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When Hazel and Sylvia are locked in a cargo hold, the stakes seem very high. Hazel herself has an opportunity to observe human nature at close range, as she realizes both of her friends may be the targets of thieves and tries to intervene. These include the nature of icebergs, the refraction of light on calm seas, and the construction of the Titanic and its preparedness for emergencies. Hazel’s determined and occasionally inopportune questions allow Nielsen to deftly deliver myriad details that point to the looming disaster. Hazel dreads the thought of the factory and wishes to be a journalist-an aspiration that reflects her questioning, curious personality. Abelman, a former governess, befriend her. Sylvia, a first-class passenger Hazel’s age, and Mrs. She sneaks aboard inside another passenger’s trunk, and a young crewman finds her an empty cabin to stow away in. Hazel is bound for factory work in America, leaving behind the family farm. 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F orty years after the original US TV adaptation of Alex Haley’s book Roots: The Saga of an American Family, the History channel releases this new version, Roots (BBC4), first shown in the US last year. Sometimes the potential Cinderella will be a young lady who lives in a kingdom with an infant prince. Unfortunately, the Tradition isn’t perfect and doesn’t really care what the people themselves want. Little girls with a nasty stepmother and two nasty stepsisters will find herself in a Cinderella type situation. The Tradition is basically what happens when a story gets told and retold so often that it starts affecting the lives of people. The 500 Kingdoms are affected by a force called the Tradition. But I could not put these books down! These six books are new retellings of classic fairy tales that we all grew up with such as the Snow Queen and Sleeping Beauty.Įach book can be read on its own, which his nice, but they all tie together as well. I prefer urban fantasy with guns and cars and pop culture jokes. Normally I don’t go for the sort of pure fantasy novels. □ At any rate, I just plowed through Mercedes Lackey’s 500 Kingdoms novels recently. And I’m back! Its been a while, I know but its been busy, busy so far this year! Both good and bad I guess. Winner of Tu Books' New Visions Award, Ink and Ashes is a fascinating debut novel packed with romance, intrigue, and heart-stopping action. The race to outrun her father's legacy reveals secrets of his past that cast ominous shadows, threatening Claire, her friends and family, her newfound love, and ultimately her life. The discovery opens a door that should have been left closed. until she discovers that he was a member of the yakuza, a Japanese organized crime syndicate. Struggling to understand why her parents kept this surprising history hidden, Claire combs through anything that might give her information about her father. Maetani is a member of the We Need Diverse Books team and is dedicated to. Before now, Claire never had a reason to believe they even knew each other. Her debut novel, Ink and Ashes, is the winner of the 2013 New Visions Award and a Junior Library Guild 2015 selection. But on the anniversary of his death, she finds a letter from her deceased father to her stepfather. In this heart-pounding YA mystery, teenager Claire Takata stumbles on a secret from the past and must race to outrun her father's dangerous legacy.Ĭlaire Takata has never known much about her father, who passed away ten years ago. Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College of EducationĪsian/Pacific American Award Honor for Literature, Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) His final novel was Fall of Kings, which was finished after his death by his wife, Stella. He went to have a successful career, with only one novel not making bestseller status – White Knight, Black Swan, a crime thriller he wrote under the pen name of Ross Harding. Following his third novel, Waylander, Gemmell became a full-time novelist.ĭavid Gemmell became a published novelist with the novel Legend, which he had started in 1976. His cancer was a misdiagnosis, but the novel ended up being published as Legend. Then, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, he went back to writing, as his goal was to have at least one novel published before he died. However, I chose to ignore that and instead. All that stands between them and victory is the fortress of Dros Delnoch. Gemmell began trying to write in the ’70s, but the end result was not quite what he desired. Now, realistically I could include any of the Usagi Yojimbo comics on this list, as Usagi is Japanese for rabbit. 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But meanwhile, Raven is STILL whining about how she wants to be a vampire, but Alexander is inexplicably reluctant to turn her. First, Raven decides (for purely selfish reasons) to find Luna a "soulmate." It takes about five minutes. I would love to summarize the plot, but there really isn't much of one. I'm not sure if it is the final instalment in her Vampire Kisses series, but after nine volumes of Hot Topic clothes, teen drama and Raven nagging at her boyfriend to make her a vampire, I'm ready for the pain to end. I have to give Ellen Schreiber credit - not many authors can wussify vampires even more than Stephenie "Sparkly" Meyer.īut Ellen Schreiber has managed it, and "Vampire Kisses 9: Immortal hearts" just cements this. BUT there are some obvious glitches that a good editor should have noticed. Who’s editing the books these days, anyway? Willa of the Wood tells a good story, set in the Great Smoky Mountains, with atmosphere and suspense and compelling characters and a touch of Americana (Cherokee characters, the mountains, panthers and otters and other animals native to the area). So, most of the book is about Willa’s search for home, community, and family. She escapes from the confines of her dictatorial clan life, but she finds that life without the clan is lonely and purposeless. Faeran believe in the guideline that “there is no I, only we”, but Willa is an individual. Jaetters are thieves who come at night and steal from the day-folk for the benefit of the ruler of Willa’s clan, the paderan. Willa is a young night-spirit jaetter of the Dead Hollow clan of the Faeran, an orphan and a sort of New world fairy? She’s also a woodwitch with the ability to talk to trees and plants and some animals, and she can change skin color like a chameleon and blend so that she can hardly be seen among the flora of the forest. Margaret Mader, the bustling lady anthropologist who proves a friend to Thorby (her resemblance to Margaret Mead seems more than coincidental) is a typical Heinlein touch in this synthesis of reality-unreality.Īre we not men? We are-well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).Ī zombie apocalypse is one thing. Sometimes satirical, probingly provocative, this is a characteristic Heinlein off-the-ground mirage, with the protagonist encountering the values of a free society, weighing the worth of the individual. Since the disappearance of his parents control had fallen into the unscrupulous hands of a man engaged in slave trade. Thorby discovered that he was heir to the interstellar Rudbeck corporation. But final identification posed a dilemma. The mystery of his parentage tormented Thorby through all of the adventures he met in the free wheeling trading enterprises of the ship he called home. Then, in accordance with his instructions the boy undertook a search for his ancestry on board the space ship Sisu. An inter-galactic waif, Thorby, was sold at a slave auction to Baslim the Cripple. |