![]() ![]() After being homeschooled, she entered Toccoa Falls College, a Christian school in her small north Georgia hometown, and began working on a high-fantasy trilogy. ![]() Origin isn’t the first book Khoury created. and I have a great team of supporters who worked with me." “Some people may say this just happened overnight, but it didn’t. You can write a book in a month, but it takes months and months to get it ready to go out into the world,” Khoury says in an interview from her home in Georgia. “It’s important to know it’s a long process. And that’s not all: The 22-year-old Khoury is already writing her second novel for Penguin, and she has embarked on the publisher’s Breathless Reads tour.īut while the past two years have been a veritable whirlwind, Khoury wants to emphasize-especially to aspiring authors-that, as easy or speedy as her timeline might appear, writing and publishing a book takes significant time and effort. On September 4, Origin-a thought-provoking YA novel with a fascinating premise-debuts with an impressive 250,000-copy first printing. ![]() This year, she finished revising the book, appeared at book and library conventions and traveled to the jungle for the first time. In 2011, she wrote a book (in about a month) that was snapped up by Penguin’s Razorbill imprint. Publishing phenom Jessica Khoury has had a busy couple of years: In 2010, she graduated from college and got married. ![]()
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![]() Clarke’s prescient and powerful imagination, The Deep Range is a classic work of science fiction that remains deeply relevant to our times. He was quite off on the rationality of humanity but it was lovely to read such an optimistic even happy book after so many dystopian equivalents. The more his explorations deepen, the more he comes to understand man’s true place in natureand the unique role he will soon play in humanity’s future. Overall it's incredibly impressive that in 1957 Arthur C Clarke predicted many of the touchstone issues that are major today. The book is fascinating, it looks at many issues that are extremely relevant at the moment such as synthetic meats and the ethical dilemas of eating animals. ![]() The story is almost a series of shorter stories about the same character throughout his career and each story segment has a different focus starting with recovery and restarting, the middle section is more adventure and discovery and the final section is more religious, political and ethical. This book is the calmest sci-fi I've ever read, it has moments of tension, twists turns and loss but there is no world ending catastrophe to avert, it is much smaller scale which I enjoyed. I loved it but I was expecting something very different. ![]() ![]() A fascinating sci-fi tale on modern issues ![]() ![]() ![]() His prose style resembles that of most comedians who write books: The sentences are simple, short and punchy, with much the same rhythms of delivery as their stand-up counterparts. revels in, only Gaffigan is a bit less mean-spirited. He gets much mileage out of the sort of exaggerated mock cruelty that comedian Louis C.K. Topics include his wife’s obvious love of pregnancy, the cringe-worthy question of circumcision, the demented universe of children’s literature and the challenging adventures of raising kids in the city. Branching out from his usual wheelhouse jokes involving subjects like bacon or McDonald’s hamburgers, the author’s G-rated sense of humor expands into new parental/responsible adult territory. His chaotic family life serves as the basis for this nonfiction debut, and readers can assume that he’ll reap an endless supply of comedic material from this situation for years to come. ![]() Living in a two-bedroom New York City apartment with five kids and an amazingly “fertile” wife, frumpy funnyman Gaffigan may have found, in a sense, the perfect domestic situation for a comedian trolling for new material. Comedian Gaffigan delivers zany stories from the front lines of urban parenting. ![]() ![]() ![]() Caitlin begins to skip school, which causes her to and fail every class. They become friends and begin to smoke pot. ![]() Rogerson introduces Caitlin to drugs and a woman in her mid-twenties named Corinna. Caitlin and Rogerson’s relationship becomes more physical. Caitlin discovers she hates cheerleading, but she remains on the squad because of her mother, who sees Caitlin as Cass’ replacement.Ĭaitlin meets a boy named Rogerson, who is a drug dealer. Caitlin says that it’s probably best to take her mind off Cass’ departure. Her father is furious, saying he had better expectations of her.Ĭaitlin’s friend, Rina, asks her to join the cheerleading squad. ![]() Everyone forgets about Caitlin’s birthday and searches for Cass, but Cass soon makes a call saying she has moved in with her boyfriend, Adam. Caitlin O’Koren has just realized that on her sixteenth birthday, her older sister, Cass, has run away. ![]() ![]() ![]() Outstanding in the second half as his growing influence helped City take back control. Wins his individual duels and creates the platform for players like Gundgoan to be match-winners higher up the pitch. The Portuguese is back to his best and he looked like he coasted through the final.Īnother key City performer who makes everything look so simple. The full-back’s recovery pace was needed at times but he wasn’t really troubled until Garnacho’s introduction.