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ROAR: American Master, The Oral Biography of Roger Orr
by Bruce WagnerA new novel by Hollywood&’s "master of satire."The myth of an epic, public life—its triumphs and tragedies—is a particularly American obsession. ROAR is a metafictional exploration of such a life and attendant fame of an extraordinary, and completely made up, man. Born in Nashville in 1940 and adopted by a wealthy San Francisco couple, Roger Orr—&“Roar&”—became an underground stand-up comedian with a cult following while still in his teens, segueing to an acclaimed songwriter in the Sixties. In the decades that followed, his talent spanned the worlds of entertainment, from film directing and books to fine art (paintings, sculpture). His promethean energies expanded to the world of medicine; he became a dermatologist, the first to patent cadaver skin for burn victims. A spiritual seeker who returned to India throughout his life, Roar was also a voracious lover of both men and women. The journey of Roger Orr was a premonition of the cultural earthquakes to come. It wasn&’t until his 40s that Roar learned his birth mother was black and it wasn't until his early 60s when he began the hormonal treatment and surgeries that chipped away at the armor covering what he always knew was his true identity: that of a woman. Roar&’s saga is best told by a cacophony of voices—family members, critics, historians, and the famous (Meryl Streep, Amanda Gorman, Dave Chappelle, Andy Warhol)—including some heard from the grave. In ROAR, Wagner brilliantly paints a vivid picture of one man, our times, and our culture's enduring obsession with fame.
RUN!
by O. G. ArionWhat if tomorrow will be your last day on this earth? What if, starting tomorrow, everyone you know will disappear? And what would you do if you had to forget who you used to be? Keep going. Don’t look back. They are out there. Watching. Waiting. All you can do is run!
RUR: Large Print (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
by Karel CapekR.U.R. - written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922 - garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word 'robot'. Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, Capek's Robots are an android product-they remember everything but think of nothing new. But the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning, and the humans they serve stop reproducing. When the Robots revolt, killing all but one of their masters, they must strain to learn the secret of self-duplication. It is not until two Robots fall in love and are christened "Adam" and "Eve" by the last surviving human that Nature emerges triumphant.
Rabbit & Robot
by Andrew SmithTold with Andrew Smith’s signature dark humor, Rabbit & Robot tells the story of Cager Messer, a boy who’s stranded on the Tennessee—his father’s lunar-cruise utopia—with insane robots.Cager has been transported to the Tennessee, a giant lunar-cruise ship orbiting the moon that his dad owns, by Billy and Rowan to help him shake his Woz addiction. Meanwhile, Earth, in the midst of thirty simultaneous wars, burns to ash beneath them. And as the robots on board become increasingly insane and cannibalistic, and the Earth becomes a toxic wasteland, the boys have to wonder if they’ll be stranded alone in space forever. In his new novel, Andrew Smith, Printz Honor author of Grasshopper Jungle, will make you laugh, cry, and consider what it really means to be human.
Rabbit Magic
by Meg McLarenA distinctive palette and a large cast of adorable rabbits adorn a lively story told in very few words. When a magic trick goes awry, the magician M. Lapin becomes a sad rabbit while his rabbit assistant, Houdini, becomes the star of the show. After trying increasingly spectacular tricks, Houdini realizes that someone else wants and deserves the spotlight, and in his most amazing trick ever, he restores M. Lapin to his former self. Generosity and teamwork—and of course magic—take center stage in this delightful debut.
Rabbit and Robot and Ribbit (Candlewick Sparks)
by Cece BellRabbit is excited. He is going to surprise his good friend Robot at home. DING DONG! When Robot opens the door, he is surprised. He wasn't expecting Rabbit. In fact, he is already engrossed in a game of checkers with another friend, Ribbit. Now Rabbit is the one who is surprised, and a bit jealous. While Robot thinks everything Ribbit says is humorous, all Rabbit hears is "ribbit." And Ribbit eats flies with her popcorn. Gross! When Rabbit and Ribbit get mad because they both want to be Cowboy Jack Rabbit, Robot's Emotion Decoder overheats, leaving him out of commission. Can Rabbit and Ribbit find a way to work together to revive their friend? New readers will find plenty to chuckle over as Robot's two friends become friends themselves.
