![]() ![]() “Is anyone on this train who they say they are?”īriers doesn’t know whether to kiss Miles or punch him but is delighted to accompany him and his mother on their journey. Since their pursuers are looking for a man and a woman, might two women slip past them unnoticed? Miles’s aristocratic mother has information of importance to the British Government and he must escort her home from Bucharest immediately, but their plans go violently awry and Miles and Lady Siward find themselves on a train to Belgrade – where Miles’s lover is posted. Here’s a bit more about it, and the review I’ll be posting up on Amazon and Goodreads in the next day or two.īook Two of The Carstairs Affairs: Miles Siward and Briers Allerdale return for another thrilling Jazz Age adventure. I love Miles Siward and Briers Allerdale, and their rollicking 1930s adventure on a train crossing Europe will blow your socks off, it’s so good. ![]() Seriously, it’s the best thing I’ve read in about a year. ![]() SUCH a treat! Midnight Flit, Elin Gregory’s latest book in The Carstairs Affairs series, was published a few days ago. ![]()
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![]() ![]() What he didn’t count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi–love triangle.īut as he navigates his complicated feelings, Felix begins a journey of questioning and self-discovery that helps redefine his most important relationship: how he feels about himself.įelix Ever After is an honest and layered story about identity, falling in love, and recognizing the love you deserve. When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages-after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned-Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many-Black, queer, and transgender-to ever get his own happily-ever-after. ![]() He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. ![]() A Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Timeįrom Stonewall and Lambda Award–winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.įelix Love has never been in love-and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. ![]() ![]() in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. ![]() He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. ![]() Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. ![]() Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. ![]() ![]() ![]() The celebrated American writer Richard Connell was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. Critical points of Richard Connell’s biography ![]() Considering this, the novel conveys the overall impact of the brutality on the minds of human beings, as part of society, by raising a question of the justifiable murder. As the man who fought in the war himself, Connell created a story where one can sense the disastrous effect of the experienced violence. More specifically, Rainsford, a big-game hunter from New York and Zaroff, a Russian aristocrat, and the society itself. It is a strangely unique short narrative, depicting multiple conflicts throughout the entire plot with the battling nature of the main characters. The destructive power of the conflict in terms of human history is vividly manifested in The Most Dangerous Game novel written by Richard Connell in 1924. ![]() ![]() Delving deep inside the world of those who live 'plain', Ellie must find a way to reach Katie on her terms. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide - and for the first time in her high-profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice very different from her own. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn's mother, took the child's life. ![]() The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster Country to its core. A shocking murder shatters the picturesque calm of Pennsylvania's Amish country - and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer who steps in to defend the young woman at the centre of the storm. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jane was more than a tool or a puppet or dainty martyr. ![]() But history loves a tragedy, so for over 460 years, poets, polemicists, novelists, and biographers have viewed her through many different lenses: Protestant martyr, romantic heroine, victim of adult ambition.Īs Nicola Tallis explains in her new biography Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey, each of these interpretations are correct, but none are complete. Jane hadn’t wanted the throne and didn’t accomplish anything during her 200-hour-long tenure. Jane was convicted of high treason and beheaded on February 12, 1554. Just nine days later, her Privy Council abandoned her and named Edward’s eldest half-sister, Mary, the rightful queen. Named successor by Edward VI days before his death, Jane was proclaimed Queen on July 10, 1553. Shortest of all was the reign of Lady Jane Grey. Edgar II lasted 55 days before bowing to William the Conqueror in 1066. Young Edward V reigned for 86 days before his uncle was proclaimed Richard III in June 1483 and he and his brother vanished forever within the Tower of London. Others have hung on for mere weeks before catastrophe knocked them loose. ![]() Some have measured their reigns in decades and anniversary “jubilees.” Queen Elizabeth II is approaching her 65th year on the throne, surpassing the 63-year record set by great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria. Sixty-six monarchs have reigned over England since King Egbert became the first to rule over much of the island in 827 CE. ![]() ![]() ![]() Liesl Shurtliff weaves a spellbinding tale, shining the spotlight on a beloved character from her award-winning debut, RUMP: The (Fairly) True Tale of Rumpelstiltskin. ![]() ![]() And one of them just might have the magical solution Red is looking for. All the while, Red and Goldie are followed by a wolf and a huntsman-two mortal enemies who seek the girls’ help to defeat each other. Her journey takes her through dwarves’ caverns to a haunted well and a beast’s castle. With the help of a blond, porridge-sampling nuisance called Goldie, Red goes on a quest to cure Granny. But when Red’s granny falls ill, it seems that only magic can save her, and fearless Red is forced to confront her one weakness. Red is not afraid of the big bad wolf. She’s not afraid of anything. ![]() RED: The (Fairly) True Tale of Red Riding Hoodīeauty and the Beast fans: satisfy your fairy tale cravings with the New York Times bestseller RED, a spellbinding adventure that features a brave heroine, plenty of pixies, a beast like no other, and a beauty too! ![]() ![]() ![]() The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the documentary "plays much like a horror film", and in reference to the terrier scene, called it "an absolute bloodbath. The Daily Telegraph reported on the film's trailer for its "stomach-churning footage" and "disturbing scenes", with writer Rebecca Hawkes noting that the trailer's footage, which includes live rats being killed by terriers, "will likely provoke a strong response from viewers". ![]() The film premiered on television on October 22, 2016, airing on the Discovery Channel. The documentary premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13, 2016. The director also journeys to the Karni Mata Temple in Rajasthan, India, where over 35,000 black rats are revered by devotees who believe them to be reincarnated human beings. Much of the documentary has been considered a detailing of "the 'war' against rats", featuring "bashing, slicing, dissecting and poisoning". ![]() The film primarily focuses on rat infestations and exterminations, including methods such as night-patrol teams in Mumbai snapping rats' necks and the practice of ratting in England. Based on a book by Robert Sullivan and distributed by the Discovery Channel, the film chronicles rat infestations in major cities throughout the world. Rats, also known as Rats NYC, is a 2016 American documentary horror film directed by Morgan Spurlock. ![]() ![]() ![]() Among the most familiar poems in Pictures of the Gone World are “Away above a Harborful,” “The World Is a Beautiful Place,” and “Reading Yeats.” Because these poems are included in A Coney Island of the Mind, discussion of these poems is found in the entry for A Coney Island of the Mind. ![]() Second, the title refers to the “Gone World,” invoking the hip idiom and its sense of “gone,” which can connote a positive sort of craziness but can also suggest a desperate emptiness. In that sense, the poems are like paintings or photographs-in the tradition of the imagists, the poems are meant to convey a strong visual impression. First, the poems are meant to be pictures. The title of the collection is apparently based on two key ideas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But a big part of it is, I think, structurally I don’t think about stories in a lot of traditional ways. And part of it the fact that I focus on my language a lot more than a lot of writers. Part of that is because I’m a perfectionist and part of is because back then I was doing it as a hobby. You know, there’s a reason it took me 14 years to get the first one published. I gotta put everything back, or try a third thing. “I’ll reword some stuff and then I put it down and I go have some lunch, I come back and I read it and the book is worse.” “Sometimes over the course of a day I will start working on the book, and I’m like ‘Okay this chapter isn’t working,’ and I’ll pull out a scene or I’ll move some things around,” Rothfuss explained. ![]() |