Thinking it might be a clue, he picks it up. Cory discovers near his feet a bright green bird feather. The figure watches the car sink and slinks out into the woods. While Cory looks on in trepidation, he notices a figure standing nearby, clad in a dark coat, face obscured. His dad is eventually forced to abandon his rescue efforts when the car plunges into the depths of the quarry, never to be recovered. He’s been beaten badly about the head and has a garrote around his throat. The car veers off the road and plunges into a quarry.Ĭory’s dad jumps into the water and tries to save the driver. As they drive out a rural road, a car comes careening out of nowhere and nearly collides with their milk truck. One morning, Cory accompanies his father on his milk delivery route. Summer draws close and the promise of freedom from school and its demands beckon. He has a small group of close friends with whom he revels in the joys of boyhood. Oh yeah, there’s a murder mystery in the book as well.Ĭory Mackenson lives in Zephyr, Alabama and his life is seemingly idyllic. Much like Ray Bradbury did in Dandelion Wine, McCammon strings together a string of stories and anecdotes from the life of a fictional boy named Cory Mackenson, a 12 year old boy growing up in rural Alabama in the 1960s. McCammon, horror writer extraordinaire, turned from writing stories that scare to stories that enchant.
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When Amanda learns that Leo is likewise stuck, the former friends join forces, learning that dramatic consequences result from their smallest actions and discovering, in a somewhat contrived conclusion, what an old feud, an enchantment and the apple grove long since replaced by the town mall have to do with their extraordinary friendship. She muddles through a rotten day only to discover that she has to relive it, literally, over and over. Implausibly, Amanda’s grudge endures for an entire year, and she finds herself, stubborn and miserable, celebrating her 11th birthday alone. In an extreme overreaction, she flees the party and cuts Leo out of her life. That is, until their tenth birthday party, at which Amanda happens to overhear Leo talking her down to some classmates. In this slow-paced middle-school friendship saga, mildly spiced with a bit of fantasy, readers meet Amanda and Leo, best friends who have spent every birthday together since day one. The people and natural landscape are described in a lovely florid prose. Perhaps unconscious of their similarities, she relates many of her travel destinations to the same ones taken by the famous Ottoman explorer Evliya Çelebi – a “boon-companion to mankind” according to his self-description.įor a solo traveler Kapka seems to receive little male harassment, although many of the locals are continually surprised that she does not have a husband given her age. Kassabova is romantic and gypsy-like she meets an assortment of colourful characters throughout her journey. This area of Southeastern Europe is described as a magical place, with witches, mysterious treasures in Thracian tombs, and ghostly villages dotting the landscape. Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe is a poetic travelogue which starts in Bulgaria and makes it way through Greece and Turkey. Okay, this book looks maddening, frightening, and pretty darn good!īritain. May 2 – The Marriage Act – By John Marrs – Psychological Thriller/Dystopian! May 2 – Love Buzz – By Neely Tubati AlexanderĪ serendipitous adventure, a chance romantic encounter during a wild night at a Mardi Gras bachelorette party sends strait-laced Serena Khan’s carefully constructed life into chaos. May 2 – Meet Me at the Lake – By Carley FortuneĪfter reading (and loving) Every Summer After by Carley Fortune, I knew that this book would be on my to-be-read list.Ī random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing effects… If you're in the mood for an edge-of-your-seat thriller, this book is just what you've been waiting for! May 2 - The Next Girl – By Pip Drysdale So here are the books that have caught my eye for the month of May. Well, minus the pesky insects, of course. With the weather getting warmer, what better way to enjoy our books than in a comfortable chair out in the fresh air. Oh, she’s had plenty of dates and lovers, but to say that she’s ever been truly smitten or head-over-heels with someone, she really hasn’t.Īpril showers brought more than just May flowers they also brought an amazing assortment of new releases to look forward to. In his quest to write the perfect tribute to his wife, he starts looking into her past and discovers a few inconsistencies he can’t explain. Although Emma’s currently doing well, Leo is given the job of prewriting her obituary, a common strategy with people who are in the public eye. Both are head over heels for their young daughter, Ruby. Emma’s a marine ecologist and erstwhile TV presenter whose bubbly personality is loved by all, while Leo is an obituary writer and his wife’s No. A husband learns his wife is hiding a secret life.