![]() ![]() The traders exchange what little of the plants they have for the rare and valuable Koros stones and collect a native red-colored wood to exchange at home. The process goes slowly till the Salariki discover that the Solar Queen is carrying catnip and other plants from Terra that are unknown on Sargol. The Solar Queen has recently obtained a valuable trading contract on the planet Sargol and are building a relationship with one of the races on the planet, the cat-like Salariki. Free Traders take on trading contracts on remote and recently discovered planets, which can be dangerous and unpredictable. The main protagonist of the novel is Dane Thorson, Cargo-master-apprentice on the Free Trader rocket ship the Solar Queen. The book is the second volume of the author's Solar Queen series. ![]() ![]() It was published in 1956 by Gnome Press in an edition of 5,000 copies. Plague Ship is a science fiction novel by Andre Norton under the pseudonym Andrew North. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() For some, these communities provide catharsis, a space to let your hair down after a long, hard day of having to interact with straight people. Queer community, as Thom examines it and in the wider world, can take many forms: a more intimate, chosen-family model of mutual aid and support the more nebulous web of connections drawn by individuals who might frequent the same bars, parties, or organizing circles because of their shared identities and experiences. Published last fall, I Hope We Choose Love reckons with a number of queer community practices and logics that have become commonplace over the past two decades. Building on these themes as they appear in her 2016 novel, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, and her 2017 poetry collection, A Place Called No Homeland, her latest book, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes at the End of the World, tackles queer community dynamics head-on in a mix of poems and personal essays. ![]() “Both!” That's clear in Thom’s writing-her work chronicles the complicated inner workings of queer community, where drama and trauma are basically inescapable. ![]() ![]() Their survival depends on the Gladers’ destruction-and they’re determined to survive.įriendships will be tested. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them. The Gladers have two weeks to cross through the Scorch-the most burned-out section of the world. Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. Book two in the blockbuster Maze Runner series that spawned a movie franchise and ushered in a worldwide phenomenon! And don’t miss The Fever Code, the highly-anticipated series conclusion that finally reveals the story of how the maze was built! ![]() ![]() We are the tin - JEANETTE WINTERSON Matt Haig is a marvellous writer: limpid tender passionate. everyone) - S J WATSON Fascinating and beautifully written - IAN RANKIN Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. It should be read by anyone who has suffered, or known someone who has suffered (i.e. Touching, funny, thought-provoking, with a huge heart. ![]() ![]() a valuable contribution to the conversation * * SUNDAY TIMES * * Brings a difficult and sensitive subject out of the darkness and into the light - MICHAEL PALIN Full of wisdoms and warmth - NATHAN FILER A tender, candid, inspiring book about depression * * SUNDAY EXPRESS * * Matt Haig is astounding - STEPHEN FRY Reasons to Stay Alive is wonderful. Maybe the most important book I've read this year - SIMON MAYO A life-saving book - AMANDA CRAIG Warm and engaging, and shot through with humour. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lockhart’s stark, evocative prose captures the emotions of a grieving teenage girl paralyzed by the weight of her parents’ expectations and plagued by a perpetual sense of inadequacy. ![]() The boys’ presence, a deviation from the Sinclair family’s usual routine, sets into motion an unforeseen chain of events that ultimately entangles the three oldest Sinclair sisters. Even more unexpected are the arrivals on Beechwood Island of George, Major, and Pfeff, friends of Carrie’s cousin Yardley. When Rosemary’s ghost appears to her, she is bewildered by the specter but accepts her intermittent appearances and comfortably mundane requests. Carrie’s parents and remaining sisters, 16-year-old Penny and 14-year-old Bess, endure the loss with characteristic Sinclair stoicism, but Carrie finds it difficult to repress her sorrow, even with the aid of codeine pills to numb her pain. Ten-year-old Rosemary drowned the previous summer while swimming alone. ![]() This prequel to We Were Liars (2014) takes place in 1987 as 17-year-old Carrie Sinclair faces her first summer at the family’s Massachusetts vacation property without her youngest sister, Rosemary. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately for the surly, Prussian warlock, he has no choice but to work with enthusiastic Penny as a familiar. Willem Sauer is banned from having a familiar due to past transgressions, thereby limiting his magic-casting abilities. So when an unorthodox arrangement to apprentice under the table to a forbidden warlock presents itself, she takes it. Witches and warlocks are so long-lived that there are far more familiars available than witches to train them. There’s just a small problem-no one’s hiring. She’s been a member of the Society of Familiars ever since she was old enough to join the Fam. Penny Roundtree wants nothing more than to be a familiar to a witch. Enemies-to-lovers has never been more enchanting in this witchy romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling author of Go Hex Yourself. ![]() ![]() And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic. Their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. ![]() The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can't afford to turn down Stella's offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan-from foreplay to more-than-missionary position.īefore long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but crave all of the other things he's making her feel. It’s what she does best, and it’s what made her a star in. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. Stella Lane, the protagonist of Helen Hoangs charming and original debut novel The Kiss Quotient, out June 5, thinks things through. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice-with a professional. It doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases-a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old. Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. ![]() ![]() ![]() "This is such a fun read and it's also quite original and sexy and sensitive."-Roxane Gay,Ī heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick. 's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2018 and one of Amazon's Top 100 Books of 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins celebrates her beloved Blessings series with a heartwarming novel set in Henry Adams, Kansas. ![]() One thing is clear, though: Jojo is a girl who always gets what she wants, even when she doesn’t know what it is! “Beverly Jenkins has reached romance superstardom.”-Detroit Free Press “Jenkins combines accurate and little-known historical details with bold heroes and sassy heroines. As the war rages on, Adam''s feelings for Jojo grow stronger, but Jojo''s determination to resist him does, too. Besides, she has George falling all over himself to please her. But he''s always been such a flirt-how can she take him seriously? He can''t possibly be serious about her. Jojo, too, can''t deny her growing feelings for Adam. All grown up, Jojo is being courted by another soldier, and Adam knows it would be foolish to play with her heart but he just can’t get the ugly duckling turned swan off his mind. But when a wound brings him home from the War Between the States, it’s a girl he used to call “Pest” who’s turning the tables. ![]() Then the return of her childhood nemesis complicates her life even further! No girl is immune to Adam Morgan’s charm. That is, until handsome George Brooks begins to pursue her. ![]() Just seventeen, she''s been to college, she has her own hairdressing shop and nothing will distract her from her goals. Josephine ‘Jojo’ Best has it all figured out. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One that Alistair and his brothers have carried all their lives… and one that Alistair and Nate’s future children will carry, too.īound to each other by the three precious impossibilities, Nate and Alistair have no choice-no matter the consequence, they will fight for their forbidden clutch.Ĭlutch is a 64,000 word steamy omegaverse mpreg-ish romance that will leave you in stitches. When a Grindr message brings him to Nate’s doorstep, then straight to his bed, he has no reason to believe that what they share will be more than a simple hookup, until, three months later, a tug on his soul informs him otherwise.įor the Drake family has a secret-one that will force Nate and Alistair together as much as it will demand that they be torn apart. ![]() ![]() Between teaching classes at the university and working toward his PhD, he doesn’t need a partner to occupy his time, and he certainly doesn’t need a man like Alistair Drake complicating his future.Īlistair Drake, black sheep of the tremendously wealthy Drake family, is more interested in adding another notch to his bedpost than another zero to his bank account. Bookish, snarky, and fiercely independent Nate Boudreaux leads a solitary life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() O'Hara's untimely death in 1966 at the age of forty was, in the words of fellow poet John Ashbery, 'the biggest secret loss to American poetry since John Wheelwright was killed.' Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley and Gary Snyder, a crucial contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New American Poetry, 'which, by its vitality alone, became the dominant force in the American poetic tradition.'įrank O'Hara was born in Baltimore in 1926 and grew up in New England from 1951 he lived and worked in New York, both for Art News and for the Museum of Modern Art, where he was an associate curator. ![]() |