University Book Store Presents Patricia Briggs with Special Guest Anne Bishop
Mated werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham must discover what could make an entire community disappear–before its too late–in Wild Sign, a thrilling new entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Alpha and Omega series. In the wilds of the Northern California mountains, all the inhabitants of a small town have gone missing. Its as if the people picked up and left their possessions behind. With a mystery on their hands and no jurisdiction on private property, the FBI dumps the whole problem in the lap of the land owner, Aspen Creek, Inc.–aka the business organization of the Marroks pack. Somehow, the pack of the Wolf Who Rules is connected to a group of vanished people. Werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham are tasked with investigating, and soon find that a deserted town is the least of the challenges they face. Death sings in the forest, and when it calls, Charles and Anna must answer. Something has awakened in the heart of the California mountains, something old and dangerous–and it has met werewolves before.
Patricia Briggs is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series and the Alpha and Omega novels. http://www.patriciabriggs.com/
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RUINS
A spring day oozes through Trastevere.
A nun in turquoise sneakers contemplates the stairs.
Ragazzi everywhere, the pus in their pimples
pushing up like paperwhites in the midday sun.
Every hard bulb stirs.
The fossilized egg in my chest
cracks open against my will.
I was so proud not to feel my heart.
Waking means being angry.
The dead man on the Congo road
was missing an ear,
which had either been eaten
or someone was wearing it
around his neck.
The dead man looked like this. No, that.
Here's a flock of tourists
in matching canvas hats.
This year will take from me
the hardened person
who I longed to be.
I am healing by mistake.
Rome is also built on ruins.
-- Eliza Griswold, from her latest book, If Men, Then: Poems, from FSG.
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“Time now to write of that rare thing, originality -- the opposite of imitation and its outlier, plagiarism. It’s the pearl among white peas.” -- Nicholas Delbanco, from his new book, Why Writing Matters, new from Yale University Press.
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This Frightful Friday sees our Summer Symposium on Promethean Horror draw to a close with a very special guest lecturer, Mary Shelley, the woman whose novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus inspired and named the sub-genre. Based on a sensational true-life account, “Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman” explores a few of the same themes from her famous novel, though with a far lighter tone.
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