![]() ![]() ![]() You don't know whether you're going to make the crowd cheer or boo." You don't know whether you're going to win or lose. When you step out on a basketball court, no matter how well prepared you are, you really don't know how things are going to go. "As I was following the team, I was struck by the courage of the coaches and especially the players," Yang tells me in an email interview. Gene Luen Yang is known as a cartoonist - the author of American Born Chinese and the New Super-Man comics, he's received a MacArthur genius grant for his work, and the Library of Congress named him as its Ambassador for Young People's Literature in 2016.īut for years, Yang was a computer science teacher at Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland, Calif., and his new book Dragon Hoops, chronicles a year he spent observing the school's incredibly talented basketball team as they strove for the state championship. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Dragon Hoops Author Gene Luen Yang ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Lily swears she’ll never end up in another abusive home, but when Ryle starts to show all the same warning signs that her mother ignored, Lily learns just how hard it is to say goodbye. The provocative opening takes a dark turn when Lily receives a warning about Ryle’s intentions from his sister, who becomes Lily’s employee and close friend. They meet on a rooftop in Boston on the night Ryle loses a patient and Lily attends her abusive father’s funeral. Hoover’s ( November 9, 2015, etc.) latest tackles the difficult subject of domestic violence with romantic tenderness and emotional heft.Īt first glance, the couple is edgy but cute: Lily Bloom runs a flower shop for people who hate flowers Ryle Kincaid is a surgeon who says he never wants to get married or have kids. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sacks' splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. ![]() If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. ![]() Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities whose limbs have become alien who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" ( The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the great tragedies of our time is that now they're trying to find a Viagra for women, and the latest effort is testosterone-the same hormone they used to give the Olympic athletes from the Soviet bloc. ![]() Like much of medicine today, sex research is highly dominated by the pharmaceutical industry. It's frightening how boring researchers can make an exciting subject. Paul: I read enough scholarly sex articles to euthanize an elephant. Paul: I would be a dead man if I went there. O: Best home-tested technique in the book? ![]() ![]() When people ask her about the guide, she'll say, "It's just what Paul wishes sex could be." We've been married-oh, God, don't you dare say I don't know-I think nine years. Paul: Toni is a criminal defense attorney, and she helps me with the editing. O: And your wife-how does she take being married to Mr. If anyone pries, I'm very adept at changing the subject. Paul: I usually say I'm a publisher or an author-"psychoanalyst" tends to make people just as uncomfortable as telling them you're a sex book writer. O: What do you say when you're at a cocktail party and someone asks, "So what do you do?" You've never read a manual as warm, friendly, liberating, thorough (846 pages), and potentially sex-life-changing as the Guide to Getting It On! O's Liz Brody has a frank conversation with author Paul Joannides. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You’re Never Too Old for Nuts and Berries, 1976, ISBN 0-03-018216-6."Speaking of Inalienable Rights, Amy.", 1976, ISBN 5-6.Wouldn’t a Gremlin Have Been More Sensible?, 1975, ISBN 3-6.But This War Had Such Promise, 1973 (republished as Bravo for Life's Little Ironies and I Have No Son, Popular Library), ISBN 0-03-007521-1.The President Is a Lot Smarter Than You Think, 1973 (republished as The President Is a Lot Smarter Than You Think and Don’t Ever Change, Boopsie, Popular Library, 1973), ISBN 0-03-091406-X. ![]() Still a Few Bugs in the System, 1972 (republished as Even Revolutionaries Like Chocolate Chip Cookies and Just a French Major from the Bronx, Popular Library, 1972), ISBN 0-03-091356-X.Regular collections of strips continue to the present day, and are currently published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. The first collections of Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury were published in the early 1970s by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ![]() ![]() Neuvel’s work explores the impact of technology on society. ![]() Neuvel has won several awards for his work, including the Aurora Award for Best Novel in 2017 for “Sleeping Giants.” “Waking Gods” and “Only Human” follow the first novel. The “Themis Files” trilogy has been praised for its inventive storytelling, strong characters, and thought-provoking themes. The story explores themes of power, ambition and the ethics of scientific discovery. The readers get to see the story unfold through multiple perspectives.