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The Midnight Strider (The Chronomancer Chronicles, #2)
With newfound abilities running through his veins, Artemis is determined now more than ever to find his missing brother. Even if it means summoning the ship of the dead.
Directly following the events of my first novel, The Last Chronomancer(The Chronomancer Chronicles, # 1), comes The Midnight Strider. The journey through Aridete continues. This is a dark (high) fantasy!
Written by an agender aromantic asexual author :)
WHY YOU SHOULD CARE:
- poc aro ace protagonist
- features racial, disability, gender, romantic & sexual orientation diversity
- IMPORTANT PLATONIC FRIENDSHIPS
- fantasy elements
- DIVERSITY IN FANTASY
- adventure
- MERMAIDS
-POSITIVE AROMANTIC AND ASEXUAL REPRESENTATION
- POSITIVE DIVERSITY
- involves Father Time, the Grim Reaper, Mother Nature, etc!!possible triggers: drowning.
warning: contains a few swear words and violence.
Like the first novel, The Last Chronomancer, I tried to make this book as close to being for everyone as I possibly could. If you’re unsure, I have the prologue (of the first book) featured on my blog which you can read here. If you’re okay with the content in the prologue, you’ll be okay with the content in the rest of the books.
Whether or not you purchase the book, I would definitely appreciate a reblog.
Thank you!
amazon|kindle | the book depository (coming soon) | barnes & noble (coming soon)
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“Groundbreaking musician, actor, fashion icon, and futurist Janelle Monáe is joined by literary collaborators Danny Lore and Sheree Renée Thomas for a conversation moderated by ALOK to celebrate the launch of The Memory Librarian at BAM. A sexy, soulful, and dissident collection of short fiction, The Memory Librarian brings to the written page the rebellious and Afrofuturistic world of Monáe’s critically acclaimed album Dirty Computer.
The stories in The Memory Librarian explore the lives of those living in an increasingly surveillance-hungry, totalitarian order—striving to see and hold onto their “dirtiness” without being tracked down and cleaned. Filled with the artistic innovation and brave themes that have made Janelle Monáe a global influence, this anthology sees our battles about gender identity, political violence, and sexuality as matters of space, time, love, and the power of memory.”
EVENT DETAILS:
LAUNCH OF THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN: AND OTHER STORIES OF DIRTY COMPUTER
CO-PRESENTED BY BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, GREENLIGHT BOOKSTORE, AND THE LIT. BAR
APRIL 18 8PM
ALL TICKETS INCLUDE A BOOK. $45, $55, $65. GENERAL PUBLIC TICKETS GO ON SALE ON 3/21/22.
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How Tabitha Brown Plans to Feed Your Soul
“Brown talks to Shondaland about her new book, “Feeding the Soul (Because It’s My Business),” and how to deal with online haters.”
Seize the day! New from Artisan/Workman, Cauliflower Power: 75 Feel-Good, Gluten-Free Recipes Made with the World’s Most Versatile Vegetable, by Lindsay Grimes Freedman.
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New from Random House and journalist and This American Life contributor Jon Mooallem, This Is Chance! The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together. The thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster—and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together
“An intimate, moving story about our capacity to care for one another when things fall apart—and, just maybe, on all the ordinary days, too.”—Elizabeth Gilbert
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New from University of Washington Press, Ozette: Excavating a Makah Whaling Village, by Ruth Kirk. The book is a comprehensive and highly readable account of this world-famous archaeological site and the hydraulic excavation of the mudslide that both demolished the houses and protected the objects inside from decay. Ruth Kirk was present, documenting the archaeological work from its beginning, and her firsthand knowledge of the people and efforts involved enrich her compelling story of discovery, fieldwork, and deepen our understanding of Makah cultural heritage.
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From Simon and Schuster and award-winning journalist Lauren Duca, How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics.
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New from Heyday, Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations, by John Tateishi. The book is the story of a community reckoning with what it means to be both culturally Japanese and American citizens; how to restore honor; and what duty it has to protect such harms from happening again. This book has powerful implications as the idea of reparations shapes our national conversation.
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New from Liveright and the author of Rat F**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count,Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy, by David Daley.
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New from Tim Duggan Books, Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars, by Francesca Wade.
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New from Abrams and the author of Ruhlman’s TwentyandGrocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America,From Scratch: 10 Meals, 175 Recipes, and Dozens of Techniques You Will Use Over and Over, by Michael Ruhlman.
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New from Flatiron Books, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In, by Phuc Tran. In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books such as The Metamorphosis,The Scarlet Letter,The Iliad, and more, Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration, feelings of isolation, and teenage rebellion, all while attempting to meet the rigid expectations set by his immigrant parents.
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New from Yale University Press and critic and biographer Jonathan Bate, Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World.
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New from Yale University Press, I Live In the Slums, by Can Xue, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping. In Can Xue’s world the superficial is peeled away to reveal layers of depth and meaning. Her stories observe no conventions of plot or characterization and limn a chaotic, poetic state ordered by the extreme logic of philosophy.
