5/29/2023 0 Comments The Abyss by Orson Scott Card![]() Modern scholars… Sir Walter Scott, The Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is the acknowledged master of the historical novel. Address: c/o Barbara Bova Literary Agency, 3951 Gulf Shore Blvd N PH 1B, Naples, FL 34103-3639, U.S.A. SCIENCE FICTION: Hot Sleep, 1978 A Planet Called Treason, 1979 Songmaster, 1980 Hart's Hope, 1983 The Worthing Chronicle, 1983 Ender's Game, 1985 Speaker for the Dead, 1986 Wyrms, 1987 Folk of the Fringe, 1989 The Abyss, 1989 Worthing Saga, 1990. Publications: Listen, Mom and Dad, 1978 Capitol (short stories), 1978 Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories, 1981 Saintspeak, 1981 (ed) Dragons of Darkness, 1981 Ainge, 1982 (ed) Dragons of Light, 1983 Saints (A Woman of Destiny) (novel), 1984 Seventh Son (novel), 1987 Red Prophet (novel), 1988 Character and Viewpoint, 1988 Prentice Alvin (novel), 1989 Maps in a Mirror (stories), 1990 Earthfall, 1994 Earthborn, 1995 Alvin Journeyman, 1995 Pastwatch, 1996 Children of the Mind, 1996 Treasure Box, 1996 Stone Tables, 1997 Homebody, 1998 Heart Fire, 1998 Enchantment, 1999 Ender's Shadow, 1999. ![]() Career: Volunteer Mormon missionary in Brazil, 1971-73 operated repertory theatre, Provo, Utah, 1974-75 Proofreader, 1974, and Ed., 1974-76, Brigham Young University Press, Provo, Utah Ed., Ensign Magazine, Salt Lake City, 1976-78, and Compute Books, Grcenshoro NC, 1983. ![]() ![]() Genres: Novels, Science fiction/Fantasy, Plays/Screenplays, Novellas/Short stories. ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Meg wolitzer the female persuasion![]() ![]() I have a chair at home named ‘Liefarne.’ ” It seems unbelievable that Faith’s hungry employees, waiting for dinner to be served, could be captivated by this speech, and “no one had the recessive, tuned-out quality that could happen when groups of people got together and drank. Though they probably call it something cute - the way Ikea names all its furniture, so it sounds better. Even in highly evolved places like Sweden and Norway, women end up doing most of the s-twork. And that sets them up for housewifery and the double day. Because no matter how fair a society is, it’s still going to be women who have babies. We need to keep thinking about the role that economics plays. “Our foundation has to look at all of it. “I’ve noted that when people speak about feminism they take one tack or the other,” Faith says to her assembled staff in her kitchen while tossing a salad. A New York Times Bestseller A powerful coming-of-age story that looks at ambition, friendship, identity, desire, and power from the much-needed female. It’s a daunting task for any novelist to express her characters’ political views without growing pedantic, and Wolitzer doesn’t entirely avoid that trap. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With her writing going none too well, lonely, concerned about her marriage and with her own cell phone failing, Georgie ends up at her Mom’s place, in her old bedroom, using the big yellow rotary dial phone to ring the landline in Omaha. Especially when Neal doesn’t answer his cell phone. They still love each other, but Neal’s not happy, so how can she be? She’s not sure exactly when it broke, but when Neal takes Alice and Noomi home to his parents in Omaha for Christmas, while Georgie stays behind to work, she wonders if it’s the final straw. But Georgie knows her marriage is broken. TV comedy writer Georgie McCool has been married to Neal Grafton for fifteen years and has two sweet and adorable daughters, Alice and Noomi. Landline is the fourth novel by American author, Rainbow Rowell. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Bull of Heaven by Michael G. Lloyd![]() ![]() Becraft has 20 years of experience working in high-profile sales leadership roles with companies such as Patrón Spirits. ![]() ![]() (Press release) Laura Becraft and Lauren Ward launch Brazen Imports & Consultingīecraft and Ward, two industry leaders, are launching Brazen Imports & Consulting to help brands grow their business in the highly competitive beverage alcohol space. As ambassadors for Alto Adige, the sommeliers will educate and engage industry peers in order to spread knowledge and appreciation for the region’s wines in the U.S. Each highly qualified sommelier represents a top market for Alto Adige wine distribution. The ambassadors are Omar Lima, a sommelier at Spago in Los Angeles Chris Struck, the beverage director for ilili restaurant in New York City and Tiffany Tobey, the wine director at Tower Club in Dallas. Both Southold’s New York and Texas wines were well-loved by the wine community and were served in top restaurants around the world. ![]() Meador shares via Instagram that the winery, which started in Long Island, New York, in 2012 and relocated to Texas in 2017, will begin a slow process of closing in order for the family to move to Bordeaux, France and take over another family’s wine estate. Regan Meador announces end of Southold Farm and Cellar ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The bacchae![]() Taking a thyrsos in my hand, a weapon of ivy. In this land of Hellas, I have first excited Thebes to my cry, fitting a fawn-skin to my body and I have left the wealthy lands of the Lydians and Phrygians, the sun-parched plains of the Persians,Īnd the Bactrian walls, and have passed over the wintry land of the Medes, and blessed Arabia, and all of Asia which lies along the coast of the salt sea with its beautifully-towered cities full of Hellenes and barbarians mingled together Īnd I have come to this Hellene city first, having already set those other lands to dance and established my mysteries there, so that I might be a deity manifest among men. I praise Kadmos, who has made this place hallowed, the shrine of his daughter and I have covered it all around with the cluster-bearing leaf of the vine. And I see the tomb of my thunder-stricken mother here near the palace, and the remnants of her house, smouldering with the still living flame of Zeus' fire, the everlasting insult of Hera against my mother. ![]() I am here at the fountains of Dirke and the water of Ismenus. And having taken a mortal form instead of a god's, I, the son of Zeus, have come to this land of the Thebans-Dionysus, whom once Semele, Kadmos' daughter, bore, delivered by a lightning-bearing flame. