![]() ![]() There, she discovers the band of rebel kids who protect the kingdom, as well as an ancient, monstrous god bent on total destruction. One day, her sketchbook's calming effect is broken when her mythological characters begin springing to life and Kiki is pulled into the mystical world she drew. Kiki's sketchbook is full of fantastical doodles of the Hindu myths and legends her mother has told her since she was tiny. Did she lock the front door? Is there a terrible reason her mum is late? Recently her anxiety has been getting out of control, but one thing that has always soothed her is drawing. For 8+ fans of Abi Elphistone and The Land of Roar. A middle-grade fantasy inspired by Hindu legends about anxiety, creativity and finding your own strengths. The mythical beasts she loves to draw have come to life, and she is the only one who can defeat them. Kiki Kallira is more of a worrier than a warrior - but today she will learn to be a hero. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She's represented by Justin Bell at Spectrum Literary Agency. Nicole is professional level member of SFWA and HWA. She’s the editor for the groundbreaking SLAY: Stories of the Vampire Noire anthology. Nicole has conducted workshops for Clarion and is an active instructor at Speculative Fiction Academy. She's written the critically acclaimed, weird western anthology, Sisters of the Wild Sage: A Weird West Collection. Nicole has over 50 published short stories and is the author of the Cybil Lewis and Death Violations cybernoir series as well as the Kingdom of Aves fantasy mystery series. With over 20 years in publishing, she’s written for Pseudopod, Fiyah, Apex Magazine, White Wolf, The Realm (formerly Serial Box), Subsume, and Baen. She's a two-time Atomacon Palmetto Scribe Award winner. ![]() Riley, Michele Tracy Berger, Samantha Bryant, Steven. Nicole Givens Kurtz has been called "a genre polymath who does crime, horror, and SFF (Book Riot)." They've named her as one of the 6 Black SFF Indie Writers You Should be Reading, 30 Must-Read SFF Books by Black Authors, and The Best of the West: 8 Alternative History Westerns (Sisters of the Wild Sage). Marie Wood, Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald, Lynette Hoag, Miranda J. ![]() ![]() Or something far worse.įLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. ![]() They must infiltrate the vampires' stronghold and face unspeakable terrors.īecause death awaits them in the fortress. To save them, Dez and his friends must risk everything. The bloodthirsty creatures have transformed a four-story school building into their fortress, and they're holding Dez's ex-girlfriend and Iris's young daughter captive. Now Dez's ex-girlfriend and Iris's young daughter have been taken hostage by an even greater evil, the dominant species in this hellish new world: Dez would never have survived the battle without Iris, a woman he's falling for but can never be with because of the monster inside her. Within months, nearly every man, woman, or child was transformed into a monster…or slaughtered by one.Ī rare survivor without special powers, Dez McClane has been fighting for his life since mankind fell, including a tense barfight that ended in a cataclysmic inferno. They awakened the bestial side of humankind: werewolves, satyrs, and all manner of bloodthirsty creatures. ![]() ![]() Three years ago the world ended when a group of rogue scientists unleashed a virus that awakened long-dormant strands of human DNA. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story follows Hiro, a brilliant hacker, and pizza delivery guy. ![]() The novel takes place when the United States is at war with the Caliphate, a fundamentalist Islamic republic. And the book is so original that the author redefines how we look at the world. This novel is one of Time’s 100 best English novels. We just had to start with the Snow Crash. These books have been recommended by Reid Hofman, Larry Page, Brianna Wu, and many others. In this guide, we’ll list the best fiction and non-fiction metaverse books you’ll surely love. This is what makes books about metaverse so fascinating and entertaining. 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The album unleashed a flood of its own as young electric guitar players got turned on to this “new” sound and began playing blues. ![]() Texas Flood would eventually go double Platinum in the U.S., but sales figures aren’t the real story. “And it has the best guitar tone Stevie ever got on record.” “The performance is pure, honest and right there,” Double Trouble bassist Tommy Shannon told Alan Paul and Andy Aledort, authors of the 2019 book Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble's debut album, Texas Flood, was released in 1983. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe. ![]() ![]() Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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The subjects of her essays span numerous topics, including the relationship between religion and science, US history, nuclear pollution, John Calvin, and contemporary American politics. Her novels are noted for their thematic depiction of faith and rural life. Robinson is best known for her novels Housekeeping (1980) and Gilead (2004). ![]() Robinson began teaching at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1991 and retired in the spring of 2016. In 2016, Robinson was named in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people. Across her writing career, Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. ![]() Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American novelist and essayist. ![]() ![]() Concisely, pragmatically, and without a whiff of condescension, Suze Orman tells her young, fabulous & broke readers precisely what actions to take and why. The Money Book was written to address the specific financial reality that faces young people today and offers a set of real, not impossible solutions to the problems at hand and the problems ahead. This generation has it tough, without a doubt, but they're also painfully aware of the urgent need to take matters into their own hands. ![]() They live off their credit cards, may or may not have health insurance, and come up so far short at the end of the month that the idea of saving money is a joke. ![]() The goals of their parents' generation - buy a house, support a family, send kids to college, retire in style - seem absurdly, depressingly out of reach. They're called "Generation Debt" and "Generation Broke" by the media - people in their twenties and thirties who graduate college with a mountain of student loan debt and are stuck with one of the weakest job markets in recent history. ![]() The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke is financial expert Suze Orman's answer to a generation's cry for help. ![]() ![]() While visiting the Virginia gentleman, Pascal took a liking to Equiano and purchased him as a gift for some friends in England. One day, the "kind and unknown hand of the Creator" revealed itself to Equiano in the form of a merchant ship captain named Michael Henry Pascal. He also resented that he was given new names he was called Jacob here, and had previously been called Michael - both names of which he disapproved. He wished for death, and was terrified of his owner, who had placed an iron muzzle on one of the old female slaves. ![]() Equiano watched as all of his friends were sold off to traders until he was the only one left on the plantation, miserable in his loneliness. There, they worked on a plantation for a rich old gentleman. They landed in Virginia country, which they accessed by sailing up a river. ![]() On this journey, they were treated better and had more to eat. Equiano and other slaves remained on Barbados for a few days, but were then shipped off in a sloop to North America. ![]() ![]() ![]() Twenty-five years after its initial publication by Basic Books and then Harvard University Press, a revised edition, published by Oxford University Press in 2017, is introducing new readers to one of the most complex and compelling accounts of the phenomenology of schizophrenia and its reciprocally illuminating relationship with a modernism characterised by paradox and hyperreflexivity, self-consciousness and self-alienation.Ī symposium to celebrate, interrogate and reflect upon the significance and wide-ranging influence of Madness and Modernism will be held at Priors Hall, Durham Cathedral on Friday, 10.15 – 6pm. ![]() Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature and Thought is the magnum opus of the distinguished clinical psychologist and phenomenologist of psychopathology Louis A. The abstract and program you can find below. ![]() Durham University’s Centre for Medical Humanities and Hearing the Voice are hosting this symposium. The symposium ‘ 25 Years of Madness and Modernism‘ might be of interest to h-madness readers. Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought. ![]() |