![]() New York Times Bestselling Author, Speaker & Podcast Host, Kimberla Lawson Roby, has published 28 books which include her faith-based, nonfiction title, THE WOMAN GOD CREATED YOU TO BE: Finding Success Through Faith-Spiritually, Personally, and Professionally, as well as some of her novels, such as CASTING THE FIRST STONE, BETTER LATE THAN NEVER, SIN OF A WOMAN, A SINFUL CALLING, BEST FRIENDS FOREVER, A CHRISTMAS PRAYER, THE PRODIGAL SON, THE PERFECT MARRIAGE, THE REVEREND’S WIFE, BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PRAY FOR, SIN NO MORE, IT'S AS THIN LINE, and her debut title, BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, which was originally self-published through her own company, Lenox Press. ![]()
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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After escaping the predicted attack, Rydra and her crew are captured by a nearby planet. During their mission, Rydra realizes there is a traitor aboard the ship. Rydra realizes it is a language in and of itself. Initially Babel-17 is thought to be a code used by enemy agents. As her understanding of the language increases, she is able to predict where the next attack will be and gathers a team to go to the predicted location of the attack. After several attacks have been made by the invaders who speak Babel-17, she soon realizes the potential of the language to change one's thought process and provide speakers with certain powers, and she is recruited by her government to discover how the enemy is infiltrating and sabotaging strategic sites. Chinese starship captain, linguist, poet, and telepath Rydra Wong begins to learn the language. Plot summary īabel-17 is a language that can be used as a weapon utilized by enemy invaders during an interstellar war. ĭelany hoped to have Babel-17 originally published as a single volume with the novella Empire Star, but this did not happen until a 2001 reprint. It was joint winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1967 (with Flowers for Algernon) and was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1967. Delany in which the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (that language influences thought and perception) plays an important part. ![]() Babel-17 is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. ![]() ![]() But he's also an everyman figure: there's a bit of him in all of us, and this makes him funny. In some ways, Wilson is a wholly unsympathetic character, saying aloud the things others might only think. ![]() The next morning, he titters just as boyishly when we talk about his new book, Wilson, the story of a lonely, middle-aged, egotistical loner who simply cannot get on with other people, no matter how hard he tries. In the theatre, I wonder if this tic is down to nerves. I love a man who laughs at his own jokes. Until, that is, he opens his mouth, at which point you crack up. Clowes, meanwhile, is long of leg and bald of head, and, curled in his chair, looks like the angst-ridden star of an indie movie – one set in Brooklyn, probably, with a plotline involving therapists and unattainable women. Ware, who looks like Frasier Crane, only with an even bigger "brainiac" forehead, has a devastating line in self-deprecation. ![]() But the real surprise is that, beneath the lights, Clowes and Ware make for such a hilarious double act. ![]() To say this is a hot gig is a wild understatement – it's the comic equivalent of seeing the Smiths and the Stone Roses on the same bill – and the place is packed with groovy young things in architectural spectacles and patterned, thrift-store shirts. T he night before I meet Daniel Clowes, comic-book writer extraordinaire, I go to see him on stage with Chris Ware, author of the prize-winning graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid On Earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Papademetriou did a great job depicting the way a teenager might really justify engaging in behavior that they know to be wrong. I found it particularly interesting that in this book, Hayley made a series of bad decisions, the kinds that are probably typical among teenagers. To be honest, there really isn't a lot of cheer in this book, other than the hope that comes with a couple budding friendships. While struggling through her parents' divorce, she loses her two best friends, she pines over a crush, and she finds herself the victim of mean girl behavior. ![]() Okay, she has a particular talent for baking cupcakes, and happens to be able to sell them in her grandmother's cafe, but otherwise she really seems normal. She's just a regular kid, trying to deal with regular middle school problems. I liked that Hayley continued to be relatable. Besides fleshing out some characters with autism and food allergies, she also introduces a new character who is Latino. In this sequel to Save the Cupcake!, Lisa Papademetriou continues her commitment to diversity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Stanhopes, of Chestnut Hill," she sighed. Tomorrow night I'm meeting Charles's parents." She deepened her voice as though making a pronouncement. "I never believed anyone could be so happy. "I feel like a princess in a fairy tale, Mother," Tracy said. "Tell me what's happening in Philadelphia." "That's thunder, Tracy." She forced a note of cheerfulness into her voice. ![]() ![]() By evening the rain will be turning to thundershowers. Too deeply wrapped in her thoughts, Doris had not been aware of it. "It's raining." And she thought, How melodramatically appropriate. And can't.