![]() ![]() When we first meet her, she’s dressed nearly in rags and is on the verge of starvation. My heroine, Jane, comes from a background of poverty, insecurity, and little to no education. When I began mapping out my fifth book, I had two protagonists dealing with similar challenges. My earlier books touch on the desolation of being unwanted the ache of deep loneliness the pain of unrequited love the burdens carried forward by a tragic past the agony of paralytic self-doubt the hardship of being forced into a social role that results in alienation from one’s own heart and soul. As a romance author I’m not averse to tackling dark topics. ![]()
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![]() All proceeds go to the charity Police-Action Solidaire.īorn outside Paris in 1943, Patrick Demarchelier relocated to New York in 1975, where he began his editorial career with Harper's Bazaar and Hearst Publications. ![]() Published to coincide with the exhibition Patrick Demarchelier: Images et Mode à Paris at the Petit Palais, Paris, and featuring more than 400 of Demarchelier's most telling photographs, this volume provides an invaluable fashion reference point, all the while charting the course of our own cultural obsession with celebrity and beauty. Demarchelier is everywhere at once, with a photographic sensibility that is as iconic, incisive and as varied as his subject matter. His celebrity portraits have shaped the public personae of figures ranging from Princess Diana to Madonna. ![]() From his earliest work at Harper's Bazaar to his now mythic collaboration with Vogue, Patrick Demarchelier has single-handedly redefined the fashion photograph and the fashion industry along with it. ![]() This monograph is the definitive guide to the career of one of the most prodigious fashion photographers of our time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Any film buff who dotes on the classics of early cinema should revel in this romp in the shadowlands between the real and the unreal. It pays special tribute to special-effects man Roy Holdstrom, the fictional counterpart of Bradbury's close friend Ray Harryhausen, who is named in the dedication. Even in the thicket of his strange exotic garden, Elmo Crumley supplies the anchor that reminds us where the shoreline of fantasy stops.But this novel is first of all a valentine to the movies and especially to the people whose vision and skills transform experience through their craft. There is a mystery element to this story, all right, and Detective Lieutenant Crumley puts in an encore appearance, although again his role is more about moral support and reality check than it is about crime-solving prowess. But Crumley's presence is secondary at most. Having just finished Bradbury's Death Is a Lonely Business as 2017 came to an end, I went straight on to its sequel, A Graveyard for Lunatics, to begin the new year.In a feat of love as much as verbal skill, Bradbury achieves cinematic magic on the unadorned page-much as his unnamed main character does as a Hollywood screenwriter.LibraryThing lists this novel as book 2 in the "Crumley Mysteries" series, and I suppose you could call it that. ![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's belief that books can carry us anywhere-even back home. If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the hill folks, she's going to have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachias and suspicion as deep as the holler. ![]() ![]() Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter.Ĭussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything-everything except books, that is. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA USA TODAY BESTSELLERA LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERA PBS BOOK PICKThe hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for. Book Title: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele RichardsonĬontent Rating: PG-13 + M (For scenes of violence and racism, some mild language) ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, that mark was my ticket straight into Dragonia Academy, an elite school for dragons and gifted dragon tamers. It turns out that only children born from humans can become Dragonians. I was born with that mark too, and a pretty darn dark one at that.Ī mark no one thought really belonged to me, including me, because of what my father was. They are born with a special mark and are known as Dragonians – dragon riders. Magic, dragons, shifters, you name it, roam free behind the enchanted wall now, living alongside gifted people who can tame dragons, bonding with them in order to share their abilities. It used to be part of our world, my old home realm. ![]() ![]() That was how I came to be in Paegeia, a world hidden behind an enchanted wall inside the Bermuda Triangle. That night my father died saving my life. I never knew why until the night I finally got my answers, the night I discovered who my father really was: a dragon. That was a small piece of information he declined to share with me.