As she searches for intelligence on Syntex’s enemies in an attempt to clear her name, Sil starts to relearn how to live outside the protection of the company, along the way gaining a new perspective on the world around her.Īs you might expect from what is essentially YA cyberpunk, this starts off fast and never slows down, packing in action and excitement from start to finish. Knowing full well that she only has a year or so of life remaining before her implants finally kill her, Sil is determined to go out with her perfect mission record intact, right up until something goes horribly wrong and she finds herself on the run from her own people. In a divided, post-apocalypse America, eighteen year-old Sil Sarrah is a Mindwalker for the Syntex Corporation – modded and trained to step into field agents’ minds from afar and extract them from the most dangerous missions. Out soon from Hodder & Stoughton, Kate Dylan’s YA sci-fi novel Mindalker offers up a breathless blast of neon-soaked, tactically-modded fun laid over a surprisingly dark and powerful core.
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Man, that Eartha Kitt had the presence to make a room, and staircases smoulder. I would pay good money to know what had Harry Belafonte and Martin Luther King laughing so hard. I think you know by the looks of those legs, that that is the one and only Tina Turner. They are some of the most beautiful images out there, and so of course, I had to share.Take a peek. The book is still in a work in progress, so Gainer decided to share her photo finds and now curates the Vintage Black Glamour Tumblr blog, the Facebook page and Pinterest account. VBG is the brainchild of writer Nichelle Gainer whose goal, according to a recent NPR profile, was to start a book project showcasing a collection of rarely seen historical photos of actors, educators, writers, students, musicians and more - all African-American. It shows you people, things, places in their most unadorned state, stripped bare if you will, so we can appreciate their simplicity.Ī few months ago, I stumbled across the Facebook page of Vintage Black Glamour and was instantly smitten with the beautiful, rarely seen images of famous black folks and some not so famous black folks. There's nothing sexier to me than a black and white photo. At the start of the book he was an arsehole, but the end he was slightly less of an arsehole. I just couldn't bring myself to like Ove in any way and knowing his past did not help me come around. Bureaucrats, personal tragedy, misguided lessons from dad are all artificially grafted into the present day story to build tension and justify Ove as a person. The story is split into present day challenges to Ove's grumpiness, broken up by anecdotes from his past to explain his terrible behaviour. The only surprise is how little Ove changes. 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I believe that is what my father wanted for me and knew I would so desperately need: a tool for survival, the truth of my dignity named like a mercy new each morning.” “From the womb, we must repeat with regularity that to love ourselves is to survive. “Reaches deep beneath the surface of words unspoken, wounds unhealed, and secrets untempered to break them open in order for fresh light to break through.”-Morgan Jerkins, New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing and Caul Baby Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Somebody’s Daughter “This is the kind of book that makes you different when you’re done.”-Ashley C. In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her family alongside contemplative reflections to discover the “necessary rituals” that connect us with our belonging, dignity, and liberation. Broken into clipped, emotionally resonant chapters, Gay details a personal life spent grappling with the comfort of food, body hyperconsciousness, shame, and self-loathing. The author refers to her body as a “cage” in which she has become trapped, but her obesity also presents itself as a personal challenge to overcome the paralyzing psychological damage caused by rape. Gay painfully recalls the “lost years” of her reckless 20s as a time when food, the anonymity of the internet, and creative writing became escapes and balms for loneliness. “I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe,” she writes. The author exposes the personal demons haunting her life-namely weight and trauma-which she deems “the ugliest, weakest, barest parts of me.” Much of her inner turmoil sprang from a devastating gang rape at age 12. Gay ( Bad Feminist, 2014, etc.) pulls no punches in declaring that her story is devoid of “any powerful insight into what it takes to overcome an unruly body and unruly appetites.” Rather than a success story, it depicts the author, at 42, still in the throes of a lifelong struggle with the fallout from a harrowing violation in her youth. A heart-rending debut memoir from the outspoken feminist and essayist. Continuing the story begun in the hit novels 16, the New York Times best-selling creator of Honor Harrington, David Weber, the best-selling fantasy star Mercedes Lackey, best-selling SF and fantasy author Jane Lindskold, space adventure author K. History must take a new course as American freedom and democracy battle against the squabbling despots of seventeenth-century Europe. A cosmic accident has shifted a modern West Virginia town back through time and space to land it and its twentieth century technology in Germany in the middle of the Thirty Years War. The battle between democracy and tyranny is joined, and the American Revolution has begun over a century ahead of schedule. |