Īs the team digs deeper into the mystery of the artifact, they uncover a vast conspiracy involving governments, secret organizations and alien technology. What makes the novel compelling is its structure the story is told through a series of interviews, journal entries, and transcripts of conversations between the characters. The scientists realize that the hand is just one piece of a larger, ancient artifact that has been scattered around the world. ![]() As an adult, Franklin, a highly trained physicist, leads a team of scientists to crack the hand’s code in order to investigate its origins. Rose Franklin who was a little girl when she fell into a giant hole that turned out to be a large metallic hand. RIYADH: “Sleeping Giants” is the first book in a science fiction fantasy trilogy by Sylvain Neuvel, published in 2016. ![]() ![]() Remember while you read, light isn’t playing tricks in Book of Night, the people are. With sharp angles and prose, and a sinister bend, Holly Black is a master of shadow and story stitching. Determined to survive, she’s up against a cast of doppelgängers, mercurial billionaires, gloamists, and the people she loves best in the world - all trying to steal a secret that will allow them control of the shadow world and more. When a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie descends back into a maelstrom of murder and lies. Now, she’s trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but going straight isn’t easy. ![]() And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie. ![]() A consistent atmosphere of dread and foreboding reinforces the core magic system, giving shadow magic a sharp, dangerous edge. It’s a wildly entertaining, magic-filled mystery haunted by criminals with murky intentions. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. Black presents a decidedly mature perspective on our relationships with our silhouettes. ![]() She’s spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. *Contains our Night Circus teacup, the first cup of our new Bookish teacup collection*Ĭharlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn’t pick, a book she couldn’t steal, or a bad decision she wouldn’t make. This box will include an exclusive hardcover SIGNED edition, with sprayed edges, a gold embossed design on the cover, along with 3-6 other items. ![]() ![]() ![]() She turns away all knights who come to her door, and it quite content cooking and cleaning and organizing. But unlike most princesses, Cimorene doesn’t want to be rescued. ![]() She gets away from home and her parents are satisfied, as being a dragon’s princess is very respectable indeed. So, based on amphibious advice, she goes off to volunteer to be a dragon’s princess. But her parents don’t agree, and they eventually try to marry her off. She wants to learn fencing, magic, cooking, and Latin, and all sorts of useful skills. I read this right before I read Ogre Enchanted, which probably was not good for the ogres, seeing as this is so good and that was so disappointing! I remember reading this series as a child, and when a copy came up in my library’s give-away-pile, I snatched it up!Ĭimorene is a princess who doesn’t like the normal princess things. Everyone can learn lessons from this, and even if they are lessons you’ve learned before, it’s good to be reminded! There is a focus on manners and politeness and practicality. I would not hesitate to give the main series to my nieces and nephews. There is good and wickedness, but everything eventually works out. I highly recommend this series to adults and children alike. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Abrams ComicArts, 29.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-4197-4965-0 Van Sciver ( One Dirty Tree) pulls off an ambitious feat: a nuanced graphic biography of Mormonism’s founder. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. ![]() Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, Natalie must get cooking to solve the mystery and find the true killer before she loses the Gray Whale Inn. But when her guests start turning up dead, the police and most of the townspeople think Natalie has added murder to the mix. ![]() She adores whipping up her signature blueberry coffee cake and killer cranberry scones for her guests. Before writing Murder on the Rocks, Karen spent many summers in island fishing communities in Maine and Newfoundland although she now lives in Texas, she escapes to Maine as often as possible.ġ - Murder On the Rocks (Agatha Award nominee): Trading Texas heat for Maine's tangy salt air, Natalie Barnes risked it all to buy the Gray Whale Inn, a quaint bed and breakfast on Cranberry Island. ![]() Overview: Karen MacInerney is a former public relations writer, a graduate of Rice University, a member of the Writers' League of Texas, and the founder of the Austin Mystery Writers critique group, which she attends regularly. Karen MacInerney - A Gray Whale Inn Mystery Series (Books 1-8) ![]() |