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![]() A year later and tired of a boring life in New York, Lucy follows her friend to Tangier and is received as a houseguest. ![]() Alice returned to England, married John, a man of somewhat dubious character, and moved to Tangier (which of course is where Westerners sojourned to indulge tastes that might well have got them into trouble at home). An incident their senior year-referred to as “the accident”-led to their estrangement. Here it’s Bennington in the fifties when it was a women’s college and the BFs and roommates are Alice, a wealthy English orphan, and Lucy, a local scholarship girl (or “shipper” in collegiate slang). ![]() A favorite subject of fiction is the unequal friendship, especially with best friends at school or college. ![]() ![]() Dara, by contrast, is mythologized as a poet and mystic. To many in South Asia, Aurangzeb is the scholastic bigot who imposed a strict form of Islam and alienated his non-Muslim subjects. Historians have long wondered whether the Mughal Empire would have crumbled when it did, allowing European traders to seize control of India, if Dara Shukoh had ascended the throne. Endless battles with rival rulers depleted the royal coffers, until by the end of the seventeenth century Europeans would start gaining a foothold along the edges of the subcontinent. After Aurangzeb’s reign, the Mughal Empire began to disintegrate. ![]() Emerging victorious, Aurangzeb executed his brothers, jailed his father, and became the sixth and last great Mughal. In this exquisite narrative biography, the most comprehensive ever written, Supriya Gandhi draws on archival sources to tell the story of the four brothers Dara, Shuja, Murad, and Aurangzeb who with their older sister Jahanara Begum clashed during a war of succession. Although the Mughals did not practice primogeniture, Dara, a Sufi who studied Hindu thought, was the presumed heir to the throne and prepared himself to be India’s next ruler. Dara Shukoh was the eldest son of Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor, best known for commissioning the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. ![]() ![]() ![]() The camaraderie and banter between the characters at the fire station felt realistic and was humorous and witty. These characters included Cassie’s mother Diana, “The Rookie” (Owen), and the men at the fire station particularly Captain Murphy. The book also features a lovable and endearing cast of major and minor characters who were extremely well-drawn, and who I rooted for. She had courage, heart, and determination, and I was invested in her struggle. She is a strong, independent person who grew and changed throughout the book, in a realistic way. ![]() As a result of guarding her heart, Cassie keeps everyone at arm’s length, and is unprepared for feelings that emerge when she meets Owen, a sweet rookie firefighterĬassie is a fascinating, original, and one of a kind character whose struggles were authentic and relatable. ![]() Without revealing any spoilers, Cassie has closed off her emotions, equating feeling vulnerable with weakness. Cassie has built her life based on order, routine, control, and no drama. The story is told entirely from Cassie’s perspective as she uproots her life, moving to a small Massachusetts town to live with her mother, and begin a new job at a fire station. Ever since reading and loving How to Walk Away, I have been eagerly awaiting Katherine Center’s newest book, and it was definitely worth the wait! I savored every second of this honestly written love story, which was so much more than a light-hearted romantic comedy. Things You Save In A Fire is one of my favorite books of the year. ![]() ![]() ![]() The rest of the book is about Ryland and his new alien friend-whom he not-so-cleverly names Rocky-working together to save their home planets. He crosses paths with an alien that looks like a Labrador-sized spider made out of rock. It turns out that Ryland isn’t the only one looking for a way to stop the Astrophage. I won’t ruin the ending or anything like that, but I’m going to give away a bit more than the summary on the book jacket. ![]() So if you want to go into it blind, you should probably stop reading this now. The twist comes about a quarter of the way into the book. If Ryland doesn’t succeed, the Earth will enter a new ice age that kills billions of people. He quickly figures out that he’s been sent on a mission to save our solar system from a microorganism called the Astrophage, which is essentially eating our sun. It tells the story of Ryland Grace, a high school science teacher who wakes up alone on a spaceship in a different star system with no memory of how he got there. Here’s what I can say without ruining anything for you: Project Hail Mary is the latest novel by Andy Weir, who is best known for writing The Martian. ![]() But as soon as I started talking about it to some colleagues, I realized there was a problem: there was no way to explain why I liked the book so much without spoiling one of its big surprises. Have you ever read a book that's hard to tell people about without giving away some of the plot? I