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![]() Single mom Carmen and her two daughters are on a work trio to Mexico where Carmen is overseeing the renovations of an old church. Piñata by Leopoldo Gout is a possession story unlike any other. And it may already be too late to escape what’s been awakened… The disaster costs Carmen her job, cutting the family trip short.īut something malevolent and unexplainable follows them home to New York, stalking the Sanchez family and heralding a coming catastrophe. Then, an accident at the worksite unearths a stash of rare, centuries-old artifacts. ![]() ![]() Her daughters Izel and Luna, too young to be left alone in New York, join her in what Carmen hopes is a chance for them to connect with their roots. It was supposed to be the perfect summer.Ĭarmen Sanchez is back in Mexico, supervising the renovation of an ancient abbey. Fans of Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones, and V Castro will devour this bloody tale of vengeful spirits and the dark legacy of colonialism.”― BooklistĪ Head Full of Ghosts meets Mexican Gothic in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist Leopoldo Gout. “This creepy, fast-paced read brings a fresh voice to horror…. ![]() ![]() ![]() A comparison of the two novels reveals not only a host of thematic parallels, but, more importantly, biographical details that show how closely Thomas modelled Leverkühn's life on that of his son. ![]() In Klaus's Mephisto no less than in Thomas's Doctor Faustus, the central figure is an artist who places his career above all else and ignores his social responsibilities. Despite their many differences (Thomas regularly acknowledged an obligation to uphold traditional values, Klaus snubbed bourgeois mores by turning to drugs and prostitution), they produced remarkably similar political novels in which the predicament of twentieth-century Germany is reviewed in the light of Faust's pact. An uneasy literary relationship existed between Thomas Mann and his son Klaus. ![]() ![]() He returned to France in 1917, and briefly attended a college prep school in Paris before attempting to enter the naval academy. ![]() Receiving his early education at Catholic schools in France, Saint-Exupéry was sent away to a boarding school in Switzerland after the outbreak of World War I. ![]() Saint-Exupéry enjoyed a mostly carefree and privileged life, and in 1912, he took his first trip in an airplane-an experience that would have a profound and lasting impression on him. His father died when he was a young boy, and his mother moved him and his four siblings to a relative’s château in the east. ![]() Early LifeĪntoine de Saint-Exupéry was born into an aristocratic family in Lyon, France, on June 29, 1900. His adventures as a pilot would supply the inspiration for all of his literary endeavors, which culminated with the 1943 publication of the classic The Little Prince. He received his pilot’s wings during his compulsory military service in 1922, around which time he also began to write. Raised in an aristocratic family, he fell in love with aviation at an early age after took his first airplane ride at the age of 12. (1900-1944) Who Was Antoine de Saint-Exupéry?Īntoine de Saint-Exupéry was a French writer, aviator, poet and author. ![]() ![]() When her own family is unexpectedly confronted with foreclosure, the calculating Farrah is determined to reassert the control she’s convinced she’s always had over her life by staying with Cherish, the only person she loves-even when she hates her.Īs troubled Farrah manipulates her way further into the Whitman family, the longer she stays, the more her own parents suggest that something is wrong in the Whitman house. With Brianne and Jerry Whitman as parents, Cherish is given the kind of adoration and coddling that even upper-class Black parents can’t seem to afford-and it creates a dissonance in her best friend that Farrah can exploit. ![]() Her best friend, Cherish Whitman, adopted by a white, wealthy family, is something Farrah likes to call WGS-White Girl Spoiled. Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the only one with Black parents. ![]() Morrow comes a new adult social horror novel in the vein of Get Out meets My Sister, the Serial Killer, about Farrah, a young, calculating Black girl who manipulates her way into the lives of her Black best friend’s white, wealthy, adoptive family but soon suspects she may not be the only one with ulterior motives. Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by *PopSugar* * Medium* * BookRiot* * BookPage* CrimeReads* Tor Nightfire* Bookshop* * Book Talk* BiblioLifestyle* and more!įrom bestselling author Bethany C. ![]() ![]() For the true story would not have move anyone. Several years later, Dandelion could have changed the contents of the ballad and written about what had really occurred. He knew ballads were not written to be believed, but to move their audience. About how nothing - not even death - was able to destroy that love and part them.