![]() ![]() To find the manuscript, wily bureaucrat Geoffrey Chaucer turns to fellow poet John Gower, a professional trader in information with connections high and low. ![]() Only a few powerful men know that the cryptic lines derive from a "burnable book," a seditious work that threatens the stability of the realm. Songs are heard across London-catchy verses said to originate from an ancient book that prophesies the end of England's kings-and among the book's predictions is Richard's assassination. Surrounded by ruthless courtiers-including his powerful uncle, John of Gaunt, and Gaunt's artful mistress, Katherine Swynford-England's young, still untested king, Richard II, is in mortal peril, and the danger is only beginning. ![]() Bruce Holsinger's A Burnable Book is an irresistible historical thriller reminiscent of the classics An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Name of the Rose, and The Crimson Petal and the White. In Chaucer's London, betrayal, murder, royal intrigue, mystery, and dangerous politics swirl around the existence of a prophetic book that foretells the deaths of England's kings. *SHORT-LISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS'S YEAR'S BEST IN CRIME FICTION ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() One hot July day in 1961, Suze met Bob Dylan, then a rising musician, at a concert at Riverside Church. She found solace in poetry, art, and music-and in Greenwich Village, where she encountered like-minded and politically active friends. It was the age of McCarthy and Suze was an outsider in her neighborhood and at school. Suze Rotolo chronicles her coming of age in Greenwich Village during the 1960s and the early days of the folk music explosion, when Bob Dylan was finding his voice and she was his muse.Ī shy girl from Queens, Suze was the daughter of Italian working-class Communists, growing up at the dawn of the Cold War. “The girl with Bob Dylan on the cover of Freewheelin’ broke a forty-five-year silence with this affectionate and dignified recalling of a relationship doomed by Dylan’s growing fame.” – UNCUT magazine ![]() ![]() Most: The idea of a tree that feeds on lies and reveals truth is quite interesting but I had to listen through something like 10 hours of boring dross before our protagonist has anything to do with the lie tree at all. What did you like best about The Lie Tree? What did you like least? Good story, mediocre writing, annoying reader For the most part Emilia Fox read this ludicrous tale with reasonable enthusiasm, but why on earth did she give little Howard such a horrible ickle cutesy wootsy voice? My teeth still hurt thinking about it and I will fastidiously avoid books containing children in the immediate future. He was such a monumentally horrible man, that if I were Faith I would find it hard to wipe the grin off my face after hearing of his demise. ![]() Was it murder or was it suicide? To be honest I didn’t really care. ![]() Faith is a young repressed Victorian woman investigating the death of her secretive clergyman/naturalist father. ![]() I had a strong sense that there was a good idea amongst all the ponderous detail but getting to it felt like trying to pluck a prawn from a lobster shell. ![]() You know that feeling you get when you click on a link on the internet and then you get the dreaded circle of death going interminably round and round and round …… Well this is the feeling I got when listening to this story. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Travis becomes determined to reunite with Craig, he sets off on a wild cross-country adventure, providing perfect fodder for Gordo's ultimate screenplay. As Travis wades through the dating pool (most of his dates score badly on his "Boyfriend Checklist") and doles out advice to his straight screenwriter roommate Gordo, Craig takes on the biggest case of his life: a run for the state assembly. He's also about to marry long-term boyfriend Clayton-though he's never forgotten his first romance. An injury ended Craig's college football career, and he's now an upstate New York attorney with activist inclinations and a soft spot for runaways. Twenty years later, oddball Travis, now a history professor at his alma mater, is a favorite with students thanks to some unorthodox teaching methods, but he's laughably unlucky in love. ![]() High school jock Craig McKenna and Broadway musical-obsessed Travis Puckett fall in love during their senior year at the Beckley School in Tarrytown, N.Y., spend a summer in Manhattan, then drift tearfully away to different colleges: Travis to USC, Craig to Harvard. Kluger's latest epistolary novel (after the well-received Last Days of Summer) is an engrossing, often laugh-out-loud tale of two unlikely lovers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Similar to the "points" in Lineland, he is unable to see the three-dimensional object as anything other than a circle (more precisely, a disk). In the end, the monarch of Lineland tries to kill the Square rather than tolerate him any further.įollowing this vision, the Square is visited by a sphere. Thus, the Square attempts to convince the realm's monarch of a second dimension but cannot do so. These points and lines are unable to see the Square as anything other than a set of points on a line. On New Year's Eve, the Square dreams of a visit to a one-dimensional world, “Lineland”, inhabited by men, consisting of lines, while the women consisted of "lustrous points". The first half of the story goes through the practicalities of existing in a two-dimensional universe, as well as a history leading up to the year 1999 on the eve of the 3rd Millennium. The narrator is a square, a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals, who guides the readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. The story describes a two-dimensional world inhabited by geometric figures women are line segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. ![]() Illustration of a simple house in Flatland. ![]() ![]() Effects on the monster become a means of describing the effects