The Winternight Trilogy was also nominated for a Hugo for Best Series. It was a finalist for both best debut and best fantasy at the Goodreads Choice awards. The Bear and the Nightingale was named the best science fiction and fantasy novel of 2017 by Amazon, and nominated for an Astounding award, a Locus award, a Vermont Book Award. She currently lives in Vermont with her husband and her dog, where she grows a gigantic garden, hikes and skis. Arden’s work has been translated into over twenty languages, and all her work has been optioned for film.īorn in Austin, Texas, she has studied Russian in Moscow, taught at a school in the French Alps, and worked on a farm in Hawaii. She is also the author of the Small Spaces Quartet, a middle grade horror series, whose titles include Small Spaces, Dead Voices, Dark Waters and Empty Smiles. Katherine Arden is the author of the New York Times, USA Today and internationally bestselling Winternight Trilogy: The Bear and the Nightingale, The Girl in the Tower, and The Winter of the Witch, three historical fantasy novels set in medieval Russia.
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He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.Īlthough Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. He once promised to watch over her and the kids, and he’s going to honor that-even though he harbors a secret that could tear them apart. Now a widow with two young children, Ava needs him more than ever. Can Sawyer and Ava move beyond their past hurts to find their happily ever after?Ĭoast Guard officer Sawyer Trask left Cape Cod with a big regret-never confessing his true feelings to his childhood friend Ava. But his presence is also stirring her heart in unexpected ways. Ava could always count on Sawyer through thick and thin, so having him nearby is a huge comfort. He once promised to watch over her and the kids, and he's going to honor that–even though he harbors a secret that could tear them apart. 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Like wolves, rhesus monkeys are smart, potentially aggressive animals with a hierarchical structure within their troops. work at Yale in medical science and psychiatry, she journeys regularly to Cayo Santiago, an island populated solely by more than 1000 free ranging rhesus macaques to study their behavior. Whereas most of us have no access to untamed pack mammals, Jennifer is an exception. Real wolves are pack animals: hierarchy and dominance matter. In Raised by Wolves, Jennifer Lynn Barnes uses her real world knowledge of pack behavior as the basis of an action-packed, intense, romantic story. Melissa Marr is the author of the bestselling Wicked Lovely series: Wicked Lovely, Ink Exchange, Fragile Eternity, and Radiant Shadows. 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Adam Gidwitz, Newbery Honor-winning author of The Inquisitor's Tale and A Tale Dark and Grimm More Kiranmala, please! - Tracy Baptiste, New York Times bestselling author of The Jumbies Game of Stars a fun, funny adventure, more exciting than an auto rickshaw ride across dimensions. * DasGupta once again wittily meshes Bengali folktales, intergalactic science, and a spectacular world of her own creation in a yarn that is part hero's quest, part immigrant coming-of-age tale. Praise for Game of Stars (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #2):Ī must-read for every aspiring Demon Slayer! - Soman Chainani, New York Times bestselling author of The School for Good and Evil She is a team member of We Need Diverse Books, and can be found online at and on Twitter at Quotes: When she's not writing or reading, Sayantani spends time watching cooking shows with her trilingual children and protecting her black Labrador retriever Khushi from the many things that scare him, including plastic bags. Sayantani is a pediatrician by training, but now teaches at Columbia University. Sayantani DasGupta is the New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed, Bengali folktale and string theory-inspired Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond books, the first of which - The Serpent's Secret - was a Bank Street Best Book of the Year, a Booklist Best Middle Grade Novel of the 21st Century, and an E. Then, in Heard It in a Love Song, I featured a four-legged character named Norton who was adopted by Josh (and later cared for and taken on walks by Layla). As I’ve mentioned online a few times, the character was named after my own close friend, Janice. So many of you have written to tell me that you absolutely loved the character of Janice from The Girl He Used to Know. More details to come, but for now, I’ll leave you with this: Romantic Dramedy. I cannot wait for you all to meet Wren and Marshall. Stay tuned for the cover and title reveal as well as pre-order links. Book 10 is complete and my publishing team and I are hard at work behind the scenes getting everything ready. I have more fantastic news! There’s a new Tracey Garvis Graves title heading your way. You can pick up the trade paperback at the retailers below: Simply enclose a padded postage-paid mailer with your name and address and I’ll happily sign your book(s) and mail the package back to you. And if you’d like it signed, you can always send it to me at Tracey Garvis Graves, PO Box 35092, Des Moines, IA 50315. If you’re someone who prefers a trade paperback, today is the day to grab your copy. Martin’s Press always knocks it out of the park. Isn’t the cover pretty? I love seeing the modifications to the cover image for the different editions of the book, and St. I am happy to announce that today is the trade paperback release of Heard It in a Love Song. Happy 2023! I hope you’re having a wonderful start to the new year. |