![]() ![]() As a parting gift, her father gives her a pair of scissors that have been in her family for generations - scissors that take her talent to a supernatural new level. ![]() It's a call that can't be refused, so Maia disguises herself as her wounded brother and sets off to save her family with her needle and thread. And with her family torn apart by war and her father's illness, she's beginning to wonder if maybe it's time to give up on her talent and marry to save her family and secure her future.īut all of that changes when her father receives a summons to go to the Summer Court to become the imperial tailor. The problem is that girls aren't allowed to be tailors, so she has to hide her work behind the facade of her father's shop. Maia Tamarin is the best tailor along the Great Spice Road. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Spin the Dawn Author Elizabeth Lim ![]()
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I got up from the couch and walked over to the window, where I could see the lake glistening when car lights hit it. “And you’re the best judge of whether he is?” “If I knew he was a terrorist, I’d turn him over in a heart-beat.” “If he’s a terrorist, you should turn him over to the authorities.” “So you do know where this Egyptian boy is, Victoria.” Lotty pushed her reading glasses up into her hair. Warshawski smack up against the Patriot Act. In her latest novel, Blacklist, author Sara Paretsky throws her popular heroine V.I. ![]() ![]() ![]() We watch a friendship - rooted in teenage angst - blossom into something more romantic. We see the trope of the complicated first kiss. ![]() In many ways, Lily’s story evokes the joys of YA romance novels. Where it really stands out, though, is in its balance of both historical realism and hope, a balance we so rarely see in queer stories. For one, the beautiful and complex writing dares to compete with the prose of some of the best-selling novels published for adult readers. The novel succeeds in many places where I feel that most YA books fail. Set in San Francisco in the 1950s, the novel tells the story of 17-year-old Lily Hu, a Chinese American who begins to question her sexuality after developing a relationship with Kath, a white girl in her class. ![]() That changed this month when I picked up Malinda Lo’s novel “Last Night at the Telegraph Club,” which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature in 2021. Since then, I’ve tried to reignite my excitement surrounding the genre that inspired me to fall in love with reading, but I haven’t been able to do so since middle school. Throughout seventh and eighth grade, I consumed YA novels as if my life depended on it - at least two a week at my peak. It’s been a while since I exited my young adult literature phase. ![]() ![]() The trap itself wasn't psychic - he didn't have the ability to tie his power to an object in that fashion. There was something he wasn't seeing, some link his conscious mind hadn't yet forged, but his subconscious had, and it was adamant that she was in danger. ![]() Instinct and a need to protect had made him do it. ![]() The second she turned her back, he took the chance to check the trap he'd placed on her door. He remained in the living area, able to see her moving behind the kitchen counter. "I'll throw something together in the kitchen," she said as they entered. But the hunger in him, the raw painful thing that threatened to destroy him, wouldn't let him walk away. He went with Brenna in spite of the increasing levels of dissonance - proximity in enclosed quarters would only worsen things. Night had fallen during the meeting and it was well past dinner when they made it back to the den. ![]() Changeling justice, but as Lucas had pointed out, it would serve a dual purpose in this case.Īnd the Psy Council thought changelings stupid. Unlike the Psy Council, the leopards and wolves took the safety and welfare of those under their leadership very seriously. It was how changeling society worked - the predators ran the show, but with it came responsibility. Judd looked at the DarkRiver alpha and understood that he'd made a promise to the deer to lessen their nightmares. ![]() ![]() We can offer a refund or exchange if we have stock. If you have a problem with your item that is damaged or missing please email us. Title may state the release date of the unsigned/non limited item. Signed, special or limited edition items usually have later release dates than the initial release. 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Inspired by Eisner Award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki's own mandatory tour of duty as an active combatant in the Imperial Japanese Army- Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths portrays a flailing infantry unit on its last legs near the end of the Second World War. ![]() The alternative is certain execution as a consequence of survival. ![]() ![]() ![]() A platoon of soldiers is ordered into battle. (W) Mizuki, Shigeru (A) Mizuki, Shigeru (C) Mizuki, Shigeru ONWARD TOWARDS OUR NOBLE DEATHS GN (NEW PTG) (MR) ![]() ![]() ![]() Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Physical & Emotional Abuse.Young Adult Fiction / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories.The Hunger Games is amazing."-Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight saga"Brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced."-John Green, The New York Times Book Review Product Details I couldn't stop reading." -Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly"I was so obsessed with this book. 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![]() ![]() Full of intelligence and humor., In a time when actual books are filling up tag-sale dollar boxes, along with VHS tapes and old beepers, Mr. A clever, entertaining story that also manages to be a thought-provoking meditation on progress, information and technology. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is an ingeniously designed space, full of mysteries and codes. ![]() Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave.īeguiling.The plot is as tight as nesting boxes, or whatever their digital equivalent.Sly and infectious., Robin Sloan is a skilled architect, and Mr. Rendered with irresistible brio and dazzling intelligence, Robin Sloan's Mr. ![]() Penumbra, they discover the bookstore's secrets extend far beyond its walls. But when they bring their findings to Mr. Suspicious, Clay engineers an analysis of the clientele's behavior, seeking help from his variously talented friends. The customers are few, and they never seem to buy anything-instead, they check out large, obscure volumes from strange corners of the store. But after a few days on the job, Clay discovers that the store is more curious than either its name or its gnomic owner might suggest. The New York Times Bestseller A Winner of the Alex Award, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles of Mr. ![]() |