For the sake of freedom, a commando from the famed Devil’s Brigade is called to bear one last burden: to receive the mantle bestowed through the title of "The Warlock." Created during the Reagan years, as a response to the Iranian Hostage Crisis of 1979 and America's subsequent humiliation, this position was devised to conduct covert operations apart from the CIA. Now, charged with the authority to use any means necessary to regain America's standing on the global stage and to defeat the Soviet empire, the new Warlock brokers an audacious plan to end the oppressive reign of the USSR.
Husbands Thomas and Matt are enjoying a second-chance marriage after coming out, finding happiness in a summer cottage on the southern coast of Maine. They’ve kept a tenuous peace with their exes. Thomas toils in the garden. There is an ease to their love. This is the way life should be. But it’s not long before their three children—each nearing adulthood and fleeing personal crises of their own—descend on their fathers’ bliss. The two-bedroom getaway has just enough space for Thomas and Matt’s future. Now they must make room for the past, and all its drama. During an unintentional family reunion, old lives, broken and in need of repair, converge with the new. Over the course of an unforgettable summer, two fathers and their children will come together. They’ll understand what life can still be. Pain, anger, flaws and all, they’re determined to forge a loving way forward.
For fans of Station Eleven and The Ministry for the Future, this richly imaginative and immersive novel is the story of a family in crisis that unfolds against the backdrop of our near future. Emi Vargas, whose parents helped save the world, is tired of being told how lucky she is to have been born after the climate crisis. But following the public assassination of a dozen climate criminals, Emi’s mother, Kristina, disappears as a suspect, and Emi’s illusions of utopia are shattered. Emi and her father, Larch, journey from their home in Greenland to New York City, now a storm-surge outpost built from the ruins of the former metropolis. But they aren’t the only ones looking for Kristina. Alternating between Emi’s search for her mother and a heart-stopping account of her parents’ experiences during The Great Transition, this novel shows how our actions today determine our fate tomorrow.
Her Dangerous Journey Home: No Man is Her Master Vol. III
In the guise of her dead brother, master merchant Christina Kohl returns to London, knighted by King Edward II for bravery fighting against the Scots. She is not alone, as she is accompanied by a young noblewoman who will be joining the court of Queen Isabella. Unexpectedly, Christina and Lady Cecily fall in love, only to have it cruelly torn from them just as suddenly. Her loathed enemy, Katharine Volker, coerces Christina to depart on a perilous voyage to the Baltic waters of her birthplace. She travels not to engage in trade, but to hunt the fierce pirates who destroyed her family. What will transpire in London during her absence? What challenges will she face upon her return, and is there hope for a future together with Lady Cecily? But first, Christina will need to use all her cleverness and skill if she is to survive Her Dangerous Journey Home.
Cheating on college exams is commonplace. Murder isn’t. When a student in Professor Brad Parker’s lab at the Maine Translational Research Institute in Wells is wrongfully accused of sharing answers on an exam, he tries to help. Only to encounter a series of unexpected obstacles. Burglary. Bribery. A suspicious suicide. And then the professor who accused the students of cheating is killed, leaving Brad and his fiancée, FBI agent Karen Richmond, desperately trying to understand what’s going on behind the scenes.
The dust bowl is back, Frackheads roam the lawless streets, and one unusual family with eight internationally adopted teens plots to hack the oil company which ruined their ranch and destroyed their father's reputation. Once the CTO for Colossal Oil, their father blew the whistle and sounded the alarm about fracking chemicals leeching into the water supply, causing some Oklahomans to go insane, craving oil for sustenance. A series of unfortunate events, revealed family secrets, and a father's internal war emerge. Ultimately, the battle between environmental conservation and insatiable capitalism (an internal feud inherited from ancestors both Indigenous and white settler), threatens the hack mission and the precious relationships in their beautiful family. This intense and thought-provoking YA/Adult Sci-Fi crossover was inspired by the author's personal experience of growing up in Oklahoma and dealing with the damage Fracking caused her home.
A neurodivergent child interacts with their neighbors to discover the true meaning behind greetings and salutations. When people say "How are you?" are they really asking, or just saying hello? Verity, who is neurodivergent, plans an experiment to figure this out. Verity is bubbling with excitement about an upcoming school field trip to the aquarium. When neighbors ask, "How are you?" Verity shares their excitement and fascinating facts about sea animals. Their older brother, John, kindly suggests that the question "How are you?" is actually a greeting and not an invitation to share so much. Verity plans an experiment to find out if their brother is right. But when the trip to the aquarium is cancelled, Verity is heartbroken. When their brother asks "How are you?" is "Good" the right answer?
The Amazing Adventures of Sammie the Salmon
Susan Starr
Illustrated by Kimberly Bolton
Maine Authors Publishing
Tiny Sammie the Salmon has a great journey before her. She and her friends must navigate Maine's quiet streams, the Mighty Penobscot River, and the vast Atlantic Ocean. This brave little salmon discovers the mysteries of her underwater world, meets unusual creatures, and triumphs over surprising challenges. Her story chronicles the instinctive migration and physical maturation of an Atlantic salmon through a lively and colorful tale of exploration that will enchant young readers. The clear text and bright illustrations bring to life the imaginative encounters that Sammie has in her below-the-surface surroundings. Her amazing adventures entertain the reader, while the story simultaneously imparts scientific details.
From the Edge of the World: A Telling Room Anthology
Edited by Molly McGrath & Jude Marx
The Telling Room
The fifty poems and stories in From the Edge of the World express what it’s like to change––what it’s like to grow up, what it’s like to leave, and what it’s like to look back. Printed in the pages of this book is literature about defining girlhood, hiding in cabinets, eating olives, communicating with a duck, saving sea turtles, loving tiny aliens, encountering ghosts, murder, and drowning, and feeling or losing the love of siblings, parents, grandparents, and friends. Here you’ll find fiction, personal narratives, memoir, essays, poems, letters, and persuasive essays by authors who explore the struggles of growing up, family, home, culture, and self-discovery. They play with humor, darkness, tenderness, and empowerment and range in tone from grief, loss, and death to peace, love, and joy.
Printed in my Soul: A Young Writers & Leaders Anthology
Edited by Sonya Tomlinson & Hipai Pamba
The Telling Room
Welcome to our thirteenth year of personal stories written by students in the Young Writers & Leaders program. Young Writers & Leaders is a free, nine-month, afterschool, literary arts education program for high schoolers with international and multicultural backgrounds. This anthology evokes emotion and brings the reader on a ride through the lives of its thirty authors. You’ll visit basketball courts, a rowdy dodgeball game, a laundry room, a soccer field in Cape Town, a West London neighborhood, the train tracks at Old Orchard Beach, and many other fascinating places along the way.
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