![]() ![]() in Visual Art with honors from Brown University, where she has been a guest lecturer, in addition to Bard College, the School of Visual Arts, New York University, and elsewhere. ![]() Her writing appears in publications such as The Nation and Art in America, as well as in The Art Happens Here: Net Art's Archival Poetics, Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts, and in other books. Previously, she was a Curatorial Fellow at the Queens Museum and a gallery assistant at bitforms gallery. Celine serves as one of seven Co-Directors at the School for Poetic Computation, an experimental platform for the study of code, hardware, and theory through lenses of artistic intervention and abolitionist politics. She is also a mentor for the residency program at the New Museum's incubator, NEW INC. She is Curator at Rhizome, a platform affiliated with the New Museum, where she organizes exhibitions, commissions, collection accessions, open calls, publishing, and live programs. Celine Wong Katzman is a curator, writer, and educator based in New York and Singapore. ![]()
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Brooks is a slow-burn romance that features a rookie agent who finds love on the job and a senior officer who gets another shot at teaming up with the heroine she has always been carrying a torch for.Īgent Geena Fox is looking forward to turning in her badge and riding off into the beautiful sunset of retirement. ![]() ![]() ![]() a ripping yarn * Buzzfeed *Īn historically-influenced fantastical romp filled with machismo, intrigue and magic * SCIFI NOW *Ī French Revolution with wizards McClelland's debut packs some serious heat * KIRKUS REVIEWS - starred review * I had a blast * Brandon Sanderson *Įxcellent. ![]() ![]() Innovative magic, quick-paced plot, interesting world. I found myself enjoying every moment of it. Brian McClellan is the real thing * Brent Weeks * Guns, swords and magic together? What more could you want? How about tense action, memorable characters, rising stakes. Brian McClellan has a bold new take on fantasy * Peter V. Promise of Blood is the best debut I've read in ages. Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group ISBN: 9780356502007 Number of pages: 592 Weight: 400 g Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 42 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Brian McClellan is the real thing' Brent Weeks 'Tense action, memorable characters, rising stakes. 'Brings a welcome breath of gunpowder-tinged air to epic fantasy' Anthony Ryan Winner of the David Gemmell Morningstar Award, Promise of Blood is the explosive first novel in the most action-packed and acclaimed new fantasy series in years. A rumour about a broken promise, omens of death and the gods returning to walk the earth. Now, amid the chaos, a whispered rumour is spreading. It's a bloody business, overthrowing a king. **Winner of the David Gemmell Morningstar Award** ![]() ![]() ![]() When Olivia confesses that she has a crush on Tyler and wants to ask him to the Fall Ball dance, Kat knows there’s going to be a problem: Tyler thinks Olivia is just another ditsy girl who only cares about lip gloss and boy bands. Suddenly the person Kat’s used to playing Xbox with is causing her stomach to do cartwheels. Plus, Tyler, Kat’s next-door neighbor and buddy since birth, morphed into a really cute boy over the summer. ![]() Braces-wearing, manga-loving, uncoordinated Kat is a warthog. In the jungle that is middle school, Olivia is a gazelle. It doesn’t help that her best friend and cousin, Olivia, grew a foot over the summer and won a spot on the school’s dance team, shooting her up on the popularity scale. Twelve-year-old Kat woos the boy next door on behalf of her best friend, and in the process realizes that true beauty-and true confidence-comes from the inside in this hilarious M!X novel from the author of Small Medium at Large. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Purcell crafts a virtually flawless work of Gothic fiction with this deeply atmospheric, foreboding story. Lyndsay Faye, bestselling author of Jane Steele Immersive, meticulous, and reminiscent of the masters of gothic fiction-not only a compulsively readable ghost story, but a skillful, loving ode to the entire genre." ![]() "If The Silent Companions lands on your night table, don't plan on leaving your bed anytime soon. An intriguing, nuanced, and genuinely eerie slice of Victorian gothic." ![]() The residents of the estate are terrified of the figure, but Elsie tries to shrug this off as simple superstition-that is, until she notices the figure's eyes following her.Ī Victorian ghost story that evokes a most unsettling kind of fear, The Silent Companions is a tale that creeps its way through the consciousness in ways you least expect-much like the companions themselves. Inside her new home lies a locked door, beyond which is a painted wooden figure-a silent companion-that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself. But pregnant and widowed just weeks after their wedding, with her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie has only her late husband's awkward cousin for company. When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for a life of luxury. Laura Purcell's THE SHAPE OF DARKNESS is now out from Penguin! Description " extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book." - Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author ![]() ![]() ![]() When Jacqueline is not busy writing she likes to spend her time traveling, reading and playing cards. Jacqueline Baird's been writing for Mills & Boon since 1988, and she still gets a thrill every time a new book is