Rabbit's Surprise (Fountas & Pinnell Classroom, Guided Reading)
by Mike Spoor Kate SpringerNIMAC-sourced textbook. Poor Mole! Mole is sad. Rabbit wants to cheer his friend up. But how?
Rabbit, Rabbit (Fountas & Pinnell Classroom, Guided Reading)
by Mark Beech Shannon PasseNIMAC-sourced textbook. She Forgot to Say It! Miss Fiske is a quiet, tidy librarian. So how does she end up making jellyfish chowder on a pirate ship?
Rabbit-Cadabra! (Bunnicula and Friends #4)
by James HoweWhen Chester learns that the Amazing Karlovsky will use a rabbit in his school magic show, he comes up with a plan to stop vampire bunnies.
Rabbits: A Novel
by Terry MilesA deadly underground game might just be altering reality itself in this all-new adventure set in the world of the hit Rabbits podcast.&“A taut mystery for a time of conspiratorial madness.&”—Cory DoctorowIt&’s an average work day. You&’ve been wrapped up in a task, and you check the clock when you come up for air—4:44 p.m. You check your email, and 44 unread messages have built up. With a shock, you realize the date is April 4—4/4. And when you get in your car to drive home, your odometer reads 44,444.Coincidence? Or have you just seen the edge of a rabbit hole?Rabbits is a mysterious alternate reality game so vast it uses the entire world as its canvas.Since the game started in 1959, ten iterations have appeared and nine winners have been declared. The identities of these winners are unknown.So is their reward, which is whispered to be NSA or CIA recruitment, vast wealth, immortality, or perhaps even the key to the secrets of the universe itself.But the deeper you get, the more dangerous the game becomes. Players have died in the past—and the body count is rising.And now the eleventh round is about to begin.Enter K—a Rabbits obsessive who has been trying to find a way into the game for years. That path opens when K is approached by billionaire Alan Scarpio, rumored to be the winner of the sixth iteration. Scarpio says that something has gone wrong with the game and that K needs to fix it before Eleven starts, or the whole world will pay the price.Five days later, Scarpio is declared missing.Two weeks after that, K blows the deadline: Eleven begins.And suddenly, the fate of the entire universe is at stake.
Racconti Oscuri e Versi Contorti
by A. L. ButcherRacconti oscuri sui fantasmi della guerra, il sangue dell'autunno del terrore, l'ira della natura, un omicidio insolito e un vampiro cinico. Poesia contorta di perdita e caos. Alcuni temi e linguaggi per adulti.
Racconti contorti da una mente obliqua
by Mari CollierUn'accattivante raccolta di racconti di Mari Collier, autrice di Earthbound. La terza definizione di skewed è guardare obliquamente. Ciò in qualche modo descrive la mia mente perché riesco a vedere le cose in modo leggermente diverso dal resto della popolazione. Per me c'è sempre qualcosa di più, forse qualcosa di nascosto o messo in ombra da un'altra dimensione. Incontrerai un ragazzo che non invecchia, una strega che vuole essere normale, un contadino dell'Iowa che combatte le rane, un vampiro che sceglie di vivere in un deserto soleggiato, fantasmi e vampiri.
Racconti da O.R.M.A.
