![]() Margaret's books have been published in the United States, Norway, Italy, Sweden, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, China and other countries. ![]() She works at her home in Winnipeg during the winter and on the veranda of her cottage in Northwestern Ontario in the summer months. Since then Margaret has published nine more YA books. It quickly became a bestseller after appearing in bookstores in 1987. ![]() ![]() An artist for many years, Margaret decided to write a YA novel and Who Is Frances Rain? was published by Kids Can Press. Award winning author, Margaret Buffie, was born and grew up in the west end of Winnipeg, attended various schools - graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This is where the book’s main character, Addie, comes in. The town is cut off and abandoned, stuck within a perimeter set up by the army. The town’s former residents float around like they are suspended on invisible meathooks and strange, possessed creatures roam the streets. The exact ins and outs of this accident are unknown, but something was spilled and horrors have been unleashed. The story of the Spill Zone centers on two orphans living outside of a town that suffered a catastrophic event. They constantly leave you wanting more in the best possible way. ![]() A book like this could easily get bogged down trying to explain too many things, trying to make sense of the horrors, but Westerfeld and Puvilland only give you enough to information to turn the page. The book moves fast and lets you fill in the details instead of wallowing in them. The strength of Spill Zone, the new graphic novel by Scott Westerfeld and Alex Puvilland, is in what it doesn’t tell you. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Wormwood Trilogy begins with Rosewater, continues with The Rosewater Insurrection and ends in The Rosewater Redemption. 'A magnificent tour de force' Adrian Tchaikovsky Campbell Award finalist for Best Science Fiction Novel 18, 2018 When a detective with psychic powers begins to investigate a mysterious sickness plaguing those like him, he uncovers sinister truths that may very well call into question the survival of the human race. Shortlisted for the Kitschie Award for Best Novel 2019 be humanitys last line of defence.The Rosewater Redemption is the powerful conclusion to Tade Thompsons award-winning Wormwood trilogy. From the The Wormwood Trilogy series, Vol. ![]() Winner of the inaugural Nommo Award for Best Novel, Africa's first award for speculative fiction Government forces await its demise, ready to destroy Rosewater's independence before it has even begun.Īnd in the city's quiet suburbs, a woman wakes with no memory of who she is - with memories belonging to something much older and much more alien. The Rosewater Insurrection continues the award-winning, cutting edge Wormwood trilogy, set in Nigeria, by one of science fictions most engaging new voices. The charismatic mayor, Jack Jacques, has declared Rosewater a free state, independent to Nigeria. The city of Rosewater is chaotic, vibrant and full of life - some of it extra-terrestrial. ![]() Nigeria isnt willing to let Rosewater go without a fight. ![]() Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo The year is 2067. Mayor Jacques finds that debts incurred during the insurrection are coming back to haunt him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Plus, her morgue is filling up with the victims of a serial killer who decapitates his prey-just when she's hungriest!Īngel's going to have to grow up fast if she wants to keep this job and stay in one piece. To add to the weirdness, she receives an anonymous letter telling her there's a job waiting for her at the parish morgue-and that it's an offer she doesn't dare refuse.īefore she knows it she's dealing with a huge crush on a certain hunky deputy and a brand new addiction: an overpowering craving for brains. Angel remembers being in an horrible car crash, but she doesn't have a mark on her. That is, until the day she wakes up in the ER after overdosing on painkillers. Now on probation for a felony, it seems that Angel will never pull herself out of the downward spiral her life has taken. Living with her alcoholic deadbeat dad in the swamps of southern Louisiana, she's a high school dropout with a pill habit and a criminal record who's been fired from more crap jobs than she can count. ![]() ![]() ![]() Voya is determined to save her family’s magic no matter the cost. And this time, failure means every Thomas witch will be stripped of their magic. When Voya’s ancestor gives her an unprecedented second chance to complete her Calling, she agrees-and then is horrified when her task is to kill her first love. The problem is, she’s never been in love-she’ll have to find the perfect guy before she can kill him.Īfter years of waiting for her Calling-a trial every witch must pass to come into their powers-the one thing Voya Thomas didn’t expect was to fail. “High stakes, big heart, and lots of Black Girl Magic…unputdownable.” -Aiden Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery BoysĪ rich, dark urban fantasy debut following a teen witch who is given a horrifying task: sacrificing her first love to save her family’s magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() When you’ve fended off not only harpies but also my ex-boss Mimi, Sherri is in the minor leagues of evil. Luckily, I’d dealt with worse than Sherri during my time in New York. (And the fact that it was my other sister-in-law, Beth, the one who loves all mankind, who dubbed her that says a lot about Sherri.) It was my sister-in-law, Sherri, otherwise known as The Evil Bitch Queen of the Universe. As I