each writer has had on literature. In the poems, each woman represents a part of Mary Shelley’s literary legacy and is viewed as a possible “mother” for her monster. A group of provocative short poems is devoted to each of Cade’s selected authors including Mary Shelley, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Janet Frame, Sylvia Plath, Grace Mera Molisa, Octavia Butler, Angela Carter, and Murasaki Shikibu. ![]() ![]() Instead of reading dry academic pieces on women writers who have made significant contributions to literature and thought, enjoy Octavia Cade’s uniquely creative approach to literary criticism in Mary Shelley Makes a Monster: Conversation Pieces Vol. ![]() Mary Shelley Makes a Monster: Conversation Pieces Vol. ![]() ![]() ![]() No matter what you like in fiction and novels, this beautiful novel knows how to generates interest for readers and fall them in love. Once someone starts reading the novel, it is very hard to leave it without finishing, as its every page keeps users on the edge of the seat. Its story entertains the readers of all the ages and keep that engage with unexpected twists and turns. The characters of the novel are chosen very beautifully and executed in tremendous way. ![]() Soon they’re settled in the Florida Keys with plans to marry. When Charlotte and Philip meet, the pair form a deep and instant connection. Weinstein comes a moving novel of hearts lost and found, and of one woman torn between two love stories. This novel reflects the great writing skills of the author. From USA Today bestselling author Rochelle B. This author has a very clear idea of how to write a great story and engage the reader in a great environment. No one can beat the excellent ability of the author’s writing, whenever there is a talk about great novel writing. Weinstein Is the author of this beautiful novel. This Is Not How It Ends is a beautiful novel with a great story and impressive moral and social lesson for the readers of all ages. If you are interested in reading this novel, you can download its ePub, PDF or Mobi formats just in a few clicks. ![]() Weinstein is a beautiful novel for all fiction readers as it offers lots of unexpected twists, powerful characters, excellent story and fantastic entertainment of reading from the very first page till the last word. ![]() ![]() He's been fired from every apprenticeship he's landed, and his last chance hinges on Master Welty taking him in. While Margaret is the best sharpshooter in town, only teams of two can register, and she needs an alchemist. Whoever is able to kill the hala will earn fame and riches, and unlock an ancient magical secret. ![]() When Margaret Welty spots the legendary hala, the last living mythical creature, she knows the Halfmoon Hunt will soon follow. Craig and Margaret Rogerson, about two people who find themselves competing for glory-and each other's hearts-in a magical fox hunt. Allison Saft crafts a deliberate, intricate romance that will have you as unmoored as the characters." -Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent DelightsĪ romantic YA fantasy perfect for fans of Erin A. ![]() ![]() "An utterly transportive read, unfolding into a world of crumbling manors and ancient forests. "Narrator Jesse Vilinsky offers mesmerizing performances of two odd young folks who are proving their worth to the world and each other" - AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner) ![]() ![]() ![]() There are people out there who are talking about it in an age-appropriate way. Over the course of doing events for "On Juneteenth," I saw that there are so many books for kids about Juneteenth at almost every level, from kindergarten and first grade to young adults. There will be challenges to some of those laws too, and some of them seem to be blatantly unconstitutional. Now that it's a national holiday, you have to be able to discuss Juneteenth. She got to see something that she put in motion come to fruition. To see her in the room with the president paying special attention to her, bringing her onstage, and giving her a pen, was just thrilling. Opal worked so hard to make Juneteenth a national holiday. Well, the first thing that I was impressed with is how easily he got down and got up. What was it like to see President Biden kneeling to greet and honor Opal Lee, the 94-year-old Texas native who has been advocating for a national Juneteenth holiday for years? I think it will be good for the country to have a day to reflect on slavery and the end of slavery. It was just extraordinary to have all these people in the East Room who were happy about this - we've been through so much in the past year with the pandemic. After the House and Senate voted, I got an email from the White House inviting me to come down to Washington, DC, for the signing ceremony. ![]() It has been just amazing to see the holiday happen. ![]() Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]() ![]() Sara was married to Bradley Benton III, the son of a prominent California congressman, who is being groomed to succeed his father. Sara Benton and her two young children were brutally murdered in what appears to be a home invasion. But when he and Jen land a high-profile murder case, he hopes the adrenaline and the focus on something else will help distract him from his pain. His pain is nearly constant, and can only (barely) be controlled by Vicodin and/or vodka. ![]() ![]() When the book opens, Detective Danny Beckett has just returned to the department from an extended medical leave following an injury inflicted by a criminal, an injury that nearly cost him one of his hands. The good news is, The Pain Scale is just as good as its predecessor. When I saw that he was getting ready to release the second book in his series featuring Long Beach police detectives Danny Beckett and Jen Tanaka, I hoped that the talent he showed previously would again be evident. Tyler Dilts' debut crime novel, The King of Infinite Space really wowed me when I read it back in 2010, and in fact, it made my list of the best books I read that year. ![]() |