When you're sixteen and no one understands who you are, sometimes the
only choice left is to run. If you're lucky, you find a place that
accepts you, no questions asked. And if you're really lucky, that place
has a drum set, a place to practice, and a place to sleep. For Kid, the
streets of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, are that place. Over the course of two
scorching summers, Kid falls hopelessly in love and then loses nearly
everything and everyone worth caring about. But as summer draws to a
close, Kid finally finds someone who can last beyond the sunset.Brooklyn, Burning is the story of two summers in Brooklyn, two summers of fires, music, loss, and ultimately, love.Review
"A lyrical, understated punk-kid love song to Brooklyn and to
chosen family. . . . Overall, the tone is as raw, down-to-earth and
transcendent as the music Scout and Kid ultimately make together." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Brezenoff
lets readers take the reins, recasting and reimagining the lead
roles as often as they like. For readers with little use for labels,
it's an intimate yet wonderfully open rock 'n' roll love story." --Publishers Weekly, starred review"A moving, personal story of friendship, loss, and love, Brezenoff's novel is also a tender tribute to all LGBTQ youth." --The Horn Book Magazine"With
its development of a supportive ersatz family and its
happy-as-it's-going-to-get ending, this will appeal to readers who
enjoyed David Levithan's Love Is the Higher Law." --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books"A
lyrical, understated punk-kid love song to Brooklyn and to chosen
family. . . . Overall, the tone is as raw, down-to-earth and
transcendent as the music Scout and Kid ultimately make together." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Brezenoff
lets readers take the reins, recasting and reimagining the lead roles
as often as they like. For readers with little use for labels, it's an
intimate yet wonderfully open rock 'n' roll love story." --Publishers Weekly, starred review"A moving, personal story of friendship, loss, and love, Brezenoff's novel is also a tender tribute to all LGBTQ youth." --The Horn Book Magazine"With
its development of a supportive ersatz family and its
happy-as-it's-going-to-get ending, this will appeal to readers who
enjoyed David Levithan's Love Is the Higher Law." --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
About the Author
Steve Brezenoff is the author of dozens of chapter books for younger readers and the young adult novel The Absolute Value of -1.
Born in Queens, Steve has lived in the suburbs on Long Island, on a
couch on Manhattan's Upper East Side, a few feet from the 7 train in the
Sunnyside neighborhood in Queens, and across the Hudson River in
Jersey City--but none of those places has stuck with him or been missed
as acutely as Brooklyn, where he lived on and off for much of his
twenties and early thirties. Steve now lives in St. Paul, with his wife,
Beth, their son, Sam, and dog, Harry. Views: 10
As a television news correspondent, Alex Callahan has traveled to some of the most dangerous corners of the globe, covering famine, plague, and war. He’s seen more than his share of blood and death, and knows what it means to be afraid. But what he’s never known is the terror that grabs him when, on a tranquil summer afternoon, he ceases to be an observer of the dark side and, to his shock, becomes enmeshed in it. Separated from his wife, and struggling not to become a stranger to his six-year-old twin sons, Alex is logging some all-too-rare quality time with the boys when they vanish without a trace amid the hurly-burly of a countryside Renaissance Fair. Then the phone call comes. A chilling silence, slow, steady breathing, and the familiar, plaintive voice of a child – "Daddy?" – complete the nightmare and set in motion a juggernaut of frenzy and agony. The longer the police search, exhausting leads without success, the deeper Alex’s certainty grows that time is running out. And when, at last, telltale signs reveal a hidden pattern of bizarre and ghoulish abductions, Alex vows to use his own relentless investigative skills to rescue his children from the shadowy figure dubbed The Piper. Whoever this elusive stranger is, the profile that slowly emerges – from previous crimes involving twins, from the zealously secret world of professional magicians, and from the eerie culture of voodoo – suggests that The Piper is a predator unlike any other. A twisted soul hell-bent on fulfilling an unspeakably dark dream. A fiend with a terrifying true calling. What Alex Callahan is closing in on is a monster with a mission. Views: 10
Absolute Zero Cool is the latest novel from Declan Burke, one of Ireland’s most innovative crime fiction writers. “A genuinely original take on noir, inventive and funny.” (JOHN BANVILLE).
Absolute Zero Cool will be launched in The Gutter Bookshop, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 on Wednesday 10 August by John Connolly, all welcome!
Absolute Zero Cool is a post-modern take on the crime thriller genre. Adrift in the half-life limbo of an unpublished novel, hospital porter Billy needs to up the stakes. Euthanasia simply isn’t shocking anymore; would blowing up his hospital be enough to see Billy published, or be damned? What follows is a gripping tale that subverts the crime genre’s grand tradition of liberal sadism, a novel that both excites and disturbs in equal measure. Absolute Zero Cool is not only an example of Irish crime writing at its best; it is an innovative, self-reflexive piece that turns every convention of crime fiction on its head. Declan Burke’s latest book is an imaginative story that explores the human mind’s ability to both create and destroy, with equally devastating effects. Views: 10
Chapter in The Promise of Change by Rebecca Heflin Views: 10
On March 5, 2007, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, his driver and his interpreter were captured by the Taliban. His captors threatened to execute him if Italy did not immediately withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. When Italy refused this demand, the driver, twenty-five-year old Sayed Agha, was decapitated before Mastrogiacomo's eyes. A video of this horrifying event was shown around the world, and Mastrogiacomo spent the rest of his time in captivity convinced that a similar fate would soon befall him.His jail, however, was not a dark room hidden away in some urban periphery, but a kind of open-air prison: to escape detection, his captors dragged him from village to village, through opium plantations, along dusty roads and over rugged mountains, from one end of Afghanistan to the other.It was a captivity that consisted in a continuous and nerve-racking confrontation with a world that bore no resemblance to that which he had ever known. Mastrogiacomo draws from his experience not... Views: 10
Product DescriptionThe sequel to _Bound in Blood and _exciting sixth entry in the Godstalker Chronicles by epic fantasy world-builder extraordinaire, P.C. Hodgell.Jame is one of the last of the Kencyrath line, born to battle a world-destroying Lord of Darkness and resuscitate her ancestral heritage. Jame’s youth was spent hard and low in a desert wasteland. Now she has discovered her past and her heritage as Highborn—and, with it, the power to call souls out of their bodies and slay the occasional god or two (as well as to resurrect them). First, though, Jame must survive the politics and dangers of haunted Tentir College, a school for warriors where she’s a student. At Tentir, Jame saves a young protÉgÉ from possession by a powerful, evil soul in search of a body, while combating jealous students who see her as a danger to their ambition for power and want her expelled—and blinded and dead, in the bargain! Then, just as graduation approaches, Jame’s exemption from the sacred laws of the tribe of her youth expires and she is expected to wed immediately, plus take on a family. To make matters worse, she’s challenged to a mounted combat duel to decide who is Tentir “top gun”—a competition she must win to graduation. It’s trial by fire, as Jame moves closer to a magnificent destiny she both fears—and knows she must face.About P.C. Hodgell’s Kyncyrath Series:"Hodgell has crafted an…intricate fantasy with humor, tragedy, and a capable and charming female hero.”—_Library Journal_About the AuthorP.C. Hodgell earned her doctorate at the University of Minnesota with a dissertation on Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, and is a graduate of both the Clarion and the Milford Writers Workshops. Recently retired, she was a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in modern British literature and composition, and teaches an on-line course on science fiction and fantasy for the University of Minnesota. Hodgell lives in her family’s ancestral nineteenth-century wood-framed house in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Views: 10
