![]() ![]() He has also won awards for his short fiction, including the Nebula, Locus and British Fantasy Awards for the novella Ring Shout in 2021.ĭexter Gabriel was born in New York City in 1971, but spent most of his early years living in his parents' original home of Trinidad and Tobago. In 2022, his fantasy novel A Master of Djinn won the Nebula and Locus Awards. His pen name "Djèlí", makes reference to the griots – traditional Western African storytellers, historians and poets. ![]() ![]() He uses a pen name to differentiate his literary work from his academic work, and has also published under the name A. Dexter Gabriel (born 1971), better known by his pen name Phenderson Djèlí Clark, is an American speculative fiction writer and historian, who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Connecticut. ![]()
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![]() ![]() which is exactly what Mark Zuckerberg intends to do with Facebook (now under the aegis of new branding called Meta).Īlso read: FB Whistleblower Sophie Zhang On The Social Giant’s Uncomfortable Relationship With Democracies Man, does it get more eerie! In the novel, Stephenson also plotted the Metaverse as an environment-bending setting where people use digital avatars to interact with the online world. The plot thickens! Turns out, the word in the book carried the same connotation as Mark Zuckerberg's vision for what the Metaverse ought to be - essentially a virtual-reality and augmented-reality based experience that will follow up on the exploits made by the current iteration of the internet. ![]() Information Age Eerie similarities with the book Written by author Neal Stephenson and published in 1992, the book may be the first written record of the word "Metaverse." Do you believe in seers with extra-earthly abilities to peek into the future? While being able to see what's about to happen may be a far-fetched estimation, Facebook's new Metaverse ambitions under Mark Zuckerberg were correctly predicted in a 29-year-old book called 'Snow Crash.' ![]() ![]() ![]() Her new neighbor, Catalina, sees Ellie for her true self and beyond her physical appearance. She finds refuge and support in her new therapist and her father, who advocates for her, even when advocacy leads to arguments with Ellie’s mom. Yet, it’s not all doom and gloom for Ellie. There are no what-ifs or “if you only lost weight” or “your face is so pretty,” etc. In the water, Ellie is weighless and free – free of societal pressures, free of side eyes and judgment. She doesn’t fit in with her peers she doesn’t fit in the right clothes. From her sister, who nicknamed her Splash for her body’s impact when she swims, to her so-called well-intentioned mother researching bariatric surgery and dieting articles, Ellie is sent the consistent message that she doesn’t fit in. Not just by her classmates but also by her own family. ![]() The debut novel by Lisa Fipps centers around Ellie, an 11-year-old, who is bullied for her weight. On this year’s Summer Reading list (coming soon!), there is a gem of a book called Starfish. It highlights this message in bright lights. While I’m over here living my best life and admiring the body positive messages from the Lizzos and Ashley Grahams of the world, there is still much work to do when it comes to fat acceptance and body shaming. I know you are going to find this hard to believe, but our society isn’t kind to people that are overweight. ![]() ![]() The house was large, ostentatious, and built on a hilltop. In House of Stone, Shadid mostly writes about the house his great grandfather Isber built in Marjayoun, a town in southern Lebanon near the Israeli border. House of Stone was the last book he wrote before he died. Last February, he passed away while covering the Free Syrian Army in Syria. ![]() ![]() ![]() Twice, he has avoided death: once when shot by an Israeli sniper while covering the Israeli-Palsteinian conflict and the second while covering the uprising in Libya, where he was kidnapped and beaten for a week by Colonel Qaddafi's officers. Of what Shadid has made of his life, we know this much: he wrote as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times and the Washington Post, and twice earned a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage in Iraq. ![]() ![]() ![]() and Tia’s doctors can’t help her if she won’t do what they advise. Tia’s mother tries to pray the problem away. ![]() “Crazy leaves clues,” she told him point-blank, and perhaps Lance should have listened. Or crazy, as Lance’s grandmother continually reminds him. That’s because Tia never revealed to Lance what she and her family have known since Tia was seventeen-she has an illness that takes over her mind, transforming her into a raging, violent woman hell-bent on destruction. ![]() ![]() But under the surface, a fierce and frightening storm was brewing. How far will you go to save someone you love and trust when they’ve kept a dangerous secret for years? That’s the question facing Lance Kingston, a successful Houston magazine executive whose recent marriage to beautiful, high-powered attorney Tia Jiles seemed to promise a bright future for both of them. Her novel Say Amen, Again won the NAACP Image Award, proving that ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s storytelling “scores a direct hit” ( Publishers Weekly), delighting and inspiring with powerful, soul-searching situations and unforgettable characters. National bestseller ReShonda Tate Billingsley spins an irresistible story of romance and faith that will touch every reader's heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() This was a lightning-fast read that had me glued to the page, desperate to see what would happen, and enjoying every minute along the way. I loved trying to line up the similarities to the source material, but those who haven’t read Jane Eyre will have