![]() ![]() But just as Riley's starting to settle in at school-even developing feelings for a mysterious outcast-the blog goes viral, and an unnamed commenter discovers Riley's real identity, threatening exposure. On the advice of a therapist, Riley starts an anonymous blog to vent those pent-up feelings and tell the truth of what it's really like to be a gender fluid teenager. ![]() And between starting a new school and having a congressman father running for reelection in über-conservative Orange County, the pressure-media and otherwise-is building up in Riley's life. Some days Riley identifies as a boy, and others as a girl. Riley Cavanaugh is many things: Punk rock. Starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist * YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers * ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults List * 2017 RainbowĪ sharply honest and moving debut perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Ask the Passengers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Six poems from the work were suppressed and the ban on their publication was not lifted in France until 1949. As a consequence of this prosecution, Baudelaire was fined 300 francs. The author and the publisher were prosecuted under the regime of the Second Empire as an outrage aux bonnes moeurs ("an insult to public decency"). La Mort (Death)Baudelaire dedicated the book to the poet Théophile Gautier, describing him as a parfait magicien des lettres françaises ("a perfect magician of French letters").The foreword to the volume, Au Lecteur ("To the Reader"), identifying Satan with the pseudonymous alchemist Hermes Trismegistus. The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism.This Bilingual English - French edition provides the original text by Baudelaire and its English translation by Cyril Scott.The initial publication of the book was arranged in six thematically segregated sections: 1. ![]() First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. ![]() Les Fleurs du mal (English: The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity. ![]() Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Sunday Times Bestseller | An Indie Next Pick | A LibraryReads Pick | With three starred reviews!Ī Best Of Pick for The Guardian | Publishers Weekly | Amazon | Audible | Gizmodo | Book Riot | LitHub | Financial Times Le Guin and Octavia Butler."- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Deserves a space on shelves alongside Ursula K. ![]() "This is the sort of debut novel every novelist hopes to write."-John Scalzi Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride."-Tamsyn Muir Instant National Bestseller and International Bestseller!Ī thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner Emily Tesh’s explosive debut novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Told in rhyming text, a young African American boy, stuck inside on a rainy day, uses his imagination to create a rocket ship out of a rocking chair and takes off on an trip to a distant planet. My Rainy Day Rocket Ship is a high-spirited, engaging salute to the imagination of Black boys who use their beautiful minds to transform the mundane into the extraordinary, dream out loud, and boldly go where their sky is the only limit. Rainy summer days are no match for a little astronaut who builds the perfect rocket ship for an indoor space adventure to another galaxy, where the sky is his only limit! A stormy afternoon and an order from Mom to stay inside are no match for this little dreamer, who uses everyday household items-a rocket chair, a cardboard box, an old dish rag, and a super-duper imagination-to whip up a trip around the universe he won't soon forget. ![]() ![]() ![]() He survived his wife for nine years before disappearing under strange circumstances, and his body was never discovered. It is Sir Simon’s ghost that haunts Canterville. Otis notices a bloodstain which the housekeeper identifies as the blood of Lady Eleanore de Canterville, murdered by her husband Sir Simon in 1575. Tappan their eldest son, Washington their 15-year-old daughter, Virginia and their twins, nicknamed the “Stars and Stripes.” Upon entering their new home, Mrs. The Otis family consists of Hiram his wife, the New York belle Lucretia R. Otis refuses to believe that there is any ghost, and the purchase is completed. Canterville tells Otis that the ghost has been around since 1584 and makes an appearance before any family death. ![]() Otis replies only that since Americans live in a modern country and have everything that money can buy, if there is a ghost they would just as soon have it in a museum. When warned about the ghost by Canterville, Mr. ![]() Otis, who buys a haunted English mansion from Lord Canterville. Analysis of Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghostįirst published in the Court and Society Review, “The Canterville Ghost,” subtitled “a Hylo-Idealistic Romance,” concerns an American minister, Mr. ![]() ![]() This admission, however, seems to border on the unlikely as the story told in the narrative is situated on the spectrum transgender stories that lean heavily toward the fairy tale fantasy. Even the About the Author bio makes the subject clear with the admission that the novel is “partially inspired” by the author’s own experiences. This is not some plot-destroying spoiler the marketing makes it clear enough and the truth of the matter is revealed quickly enough. If I was Your Girl is about a transgender girl. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() Good dialogue and some tensely effective scenes-the air crackles whenever Easy goes up against a white man-don't add up to serious competition for Chandler or Wright. As Easy moves through his hazy, gritty postwar hell buying drinks and asking questions, the rest of the cast predictably begins to kill each other off and come after Easy, setting the stage for a climactic confrontation between Daphne and Easy-but Daphne's revelations aren't really worth the wait. ![]() Although he's the hero of a detective novel, Easy is no detective: his preferred method of investigation is to circulate among his friends-bartender Joppy (who recommends him for the job), boxer-bouncer Junior Fornay, philosophical Odell Jones, sultry Coretta James, and unpredictably violent Raymond (Mouse) Alexander-mentioning Daphne until he links her to hijacker Frank (Knifehand) Green, and then looking for Green with a deal offered by Todd Carter, the strait-laced white banker Daphne ran out on. Here, low-key black detective Easy Rawlins, fired from his job at a defense plant, agrees to locate femme fatale Daphne Monet for white gangster DeWitt Albright-and of course Finds more than he bargained for. ![]() ![]() ![]() Raymond Chandler meets Richard Wright in this not-quite-successful first novel set in 1948 L.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Will he fail - or will he rise to unthinkable heights, founding the greatest clan ever, winning the most amazing woman and going on the most incredible escapades? He's assigned the class of Shaman which can become his blessing or his curse. For them, the difference between the real and virtual worlds is so slim that some of the inmates lose all sense of reality.ĭaniel Mahan is one such convict, tried and sentenced for hacking the city sewage network. They can feel everything that happens to their character whether it's pleasure or pain, strain or fatigue. They are convicts sentenced to serving their term in virtual reality with their sensory filters disabled. Still, for some users Barliona has become their biggest nightmare. Many people have come here in search of a new identity. Translated into English, German, Polish, Czech and Korean languages.īarliona is a brand-new virtual world which offers everyone the chance to start a new life as a valiant knight, a hero or a beautiful princess. The unrelenting #1 LitRPG bestseller since 2012. An original LitRPG fantasy from one of the fathers of LitRPG. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In good old adventure fashion, though, it's up to Perilous, Brendy, and Peaches to right these mysterious wrongs, bringing back the songs of power which keep the city running. But something is going wrong with the rhythm of Nola, something which seems to threaten the city's very existence in ways that don't make sense to our young protagonist. This distorted city is home to the titular Perilous Graves - usually referred to as Perry, perhaps because he doesn't seem to quite fit the vibe of a "Perilous" just yet - and his sister Brendy, as well as their friend (and Perry's crush) Peaches and a cast of parental figures, ghosts, musicians, and a combination of the three. The Ballad of Perilous Graves drops us not in the city of our own world, but in Nola, a city full of magic and music (and a lot of musical magic), which at once feels like it must be New Orleans, while also being. ![]() ![]() ![]() When they're not bickering, they're fighting off the infected in a bloody battle for survival. ![]() Now they're on the run - and stuck with each other. After these quick and deadly creepers swarm campus, Parker only escapes thanks to Adam swooping him onto the back of his trusty motorcycle. He's going to drop Adam Hawkins' film class and start fresh tomorrow after he's had a good sulk.īut Parker's about to find out what a bad day really looks like - if he can survive the night.Ī virus is unleashed, transforming infected people into zombielike killers. He humiliated himself trying to pick up a cute guy, he hasn't made any friends at school, and his stupidly hot jerk of a TA gave him a crappy grade on his paper. To live through the zombie apocalypse, they have to survive each other first.Ĭollege freshman Parker Osborne is having the worst day ever. ![]() |