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The Starless Sea
by Erin Morgenstern
Fans of The Night Circus rejoice! Imagineer Erin Morgenstern has released her second magical journey into the world of storytelling. The Starless Sea is a book lover’s dream, a storyteller’s story and a reader’s safe harbor. It is a riddle wrapped in an enigma encased in a mystery shrouded in layers and layers of well-crafted narrative.
Morgenstern is such a skilled storyteller that she is of the ilk of wordsmiths I actually resent for not having more published books. Upon reading her literary theatrics, though, it’s easy to see why she doesn’t. These meticulously crafted tales must take years of careful attention and thoughtful planning. This book isn’t one story. It is a whole library. A body of work disguised as a single book.
At its heart, The Starless Sea is a story about a boy who finds a door etched into a wall as a child and wrought with uncertainty, does not reach to open its chalked knob. He spends his life lamenting his tentativeness, always feeling like his story is missing a piece. That is, until he discovers a book. A book with a story in it. A story about a boy, wrought with uncertainty, who does not turn a doorknob. But that is just one facet in this tapestry of a tale.
This is also a story about a pirate sentenced to death and the maiden who rescues him. It’s a story about Fate and Time, about owl kings and forgotten princesses. It’s a story about an orphan boy and a girl who is also a bunny who consummate a relationship outside time. It’s about a secret society and an underground library. It’s a story about the sun and the moon, about broken-hearted knights, a burned dollhouse, about bees and swords and keys, oh, my.
Zachary Ezra Rawlins in the son of a fortune teller. Aforementioned boy at a magical door, he is now a literary graduate student studying media and gaming at a Vermont college. At the school library, he happens upon an unmarked book with no author called Sweet Sorrows. As he reads, he blinks incomprehensibly at its pages as they recount not only the story of a pirate telling a story, but a story that happens to recount his past.
Unseated by this mystery, he starts to investigate the origins of the curious book and discovers that it was part of a much larger donation by an untraceable foundation. He also deciphers a series of symbols from the book: a bee, a sword and a key that lead him down a rabbit hole to a NYC literary ball, happening, as luck would have it, just a few days from now.
So, Zachary Ezra Rawlins, son of the fortune teller, traipses off in the snow, a strapping young man in a suit, on nothing but a hunch.
At the literary ball, a bibliophile costume party cum Sleep No More theatrical experience, Zachary Ezra Rawlins dances with Max, King - or Queen - of the Wild Things. In his quest to find a necklace with a bee, sword and key, he finds himself back in the closet, but this time, with a whiskey handsome storyteller, who whispers the story of Fate and Time, a story that unbeknownst to him, Zachary Ezra Rawlins, is already a part.
Erin Morgenstern’s book is heavily layered and each story subtly shifts the others, expertly interweaving in an intricate tapestry of a tale. Like a document with a dozen carbon copies - each copy bears the ghosted impression of the original though a different color entirely. It is a story about stories, but it’s simultaneously a thesis on how we tell them.
A door to the fantastical and dangerous is waiting behind this cover. Are you daring enough to open it?
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Nothing to See Here
by Kevin Wilson
Kevin Wilson has done it again. You may remember Kevin Wilson from his darkly comedic Royal Tennenbaums-eque take on the hapless performance art family in The Family Fang. Or perhaps from his alternatively optimistic commune of utopian ideals in A Perfect Little World.
While similar in tenor, imbued with Wilson’s quixotic hopefulness and unexpected chaos, Nothing to See Here is wholly unique in premise and scope.
Lillian, a smart girl from the wrong side of the tracks, fights her way into a privileged prep school where she and her rich roommate, Madison, bond during their first year. Then an infuriating circumstance (which I won’t spoil here) leads to a split. Fast-forward ten years later when Madison, now married to a senator, summons Lillian for an urgent, yet mysterious, job opportunity. Lillian, still stuck in a dead-end life, jumps at the chance and quickly finds herself dousing the flames of the senator’s twin offspring.
Literally.
Because they self-immolate when they get agitated.
Wilson writes in such a way that I simultaneously want to ask him to be my friend and tell him to get out of my head. His commentary sometimes made me laugh out loud in doctors’ office waiting rooms. He describes a spoiled little boy removing toys from a chest: “like clowns from a VW bug, out came so many stuffed animals that I felt like I’d dropped acid.” And on feeling out of place: “I felt like some mermaid who had suddenly grown legs and was now living among the humans.” He expertly describes “bread that cracked open like a geode” that makes me crave a loaf immediately. And then he subversively sneaks in plenty of touching real-life wisdom about things like life, parenthood and meditation: “And I had never thought about it this way, had always assumed that whatever was inside me that made me toxic could not be diluted, but each subsequent breath made me a little more calm.”
Wilson’s is the type of voice we need more of in the world: unfailingly witty, unexpectedly original and always, and perhaps most importantly, relentlessly hopeful, even when it seems like the world is burning down around us.
*Netgalley provided B3 with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Release Date: November 5, 2019
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