![]() It’s compelling and brilliant, and made me cry on a public street. ![]() ‘This is the magic circus book that I have been looking for all my life. The First Bright Thing 23 copies, 1 review. I cannot recommend picking up a ticket for Windy Van Hooten’s Circus of the Fantasticals highly enough’ JR Dawson, author of The Years Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2018 Edition, on LibraryThing. ![]() Dawson is a spellbinding debut for fans of The Night Circus, Caraval and The Greatest Showman. One with tents as black as midnight, whose leader has dark powers and even darker ambitions. As they perform, they hope to leave the world brighter than they found it, creating a new home for magicians and outcasts.īut another war looms on the horizon, and another circus follows the Fantasticals. Together, as time-traveller, healer and seer, they tour the States with their fellow Sparks. Now it’s 1926, and Rin runs the Circus of the Fantasticals with her wife Odette, and friend Mauve. Step right up to Windy Van Hooten’s Circus of the Fantasticals, and meet The Ringmaster, The Trapeze Artist and The Nightingale – three marginalised women creating a haven for those who are lost.Īfter World War I, a select few – known as Sparks – woke up with frightening magical abilities. If you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today? ![]()
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![]() ![]() The story of Roberto Ong (Jericho Rosales) is set way after the last school bell has rung. ABNKKBSNPLAko?! Who is Roberto Ong in ABNKKBSNPLAKo? The title is meant to be read phonetically as “Aba, nakakabasa na pala ako?!”, which can be roughly translated as “Wow, I can actually read now?!” The novel details what are supposedly the childhood memories of the author, from his earliest days as a student until his first few years at work.Īlthough the film suffers with a badly concluded story-which is understandable because the book is actually a fictional memoir that doesn’t have an actual plot-director Mark Meily succeeds in adapting a book celebrated for its juvenile accounts. ![]() An author recollects memories of his childhood to early student days until his few years at work.ABNKKBSNPLAko?! / Film synopsis ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posing as a double agent, Ky rescued El in her darkest moment, only to disappear-and may have stolen her heart in the process. Unraveling continues the whimsical journey of Eliyana, a young woman with an unusual mark on her cheek and a mirror world that has chosen her as their Queen.īut as El tries to adjust to the responsibilities of being a royal, she finds her thoughts are drawn far away to the mysterious Ky Rhyen. Can El find a way to sever her connection to Ky and save the Reflections-and keep herself from falling for him in the process? ![]() She needs answers before the Callings disappear altogether. When the thresholds begin to drain and the Callings, those powerful magical gifts, begin to fail, El wonders if her link to Ky Rhyen may have something to do with it. So why does she feel like something-or someone-is missing? Now that the Verity is intertwined with her soul and Joshua’s finally by her side, El is ready to learn more about her mysterious birth land, the land she now rules. 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Yellow, orange, violet, indigo, They are rainbow colors, too, but my color is black. ![]() Publisher's Synopsis: A child reflects on the meaning of being Black in this moving and powerful anthem about a people, a culture, a history, and a legacy that lives on. Published by Roaring Brook Press on January 14, 2020 ![]() Black is the faith in a freedom not seen” are accompanied by beautiful stained glass mosaics of Mamie Till-Mobley, Ella Baker, Marian Wright Edelman, and Fannie Lou Hamer. Ekua Holmes’ gorgeous illustrations add rich layers to the text for example, the lines “Black are the stones bearing witness to prayer. ![]() |