![]() The Oversoul, however, was only designed to last twenty million years, so eventually it begins to break down. Thus the technology on Harmony includes basic computers and solar-powered handheld energy weapons, but no cars or even wagons. Though it does not prevent them from doing evil, it keeps their societal capability for destruction limited by suppressing any thoughts that might lead to things like long-distance travel or instant communication. It also influences the actions of humans. On Harmony, the advancement of human technology is controlled by the Oversoul – an artificial intelligence monitor, using a small army of satellites, established by the original colonists to monitor the planet. Forty plus planets, including Harmony, are colonized by humans (though only two are actually named in the series: Ramadan, settled by Arabs and Harmony, apparently settled by Slavic cultures, as its languages all developed from Russian.) The main premise of the series is that a human diaspora occurred after Earth was rendered uninhabitable by human wars. The series, containing five volumes, takes place forty million years in the future, with volumes 1-3 taking place on a fictional planet called Harmony. Some of the names also come from the Book of Mormon. The series is patterned on the Book of Mormon. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Homecoming Saga is a science fiction series by Orson Scott Card. ![]()
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Written way back in 1999, this is the first book in A Series of Unfortunate Events by Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket). ![]() See? We told you we're in unpleasant territory. ![]() With that out of the way, since you've stuck around instead of running for the hills, we'd like to officially welcome you to The Bad Beginning, the story of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire and the seemingly endless series of unfortunate events they encounter after their parents perish tragically in a fire one day. It just wouldn't be right to let you keep going without offering some sort of heads-up, right? ![]() Hey, we had to give you fair warning-after all, there's one scrawled on the back of the freaking book. 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We had some regular callers, and we had a few titles that, whatever the show’s theme in any given month, would crop up again and again. ![]() ![]() ![]() Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs is the 12 th book in her wonderful Mercy Thompson series. ![]() It can make you do anything–even kill the person you love the most. It can look like anyone, any creature it chooses. Without the fae to mind them, those creatures who remained behind roamed freely through Underhill wreaking havoc. They abandoned their prisoners and their pets. They left behind their great castles and troves of magical artifacts. It looks like I’m going to need them.Ĭenturies ago, the fae dwelt in Underhill–until she locked her doors against them. ![]() But I have friends in odd places and a pack of werewolves at my back. My only “superpowers” are that I turn into a thirty-five pound coyote and fix Volkswagens. Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs – Review & GiveawayĪmazon / B&N / Kobo / BAM / Book Depository / Google Play / Apple ![]() ![]() ![]() It was January and the ruthless clamp of cold wore down on us outside. ![]() I was rubbing her back, feeling each vertebra with my fingers as a rung on a ladder. We were lying on her bed with a mohair blanket covering us. Terry Tempest William: "I am 54 years old, the age my mother was when she died. What Terry found in those journals eventually led- some 35 years later- to a second memoir about her mother, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice. When Terry Tempest Williams’s mother lay dying, she told Terry that she had left her all of her journals, but made her promise not to look at them until after her death. Refuge tells us about her mother's up bringing in a big Mormon family in Utah and her subsequent struggle with cancer-a illness that has claimed the lives of many women in her family and others as a result of ongoing nuclear testing in the nearby Nevada desert. ![]() Terry Tempest Williams has written some 14 books including Refuge a memoir about her mother written in 1991. Welcome to Art Works, the program that goes behind the scenes with some of the nation's great artists to explore how art works. Jo Reed: That was author and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams. I thought I was writing a book about voice it may be that I’ve written a book on silence. Terry Tempest Williams: One of the interesting things I think as writers, at least for me, I never know where I’m going if I did, I wouldn’t be interested. Terry Tempest Williams-Podcast Transcript ![]() ![]() ![]() MD: Hi Peter, thanks so much for joining us! (SEE BELOW FOR HOW YOU CAN WIN ALL 3 BOOKS.) I am so pleased and excited to welcome Peter Bunzl to The Mixed Up Files! Four years later Peter’s fourth COGHEART ADVENTURE book, SHADOWSEA has just been released in the UK, and the award-winning first three volumes -COGHEART, MOONLOCKET, AND SKYCIRCUS are now available in the US with Jolly Fish Press. It came out in September 2016 and was simultaneously chosen as Waterstones Book of the Month a huge deal for a debut. ![]() Soon we all joined together in a middle grade critique group regularly meeting up back in London and I too was immediately taken by Peter’s steampunk adventure novel about a girl and her mechanical fox searching for her missing airship pilot and inventor father.Ī few months later we celebrated Peter getting an agent, and a few months after that we celebrated COGHEART being sold as the lead title in Usborne’s 2016 list. A second friend was in the same group and said that Peter’s excerpt had literally made her cry. Another Scoobie (as SCBWI is affectionately known in the UK) friend was in his conference critique group and introduced us when it was over. ![]() In the fall of 2014 I attended my first SCBWI-British Isles conference and met Peter Bunzl. Does your book qualify as middle-grade?.Turning Kids Into Bookworms: A Book List For Parents.Successful Author or Illustrator Visits.Schedule a Skype Visit with a Mixed-Up Files Author.Author Websites With Discussion/Activity Guides. ![]() ![]() ![]() They glide through the night, regrettably together, and they argue.įinny is frowning. I can see them in the car before the accident-the heavy rain, the world and the pavement as wet and slick as if it had been oiled down for their arrival. If he had been with me, everything would have been different. I cannot hear her, but I see Sylvie tell them the cause of the argument, and I know, I know, I know, I know. I see Sylvie sitting sideways out of the back of the policeman’s car, her feet drumming on the wet pavement as she talks. I can see it-the rain-slicked road and the flashing lights of ambulance and police cars cutting through the darkness of night, warning those passing by: catastrophe has struck here, please drive slowly. What they do not know, the cause of the argument, is crucial to the story of me. The story lurking underneath and in between the facts of the one they can see. What they do not know is that there is another story. It is, in other people’s opinions, not important to the story. ![]() No one ever says what they were arguing about. In a few weeks, Finny would be turning nineteen. It was raining, of course, and with his girlfriend, Sylvie Whitehouse, he glided through the rain in the red car his father had given him on his sixteenth birthday. I wasn’t with Finny on that August night, but my imagination has burned the scene in my mind so that it feels like a memory. ![]() ![]() ![]() He sits in the middle of the bull ring failing to take heed of any of the provocations of the matador and others to fight. The children's book tells the story of a bull who would rather smell flowers than fight in bullfights. The Story of Ferdinand (1936) is the best known work written by American author Munro Leaf and illustrated by Robert Lawson. ![]() ![]() ![]() For Moira, this means figuring out the right clothes to wear and learning how to put on makeup. It’s the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug’s best friend Moira has decided they need to prepare. Lukoff is the author of Too Bright to See, a middle-grade novel exploring growing up, ghosts, and gender identity. ![]() A powerful, moving picture book based on a true story, My Sister, Daisy handles a sensitive subject with warmth and love. ![]() Daisy’s brother must adjust to the change - including what it means for him and their relationship. His sibling tells him she is a girl and wants to be called Daisy. They are best buddies who do everything together. Daisy’s older brother is thrilled when he gets a new sibling. Karlsson is the author of My Sister, Daisy, a moving picture book about acceptance and love. ![]() |