![]() ![]() The dystopic view of the future is both frightening and plausible, while the characters keep the story grounded in the details of human existence."― Library Journal on Love Minus Eighty "McIntosh's latest novel combines sf future tech with horror to craft a story that is both disturbing and hopeful as it questions the value of a life on borrowed time. More importantly, though, it's a book that thrilled and delighted me as a reader, chilling and touching at the same time, a great story that stimulates the mind, the heart and the nerves."― Charles Yu, the author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe " Love Minus Eighty is a book that makes me envious as a writer: a clever premise, brilliantly executed. ![]() The stirring result casts a clear and knowing eye on our current society, from the best viewpoint of all: the future."― New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson on Love Minus Eighty ![]() "How do we keep on connecting in our ever-growing maze of social technologies? How can love succeed in the techno-surround we've trapped ourselves in? These are the questions Will McIntosh explores in this tightly plotted tangle of love stories. ![]()
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![]() The guys are pretty typical teenage boys and the girls pretty much follow suit. The young adult characters are believable. They let it slowly unfold through the pages of the book. The authors take their time and do not rush the connection. In order to understand the rest of the book, the reader must have a grasp of the first event, but this is not apparent at first. It was very clever how the authors wove the two time frames together. It then fast forwards to the present day. The book opens with a very gripping and surprising event from the past. As a parent I must say, this is a nice surprise. ![]() ![]() It still addresses attractions between the players but does not go into gory detail or become a how to manual on how to catch a guy. This book the eleventh Elementum is a nice book for a young adult. More than a few of those books involved things that young adults did not need to even think about, just to get readers. I am the mother of a daughter so I went through more than my share of sloppily written love stories involving supernatural elements. ![]() I was given this book in exchange for an honest review and I must honestly say, this is a pretty good little book. ![]() ![]() But everything here is undubitable-and this historical factualness gives the book its authority, if not much of a range. Its a series of very short chapters, telling the story of the Americas and the changes that happened beginning in 1492. Im happy its on Google Books because Im out of physical space for new tomes. And not especially original: US writers-e.g., Evan Connell, Paul Metcalf-have been doing this kind of thing for many years, over many books. Im working through Eduardo Galeanos 'Memory of Fire' trilogy (1. The effect is naturally a strong one, massively depressing-which the author abets with relentless use of the present tense (like the old You Are There TV show) and the relative brevity (about three paragraphs, on average) of each terrible anecdote. But then, of course, arrive the satanic Spanish, and with them-still in the context of published sources, just made uniform by Galeano-the results of the Fall: the disease, the rapacity, the terror, the hypocrisy, the slavery, the cruelty, the permanent humiliation. ![]() This, the first volume of three, fitted out with carefully noted and indexed references, uses original sources and texts to chronicle the pre-Edenic existence of the pre-Columbian Indians, using a sampling of their innovative cosmology myths. A Uruguayan writer, Galeano has written-fastened may be the more accurate description-a large superstructure about the melancholy history of the Americas. ![]() ![]() Although Adeline wins prizes at school, they are not enough to compensate for what she really yearns for - the love and understanding of her family. ![]() She and her siblings are subjected to the disdain of her stepmother, while her stepbrother and stepsister are spoiled. Life does not get any easier when her father remarries. Adeline's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving birth to her. A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph and courage in the face of despair. ![]() ![]() Top of the class - A Tianjin family - Nai Nai's bound feet - Life in Tianjin - Arrival in Shanghai - First day at school - Family reunion - Tram fare - Chinese New Year - Shanghai school days - PLT - Big sister's wedding - A birthday party - Class president - Boarding school in Tianjin - Hong Kong - Boarding school in Hong Kong - Miserable Sunday - End of term - Pneumonia - Playwriting competition - Letter from Aunt BabaĪ riveting memoir of a girl's painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Derricotte, Toi - i: new and selected poems.Davis, Chloe O. - The queens' English: the LGBTQIA+ dictionary of lingo and colloquial phrases.Bradford, Richard - Devils, lusts and strange desires: the life of Patricia Highsmith.Belcourt, Billy-Ray - A history of my brief body. ![]() Baron, Dennis E. - What's your pronoun?: beyond he & she.Baker, Paul - Fabulosa!: the story of polari, Britain's secret gay language.Anderson, Fiona - Cruising the dead river: David Wojnarowicz and New York's ruined