And as tensions mount in their small community, Annabelle must find the courage to stand as a lone voice for justice. While others see Toby’s strangeness, Annabelle knows only kindness. Toby, a reclusive World War I veteran, soon becomes the target of Betty’s attacks. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and though her bullying seems isolated at first, it quickly escalates. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. “This book matters.” -Sara Pennypacker, New York Times bestselling author of Paxĭespite growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. “ Wolf Hollow has stayed with me long after I closed the book. It has the feel of an instant classic." -Linda Sue Park, Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author of A Long Walk to Water
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John Felstiner's translations stem from a twenty-year immersion in Celan's life and work. All poems appear in the original and in translation on facing pages. This landmark volume includes youthful lyrics, unpublished poems, and prose. But in 1970, his psychic wounds unhealed, Celan drowned himself in the Seine. Self-exiled in Paris, for twenty-five years Celan continued writing in his German mother tongue, although it had "passed through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech." His writing purges and remakes that language, often achieving a hope-struck radiance never before seen in modern poetry. Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote "Todesfuge" ("Deathfugue"), the most compelling poem to emerge from the Holocaust. Paul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. The most wide-ranging volume of the work of Europe's leading postwar poet, including previously unpublished writings. They were the First Earth Battalion, entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries. Defying all known laws of physics and accepted military practice, they believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and-perhaps most chillingly-kill goats just by staring at them. military's long flirtation with the paranormal-and the psy-op soldiers that are still fighting the battle.īizarre military history: In 1979, a crack commando unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Now a major film, starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, and Jeff Bridges, this New York Times bestseller is a disturbing and often hilarious look at the U.S. One that was never supposed to be found.Īlison was sure she would never trust the military again. But the team discovers much more from their dolphins than they ever expected when a secret object is revealed on the ocean floor. With the help of a powerful computer system, Alison Shaw and her team are preparing to translate the first two-way conversation with the planet's second smartest species. Strange facts begin to emerge that lead naval investigator, John Clay, to a small group of marine biologists who are quietly on the verge of making history. ONE OF THE GREATEST BREAKTHROUGHS IN HUMAN HISTORY.Ī SECRET THAT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE FOUND.ĭeep in the Caribbean Sea, a nuclear submarine is forced to suddenly abort its mission under mysterious circumstances. Netflix is said to have bought the project off of a compelling presentation by Doremus. “What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack,” per Random House, “is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered.”ĭeadline understands that Fifth Season tapped Doremus to develop the One Day in December series alongside Contenta Superba’s Joel Stillerman ( Blow, Rounders) after optioning the book, with Doremus now set to write, direct and exec produce alongside Boynton and Stillerman. His name is Jack, she learns, when he’s finally introduced to her at a Christmas party - as the new boyfriend of her best friend, Sarah. Their eyes meet, there’s a moment of pure magic…and then her bus drives away.” Laurie subsequently spends a year or so scouring London in search of the mystery man. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. The book tells the story of Laurie, who per the publisher, “is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist anywhere but the movies. It may be best not to try to pry apart the seams and just enjoy looping the loop along Levy’s carefully crafted Möbius strip. Objects and animals - wolves and jaguars sunflowers and cherry trees a string of pearls and a toy train - echo throughout like leitmotifs. The characters in The Man Who Saw Everything shape-shift, and time bends back and then twists upon itself again. While other authors are increasingly drawn to autofiction, for Levy, uncertain times, it seems, call for uncertain realities. Writers and readers, nervously sharing this all too fluid world, circle each other to find out what the hell is going on.’įiguring out what the hell is going on within the fluid worlds of Levy’s fiction is not always straightforward. ‘We live through the same historical events, and the same Pepsi ads. Serious readers and serious writers have a contract with each other,’ Deborah Levy once wrote. When a plot by the Charming brothers is unveiled and threatens to push society's unwanted from their homes, the fairy-tale world's harmony and Goldilocks' home are put in jeopardy. Monsters and criminals have found refuge in the Dwarf Forests, a land without rulers or law. But not all creatures and territories have been invited to this peaceful union. Once upon a time, the kingdoms of the fairy-tale world lived in perfect harmony under the guidance of the Happily Ever After Assembly. Discover her origin story and more in this brand new, lushly illustrated full-color graphic novel, as she takes you on adventures where she may or may not break a few laws along the way. When we first meet her in The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell, Goldilocks is a beautiful and tough-as-nails outlaw. Not too hot… Not too cold… Juuuuust fight. The children find Simmy's carvan, but no George or Timmy in it. Jo is helping the villains, but decides to change sides, mostly because wants to please Dick, and tells that George is likely hidden in Raven's forest by the villains among them her father Simmy. The wrong papers are provided, so George is not released. After the house is burgled, George is kidnapped, and Jo comes with a card requesting some documents to exchange for George. After this Jo is devoted to Dick, but Jo and George dislike each other. After finding out that Jo is a girl, Dick is very sorry, which moves Jo who is not used to kindness. The others find Jo and George very much in alike. Jo and George almost get into fight and Dick who intervenes, gets a punch from Jo and Dick hits Jo. On the beach, the Five meet a gypsy girl, the "ragamuffin", called Jo. The Famous Five meet up at Kirrin Station and learn Aunt Fanny and Uncle Quentin will be holidaying in Spain, leaving the Five at home with the household's cook, Joanna. Children and Young Adult Literature portalįive Fall Into Adventure is the ninth novel in The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton. Yet the rare tales of modern survivors only underscore that, despite the existence of treatment through a series of injections, we’re at a stalemate in conquering rabies.” “ ambitious and smart history of the virus…The authors track how science tried to tame the scourge, with its ravaging neurological effects. “An elegant exploration of the science behind one of the most horrible ways to die.” Today, its history can help shed light on the wave of emerging diseases-from AIDS to SARS to avian flu-with origins in animal populations.įrom Greek myths to zombie flicks, from the laboratory heroics of Louis Pasteur to the contemporary search for a lifesaving treatment, Rabid is a fresh, fascinating, and often wildly entertaining look at one of mankind's oldest and most fearsome foes. A disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans, rabies has served as a symbol of savage madness and inhuman possession throughout history. The most fatal virus known to science, rabies kills nearly 100 percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. In this fascinating exploration, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy chart four thousand years in the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies. It's a scenario that underlies our darkest tales of supernatural horror, but its power derives from a very real virus, a deadly scourge known to mankind from our earliest days. A maddened creature, frothing at the mouth, lunges at an innocent victim-and with a bite, transforms its prey into another raving monster. But is it possible to choose a future for herself? When a reporter from a struggling city on the coast arrives in Trashlands, Coral is presented with an opportunity to change her life. In her stolen free hours, she does something that seems impossible in this place: Coral makes art. She’s stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge, where the local women dance for an endless loop of strangers and the club’s violent owner rules as unofficial mayor.Īmid the polluted landscape, Coral works desperately to save up enough to rescue her child from the recycling factories, where he is forced to work. In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has become, Coral is a “plucker,” pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency. A resonant, visionary novel about the power of art and the sacrifices we are willing to make for the ones we loveĪ few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. |