![]() With the exception of mildly cringe titles, at times, they are, as a whole, basically perfection. He’s smitten quickly by the too-intelligent Margot, but how to convince a girl who lives entirely in her mind that sometimes life’s answers lie in the heart? Amidst biological warfare, encrypted letters, and a German spy who wants to destroy not just them, but others they love, Margot and Drake will have to work together to save them all from the very secrets that brought them together.Īs those who have been following me for any length of time know, I absolutely adore White’s books and own many of them. ![]() Drake Elton returns wounded from the field, followed by an enemy that just won’t give up. But when her world is turned upside down by an unexpected loss, for the first time in her life numbers aren’t enough. Margot De Wilde thrives in the environment of the secretive Room 40, where she spends her days deciphering intercepted messages. ![]() Three years into the Great War, England’s greatest asset is their intelligence network-field agents risking their lives to gather information, and codebreakers able to crack every German telegram. ![]() Genre(s): Historical Fiction, Christian Fiction, WWI ![]()
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![]() In genre-defying vignettes, Jenn Shapland interweaves her own story with Carson McCullers’s to create a vital new portrait of one of America’s most beloved writers, and shows us how the writers we love and the stories we tell about ourselves make us who we are. The results articulate something entirely new not only about this one remarkable, walleyed life, but about the way we tell queer love stories. As Shapland reckons with the expanding and collapsing distance between her and Carson, she see the way Carson’s story has become a way to articulate something about herself. ![]() Shapland recognizes herself in the letters’ language―but does not see Carson as history has portrayed her.Īnd so, Shapland is compelled to undertake a recovery of the full narrative and language of Carson's life: She wades through the therapy transcripts she stays at Carson’s childhood home, where she lounges in her bathtub and eats delivery pizza she relives Carson’s days at her beloved Yaddo. While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson and a woman named Annemarie―letters are that are tender, intimate, and unabashed in their feelings. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is an audacious new form of nonfiction that remakes the boundaries between criticism, biography, and autobiography in search of two identities. ![]() ![]() ![]() The group arrive to begin their investigation a week before Christmas Eve, and the rationalist Barrett is rudely skeptical of Florence's belief in "surviving personalities", spirits which haunt the physical world, and he asserts that there is nothing but unfocused electromagnetic energy in the house. The house is believed to be haunted by the victims of Belasco's twisted and sadistic desires.Īccompanying Barrett are his wife, Ann, as well as two mediums: mental medium and spiritualist minister Florence Tanner and physical medium Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Fischer, who is the only survivor of an investigation conducted 20 years before. Lionel Barrett is enlisted by eccentric millionaire Rudolph Deutsch to undertake an investigation on the afterlife at Belasco House, the "Mount Everest of haunted houses." The house was originally owned by Emeric Belasco, an imposing, perverted millionaire and supposed murderer, who disappeared soon after a massacre occurred at the home. Its screenplay was written by American author Richard Matheson, based upon his 1971 novel Hell House. It follows a group of researchers who spend a week in the former home of a sadist and murderer, where previous paranormal investigators were inexplicably killed. ![]() The Legend of Hell House is a 1973 gothic supernatural horror film directed by John Hough, and starring Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill, and Gayle Hunnicutt. ![]() ![]() ![]() faced a racial reckoning and Covid ravaged the world, Bee found herself at an unfamiliar crossroads. I’m not sure I have it down yet, but he’s absolutely made me a better person.”Īs the U.S. He’s a huge (literally and figuratively) addition to my life and has changed the way I manage my time and energy. Po is the definition of ‘a handful,’ but I love him and he brings so much joy to everyone he meets. Only there were literally no dogs to adopt, so I ended up getting my dream dog-but as a puppy. I decided to finally get a dog, figuring 1.5 years was enough time for us to bond and work out the kinks. “Unlike pretty much everyone I knew, I thought it would be at least a year-and-a-half until we were ‘normal’ again. Thinking about the pandemic and her life in the long term, Bee said she made some big changes. Added to that, some of my dearest friends are doctors and my worry for them was through the roof.” I was in a new city, still finding my bearings and suddenly, all the things you could do or were used to doing were gone. “I’d moved to New England a few months before lockdown started. Like so many people, the pandemic changed Bee’s life. Feels like we’re all finally emerging and feeling the sun on our skin again.” “Everything normal stopped, and so many added stressors-personal, social, political, etc.-kicked into high gear. “It was like going underground to live in a bunker,” she recalled. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With language that throbs like darkly humorous hard-rock lyrics about blood and power, freedom and responsibility, Night Watch is a chilling, cutting-edge thriller, a pulse-pounding ride of fusion fiction that will leave you breathless for the next instalment. When a mid-level Night Watch agent named Anton stumbles upon a cursed young woman – an uninitiated Other with magnificent potential – both sides prepare for a battle that could lay waste to the entire city, possible the world. For a thousand years both sides have maintained a precarious balance of power, but an ancient prophecy has decreed that a supreme Other will one day emerge, threatening to tip the scales. ![]() The agents of the Dark – the Night Watch – oversee nocturnal activity, while the agents of the Light keep watch over the day. The duo plan to bring all three of Lukyanenko’s books in this saga to the screen, and yet Night Watch already feels like a trilogy’s worth of stories and characters crammed into one feature. This epic saga chronicles the eternal war of the “Others,” an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who must swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light. Sergei Lukyanenkos Night Watchhas all of the above. Set in contemporary Moscow, where shape shifters, vampires, and street-sorcerers linger in the shadows, Night Watch is the first book of the hyper-imaginative fantasy pentalogy from best-selling Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko. ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Marya Spence, Janklow & Nesbit Assoc. In part two, set over the following year, the characters have left Wrynn’s bubble for New York City, where Preston and Karina prepare for a joint debut show at Robert’s former gallery, and Angress sweeps everything toward a wonderfully complex conclusion. Preston and Karina begin a romantic relationship on unequal footing, while Preston, a member of the school’s Occupy group, antagonizes an increasingly desperate Robert by excoriating his work in Artforum, and the novel’s first part ends with a major rupture. When Louisa asks Karina to pose for a painting, the initial reticence between the two fades, and something more volatile emerges. Angress nimbly embodies each of her characters, allowing her exceptional storytelling abilities to shine. ![]() The yin to Utley’s yang is Robert Berger, a teacher whose own art career, once white-hot, has atrophied. Preston Utley, a senior, questions the school’s relevance in the modern age. Her roommate, the icy and beautiful Karina Piontek, is everything Louisa is not: worldly, wealthy, and confident. Nineteen-year-old Louisa Arceneaux is a new transfer student at the fictional Wrynn College in New England, arriving from her native Louisiana. Antonia Angress Writer, author of SIRENS & MUSES (Ballantine/Random House, 2022) Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States 322 followers 314 connections Join to follow Penguin Random House Brown. ![]() ![]() A quartet of artists negotiate love, ambition, and politics during the 2011 Occupy movement in Angress’s winning debut. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the lives of her loved ones hanging in the balance, Remy must decide whether to take sides in a centuries-old war-or go to a place from which she may never return. But when she encounters a shadow community of Healers, her loyalties will be put to the test. Remy must conceal her dual identity, and the presence of her Protector boyfriend Asher Blackwell, at all costs. ![]() Now she's trapped between two worlds, uneasy among her fellow Healers-and relentlessly hunted by the Protectors. Remy O'Malley was just learning to harness her uncanny healing power when she discovered the other, darker half of her bloodline. Jackson 5 as the lead vocalist then embarked on a solo career that pushed. Now she lives trapped between two worlds, uneasy among her fe. Remy OMalley was just learning to harness her uncanny healing power when she discovered the other, darker half of her bloodline. When a seventeen-year-old girl is caught between supernatural rivals, knowing who to trust becomes nearly impossible-in this YA romantic adventure series. Rachelle Ferrell Erykah Badu Janet Jackson Mavis Staples Corrine Bailey. Pushed Dec-2013 / Fantasy A Sense Thieves Novel - 2 She didnt know how far shed go-until she was pushed. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages ![]() ![]() ![]() His fiction and non-fiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Guernica, GQ and many other newspapers and magazines. His work earned a National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. The start of his journalism career coincided with the start of the war on terror, and over the following decade he reported from Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and many other locations around the world. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. ![]() Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. In this talk, journalist and author Omar El Akkad discusses some of the reporting assignments, novels and works of non-fiction that have influenced his writing, and the uncertain space many contemporary authors must inhabit when writing about a world mid-calamity. ![]() What does it mean to tell stories in a moment where it seems so much of what the world once was, it is unlikely to ever be again? Every generation must grapple with its own conception of apocalypse, and literature is no stranger to the end of the world. The English Department presents the 57th Annual Nina Mae Kellogg Lecture, "Writing the Codacene: Literature in an Age of Endings," with Omar El Akkad. Add to my Calendar 19:30:00 21:00:00 Omar El Akkad on Writing the Codacene: Literature in an Age of Endings | 57th Annual Nina Mae Kellogg Lecture ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My partner’s job takes a lot of her time. ![]() My partner’s been at a birth for three days, and I’ve been minding children. Niko Stratis: It’s going well, how are you? Imogen Binnie: Hey, what’s happening? How’s it going? Note: This interview has been edited for clarity and length. And make notes in the margin, share those with a friend, or some newly realized trans woman in your life. ![]() Nevada is out now, and I cannot recommend enough that you read it. When it was announced Nevada would be getting a reissue in 2022, my mind immediately raced to the possibility I might get to chat with Binnie, who wrote the book that helped me feel seen as a trans woman when nothing else did, if I played my cards right. Nevada has been out of print for a number of years, and a lot of us who have read it have done so on the graces of an older trans somewhere, passing us a copy and telling us to read it. It’s unapologetic, messy, funny, heartbreaking, frustrating - and when it’s over, you want to talk about it with everyone. I think I’ve waited my whole trans career to talk to Imogen Binnie, who wrote Nevada, a seminal novel originally published in 2013 about being a trans woman. ![]() ![]() I’ve done this activity for years, but it’s also one that Jan Richardson mentions frequently in The Next Step in Guided Reading. Note: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Many of the materials featured in today’s post can be found in my FREE guided reading toolkit, which you can sign up to receive here by clicking here: So in today’s post, I’ll share 10 examples of quick, meaningful “follow-up” activities that you can use at the end of your guided reading lessons. However, when you do have time to include phonics, word study, vocabulary study, or writing into your guided reading lessons, you’ll want your activities to be brief, engaging, and powerful. ![]() I teach word study at other times of the day, in small groups, so I don’t always have to include it during guided reading. ![]() The main purpose of guided reading is to get kids READING real texts!.But we may not always have time for them.Īnd really, I do think that this is okay. Word study, phonics instruction, vocabulary, writing, and other follow-up activities can be extremely valuable components of a guided reading lesson. It can be a real challenge to find time for word study or writing. Can you relate? However, my groups often spend a long time reading the book during guided reading. This makes guided reading a great time for a little word study or writing, since students are usually grouped by their reading levels! Most of the time, a student’s phonics development corresponds to his or her guided reading level. ![]() |