6/30/2023 0 Comments The heart is a lonely![]() ![]() Upon its publication, the book was received positively by reviewers, who were all the more enthusiastic about it because of the author's young age. Her editors at Houghton Mifflin convinced her to change the title. It started out as a short story in a creative writing class, and an early, working draft of the novel, then called The Mute, was submitted for a Houghton Mifflin Fiction Fellowship, for which McCullers won a cash prize and a publishing contract. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was Carson McCullers' first novel, published in 1940, when the author was just twenty-three years old. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Thunder by bonnie s calhoun![]() ![]() Calhoun weaves a captivating tale of a world more like our own than we may want to admit. With evocative descriptions of a strange new world that combines elements of scientific advances, political intrigue, and wilderness survival, Bonnie S. Once the hunter, Selah is now one of the hunted, and she knows only one person who can help her-Bohdi Locke, the Lander her brothers hope to sell. Everything falls to pieces when the Lander Selah catches is stolen by her brothers-and Selah wakes up the next morning to find the Lander's distinctive mark has suddenly appeared on her own flesh. She knows she should leave the capture to the men, but Landers bring a good price from the Company and are especially prized if they keep the markings they arrive with. She loves to write, but it doesnt make her. What Selah's really after are Landers, mysterious people from a land across the big water who survive the delirium-inducing passage in small boats that occasionally crash against the shoreline. Calhoun is the author of Thunder and Lightning, the first two books in the Stone Braide Chronicles. ![]() It is the day before her eighteenth Born Remembrance, and she is hunting, though many people refuse to eat animal flesh, tainted by radiation during the Time of Sorrows. In post-apocalyptic America, Selah Chavez is crouched in long grass on a shore littered with the rusted metal remnants of a once-great city. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Pregnesia by Carla Cassidy![]() But after the biggest solar flares in history nearly destroy the planet, she becomes a Kinetic, endowed by her exposure to extreme radiation with the power to sense coming storms–in the cosmos and beyond. Sarah Daggot has been chasing storms since she was a child. ![]() Together, they'll face an evil plot in both the underworld of the Red Zone and the society inside the fortresses that could destroy those on the outside…for good. ![]() To protect her family, Mari teams up with the mysterious Thorne Goodman. But for Mari Thistle, life on the outside–in the Red Zone–is a constant struggle. What's worse, strange things are happening to the remains of the dead, and by the time she befriends Ben Archer, she's beginning to wonder if a global pandemic is the least of her problems….Īfter a catastrophic spill turns the country into a vast chemical wasteland, those who could afford it retreated to fortresses, self–contained communities run by powerful corporations. ![]() ![]() For Kylie, the miracle of her survival is also her burden–as a doctor at one of the clinics for the infected, she is forced to witness endless suffering. Before The Immortal Rules, there was Red Lung, a relentless virus determined to take out all in its path. ![]() |