by Serena Curatelli Debbie Manber KupferGatti, lupi e Teg - Accipicchia! Vieni a conoscere Alistair, Ramora e Griddlebone in tre storie dal mondo di O.R.M.A.! Alistair è un vecchio lupo mannaro ma dall'aspetto giovane che ha preso un nuovo lupo mannaro, Josh, sotto la sua ala protettiva. Una sera Alistair racconta a Josh del suo crudele padre omicida che aveva ucciso sua madre e le sue sorelle - mentre lui guardava - per puro divertimento. Durante la sua prima luna piena, molti anni prima, Alistair doveva compiere il suo destino con un assassinio degno, che lui aveva avidamente compiuto con orgoglio. Ramora è una sposa bambina di dodici anni che è stata promessa in matrimonio ad un uomo di più di trent'anni; incontra Morgana, una subdola fata verde - una Teg - che le offre ricchezze ed immortalità. Aspettando l'arrivo della fata in cima al Manas Wu, Ramora teme un potenziale tradimento da parte di Morgana. In un batter d'occhio Ramora compie il suo destino. Griddlebone è il risultato di un esperimento della Gestapo sui prigionieri ebrei a Vienna, durante la guerra. L'esperimento consisteva nel combinare il loro DNA con quello dei felini, con lo scopo di creare la macchina di morte perfetta. Mentre Griddlebone osserva i prigionieri ebrei costretti a salire sul retro di un furgone dai soldati nazisti, gli altri gatti nascosti si avventano e sistematicamente lacerano alcuni dei carcerieri nazisti. Coloro che sopravvivono fuggono a tutta velocità sul mezzo di trasporto con i prigionieri. Una prigionera, Esther, si salva. Dopo essersi trasformata, Esther e Griddlebone vanno a visitare il campo di concentramento per vedere se le guardie hanno voglia di uscire a giocare. CINQUE STELLE - "A Debbie Manber Kupfer la fantasia di certo non manca, con le sue storie narrate indubbiamente in ogni dettaglio in ognuno dei racconti. Racconti da O.R.M.A. ha a che fare con il macabro, ma è anche una storia di giustizia, che è chiaramente migliore quando viene servita cruda con un lat
Racconti dalla saga di Dark Titan
by Ty'Ron Robinson IIQuesta raccolta contiene le prime quattro storie monografiche dell'Universo di Dark Titan che sono state pubblicate. Introducono nuovi personaggi nell'universo stesso: Maveth, Il portatore di morte, Il mistero della Bestia Mutante, Shade e Switchblade e Il castigo di Caino. Le storie spaziano tra il genere giallo, il romanzo del mistero, l'horror, il fantasy e il thrller.
Racconti zombie da mondi non morti
by Caterina Frezza Rhiannon Frater...ZOMBIE, INFETTI, MORTI, CONTAGIATI … “Racconti zombie da mondi non morti” contiene tre brevi racconti mozzafiato e tre romanzi brevi al cardiopalmo, ambientati in versioni alternative di una Terra abitata da spaventose varianti di zombie che perseguiteranno le vostre ore di veglia e riempiranno i vostri incubi. Ne “La coperta”, un bambino si nasconde mentre la fine del mondo entra in casa sua… Ne “Gli spazzini”, due sopravvissuti particolari combattono per ritagliarsi una vita propria mentre vengono minacciati dalla creatura più temibile di tutte: l’uomo… Ne “Il Palazzo”, una ragazza adolescente vive in un quartiere murato e spera di fuggire verso il lusso dell’altissimo palazzo che svetta sopra di esso. Ma per raggiungerlo, deve affrontare i Morti che vagano per le strade… Ne “La negromante”, una sacerdotessa deve affrontare orde di distruttivi non morti che minacciano un insediamento di un mondo futuristico… Ne “La corsa”, sette amici si affannano a raggiungere la zona sicura mentre fuggono dai pericoli dei Contagiati omicidi e da sé stessi… Ne “La falsa partenza”, una giovane coppia è divisa mentre la piaga dei non morti inizia a prendere piede su Austin, Texas… La pluripremiata autrice Rhiannon Frater crea nuove vivide storie ambientate in mondi alternativi dove la gente affronta creature da incubo che hanno un solo desiderio: distruggere i viventi.
Race Across Gotham City (Big Golden Book)
by Steve FoxeBATMAN™, SUPERMAN™, and WONDER WOMAN™ race bad guys in the across Gotham City in this action-packed story featuring the DC SUPER FRIENDS. Boys, girls, and busy little heroes 2 to 5 will rev their engines for their favorite super heroes as well as the Batmobile, the Invisible Jet and other amazing vehicles!
