![]() ![]() Gabriela is the granddaughter of Hugo Alemán, one of his generation’s best-known poets and a founder of Ecuador’s Socialist Party. Mary Ellen Fieweger: If the Alemán family is any indication, writing would seem to be an autosomal recessive disease, i.e., one that affects every other generation. ![]() Here is a conversation with Alemán and the two translators of these sometimes whimsical, sometimes terrifying portraits. ![]() ![]() It is now followed by the story collection Family Album, which teases tropes of hardboiled detective fiction, satire, and adventure narratives to recast the discussion of Ecuadorian national identity. From a pair of deep-sea divers looking for sunken treasure in the Galápagos Archipelago, to a hired gun accompanying a group of missionaries into the territory of the indigenous people of the Amazon, this series of cracked “family portraits” serves up a cast of picaresque heroes and anti-heroes in stories that sneak up on a reader before they know what’s happened. Her first book translated into English, Poso Wells, was published in 2018 by City Lights Books. She has also played professional basketball in Switzerland and Paraguay and has worked as a waitress, administrator, translator, radio scriptwriter, and teacher. Gabriela Alemán is an Ecuadorian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, born in 1969 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Caught in the ultimate battle between good and evil, with time running out and her enemies closing in, Gwen is forced to finally face the truths she's been hiding from all along. As Gwen struggles to remember where she came from and tries to find a way home, she must choose between trusting the charming fairy-tale hero who says all the right things and the captivating pirate who promises to keep her safe. Here, good and evil lose their meaning and memories slip like water through your fingers. Gwen discovers that this new world she inhabits is called Neverland, but it's nothing like the Neverland you've heard about in stories. And Gwen begins to realize that maybe her mother isn't so crazy after all. But shortly after their arrival, the girls are kidnapped by shadowy creatures and dragged into a world of flesh-eating sea hags and dangerous Fey. From talented wordsmith (Publishers Weekly) Lisa Maxwell comes a lush, atmospheric fantasy novel filled with twists and turns about a girl who is kidnapped and brought to an island inhabited by fairies, a roguish ship captain, and bloodthirsty beasts. Gwen's only saving grace is that her best friend, Olivia, is with her for the summer. 36.24 44 Used from 2.07 7 New from 34.18. Her mother believes they are being hunted by brutal monsters, and those delusions have brought them to London, far from the life Gwen had finally started to build for herself. ![]() For as long as she can remember, Gwendolyn Allister has never had a place to call home. ![]() From "talented wordsmith" ( Publishers Weekly ) Lisa Maxwell comes a lush, atmospheric fantasy novel filled with twists and turns about a girl who is kidnapped and brought to an island inhabited by fairies, a roguish ship captain, and bloodthirsty beasts. ![]() ![]() Shen is coming August 25th, and we have the red-hot cover! ![]() Ours had torn chapters, missing paragraphs, and a bittersweet ending.”īroken Knight, the highly anticipated new standalone in the All Saints High series from USA Today bestselling author L.J. “Not all love stories are written in the same way. Sometimes, the greatest love stories flourish in tragedy. When life throws a curveball at All Saints’ golden boy, he’s forced to realize not all knights are heroes. This daredevil hell-raiser could knock you up with his gaze alone, but he only has eyes for the girl across the street: Luna.īut Luna is not who she used to be. Knight Cole is everyone’s favorite football hero. ![]() Underneath the meek, tomboy exterior everyone loves (yet pities) is a girl who knows exactly what, and who, she wants-namely, the boy from the treehouse who taught her how to curse in sign language. Luna Rexroth is everyone’s favorite wallflower. ![]() Ours had torn chapters, missing paragraphs, and a bittersweet ending. Not all love stories are written the same way. But I think I am most thrilled because I know about the steamy, tortured contents that are sure to be a part of this story and it makes the cover all the better! So please enjoy and sign up (info below) for release day updates! □ ![]() I am so excited to present the cover for LJ Shen's latest and greatest All Saints High novel, Broken Knight! Isn't it just.I LOVE IT. ![]() ![]() Though his daughter is desperate to understand her heritage, he refuses to talk about his childhood. ![]() Years later, Renshu has settled in America as Henry Dao. Relying on little but their wits and a beautifully illustrated hand scroll, filled with ancient fables that offer solace and wisdom, they must travel through a ravaged country, seeking refuge. But with the Japanese army approaching, Meilin and her four year old son, Renshu, are forced to flee their home. It is 1938 in China and, as a young wife, Meilin’s future is bright. With every misfortune there is a blessing and within every blessing, the seeds of misfortune, and so it goes, until the end of time. ![]() A moving debut novel about war, migration, and the power of telling stories, Peach Blossom Spring follows three generations of a Chinese family on their search for a place to call home. ![]() ![]() Pathaan was theatrically released in India on 25 January 2023, coinciding with the Republic Day weekend, and received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences, who praised its action sequences, music and cast performances. ![]() Against the norm, pre-release publicity was limited with no media interaction or public events. ![]() The film was made on an estimated production budget of ₹225 crore (US$28 million) with a further ₹15 crore (US$1.9 million) spent on print and advertising. Two songs were composed by the duo Vishal–Shekhar, while Sanchit Balhara and Ankit Balhara provided the score. ![]() The film was shot over various locations in India, Afghanistan, Spain, UAE, Turkey, Russia, Italy and France. Produced by Aditya Chopra of Yash Raj Films, the film began principal photography in November 2020 in Mumbai. In the film, Pathaan (Khan), an exiled RAW agent, works with ISI agent Rubina Mohsin (Padukone) to take down Jim (Abraham), a former RAW agent planning to spread a deadly lab-generated virus across India. The fourth installment in the YRF Spy Universe, it stars Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, John Abraham, Dimple Kapadia, and Ashutosh Rana. Pathaan ( pronounced ) is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Siddharth Anand and written by Shridhar Raghavan and Abbas Tyrewala, from a story by Anand. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Landis, when he delves into the horror genre has illustrated that he can balance scares with some great laughs. I’ve seen a number of horror films since I started this blog, and even a lot before, but this book is bringing me a number of titles that I can’t wait to add to my list. ![]() As a youngster, and to this day, I have a very active, perhaps even overactive imagination, and even catching images of The Shining and Poltergeist one afternoon while my younger sister watched them with my mother was enough to freak me out.īut when I started my own film education during my post-secondary education I found my way to a number of films, and have since learned the craft behind the images, and dove into the whole genre happily. This gorgeous, coffee table book, available from DK Canada, penned and compiled by director John Landis (who directed my favourite werewolf movie of all time, An American Werewolf in London, though I was introduced to him through the Thriller video first) has created a love letter to the monsters of the cinema. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To one who made D'Artagnan all shall be forgiven." Clifton Fadiman agreed: "Dumas enjoyed writing his stories. Few, if any, characters in fiction inspire one with such belief in their individual existences. ![]() "His greatest creation is undoubtedly D'Artagnan, type at once of the fighting adventurer and of the trusty servant, whose wily blade is ever at the back of those whose hearts have neither his magnanimity nor his courage. "Dumas will be read a hundred, nay, three hundred years on," wrote John Galsworthy. He soon finds himself fighting alongside three heroic comrades-Athos, Porthos, and Aramis-who seek to uphold the honor of the king by foiling the wicked plots of Cardinal Richelieu and the beautiful spy "Milady." It is all impossible and it is all magnificent."įirst published in 1844, Alexandre Dumas's swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of D'Artagnan, a gallant young nobleman who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to join the ranks of musketeers guarding Louis XIII. "In these violent pages all is action, intrigue, suspense, surprise-an almost endless chain of duels, murders, love affairs, unmaskings, ambushes, hairbreadth escapes, wild rides. Synopsis: "We read The Three Musketeers to experience a sense of romance and for the sheer excitement of the story," reflected Clifton Fadiman. ![]() ![]() ![]() The battle for the English throne between Matilda and her cousin Stephen between 11 – 18 years of unrest “while God and his angels slept” – seemed bleak for fiction, until Ellis Peters (one of four pen names used by Edith Pargeter for her novels she also translated Czech literature) recognised that the pervasive uncertainty and unrest were the ideal background for mystery novels. (MC Scott bases her vivid accounts of battle and camp life on 20th-century soldiers’ reminiscences.) But one of the best examples comes from 1989, when a former civil servant introduced Falco, a chippy, sardonic, harassed investigator, whose adventures begin as Rome tries to recover from the year of the four emperors. There’s a huge market now in sword-and-sandal historical fiction drawing on the chaos of Roman politics and wars. The struggle for power, and the role of the legions, made great chunks of its history more or less a civil war. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way they encounter various hazards and witness many incredible sights such as the underground forest, illuminated by electricity, the Great Geyser, the battle between prehistoric monsters, the strange whispering gallery, giant insects and the vast subterranean sea with its ferocious whirlpool.Īlthough published in the nineteenth century, Journey to the Centre of the Earth has lost none of its power and potency to excite and engage the modern reader. The father of science fiction, Jules Verne, invites you to join the intrepid and eccentric Professor Liedenbrock and his companions on a thrilling and dramatic expedition as they travel down a secret tunnel in a volcano in Iceland on a journey which will lead them to the centre of the earth. Translation by Frederick Amadeus Malleson. With an introduction by David Stuart Davies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story begins when a goat named Answelica discovers young Beatryce curled up in a haystack, filthy, weeping, burning with fever.Ī monk named Brother Edik rescues the girl (despite his terror of the fiercely protective and extremely hardheaded goat) and she briefly finds shelter in the monastery. … Who can say?" (There are several clues that despite the medieval feel, this is not the past.) "All of this happened long ago," DiCamillo writes. "The Beatryce Prophecy" is set in a time and a place where girls are forbidden to read and write and where monks keep a book recording dire prophecies. ![]() For one thing, in this novel the sort-of spirit animal is a goat. She is helped by some benevolent adults, a friend her own age and a sort-of spirit animal.īut oh how different this is from DiCamillo's other books (which are all different from one another). As with "Because of Winn-Dixie," "Raymie Nightingale" and many others, her new novel is the story of a child who is separated from her parents and must find her way in the world. If it's true that all great writers have just one story to tell, then Kate DiCamillo has found dozens of ways to gracefully tell hers. ![]() |