died that way in Roman times and were fed to the lions. Many teens are injured and healed, luckily for them, by children of Apollo - one leg is reattached. Many fights, some against other humans with a broken and bloodied nose, the rest against magical mythological creatures including myrmekes (humongous ants that really put up a fight), a giant walking statue, deathly looking spirits carrying deadly diseases. ![]() ![]() ![]() When she reconnects with Andrew Greyson, one of the few in town who believed in Althea’s innocence, she resolves to clear her grandmother’s name.īut to do so, she’ll have to decide if she can accept her legacy and whether to follow in the footsteps of all the Moon women who came before her.īarnes & Noble Praise for The Last of the Moon Girls Lizzy wants nothing more than to sell the farm and return to her life in New York, until she discovers a journal Althea left for her-a Book of Remembrances meant to help Lizzy embrace her own special gifts. But when her beloved grandmother Althea dies, Lizzy must return and face the tragedy still hanging over the farm’s withered lavender fields: the unsolved murders of two young girls, and the cruel accusations that followed Althea to her grave. ![]() Eight years ago, she left the land that nine generations of gifted healers had tended, determined to distance herself from the whispers about her family’s strange legacy. 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In this inventive narrative, the Caesar of history becomes Caesar the human being. Thornton Wilder called it "a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic." Through vividly imagined letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a dramatic period of world history and one of history's most magnetic, elusive personalities. The Ides of March, first published in 1948, is a brilliant epistolary novel set in Julius Caesar's Rome. Drawing on such unique sources as Thornton Wilder's unpublished letters, journals, and selections from the extensive annotations Wilder made years later in the margins of the book, Tappan Wilder's Afterword adds a special dimension to the reissue of this internationally acclaimed novel. ![]() ![]() And more than a few insights about the bewildering world of adults, made by a boy on his way to being the best man he can be. In pages that ripple with laughter, there's a teardrop here and there. ![]() Then a really big one when he's the best man at the wedding of two of his role models. He doesn't see too far ahead, so every day or so a startling revelation breaks over him. Archer wonders how much change has to happen before his voice does. But now here comes middle school and puberty. In fact, the first male teacher in the history of the school. Three of the best are his grandpa, the great architect his dad, the great vintage car customizer, and his uncle Paul, who is just plain great. ![]() Archer Magill has spent a lively five years of grade school with one eye out in search of grown-up role models. Newbery Medalist Richard Peck tells a story of small-town life, gay marriage, and everyday heroes in this novel for fans of Gary Schmidt and Jack Gantos. ![]() ![]() ![]() You're guaranteed to learn something if you give any one of them a read. ![]() Since Slade is a group of writers (though Jay Clarke is the primary voice among them), the books have a unique style and are stuffed to the brim with historical detail. He's also done a few books outside of that series, which I own but haven't read yet. "Ripper", which is book 3 in his 'Special X' series, is my favorite that I've read so far. Other Subreddits that might interest you: Horror Award Nominees & Winners, 1975-2013 R/horrorlit's TOP 10 GREATEST NON-SUPERNATURAL HORROR NOVELS OF ALL TIME!!! ![]() R/horrorlit's TOP 10 GREATEST HORROR SHORT STORIES OF ALL TIME!!! R/horrorlit's TOP 10 GREATEST HORROR NOVELS OF ALL TIME!!!! 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Hitman on ONE LAST JOB before he retires, THE BIG SCORE to send him off into his golden years, but SOMETHING GOES WRONG. WOW, that’s a cover only a mother could love.īILLY SUMMERS, at first glance-well, second glance, once I got past that cover!-is a story I felt I was going to yawn all the way through. In this particular case, a terrible cover did not make for a terrible book.īut make no mistake, that’s one UGLY cover. I did that with his 2021 book BILLY SUMMERS, and I was totally 100% wrong. I still will look at the cover first and form an opinion of the book as a whole. Even when it’s a Stephen King book and I KNOW I’m going to buy it and read it and, most likely, enjoy it. I know I’m not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but I have to admit I do. 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