The curse workers series5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() When the Feds ask Cassel to do the one thing he said he would never do again, he needs to sort out what’s a con and what’s truth. And he’s trying to convince himself that working for the Feds is smart, even though he’s been raised to believe the government is the enemy.īut with a mother on the lam, the girl he loves about to take her place in the Mob, and new secrets coming to light, the line between what’s right and what’s wrong becomes increasingly blurred. He’s trying to do the right thing, even though the girl he loves is the one he should stay the farthest away from. He’s trying to be good, even though he grew up in a family of con artists and cheating comes as easily as breathing to him. Love is dangerous and trust is priceless in the satisfying conclusion to Holly Black’s “powerful, edgy dark” fantasy series ( Publishers Weekly).Ĭassel Sharpe knows he’s been used as an assassin, but he’s trying to put all that behind him. ![]()
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The Reckoning by Sharon Kay Penman5/29/2023 ![]() Morrow, who owns Northshire Bookstore in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and Manchester Center, Vt., is leaving the board for personal reasons. ![]() In addition, Michelle Malonzo of Changing Hands in Tempe and Phoenix, Ariz., is joining the board to serve the remainder of Chris Morrow's two-year term, which ends next year. And Kelly Estep of Carmichael's Bookstore in Louisville, Ky., and Christine Onorati of WORD Bookstores in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Jersey City, N.J., have been selected as co-vice president/secretary. ![]() The board also selected current ABA vice-president Bradley Graham of Politics & Prose, Washington, D.C., to be president for a two-year term, replacing Jamie Fiocco of Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, N.C., whose two-year terms as president ends this year. The board of directors of the American Booksellers Association has approved the nominating committee's recommendations for the upcoming board elections, as reported in Bookselling This Week. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eva’s acts helped transform the fragmented Sapphic poetic corpus into a new way of thinking and creating, before her differences with Barney propelled her to move to Greece to live a different version of the Sapphic life.īut what was Greece to Eva? By what journey of intellect and desire had she come to embrace this particular Greek prototype?Ī notion that the new world found creative ground in old things was integral to Eva’s 19th-century upbringing. From 1900 to the summer of 1907, the years when she moved with Barney between the United States and Paris, she developed a performance style that complemented the poetic language of Vivien and Barney by implicating Sappho in the practice of modern life. Yet Eva’s correspondence, along with such sources as photographs and newspaper coverage, indicate that she participated in many more performances. She has made cameo appearances as the “pre-Raphaelite” beauty with “the most miraculous long red hair” who performed in two of Barney’s garden theatricals in Paris. ![]() They appear in the history of gay and lesbian sexuality as the women who contributed substantially to the turn-of-the-century decadent rewriting of Baudelaire’s lexicon of the sexualized woman.Įva Palmer is largely absent from this history. The quintessential figure of female same-sex desire and Sapphism, or lesbianism. ![]() Anastasia lowry5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Not all the books are in the school library, but the first, Anastasia Krupnik, is. The work centers around the life of a girl who grows from 10 to 12 years old. Lowry’s Anastasia series of books includes nine volumes and is aimed at kids ages 9 to 12. If can’t say it, she shouldn’t be reading it.” ![]() “It’s appalling, some of the things in this book,” said Hardee, 32, mother of a fourth-grader and part-time church secretary. ![]() She brought the issue to the School Board this week and has filed a formal complaint. Kristi Hardee hopes her quest to ban the book, Anastasia Krupnik by Newbery award-winner Lois Lowry, from Spook Hill Elementary in Lake Wales will lead to a policy allowing for a countywide ban on books deemed offensive. BARTOW - A Polk County mother thinks the word damn has no place in a 10-year-old’s school library book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just when he's sure his fate as a hero has been decided, though, he gets a new villain power that he can't control. But belonging isn't as easy as signing up for classes, and Damien finds himself struggling to fit in more than ever. ![]() But now that he's living with his dad's superhero family and enrolling at Heroesworth Academy, he's ready to embrace his new life, get his H, and finally belong somewhere. Damien Locke didn't choose for his supervillain mom to disown him - just because he sort of defied her and ruined her evil plans to take over Golden City - and he didn't choose for his superpower to be flying, a superhero ability that involves his least favorite thing: heights. ![]() A hunger like no other by kresley cole5/28/2023 ![]() Sheltered Emmaline finally sets out to uncover the truth about her deceased parents-until a powerful Lykae claims her as his mate and forces her back to his ancestral Scottish castle. ![]() Emmaline Troy is a small, ethereal half Valkyrie/half vampire, who somehow begins to soothe the fury burning within him. In New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Kresley Cole’s sizzling series, a fierce werewolf and a bewitching vampire become unlikely soul mates whose passion will test the boundaries of life and death.