![]() ![]() ![]() Linda and Fanny teeter on the edge of something that is never quite realised. So, no, there are no Bridgerton-level romps, but Mortimer’s exploration of female sexuality is scintillating nonetheless. Her scrapbook is filled with photographs of Linda surrounded by hastily scribbled love hearts. Then there is Fanny’s more overt infatuation. There is the subtle eroticism of shared bath scenes, the angling of heads towards each other, the way they occupy space, limbs entangled as they exchange secrets on the living room couch. The result is a more subtle sex appeal – one that comes not from Linda and her lovers, but from the relationship between the two cousins. ![]() The Pursuit Of Love, however, is a classic British novel that has been brought to screen by a quintessentially British institution. ![]() The original books were written by US romance author Julia Quinn and adapted by Shonda Rhimes. Perhaps it’s because Bridgerton is a bold, brash and ultimately American take on Regency England. ![]()
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![]() "All proper scary stories require a spooky, menacing atmosphere, and Auxier (Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes) delivers the goods with his precise descriptions of the gothic setting and teasing hints of mystery and suspense." ![]() Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "Auxier achieves an ideal mix of adventure and horror, offering all of it in elegant, atmospheric language that forces the reader to slow down a bit and revel in both the high-quality plot and the storytelling itself." "Storytelling and the secret desires of the heart wind together in this atmospheric novel that doubles as a ghost tale." "Lots of creepiness, memorable characters, a worthy message, Auxier's atmospheric drawings and touches of humor amid the horror make this cautionary tale one readers will not soon forget." With Auxier's exquisite command of language, The Night Gardener is a mesmerizing read and a classic in the making. Soon the children are confronted by a mysterious spectre and an ancient curse that threatens their very lives. But the house and its family are not quite what they seem. ![]() ![]() The Night Gardener follows two abandoned Irish siblings who travel to work as servants at a creepy, crumbling English manor house. More than just a spooky tale, it's also a moral fable about human greed and the power of storytelling. A New York Times bestseller, The Night Gardener is a Victorian ghost story with shades of Washington Irving and Henry James. ![]() ![]() This illuminating new portrait gives us a very human Lincoln-an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment, essential to the story of justice in America, began as he grew up in an antislavery Baptist community who insisted that slavery was a moral evil and who sought, as he put it, to do right as God gave him to see the right. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.Īt once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen as the greatest of American presidents-a remote icon-or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction. ![]() ![]() Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. ![]() LONGLISTED FOR THE BIOGRAPHERS INTERNATIONAL PLUTARCH AWARD - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus ReviewsĪ president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. "In his captivating new book, Jon Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time."-Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ![]() NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how-and why-he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. ![]() ![]() ![]() But they had a much greater chance of dying than ground soldiers. Unlike infantrymen, bomber boys slept on clean sheets, drank beer in local pubs, and danced to the swing music of Glenn Miller's Air Force band, which toured U.S. Air combat was deadly but intermittent: periods of inactivity and anxiety were followed by short bursts of fire and fear. Fighting at 25,000 feet in thin, freezing air that no warriors had ever encountered before, bomber crews battled new kinds of assaults on body and mind. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes readers on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people. Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s A brutal way of giving advice through a medium and through a perspective that might just have readers sit up and take heed. This opening poem sets up this first book, in addition to setting the tone and establishing Hopkins’ free verse style, it establishes that drug addiction is an endless cycle that begs the question – what, or who, is the monster in this relationship? And, in the end, does blame really matter?Īs I said before, the book isn’t necessarily for enjoyment, though the poetry in it’s free verse formatting is certainly achingly beautiful and poignant, but more a way to share experience. To tell you the truth, I didn’t really like it at all but I could not put it down.