![]() ![]() ![]() In September it was announced that Genius Entertainment will partner with Walden Media to adapt Ingrid Law’s children’s fantasy novel Savvy as a TV series. Genius Entertainment was founded by Executive Producer and Black-ish actress Marsai Martin The production banner creates stories meant to inspire, illuminate, and celebrate the diverse experiences of girls and people of color. Prior to that, she was the Director of Unscripted Development for Sirens Media/ITV Studios. Her previous roles include Creative Executive for The SpringHill Company, where she was responsible for managing and producing a full slate of content specializing in docuseries, formats, and documentaries. She has developed and produced television and film projects across many platforms including Netflix, Disney +, CNN, TBS, OWN, FOX and YouTube Originals. Jordan-Theus brings 15-plus years of experience to Genius Entertainment. Marsai Martin's 'Saturdays' Comedy Pilot Picked Up To Series By Disney Channel ![]()
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![]() But before the three friends can unravel the smiling man's latest nightmarish scheme, they set sail on Lake Champlain, where it's said Vermont's very own Loch Ness monster lives. So when the lights flicker and a knock sounds at the door, there can only be one explanation: he's back and a frightening new game is afoot. And as the trio knows, the smiling man always keeps his promises. That was the chilling promise the smiling man made to Ollie, Coco, and Brian after they last outsmarted him. Filled with chills, New York Times bestselling author Katherine Arden's latest installment in the creep-tastic Small Spaces Quartet is sure to haunt. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It mixes locations from the books, the films and Chandler’s personal life. Amazon and the bookstore supporting Bookshop site also carry the new map, and Herb Lester does, too.ĪBOUT THE RAYMOND CHANDLER MAP: The map's graphic style is inspired by the Dell Map Backs - a series of cheap paperbacks issued between 19, most featuring a crime scene map on the back cover. Also available: my novel featuring the young Chandler, The Kept Girl (Paul Rogers' and my first collaboration), or the vintage 1985 Aaron Blake Chandler map. If you'd like to purchase the map from me, click here. Paul slyly tells the tale of the project's genesis here. What a kick it is to announce the publication of my second collaboration with Paul Rogers, a fold-out map of the city where Raymond Chandler lived and wrote. ![]() ![]() ![]() And without Baccha to guide and train her magick, Eva must find a way not only to survive her own metamorphosis, but to unite all the people of Myre, including her sister, by finally taking the Ivory Throne. With the two princesses on the run, the Queendom of Myre is on the brink of a revolution. This perhaps provides an opening for a truce and a more hopeful future for both the sisters and the queendom, if only Isa would see reason and give up the battle for the throne. Picking right up where A River of Royal Blood left off, Eva is on the run and desperate for answers about her transformation and her. ![]() Since the Entwining ceremony, Eva's and Isa's lives have been bonded, and each can only die by the other's hand. In this sequel to A River of Royal Blood, Eva and Isa must find a way to work together if they want to save their queendom in the thrilling conclusion to this. Despite their history, Eva is convinced that to survive the growing unrest in the queendom, she and her sister must make peace. Princess Isa is a difficult, unremorseful captive, and Eva knows better than to trust her sister, but she wants to. Along with Aketo, a small contingent of guards, and the sister she could not kill, Eva flees Ternain in hopes of finding friends and allies to the north-not to mention Baccha-to help her decide what to do next. ![]() Now on the run, Eva is desperate for answers about her transformation and her true heritage. In this sequel to A River of Royal Blood, Eva and Isa must find a way to work together if they want to save their queendom in the thrilling conclusion to this royal fantasy duology. ![]() ![]() ![]() And, of course, there’s a boy.Īlthough Uglies was fairly popular in its time, that it didn’t quite reach the levels of other young adult dystopian novels is evident. Once Tally learns this, she starts on a mission to end the practice and free those who have been made simpleminded. ![]() In the case of Uglies, Tally, like all other 16-year-olds, is destined to have surgery that will turn her from an “ugly” to a “pretty.” But there’s more to the surgery than cosmetics-it also includes brain surgery that makes citizens vapid and compliant. Our heroine is in line with the society’s wishes and standards until she discovers the truth behind it all and begins to fight back and work to dismantle the system. The plot is like many other young adult dystopian novels: a girl (of course) is born into a society that overly controls and classifies its citizens. Her story is called Uglies.