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Think of the panic she must feel, hoping readers will judge the work on its own merits, wondering whether she should have released this novel as “ Joanne Kathleen.”Īt another level, this book represents a truckload of shrewdness. It is called “ The Casual Vacancy.” It is for adults, and it is not about adult wizards.Īt some level, the very existence of “The Casual Vacancy” represents a truckload of moxie. “The Casual Vacancy” is for adults, and it is not about adult wizards. ![]() ![]() ![]() He chose when they had sex Carolyn could only refuse-at her peril. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. ![]() He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. ![]() Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband’s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.Ĭarolyn’s every move was dictated by her husband’s whims. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn’s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children. ![]() ![]() ![]() Osborne begins Tales from the Odyssey with a prologue that introduces the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus, helping the reader to understand their power over humans. What Osborne does best with her Tales from the Odyssey is to give a narrative structure to Homer's classic story that contemporary young readers will recognize. For length and depth of text, I think Osborne's books fall somewhere between Gillian Cross and Neil Packer's version of The Odyssey, which is more like a very long picture book, and Gareth Hinds's faithful graphic novel adaptation of The Odyssey. Since then, they have been combined into two volumes and serve as a wonderful introduction to this classic story for independent readers. Her Tales from the Odyssey books were originally published in 2003 as six chapter books, the size and length of her Magic Tree House seres. Osborne is the author of Favorite Greek Myths, the best collection out there after the D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths, as well as American Tall Tales and a collection of Norse Myths. Mary Pope Osborne is best known for her Magic Tree House series of chapter books, but she also the author of a handful of excellent books on mythology and folklore, a genre of children's books that is sadly underrepresented. ![]() ![]() ![]() After many years on bookshelves, in 2021 this frank portrayal earned the book a spot on the American Library Association (ALA) Banned Book List for "depictions of abuse and because it was considered to be sexually explicit." The novel re-contextualizes contemporary issues of race, providing a historical framework in a not-so-post-racial America. The characters cross color lines and navigate familial tensions and traumas. This historical context is foregrounded by the fictional love story between an African American boy and a Mexican American girl. ![]() ![]() Out of Darkness is based on a true-events: In 1937, a natural gas explosion at a school in New London, Texas, killed nearly 300 students and teachers - one of the deadliest school disasters in U.S. She published Out of Darkness in 2015, a year that invoked a national conversation surrounding issues of race, environmental racism, racialized violence and police brutality. Pérez - who is a comparative literature professor at The Ohio State University in addition to having authored three novels - centers her writing on Latin American narratives, making space for young Latino readers to see themselves in her work. This discussion with Ashley Hope Pérez is part of a series of interviews with - and essays by - authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S.Īshley Hope Pérez is the author of the award-winning Out of Darkness, a young adult novel that has faced challenges and bans in the U.S. ![]() ![]() Jessica Almasy, who did an incredible job bringing these characters to life and giving them each their own unique voice in Books 1 and 2, returns to narrate. This remarkable ability to seamlessly infuse wit and sarcasm with such a grim subject matter truly sets Damico apart. ![]() The final book in her Croak trilogy took me on a roller coaster of emotions – all the way from laughing to uncontrollably sobbing. "I’ve had an advanced reader’s copy of Rogue for quite some time, but I only read it recently as I was so reluctant to say goodbye to the world that Gina Damico created. ![]() A gut-wrenching, laugh-out-loud, gritty, honest and brave ending to an appealing trilogy." - Kirkus Reviews, 9/13 Yes, it’s a novel about violence, hate and vengeance, but it’s also about love, redemption and triumph. She has also dabbled as a tour guide, transcriptionist, theater house manager, scenic artist, movie extra, office troll, retail monkey, yarn hawker and breadmonger.
![]() ![]() The characters Drew Hayes created are wonderfully imaginative and very 3-D, described in detail and with interesting personalities, gifts, and histories. The story could easily be made for children or young adults, except there is a bit of adult language in there, and at the end of the last story the author (as if afraid this was going to end up being a children's book) was heavy handed with foul language. And, there is another bit of confusion here. The author and editor would have done well to just smooth all that out - it would work fine for "story time" at a school, but is annoying for an adult reader. ![]() This is, apparently and confusingly, a set of stories in series, that adds characters with each episode and spends some time reviewing and reintroducing and reminding the reader (listener) about previous events. Entertaining, story of a mild-mannered vampire ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In its cogent synthesis of divergent influences, Flesh and Spirit testifies to the virtuosic ability with which Basquiat navigated between disparate aesthetic influences to forge a uniquely potent artistic vernacular. Executed on a soaring monumental scale across two hinged panels, the present work is the largest of an elite series of multi-paneled paintings the artist created in 1983 a work of unprecedented conceptual gravitas and ambition, Flesh and Spirit declares Basquiat’s arrival as a fully matured artistic force at the thrilling apex of his powers. (#24) Jean-Michel Basquiat ()Ī radically raw and magnificent altarpiece for the modern age, Flesh and Spirit is the exhilarating crystallization of artistic identity from the incomparably brilliant mind of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Overall: 145×145 inches (368.3 x 368.3 cm)ĭolores Ormandy Neumann, New York (acquired from the above in January 1983) ![]() Oil stick, gesso, acrylic and paper on canvas, on two panelsĮach: 72.5 x 145 inches (184.2 x 368.3 cm) ![]() ![]() Ōoku: The Inner Chambers won an Excellence Prize at the 10th Japan Media Arts Festival, a special prize at The Japanese Association of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy's fifth annual Sense of Gender Awards in 2005, and the Grand Prize of the 13th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2009. ![]() An anime ONA by Studio Deen is set to premiere on Netflix in Q3 2023.Īs of December 2020, the manga had over 6 million copies in circulation. Another television drama series premiered in January 2023. It was adapted into two live-action films in 20 and a 10-episode Japanese television drama series in 2012. Ōoku: The Inner Chambers follows an alternate history of early modern Japan in which an unknown disease kills most of the male population, leading to a matriarchal society in which the Ōoku becomes a harem of men serving the now female Shogun. The manga is licensed in North America by Viz Media. It was serialized in Hakusensha's manga magazine Melody from June 2004 to December 2020, with its chapters collected in 19 tankōbon volumes. ![]() Ōoku: The Inner Chambers ( 大奥, Ōoku) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fumi Yoshinaga. ![]() |