![]() ![]() Working at the lavish Regal Sol hotel and newly engaged to Pinkerton Detective Martin Cadden, Josephine Galena Valencia has big dreams for her future. ![]() Snow Falling is a sweeping historical romance set in 1902 Miami-a time of railroad tycoons, hotel booms, and exciting expansion for the Magic City. With these tumultuous events as inspiration, Jane’s breathtaking first novel adapts her story for a truly epic romance that captures the hope and the heartbreak that have made the television drama so beloved. ![]() Jane the Virgin, the Golden Globe, AFI, and Peabody Award–winning The CW dramedy, has followed Jane’s telenovela-esque life-from her accidental artificial insemination and virgin birth to the infant kidnapping and murderous games of the villainous Sin Rostro to an enthralling who-will-she-choose love triangle. It’s been a lifetime (and three seasons) in the making, but Jane Gloriana Villanueva is finally ready to make her much-anticipated literary debut! ![]()
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![]() To sum up: your father, whom you love, dies. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern may be the "indifferent children of the earth," but for this brief moment they deserve center stage. ![]() Stoppard's first outing as a film director is handsomely shot but uncertainly paced-although any time Oldman and Roth go into one of their tennis-match debates on probability, identity, or death, the movie crackles. Richard Dreyfuss (fittingly grandiloquent) is the Player King, who seems to know more about the ominous workings of fiction and tragedy than the heroes do. Now and again the action of Hamlet sweeps them up, but most of the time R&G are left wondering where they are, what they have been sent for, and why they can't remember anything that happened before the beginning of the play. Focusing on a pair of unremarkable characters from Hamlet, Stoppard sees the great play from their confused perspective. And yet it remains difficult to tell which one is Rosencrantz and which Guildenstern-even they seem unsure-a clever part of Stoppard's ingenious design. ![]() Tom Stoppard's modern stage classic finds a pair of film actors worthy of its verbal japery and existential bewilderment: Gary Oldman and Tim Roth are deliciously locked in as the title characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By the time she wrote these novels and several others I will be looking at in this series, Undset was world famous. Paul Selmer’s story begins in The Wild Orchid (1929) and continues in The Burning Bush (1930), two novels that Sigrid Undset published together under the title The Winding Road. Indeed, if you read all the works of Sigrid Undset, you will have gained a profound education of your historical imagination. You will have to do some chronological reorienting to grasp Undset’s wise imaginings. For the modern mind is enslaved by its concept of freedom.įor young readers of this piece, your patience, please. It’s 1905 in Norway, and the world we know in 2010 is already happening:īirth control-living together-adultery-divorce-broken homes-free sex and free love-free thinking-socialism-modernist theology-feminism-democracy-college loans (!)-public schools and educationism-the new morality-the end of religion-scientism-“that horrible medievalism”-spiritualism and new age theologies-political correctness-anti-Catholicism-mass media madness-mental slavery-the Servile State-the Catholic Renascence of the 20th century.Īn “intellectual” in 2010 would be just as much at home with Paul Selmer’s divorced, modern parents, members of the Norwegian upper class, as they are with the academics and government functionaries of our time. Sigrid Undset: The Slavery of the Modern Mind ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She resumed it after her husband encouraged her to return to writing after she retired from The Detroit Free Press in 1984.īefore resuming it in 1986, and finding this time success. She wrote the first three novels in the 1960s, then interrupted the series for 18 years. Lilian Jackson Braun (1931 - 2011) was an American journalist and author of 30 novels featuring James Mackintosh Qwilleran (Qwill), a journalist and recovering alcoholic, who successively adopts two Siamese cats, with one of them may be having special abilities helping Qwilleran to solve mysteries. Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.Īll of the Lilian Jackson Braun’s Books! Who is Lilian Jackson Braun? ![]() ![]() ![]() As he walks a line between truth and illusion, he is finally forced to confront all of his relationshipsfamilial, romantic, and erotic. Thus begins an extraordinary friendship that only grows deeper as the boy's health deteriorates, freeing Noone to unlock his innermost feelings.Then, out of the blue, troubling new questions arise, exploding Noone's comfortable assumptions and causing his ordered existence to spin wildly out to control. When Noone phones the boy to offer encouragement, it soon becomes clear that Pete sees in this heartsick middle-aged storyteller the loving father he's always wanted. Maupin is the author of nine novels, including the six-volume Tales of the City series, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener and, most recently, Michael Tolliver Lives. Now living with his adoptive mother, Donna, Pete Lomax is not only a brave and gifted diarist but a devoted listener of Noone's show. Noone is in the midst of a painful separation from his lover of 10 years when a publisher sends him proofs of a remarkable book: the memoir of an ailing 13-year-old boy who suffered horrific sexual abuse at the hands of his parents. ![]() NIGHT LISTENER, THE by Armistead Maupin - BOOK - ADVANCE READING COPYHarper Collins: NY 2000 Advance reading copy, mint, new/unread in pictorial wraps.