![]() ![]() It embodies prosperity and dreams of equality for all-especially Daisy Washington. In this haunting novel, the author of Wild Women and the Blues weaves together two stories as they unfold decades apart, as a woman on the run from an abusive husband joins her intrepid aunt as they head across the country from Chicago to Los Angeles, and confront a painful and shadowy past that has reverberated across generations.ġ928, Los Angeles: The newly-built Hotel Somerville is the hotspot for the city's glittering African-American elite. Go On Girl Book Club 2021 New Author of the Year | She Reads Best Literary Historical Fiction Coming in 2022 | BookRiot 2022 Historical Fiction to Add to Your TBR Right Now | We are Bookish Historical Fiction Novels You'll Want in Your Future | BiblioLifestyle Most Anticipated Books of 2022 | BookBub Best Books of Spring 2022 & Best Historical Fiction Books of 2022 | BookTrib Top Ten Historical Fiction Books for the Spring 2022 "Bryce excels at placing readers in a glamorous time and place.riveting and vibrant." – Booklist ![]()
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![]() I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello.Īfter seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. ![]() I didn’t see you again until a month ago. Before We Were Strangers Renée Carlino Before We Were Strangers From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist missed connection post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… ![]() We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. I learned more about myself that year than any other. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments The adventure of silver blaze![]() ![]() He completed his doctorate on the subject of tabes dorsalis in 1885. Following his graduation, he was employed as a ship's doctor on the SS Mayumba during a voyage to the West African coast. ![]() His first published story appeared in " Chambers's Edinburgh Journal" before he was 20. While studying, Conan Doyle began writing short stories. This required that he provide periodic medical assistance in the towns of Aston (now a district of Birmingham) and Sheffield. He then went on to Stonyhurst College, leaving in 1875.įrom 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather.Īt the age of nine Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school, Hodder Place, Stonyhurst. His baptism record in the registry of St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh gives 'Arthur Ignatius Conan' as his Christian name, and simply 'Doyle' as his surname. They were married in 1855.Īlthough he is now referred to as "Conan Doyle", the origin of this compound surname (if that is how he meant it to be understood) is uncertain. ![]() His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, a talented illustrator, was born in England of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born the third of ten siblings on in Edinburgh, Scotland. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Snuggle Puppy! by Sandra Boynton![]() ![]() She lives in rural New England, and her studio is in a barn with perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America. ![]() A great big hug in book form, Snuggle Puppy is a year-round valentine from parent to child. Order 25+ copies of Snuggle Puppy in bulk and get wholesale pricing up to 40 off. King, “Alligator Stroll” starring Josh Turner, and “Tyrannosaurus Funk” (animated) sung by Samuel L. Snuggle Puppy (lap edition) by Sandra Boynton. Buy Snuggle Puppy by Sandra Boynton in bulk at wholesale prices. Boynton has also directed twelve music videos of her songs, including the award-winning “One Shoe Blues” starring B.B. Three of her six albums have been certified Gold (over 500,000 copies sold) and Philadelphia Chickens, nominated for a Grammy, has been certified Platinum (over 1 million copies sold). ![]() She has also written (with Michael Ford) and produced six albums of renegade children’s music. More than 85 million of her books have been sold, “mostly to friends and family,” she says. Since 1974, Boynton has written and illustrated over seventy-five children’s books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. Sandra Boynton is a popular American cartoonist, children’s author, songwriter, producer, and director. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Chaucer the general prologue![]() ![]() ![]() These positions of knowing and unknowing render such beginnings ambivalent and complex. Meant to be read first, they are usually written last, and as such are marked by both their firstness and lastness. Philosopher Jacques Derrida problematizes the borders at which texts begin and end in a way that can help us think about the paradoxical status introductions and prologues hold (Derrida). Situated at the beginning of Chaucer’s work, the Prologue’s position as “first” would seem obvious, but we should reconsider the simple introduction it offers. Introducing the Canterbury Tales, the General Prologue produces a collaboration of strangers, a “compaignye” of pilgrims whose tales cooperate, conflict, and compete for attention. Beside and within these portraits of professional figures from Chaucer’s late medieval English society, the Prologue witnesses traffic among places, languages, and cultures as well as between the religious and the secular. It frames the longer story collection by setting the season, describing the pilgrims who will narrate the tales, and laying the ground rules of the storytelling contest. The General Prologue is, arguably, the most familiar part of the Canterbury Tales. The General Prologue: Cultural Crossings, Collaborations, and Conflicts Elizabeth Scala An essay chapter from