![]() ![]() ![]() But with each body she brings back, the more complicated things become. For the first time in her life, she’s not living hand to mouth and even has a decent nest egg for the future. With one desperate act, Katrell’s mysterious magical powers evolve into something new – and deadly.īefore, she earned chump change, but now Katrell’s pulling in thousands at a time as she resurrects dead loved ones for their grieving families. After Gerald, the latest in a long line of her mother’s terrible boyfriends, kills Conrad in a fit of rage, Katrell accidentally raises his body instead of just his spirit. ![]() By writing a short letter to the dead, she can bring their spirit back for a short conversation. On the side she makes extra cash acting as a medium for the living who can’t let go of the dead. When she’s not working a crappy job at a burger joint, sleeping through her sophomore year classes, or avoiding being at home, she’s with Will, her bestie, and her oversized teddy bear of a dog, Conrad. Katrell is our protagonist, and she can communicate with the dead. “I’m painting Will’s nails when she asks me to talk to her dead grandma.” Jessica Lewis opens her debut young adult fantasy Bad Witch Burning with a killer hook that, once you have finished the novel, you realize is packed with worldbuilding tidbits. ![]()
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He then analyzes these radical transformations of prior source materials, which reflect the values and intellectual concerns of the literati of the period. Arguing that these are far more than collections of popular narratives, Professor Plaks shows that their fullest recensions represent a sophisticated new genre of Chinese prose fiction arising in the late Ming dynasty, especially in the sixteenth century. Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the "Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel" ( ssu ta ch'i-shu). ![]() ![]() And so that kind of got then translated back into, when I was ready to write about it, the idea for this book, and my own personal journey kind of got split up between Heather and Dodge's arcs. ![]() It's pretty much like a literal translation, or transliteration, I'll say, of a psychological journey that I went on between, let's say, the ages of 16 and 26, including attempts to kind of break myself of fears in a way that was, at the time, very ingenuous and also dysfunctional, I would say. Lauren Oliver: Panic is kind of a very personal story to me. RELATED: Amazon Prime Passes 200 Million Subscriber MarkĬBR: How did you come up with the idea for the novel for Panic? ![]() In an interview with CBR, Oliver discussed the story's roots in her personal journey, the challenges of translating her novel to the small screen, and how seeing Panic brought to life changed how she viewed the work. ![]() ![]() The only problem is that the instructor and all the students think she's a girl named Kay Nakamura-and Yumi doesn't correct them.Īs this case of mistaken identity unravels, Yumi must decide to stand up and reveal the truth or risk losing her dreams and disappointing everyone she cares about. ![]() One day after class, Yumi stumbles on an opportunity that will change her life: a comedy camp for kids taught by one of her favorite YouTube stars. Instead of spending the summer studying her favorite YouTube comedians, Yumi is enrolled in test-prep tutoring to qualify for a private school scholarship, which will help in a time of hardship at the restaurant. Her notebook is filled with mortifying memories that she's reworked into comedy gold. On the inside, Yumi is ready for her Netflix stand-up special. On the outside, Yumi Chung suffers from #shygirlproblems, a perm-gone-wrong, and kids calling her "Yu-MEAT" because she smells like her family's Korean barbecue restaurant. One lie snowballs into a full-blown double life in this irresistible story about an aspiring stand-up comedian. ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator loves Nigel fiercely and is determined to protect him from the evils of his racist environment. Nigel is olive-skinned but was born with several dark brown birthmarks which have grown as he ages. Together with his white wife Penny, the narrator has a biracial son named Nigel. His strategy for surviving the extreme racism around is to give up his dignity to get ahead, brushing off micro-aggressions and ignoring outright affronts to his humanity like the police vans that patrol his neighborhood to make sure he isn’t causing trouble. As a child, he witnessed the unfair arrest and incarceration of his father, Sir, and now deals with deeply internalized racism and the constant fear of harm coming to his family. ![]() ![]() The novel’s unnamed narrator is a Black lawyer working for the prestigious law firm of Seasons, Ustis & Malveaux. Black people face open discrimination, intimidation, and violence. In this dystopian America, race relations have deteriorated drastically, and the country’s historical racism enjoys an institutional resurgence and newfound blatancy. We Cast a Shadow takes place somewhere in the near future in a city in the American South known only as the City. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading it will leave you truly and authentically uplifted and transformed. Written with Barbara De Angelis’s trademark eloquence, keen insight, and compassionate wisdom, Soul Shifts takes you on nothing less than a sacred inner journey to emotional and spiritual rebirth and lasting attainment. De Angelis will offer you illuminating guidance and invaluable techniques for living a life of practical spirituality and making your own personal Soul Shifts. Obstacles turn into possibilities, dead ends transform into doorways, all because you have made a Soul Shift.