published. ![]() ![]() When her sons went to school all day she thought she would try writing one. Apart from a spell as a hopeful painter in oils, when she actually did have a painting accepted for the Federation of Northern Artists' annual exhibition her real passion was for romance novels. But she always felt a little guilty because her diary was more fiction than fact. She has always been an avid reader, and she had her first success as a writer at the age of eleven, when she won the first prize in the Nature Diary of the Year competition at school. They still live in Northumbria and have two grown sons. Eight years later, after working as a hotel receptionist in a five-star hotel in Scotland and traveling abroad for a few years, she came home and married him. ![]() She met her husband Jim, when she was only eighteen. On leaving school she joined the civil service in the then Post Office department. She went to the local village school, and later an all-girls' grammar school where she passed the University of Oxford General Certificate of Education in various subjects. Jacqueline Baird was born on the 1st of April at home in a small village Northumbria, England, UK, where she raised. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.īut one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. While the speech itself has been used (and sometimes misused) to call for a “color-blind” country, its power is only increased by knowing its rhetorical and intellectual antecedents.įive score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. For this month’s Annotations, we’ve taken Martin Luther King, Jr.’s iconic “I Have A Dream” speech, and provided scholarly analysis of its groundings and inspirations-the speech’s religious, political, historical and cultural underpinnings are wide-ranging and have been read as jeremiad, call to action, and literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved it so much.” - Kelly Barnhill, author of the Newbery-winning novel The Girl Who Drank the Moon “Imbued with a magic that felt as real as the concrete and beloved world in which it is set, this story moves with a plot that is both surefooted and wild, both inexorable and surprising, both cerebral and emotional. ![]() And a wish that big will exact an even bigger price…ĭon’t miss the novel that Newbery-winning author Kelly Barnhill calls “one of the most promising works of fiction in a long time”! ![]() And despite her hatred of all humans, her magic requires that she make a bargain: the comb in exchange for a wish.īut what Kela wants most is for her mother to be alive. So when Kela and her friend Lissy stumble across an ancient-looking comb in a coral cave, with all she’s already lost, Kela can’t help but bring home her very own found treasure.įar away, deep in the cold ocean, the mermaid Ophidia can feel that her comb has been taken. Set against the backdrop of Caribbean folklore, Lisa Stringfellow’s spellbinding middle grade debut tells of a grieving girl and a vengeful mermaid and will enchant readers who loved Kacen Callender’s Hurricane Child or Christian McKay Heidicker’s Scary Stories for Young Foxes.Įver since her mother’s death, Kela feels every bit as broken as the shards of glass, known as “mermaid’s tears,” that sparkle on the Caribbean beaches of St. ![]() ![]() ![]() A significant portion of the novel is devoted to such descriptions, which have been lauded both as magical and visionary, and derided as stereotypical and imperialistic. Kipling’s account of Kim’s travels throughout the subcontinent gave him the opportunity to describe the many peoples and cultures that made the fabric of Indian society at that time. When he meets a wandering Tibetan lama who is in search of a sacred river, Kim becomes his follower and proceeds on a journey covering the whole of India. Although out and out an Irish boy, he grows up as a ‘native’ and acquires the ability to seamlessly blend into the many ethnic and religious groups of the Indian subcontinent. Kim, a boy of Irish descent who is orphaned and grows up independently in the streets of India, is taken care of by a ‘half-caste’ woman, a keeper of an opium den. The book portrays people, culture and varied religions in India. ![]() The story is set in India in the backdrop of the political conflict between Russia and Britain, after the end of second Afghan war which ended in 1881. Kim, a picaresque novel by Rudyard Kipling, was published serially in McClure’s Magazine, before being published in book form in 1901. ![]() ![]() ![]() He knows that Ruth’s expertise and experience could help him finally to put this case to rest. About the Book The exciting beginning to a captivating crime series featuring quirky, tart-tongued archaeologist Ruth Galloway as she investigates a childs. ![]() Since she vanished, someone has been sending him bizarre anonymous notes about ritual sacrifice, quoting Shakespeare and the Bible. Are they the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years earlier – or are the bones much older?ĭCI Harry Nelson refuses to give up the hunt for the missing girl. ‘I’ve never before read a crime novel in which blend as successfully as in The Crossing Places‘ Shotsĭr Ruth Galloway is called in when a child’s bones are discovered near the site of a prehistoric henge on the north Norfolk salt marshes. A cold missing person case has now become a murder investigation. Believing them to be ancient, the police call in Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist. ![]() Discover one of the most popular crime series in Britain, from the bestselling author of The Stranger Diaries.Ī child’s bones are discovered on the windswept Norfolk marshes. ![]() |