Ī picture of authority in the centre of defence. ![]() Made a big save in stoppage time to tip over the crossbar. Pep Guardiola made the big call to start him in the FA Cup final and the goalkeeper didn’t do anything to let his manager down. Ilkay Gundogan scored the fastest-ever FA Cup final goal after just 13 seconds but Bruno Fernandes equalised from the penalty spot in a thrilling first half.īut Gundogan struck for the second time to restore City’s lead after the restart and although substitute Alejandro Garnacho went close, Pep Guardiola’s side held on.Ĭity can complete the treble and match Manchester United if they defeat Inter in the Champions League final next week. Manchester City defeated Manchester United to win the FA Cup and take another step closer to completing the treble at Wembley. ![]() Stones and Gundogan were excellent for City (REUTERS) ![]() ![]() Moreover, stopping the creatures here would help prevent the imminent invasion of Earth. After all, the same aliens attacking Earth in the previous books have long been in this world, giving them a deadly common enemy. Despite major reservations about the trustworthiness of their chief contact among the locals, Kenzie, in particular, argues for trusting them and working together. Soon, tensions between the characters must be set aside as they face suspicious, increasingly desperate locals, who are running out of supplies. Rune theorizes about co-evolution and some sort of invisible link between races. ![]() ![]() The abandoned city they find could easily be mistaken for a post-apocalyptic Earth-right down to the English writing. Through Kenzie’s borrowing of Liam’s teleportation power, she and her friends (plus the remaining Legion bounty hunters) find themselves on a desert planet. After Containment (2019), Kenzie and her fellow survivors are stranded on a strange planet. ![]() ![]() ![]() The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. ![]() Sales’ narrative, rich with diverse music references, reverberates with resilience. ![]() The supporting characters are equally well-developed, with the strengths and flaws of real people. Her journey toward acceptance-of others and of herself-is compelling. Elise is a remarkably self-aware character. Her secrets eventually become impossible to maintain, forcing her to come clean about who she is and who she wants to be. When a cyberbully dredges up Elise’s past and begins attacking her via a fraudulent online journal, Elise’s passion for DJ’ing becomes her refuge. The alluring but elusive DJ Char takes her under his wing and helps her develop her talent. ![]() Elise begins living a double life, returning each week to Start and learning to DJ. There, she meets a cast of characters who help her begin to see the light at the end of the crushingly dark and seemingly endless tunnel that is high school. When this fails and Elise discovers that she is still the same as she’s always been, she makes a desperate decision-a suicide attempt-that ostracizes her even further.Īfter this incident, Elise takes to walking alone at night, which is how she stumbles across Start, an underground dance party. Her project for sophomore year is to finally fit in. Elise Dembowski is a chronic overachiever. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2008, Harper Children's published Terry's standalone non-Discworld YA novel, Nation. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal.Ī non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback - Harper Torch, 2006 - and trade paperback - Harper Paperbacks, 2006). There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. ![]() Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. ![]() Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. ![]() ![]() Refreshments and prayer facilities available.Ĭhildren’s Storytelling Session with Asmaa Hussein WHERE: IHRC Bookshop (202 Preston Road, Wembley, London HA9 8PA) or watch the author evening LIVE on Facebook and YouTube. TICKET: £5.80 per person – register here (limited spaces available tickets are non-refundable) IHRC Bookshop are also offering 20% discount off all copies of A Temporary Gift and A Place of Refuge. Asmaa Hussein (author and founder of Ruqaya’s Bookshelf) is joining IHRC from Canada, for two exclusive author evenings to discuss her international best-selling books, A Temporary Gift: Reflections on Love, Loss and Healing and A Place of Refuge. Asmaa Hussein is the owner of Ruqaya’s Bookshelf, a publishing company founded in 2015 that is dedicated to representing authentically Muslim stories, with a focus on children’s books. ![]() ![]() Charlie is unsure if she can trust him, but her need to get away is so strong that she gets into his car for the long drive from New Jersey to Ohio.įor a thriller that starts off with two strikes against it, Riley Sager’s “Survive the Night” turns out to be a first-rate read. That leads her to Josh, a somewhat older guy who says he is going her way. ![]() ![]() So she drops out, packs up her stuff, kisses her college boyfriend goodbye, and puts a ride share request on the school bulletin board. “Survive the Night,” by Riley Sager (Dutton)Ĭonfused and depressed Charlie can’t bear to stay at Olyphant University anymore - not since her best friend was stabbed to death by a serial murderer known as the Campus Killer. ![]() This cover image released by Dutton shows "Survive the Night," a novel by Riley Sager. ![]() |