![]() ![]() Kellen knows that it's neither but is she willing to rake up the past to prove it? Dragged into a world of rogue doctors, bent genetic engineers and killers who gut their victims as a warning, Kellen must face her own past as much as the very real terrors of the present to stop the killing – or she'll be next. A debut crime thriller in which a woman appeals for help after finding her lover dead, and along with her pathologist friend and a genetic scientist with an. ![]() Thenthe phone rings and Bridget is dead – the only lover who ever counted.The local doctor says it's a heart attack, the police think it's suicide. Glasgow therapist Dr Kellen Stewart has put the past behind her: medical career, relationship, life on the farm in the country. She began her literary career as a crime writer - her debut, Hens. Her debut novel, Hen’s Teeth, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Add a corpse packed with Temazepam, a genetic engineer with an unstable past and a killer on the loose with a knife and you have all the reason you need to walk away and never come back. Born and educated in Scotland, she now lives in Suffolk with two lurchers and too many cats. Particularly if the body in question is your ex-lover and the woman grieving at her bedside used to be your friend. Her work has been translated into over twenty languages. Her crime novels have been shortlisted for many awards including Hens Teeth for the Orange Prize and No Good Deed for an Edgar Award. ![]() Midnight in Glasgow is not the best time to be faced with a dead body. Manda Scott Over the past two decades Manda Scott has brought iconic historical figures back to life, reimagined and re-booted for the twenty-first century. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Last night I finished Lilac Girls, so I thought I’d share a review of that and five other similar books and give them each a rating.Īlthough this book was technically set half set in WWI and half set in the aftermath of WWII, I’m still including it because it touches on the horror of both wars. ![]() What’s crazy is that with each of these six books, I learned something new about WWII that I hadn’t know before. IHistorical fiction is my favorite genre because I like to learn about a different time in history while being drawn into an interesting story with interesting characters. I realized the other day that the last three books I read were set during WWII and they were all exceptional. Light reads aren’t really my thing as you’ll soon see from this list! I like to make sure whatever I’m reading is riveting, and I’m into really intensely emotional stories and/or page turners that I just can’t put down. If I skip this part of my bedtime routine, my sleep gets thrown off, so I try hard to never miss it. I read for 30 minutes every night before bed. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is based on her one-woman comedy show, which she’s performed all over the world. Having done a little ghostwriting (not for anyone remotely famous) and having known a few ghostwriters (some of whom have ghostwritten for remotely famous people) I think Arngrim is the real deal and wrote it herself. It was equal parts touching, hilarious, shocking and just the right amount of catty. Ha-a-a-angars!”)Ĭonfessions of a Prairie Bitch was delightful. There is not a theater nerd alive who can’t do justice to “No. (The subsequent movie turned all my friends and I into future theater nerds. Mommy Dearest may well have changed my life when I was 12. I ate up Tori Spelling’s first book a few summers ago like it was made of fluffernutter sandwiches. I do, however, have a huge soft spot for books by former child stars. I am not normally a fan of dishy tell-all books. ![]() ![]() Each book contains beautiful illustrations and creative language - to be specially unwrapped under the home tree, complete with real candles in small glass holders - another tradition, I learn, that is passed on through the Franck family of German descent. ![]() I wonder which titles are chosen for that now distant year, and I begin to imagine a multitude of picture books over the decades prior. Once sitting around the old oak Planning table on the fifth floor of Russell Hall, Jane, our former library director, quietly shares that every Christmas she and her two grown daughters gift each other a children's book. ![]() Mirelle Ortego, Magic: Once Upon a Faraway Land You can feel it in the air, even in a new faraway land. Like when jarochas dance! Magic is everywhere. Like when sounds are woven together into beautiful music. Like when strangers turn into friends and houses into homes. Like when simple ingredients turn into delicious meals. ![]() Like when people's hands touch the earth and plant seeds that become fruit. ![]() ![]() Donna takes Sandy and hits the road, going anywhere as far north as she can to put distance between Roy and her daughter. Roy was incarcerated for raping Sandy when she was six. ![]() The main characters of the story, Donna and her twelve-year-old daughter Sandy, get mixed up with the house when they try to run away from Donna’s ex-husband/Sandy’s father, Roy. ![]() The Beast House has a very lurid history, full of murders and sexual depravity, that has tourists flocking to hear the story of the legendary Beast and the murders it supposedly committed. “The Cellar” focuses on a tourist attraction in a small California town called, you guessed it, “The Beast House”. Those of you who, like me (up until this weekend) have never read a Laymon book, or “The Cellar,” may find this a good starting point to jump in at. It was originally written in January 2007)Īfter 25 years, “The Cellar”, Richard Laymon’s first novel in his Beast House series, finally made it’s way into paperback via Leisure Books last fall. ( author’s note, this is another old review I’m porting over. ![]() ![]() It does not really have the ability to claim the sky literally. For instance, in the line where the free bird “dares to claim the sky,” what the poet means is that the free bird has the confidence to claim the sky hypothetically. A hyperbole is never meant to be taken literally. Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration to create emphasis. The “caged bird” represents the misery and distress of all African-Americans who had to face inhuman treatment during the apartheid. In this poem, the “caged bird” is a metaphor for the poet herself. It is a figure of speech in which a comparison between two different things is made indirectly. A free bird leaps / on the back of the wind.His shadow shouts on a nightmare scream.Personification is a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and inanimate objects are invested with attributes of living beings. The free b ird thinks of another b reeze.His s hadow s houts on a nightmare s cream.It is the close repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Poetic Devices Alliteration ![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, The Rabbit Hutch is a page-turner that careens toward a violent ending. While Tiffany flails about, unsure of what to do with the rage she feels at the adults, institutions, and community that have failed her, the other beleaguered residents of her rundown apartment building try to make the most of their diminished circumstances. ![]() Gunty has an incredible gift for characterization, especially when it comes to Tiffany Watkins, a teenage girl aging out of the foster care system. This impressive debut novel-and winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction-documents the destruction of a small Midwestern town and its inhabitants while also tackling loftier questions about mysticism, inequality, and sexuality. ![]() ![]() ![]() Isabella is so intertwined with the greatest figures of her century and the next that any reader of English history will want this book. (Her unlikely assertion that Edward escaped and lived out his life as a hermit is less believable.) Weir presents a fascinating rewriting of a controversial life that should supersede all previous accounts. Weir convincingly argues that the infamous story of Edward II being murdered with a red-hot iron emerged from propaganda against Isabella and Mortimer. ![]() Weir makes great use of inventories to recreate Isabella's activities and surroundings and, strikingly, to establish the timing of the queen's turn against her husband and her probable ignorance of the plot to kill him. , etc.) battles Isabella's near-contemporaries and later storytellers and historians for control of the narrative, successfully rescuing the queen from writers all too willing to imagine the worst of a medieval woman who dared pursue power. Veteran biographer Weir ( Eleanor of Aquitaine Her marriage to the heir to England’s throne was designed to heal old political. Isabella arrived in London in 1308, the spirited twelve-year-old daughter of King Philip IV of France. Isabella of France (1295?–1358) married the bisexual Edward II of England as a 12-year-old, lived with him for 17 years, bore him four children, fled to France in fear of his powerful favorite, returned with her lover, Roger Mortimer, to lead a rebellion and place her son on the throne and eventually saw Mortimer executed as her son asserted his power. In this vibrant biography, acclaimed author Alison Weir reexamines the life of Isabella of England, one of history’s most notorious and charismatic queens. ![]() ![]() We are excited to have Hogan become a Gov!" He will add depth to our men's team and academically he will help keep our team GPA high. I see Hogan fitting into our culture extremely well and I believe he will be coachable and a worker. "He has had a successful high school career and has a 4.0 GPA. "Hogan is a motivated young man, both academically and with his tennis," said Brown. In his senior season, Stoker helped lead the Titans to the 2021 Class 3 District 6 championship and the state tournament as a team. CLARKSVILLE – Hailing from Greenwood, Missouri, Hogan Stoker is set to be head coach Ross Brown's latest addition to the Austin Peay State University men's tennis program for the upcoming 2021-22 academic year.Ī three-time Missouri State Tournament qualifier in singles play, Stoker has picked up First Team All-Conference honors in both singles and doubles play three times in his career at Lee's West Summit High School. ![]() ![]() Dan Gillespie Sells’ beautiful Country and Western songs weave heartbreakingly through this intense tale of an irresistible and hidden love spanning twenty years and its tragic consequences. When Ennis and Jack take jobs on the isolated Brokeback Mountain, all their certainties of life change forever as they flounder in unexpected emotional waters of increasing depth. Wyoming 1963: a wild landscape where people live in extreme rural poverty in tight, insular and conservative communities. ![]() The production sees Jonathan Butterell and Dan Gillespie Sells (The Feeling), creators of the hit musical and film Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, reuniting with Producer Nica Burns. ![]() The world premiere of Brokeback Mountain, a new play with music, written by Ashley Robinson with songs by Dan Gillespie Sells and based on Annie Proulx’s short story, is now playing Directed by Jonathan Butterell, Brokeback Mountain stars Mike Faist as Jack and Lucas Hedges as Ennis, both making their West End stage debuts. ![]() |