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Considering the security measures in place, the job was not too complicated, and she had her parents there for support. Quill & Quire Kenzie knew her duty to Omnistellar as a junior guard: protect the world from the criminal super-powered teenagers imprisoned on Sanctuary. And Kenzie might have to team up with her captors to survive-all while beginning to suspect there's a darker side to the Omnistellar she knows.Ĭaught between a sinister corporation and an alien threat, Kenzie and her dangerous new allies must risk everything to save themselves.and save Earth. Caryn Lix takes the prison thriller genre to new places in this YA novel. Kenzie plans her escape, but then realizes there's a more sinister threat looming, something ancient and evil that has clawed its way into Sanctuary from the vacuum of space. But then a routine drill goes sideways and Kenzie is taken hostage by rioting prisoners. Kenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything.Īs a citizen of Omnistellar Concepts, the most powerful corporation in the solar system, Kenzie has trained her entire life for one goal: to become an elite guard on Sanctuary, Omnistellar's space prison for superpowered teens too dangerous for Earth. The Sanctuary series is now available together in a paperback boxed set! Alien meets The Darkest Minds in this thrilling trilogy about prison-guard-in-training, Kenzie, who teams up with a group of superpowered criminal teens to save the Earth from an alien invasion. In my short and relatively privileged life – I hadn’t been through any wars I wasn’t an orphan – these were the emotional crises that I had to work with. I was kind of writing about the worst time of my life and feeling it would have some therapeutic value. My first wife who was a model left me, my mother died of cancer, and I was fired from The New Yorker. I started with this second person voice that was really self-conscious and with a character who was at a catastrophic moment in his life who is extremely vulnerable and whose thoughts the reader has access to directly.Ī lot of things in book that were fictional but there were three autobiographical facts that dictated the tone. When I got home at 4.30, 5am I wrote those lines down and discovered them some months later and thought this is a really interesting voice. Years ago I was in a nightclub and looked in a mirror and said to myself, you’re not the kind of guy who would be in a place like this at this time in the morning. He talks about cocaine, fame, wine and his first novel, Bright Lights Big City, which remains his guiding light. Interviewing him in his Greenwich Village penthouse, McInerney is impeccably mannered, prone to self-deprecation and humour, both at himself and the outside world. Or the friends he keeps – the high society of the Hamptons – and the friends he sees less often, Bret Easton Ellis, once his celebrated bratpack mate. Or his love of wine, for all its subtlety and panache, and (former) love of that most unsubtle drug of all, cocaine. Under the guidance of the abolitionist society, Douglass became well acquainted with the pursuit of the emancipation of slaves through a New England religious perspective. Douglass disagreed but supported the nonviolent approach to the emancipation of slaves by education and moral suasion. The Garrisonian Liberator was founded upon the notion that the Constitution was fundamentally pro-slavery and that the Union ought to be dissolved. The first of its four pages focused on current events concerning abolitionist issues. It sold by subscription of $2 per year to more than 4,000 readers in the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean. Like The Liberator, The North Star published weekly and was four pages long. The North Star title was a reference to the directions given to runaway slaves trying to reach the Northern states and Canada: "Follow the North Star." Figuratively, Canada was also "the north star." The Liberator was a newspaper established by Garrison and his supporters founded upon moral principles. In 1846, Frederick Douglass was first inspired to publish The North Star after subscribing to The Liberator, a weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison. But neither can afford to bring love into the equation, especially since Jade seems determined to go home. Only one explanation makes sense…the curvy enticing female must be a spy, and Theo’s determined to break her cover using any means necessary.Īs Jade and Theo are forced to spend time together, their chemistry becomes undeniable. After years of being passed over, he never imagined he would be chosen and neither did anyone else. Theo, a scarred mercenary who prefers a life of solitude, is stunned when Jade selects him as her husband. Jade refuses at first but decides to play along until she can find a way back to Earth. Thankfully, her rescuers, an alien race known as the Clecanians, are willing to protect her, but she has to stay on their planet for one year and respect the rules of their culture-including choosing a husband. consider pairing Joretta with Charlotte, Olivia, or Victoria. Being kidnapped by aliens is only the start of Jade's problems. One of the most exciting parts of preparing for a new baby is choosing the perfect name. García is a multi-generational Neomexicano originally from Santa Fé, New Mexico now living in Southern California with his family. C.He holds an MFA in Writing from Pacific University Oregon. He told us his inspiration for this book was dull it was anything but dull. by Adrian Stumpp, Benjamin Roberts, Amanda Adgurson, and Britta Stumpp First published in 2022 1 edition in 1 language. Read, 'The Crows Head,' book I in The Chemical Marriage series by Adrian E Stumpp available April 9th, 2022 fictiondreamssanfranciscocrowsheadchemicalmarriagealchemychemicalweddingcounterfeitingmonarchbutterflymagicspagyriabrazildanceapprenticetheGreatWorkegyptmagicalrealismDamianNathaliePhaedraAlbertPaveladrianstumpp. In a past life, García was a features and sports reporter at The Santa Fe New Mexican, and a political news correspondent at the Talk Radio News Service in Washington, D. We talked with Adrian Stumpp about his book The Chemical Marriage. In addition to his books, García has published several short stories and essays in numerous journals, and is a weekly columnist at the Good Men Project. 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