Įver since I could remember, we’d moved every three months. My life hasn’t always been easy, considering I grew up with a dragon for a father. I started out my ordinary life as just Elena Watkins, but my journey has led me on so many life-changing adventures and revealed so much about my past that I can’t even begin to explain the name change. ![]() ![]() ![]() Muraresku in his best selling book, The Immortality Key: The Secret History Of The Religion With No Name, used Robert Gordon Wassons work: Soma The Divine Mushroom Of Immortality as one of his research tools. A section on the post-Vedic history of Soma is contributed by the Sanskrit scholar Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty.Brian C. ![]() In his presentation he throws fascinating light on the role of mushrooms in religious ritual. Wasson has aroused considerable attention in learned circles and beyond by advancing and documenting the thesis that Soma was a hallucinogenic mushroom - none other than the Amanita muscaria, the fly-agaric that until recent times was the centre of shamanic rites among the Siberian and Uralic tribesmen. One of the key enigmas of cultural history has been the identity of a sacred plant called Soma in the ancient Rig Veda of India. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These two! Always bickering and flirting, and, of course, trying to solve a murder while also curating a natural history museum, as one does. Officially known as the Honourable Revelstoke Templeton-Vane, third son of the sixth Viscount Templeton-Vane, Stoker is a surly, handsome naturalist with his own troubled past and a surprising (and endearing) feminist streak. Through a series of misadventures - including an attack at her home during her aunt’s funeral… how rude! - she finds herself in the company of Stoker. She’s a lepidopterist - that’s a butterfly hunter - with an affinity for adventure, and she’s armed with a tongue that’s as finely honed as the hatpin she wields as a weapon. Our intrepid heroine Veronica Speedwell (secret and semi-legitimate daughter of the Prince of Wales) is a handful and a half. ![]() ![]() ![]() It rocks!" - Gena Showalter, author of MTV's "Oh My Goth" " Cast reeled me in from paragraph one. ![]() I snorted and giggled through the whole thing, and devoured it in one sitting." -MaryJanice Davidson, New York Times best-selling author of the Undead series, " From the moment I stuck my face in this book it hooked me! Totally awesome new take on vampires! "Marked "is hot and dark and funny. It rocks!" -Gena Showalter, author of MTV's Oh My Goth "Cast reeled me in from paragraph one. "From the moment I stuck my face in this book it hooked me! Totally awesome new take on vampires! Marked is hot and dark and funny. ![]() ![]() ![]() And as he moves closer to the truth, Peter is certain of one thing: he will defy the mysteries of her past for a future with this exquisite creature-all Susanna must do is trust him with the most precious secret of all. Now more determined than ever to keep her by his side, Peter begins to suspect that a tragic history still haunts Susanna. until a sensual game of thrust-and-parry culminates in a glorious afternoon of passion. But the more he pursues, the more Susanna withdraws. ![]() and to the secrets she guards so desperately.įrom the moment they meet, Peter is drawn to Susanna’s independence, dazzled by her sharp wit-he simply must have her. ![]() Instantly she knows: this brash nobleman poses a threat to her heart. With his knowing smile and seductive gaze, Peter acts the rake but he stirs something in Susanna she has never felt before, a yearning that both frightens and dazzles her. Peter Edgeworth, Viscount Whitleaf, is utterly charming-and seemingly unaware that they have met before. and instantly feels the icy chill of recognition. On a splendid August afternoon Susanna Osbourne is introduced to the most handsome man she has ever seen. ![]() BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress. ![]() ![]() ![]() This may be a good article to get you thinking about the length of life and the quality of life. Emanuel writes in the Atlantic about why he wants to live to 75. ![]() Two extremes of length of life are contrasted between Henry’s year and Addie’s infinite lifeline. Eric Kim shares one very short blog on one perspective on wanting to be remembered. Leaving a mark, being remembered is an central theme to the novel. I recommend reading the book before the guide. Note that this guide, like all of the guides, may contain spoilers. While not a time-travel book per say, it could certainly make a good read for a group focused on that genre. There is so much depth to the novel, including the timeless theme of human love alongside leaving our legacy, our mark on the world. While an exceptionally long book, I loved the stunning writing and the incredibly creative storyline. ![]() |