Richard Harland

Jul 29, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Richard Harland |Rebecca Yarros

An inventive and engrossing tale marred by imperfect prose. As heaven wages war on the Humen, an angel and a tribesman persist in their unconventional alliance—to unite all people and fight for humanity’s survival. The second installment of The Ferren Trilogy is set in a post-apocalyptic world where humanity’s fate hangs in the balance.

Jan 16, 2024 | nature.com | Jessen V Bredeson |Owen Smith |Jessica Lyons |Jane Grimwood |Jeremy Schmutz |Mustafa K. Khokha | +13 more

AbstractFrogs are an ecologically diverse and phylogenetically ancient group of anuran amphibians that include important vertebrate cell and developmental model systems, notably the genus Xenopus. Here we report a high-quality reference genome sequence for the western clawed frog, Xenopus tropicalis, along with draft chromosome-scale sequences of three distantly related emerging model frog species, Eleutherodactylus coqui, Engystomops pustulosus, and Hymenochirus boettgeri.

Nov 6, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Richard Harland |Rebecca Ross |Holly Black

Creative and immersive but let down by inconsistencies. An angel and a teenage boy must work together to battle a soulless evil intent on destruction. Fifteen-year-old Ferren has only known life as one of the People, a “primitive” population on a post-apocalyptic Earth, continually threatened by the war waged by the armies of Heaven. As part of their alliance with the militaristic Humens that Farren’s community in Australia lives in fear of, they are expected to surrender a member each year.