Īfter an absence of eight years, Armistead Maupin returns with the tale of Gabriel Noone, a writer whose cult-hit radio serial "Noone at Night" has brought him into the homes of millions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From there, she went on to the Florida State University Film School, which led her to Los Angeles, where she worked in TV production and development before becoming an author. ![]() She attended high school at the Palm Beach County School of the Arts, studying Communication Arts. She is the third of four children (three girls and a boy) and the child of three very loving and encouraging parents. Source: Katie Alender (rhymes with “calendar”!) grew up in South Florida. Her first brush with publication was the article “So You Want to Live On Mars?” published in Sassy magazine in December 1991. She enjoys writing, reading, sewing (especially quilts), and hanging out with her husband, her daughters, and her dogs, Scooter and Frodo. Katie Alender (rhymes with “calendar”!) grew up in South Florida. ![]() ![]() ![]() Illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Tony Ross. As new condition glossy color illustrated boards contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, sixteen-year-old Amber St Clare uses her wits, beauty and courage to climb to the highest position a woman could achieve in Restoration England - that of favorite mistress of the Merry Monarch himself, Charles II. But through her trials and escapades she remains in her heart true to the one man she can never have, the one man she truly loves. ![]() From whores and highwayman to courtiers and noblemen, from the Great Plague and the Fire of London to the intimate passions of the ordinary - and extraordinary - mean and women, Amber experiences it all. Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, 16 year old Amber St Clare uses her wits, beauty and courage to limb to the highest position a woman could achieve in Resotration England - that of favourite mistress of the merry monarch himself, Charles II. ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh, the indignities and pain I have already suffered! Untold humiliation, impossible time limits, life-threatening danger. Despite all this, if I have a chance of prying her away from her villainous stepfather, I have to try.īut I'm new at this heroic-quest business, and my father, Zeus, stripped me of all my godly powers. And while I'm mortal, she can order me to do anything. She betrayed me to Nero back at Camp Half-Blood. Meg, my demigod master, is a cantankerous street urchin. But why would an ancient Roman emperor zero in on Indianapolis? And now that I have made it here (still in the embarrassing form of Lester Papadopoulos), where is Meg? ![]() Those were the orders my old enemy Nero had given to Meg McCaffrey. If you cannot bring him to me alive, kill him. Capture Apollo before he can find the next oracle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Moreover, Mulan is still disguised as the soldier called Ping, wrestling with the decision to reveal her true identity to her closest friend. With the help of Shang's great lion guardian ShiShi, Mulan must traverse Diyu to find Shang's spirit, face harrowing obstacles, and leave by sunrise-or become King Yama's prisoner forever. But King Yama, the ruler of Diyu, is not willing to give Shang up easily. When Shang is mortally injured in battle, Mulan and Shang's spirit guide travel into Diyu on a quest to. When Captain Shang is mortally wounded by Shan Yu in battle, Mulan must travel to the Underworld, Diyu, in order to save him from certain death. 'Reflection - A Twisted Tale' by Elizabeth Lim takes a new approach to the story of Mulan. What if Mulan had to travel to the Underworld? ![]() ![]() ![]() But when forced to take in a German soldier, they are shocked to find a familiar face on their doorstep – a childhood friend who has now become their enemy.Ģ016: Two generations later, Lucy returns to Guernsey after the death of a distant cousin. ![]() ‘Beautiful … Had me utterly captivated’ – JENNY ASHCROFTġ940: When the island of Guernsey is invaded by the Nazis, two sisters are determined to rebel in any way they can. ![]() ‘An emotional story of love and strength’ – LIZ FENWICK Fans of Lucinda Riley and Kate Morton will be absolutely gripped by this historical page-turner. Isaac begins to secretly teach her how to cultivate the gardens, so when he and all the young men are called away to war, Cordelia takes over.įrom the battlefields of Europe, Isaac sends her letters, that give her hope for their future in peacetime.īut when these messages abruptly cease, Cordelia must face up to the worst and take her future – and the fate of the garden they both loved – into her own hands…Īn epic, sweeping tale of love, war and the strength of the human spirit. Handsome landscaper Isaac has recently arrived to tend to the gardens, and the connection between him and Cordelia is as immediate as it is forbidden. On the eve of a world war, a forbidden love will blossom in the garden of a stately home, where one young woman will make a choice that will change her life forever…Īs the storm clouds of war gather, Cordelia seeks refuge in the grounds of her family estate. ![]() |