The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales (September 2017) ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Fix her up epub![]() ![]() Living her best life means facing the truth: Georgie hasn't been on a date since, well, ever. ![]() Phase four: put herself on the market (and stop crushing on Travis Ford!) Phase three: updates to her exterior (do people still wax?) Phase two: a gut-reno on her wardrobe (fyi, leggings are pants.) Phase one: new framework for her business (a website from this decade, perhaps?) She's determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World. Georgie loves planning children's birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. ![]() Georgette Castle's family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven't taken her seriously since. The first in a spicy, hilarious HGTV-inspired romantic comedy trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line, and Sinker! ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The fiery heart![]() ![]() The fiery impact of God’s Word also awakens us to areas that need to be transformed by His Spirit. Like the warmth and comfort I feel when I draw near to the glowing warmth of a burning fireplace, the Word of God warms my heart when I sit before it and allow its life-giving truth to permeate my being. There is no medication that soothes the soul like God’s Word. The Bible brings warmth and comfort in times of difficulty. Its light exposes areas in our lives that need to be changed. For example, as fire purifies metal, God’s Word purifies our consciences, renews our minds, illuminates our spirits, and drives away darkness. The Bible is like fire in so many ways when it is allowed to work inside our hearts. ![]() That fuel is the Bible! I am praying for “a revival of the Bible.” Would you please join me in prayer for this as well? Today I want to keep speaking to you about spiritual fire and about one of the fuels needed to keep our fire burning brightly. Last month, I wrote to you about spiritual fire. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winspear was born in 1955 in Kent, England and graduated from the University of London Institute of Education. In that inspired instant she created an intelligent and complex female character that is now treasured by millions of readers. The details came fast in her mind and she rushed home to write down the first chapter. The image of Maisie exiting from a tube station in 1929, she says it was like “watching a movie” in her imagination. Winspear was stuck in heavy traffic in the San Francisco area. Jacqueline Winspear had a serendipitous beginning for her character Maisie Dobbs. Others have to try to reconcile the pain and traumas they have experienced as children. Another from his collection of creepy Victorian photos. ![]() One well known author started her hugely famous wizard stories in coffee shops with a pen and yellow pad. ![]() ![]() Precious Ramotswe (By:Alexander McCall Smith)Īn author’s origin story can be interesting and a source of inspiration. Ian Rutledge: A Mysterious Profile (By:Charles Todd) Pendergast (By:Douglas Preston)Ĭharlotte and Thomas Pitt (By:Anne Perry) Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus (By:Faye Kellerman)Īloysius X. Elvis Cole and Joe Pike (By:Robert Crais) ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Black out de marc elsberg![]() ![]() The plot’s tension suffers, however, because so little of the story is devoted to the culprits behind the disaster and their intentions. Together, Piero and Lauren try to find the cause of the power loss, though for a while the authorities suspect that they are involved themselves. ![]() Central among the book’s characters are former hacker and activist Piero Manzano and CNN reporter Lauren Shannon. The plot is told largely through vignettes of various groups of people and their individual struggles. Within days, food riots erupt in major cities, all forms of transportation and communication cease, nuclear power plants leak radiation, and some governments fall to military coups. Elsberg does a good job capturing how life could break down when we lose our main power source. The blackout, which starts in Italy and is caused by computer hackers with vagueĭreams of disrupting the world order, quickly spreads north. debut, an uneven thriller, which was a bestseller in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. Europe is plunged into darkness, followed by further disasters, in Elsberg’s U.S. ![]() ![]() Scientists are working on genetically modifying the animals to break their toxicity genes. ![]() The Cane Toad is a poisonous amphibian that is invasive in Australia. How does this process work? And where does that come into play in your book? And what I'm talking about is microbiology and genetic engineering and CRISPR, physically changing the genetic composition of an organism. O'NEILL: When it comes to human hubris, there is the as always, cynics saying, well, you're playing God here. ![]() Elizabeth Kolbert spoke with Living on Earth's Aynsley O'Neill about some of these controversial new technologies including the gene-editing process, CRISPR. Her book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future features scientists and other leaders who argue that in order to save the planetary systems that humans have altered, we must alter it again. Now she's out with a book that explores some cutting edge and controversial technologies that could address some of the world's most pressing environmental challenges. In 2015, Elizabeth Kolbert won the Pulitzer Prize for her book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, which chronicles the human-made mass extinction crisis. ![]() ![]() CURWOOD: It’s Living on Earth, I’m Steve Curwood. ![]() |