![]() ![]() Not to marry him for his money, but to be adopted as his daughter for money. Some believe the victim was using elderly wheelchair-bound Conway Jefferson. The author gives us a twist on the “gold-digger” scenario. Among them: Agatha Christie.Īs the action shifts to a hotel where the victim worked as a dancer, more broad personalities come from perpetually flustered resident George Bartlett, and angry film-industry worker Basil Blake. And we meet a young mystery-novel fan who is thrilled to possess autographs by famous novelists. ![]() Bodies in libraries happen in books, not in real life, characters say. Sense of humorĬhristie’s playfulness extends to meta humor. Later, Dolly gets caught up in the fun of having a mystery occur right under her nose, and revels in the chance to see her friend Miss Marple solve it up-close. The couple amusingly wonders if they heard correctly. A servant wakes Arthur and Dolly Bantry to inform them there’s a body in their library downstairs. ![]() “The Body in the Library” starts with a sense of humor, which is remarkable considering the grim stuff that will come later. ![]()
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![]() Kushner’s psychological explorations of her characters are incisive, the novel is peppered with subtle ’70s details, and it bursts with you-are-there depictions of its time and places. ![]() Snippets from the life of Sandro’s father’s run in intriguing contrast to Reno’s story, presenting his WWI experiences, childhood in Alexandria, Egypt, and the founding of his company. ![]() Distraught, she flees with Valera family servant Gianni to Rome, where she discovers Gianni is involved with a volatile protest movement. She risks alienating the Valeras by going to their factory to film labor unrest, only to catch Sandro there in flagrante delicto with his cousin Talia. Soon they are romantically entwined, and Reno accompanies Sandro on a visit home to Italy. A flashback to New York finds her mixing with a group of artists, among whom she meets Sandro Valera, whose wealthy family manufactures the Moto Valera. Reno is a young filmmaker “shopping for experiences,” who, as the novel opens, is attempting to set a land-speed record on her Moto Valera motorcycle in Nevada, only to crash instead. This rich second novel from Kushner (Telex from Cuba) takes place in late-’70s New York City and Italy. The Flamethrowers a book by Rachel Kushner 25,304,856.34 raised for local bookstores The Flamethrowers Rachel Kushner (Author) FORMAT Paperback 18.99 17.66 Compact Disc 55.99 52. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Speaking with you has been a real pleasure - thank you for your insight into this book and its story, for the conversation that came from such good and thoughtful consideration." Author/Essayist DONALD ANTRIM. "You ask the most brilliant, thoughtful questions, it's really a pleasure to do an interview where someone actually wants to talk about writing and literature in general." Novelist MARGOT LIVESEY Emilia Bassano - lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth and one of the first women poets in England - could be the answer. ![]() Guests include accomplished authors, book collectors, booksellers, publishers, librarians, fine press proprietors, book designers and many others connected with the book: ( ) hosted by writer, broadcaster, bibliophile, Nigel Beale ( ). ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a book on precisely what its title claims it to be: pagans and Christians. Pagans and Christians represents a quantum jump in the quality of scholarship on late classical paganism and on the history of the early Church. ![]() They will certainly be inspired by it and it is much to be hoped that they will debate its perspective, its methods, and its implied conclusions with the same degree of transparent engagement and good sense that the author shows throughout its 681 pages of text. ![]() The learned will undoubtedly quarry its formidable erudition for decades to come. The cultivated reader can wander in it with ever renewed pleasure and with the guarantee of reliable and up-to-date guidance. This open-hearted and learned book is one that any scholar of the ancient world and of early Christianity would be proud to have written. ![]() ![]() ![]() A future chieftain Fie abides by one rule: look after your own. One way or another, we always feed the crows. ![]() Duncan, New York Times-bestselling author of Wicked Saints "Rich, harrowing, and unafraid to tackle discrimination-perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Tomi Adeyemi."- Kirkus, Starred Review "Packed to the teeth with fresh worldbuilding and righteous fury.It's a ride that is wildly fun."-Emily A. " ferocious, exhilarating narrative!" - The New York Times Book ReviewĪ 2020 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Pickĭebut author Margaret Owen crafts a powerful saga of vengeance, survival, and sacrifice-perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Kendare Blake-in The Merciful Crow. ![]() About the Book Fie, a sixteen-year-old chieftain from a lowly caste of mercy-killers, must rely on her wits and bone magic to smuggle the crown prince of Sabor to safety. ![]() ![]() ![]() That was where the first volume ended and the newly-released second volume began. But beyond a bone-chilling discovery and an inexplicable disaster, there was a revelation with the potential to change humanity’s understanding of the world’s history forever.Īnd it was in the bowels of an ancient and abandoned Antarctic city that Dyer and his partner started to rewrite the annals of life before humans. What began as an academic journey descended into a dark and bloody affair as otherworldly events brought the expedition to ruin. He was hesitant to speak about the experience at all, but the prospect of another voyage departing to expand on the research and exploration made it paramount that he advised them against their current course of action. ![]() ![]() In the first volume of At the Mountains of Madness, the narrator William Dyer shared the first glimpse into his journey to Antarctica alongside other faculty from Miskatonic University and the other expeditionary team members. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was originally created by two dwarf-brothers, Brokkr and Eitri, as part of a wager made between them and the god of mischief, Loki. This was the third evil deed of the sword before Heidrek's son took vengeance and claimed Tyrfing, now uncursed, as his own.Īs explained by the "Encyclopedia of Mythological Objects," the meaning of Mjolner's name - "Pulverizer," or "That Which Smashes" - is rather straightforward. In the end, the curse is broken when Heidrek is killed by the sword at the hands of his own thralls. Second, it causes an heir of the sword, Heidrek, to kill his brother. First, it slays the Swedish hero Hjalmar. What follows is a bloodbath as the sword goes about performing its three evil deeds. Tyrfing's third curse came to pass when Svalfrlami was killed by the berserker Arngrim. ![]() When Svafrlami found this out, he tried to kill the dwarves, but even though Tyrfing penetrated deep into the rock, they escaped. And third, the sword would kill Svafrlami. Second, the sword was to be the cause of three great evils. First, every time the sword was drawn, it was destined to kill. ![]() But the dwarves decided to take revenge by laying curses on the sword. ![]() To make it even more intimidating, it glowed like fire. The sword never rusted, featured a golden hilt, and could cut rocks and iron like butter. The dwarves were master smiths and resentfully forged Tyrfing. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author combines Holland’s note with his own investigations to delve into the strange stories surrounding Bigfoot. ![]() ![]() In the novel, Brooks–the son of entertainment legends Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft–examines the Greenloop massacre through the journals of Mount Rainier resident Kate Holland. ![]() The people have to contend first with being cut off from the modern world, and then with an attack from a pack of Sasquatch creatures. The Devolution novel–published by Del Rey last year–tells the story of a community in the deep forests of Washington state that becomes isolated by a natural disaster. And now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, James Ashcroft is on board to direct the feature.Īshcroft–the actor/director who helmed Coming Home in the Dark, a recent Sundance Film Festival entry that was picked up by Netflix–will also work on the script with his writing partner Eli Kent. The big-screen project– announced a year ago here in Horror News Network–will adapt Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by World War Z author Max Brooks. Legendary Entertainment has found the man to lead its upcoming Sasquatch horror movie Devolution out of the wilderness. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These images of clean-cut nuclear families were not particularly relatable to a young lesbian woman who admits that she just as easily could have ended up in a juvenile detention facility or a boarding school had she not been a decent student, eventually ending up in a doctorate program at UCLA. ![]() ![]() They impinged on our psyches, and they made us feel like we were lacking because we were not like those images.” “So these images of the 1950s that absolutely bombarded us, myself and my classmates, those images had nothing to do with us. “I realized I was gay already back then, and I came from this working class family and my mother was not married and worked in the garment industry,” Faderman recalls. After all, she’s already written about her life at length in her excellent 2003 memoir, “Naked in the Promised Land.” Rather, she speaks about it as a means of pointing out precisely the moment where she became fascinated by the conceptualization of women - the idea of what women are supposed to be and act like and how that idea is often perpetuated by outside forces. Faderman mentions this in a small introduction in “Woman” not as a means of showing off some sort of cultural cachet. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1946, as Life's circulation topped five million, Thorndike became the magazine's third Managing Editor, a position he held for three years. Billings kept a diary in which, according to Loudon Wainwright's book The Great American Magazine: An Inside History of Life, he called Thorndike "a mulish young Yankee," and "a stubborn little New England cuss" Wainwright himself called Thorndike "a handsome, bright, reserved, efficient fellow.ambitious, proud, marked from the start for bigger things." His immediate boss at Life was John Shaw Billings, the first Managing Editor. He was asked by Henry Luce to join a group planning a new picture magazine, and when Life debuted in 1936, Thorndike, though only 23, was an associate editor of the magazine. In June 1934, he started work at Time magazine, writing People, Miscellany and Education articles. Thorndike was a straight A student at Peabody High, valedictorian of his class, and a writer for two school magazines.Īt Harvard ('34) he majored in Economics, but spent much of his time at The Harvard Crimson, rising to Managing Editor his junior year, and to President his senior year. His father was a stockbroker, his mother a teacher. Thorndike was born and raised in Peabody, Massachusetts, a small town north of Boston. He was Managing Editor of Life for three years in the late 1940s, and a co-founder of American Heritage and Horizon magazines. Joseph Jacobs Thorndike (J– November 22, 2005) was an American editor and writer. ![]() |