![]() ![]() “Gyo” concerns a young couple, Tadashi and Kaori, whose vacation to the beach in Okinawa takes a sinister turn. But perhaps nowhere do his works’ parallels with the real world become more frightening than with “Gyo,” a horror series about a bizarre and terrifying threat that, though inhuman at first glance, is entirely man-made. ![]() Whether it is a young man haunted by his family legacy in “My Dear Ancestors” or a teenage girl whose beauty masks an inner darkness in “Tomie,” Ito excels at creating surreal and nightmarish worlds with uncanny ties to our own. Junji Ito, acclaimed author of Japanese horror manga, is known for his impressive ability to craft stories that are at once darkly wonderful and yet strangely believable. ![]()
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![]() The solutions, techniques, and practices range from solar power, electric vehicles, and tree planting to bioregions, azolla fern and forest farms they are all doable, science-based, and comprise a precise and unequivocal course of action. From land to ocean, food to industries - Regeneration proposes an extensive menu of actions that collectively can reverse the overheating and degradation of our planet. In Regeneration Paul Hawken has flipped the narrative, bringing people back into the conversation by demonstrating that addressing current human needs rather than future threats is the only path to solving the climate crisis. For three decades, scientists and the United Nations have urged us to address future existential threats. The NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist and creator of Drawdown, Paul Hawken The dangers of climate change and a warming world have been in the public eye for fifty years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Descender, and The Underwater Welder comes an all-original graphic novel about a brother. ![]() Touching and harrowing, this is a deeply moving and beautifully illustrated story about family, heritage, and breaking the cycle of violence. Roughneck TP: From the New York Times-bestselling author and. As he circles closer, he threatens to shatter this newfound peace and pull both Derek and Beth back into the world of self-destruction they've fought so hard to leave behind. There, living off the land, they reconnect with each other, the painful secrets of their past, and their Cree heritage.and start to heal. When his long-lost sister Beth shows up, on the run from an abusive boyfriend, the two escape to a secluded hunting camp in the woods. His hockey career ended a decade earlier in a violent incident on ice, and since then he's been living off his reputation in the remote northern community where he grew up, drinking too much and fighting anyone who crosses him. Derek Ouellette's glory days are behind him. ![]() ![]() From the New York Times-bestselling author and award-winning creator of Essex County, Descender, and The Underwater Welder comes an original graphic novel about a brother and sister who must come together after years apart to face the disturbing history that has cursed their family. ![]() ![]() 3) All online orders must be submitted by 12:00pm on OCTOBER 29TH for your book to be personalized. Books ordered using the 'pay in store' option will not be issued a ticket or guaranteed a book until actual payment is made.Ģ) Note your intent to attend in the comments section at checkout. You may purchase your book online, in-store, or over the phone, but all books must be paid in full in order to receive a ticket.ġ) You must enter payment method. Priority tickets to the signing line are given only with the purchase of DRY from Mysterious Galaxy. Tickets are numbered, indicating your place in the signing line, and are sold on a first-come basis. He also writes for film and television, and he was the story producer on the film "Zedd-Moment of Clarity." They are working together to adapt Dry for the big screen. Bookseller Victoria praises Scythe, noting “Neal Shusterman created a world, that despite all of its craziness, all of the things it made me question about myself and the world around me, I find myself wanting to be a part of.” Jarrod Shusterman wrote a short story in Unbound, called Undevoured. ![]() Neal Shusterman is the bestselling author of the Unwind and Scythe series, both of which are staff favorites. ![]() ![]() ![]() Father and son duo, Neal and Jarrod Shusterman’s novel, Dry, explores what the world would look like if there was no more water. ![]() ![]() It is then that she expanded her art practice to graphic design. While traveling, she became inspired to expand her work beyond the field of photography to challenge and engage the viewer. Prior to receiving her BFA, Simpson traveled to Europe, Africa, and the United States where she further developed her skills through documentary photography. In the summers, Simpson took courses at the Art Institute of Chicago while visiting her grandmother. ![]() Her parents – a Jamaican-Cuban father and African-American mother – had moved from the Midwest to New York and took her to numerous plays, museums, concerts and dance performances. She attended the High School of Art and Design. Lorna Simpson was born on Augand grew up in Crown Heights, which is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Simpson continues to explore these themes in relation to memory and history in various media including photography, film, video, painting, drawing, audio, and sculpture. Her early work raised questions about the nature of representation, identity, gender, race and history. She is best known for her photo-text installations, photo-collages, and films. Her works have been included in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Simpson in most well known for her work in conceptual photography. She came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal. ![]() ![]() Lorna Simpson (born August 13, 1960) is an African-American photographer and multimedia artist. ![]() ![]() They conclude with a riveting assessment of M-theory, an explanation of the laws governing our universe that is currently the only viable candidate for a “theory of everything”: the unified theory that Einstein was looking for, which, if confirmed, would represent the ultimate triumph of human reason.