![]() ![]() “I write fiction.”īeneath his work’s ever-changing surface lies an obsession with the instability of meaning, and with unpredictable shifts of identity. “I’ve been called a Southern writer, a Western writer, an experimental writer, a mystery writer, and I find it all kind of silly,” he said earlier this year. ![]() Everett, sixty-four, is so consistently surprising that his agent once begged him to try repeating himself-advice he’s studiously ignored. ![]() “If I can make you believe it, then it’s fair game,” he once said of his books, which range from elliptical thriller to genre-shattering farce their narrators include a vengeful romance novelist (“ The Water Cure”), a hyperliterate baby (“ Glyph”), and a suicidal English professor risen from the dead (“ American Desert”). The author of twenty-two novels, he excels at the unblinking execution of extraordinary conceits. Percival Everett has one of the best poker faces in contemporary American literature. ![]()
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Equality for him, be it of the genders or the races, was never a matter of politics - that plaything of the human animal - but a matter of naturalness. ![]() ![]() “I can conceive of no better service,” Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819–March 26, 1892) wrote in contemplating the mightiest force of resistance in times far more troubled than ours, “than boldly exposing the weakness, liabilities and infinite corruptions of democracy.” To Whitman, who declared himself “the poet of the woman the same as the man,” the gravest weakness of democracy was the artificial, culturally manufactured inequality of the genders, which he recognized not only as a corruption of democracy but as a corruption of nature. ![]() ![]() ![]() A hauntingly beautiful, yet scarring story that captures the struggles of figuring out who you are while facing the uncertainties of the world, a story that should be mandatory reading for all." - The Nerd Daily " We Are Lost and Found absolutely sparkles. ![]() ![]() Praise for We Are Lost and Found: "It's a certain type of magic that Helene Dunbar managed with this story. 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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. ![]() ![]() They become an oasis for each other amid the craziness of this whole experience. ![]() Suddenly his life is more like a reality TV show, with his constantly bickering parents struggling with their roles as the "perfect American family." And then Cal meets Leon, whose mother is another astronaut on the mission, and he finds himself falling head over heels-and fast. ![]() With the entire nation desperate for any new information about the astronauts, Cal finds himself thrust in the middle of a media circus. Within days, Cal and his parents leave Brooklyn for hot and humid Houston. 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The next night, the children of Near start disappearing from their beds, and the mysterious boy falls under suspicion. ![]() These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life.īut when an actual stranger-a boy who seems to fade like smoke-appears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at least one of these sayings is no longer true. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company.Īnd there are no strangers in the town of Near. ![]() If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. He Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children. ![]() ![]() ![]() The murder of a drug courier to obtain an experimental and promising treatment for malignant melanoma, unleashes a chain of devastating consequences. While research laboratories are characterized as noble in search of cures, and proprietary drug companies are caricatured as ruthless and materialistic, too often, the distinctions aren’t so clear. When nature, in her ultimate act of irony, strikes Richard Powell, a cancer specialist, with malignant melanoma, a highly aggressive form of cancer, his wife, Terri devotes her life to curing the disease that ultimately kills her husband. The incidence rate has tripled in the last twenty years. While an uncommon skin cancer, one American dies of melanoma almost every hour (every 61 minutes). Genre: Medical | Mystery, Thriller & SuspenseĪ Simple Cure engages the reader in the search for the cure of malignant melanoma. I have to go to the grocery store and battle it out with the other Easter Brunch shoppers. Although this is a Friday will not be all fun and games. ![]() This week for some reason seemed to be a long one and I couldn’t be happier that it is Friday. ![]() ![]() ![]() From plutocratic Taipei and apartheid South Africa to backwater Syria and metropolitan Osaka, ambition and desire beckon "normal men" to behave uglier than any beast as we examine the true worth of human beings through and beyond appearances. In the case of Ode to Kirihito, a bizarre disease that turns people onto dog-like creatures, yet retain their human consciousness, is found in an isolated. While he ends up traveling the world to discover what it takes to be cured of such a disease, a conspiracy back home attempts to explain away his absence. Said to have been the personal favorite of the artist, who held a degree in medicine, and surprisingly attentive to Christian themes and imagery, Ode to Kirihito demolishes naive notions about human nature and health and likely preconceptions about the comics master himself.Ī promising young doctor, Kirihito Osanai visits a remote Japanese mountain village to investigate the source of the latest epidemiological mystery. Yet Monmow Disease, a life-threatening condition that transforms a person into a dog-like beast, is not the only villain in this shocking triumph of a medical thriller by manga-god Osamu Tezuka. ![]() Print Ode to Kirihito - New Omnibus Edition ![]() ![]() But in a prison the government has deemed full of spies, can they trust anyone-even each other? With everything around them falling apart, Margot and Haruko find solace in their growing, secret friendship. And Margot is doing everything she can to keep her family whole as her mother's health deteriorates and her rational, patriotic father becomes a man who distrusts America and fraternizes with Nazis. ![]() Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her father, who she knows is keeping something from her. The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day, and piece by piece. Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a "family internment camp" for those accused of colluding with the enemy. ![]() The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado-until they were uprooted to dusty Texas, all because of the places their parents once called home: Germany and Japan. It's 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. A novel of conviction, friendship, and betrayal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His third book, Empireland: How Imperialism Has Been Shaped Modern Britain became an instant Sunday Times bestseller on release in 2021, was named Book of the Year (non-fiction: narrative) at the 2022 British Books Awards, and inspired Empire State of Mind, the acclaimed two-part documentary for Channel 4 for which he earned a Best Presenter shortlisting at the 2022 Grierson Awards. He has been shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards twice, for his memoir The Boy With The Topknot and his novel Marriage Material, the former being adapted by BBC Drama in 2017 and named Mind Book of the Year in 2009. He entered the education system unable to speak English but, after attending Wolverhampton Grammar School, graduated from Christ’s College, Cambridge with a first class degree in English Language and Literature. Sathnam Sanghera was born to Punjabi parents in the West Midlands in 1976. ![]() |