![]() ![]() Though it's a huge change from her life in Texas, Millie-also struggling to get over a breakup-decides to head across the pond for the year. I am desperately trying to avoid all election coverage today, so instead, here's another queer young-adult romance! Not my favorite, but cute.Millie, now entering her senior year of high school, has applied and been accepted to a Scottish boarding school. New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins brings the feels and the laughs to her latest romance. Princess Flora could be a new chapter in her love life, but Millie knows the chances of happily-ever-afters are slim. Of Scotland.Īt first, the girls can't stand each other, but before Millie knows it, she has another sort-of-best-friend/sort-of-girlfriend. ![]() The only problem: Mille's roommate Flora is a total princess. Here, the country is dreamy and green the school is covered in ivy, and the students think her American-ness is adorable. Soon, Millie is accepted into one of the world's most exclusive schools, located in the rolling highlands of Scotland. Heartbroken and ready for a change of pace, Millie decides to apply for scholarships to boarding schools. Millie Quint is devastated when she discovers that her sort-of-best friend/sort-of-girlfriend has been kissing someone else. Regal romance abounds in this flirty, laugh-out-loud companion novel to Prince Charming, by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins. ![]()
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![]() ![]() (an editor and publisher) and Catherine Charlotte (Raban) Waugh. Author BiographyĮvelyn Waugh was born on October 28, 1903, in Hampstead, London, England, the son of Arthur ![]() But it all means nothing to him, and he is happy to return to his country home, the isolated and dilapidated Boot Magna Hall, where his many eccentric relatives live. Helped by a series of lucky events, William gets several major scoops himself and returns to London as a world-renowned reporter. ![]() William gets some quick lessons in the devious way of journalists, who are always trying to outwit their colleagues and deliver a scoop. Geographically, at least, Ishmaelia is identical with Abyssinia. Lord Copper, the arrogant and ignorant owner of the Daily Beast, sends out by mistake a naïve writer of nature columns, William Boot, to cover the war in the fictional East African country of Ishmaelia. The plot rests on some comic twists of fortune. The result was a satirical, farcical novel that takes lighthearted but deadly aim at the newspaper industry and the journalistic profession. Waugh admitted that he had no aptitude for war reporting, but he did observe closely the activities of his fellow journalists. It is based on Waugh's stint as a war correspondent for the London Daily Mail in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) in 1935, during which he covered the war between Abyssinia and Italy. Evelyn Waugh's Scoop (London, 1938) is a satire on journalism. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was also a prolific writer and anthologist, editing and authoring over 75 books, as well as columns in Saturday Review. Knopf, publicity director and editor at Simon & Schuster, and publisher of William Cole Books at Viking Press. His grandfather was the Irish Fenian leader Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa.Īfter military service in World War II, Cole took various jobs in the publishing industry, serving as publicity director at Alfred A. He was the younger brother of Rossa Willam Cole. He produced around 75 books, most of them anthologies.Ĭole was born on Novemto William Harrison Cole and Margaret O'Donovan-Rossa of Staten Island, New York. William Rossa Cole (Novem– August 2, 2000) was an American editor, anthologist, columnist, author, and writer of light verse. I Went to the Animal Fair: A Book of Animal Poems, Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls: Poems, The Birds and Beasts Were There: Animal Poems Light verse, children's literature, anthology ![]() ![]() Le baron Von Ungern vénéré dans les temples mongols.Suggestions sociales, démocratie et « élite ».Le « Travailleur » et les falaises de marbre.Méditations du haut des cimes (extrait).Le mystère de la naissance – l’hérédité historique et l’hérédité d’en haut.Le Juif Disraeli et la construction de l’empire des marchands.La mystique de la race dans la Rome antique.The Obscure Dialogue of the Inner Landscape.The ‘Worker’ in the Thought of Ernst Jünger (extract).The Tragedy of the Romanian ‘Iron Guard’: Codreanu.Spiritual and Structural Presuppositions of the European Union.Fascism and the Traditional Political Idea.The Active Nihilism of Friedrich Nietzsche.Scholasticism and the Spirit of Modernity.Action, Contemplation and the Western Tradition. ![]() The Relationship between Judaism and Freemasonry.Synthesis of the Doctrine of Race (excerpts).Preface to ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’.Disraeli the Jew and the Empire of the Shopkeepers. ![]() ![]() ![]() This audiobook is expertly read by Audie award-winning narrator, Malk Williams, and translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling. Capital rapidly acquired readership throughout the world, to become a work described by Marx's collaborator Friedrich Engels as 'the Bible of the working class'. Arguing that capitalism would cause an ever-increasing division in wealth and welfare, he predicted its abolition and replacement by a system with common ownership of the means of production. Living in exile in England, where this work was largely written, Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to support his analysis. One of the most notorious and influential works of modern times, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. ![]() ![]() I have a great desire to return and explore further. Landmark photos below give an idea of early Maryborough, finishing with a late afternoon stroll alongside the Mary River. The first window below echoes the words of author P L Travels while further on is the window of the family library in the corner of the building… oh, and there’s Mary Poppins…Īfter a meal, live music and a quick look at Phillips Botanical Gardens, next came chalk street art, a visit to the calm atmosphere of the Art Gallery and a bit of history found under the paint and framed. The final parade was a sight to behold, everyone had happy smiles!