Race Against Time
by Anson BarberHe's finally realizing his dream. There's more to her than meets the eye. Together they'll have to survive threats, secrecy, and sabotage! Strap in for high-speed action in Race Against Time, the next exciting chapter of Anson Barber's Racing Hearts paranormal romance series.Chase Hinkley is excited to be starting his semiprofessional racing career. He's eager to move up the ranks with his heart set on NASCAR, but his dream quickly becomes a nightmare. Being a driver for Burke Motorsports isn't all it's cracked up to be. His boss, Kevin Burke, is a devious man who bets against his drivers and manipulates races for his own ends.Worse is the fact Chase is falling for Burke's girl--the beautiful Ryan Westcott. Chase can't compete with the fancy gifts Burke showers her with; all he can offer is a shoulder to cry on and someone to talk to. Trying to keep his feelings within the barriers of friendship, Chase also wrestles with a car that doesn't run right, sabotage, and constant threats if he doesn't fall into line and cooperate with Burke's plans.Despite the damage to his career, he has no choice but to intervene when Ryan is threatened by Burke. Being Ryan's hero is better than winning any race on a track, and his goals quickly shift to include her. With Ryan by his side, he begins to think about a different path, one that doesn't include being on the road--a simpler future where he can settle down in his hometown, surrounded by his friends and family, and live his life with the only girl who has ever touched his heart.But Ryan isn't what she seems, and her secrets might destroy everything.Content Notes: Spicy, Contemporary, Paranormal, Suspense
Race Against Time
by Gilbert MorrisTHE TIME NAVIGATORS, by bestselling author Gilbert Morris, continues to grow in popularity because of the exciting way it introduces historic people and places to early teens. This third book in the series is another nail-biting adventure that readers won't want to put down!In Race Against Time, Danny and Dixie Fortune are thrust back to the time of the American Revolution, still looking for their missing father. So close to finding him before, they are sure they will succeed this time. They encounter George Washington again at Valley Forge, where the Continental Army is at its lowest point. There, the twins meet Lafayette, Baron Von Struben, and other heroes of the tiny army -- and are awed at the sacrifice Washington and his army make for the cause of freedom. But have they come so far in their search only to fail again't
Race Against Time
by Piers AnthonyJohn Smith is a typical teenager living in a world he believes to be America in the 1960s, but the strange behavior he sees forces him outside forbidden boundaries to discover the shocking truth. It began with a pattern of inconsistencies... and led to a deadly race against time!
Race To The Sun
by Rebecca RoanhorseLately, seventh grader Nizhoni Begay has been able to detect monsters, like that man in the fancy suit who was in the bleachers at her basketball game. Turns out he's Mr. Charles, her dad's new boss at the oil and gas company, and he's alarmingly interested in Nizhoni and her brother, Mac, their Navajo heritage, and the legend of the Hero Twins. Nizhoni knows he's a threat, but her father won't believe her. When Dad disappears the next day, leaving behind a message that says "Run!", the siblings and Nizhoni's best friend, Davery, are thrust into a rescue mission that can only be accomplished with the help of Diné Holy People, all disguised as quirky characters. Their aid will come at a price: the kids must pass a series of trials in which it seems like nature itself is out to kill them. If Nizhoni, Mac, and Davery can reach the House of the Sun, they will be outfitted with what they need to defeat the ancient monsters Mr. Charles has unleashed. But it will take more than weapons for Nizhoni to become the hero she was destined to be . . . Timeless themes such as the importance of family and respect for the land resonate in this funny, fast-paced, and exciting quest adventure set in the American Southwest.
Race and Popular Fantasy Literature: Habits of Whiteness (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)
by Helen YoungThis book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre. It examines not only major texts in the genre, but also the impact of franchises, industry, editorial and authorial practices, and fan engagements on race and representation. Approaching Fantasy as a significant element of popular culture, it visits the struggles over race, racism, and white privilege that are enacted within creative works across media and the communities which revolve around them. While scholars of Science Fiction have explored the genre’s racialized constructs of possible futures, this book is the first examination of Fantasy to take up the topic of race in depth. The book’s interdisciplinary approach, drawing on Literary, Cultural, Fan, and Whiteness Studies, offers a cultural history of the anxieties which haunt Western popular culture in a century eager to declare itself post-race. The beginnings of the Fantasy genre’s habits of whiteness in the twentieth century are examined, with an exploration of the continuing impact of older problematic works through franchising, adaptation, and imitation. Young also discusses the major twenty-first century sub-genres which both re-use and subvert Fantasy conventions. The final chapter explores debates and anti-racist praxis in authorial and fan communities. With its multi-pronged approach and innovative methodology, this book is an important and original contribution to studies of race, Fantasy, and twenty-first century popular culture.
