![]() ![]() You may not believe the things that he was forced to endure at such a young age. Then he and co-author Susan McClelland describe the four years of danger and desperation he endured after being abandoned by his parents. ![]() The book starts with a brief, never-before-told history of modern North Korea that puts Sungju’s personal story into context. Sungju richly recreates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, “his brothers,” to daily be hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. It’s against this backdrop that my story takes place.” The book, the first of its kind aimed at young adults, is a first-person account of what it is like to be born and raised in a terrifying environment.” - The GuardianĮvery Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who was forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself.ĭedicating his book to those he left behind in North Korea, Sungju writes, “North Korea is indeed a Hermit Kingdom a true-to-life dystopian nation. “Presents North Korea as a horrifying real-life dystopia. ![]()
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As the rarest and only one of her kind, Arianna must find her place in the world in the young adult novel “The Legend of the Blue Eyes”.Īrianna Grace liked her boring Midwestern teenage life where she ignored the many unanswered questions of her childhood. But she is not the only type of night human that lives off of drinking blood. ![]() You thought things that went bump in the night only exist in books and movies? So did Arianna Grace, until she became one of them. Kristin McMichael Get the ebook for Free! The Legend of the Blue Eyes (Book One of the Blue Eyes Trilogy)īy: B. ![]() ![]() ![]() It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. ![]() Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. 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The first book in the series is one of my most-read books ever, bringing to life my memories of various visits to Scotland. Last year, I started re-reading the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon in preparation for the release of book 9, Go tell the bees that I’m gone. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yang”s life story has some familiar themes: Trying to fit in during the early years, rebelling during the teen years, then setting out on a path of discovery that ultimately leads to an appreciation of the things shed and rebelled against in the early years. “We approached a subject normally done in an edgy way in a soft and gentle way,” Rosen said. It proved to be a good fit: A hot topic with a human face. Made by Monterey filmmakers and Terri DeBono and Steve Rosen, it brings to video pieces of the story Yang has captured in her books, especially the vividly illustrated children”s book “Hannah Is My Name.”Īt first, the filmmakers wanted to make a documentary about Yang as a painter and author, but potential funding sources and broadcasters pushed them toward the immigration angle. “My Name Is Belle,” the colorful story of the colorful artist and writer who lives in Carmel, begins airing on PBS stations on May 20. ![]() Belle Yang”s immigration story is her story: Moving from Taiwan to San Francisco at age 7, learning a new language, struggling to fit in, living in fear of deportation until the coveted “green cards” finally arrive.īut, with variations, it”s also the story of millions of people who have come to America, and a pair of documentary filmmakers hope that universality translates in a new film about Yang”s life. ![]() ![]() ![]() I moved toward it and found myself submerged in the center. A cosmic being formed by two superimposed pyramids, one black, the other white, was calling me. “That same night, I dreamed that I was flying in intergalactic space. The idea of The Incal came to Jodorowsky in a dream after a chance encounter with Moebius where they both reminisced about Dune and what could have been, Jodorowsky’s dream is described in the foreword to Les Yeux Du Chat: ![]() Moebius for his next work with Jodorowsky, would take in visual inspiration from his collaboration with Dan O’Bannon on the futuristic noir short story The Long Tomorrow, and would set to work on their new project known as The Incal. Picking up any surviving pieces from the smoked cinders of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s impossible dream of Dune, Jodorowsky and Moebius would band together once more and descend on the medium of bandes dessinées just as they did for their last work the short story Les Yeux Du Chat. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From time to time, the Deep Ones establish and foster relationships with isolated human communities, offering to trade golden treasures from the depths of the sea, along with bountiful fish catches, in return for certain promises. They are a marine race, unknown in freshwater environments, and globally have many cities, all submerged beneath the waves one is off the coast of Massachussets, near Innsmouth, called Y'ha-nthlei, while other sites, such as Y'lu-Y'loa (off the British Isles), K'toch (off Northern Europe), and Y'ha-gom-loa (off Antarctica) are said to exist.ĭeep Ones are immortal until slain (so are any hybrid offspring), and may be worshipped by humans. ![]() Locked in the timeless depths of the sea, their alien and arrogant lives are coldly beautiful, unbelievably cruel, and effectively immortal. The Deep Ones are an amphibious race that primarily serve the two beings known as Father Dagon and Mother Hydra, but also have strong ties to Cthulhu. ![]() ![]() ![]() She sold the publishing rights to a bookseller, who never did publish it, just sat on it, refusing to return it and threatening legal repercussions should Austen seek publication elsewhere. In fact, Northanger Abbey was the first novel Jane Austen submitted for publication back in 1803. Northanger Abbey is one of Austen’s early works, a novel she’d already been working on during the 1790s, the same period that she was writing Sense and Sensibility (her first published novel) and Pride and Prejudice (her second published novel). ![]() In many ways, the novels are apt bookends to Austen’s authorship. During her lifetime, all of Austen’s works were published anonymously, variously “By a Lady” or “By the Author of …” RELATED: 50 BOOKS TO READ IF YOU LOVE JANE AUSTEN So here they were, two of Austen’s heretofore unpublished works, two completed novels by the master’s hand published together, and the first to ever openly name Jane Austen as their author. Persuasion and Northanger Abbey – a four-volume work – hit the market in late December 1817, although the title page lists 1818 as the publishing year. Six months after Jane Austen’s death, the first book EVER listing Jane Austen as its author was published. ![]() |