![]() ![]() ![]() "She may not realize it, but manga author Nagata Kabi is a voice for this generation." – Boston Bastard Brigade ".fans will be eager to check in on Kabi and cheer for her floundering movements toward happiness." – Publishers Weekly Awkward and wholly authentic, it is visually stunning, translating the nuance of emotion into heartbreaking graphics that tackle tough subject matter such as anxiety, substance use, self-esteem, female sexuality, and coming out all set against the backdrop of long standing societal and familial pressures." – Teen Vogue "Continuing on where My Lesbian Experience left off, this new installment follows the author-artist through a new chapter in her life as she exposes herself through words and pictures to those closest to her. ![]() Named one of Amazon’s best graphic novels of 2018! ![]()
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![]() ![]() Learn more about Nnedi at and follow Nnedi on twitter (as Facebook and Instagram. She lives with her daughter Anyaugo in Phoenix, AZ. Her debut novel Zahrah the Windseeker won the prestigious Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature. Her many works include Who Fears Death (winner of the World Fantasy Award and in development at HBO as a TV series), the Nebula and Hugo award winning novella trilogy Binti (in development as a TV series), the Lodestar and Locus Award winning Nsibidi Scripts Series, LaGuardia (winner of a Hugo and Eisner awards for Best Graphic Novel) and her most recent novella Remote Control. Born in the United States to two Nigerian (Igbo) immigrant parents and visiting family in Nigeria since she was a child, the foundation and inspiration of Nnedi’s work is rooted in this part of Africa. ![]() The more specific terms for her works are africanfuturism and africanjujuism, both terms she coined and defined. Nnedi Okorafor is a New York Times Bestselling writer of science fiction and fantasy for both children and adults. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() I honestly didn’t set out to write a feminist take on the zombocalypse when I started writing AS THE WORLD DIES as an online serial. The first attacks are minor, but everyone knows there is worse to come.Īnd beyond the fort’s walls, the zombies shamble, moaning, eyes fastened hungrily upon the living. The fort’s search and rescue teams have attracted unwanted attention from bandits who see the fort as competition for food. Gazing out over the beauty of the surrounding Texas countryside, it’s hard to believe that death and danger lurk around every corner. As the sun sets, the people of Ashley Oaks gather in the hotel’s rooftop ballroom and gazebo to celebrate their survival. The leaders of the survivors-Katie, Jenni, Juan, Travis, and Nerit-decide it’s time for an assault on the zombie-occupied hotel that looms over the town square.Ī pitched battle in the banquet room is the start of a harrowing, room-by-room struggle from Reception to roof. Winter is coming soon it will be too cold to live in tents and other makeshift shelters. ![]() The fort has grown crowded as survivors of the zombie apocalypse have found safety between its walls. Paperback Release: January 29th 2013 / Tor Books Fighting to Survive by Rhiannon Frater (As the World Dies, #2) - Adult Zombie Series ![]() ![]() Sophie’s world is ruined after disaster leaves her family bankrupt. “House of Shadows” is the first novel in the “Ghosts and Shadows” series, which was released in the year 2015. She likes to have a mountain range close by anywhere she lives. ![]() She loves forests, old growth forests where the trees are able to dwarf anybody that steps in between them. She would like to get another cat, but realizes that is straying far too close to crazy-cat-lady territory. She lives on Australia’s Central Coast.ĭarcy lives with two humans and three cats, and has a garden filled with vegetables and herbs. She likes to spend all day in the library, research urban legends, and goes on bushwalks when she is not writing. Her work reflects every single one of these passions. She loves ancient graveyards, haunted houses, mysteries and suspense. Coates’ debut novel, titled “Ghost Camera”, was published in the year 2014. ![]() Darcy Coates is an award winning author and Amazon and USA Today bestseller, and writes suspense and horror novels. ![]() ![]() Fencing with the King is a flavorful page-turner that will both nourish and satiate. From start to finish, her dynamic prose and seemingly effortless storytelling create an original narrative of love, intrigue, and family/global dynamics. ![]() "Diana Abu Jaber outdoes herself with this brilliantly paced and utterly absorbing novel. Uncle Hafez will make their time in Jordan complicated-and dangerous-after Amani discovers a missing relative and is launched into a journey of loss, history, and, eventually, a fight for her own life.įencing with the King masterfully draws on King Lear and Arthurian fable to explore the power of inheritance, the trauma of displacement, and whether we can release the past to build a future.