![]() ![]() Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain. When Reed Brennan wins a scholarship to Easton Academy, she quickly discovers that the Billings Girls are the most beautiful, intelligent, and powerful group on campus, so Reed tries to become a member. ![]() Private (Private #1) by Kate Brian (YA F BRI) When Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner’s political campaign to oust the town’s corrupt mayor.Ĭameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen-year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob’s (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson (YA F AND)Įighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend’s death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder. ![]() The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (YA F ALE)īudding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The pacing is comfortable and relaxing, symbolic of a balanced life. The tales have worthwhile reminders about the virtues of hard work, friendship, good sportsmanship, sharing, and sacrifice. His days are filled with gardening, playing with friends, and solving simple problems, like getting his watering can fixed or feeding migrating birds or building a picnic table. And for those new to the woodland, they’re lucky in having even more wonderful comics to explore. Because of the various sources, it’s likely that even the most dedicated fan of the character won’t have read all of them before. Others appeared in convention programs or anthology collections or minicomics. The volume collects Andy Runton’s various short stories featuring the characters, so it’s perfect for browsing or dipping into.įour of the tales - “Splashin’ Around”, “Breakin’ the Ice”, “Helping Hands”, and “In a Fix!” - were previously published as giveaway comics for Free Comic Book Day. Owly: Tiny Tales is the perfect starting point for someone interested in trying this series of charming fables. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maria is now a great star, but she is not satisfied. Also seeing an opportunity, Oscar, tired of being Kirk's lackey, switches his allegiance to Alberto. Offended by Kirk's attempted domineering, she accepts Alberto's invitation. ![]() When Alberto invites her to join him on his yacht in the Riviera, Kirk orders her to stay away from him. Alberto had conspicuously admired Maria during the evening. With two subsequent films by this team, Maria becomes a respected actress, Harry's career is resurrected, and they become friends.ĭuring a party at Maria's house, Kirk and wealthy Latin American playboy Alberto Bravano become involved in an argument over Maria. Thanks to his expertise and the help of sweaty, insincere publicist Oscar Muldoon, her film debut is a sensation. ![]() Although she flees during their meeting, Harry tracks her down to her family home and convinces her to fly away with them to the United States to make her first film. Maria immediately likes Harry, whose work she knows, but takes an instant dislike to Kirk. Maria is a blithe but proud spirit who likes to go barefoot and has a troubled home life. ![]() Looking for a glamorous leading lady, they go to a Madrid night club to see a dancer named Maria Vargas, about whom Kirk had already been told. Down on his luck, a washed-up movie director and writer Harry Dawes is reduced to working for abusive, emotionally stunted business tycoon Kirk Edwards, who has decided that he wants to produce a film to boost his monumental ego. ![]() ![]() ![]() We are able to view di Prima’s life course from her year at Swarthmore College her move back to New York and then to San Francisco her studies of Zen Buddhism her fascination with the I Ching, Paracelsus, John Dee, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, alchemy, Tarot, and Kabbalah and her later engagement with Tibetan Buddhism and work with Chögyam Trungpa. ![]() In these interviews readers can see the ways these concepts influenced both her personal life and her poetry and prose. From her adolescence, di Prima was fascinated by occult, esoteric, and magical philosophies. Her Memoirs of a Beatnik was a sensation, and she talks about its lasting impact as well.Ĭonversations with Diane di Prima presents twenty interviews ranging from 1972 to 2010 that chart di Prima’s intellectual, spiritual, and political evolution. In addition, di Prima is significant due to her challenges to the roles that American women were expected to play in society. ![]() Di Prima’s poetry and prose chronicle her opposition to the Vietnam War her advocacy of the rights of Blacks, Native Americans, and the LGBTQ community her concern about environmental issues and her commitment to creating a world free of exploitation and poverty. Di Prima and LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) edited The Floating Bear (1962–69), one of the most significant underground publications of the sixties. Diane di Prima (1934–2020) was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, and her career is distinguished by strong contributions to both literature and social justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Listen to Episode 3 of our podcast to hear more about the NCSU MFA. Her essays have been published internationally in newspapers and magazines such as The Week, the London Telegraph and Harper’s Bazaar, and her novels are published in seventeen languages worldwide. She now writes fiction