įirst published in 2005, Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is something of an enigma-at least to me. She’s up close, but we only see half her face. ![]() ![]() A girl with striking blue eyes and dark tawny hair peeks from behind large, textured leaves. If you were a teen reading in the mid-aughts, chances are you came across an intriguing cover at the library or bookstore. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marchetta was asked to develop a screenplay, and the resultant film, Looking for Alibrandi (1999), also won a number of awards, including both AFI Awards and FCCA Awards for best adapted screenplay and an AFI Award for Best Film. In 1993, this novel was shortlisted for the New South Wales and South Australian State Literature Awards, and won the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award (Book of the Year: Older Readers). While working as a bank officer, Marchetta began writing the novel Looking for Alibrandi (1992), a story of a third-generation Italian-Australian schoolgirl who experiences love, death, and the secrets of her family's past. She then completed a teaching degree and went on to teach at a Roman Catholic high school. She later worked as a consultant for a travel company and travelled to England, China, the (then) Soviet Union, and the United States of America. Melina Marchetta was born in Sydney and left school after grade ten to work for a major Australian bank. ![]() ![]() Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. She must keep it alive, they tell her?feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. ![]() She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. In his much-anticipated new novel, Robin Sloan does for the world of food what he did for the world of books in Mr. Named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Barnes & Noble, and Southern Living ![]() ![]() ![]() But Moon is soon caught and entangled in a world he doesn't know or understand he's become property of the government he has been avoiding all his life. ![]() When Moon's father dies, Moon follows his father's last instructions: to travel to Alaska to find others like themselves. They keep to themselves, their only contact with other human beings an occasional trip to the nearest general store. In this compelling, action-packed book, Watt Key gives us the thrilling coming-of-age story of the unique and extremely appealing Alabama Moon, the basis for the film of the same name starring Jimmy Bennett and John Goodman.įor as long as ten-year-old Moon can remember, he has lived out in the forest in a shelter with his father. Missouri Truman Readers Award Master ListĬalifornia Young Reader Medal Master List Illinois Rebecca Caudill YR Choice Award MLīank Street Best Children's Book of the Year Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Master List Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Award Maser List VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School ReadersĪmerican Library Association Best Books for Young Adults Tennessee Intermediate Volunteer State Book Award Master List Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Master List Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Choice Award Master List Alabama Children's Choice Book Award Master List ![]() ![]() ![]() Plenty of biographies glamorize Tesla and his eccentricities, but until now none has carefully examined what, how, and why he invented. Even at the end of his life when he was living in poverty, Tesla still attracted reporters to his annual birthday interview, regaling them with claims that he had invented a particle-beam weapon capable of bringing down enemy aircraft. An astute self-promoter and gifted showman, he cultivated a public image of the eccentric genius. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America’s first celebrity scientists, enjoying the company of New York high society and dazzling the likes of Mark Twain with his electrical demonstrations. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m excited to present this first book to you at last: a different type of Brandon Sanderson story, one I wrote when there were no time constraints, no expectations, and no limits on my imagination. She urged me to share it with the world-and alongside three other secret novels, with the support of readers worldwide it grew into the biggest Kickstarter campaign of all time. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress leave her simple life behind and make her own place sailing a sea where a single drop of water can mean instant death? Note from Brandon: I started writing this in secret, as a novel just for my wife. But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. 1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride. The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting. ![]() #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride. 1 New York Times Bestselling author Brandon Sanderson brings us deeper into the Cosmere universe with a rollicking, riveting tale that will appeal to fans of The Princess Bride. ![]() |