Ī masterful and moving teacher, Dr. Places where you’ve felt stuck or confused become illuminated with new clarity and understanding. ![]() When you learn how to make these Soul Shifts on the inside, everything on the outside of your life shifts. For transformation to be real and lasting, it must originate from the inside out, so that instead of trying to constantly micromanage everything, you operate from true mastery at the deepest level of who you are-the soul level. Soul Shifts are radical, vibrational internal shifts that spontaneously and inevitably transform the way you relate to yourself, to others, and to the world. De Angelis offers a practical handbook for awakening, and a brilliant map of the journey of personal and spiritual transformation that will inspire and enlighten longtime seekers as well as new arrivals to the path of growth. With 1 New York Times Bestselling Author & Transformational Teacher Barbara De Angelis. It is for the visionaries, the awakeners, the Soul Shifters. YOUR INVITATION TO MOMENT-BY-MOMENT AWAKENING ![]() ![]() Oh, to leave such a legacy of faith! His legacy lives on in the church today. I pray that my faith, like his, will be used to aid others in finding faith. What a life lived for Jesus Christ, humbly realizing his position and yet desiring nothing more than to spark a flame of faith in others. “This book is a modest attempt to aid God’s hungry children so to find Him…Others before me have gone much farther into these holy mysteries than I have done, but if my fire is not large it is yet real, and there may be those who can light their candle at its flame.” You know you’ve found an incredible read when the introduction floors you, and by floored, I mean ready to hit the floor, on my knees in awe of an awesome God! Let me just share with you a piece of this man’s work, a favorite and highlighted part in my copy of this book: Although the book is filled with truths I’ve heard before, perhaps it is the way that they are written. ![]() Tozer’s The Pursuit of God often kept me awake into the early morning hours, as I simply could not put this book down. ![]() Possibly the best $10 I’ve ever spent on a book, A.W. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He lives in a Chinatown SRO above the Golden Palace restaurant, which also happens to be a common set for the police procedural Black and White. ![]() In Interior Chinatown we are told the story of Willis Wu, Generic Asian Man, with dreams of one day becoming Kung Fu Guy. Both necessary and sufficient for a complete definition of your identity: Asian Guy.” Your most salient feature, overshadowing any other feature about you, making irrelevant any other characteristic. “Two words the define you, flatten you, trap you and keep you here. That’s something I’ve never seen before in a major literary release and I was super interested to see how it was executed. And second, that experience is one of the main reasons I was drawn to this novel, written in official screenplay type/setting. So first, all credit to her for that time (because seriously the formatting regulations are kind of intense). Anyways, I bring this up because my co-author actually went ahead and converted the script into official screenplay formatting (something I legitimately had no idea was a thing, nor really had any inclination to do). I believe there might have been a song performance in there somewhere? I was clearly very cool in high school. It was called The Five Stages of Baldness and was (very) loosely based on another friend who had shaved her head, chronicling the stages of hair re-growth alongside a number of other high school dramas. In high school, I co-wrote a full-length screenplay with a friend of mine. ![]() ![]() think she looks “as if she scrubbed herself very regularly with carbolic soap.” Her hair was flat, her upper teeth protruded, and she wore spectacles with plain, tortoise-shell rims.” Her fellow typists at Boothby, Gold & Co. She’s “tall and ungainly, with large feet and hands which made sudden, gawky movements. Miss Finlay, Marchant’s heroine, is both dark horse and ugle duckling. This might have been what made the book a life changer for its fan on Twitter. ![]() There’s something comfortably nonconformist about Give Me Your Answer Do. The poster provided no further information, but the sheer scarcity of the book (fewer than five copies for sale) was enough for me to take the plunge. ![]() I’m always intrigued when I come across a book that’s completely new to me, and this one was a blank slate. “At the office Miss Finlay was something of a dark horse.” That opening line hooked me.Ī while ago, someone on Twitter posted a picture of Give Me Your Answer Do in answer to a request for books that changed readers lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tough couple to tackle but still an excellent bookįirst, I just want to say that I really enjoyed this book. Just a couple of boys groping, battling, then finally loving their way to becoming men. Warning: contains sex in a Tesla, sex in a cupboard, sex under a piano, kinky role-play, and a cappella RuPaul songs. In the blinding glare, Baz and Elijah face the ultimate test: discovering if they're stronger together.or apart. When Baz's mother runs for a highly sought-after public office, the media hounds drag Baz's and Elijah's pasts into the light. Yet all signs seem to indicate this time happiness might be within his grasp. ![]() He's even less comfortable as the object of a notorious playboy's affections. ![]() Accustomed to escaping his demons by withdrawing into his imagination, Elijah isn't used to having a happy herd of friends. For the first time, the prospect isn't terrifying. The aftershocks of their one-night stand leave giant cracks in Baz's carefully constructed armor. ![]() With loneliness bearing down on him, Baz hooks up - then opens up - with Elijah Prince, the guy Baz took a bullet for last year. But as the end of college draws near, his friends - his buffer zone - are preparing to move on while his own life is at a crippling standstill. With the quiet help of his wealthy family, Sebastian "Baz" Acker has successfully kept his painful past at bay. Even a hot mess needs a happily ever after. ![]() |