Ī succinct, startling, and lavishly illustrated guide to discoveries that are altering our understanding and threatening some of our most cherished belief systems, The Grand Design is a book that will inform-and provoke-like no other. ![]() ![]() The authors explain that we ourselves are the product of quantum fluctuations in the early universe and show how quantum theory predicts the “multiverse”-the idea that ours is just one of many universes that appeared spontaneously out of nothing, each with different laws of nature. When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent “grand design” of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion-or does science offer another explanation? In The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow present the most illuminating scientific thinking about these and other abiding mysteries of the universe, in nontechnical language marked by brilliance and simplicity.Īccording to quantum theory, the cosmos does not have just a single existence or history. ![]() a wealth of ideas leave us with a clearer understanding of modern physics in all its invigorating complexity.”- Los Angeles Times ![]() ![]() ![]() Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. They can't stand to break their friends' hearts, and so they'll play their parts. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they'll all have together in this place. Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blissful week they leave behind their daily lives have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group's yearly getaway for the last decade. And still haven't told their best friends. Except, now-for reasons they're still not discussing-they don't. ![]() Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. ![]() ![]() Scientific excitement by happily widowed, upper-class Cora Seagrave, obsessed in her new freedom with evolution and palaeontology. In the novel each response is given an avatar. It’s return in the 19 th Century provokes scientific excitement for some but from others scepticism. Back then it inspired fear but eventually disappeared. The Serpent, real or not, first emerged from the water in the 16 th Century, a time of far greater credulity. Should we fear the unexpected movement in the night, the half seen, possibly imagined, loose-formed shape in the dark? Should we flee from it? Or should we follow the Serpent and discover if it exists, understand its purpose, discern its true shape? That question drives the key challenge of Sarah Perry’s hugely successful second novel The Essex Serpent. ![]() Is it something real, or something the community has only dreamed? ![]() More and more about the world is understood.īut then, on the banks of the Blackwater estuary in rural southern England, something seems to stir in the darkling waters, a terrifying Serpent. ![]() The role of religion in everyday life is receding. It’s the late Victoria era and the citizens of a bloated British Empire feel confident they have mastered nature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She was my first introduction to the world of f/f fiction (nearly all the f/f books I have shelved are books I found through her and the lists she features on) and also my first introduction to #ownvoices, before I even knew what #ownvoices was! I was just amazed. I have been aware of Sarah Diemer ever since I read “ The Dark Wife” by her. When Easton is falsely accused by a tormentor–and sentenced to the Void–Piper dares a desperate, and almost fatal, escape, beginning a journey across Liberty to chase after Easton in the hopes of saving his life…without losing hers. They and all of the other queer kids at the party are immediately shipped to the Borstal–which proves to be even worse than the whispered rumors had predicted. And no one ever returns from the Void.ĭespite their caution, a freak Enforcer raid on an illegal party catches Piper and Easton by surprise. Their parents raised them with the knowledge that if they ever give themselves away, they’ll be sent to the Borstal, a dilapidated prison where deviant children–Recreants–undergo brutal treatments to cure them of their “sins.” By command of Liberty’s leader, Voice Wright, if the Recreants fail to be cured, or are ever caught committing another sinful act, they are sent to the Void. She lives it.>Īdopted siblings Piper and Easton aren’t careless. Imagine a future America where being gay is punishable by death. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2008, Harper Children's published Terry's standalone non-Discworld YA novel, Nation. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal.Ī non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback - Harper Torch, 2006 - and trade paperback - Harper Paperbacks, 2006). There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. ![]() |