waterfront.Jump to: Arts, Literature & Language, Essays & Poetry | Biographies & Memoirs | Fiction | Social Science & History, Activism & Protest | Children's & Young Adult ARTS, LITERATURE & LANGUAGE, ESSAYS & POETRY And New York City Book Award-winning historian Hugh Ryan gave us "A Taste of Queer Brooklyn" last June. In 2019, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, Library staff recommended their favorite books in our collection on gay culture, life, and history in New York City. June is LGBTQIA+ Pride Month, and we present a list of relevant recent arrivals covering a wide variety of subjects and genres, including a rich selection of novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s weird and funny and mean and considerate all at once. This is social commentary as only Palahniuk could deliver it. You see, if you remove the book jacket for Adjustment Day, the blue hardcover beneath reads “Talbott Reynolds.” By simply carrying around the book in this state, you’ve become part of the narrative, which forces you to question how you’d conduct yourself in this society. Once Adjustment Day commenced the list would be taken down. As absurd as it is engaging, the novel lampoons our society’s hypocrisies, biases, and excesses, even while building a utopia that’s even more insane and dysfunctional.Īs always, Palahniuk goes deeper, even making the reader part of the story. The editorials and book reviews and investigative reporting that. Once Palahniuk turns society on its ear, its a rich milieu in which the author can experiment with characters, form, style, and an acidic wit that savages. Adjustment Day is coming, and it’ll change everything…for a while.Īdjustment Day is Palahniuk’s razor-sharp take on nationalism, conspiracy theories, and social movements. But there’s a new movement gathering strength in the shadows, one determined to set things right by any means. Government officials are planning a sham war just to decimate the numbers of angry young men in the country. Racism, homophobia, and ignorance abound. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To nominate someone else as a Quality Contributor, message the mods. 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Apply for Flair ![]() ![]() ![]() Nature is out of balance in the human world. ![]() Not when his new friends have his back, not when Victoria has risked her own future to be with him, and not when he has a reason to live for the first time in his life… But he isn’t about to lie down and accept his destiny without a fight. The forecast for Aden? A knife through the heart.īecause a war is brewing between the creatures of the dark, and Aden is somehow at the center of it all. These souls can time travel, raise the dead, possess another’s mind, and, his least favorite these days, tell the future. With four – oops, three now - human souls living inside his head, Aden has always been “different” himself. Never mind that one of his best friends is a werewolf, his girlfriend is a vampire princess who hungers for his blood, and he’s supposed to be crowned Vampire King – while still a human! Well, kind of. Since coming to Crossroads, Oklahoma, former outcast Aden Stone has been living the good life. For once, sixteen-year-old Aden Stone has everything he’s ever wanted: ![]() ![]() "And I just thought, 'Well, boys don't like fat girls, so if I'm fat, they won't want me and they won't hurt me again.' But more than that, I really wanted to just be bigger so that I could fight harder." "I grew up in this world where fat phobia is pervasive," she says. Gay traces her complicated relationship with her weight back to being a victim of sexual assault as a child. Hunger, she writes, is not about wanting to shed 30 or 40 pounds: "This is a book about living in the world when you are three or four hundred pounds overweight," she explains. The result is Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. The author of Bad Feminist and Difficult Women says the moment she realized that she would "never want to write about fatness" was the same moment she knew this was the book she needed to write. Roxane Gay has finally written the book that she "wanted to write the least." She teaches English at Purdue University. ![]() Her previous books include Bad Feminist, Difficult Women and An Untamed State. Roxane Gay is a novelist and short story writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When a renowned Yemeni lawyer heard about the young victim, she took on Nujood's case and fought the archaic system in a country where almost half the girls are married while still under the legal age. Unable to endure the pain and distress any longer, Nujood flednot for home, but to the courthouse of the capital, paying for a taxi ride with a few precious coins of bread money. Flouting his oath to wait to have sexual relations with Nujood until she was no longer a child, he took her virginity on their wedding night. There she suffered daily from physical and emotional abuse by her mother-in-law and nightly at the rough hands of her spouse. Today I have decided to say no."įorced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from her parents and beloved sisters and made to live with her husband and his family in an isolated village in rural Yemen. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. "I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. ![]() |