Raymond Rambert, a foreign journalist, tries to escape Oran and rejoin his wife in Paris, but he is held up by the bureaucracy and the unreliability of the criminal underground. Father Paneloux, a Jesuit priest, delivers a sermon declaring that the plague is a divine punishment for Oran’s sins. The townspeople react to their sudden isolation with feelings of exile and longing for absent loved ones, with each individual assuming that their suffering is unique. Finally they close the gates and quarantine Oran. They urge the government to take action, but the authorities drag their feet until the death toll rises so high that the plague is impossible to deny. Castel believe the disease is bubonic plague. Rieux’s office building, comes down with a strange fever and dies. Soon after the rat epidemic disappears, M. The public grows panicked, and the government finally arranges a daily cremation of rat bodies. Rieux notices the sudden appearance of dying rats around town, and soon thousands of rats are coming out into the open to die. The first-person narrator is unnamed but mostly follows Dr. The Plague concerns an outbreak of bubonic plague in the French-Algerian port city of Oran, sometime in the 1940s.
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Griffin grows up with only two goals: to survive, and to kill the people who want him dead. Griffin knows that the men were looking for him, and he must never let them find him. That was the day that the men came to his house and murdered his parents. The most important time was when he was nine. The first time was when he was five, and his parents crossed an ocean to protect the secret. Griffin is a Jumper: a person who can teleport to any place he has ever been. It's a secret that he's sworn to his parents to keep, and never tell. What if you could jump? Go anywhere in the world in the blink of an eye? What would you do? Where would you go? What if you were only five years old? An original novel from Steven Gould, creator of the Jumper series, that tells the back story of Griffin O'Connor, a character created for the film of Jumper. Now that the caste system has been dissolved, some citizens don’t really know what to do with themselves.She has a younger twin brother who would have been heir except her parents, America and Maxon, changed the law. A couple of decades after the end of The One, Princess Eadlyn is now heir to the throne of Illéa. If you can’t remember what happened in The Heir and you need a refresher, then you’re in the right place. Read a full summary of The Heir by Kiera Cass below. and proving that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought. But as the competition begins, one entry may just capture Eadlyn's heart, showing her all the possibilities that lie in front of her. If it were up to her, she'd put off marriage for as long as possible.īut a princess's life is never entirely her own, and Eadlyn can't escape her very own Selection-no matter how fervently she protests.Įadlyn doesn't expect her story to end in romance. Eadlyn has always found their fairy-tale story romantic, but she has no interest in trying to repeat it. Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won the heart of Prince Maxon - and they lived happily ever after. Add it: Goodreads Goodreads Summary: Princess Eadlyn has grown up hearing endless stories about how her mother and father met. Together with a bunch of inmates-some innocent kids who have been framed, others cold-blooded killers-Alex plans an escape. And behind everything is the mysterious, all-powerful warden, a man as cruel and dangerous as the devil himself, whose unthinkable acts have consequences that stretch far beyond the walls of the prison. Soon Alex discovers that the prison is a place of pure evil, where inhuman creatures in gas masks stalk the corridors at night, where giants in black suits drag screaming inmates into the shadows, where deformed beasts can be heard howling from the blood-drenched tunnels below. Except in Furnace, death is the least of his worries. Convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, sentenced to life without parole, “new fish” Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars, in the darkness at the bottom of the world. Furnace Penitentiary: the world’s most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth’s surface. Then there's Gaiman and Pratchett, who each ate my life in high school at one time or another The Sandman and the Discworld are required reading for modern fantasy, I think.Īnd, well. I haven't returned to it in years, where I have returned to these others-but Dune is just so damn cool. Can't read it enough.įrank Herbert's Dune. Robin McKinley's The Hero and the Crown is an entire epic fantasy with a kickass, well-drawn heroine packed into maybe two hundred fifty pages. His writing's sharp and innovative he builds worlds to keep human hearts there.ĭorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are bangup awesome historical fiction, with-once you get used to her diction, which is velvet-lush and honey-thick-some of the best pacing and most topsy-turvy plots I've ever seen. The Amber books are fun but were never as much a keystone for me as they are for others. Roger Zelazny, especially his mythological work-Lord of Light, Creatures of Light and Darkness, Jack of Shadows. The Amber books …more Here's the easy list: Max Gladstone Here's the easy list: Roger Zelazny, especially his mythological work-Lord of Light, Creatures of Light and Darkness, Jack of Shadows. Sometimes the way stories are marketed to people, it’s like, “It’s a coming-out story!” or “It’s a trans story!” And that reduction is so frustrating for me, because so many queer stories have so many facets. Because so much of the queer experience is full of tragedy and trauma, finding stories about queer joy really just takes the cake for me right now. I find I’m very much drawn to queer stories that are positive and happy. I can start to really think about the queer stories that draw me in. When you’re fresh off coming out, I think you look for existence, baseline “Oh my god, a queer person exists! I love this book! It’s my new favorite book!” What’s fun about getting more comfortable in your identity is, I can be pickier. Tillie Walden: I look for something really different than I used to when I was younger. What do you look for in a queer indie comic? She’s a prolific writer and artist, known for books like the swoony road-trip fantasy Are You Listening, the science fiction epic On a Sunbeam, the autobiographical graphic novel Spinning, and most recently, the Telltale Games tie-in graphic novel Clementine. Tillie Walden is one of the best-known creators in queer indie comics. She lived to 80,” said Viltz, who lives near Chicago. Defying all expectations, she learned to walk with crutches, swam, took care of animals, attended Catholic school and eventually lived independently. Instead, the family spent hours each day for a decade moving her limbs back and forth. Doctors told Marie, a fervent Catholic, to institutionalize her daughter. Karen Killilea was the subject of two bestselling books written by her mother, Marie, that chronicled her triumph over her disabilities. One from overseas that made it to their home was simply addressed to “Karen, United States.” But rather than sacks of mail addressed to Santa Claus, as depicted in the 1947 film, the letters were for her older sister. The Killilea family in New York once regularly received so much mail that the post office kept it in big satchels “like in Miracle on 34th Street,” recalls Kristin Viltz. She continued with more novels, including Red Leaves, Eleven Hours, The Bronze Horseman, The Bridge to Holy Cross (also known as Tatiana and Alexander), The Summer Garden and The Girl in Times Square (also known as Lily). Through word of mouth that book was welcomed by readers all over the world. Her dream was put on hold as she learned English and overcame the shock of a new culture.Īfter graduating from university and after various jobs including working as a financial journalist and as a translator Paullina wrote her first novel Tully. Growing up in Russia Paullina dreamt of someday becoming a writer. At the age of ten her family immigrated to the United States. Paullina Simons was born in Leningrad, USSR, in 1963. 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Wikipedia)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit . The Count of Monte Cristo is a novel by Alexandre Dumas that was first published in 1844. The Count of Monte Cristo, 26 Life Lessons From an Epic Journey 45 days 45 days of indulging in one of the best books I’ve read in my life (and I can assure you, I’ve read a LOT). The original revenge story, The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure story set in France and Italy. The book is considered a literary classic today. It deals with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy and forgiveness. The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and in the Levant during the historical events of 1815-1838 (from just before the Hundred Days to the reign of Louis-Philippe of France). Le Comte de Monte-Cristo is an adventure novel and one of the author's most popular works. LibriVox recording of The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas. |