ĭandelion knew that few would believe the story told by the ballad, but he was not concerned. About how beautiful and powerful was their love. About how the witcher and the poet met on the seashore, among the crying of seagulls, and how they fell in love at first sight. The ballad told of a certain witcher and a certain poet. ![]() ![]() The lyric suited the melody, and came into being simultaneously with it, the words bending into the music, becoming set in it like insects in translucent, golden lumps of amber. It began with a few bars, from which an elegant, soothing melody emerged. “Dandelion, staring into the dying embers, sat much longer, alone, quietly strumming his lute. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ingeniously inventive, richly detailed, and breathtakingly lush and vibrant, the doomed world and people that Aldiss creates will live forever in the minds of all those who enter this remarkable realm. Aldiss’s most beloved and enduring works. But any knowledge to be gained at the terminator-the forbidding boundary between the day world and the night-might well prove worthless for the boy and the companions he amasses along the way when the expanding sun goes nova and their Earth is no more.Ī thrilling parable of courage, discovery, and survival, Hothouse is among Grand Master Brian W. Although the journey will not be an easy one for young Gren, he sets off on an odyssey across a perilous world populated by carnivorous plants and other evolved vegetation. When the aging leader of Gren’s tribe decrees it is time for the old ones to go “Up,” the younger are left to make their own way below. Here humans are among the very few animal species that still exist, struggling to survive against enormous odds, but they have become small and weak, and their numbers have dwindled to almost nothing. ![]() Millions of years beyond our time, our Earth has long since stopped spinning-and giant flora have taken over the sunlit half of the motionless world. ![]() A Hugo Award–winning classic about a far-future Earth dominated by gargantuan plants and the few humans who remain ![]() ![]() What follows is a series of murders all of which are somehow linked to the The Pale inn, whose owners present themselves as witches with special powers able to control other people's psyche. The Pale Horse is a small town inn where Marple stays to inquire into the murder of her friend, father German, who dies the same day she received his the letter,after tending to a dying woman who gives it to him, with a list of names. I never really liked Joan Hutchingson, so McKenzie fit the bill much better. The production is on its usual high level with Julia McKenzie in the role of Jane Marple, and she actually manages to pull it rather well off. I didn't read it anyway, so judging from what we actually saw in the movie, it's safe to say that gloomy, dark whodunits go very well with the rural, romantic landscapes of English countryside. ![]() I'm not one of those to bash the film just because it doesn't completely and exactly mirror the book. ![]() ![]() Without Merit is a story of hope, humor and self-realization, and is a tale that everyone – regardless of having anxiety or depression – should read.Ībout esperanza: Striving to Increase Awareness of Depression and Anxiety. Their Hope To Cope website is a resource for all those suffering from anxiety and depression (and also those who know loved ones suffering) and strives to build an empowering community for all. Upon reading it, of course I wanted to share my review with the award-winning team over at esperanza Magazine. ![]() I opened up Without Merit by Colleen Hoover without having any idea the story was centered around a girl with depression. To read the rest of my review, published on the esperanza magazine website, please click here. Merit’s twin sister is exclusively attracted to terminally ill boyfriends, her older brother acts as though she doesn’t exist, and her little half-brother absorbs all of the family’s craziness and negativity… ![]() The family’s once cancer-stricken mother resides in the basement, and Merit’s father had an affair with her mother’s former nurse, who he now has a child with. Merit Voss is part of a unique living situation: Her blended family unit lives in a repurposed church nicknamed Dollar Voss. ![]() ![]() Without Merit by Colleen Hoover, Bookstagram Photography by Kelly Furgal ToyeĮveryone has secrets. ![]() ![]() She never admitted it during the daily calls to her mother, but an inordinate amount of her workday was spent getting coffee for all the good old boys in this isolated outpost of the State Department. She was a newbie to the State Department, handling visa applications, lost passports, and any other piddling issue that confronted U.S. ![]() Twenty-nine and single, with a degree in public policy from the University of Maryland, Ruby Keller was a ground-floor Foreign Service officer. The dark and snowy hollows of Grunewald Forest, six miles from the Wall and a stone’s throw from the Berlin Brigade headquarters? Certainly. West Berlin, guarded by twelve thousand Allied troops and surrounded by half a million soldiers of the Warsaw Pact? A defection there would make sense. One might as well attempt to defect at Woolworths. The McDonald’s off Clayallee seemed an unlikely place for espionage. ![]() The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. ![]() Tom Clancy Red Winter, A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. ![]() |