![]() ![]() Six months pregnant, Jen is in freefall as her future, her husband’s freedom, and her friendship with Riley are thrown into uncertainty. ![]() Riley pursued her childhood dream of becoming a television journalist and is poised to become one of the first Black female anchors of the top news channel in their hometown of Philadelphia.īut the deep bond they share is severely tested when Jen’s husband, a city police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager. Jen married young, and after years of trying, is finally pregnant. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions. Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. Told from alternating perspectives, this “propulsive, deeply felt tale of race and friendship” ( People) follows two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event. Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by People, Essence, New York Post, PopSugar, New York Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Town & Country, Bustle, Fortune, and Book Riot ![]() Named a Best Book Pick of 2021 by Harper’s Bazaar and Real Simple ![]()
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![]() ![]() Moss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence. Libra-a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. ![]() In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family-and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. “I promise you have never read a story like this.”-Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind. ![]() ![]() Clifford became an international star, writes Emily Langer for The Washington Post, on par with Curious George or Babar. I don’t know if there will be another one,’” Bridwell said, according to the BBC.īut there were many more. “I said to my wife, ‘Now don’t count on there being any more. The lovable giant dog and his faithful owner Emily Elizabeth have gone down in kid-lit history, but when his first book involving Clifford became a success Bridwell thought it was a fluke. ![]() ![]() Before that, Bridwell was working as a commercial artist and trying to get into children’s publishing with limited success. ![]() American illustrator Norman Bridwell, best-known for creating Clifford the Big Red Dog, was born on this day in 1928.Ĭlifford was born almost 35 years later, writes the BBC, with the 1963 publication of Clifford the Big Red Dog. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Bronze Horseman, however, was something else entirely. Often, they’re hard work and dense and I read them telling myself ‘it’s good for you’. I’m obsessed with history and even I’m a little fatigued by wartime narratives. I’d had half a dozen people recommend Simons’ book to me, and it’s always included in lists like “101 Book You Must Read Before You Die.” It’s about a girl named Tatiana, living in the Soviet Union just as the Second World War begins. Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl was another.īut when I opened the first page of Paullina Simons’ The Bronze Horseman, I didn’t expect to encounter a story that would fundamentally change how I think about the world. For me, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara was one of them. ![]() A door into another world that will challenge us to feel things we’ve never felt before.Īnd I think we only come across a handful of these books in our lifetime. Last night, in the early hours of the morning, I was curled up into a ball sobbing into a book I stole from my mum when she wasn’t looking. ![]() ![]() In this community a hyper-conservative, hyper-religious society was formed and it is here that Mary is raised in. For their protection an immense chain-link fence has been erected around their community. ![]() The Unconsecrated roam the vast forest where Mary and many of the characters reside in. Mary and her community are set in an undetermined, post-apocalyptic time where they live in constant danger from hordes of cannibalistic, undead humans they call the Unconsecrated. She is also the narrator and all events are told from her point of view. Mary is the teenage heroine of the novel. ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() |