full-time, occasionally teaching creative writing workshops, as well as classes at North Carolina State University. ![]() My review: Flat and a little silly at times, particularly with the dialogue. ![]() Therese Anne Fowler is the author of the New York Times best seller Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald and three prior novels. Therese Anne Fowler (Goodreads Author) Susan Marie Molloy s review it was ok. We learn what it takes to go from aspiring to professional writer along with the excitement and setbacks that lead to seeing a novel produced into an original TV series. The New York Times and USA Today bestseller The riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, written by Therese Anne Fowler, a New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. ![]() Episode 4 Guest: Author Therese Anne FowlerĪuthor Therese Anne Fowler shares exciting news about her latest book, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, which follows the wild lives of roaring twenties literary icons Zelda and F. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pipps, and the other characters in the novel, use deductive reasoning to solve the mysterious murders happening on their ship, as it travels from Batavia (present day Jakarta), in the Dutch East Indies, back to Amsterdam. While Stuart Turton’s novel, The Devil and the Dark Water, of course doesn’t actually feature Sherlock Holmes, it’s obvious that’s what he’s referencing with his central character of Samuel Pipps (who calls himself a ‘problematary’ because, as Turton clearly knows, the whole concept of ‘detective’ wasn’t around in the 17th century, when this book is set). How would Holmes go about solving these crimes and unmasking, as it were, the ‘devil’ lurking in the ‘dark water’? ![]() What if Sherlock Holmes boarded a 17th century ship? What if, on this ship, there was a series of dark and unexplained happenings: animals slaughtered, strange marks appearing, and, eventually, people murdered. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now she must piece together both body and mind with the help of family and friends who have their own agendas. ![]() One of only two survivors of a plane crash, Nell Slattery wakes up in the hospital with no memory of it, or who she is, or was. Now she must ask herself who she is and choose which stories-and storytellers-to trust. She’s a wife, a sister, a daughter…but she remembers nothing. Rowena’s review of The Song Remains the Same by Allison Winn Scotch. ![]() ![]() ![]() He tolerates Sai (her Westernized parents were killed in an accident in the Soviet Union), but true love is reserved for his dog, Mutt. He envied the English and despised Indians, slathering powder over his too-brown skin, rejecting his peasant father back in India, he could be hideously cruel to his wife, indirectly causing her death. The judge’s estrangement began as a student in England. The judge and Sai are “estranged Indians” who converse in English, knowing little Hindi. In a once-sturdy house in Kalimpong, in the spectacular Himalayan foothills, live an old judge, his dog and his 17-year-old granddaughter Sai in a nearby shack is the household’s linchpin, the wretchedly underpaid cook. Desai’s somber second novel (a marked contrast to her highly acclaimed comic fable Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, 1998) looks at cultural dislocation as experienced by an unhappy Indian ménage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the case solved, he calls Inspector Jones and Mr Merryweather. Holmes then taps on the pavement in front of the pawnbroker's shop. After Holmes' client leaves, having given the detective a description of Spaulding, the detective decides to see Spaulding, whom he notices has dirty trouser knees. Wilson went to the landlord, who said that he had never heard of Duncan Ross, the person who formed the league. He was well-paid for several weeks of doing obviously useless clerical busywork in a lonely office, but finally one morning a sign on the locked office door inexplicably announces "THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE IS DISSOLVED". The next morning, Wilson had waited in a long line of fellow red-headed men, was interviewed and was the only applicant hired. He tells them that his young assistant, Vincent Spaulding, some weeks ago had shown him and urged him to respond to a want-ad offering work to only red-headed male applicants. Set in 1890, a London businessman named Jabez Wilson comes to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Woody's fearful suspicions are taking shape. When he hears the boy who communicates like he does, without speaking, Kipp knows he needs to find him before it's too late. An ally unknown to him is listening.Ī uniquely gifted dog with a heart as golden as his breed, Kipp is devoted beyond reason to people. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father's death and now threatens him and his mother. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Woody Bookman hasn't spoken a word in his eleven years of life. ![]() Devoted has every mark of a classic." -Associated Press "Canine or human, it is hard to find a more lovable character in fiction than Kipp. An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller.įrom Dean Koontz, the master of suspense, comes an epic thriller about a terrifying killer and the singular compassion it will take to defeat him. ![]() |