ĭoris Whitney stared out the window. What's it doing there?"ĭear God, we're talking about the weather, Doris Whitney thought, when there's so much I want to tell her. Charles and I were going out for dinner, but the weather's too nasty. "Tracy.I just felt like hearing the sound of your voice, darling." She listened to the echo of the distant ringing. She placed it next to the telephone and dialed her daughter's number in Philadelphia. It was shiny black, and terrifyingly cold. She opened the drawer of the bedside table and carefully removed the gun. Doris Whitney looked around the bedroom for the last time to make certain that the pleasant room, grown dear over the past thirty years, was neat and tidy. She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jessica Stilling, MFA ’11, whose “Betwixt & Between” (Ig Publishing), published in November 2013, interweaves the stories of a murdered child who becomes one of the lost boys of Neverland, his grieving mother and a Victorian London family with a daughter in a coma whose neighbor happens to be Peter Pan author J.M.McElderry Books), about a teenage boy from a fractured family who turns to a new crew of friends for support after a local priest betrays his trust, was released in January. Brendan Kiely, MFA ’11, whose debut novel, “The Gospel of Winter” (Margaret K.Aspiring writers often endure months – if not years – of receiving rejection letters from editors before a publisher finally says “yes.” However, several recent graduates of The City College of New York’s MFA program in creative writing have achieved some success by getting their first – and sometimes second novels –published lately. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nyxia is a fast paced, hard hitting, epic ride! This one will take you on exciting twists and turns! YA sci-fi lovers rejoice! This one has a highly developed cast, a gripping story-line, and plenty of sci-fi bits to keep you furiously turning the pages! Secrets about the volatile substance they’re hoping to mine, about the reclusive humanoids already living on Eden, and about the true intentions for the recruits.Įmmett will face the ultimate choice: win the fortune at any cost, or find a way to fight that won’t forever compromise what it means to be human. ![]() Each recruit must earn the right to travel down to the planet of Eden-where they will mine nyxia, a substance that has quietly become the most valuable material in the universe.īut Babel’s ship is full of secrets. Broken enough that Babel can remold them however it pleases.Įvery training session is a ruthless competition where friendships are tested and enemies are made. One of ten selected recruits, Emmett boards the company’s spaceship and sets course for a planet that Babel has kept hidden from the rest of the world.īefore long, Emmett discovers that all of Babel’s recruits have at least one thing in common: they’re broken. The catch? He has to launch into deep space to get it. Synopsis: With millions of dollars at stake, walking away isn’t an option.Įmmett Atwater agrees to leave Earth behind when Babel Communications offers him a fortune. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since that time, Salvatore has published numerous novels for each of his signature multi-volume series including The Dark Elf Trilogy, Paths of Darkness, The Hunter’s Blades Trilogy, and The Cleric Quintet. Salvatore’s first published novel, The Crystal Shard from TSR in 1988, became the first volume of the acclaimed Icewind Dale Trilogy and introduced an enormously popular character, the dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden. His books have been translated into numerous foreign languages including German, Italian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Turkish, Croatian, Bulgarian, Yiddish, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Czech, and French. ![]() Salvatore’s original hardcover, The Two Swords, Book III of The Hunter’s Blade Trilogy (October 2004) debuted at # 1 on The Wall Street Journal best-seller list and at # 4 on The New York Times best-seller list. His books regularly appear on The New York Times best-seller lists and have sold more than 10,000,000 copies. Salvatore enjoys an ever-expanding and tremendously loyal following. ![]() As one of the fantasy genre’s most successful authors, R.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She became a Forfeit in the first place because she couldn't handle all the pain in her life and needed it gone. More importantly, however, Nikki's internal circumstances have changed, too. This kind of puts a damper on her ability to reconnect with her family, you know? But now she's able to do that… but it's at the cost of her relationship with Jack, since he took her place in the Tunnels. In the beginning of the book, Nikki knows that she has six months until the Tunnels claim her for eternity. Jack's sacrifice meant that I had my family back, and even though our fractured relationships had a ways to go, my home life was suddenly a stronghold in my otherwise messed-up world. ![]() Within paragraphs of the book's end, we see that Nikki's life is back on track in the mortal world. ![]() |