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The Monster’s Muse tells the incredible story of Maddy Ulm and her rise from the complicated shadows of Berlin’s first experiments with Expressionist cinema to the glamorous deserts of Hollywood. For Maddy has a secret. A secret that has given her unparalleled insight into the soul of cinematic horror. A secret that has a terrible price as well.]]> 0 Bradford Tatum 0984489630 Bradford 5 currently-reading 3.83 2012
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After embracing her first romantic liaison with a mysterious stranger, she is left with far more than a confusing introduction to love. She is now a Beguiler, a “blood thirster� with exciting new abilities and a deeper lust for life. But her condition comes with a steep price. For the Beguiler lures its victims by forcing Emma to appear to them as the lost loves they desire most. Can Emma ever be seen as she truly is? Or is she doomed to survive only by being what others want her to be?

From her cunning role as a frontier town madam, to her flawed redemption as a preacher’s wife, to her passionate yet tragic life among a fringe clan of the Lakota, Emma’s quest to find love is a distinctly American twist on vampire lore you won’t soon forget.]]> 420 Bradford Tatum Bradford 5 3.87 2023
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After the loss of her mother to breast cancer, nine year-old Chloe Taggert decides to heal in a very unusual way. Taking her mother’s cold shoes, clothing, x-rays and oncology reports, empty jars of eye-cream and other personal effects, she builds the Mommy Machine: a cocoon-like soft sculpture that has the near-magic ability to to conjure the comforting essence of the deceased woman. Chloe’s father Brian, himself caught in the twilight between loss and the beginning of actual mourning, is bent on doing everything in his power to support his daughter through her difficult transition. After a chance meeting with Brian’s old art rep, Carly, his daughter’s piece is seen to have enough potential to perhaps impact the post-modernist art world. After an extremely successful opening, it is clear The Mommy Machine’s evocative and transformational powers are not limited to one heartbroken little girl. Brian makes the first of several questionable choices when he decides to take Chloe out of school to accompany her piece on tour. Father and daughter soon find themselves on the surreal road to national prominence, a road fraught with emotional confrontations, unlikely friendships, and impossible parenting choices. Father and daughter are forever redefined for one another as they discover that life is inexorably yet paradoxically loosening our grip on what no longer matters to help us more firmly hang on to what does.]]> 239 Bradford Tatum 0984489614 Bradford 5 3.62 2010
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Built by the mysterious geneticist Carlo Yakamura this settlement encourages the rich to live as they please. They can enjoy decadent homes, physically modifiable partners, meals based on their best memories and even boutique children known on Willoughby as Builds.

Designed to impress even at the dullest cocktail parties, the Builds' proprietary motive genes have been sourced from the DNA of some of the greatest artistic disruptors of the last several centuries. But even among a host of uniquely gifted Builds, Lo is unique. And uniquely unbalanced. So what would be the grisliest of murders back on Earth, is just an inconvenience on Willoughby. That is why Lo is sent to be "seasoned" by a man we come to know only as Cook.

Can Cook's fatherly hand guide Lo to a deeper understanding of his potential and purpose or is Lo's innate power destined to destroy all of Willoughby? Is Lo the key to Cook's creative redemption or is he the cause of Cook's worst nightmares? And once Cook learns the true purpose of Yakamura's Willoughby will Lo or Cook find the colony worth saving at all?

LO is a sci-fi noir thriller, painted in more deeper shades of blue than black. It is also a story of fathers and sons, lost to one another through terrible compromises and found again through the limits of love. It is a parable of our possible future, a future that is doomed if we rely only on the digital representation of our present while forgetting the lessons and lore of our analogue past.]]> 308 Bradford Tatum 0984489649 Bradford 5 to-read 4.00
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