Īfter enduring years of torture from the vampire horde, Lachlain MacRieve, leader of the Lykae Clan, is enraged to find the predestined mate he’s waited millennia for is a vampire. ![]() Purchase at Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo Published by Pocket Star on April 1st 2006 ![]() Yours Truly, The Duke by Amelia Grey5/28/2023 ![]() Most importantly, she prefers country life to London, so he’s free to continue his life as usual. ![]() When Wyatt’s solicitor finds Miss Fredericka Hale, Wyatt considers this little hiccup solved. However, if Wyatt doesn’t marry by week’s end, he’ll lose a sizable inheritance from his grandmother. But distance cannot keep them from their powerful attraction.Īt the top of his game in London, the Duke of Wyatthaven has no interest in marriage. He’ll help her, and in return, they’ll lead separate lives. So when the handsome Duke of Wyatthaven shows up with a proposal, she accepts. The last thing Fredericka wants is a hurried-up marriage to a man she doesn’t know―much less love, but she’ll do it for the children. ![]() Fredericka is powerless to stop her, but having a husband might sway the ruling. ![]() ![]() She’s been caring for her deceased sister’s three young children, and now a childless cousin has petitioned the court for custody. Yours Truly, The Duke is the first novel in the historical romance Say I Do trilogy about dukes needing to wed to tap into their wealth by New York Times bestselling author Amelia Grey.įredericka Hale needs a husband, and fast. ![]() The deptford trilogy robertson davies5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() I hope you’re all okay with that but it’s time to write my next novel. So, starting with this post, you’ll be hearing from me, not weekly, but every other week. ![]() And finally, now that my ninth novel, A New Season, is essentially finished and formatted-and soon heading to the printers-(update coming in my next post), I really must turn my focus to my tenth novel (update coming on that at some point, too). Secondly, to be honest, it’s hard to come up with brand new content week in and week out. (I remember the pressure-and ultimate futility-of keeping up when I once had a New Yorker subscription.) It’s a lot to expect that you’ll read each one. ![]() ![]() Why? Well, firstly, I’ve worried that I may be testing your patience and your time by dropping a post in your inbox every week. But as we start our second year together, I’ve decided, for a few reasons, to revert to my original plan of posting bi-weekly. So in the last year, I’ve written and published here, just shy of 60 posts. But in an effort to get out of the gate quickly and create enough content to attract subscribers, I ended up posting every week-even more often in the very early days. I started off suggesting that I’d post every two weeks. I’m grateful for all the support you’ve shown me through your subscriptions and your kind comments. By the time this post hits your inbox, I will have been on Substack for a year. ![]() I am legend 19545/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The novel has been made into films on a number of occasions including "The Last Man on Earth" starring Vincent Price and filmed in 1964, "The Omega Man" starring Charlton Heston and released in 1971 and more recently "I am Legend" in 2007, starring Will Smith. It is widely regarded as being a major influence of the zombie genre and popularized the concept of a worldwide disease apocalypse. ![]() In many ways this novel has been seen as the catalyst that re-invigorated the tired and dying genre that was horror of the 1950's, re-engineering a well known horror subject and yet written in a mainstream almost literary voice. Part of the Gollancz SF Masterworks collection, the novel has received critical acclaim from many authors including Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Brian Lumley and Ray Bradbury. I am Legend is a post apocalyptic vision by Richard Matheson, created in 1954 it tells the story of Robert Neville, the last surviving human in the world, surrounded by bloodthirsty vampires - both living and undead. ![]() Galbraith the great crash5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Galbraith argued that an unfettered, competitive capitalist system, operating on pure free-market principles, was inherently cyclical and unstable, requiring robust regulation and active government. As Galbraith remarked, all stockmarket bubbles exhibit "seemingly imaginative, currently lucrative, and eventually disastrous innovation in financial structures". ![]() Galbraith, like Keynes before him, identified the instability of modern capitalism in terms of the drive to accumulate excessive wealth and the fragile nature of the financial system. ![]() AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |