![]() ![]() ![]() “Who would ever think to use guitar riffs in discussions of human psychology? Not me. A lanky, fortyish man extended his hand in her direction. She took a deep, shaky breath and glanced over her shoulder. ![]() Evans,” an unfamiliar voice said to her back. She clutched the handle of her laptop case, prepared to clobber whoever was dumb enough to sneak up on her. Right? Tel that to the cold sweat trickling between her br**sts. Whoever fol owed stopped several steps behind her. The hairs on the back of her neck stood on end. The other professors in her field wouldn’t know an innovative idea if it stood on its head and sang “The Star-Spangled Banner.” And why did she care what her col eagues thought of her methods anyway? How had she let her associate dean talk her into presenting at this stupid conference in the first place? What a total waste of time. ![]() She crammed the papers inside her bag and jerked the zipper closed before continuing through the overdone hotel lobby on her way to her sixth-floor room. Wel, someone was having a good time tonight. Could this day suck a little more, please?Ī chorus of “chug, chug, chug, chug,” fol owed by enthusiastic cheers came from across the lobby near the elevators. With a loud sigh, she bent to gather the scattered papers. She’d forgotten to zip the compartment in her haste to flee the seminar room. A stack of handouts tumbled from Myrna’s laptop case to the floral-patterned carpet. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The 2016 novel won Gyasi numerous awards. The novel starts with Maame’s daughters separated by circumstance before trickling down into their children and the generations that follow. ![]() Gyasi’s debut novel, “Homegoing,” is a historical fiction chronicling the descendants of an Asante woman named Maame. While leading the Equal Justice Initiative, Stevenson was able to discredit the prosecution’s case against McMillan, who was exonerated and released from jail in 1993.Īccording to a profile by The New Yorker, Stevenson has saved 125 men from the death penalty. Stevenson, a Harvard-educated lawyer and social justice activist, wrote the story based on his experiences with Walter McMillan, an Alabama inmate who was convicted of murder and spent months on death row. ![]() The memoir, also titled “Just Mercy,” was written by Delaware native turned Montgomery resident Bryan Stevenson. The 2019 film “Just Mercy” became a box office hit and garnered a Screen Actors Guild nomination for star Jamie Foxx, but the book it was based on was already a huge hit before the story hit cinemas. ![]() 16, 2019 photo shows civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson posing for a portrait in New York to promote the film “Just Mercy.” (Photo by Matt Licari/Invision/AP) “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson Here are the some of the most famous novels written by Alabama authors: This Dec. Did you know these hit movies were made in Alabama? ![]() ![]() He has been dealt a pretty tough hand in life! ![]() ![]() However, he is also a bit of a gentle giant, in the sense that he loves with all his heart, he is loyal and devoted to the people he loves, he wants to be the best that he can be and he is conscious of what is right and wrong. He pretty much destroys anyone and everyone in the ring. So…we have Romeo who is a huge, hot and hard MMA fighter. I recommend reading Defying the Odds to get the full effect of this story and the Battered Hearts series!! It’s so well written and we’ll be honest with you, we weren’t sure if the whole “Romeo & Juliet” notion was going to work but it bloody well did! I never thought it was cheesy or done to death! It didn’t cross my mind as I was reading it! And the other characters are fantastic, well we already know that Clay, Mel, and Wyatt are FAB. The story is pretty HOT, but not only is it HOT (sorry did I already say that?!)it also has a great storyline. WOW, Romeo is completely amazing and delicious !! I was hooked right from the start.life could have stopped if I’d let it, though towards the end I just had to put it down to catch my breath and to try and prolong it as much as I could! This story is funny, sexy, and completely addictive… Seeing you the first time was like coming home, and there ain’t been anything to happen since that’s disabused me of the notion” “I’m pretty sure we’ve known each other forever. ![]() ![]() ![]() An excoriating parody of the ‘Loam and Lovechild School of Fiction’, as represented in the works of authors such as Thomas Hardy, Mary Webb, Sheila Kaye-Smith, and even D.H. ‘That Book’, as the author came to call it, had been a great popular success, had received rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic, and in 1933 had won the Prix Étranger of the Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse, much to the disgust of Virginia Woolf, a previous winner. Twenty years after its publication Cold Comfort Farm, her first novel, was still the standard against which all her subsequent work was, as here, judged. Early success had been for Stella Gibbons both a blessing and a burden. ![]() ![]() Reviewing The Swiss Summer, Vernon Fane wrote in The Sphere (22 December 1951), ‘Miss Stella Gibbons is one of those writers who can carry one along through the most improbable situations by the brightness of her observation of human foibles, and I, for one, am not going to regret that in this book she has come a long way from Cold Comfort Farm’. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then we have super drab cutout characters who make the lint in my dryer look witty and scintillating. But the more I read, the more my heart sank.To begin with, the writing is bad and unpolished ("throwing her head back in ecstasy, her lips quivering" - Jesus Christ, shoot me now). ![]() (I love locked room stories! and stories where people have to fight each other to survive! and gore!). I was excited when I first heard about this book, and nearly abused my librarian privileges so I could get it the moment it went into circulation. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have been able to explore the Fresno area and have found many of the places mentioned in the book. Well, life has strange quirks and I ended up in the 60’s moving to the area where Janey lived. I felt a connection with Janey and Blue Willow became one of my favorite books for life. My father had wanderlust and I had lived in many places and slept in many different types of bed. “In the 1940s I was a third grader in the Seattle area. “This story, told with sensitive beauty, should widen the horizons of those who read it.”– The Horn Book Doris Gates is also known for her collections of Greek mythology, including A Fair Wind for Troy. Blue Willow was groundbreaking in its use of realistic storytelling for children. About the Author:ĭoris Gates was a librarian and writer of children’s fiction. It won a Newbery Honor and many other awards. Someday, Janey promised the willow plate, with its picture of a real house, her family would once again be able to set down roots in a community.īlue Willow is an important fictional account of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, and has been called The Grapes of Wrath for children. ![]() Now that her father was an itinerant worker, Janey didn’t have a home she could call her own or any real friends, as her family had to keep moving, following the crops from farm to farm. To Janey Larkin, the blue willow plate was the most beautiful thing in her life, a symbol of the home she could only dimly remember. ![]() ![]() Nameless has no memory of his past up to a couple years ago. Nameless takes them down, protecting the innocent, avenging the dead. It’s always a case of some person or persons doing evil beyond the reach of the law – a serial killer, a serial rapist, an entitled psychopath. He listens to a digital recording explaining his assignment. There’s a large amount of money and necessary equipment, plus a gun. There’s a vehicle waiting for him, with a suitcase inside. The man called Nameless characteristically arrives in a community to find preparations made. Well, it’s now possible for justice to be delivered nonetheless.” ( In the Heart of the Fire) ![]() ![]() ![]() If sometimes local law enforcement doesn’t want to find it or if the courts don’t want to hear it, or if those who expose it might be ruined or killed for their efforts. “…In this world of computers, satellite tracking, and so many other government surveillance tools, all of them accessible to hackers outside the government, the truth can be found with enough effort. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Back in print for the first time since 1997, Harpman's modern classic is an important addition to the growing canon of feminist speculative literature. Informed by her background as a psychoanalyst and her youth in exile, I Who Have Never Known Men is a haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic novel of female friendship and intimacy, and the lengths people will go to maintain their humanity in the face of devastation. Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929, and fled to Casablanca with her family during WWII. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl-the fortieth prisoner-sits alone and outcast in the corner. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They are all conveyed through Shane's viewpoint and thus flavored by Shane's perceptions, but they're still strongly-developed enough to be mostly memorable. The supporting cast is nice, fairly vast without being overwhelming. I would have been crushed if they hadn't gotten together in the end. (As an agnostic, I had some difficulty appreciating his conflict, but his point of view was conveyed so well that it wasn't necessary in order to feel his resolve.)ĭiscussing his love interest strikes me as a bit of a spoiler, so I'll mention only that I adored him, rooting for him even when he wasn't a love interest at all. The strength of his Christian faith and how he comes to integrate it with his homosexuality is inspiring, whether you share his faith or not. ![]() It makes him an honest, appealing character. Although he's inexperienced, he's not willing to settle or let others make his decisions for him, and he's not afraid to stand up for himself. Shane is a young man (22 for most of the story) who knows what he wants. It's the perfect chance to find himself-and just perhaps the man he wants to spend his life with. As a still-mostly-closeted gay man, France is also an opportunity to explore his homosexuality without the judgment of his fundamentalist college and family. Shane can't pass up the opportunity to study in France for a year as a medical researcher before starting graduate school. ![]() ![]() ![]() But an enemy had somehow convinced the Imperial Fleet that he was actually a wanted criminal, so after a battle leaving his ship in urgent need of repairs, Pausert and the witches of Karres joined an interstellar traveling circus in order to save the galaxy. Of course, these three young women were the universally feared witches of Karres-but how was he to know that?!Īnd after he defeated the Worm World (with the help of the witches, of course), the Empress herself had sent him on a secret mission to stop a nanite plague that was raging across the galaxy. All because he helped rescue three slave children from their masters. ![]() Description NEW ENTRY IN THE WITCHES OF KARRES SERIES BY NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR ERIC FLINT & DAVE FREERĬaptain Pausert just can't catch a break!įirst, he became the mortal enemy of his fiancée, his home planet, the Empire-and even the Worm World, the darkest threat to mankind in all of space. ![]() |