This event has passed.The Beast Within: Dark Fantasy Stories Sunday, November 19, 2017 @ 12:30 pmMDC Live Arts Lab 300 N.E. Second Avenue (Bldg. 1, 1st floor), Miami, FL 33132 United States These stories of fiercely savage and powerful ladies explore the darkness within and the good without. These riveting tales will have your heart pounding in Kiersten White’s Now I Rise, S.J. Kincaid’s The Empress and Emmy Laybourne’s Berserker. Sponsored by: Add to Schedule + Google Calendar+ Add to iCalendar Details Date: Sunday, November 19, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm Event Category: Ages 14+ Authors Emmy Laybourne (Laybourne, Emmy) Before her life as an author, Emmy Laybourne performed original comedy on Comedy Central, MTV and VH1; and acted in the movies Superstar, The In-Laws and Nancy Drew, among others. She is the author of the horror/comedy novel Sweet and the critically acclaimed Monument 14 trilogy. Combining Viking lore and Western tales, Berserker (Feiwel & Friends) portrays a young girl who struggles to control her murderous “gift” as she embarks on a perilous journey through the wilds of the American frontier to find her uncle, the one man can teach her how to control her drive to kill. Kiersten White (White, Kiersten) Kiersten White is the New York Times bestselling author of And I Darken, Now I Rise, the Paranormalcy trilogy, the dark thrillers Mind Games and Perfect Lies, The Chaos of Stars, Illusions of Fate, and In the Shadows with Jim Di Bartolo. Her books have won several awards, including the Utah Book Award, the Evergreen Young Adult Book Award, and the Whitney Award, and have been named an ALA-YALSA Teen Top Ten Best Book, a Florida Teens Read Selection, and a Texas Lone Star Reading List Selection, among other accolades. She is the author of Now I Rise (Delacorte Press), the highly anticipated sequel to And I Darken—from the series that reads like HBO’s Game of Thrones, if it were set in the Ottoman Empire. Lada Dracul is out to punish anyone who dares to cross her blood-strewn path. But brute force isn’t getting Lada what she wants. What Lada needs is her younger brother Radu’s subtlety and skill. But he’s been sent to to Constantinople—and it’s no diplomatic mission. Radu has earned an unwanted place as a double-crossing spy behind enemy lines. As nations fall around them, the Dracul siblings must decide: what will they sacrifice to fulfill their destinies? Empires will topple, thrones will be won . . . and souls will be lost. S.J. Kincaid (Kincaid, S.J.) S.J. Kincaid originally wanted to be an astronaut, but a dearth of mathematical skills turned her interest to science fiction instead. Her debut novel, Insignia, was shortlisted for the Waterstones prize. Its sequels, Vortex and Catalyst, have received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Booklist. The Empress (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) is her thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel, The Diabolic that TeenVogue.com called “the perfect kind of high-pressure adventure.” It’s a new day in the Empire. Tyrus has ascended to the throne with Nemesis by his side and now they can find a new way forward—one where they don’t have to hide or scheme or kill. But having power isn’t the same thing as keeping it, and change isn’t always welcomed. Nemesis will protect Tyrus at any cost. But she cannot protect him by being the killing machine she once was. She will have to prove the humanity that she’s found inside herself to the whole Empire—or she and Tyrus may lose more than just the throne Other Occurrence Annual Venue MDC Live Arts Lab 300 N.E. Second Avenue (Bldg. 1, 1st floor), Miami, FL 33132 United States + Google Map
Details Date: Sunday, November 19, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm Event Category: Ages 14+ Authors Emmy Laybourne (Laybourne, Emmy) Before her life as an author, Emmy Laybourne performed original comedy on Comedy Central, MTV and VH1; and acted in the movies Superstar, The In-Laws and Nancy Drew, among others. She is the author of the horror/comedy novel Sweet and the critically acclaimed Monument 14 trilogy. Combining Viking lore and Western tales, Berserker (Feiwel & Friends) portrays a young girl who struggles to control her murderous “gift” as she embarks on a perilous journey through the wilds of the American frontier to find her uncle, the one man can teach her how to control her drive to kill. Kiersten White (White, Kiersten) Kiersten White is the New York Times bestselling author of And I Darken, Now I Rise, the Paranormalcy trilogy, the dark thrillers Mind Games and Perfect Lies, The Chaos of Stars, Illusions of Fate, and In the Shadows with Jim Di Bartolo. Her books have won several awards, including the Utah Book Award, the Evergreen Young Adult Book Award, and the Whitney Award, and have been named an ALA-YALSA Teen Top Ten Best Book, a Florida Teens Read Selection, and a Texas Lone Star Reading List Selection, among other accolades. She is the author of Now I Rise (Delacorte Press), the highly anticipated sequel to And I Darken—from the series that reads like HBO’s Game of Thrones, if it were set in the Ottoman Empire. Lada Dracul is out to punish anyone who dares to cross her blood-strewn path. But brute force isn’t getting Lada what she wants. What Lada needs is her younger brother Radu’s subtlety and skill. But he’s been sent to to Constantinople—and it’s no diplomatic mission. Radu has earned an unwanted place as a double-crossing spy behind enemy lines. As nations fall around them, the Dracul siblings must decide: what will they sacrifice to fulfill their destinies? Empires will topple, thrones will be won . . . and souls will be lost. S.J. Kincaid (Kincaid, S.J.) S.J. Kincaid originally wanted to be an astronaut, but a dearth of mathematical skills turned her interest to science fiction instead. Her debut novel, Insignia, was shortlisted for the Waterstones prize. Its sequels, Vortex and Catalyst, have received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Booklist. The Empress (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) is her thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel, The Diabolic that TeenVogue.com called “the perfect kind of high-pressure adventure.” It’s a new day in the Empire. Tyrus has ascended to the throne with Nemesis by his side and now they can find a new way forward—one where they don’t have to hide or scheme or kill. But having power isn’t the same thing as keeping it, and change isn’t always welcomed. Nemesis will protect Tyrus at any cost. But she cannot protect him by being the killing machine she once was. She will have to prove the humanity that she’s found inside herself to the whole Empire—or she and Tyrus may lose more than just the throne
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