Lola Rogers
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the final twilit moments of her life, an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism. Both her authoritarian tendencies and her ecstatic engagement with the natural world are vividly and terrifyingly evoked in The Colonel's Wife, an astonishing and brave novel that resonates painfully with our own strained political moment. At once complex and hideous, sexually liberated and sympathetic to the darkest of political...
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Set in an alternative historical present, in a "eusistocracy"{u2014}an extreme welfare state{u2014}that holds public health and social stability above all else, it follows a young woman whose growing addiction to illegal chili peppers leads her on an adventure into a world where love, sex, and free will are all controlled by the state. The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland has bred a new human sub-species of receptive, submissive women, called eloi,...
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
In the utterly original, genre-defying, English-language debut of Finnish author Juhani Karila, a young woman's annual pilgrimage to her home in Lapland to catch an elusive pike in three days is complicated by a host of mythical creatures, a murder detective hot on her trail, and a deadly curse hanging over her head.
Author
Publisher
First second
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Lily is a young novice who dreams of being a master thief. That's not easy when the Guildmaster of Thieves only assigns you the lowliest jobs: pick-pocketing, trespassing, and petty theft. But on one of these meager quests, Lily unearths a plot involving a mysterious cult and long-forgotten gods--a secret that could destroy the whole world. Lily must fight to save the same people who have branded her an outcast. Can she use her cunning to put an...