īelow is the childhood home of P L Travers, formerly a bank (her father was the bank manager) which is now a beautifully preserved, interactive tribute to her writing career. Special buildings and ye olde shops were open, roads were closed, hot food stalls did a roaring trade, and there were nanny and chimney sweep races. ![]() ![]() Next showing the historical side… more info on Mary Ann steam locomotive Here are some of the fabulous people who made the whole day magical and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! ![]() Here is my pictorial of the Mary Poppins Festival 2022 in Maryborough, Queensland, where Helen Lyndon Goff (better known as Pamela Lyndon Travers) grew up with no inkling of her wonderful life ahead as an author and creator of a children’s literary icon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Desperate for help, Graham finds himself locked in a deadly alliance with the brilliant Dr. Only the blood-stained walls bear witness.Īll hope rests on Special Agent Will Graham, who must peer inside the killer's tortured soul to understand his rage, to anticipate and prevent his next vicious crime. Nobody lives to tell of the unimaginable carnage. ![]() A quiet summer night.a neat suburban house.and another innocent, happy family is shattered - the latest victims of a grisly series of hideous sacrificial killings that no one understands, and no one can stop. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book focuses on the resistance to the Oromodo occupation of the Free states as well as giving us more insight into the events in Weirdale, which is still under the rule of power mad Lord Regent Matwyck. ![]() The expectations have been raised very high, and Sarah Kozloff doesn't disappoint, delivering another well-written and memorable epic fantasy book. The Queen of Raiders is a continuation of A Queen in Hiding, the first book in the Nine Realms series. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and a shifting menagerie of pets, who mistakenly believe they are suitable replacements for grown sons. All four books, A Queen in Hiding, The Queen of Raiders, A Broken Queen, and The Cerulean Queen, came out from January through April 2020. Her epic fantasy quartet, The Nine Realms, was published by TOR on a rapid publications schedule. She didn’t know then that this leap into creative writing would spark a new career. ![]() That summer, she grabbed her laptop and started imagining a world that awaited the return of the queen. ![]() In 2012, while teaching a senior seminar on American Women Directors, she realized that neither the books nor films of Lord of the Rings could pass the Bechdel Test. from an interdisciplinary program at Stanford University, joining the Film Department of Vassar College in 1988. Sarah has spent her life immersed in literature, narrative, and film.Īfter a degree in English at Dartmouth she worked in film production in NYC. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Stone Blind, classicist and comedian Natalie Haynes turns our understanding of this legendary myth on its head, bringing empathy and nuance to one of the earliest stories in which a woman–injured by a powerful man–is blamed, punished, and monstered for the assault. Until Perseus embarks upon a fateful quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon. ![]() Cursed with the power to destroy all she loves with one look, Medusa condemns herself to a life of solitude. Writhing snakes replace her hair and her gaze will turn any living creature to stone. Punished for Poseidon’s actions, Medusa is forever transformed. Furious by the violation of her sacred space, Athene takes revenge–on the young woman. When the sea god Poseidon assaults Medusa in Athene’s temple, the goddess is enraged. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know. Unlike her siblings, Medusa grows older, experiences change, feels weakness. The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. Synopsis: They will fear you and flee you and call you a monster. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan captures the mercurial mood swings of teenhood, complete with the anxiety of surviving mortifying moments and the seismic triumphs of socially getting over. Read her books and I’ll see you at meetings! Finishing her second novel is easier because now, I can admit it: Hello! My name is Mel and I’m a Sara Farizan addict. This time, the post- Crush hangover was easier to cope with because I know now that Sara Farizan is here to stay: she is winning awards and has officially knocked out any inkling of a sophomore slump. Once again lying on my belly with a Farizan book propped up Tiger Beat style, my crush had returned, and I was again immersed in the tumultuous teenage antics of my new best friend Leila. Ten months later, a coworker handed me Farizan’s follow up teen novel, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel. ![]() Life after If You Could Be Mine was as gut-wrenching as learning my new crush had switched schools. My reading was suddenly limited to Sara Farizan’s Algonquin Young Adult Authors page. An hour after that, I’d finished the book and fallen into a book hangover that lasted over two weeks. An hour after that first sentence, I lay on my belly in bed like a tween, my heart racing for the fate of my new best friend Sahar. ![]() When I brought home Sara Farizan’s debut teen novel If You Could Be Mine, I peeked at the first sentence and got sucked in to the end. ‘Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel’ by Sara Farizan ![]() |