![]() ![]() ![]() With some original illustrations by the author. As she spent time in each city and town on her way to Los Angeles, she mulled over the big questions- What do I really want? What is the worst possible scenario in which I could run into my ex? How has the decision to wear my shirts tucked in been pivotal in my adulthood? In this collection of anecdotes, observations and reflections-all told in the sharp, wildly funny, and relatable voice that has endeared Abbi to critics and fans alike-readers will feel like they're in the passenger seat on a fun and, ultimately, inspiring journey. why? But Abbi had always found comfort in solitude, and needed space to step back and hit the reset button. SYNOPSIS When Abbi Jacobson announced to friends and acquaintances that she planned to drive across the country alone, she was met with lots of questions and opinions: Why wasn't she going with friends? Wouldn't it be incredibly lonely? The North route is better! Was it safe for a woman? The Southern route is the way to go! You should bring mace! And a common one. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Full of a sense of air, flying details, and action. Matt’s intricate knowledge of his ship and Kate’s cheerfully stubborn determination bring them, scrabbling hard, to victory over the brutal pirates and discovery of the wondrous cloud cats. A pirate attack forces an emergency landing on an uncharted island in the Pacificus ocean. Kate, a rich passenger Matt’s age, boards the Aurora in search of furry, flying sky mammals mentioned in her late grandfather’s journal but unknown to anyone else. Matt loves the skies aground, he feels stifled and claustrophobically disconnected from his late father, who was also an Aurora worker. ![]() Fifteen-year-old Matt works as cabin boy on the Aurora, a two-million-pound airship kept aloft by gas cells filled with hydrium, the lightest gas in the world. Entrancing, exciting adventure with airships, pirates, and mysterious flying mammals takes place on an earth with the same geography as ours but different technology. ![]() ![]() Romance blooms over scientific theories and borrowed (stolen?) lab beakers, fueling gossip and resentment from their research counterparts about the couple “living in sin.” But they can drown out the negative and focus on the positive, at least for a while. A famous chemist who finally recognizes not only Elizabeth’s beauty and magnetic personality, but her genius and scientific talent as well. Our heroine finds herself fighting against a biased system to mark her place in her field, advance her own research, and leave her own mark without the assistance of a male counterpart.Įnter Calvin Evans. Unfortunately, she is a very talented woman in field dominated by men in a time when her male colleagues at Hastings Research Institute don’t exactly have the hang of equality of the sexes. Actually, it’s the 1960’s and Elizabeth Zott is a brilliant chemist. It’s the 1960’s and Elizabeth Zott is a chemist. Looking for your next read? Check out Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, reviewed by Fulco Library staff, Mary I.įrom the moment I was introduced to Elizabeth Zott in Bonnie Garmus’s incredible book, I was sure I was going to love her.
![]() ![]() ![]() It all first started by drawing from comic books and expressing his state of my mind through art. 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Now you can discover for yourself the insights, the vision, and the uncanny accuracy of “The Celestine Prophecy”. By word of mouth alone, news of this magical, moving work spread throughout the country, until - within months of its first printing - over hundred thousand readers had become excited by its predictions and touched by the way it made sense of what was happening in their lives. ![]() They told their friends about it, and friends in turn told their friends. ![]() When James Redfield first published this extraordinary book - an adventure in pursuit of a spiritual mystery - people picked it up, read it, and were stunned by its contents. Are three decades of interest in modern physics, ecology, mystical religion and interpersonal psychology finally synthesizing into a new spiritual “common sense”? Are we now beginning to live this new common sense? Can it become the dominant paradigm of the next century? ![]() ![]() 4: Zero Year: Secret City, is in the main a good and engaging re-telling of Batman's first clash with one of his classic foes (and not perhaps the one you might expect). The first volume of "Zero Year," Batman Vol. Like Gail Simone writing a Barbara Gordon Batgirl, Scott Snyder knows Year One and he's not going to hurt it, and I've never been concerned of such since DC announced the "Batman: Zero Year" project. ![]() ![]() If there's anyone I trust to write a sequel (or un-sequel) or remake (or un-remake) of Frank Miller's Batman: Year One, it's current Batman scribe Scott Snyder, whose Batman: The Black Mirror took one scene of Year One and built around it an entire generational saga that's still affecting the DC Universe post- Flashpoint. ![]() ![]() In addition to the blow to the Confederate agenda that the pair deals over the course of their adventure, Grace and Flor also have a very sweet queer romance that unfolds as the story progresses. Grace learns that Flor is planning a heist involving a Confederate Gala and insists that she be allowed to join in the operation, pointing out that her experience and knowledge of Southern tradition means that posing as a debutant with ties to one of the men at the gala is the perfect cover story. Ghost Hawk (whose name is Flor) is sympathetic to Grace’s plight, even when it turns out that her plan to ransom the Southern Belle will be frustrated by the fact that Grace’s family, who doesn’t know she is trans, is unlikely to pony up the cash. Faced with the prospect of conscription into the Confederate Army, Grace resolved to flee her home in Georgia in the hopes of making a new life for herself on the stage in San Francisco. ![]() However, once Ghost Hawk ties the woman to a tree, she discovers that the woman – Grace – is transgender. ![]() ![]() When Ghost Hawk finds the monetary reserves of the stagecoach to be somewhat lacking, she instead resolves to kidnap the woman in the bonnet and hold her ransom. While some of the passengers remark on her strange behavior, their suspicions never get a chance to go anywhere, as they soon find themselves besieged by the notorious bandit Ghost Hawk. ![]() The story begins in 1861 as a mysterious woman boards a stagecoach in the New Mexico Territory, her bonnet pulled down to conceal her identity. ![]() ![]() Instead, it is the violence of Homer or the Eddas, where the deaths, the struggles, the burnings, beheadings, and overwhelming brutality are lenses through which the author explores the issues of morality, virtue, and duty in human nature. But this violence is no mere splatterporn. The world, granted, is extraordinarily violent, with much of the northern continent is embroiled in a violent uprising pitting the forces of "good" (epitomized by the League of the White Rose) against the forces of "evil." But the reader soon learns that most who support the League of the White Rose are no less prone to violence, murder, and sacrifice in the name of their broader cause. But there is no hint of grimdark for shock value it is grimdark done right in every respect. ![]() ![]() The Black Company is gritty fantasy at its grittiest. ![]() ![]() ![]() To put it another way, the ancient astronaut “hypothesis” is both anthropocentric and dehumanizing, just like the rest of our religions. It’s as if the only miracle the tyranny of science will permit is the positing of extraterrestrials with better high-tech-who, for some inexplicable reason, singled out for advancement a species that was and still is plundering and decimating itself, as well as pissing away every one of its major resources. The idea that alien astronauts visited the Earth at some point in primitive human history, endowing us with imagination and ingenuity-and possibly our genetic code-has become the cult religion of a hyper-materialistic Western world that consecrates nothing beyond its own egomaniacal gadgetry. Chris Foss illustration depicting “space visitors” planting the Easter Island Moai, from Roy Stemman’s Visitors from Outer Space, 1976 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Museum of Extraordinary Things is, “a lavish tale about strange yet sympathetic people” (The New York Times Book Review). And he ignites the heart of Coralie.Īlice Hoffman weaves her trademark magic, romance, and masterful storytelling to unite Coralie and Eddie in a tender and moving story of young love in tumultuous times. When Eddie photographs the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, he becomes embroiled in the mystery behind a young woman’s disappearance. The dashing photographer is Eddie Cohen, a Russian immigrant who has run away from his community and his job as a tailor’s apprentice. One night Coralie stumbles upon a striking young man taking pictures of moonlit trees in the woods off the Hudson River. An exceptional swimmer, Coralie appears as the Mermaid in her father’s “museum,” alongside performers like the Wolfman and the Butterfly Girl. An exceptional swimmer, Coralie appears as the Mermaid in her father’s museum, alongside performers like the Wolfman, the Butterfly Girl, and a one-hundred-year-old turtle. The “spellbinding” (People, 4 stars), New York Times bestseller from the author of The Dovekeepers: an extraordinary novel about an electric and impassioned love affair-“an enchanting love story rich with history and a sense of place” (USA TODAY).Ĭoralie Sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind The Museum of Extraordinary Things, a Coney Island freak show that thrills the masses. Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind The Museum of Extraordinary Things, a Coney Island boardwalk freak show that thrills the masses. ![]() |
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