Race for the Escape
by Christopher EdgeFive kids. One ultimate escape room. Can they solve it--or will they die trying? From the award-winning author of The Many World of Albie Bright comes a brand-new adventure that will having you racing to finish. When Ami Oswald arrives at The Escape--a new, supposedly impossible-to-beat escape room--all she wants it an evening of adventure for her birthday. She deserves it, after all her hard work. But as soon as the game starts, Ami and her four teammates realize they may have gotten more than they bargained for. Now, the only way Ami and her friends can get out is by solving the mysterious riddle the Escape's Host has given them: Find the Answer, save the world. But the Answer could be anywhere, and in this game, a single mistake could be deadly. Because, as Ami quickly finds out, the danger in these rooms is very, very real. Join Ami and the rest of the Five Mind as they face ancient Mayan warriors, a sinister library, and even prehistoric beasts in their quest to find the Answer and save the world, before it's too late. Can you escape the Escape? The world is betting on your success...
Race in American Science Fiction
by Isiah Lavender IIIA critical examination of Blackness and race in the predominantly White genre.Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III argues that racial alterity is fundamental to the genre’s narrative strategy. Race in American Science Fiction offers a systematic classification of ways that race appears and how it is silenced in science fiction, while developing a critical vocabulary designed to focus attention on often-overlooked racial implications. These focused readings of science fiction contextualize race within the genre’s better-known master narratives and agendas. Authors discussed include Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and Ursula K. Le Guin, among many others.“Critically ambitious. . . . Isiah Lavender spurs a direct conversation about race and racism in science fiction.” —De Witt Douglas Kilgore, author of Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space
Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction (Children's Literature Association Series)
by Meghan Gilbert-Hickey and Miranda A. Green-BarteetWinner of the Children’s Literature Association’s 2023 Edited Book AwardContributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Sierra Hale, Kathryn Strong Hansen, Elizabeth Ho, Esther L. Jones, Sarah Olutola, Alex Polish, Zara Rix, Susan Tan, and Roberta Seelinger TritesRace in Young Adult Speculative Fiction offers a sustained analysis of race and representation in young adult speculative fiction (YASF). The collection considers how characters of color are represented in YASF, how they contribute to and participate in speculative worlds, how race affects or influences the structures of speculative worlds, and how race and racial ideologies are implicated in YASF. This collection also examines how race and racism are discussed in YASF or if, indeed, race and racism are discussed at all. Essays explore such notable and popular works as the Divergent series, The Red Queen, The Lunar Chronicles, and the Infernal Devices trilogy. They consider the effects of colorblind ideology and postracialism on YASF, a genre that is often seen as progressive in its representation of adolescent protagonists. Simply put, colorblindness silences those who believe—and whose experiences demonstrate—that race and racism do continue to matter. In examining how some YASF texts normalize many of our social structures and hierarchies, this collection examines how race and racism are represented in the genre and considers how hierarchies of race are reinscribed in some texts and transgressed in others.Contributors point toward the potential of YASF to address and interrogate racial inequities in the contemporary West and beyond. They critique texts that fall short of this possibility, and they articulate ways in which readers and critics alike might nonetheless locate diversity within narratives. This is a collection troubled by the lingering emphasis on colorblindness in YASF, but it is also the work of scholars who love the genre and celebrate its progress toward inclusivity, and who further see in it an enduring future for intersectional identity.
Race in the Machine: A Novel Account
by Quincy Thomas StewartAn intelligent machine built to study methods of social warfare struggles to understand and communicate the lived experience of race In a narrative full of social significance and poetically decorated with monks, vampires, and mythical statistics, Race in the Machine presents a world where the stories we use to explain race all simultaneously exist, within and around us, dictating our interactions and innermost beliefs. The nameless protagonist, an enigmatic social mechanic at Nearbay Institute, living in a population of socially connected intelligent machines, encounters a simple query in the context of an introductory lecture: "What exactly is race? And what is it in the context of the social machine?" This prompt guides the protagonist along a twisting intellectual tale surrounding a series of experiments which explore: How many racists does it take to create systems of inequality? What role do non-racists actors play in upholding them? How is bias learned? How does it spread? The narrator develops a distinct understanding of race through the figurative bending of time, dreams of a "race code" and by confronting a series of mysterious communications that remain just outside comprehension. Over the course of this journey, the answers to important questions about racial inequality quietly emerge for the protagonist. Scholarly encounters with both antagonistic colleagues and unexpected allies, culminate when the hero is forced to reach a devastating conclusion about themself and the world. Stirring and luminous, Race in the Machine deftly oscillates between the allegorically simplified and the impossibly complex to weave an utterly unique and nuanced portrait of race in the modern world.