just as much fun getting swept along for the ride as the story veered into its own twisting, haunting, surprising tale. The Wife Upstairs truly has something for every type of reader: murder, love, and ambition combine in a story that is both witty and suspenseful. Rochester’s memory looms large in Thornfield Estates-along with the whispered rumors… And-courtesy of a chance encounter on one abysmal rainy day-Jane is about to fall for one of the residents, the recently widowed Eddie Rochester. To set the scene: Our Jane is a dog walker in Thornfield Estates, a development of McMansions in suburban Alabama. I was hooked by the premise itself: a reimagined Jane Eyre as a contemporary domestic suspense set in the South? Yes please! What followed was a tense mystery told in a pitch-perfect voice, brimming with sharp insight and wit. ![]() And The Wife Upstairs surprised me in all the best ways. But even more, I love that joy of surprise when those puzzle pieces suddenly create something unexpected. ![]() ![]() As a huge mystery and suspense reader, I love trying to solve the puzzle at the heart of the story before all the pieces have slid into place. ![]() ![]() ![]() The protagonist of this tale, translated by Stephen Snyder, is a young writer who endures - and endures seems to be too hard a term, she hardly seems to mind - an increasingly stifling world where goods are scarce, the police arrest citizens in the middle of the night and memories are torn from people's minds. One can even envision a high-paid Hollywood actor starring in the Netflix adaptation: They're coming for your memories, but she's got a plan to stop them!īut this is a Japanese novel - so for anyone looking for thrills, I'd like to warn you that despite the tagline "Orwellian" on the back cover of the book, this reads much more like a surrealist drama. It would be something akin to The Handmaid's Tale, or the movie version of Minority Report. ![]() It seems like a metaphor for state surveillance if The Memory Police were an American novel, it might yield a contrarian hero determined to fight off the tyranny of the police. On a small island, objects disappear - perfume, boats, roses, photographs - and the memory police monitor the inhabitants, ensuring these things will be eternally forgotten. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Memory Police Author Yoko Ogawa ![]() ![]() As one horrifying fact after another comes to light, Erica and Patrik's curiosity gives way to obsession-and their flirtation grows into uncontrollable attraction. ![]() Erica is bewildered: Why would a beautiful woman who had it all take her own life? Teaming up with police detective Patrik Hedström, Erica begins to uncover shocking events from Alex's childhood. It's Erica herself who finds Alex's body-suspended in a bathtub of frozen water, her wrists slashed. Erica Falck returns to her tiny, remote hometown of Fjällbacka, Sweden, after her parents' deaths only to encounter another tragedy: the suicide of her childhood best friend, Alex. In this electrifying tale of suspense from an international crime-writing sensation, a grisly death exposes the dark heart of a Scandinavian seaside village. "A top-notch thriller, one of the best of the genre" ( Minneapolis Star Tribune) from international crime-writing sensation Camilla Läckberg tells the story of brutal murders in a small Swedish fishing village, and the shattering, decades-old secrets that precipitated them. ![]() ![]() Katrina Parsons stood on the edge of the dock at Camp KooKoRomo. Can he trust his heart or will he lose the one woman he can’t live without? Prologue He and his mother on are on high alert, afraid Kat is not just there for the wedding, but also to find a prince of her own.īut when Kat’s kindness and generosity prove them wrong, the prince realizes there’s more to her than he ever imagined. ![]() ![]() She can’t wait to be a bridesmaid in her childhood friend’s royal wedding, but she hopes to steer clear of the bride’s arrogant older brother.Ĭrown Prince Guillaume wants his younger sister’s wedding day to be perfect, but he’s suspicious of Kat. An unexpected union.Ī European getaway during the Christmas holiday is exactly what veterinarian Katrina Kat Parsons needs. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.įor the latest news from Tule Publishing, sign up for our mailing list here! Table of ContentsĪbout the Author A royal wedding. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s poor Gary enjoying the height of his success as a supervillain only to discover that comes with the cost of the heroes in retreat. I planned to start writing it after I finished Lucifer’s Nebula but I keep writing a little bit more here and there as the jokes and plot come to me. THE KINGDOM OF SUPERVILLAINY: I am at 22K writing this, which is a lot more impressive than it sounds as I haven’t “officially” started writing it. Lovecraft’s popular Cthulhu Mythos.Ī heads’ up on where I’m related to on my various projects: The Tower of Zhaal is the second novel of the Cthulhu Armageddon series, a post-apocalypse continuation of H.P. If they’re telling the truth, John and Mercury will be heroes. Having sold themselves to ancient aliens called the Yith, they wish John and Mercury to join a group of rogues in hunting down a wayward member of their faculty: a man who intends to release the last of the sleeping Great Old Ones on an already ravaged planet. Except, their offer of help comes at a price. Cursed with a slow transformation into a monster, he has begun a doomed relationship with fellow escapee Mercury Halsey as they seek some way to arrest his transformation.ĭubious hope arrives in the form of the University, the deranged scientists and cultists descended from the staff of Miskatonic University. It has been a year since John Henry Booth’s exile from New America and the fall of the Black Cathedral. ![]() |