Tornado Alley: Where Disaster Always Strikes

Blum, Jonathan

scholastic

In the days when the Time Lords were young, their war with the Vampires cost trillions of lives on countless worlds. Now the Vampires have been sighted again, in San Francisco. The Doctor, aided by Sam, must find a way to stop them.

Vampire Science (Dr. Who Series)

Literature & Fiction

Orman, Kate

Genre Fiction

London Bridge

The Doctor and Sam have been separated. Landing on Haolem, Sam finds herself employed by INC, a company that dominates the planet and one of its major employers. Sam learns that decisions and actions can be made as fast as INC employees think. Is this a workforce of computerized zombies?

Seeing I (Doctor Who Series)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Bbc Pubns

Fiction. LAST WORD, a novella, tells the story of Kip Langer, a successful orthognathic surgeon, who is trying to raise three children, including Eric, a bright but socially awkward thirteen-year-old from his first marriage. As Eric gets into more and more trouble at his Conservative Jewish Day School, Kip tries to understand Eric and guide him toward making better choices. The story, set in a Southern suburban community, examines patterns of love, anger, intimacy, inheritance, and disconnection within one modern blended family. "Friends, come close, closer still: now, marvel at the trueness of Jonathan Blum's voice as he unravels a family saga for the ages. Blum's LAST WORD explores the lengths one father will travel to know his son's heart and the distances that son will journey to keep his heart hidden. With this debut, Jonathan Blum proves himself to be a writer of tireless compassion and infinite wisdom. Richly detailed, brimming with warmth, humor, and tenderness, LAST WORD is a 'honey jar' of a book."--Amber Dermont "Jonathan Blum is a masterful writer, and LAST WORD is his most compelling work to date. Its narrator is loveable but deluded, and the story he tells us about his son's offensive Internet hijinks is hugely entertaining."--Mark Jude Poirier "Following in the great tradition of the form, Jonathan Blum has written a novella of extraordinary beauty and profound intelligence. Infused with his trademark humor and wit, LAST WORD casts an incisive eye on our parenting culture, while at the same time telling a riveting and emotionally complex story of one man's struggle to connect with son. It's a stunning work, written by an author whose prodigious talent is matched only by his generous heart."--Andrew Porter "Parents and Children Beware: with Old Testament firepower and disarming sweetness, Jonathan Blum hacks into the dark heart of the 'online' American family, where every road is paved with the best intentions and no one, not even the computer, gets out alive. A smashing and gifted debut that will still your pulse and rock your soul! It's beautiful, man."--Holiday Reinhorn "The Jewish-American family saga lives on in Jonathan Blum's funny and humane LAST WORD. Think of it as When the Maccabees Met the iMac--a compulsively observant family thrown into chaos by the Internet. This is a sharp, knowing debut, rich without a wasted word, funny without a drop of malice."--Scott Spencer "I've long been an admirer of the strange, intense, and yet incredibly intimate work of Jonathan Blum. Here in his new novella, LAST WORD, Blum gives us a father who does his best to love his son, and a family very much in peril. LAST WORD often made me laugh--he knows his people so well. It also often made me wonder: what more is in store for us--as sons, as fathers, as families--in this time of incredible technological upheaval? A necessary book for a very fraught time."--Peter Orner "A terrific novella. This is a book that is going to win this debut writer, I think, enormous recognition and certainly a readership."--Michael Silverblatt, KCRW's Bookworm "A humorous and relatable depiction of a troubled family...Blum's novella is an engaging rapid-read that touches the heart as much as it strikes a chord. Blum is a rising star in the Jewish literary world."--The Atlanta Jewish Times "A masterful finesse of unreliable narration...LAST WORD is gripping. It's also incredibly funny."--Stephen Lovely, The Iowa Review

Last Word

Rescue Press

Fiction. California Interest. Jewish Studies. THE USUAL UNCERTAINTIES: STORIES--Jonathan Blum's highly anticipated first collection--is storytelling at its finest. In precise, elegant prose, these stories follow characters and communities often consigned to the edge of the frame: a community college dropout, a geriatric care manager, a square dance bar mitzvah, a Scrabble club, an entrepreneurial Thai immigrant, and a South Florida country club. With echoes of Leonard Michaels, Mavis Gallant, and Lore Segal, Blum explores the ways our divergent histories tether us together and at times push us completely apart. THE USUAL UNCERTAINTIES: STORIES revels in the persistent human struggle to love with abandon and marks a dynamic voice in American short fiction. "The characters that inhabit these stories will break your heart and mend it simultaneously. A writer of immense talent and imagination, Jonathan Blum is unafraid to explore, sometimes hilariously, the most dangerous interiors of personality in ways we've never quite seen before. THE USUAL UNCERTAINTIES tackles the most primal of our human dilemmas with a vision as profound and achingly delicate as it is unforgettable."--Holiday Reinhorn "Jonathan Blum is a wonderful writer: witty and sharp, compassionate and humane, and THE USUAL UNCERTAINTIES is a flat-out glorious collection that manages to be both hilarious and heartbreaking, nervy and timeless. I won't soon forget these masterful stories."--Molly Antopol "These wonderful stories by Jonathan Blum run so many gamuts--his range is glorious: from joy to grief, from hilarity to solemnity, from stupidity to wisdom. When I consider how beautifully achieved these stories are I weep with pleasure. Jonathan Blum is the real deal, the full spectrum and I've known this from when I first read him such a long time ago. This is his first full book of stories--finally, at last. The world needs this book. We deserve it after a long wait."--Michael Silverblatt "I love everything about this book. These are wise and richly imagined stories, at turns hilarious and heartbreaking. Blum is undeniably a master of the short story form, a writer of profound compassion and virtuosic talent, and these stories mark the arrival of a major new voice in American short fiction."--Andrew Porter "In these wonderfully various stories, gentle and bizarre and tragic and very funny, there are characters the likes of which have rarely been given life in fiction: The young son of a pulmonary oncologist learns excitedly to read x-rays, and that excitement is very different than what his father feels. A widow makes a business of bringing a quality of life to elders, and a thirteen-year-old Roger, on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah, has a T-shirt stamped: I'd Rather Be Davening. Herm is a one-man ad hoc adoption agency finding unwanted newborns and delivering them into well-appointed futures. Jonathan Blum descends from a great tradition of Jewish storytellers, Richler, Malamud, Michaels, and he brings the tradition into the twenty-first century, and he brings the tradition west, too, to Los Angeles. Oh, and south to Florida, and right up to the Shabbat table where Adam sits with his Thai girlfriend in 'A Certain Light on Los Angeles.' There is a certain light here in these stories and it is very much worth your time."--Michelle Latiolais "I've long been an admirer of the strange, intense, and yet incredibly intimate work of Jonathan Blum."--Peter Orner

The Usual Uncertainties: Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

In ancient Akrotiri, a young girl is learning mysteries from a tutor, who, quite literally, fell from the skies. With his encouragement she can fly and surf the time streams and see something of the future. But then the demons come. Death and disaster are meted out by the gods of her land. Perhaps retribution for some heinous crime... or something far more sinister?

Doctor Who: Fallen Gods

Contemporary

Telos Pub Ltd

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