expected, a badly bleached head appeared in my office doorway. I took a deep breath and counted to ten as I waited for the inevitable. “Katie!” a voice screeched from the other side of the office door. ![]() On the other hand, these days I seemed to be doing a lot more of the rescuing, myself. ![]() No matter what else I might say about my hometown of Cobb, Texas (population 2,500), I definitely had fewer threats to my life here than I’d faced recently in Manhattan. That was one small benefit I’d gained in moving away from New York City. It had been months since I’d needed rescuing from anything – no dragons, hideous monsters from hell, evil wizards, not even a really bad blind date. Here are the first few manuscript pages of Chapter One … ![]() ![]() ![]() She liked the rhythm of her days: time alone (Cian didn't count) and time by the fire listening to the murmur of British and Anglisc and even Irish. Onnen, some leftwise cousin of Ceredig king, always hurried, but the child, Hild, did not. ![]() From far away came the indignant honking of geese as the goosegirl herded them back inside the wattle fence, and the child knew, in the wordless way that three-year-olds reckon time, that soon Onnen would come and find her and Cian and hurry them back. She lay at the edge of the hazel coppice, one cheek pressed to the moss that smelt of worm cast and the last of the sun, listening: to the wind in the elms, rushing away from the day, to the jackdaws changing their calls from "Outward! Outward!" to "Home now! Home!," to the rustle of the last frightened shrews scuttling under the layers of leaf fall before the owls began their hunt. THE CHILD'S WORLD CHANGED late one afternoon, though she didn't know it. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s kind of hard to say, because what I do is I interview people. How many days of research does it take to write about one day in the book? So, even though there remained a majority of popular support for the war, the anti-war movement really began to pick up steam. ![]() ![]() After the Tet Offensive, the anti-war movement moved into the mainstream. but it was, as I describe in the book, relatively marginal-essentially the kind of people who tend to oppose all wars: pacifists, moral leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. There had been an anti-war movement prior to the Tet Offensive. Every major city or town was hit, but only in Huế, however, was the entire city destroyed. The Tet Offensive shocked everyone primarily because it was so widespread-there were attacks throughout South Vietnam. I was wondering if you could explain where Huế fits into the Tet Offensive. When I first started reading the book, I wasn’t really familiar with Huế, but I was familiar with the Tet Offensive. Houstonia caught up with Bowden for an interview about the infamous battle, the media landscape, and the upcoming 8–10 hour series about this book. The former capital was largely seen as an intellectual hub situated in the center of the country, and, as chronicled in the first section of the book, Hanoi had been planning the Tet Offensive in order to incite a popular uprising across Vietnam. The third largest city in Vietnam at the time, Huế was a symbolic city in the war. ![]() ![]() ![]() Davies is energized by the notion that nature is permissive-that just about anything can happen if it is not forbidden by a physical law. There have been revolutionary changes, he notes, but the story is far from over. In this light, he interprets the history of human intellectual development. In a long ramble interspersed with biographical digressions, personal reflections, and questions from a hypothetical ``skeptic'' baffled by the quantum world, Davies discourses on concepts of time embodied in ancient cultural and religious beliefs the Newtonian clockwork universe, in which time flows according to unbending mathematical laws Einstein's theory that time is relative and flexible and nonintuitive ideas from quantum mechanics. of Adelaide, Australia The Matter Myth, 1992, etc.) gives a broad survey of concepts of time, a subject he has become intimately acquainted with in his research. A prolific popularizer of science, Davies (Physics/Univ. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kubert sets the quality line for the art exceptionally high, especially with some phenomenally dramatic and attention-grabbing covers, but subsequent artists also impress. The Unknown Soldier will infiltrate a problematical area in disguise to discover why it’s dangerous for American troops, or will have a more specific mission where his talent for impersonation is more important. ![]() ![]() Kubert’s stories work, but it’s Bob Haney and Archie Goodwin who cement the feature, providing mystery, bravery and heroism around the idea that a single man in the right place can have a massive effect, while Goodwin’s contributions add strong emotional content. At first he’s only seen in shadow when not disguised, but when devising an origin, Kubert hit on the masterstroke of also creating the distinctive bandaged face that’s now seen decades of service. Joe Kubert’s responsible for introducing a master of disguise during World War II who takes his name from the tomb at Arlington cemetery representing all American soldiers who died for their country. It’s what this first Showcase Presents volume supplies in black and white, although given the standard 1970s colouring, that’s no great loss. Introduced in 1970, the Unknown Solider didn’t graduate to his own title until 1977, yet that was largely ordinary while the earlier material tucked away among other war stories in DC anthology titles is largely creative, thrilling and well drawn. ![]() |