recently finished Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir and couldn’t wait to recommend it. ![]() ![]() I would have devoured them and developed a big appetite for even more of this sort of truth-telling. I wish I could have read History Smashers when I was in elementary school. "Informative and fun, eye-opening and entertaining. Absolutely smashing!" -Candace Fleming, award-wining author Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. "Kate Messner serves up fun, fast history for kids who want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. History Smashers: The Titanic is written by Kate Messner and published by Random House. "A history book for middle-graders that should be on everyone's (child and adult) to-read list." - Shelf Awareness ![]() “Messner and Meconis provide a timely perspective on an important part of American history.” - School Library Journal "Well-researched, entertaining, and packed with facts." - Booklist "The book’s format may be a good match for those with shorter attention spans, and permits it to be gratifyingly capacious in what it covers." - New York Times Book Review ![]() "Critical, respectful, engaging: exemplary history for children." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review ![]() ![]() ![]() I really, really, really dislike it when the author and the heroine can’t be distinguished from one another for any reason, and this was too cutesy and too much reality. The heroine has cats named Willow Tum Tum and Buffy the Mouse Slayer… identical to the names of author Teresa Medeiros’ cats, who are both regular characters in her own tweetstream. I kept trying to read it and I kept running into reasons to stop. Some of them are among my most-favoritest-ever, which is another reason why I kept giving this book another try, over and over and over. ![]() I like Teresa Medeiros’ books, as a rule. The format was as much a part of the developing story as the chat dialogue itself. ![]() ![]() I also have a major soft spot for the section at the back of Dave Barry’s “Dave Barry in Cyberspace,” where he wrote what I presume is a fictional chat encounter that leads to romance-after a woman creates an AOL chat room called “Can Actually Spell.” The romance in chat lines between MsPtato and RayAdverb is one of my favorites, even though it’s jokey and short and deals with infidelity. I liked Meg Cabot’s “The Boy Next Door,” which is largely told via email, even with the weird part where the villain is running down the stairs and the heroine is on her laptop in the stairwell typing that the villain is running down the stairs. I like epistolary novels, and I really like epistolary novels involving technology. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() DeCandido From $6.79 #2 Witch's Canyon The "Supernatural" Book of Monsters, Spirits, Demons, and Ghouls Paperback – Septemby Alex Irvine (Author) 1,851 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle $13.49 Read with Our Free App Paperback $10.29 60 Used from $1.69 30 New from $5.28 1 Collectible from $34.41There are currently four comics series, Supernatural: Origins, Supernatural: Rising Son, Supernatural: Beginning's End, and Supernatural: Caledonia (Collectively called Dogs of Edinburgh), along with a mini issue The Beast With Two Backs. 17 Books #1 Supernatural: Nevermore Keith R.A. See the complete Supernatural series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. Supernatural book The Supernatural book series by multiple authors includes books Supernatural: Nevermore, Witch's Canyon, Supernatural: Bone Key, and several more. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is saved by the expedition's SecUnit (Security Unit), a cyborg security agent which has secretly named itself "Murderbot". As it spends more time with some caring humans, it starts developing feelings that it does not care for.Ī scientific expedition on an alien planet goes awry when one of its members is attacked by a giant native creature. It calls itself Murderbot, and likes to watch unrealistic soap operas. The series is about an artificial construct designed as a Security Unit, which manages to override its governor unit, thus enabling it to develop independence. The first in a series called The Murderbot Diaries, it was published by Tor.com. ![]() ![]() All Systems Red is a 2017 science fiction novella by American author Martha Wells. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the interval, Robinson devoted herself to writing nonfiction. Yet it would be more than twenty years before she wrote another novel. The book became a classic, and Robinson was hailed as one of the defining American writers of our time. ![]() “It’s as if, in writing it, she broke through the ordinary human condition with all its dissatisfactions, and achieved a kind of transfiguration,” wrote Anatole Broyard, with an enthusiasm and awe that was shared by many critics and readers. But an early review in The New York Times ensured that the book would be noticed. When Marilynne Robinson published her first novel, Housekeeping, in 1980, she was unknown in the literary world. Interviewed by Sarah Fay Issue 186, Fall 2008 ![]() |