END O’ THE WEEK KID LIT ROUND UP
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A follow-up to Percy Jackson. Cynopsis Kids had news this week on the new “Heroes of Olympus” series set for this fall: “A follow-up to Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the series takes readers back to Camp Half-Blood and features new characters, as well as some from the Percy Jackson series.
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GREAT MOMENTS IN ALTERNATE HISTORY: SHAKESPEARE AND FRIENDS
Source: io9.com
The Elizabethan era has everything: the mysterious lost years of William Shakespeare, his playwright/spy contemporary, and multiple plots to destroy England, and we haven’t even gotten to the alternate history yet.
If you deal with the Elizabethan era, you have to deal with Shakespeare obviously — Poul Anderson’s A Midsummer Tempest deals with an alternate history in which Shakespeare is regarded not as history’s greatest playwright, but as its greatest historian. The events of all of his plays, even the ones with faeries, really happened. Shakespeare also appears in the Sidewise Award-winning short story The Undiscovered by William Sanders. After being marooned in America, he attempts to stage a production of Hamlet with the Cherokee Indians.
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AUTHOR GIVES FANGS TO A RICH VEIN OF PROSE
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JUST as Twilight mania rises yet again in the lead-up to next week’s international release of the film adaptation Eclipse, a counter narrative emerges: a serious literary vampire novel for grown-ups.
While teenage girls still sigh over Robert Pattinson’s undead Edward, American literary critics are swooning over The Passage, a 766-page post-apocalyptic vampire novel written by Justin Cronin, an English professor who graduated from the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop (alma mater of our own Nam Le) and won a PEN/Hemingway award for his short stories.
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New Paranormal Romance by RaeAnne Hadley Spins a New Twist on Soul Mates, Psychics and Spirits
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Craig, CO, June 28, 2010 –(PR.com)– From all outward appearances, Anastasia Cassadine has the perfect life; gorgeous looks, a successful company and handsome men vying to be her companion. But the appearance she projects is terribly misleading. Ana is still haunted by the dark secret that tore her from her first love, Austin Troy.
Twelve years later, finally gathering the courage to reunite with Austin, Ana is horrified to learn he is dead. Named in his will, she must come to England for the reading, where she meets Rick Montgomery, a handsome medium. He immediately puts Ana on her guard but their mutual attraction is hard to deny. As Ana and Rick get closer, dark forces are gathering to tear them apart.
Once more forced to relive the terror that forced her and Austin apart so many years before, Ana and Rick must join together to battle the darkness that will threaten everything they know.
Author RaeAnne Hadley said she wanted to write a story to help exorcise the pain of losing her first love the same way her heroine in the story does. “It was a very traumatic and embarrassing loss and it took years for me to realize it wasn’t my fault, I did nothing wrong.” Hadley also wanted to send the message that true love can happen more than once in a lifetime, everyone has a second chance at love.
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I really enjoy the way Rick Riordan writes, so it should be interesting to see where he takes the camp half blood story now!
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