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Jambusters book![]() What these women were able to do every single day for years both during and after the war is purely mind-boggling to someone from a later, much more leisurely, era. 10/10 ( )Ī very good and inspiriting look at what The Women's Institutes were able to achieve to keep Great Britain going during WWII. This just reinforced how amazing women truly are. ![]() ![]() (Many local chapters kept farm animals which they then sold to raise funds for war work.) I knew that they were a social group but I had no idea just how large of a role that they played. The main goal of the WI was to provide a space for women to socialize (there's real value in this) and educate themselves on everything from how to preserve food and stretch out their meager rations to animal husbandry. Not only was the WI important during the war for the nation but even more so for women who made up its membership. ![]() These women played hosts to evacuees, took over the role of primary household manager, assumed the responsibility for the nation's food production, and so much more. This volume was specifically about the role that the Women's Institute (WI) performed on both the national and county levels. While I enjoyed reading all of Summers' books, Jambusters: The Story of the Women's Institute in the Second World War was my favorite of the lot. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Incognegro graphic novel![]() How did it find its audience then, and do you think it will reach a different set of readers now? What a writer! A dream job!Īt the time Incognegro was first published, graphic novels didn’t have the sort of popularity they do now. I love noir and edgy fiction, and Incognegro was all that and more. ![]() ![]() I’d drawn quite a few titles for Vertigo by then, but when I was asked to work on Incognegro, I jumped at the chance. Warren Pleece: We were brought together by Jonathan Vankin at Vertigo, who edited the original version. It was like biological parents being introduced for the first time. Johnson: We got to meet in person at New York Comic Con the year after the book came out. How did the two of you meet, and how did you work together on the book? EXCLUSIVE: Incognegro: Renaissance #1 interior page. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein![]() That extremism isn't a freak event - it's a toxic cocktail of our times.įrom how to trash the Trump megabrand to the art of reclaiming the populist argument, Naomi Klein shows all of us how we can break the spell and win the world we need. That around the world, shock political tactics are being used to generate crisis after crisis, designed to force through policies that will destroy people, the environment, the economy and our security. ![]() No Is Not Enough reveals, among other things, that the disorientation we're feeling is deliberate. Remember when love was supposed to Trump hate? Remember when the oil companies and bankers seemed to be running scared? What the hell happened? And what can we do about it? Naomi Klein shows us how we got here, and how we can make things better. Naomi Klein - award-winning journalist, bestselling author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, scourge of brand bullies and corporate liars - gives us the toolkit we need to survive our surreal, shocking age. A manual for emancipation.' - Yanis Varoufakis ![]() 'Naomi Klein's new book incites us brilliantly to interweave our No with a programmatic Yes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() but for now i am totally feeling this character. ![]() too bad she will more than likely get some deus ex machine thingy that will make it all better in the end. I went legally blind when i was a child, i haven't been able to really see stars in about twenty years, so i really sympathize with the main character. But all bets are off as a supernatural war is unleashed. To save her family and maybe the world, she’ll have to put her trust in Zayne. Zayne has secrets of his own that will upend her world yet again - but working together becomes imperative once demons breach the compound and Trinity’s secret comes to light. Not the least because one of the outsiders is the most annoying and fascinating person she’s ever met. When Wardens from another clan arrive with disturbing reports that something out there is killing both demons and Wardens, Trinity’s safe world implodes. If the demons discover the truth about Trinity, they’ll devour her, flesh and bone, to enhance their own powers. Her unique gift is part of a secret so dangerous that she’s been in hiding for years in an isolated compound fiercely guarded by Wardens - gargoyle shape-shifters who protect humankind from demons. Enter a world of gargoyle protectors, rising demons, and one girl with an explosive secret.Įighteen-year-old Trinity Marrow may be going blind, but she can see and communicate with ghosts and spirits. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Lost City Of The Monkey God is the true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century-a story of ancient curses, modern technology, a vanished culture, and a stunning medical mystery. But when the expedition finally reached the ruins, battling torrential rains and venomous snakes in the world’s densest jungle, tragedy struck: Preston and others contracted a mysterious-and incurable-disease. ![]() Using a space-age technology that could map terrain under the densest jungle canopy, that flight revealed tantalizing evidence of not just a city but an entire lost civilization. In 2012, Douglas Preston joined a team of scientists on their quest to find the White City, climbing aboard a rickety plane whose historic flight would change everything. #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestsellerįor five hundred years, legends have told of an ancient, lost city hidden in the Honduran rainforest-a place so sacred that those who dared disturb it would fall ill and die. ![]() |