![]() “ Sorrowland is a tremendous, riveting work, sinking long, deep roots into the nightmare soil of American history in order to grow and feed something new.” -Amal El-Mohtar, The New York Times Book Review It is a searing, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold, unignorable voice in American fiction. Here, monsters aren’t just individuals, but entire nations. Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland is a genre-bending work of Gothic fiction. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it. To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family, Vern has to face the past, and more troublingly, the future-outside the woods. ![]() Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes. ![]() There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world.īut even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. ![]() ![]() Vern-seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised-flees for the shelter of the woods. A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction ![]()
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(Holly Goldberg Sloan, New York Times best-selling author of Counting by 7s ) New York Public Library Best Book of the YearĬhicago Public Library Best Book of the YearĬooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) Choices Selection School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A candid and fierce middle grade novel about sisterhood and sexual abuse, by two-time Newbery Honor winner and number one New York Times best seller Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, author of The War that Saved My Life ![]() ![]() ![]() The stupa of the pagoda burned golden until the sun fell rapidly into the jungle. The perfect spot to watch the sun set after a long day on the road was the pretty pagoda of Shweyinhmyaw Paya, which looks out across the river towards the distinctive limestone peak of Mount HparPu. ![]() Hpa-An was sleepy but charming and lay on the Thanlyin river, my route to Mawlamyine. A monk broke off from texting long enough to slip his phone inside his robes and give me a blessing A monk broke off from texting long enough to slip his phone inside his robes and give me a blessing. It’s a working monastery, but shoe-free visitors are allowed. Kyauk- Kalat is balanced precariously on a limestone pinnacle in the middle of a lake. Every hilltop is crowned by a golden example, but I stopped at one of the most dramatic. Drivers rely on a passenger to give them the all-clear for overtaking, or simply good luck. The road was quiet but made hazardous by a quirk of Myanmar it drives on the right-hand side of the road but imports its cars secondhand from left-hand driving Thailand and Japan. ![]() The town of Hpa-An is a day’s drive from Yangon through miles of rubber-tree plantations where drying rectangles of natural rubber are draped over fences like dirty bathmats. 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A twelve-man Special Forces team had been covertly inserted into a small clearing in the jungles of neutral Cambodia-where U.S. In Legend, acclaimed bestselling author Eric Blehm takes as his canvas the Vietnam War, as seen through a single mission that occurred on May 2, 1968. Army’s 240th Assault Helicopter Company and Green Beret staff sergeant Roy Benavidez, who risked everything to rescue a Special Forces team trapped behind enemy lines. The unforgettable account and courageous actions of the U.S. ![]() ![]() You felt that, if you patted his bald head, he would bounce. He was small and funny and his head seemed to take up an unreasonable amount of his height. ![]() "There," I said, with the confidence of youth, "is your Poirot." Robertson Hare was a star of the Aldwych farces during which he regularly lost his trousers. 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Susan, Merlin, and Vivien must find out, as the Old World erupts dangerously into the New.” ![]() As he and his sister, the right-handed bookseller Vivien, tread in the path of a botched or covered-up police investigation from years past, they find this quest strangely overlaps with Susan’s. Merlin has a quest of his own, to find the Old World entity who used ordinary criminals to kill his mother. Susan’s search for her father begins with her mother’s possibly misremembered or misspelt surnames, a reading room ticket, and a silver cigarette case engraved with something that might be a coat of arms. Merlin is a young left-handed bookseller (one of the fighting ones), who with the right-handed booksellers (the intellectual ones), are an extended family of magical beings who police the mythic and legendary Old World when it intrudes on the modern world, in addition to running several bookshops. ![]() Crime boss Frank Thringley might be able to help her, but Susan doesn’t get time to ask Frank any questions before he is turned to dust by the prick of a silver hatpin in the hands of the outrageously attractive Merlin. It is set in England in an alternative 1983 (Jasper Fforde fans, take note.)įrom the publisher: “ Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father, a man she has never met. His latest, The Left-handed Booksellers of London, is back into more familiar Young Adult territory. ![]() It’s been less than a year since Garth’s last book ( Angel Mage) appeared, a book which was advertised as an adult novel. ![]() |