Ī real life horror story, Crank follows Kristina/Bree as she rapidly descends into drug addiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel concludes with the last days of its surviving protagonists postbellum. Meanwhile, Lee has lost his best commanders, his army is underfed and ill-supplied, and he is left with fewer and fewer options until he is only left with surrender. and takes over command of the Army of the Potomac from General Meade, implementing a strategy of not retreating from a numerically inferior force and pursuing them after victories. Grant when he is appointed Lieutenant General in Washington, D.C. ![]() It starts almost immediately after the conclusion of the Battle of Gettysburg and covers the war from that point until the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. The title is derived from a line in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: " that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion." The speech itself is printed, one section at a time, in the novel's section breaks. Although there were plans to adapt it into film like its predecessors, they were scrapped after the poor box office showing of Gods and Generals. The Last Full Measure is the third book in the Shaara Civil War trilogy, preceded by Gods and Generals and The Killer Angels, depicting events in the Eastern Theater of The American Civil War. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dee tells her that he has come for "the Book." Dude, it's a bookshop: could you be a little more specific?. ![]() The gray man greets Perry by calling her Perenelle, and she responds by calling him Dee. ![]() It's total pandemonium in the bookshop.Perry runs to the bookshop, and having remembered that her brother Josh is in there, Sophie follows suit.A bewildered Sophie merely watches as the man dries up in the street.Perry refers to the melting man as a Golem, or Man of Clay.The two see the bookshop door crash open and one of the men in overcoats is thrown out to the street.A worried-looking Perry says: "oh no… not now… not here.".As she sniffs and sniffs, Perry Fleming, the wife of Nick Fleming, enters the shop, and Sophie mentions the gross stench in the air, which is now mixed with peppermint.Apparently, she has always loved identifying particular aromas and scents. To keep the stench of rotten eggs at bay, Sophie breathes in the aromatic teas and coffees from the shop.We also learn that Bernice, who owns the shop, won't be back for an hour, which leaves plenty of time for shenanigans.They turned 15 last December and started saving money to buy their own car. Apparently, she has been working at the Coffee Cup for the summer, and her brother Josh is working at the bookshop across the street.Back at the coffee shop, Sophie wonders what that disgusting smell is. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kingsolver pours her heart and writing skill into giving Demon a voice that soars above all the poverty, wickedness and hard times he and his fellow orphans sent into care-more like work on run down farms where the farmer is only picking up some bucks taking in fosters. Southern Appalachia is the setting, rednecks, picture it, and yet. One bad choice ends up leaving Demon an orphan, he never knew his father, dead before his birth but a death that shapes his life, dead dad, dead mom and then into care of the DSS which is a tremendous joke. And then Angus, real name Agnes, who saves his sorry ass umpteen times as his foster sister, who understands him, who never loses sight of him, through thick or thin, even his bad choices in girlfriend Dori and a slide into oxy to make a football injured knee better.ĭamon/Demon tells this story and it is a wonder, how he lives with his single mom in a trailer belonging to the Peggots, how he grows up with their clan, how his once druggie mom got clean, how she got duped by a man, Stoner, who treats Demon like crap. ![]() ![]() Peggot and his boyhood buds Maggot and Tommy, especially. Certainly there are similarities but Demon Copperhead, real name Damon Fields, is one heck of a resilient boy, from birth to about 20, his life is a hellish mess and he comes through, on his own stubborn merit and with help from mentors like Annie, Mr. Cover blurb calls this a modern day Dickens David Copperfield. My book has so many sticky notes, want to remember all the brilliant parts Kingsolver delivers. ![]() ![]() ![]() I would like to see more historical adaptations with lady leads – like Natalie Dormer’s upcoming “The Woman in Red” – but all of the recent Mantel adaptions have been excellent, and with her books flying off the shelves whenever I walk into my local bookstore, I can’t wait to see how the adaptation of “A Place of Greater Safety” will go. “Wolf Hall” was recently made into a TV mini-series starring Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s advisor, as well as a Tony-nominated Broadway play. Mantel is the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up The Bodies,” two novels that followed the Tudor dynasty. DNA TV Limited – a joining of DNA Films and Fox Networks – will produce. ![]() Richard Warlow, a writer on BBC’s Jack the Ripper inspired “Ripper Street,” will write the adaptation. a place of greater safety by Hilary Mantel RELEASE DATE: MaBritish novelist Mantel weighs in with her American debut: a massively impressive, painstakingly detailed saga of the French Revolution as its leaders lived it. Three young men – Georges-Jacques Danton, Mzimilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, all real figures involved in the revolution – must deal with the dark side of the period’s politics. The Bookseller announced that BBC will adapt “A Place of Greater Safety,” Mantel’s novel about the French revolution. ![]() History fans will be delighted to know that another Hilary Mantel adaptation is in the works. ![]() |