Ībout the Author: Diana Abu-Jaber is the award-winning author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, including Crescent and The Language of Baklava. Her father has avoided returning to his homeland for decades, but Amani persuades him to come with her. Soon the perfect occasion to investigate arises: her Uncle Hafez, an advisor to the King of Jordan, invites her father to celebrate the king’s sixtieth birthday-and to fence with the king, as in their youth. ![]() ![]() ![]() It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War. A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent.Īmani is hooked on a mystery-a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father’s books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Award-winning editor Takács has assembled a stellar line-up of stories that explore the frontiers of gender - using the imaginative tools of speculative fiction.The editor's introduction also includes a section on year-to-year changes in transgender SFF, and assembled longer-form trans highlights. ![]() Into the Gray by Margaret Killjoy: I only led the foul men with filth on. The Year's Best Transgender Themed Speculative FictionĪ non-binary teenager may be from a small town but they remember at least a dozen past lives a young trans woman auditions as an anime voice actor while the world is ending in a future of constant change and transformation, one person is hesitant to undergo the next metamorphosis a trans man comes back home to discover his parents have added to the household an android that has his deadface installed. We go out into the galaxy and collect stories, and then we bring them home. Into the Gray is a chilling, charming short story about powerful women and the wicked men they punish. ![]() ![]() ![]() But if anyone can take on a divided city, a scheming guardian and the criticism of a world that once adored her, it’s the notorious Pagan Jones. The offer’s too good to be true, Berlin’s in turmoil and Devin Black knows way too much about her-there’s definitely something fishy going on. If Pagan’s going to do it, she has to decide fast-and she has to agree to a court-appointed “guardian,” the handsome yet infuriating Devin, who’s too young, too smooth, too sophisticated to be some studio flack. with cut text due to tight binding inherent from the source. Pagan Jones, once Americas sweetheart, is released from a reformatory in 1962 to star in a film in West Berlin, under the guardianship of mysterious Devin Black Notes. The shoot starts in West Berlin in just three days. The notorious Pagan Jones by Berry, Nina (Writer), author. ![]() Pagan will be released from juvenile detention if she accepts a juicy role in a comedy directed by award-winning director Bennie Wexler. ![]() Pagan’s old agent shows up with a mysterious studio executive, Devin Black, and an offer. Nine months later, she’s stuck in the Lighthouse Reformatory for Wayward Girls and tortured by her guilt-not to mention the sadistic Miss Edwards, who takes special delight in humiliating the once-great Pagan Jones.īut all of that is about to change. Pagan was behind the wheel and driving drunk. ![]() Pagan Jones went from America’s sweetheart to fallen angel in one fateful night in 1960: the night a car accident killed her whole family. ![]() ![]() ![]() And like most K-pop idols, Jaewoo is strictly forbidden from dating anyone. Turns out, Jaewoo is a member of one of the biggest K-pop bands in the world. But when Jenny and her mother move to Seoul to take care of her ailing grandmother, who does she meet at the elite arts academy she's just been accepted to? Jaewoo.įinding the dreamy stranger who swept you off your feet in your homeroom is one thing, but Jaewoo isn't just any student. With Jaewoo an ocean away, there's no use in dreaming of what could have been. And yet, she finds herself pulled into spending an unforgettable evening wandering Los Angeles with him on the night before his flight home to South Korea. Mysterious, handsome, and just a little bit tormented, Jaewoo is exactly the kind of distraction Jenny would normally avoid. That is, until the night she meets Jaewoo. ![]() Jenny didn't get to be an award-winning, classically trained cellist without choosing practice over fun. A modern forbidden romance wrapped in the glamorous and exclusive world of K-pop, XOXO is perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Maurene Goo. ![]() But when she finds herself falling for a K-pop idol, she has to decide whether their love is worth the risk. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo Jenny's never had much time for boys, K-pop, or really anything besides her dream of being a professional cellist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kurlansky's book offers a chronological tour through the hot spots of rebellion in 1968 to illustrate the "combustion of rebellious spirits around the world" (p. In his introduction, Kurlansky explains: "What was unique about 1968 was that people were rebelling over disparate issues and had in common only that desire to rebel, ideas about how to do it, a sense of alienation from the established order, and a profound distaste for authoritarianism in any form" (p. He focuses on the phenomenon of popular rebellion across societies and cultures. Mark Kurlansky's new book joins a growing literature that examines the history of the 1960s, and 1968 in particular, from a global perspective. Remembering the Emotions and Images of 1968 Reviewed by Jeremi Suri (Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) ![]() |