Įmma and Leo have been happily married for seven years, although they’ve weathered their share of struggles (such as infertility and Emma’s cancer diagnosis). I cannot think of another writer who has used the word ‘degenerate’ as often. Historically, he is in his way interesting and a necessary participant in the history of the weird, but he is too a man of his times and by our lights frequently racist and anti-semitic, snobbish and, to judge by his fiction, obsessed with purity and terrified of anything vaguely monstrous. It wasn’t the language, I think, as I loved the flood of words, but I think I recognised instinctively that while he could describe things he could not make you see them, and he wasn’t much of a story-teller. I was not, when younger, a huge fan of Lovecraft. Except, as we have already seen, he is now but one among many, and the name people reach for when they talk about weird fiction. Lovecraft, the grandfather of the pulp weird story, perhaps. Back to my project of Blogging the Weird, I reach ‘The Dunwich Horror’ by H.P. He’s also the first person who really understands how badly she wants her star to rise. It’s not just that he’s charming, sexy, and ridiculously talented. As the dark scandals of an industry bent on controlling and commodifying beautiful girls begin to bubble up, Rachel wonders if she’s strong enough to be a winner, or if she’ll end up crushed… Especially when she begins to develop feelings for K-pop star and DB golden boy Jason Lee. Six years ago, she was recruited by DB Entertainment-one of Seoul’s largest K-pop labels, known for churning out some of the world’s most popular stars. What would you give for a chance to live your dreams?įor seventeen-year-old Korean American Rachel Kim, the answer is almost everything. Not only that, she also explained about the book, which is titled Shine. At the end of 2019, Jessica Jung surprised her fans with her exciting announcement She officially announced that her upcoming book would be published on October 6, 2020. A Korean American teen is thrust into the competitive, technicolor world of K-pop, from Jessica Jung, K-pop legend and former lead singer of Girls Generation. Jessica Jung Announced to Publish YA Novel Shine. Given it’s written by Jason Reynolds and illustrated by Raul the Third, I figured it would be great. As far as I can tell, there are not really a whole lot of middle grade books that address the mental health of boys, period, so when I saw this title, about a Black boy dealing with anxiety, I tracked it down right away. This was another book I sought out as I worked on my article for School Library Journal on mental health rep in middle grade books (look for that March 2022!). Plus, like all superheroes, Portico has an arch-nemesis who is determined to prove that there is nothing super about Portico at all. Only, all these secrets give Portico the worry wiggles, the frets, which his mom calls anxiety. They’re trying to hide it by repeatedly telling Portico to go check on a neighbor “in the meantime.” But Portico knows “meantime” means his parents are heading into the Mean Time which means they’re about to get into it, and well, Portico’s superhero responsibility is to save them, too-as soon as he figures out how. In fact, he’s the only reason the cat, New Name Every Day, has nine lives.Īll this is swell except for Portico’s other secret, his not-so-super secret. And behind those fifty doors live a bunch of different people who Stuntboy saves all the time. But a building with fifty doors just in the hallways is definitely a castle. His mom calls where they live an apartment building. He lives in the biggest house on the block, maybe in the whole city, which basically makes it a castle. But his regular Portico identity is pretty cool, too. While Emergent Strategy was published 2 years ago and has since become wildly popular among activists of color, queer and feminist activists, and others interested in intersectional approaches to contemporary organizing, this innovative text has received far less attention among social movement researchers in the academy. Since then I’ve found myself returning to it again and again. Much to my good fortune, last year during an intersectional feminist faculty learning circle, a colleague* recommended brown’s Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (2017). Social Forum and as executive director of The Ruckus Society, brown is shaped by and remains a crucial voice in contemporary struggles for justice. Having previously served as a national coordinator for the 2010 U.S. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brownĭetroit-based writer and trailblazing pleasure activist adrienne maree brown has been deeply engaged in organizing around black liberation, climate justice, and feminism for over two decades. Plus the uneasy history of human autopsy, how the HIV virus has been with us for at least a century, and more. Her adult fiction debut is entitled A Beautiful Poison. Her YA novels include Control, Catalyst, and the upcoming The November Girl. Interspersed are origin stories of a different sort-how a rye fungus in 1951 turned a small village in France into a phantasmagoric scene reminiscent of Burning Man. Lydia Kang, MD, is a practicing internal medicine physician and author of young adult fiction and adult fiction. Learn the tragic stories of Patient Zeros throughout history, such as Mabalo Lokela, who contracted Ebola while on vacation in 1976, and the Lewis Baby on London’s Broad Street, the first to catch cholera in an 1854 outbreak that led to a major medical breakthrough. Patient Zero by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen digital book - Fable. Written in the authors’ lively and accessible style, chapters include gripping medical stories about a particular disease or virus-smallpox, Bubonic plague, polio, HIV-that combine “Patient Zero” narratives, or the human stories behind outbreaks, with historical examinations of missteps, milestones, scientific theories, and more. CLSC - Patient Zero with Lydia Kang - Chautauqua Institution Welcome to Chautauqua Institution We are a community of artists, educators, thinkers, faith leaders and friends dedicated to exploring the best in humanity. Lydia Kang is an author of young adult fiction, poetry, and narrative non-fiction. From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks-how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. |