![]() ![]() ![]() She's a minister's daughter who must turn a marriage of desperation into a proper ducal union. He's a wealthy gutter rat out for vengeance. Neither thinks they'll actually have a future together. Believing his days are numbered, Quinn offers Jane marriage as a way to guarantee her independence and provide for her child. Jane Winston, widowed and pregnant, crosses paths with Quinn while her father is preaching to the prisoners. Quinn has fought his way up from the vilest slums, and now he's ready to use every dirty trick he knows to find the enemy who schemed against him. The next, he's declared the long-lost heir to a dukedom. One minute, London banker Quinn Wentworth is facing execution. Meet the highly unconventional Wentworth family in this charming USA Today bestseller with a Cinderella twist, perfect for fans of Mary Balogh.Ī funny thing happened on the way to the gallows. 'Grace Burrowes is a romance treasure' Tessa Dare 'Smart, sexy, and oh-so romantic' Mary Balogh A brand new series from bestselling Regency romance author Grace Burrowes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nancy tumbled once, but now she's back, and enrolled at Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children. EVERY HEART A DOORWAYĬhildren have always disappeared under the right conditions slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere.else.īut magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. There's a school where these wayward children go, when they find themselves back in homes that will never understand them. When is a door a lie? When it opens again and you find yourself right back where you started.only now suddenly, brutally aware of how much you're missing. When it is the conduit to everything you need to be happy. When is a door not a door? When it's a gateway to adventure: when it's the portal that leads you from a world where you never quite fit in to the place where you've always belonged, where you've always wanted to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy's clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she writes about. The New York Timesįood critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. A Certain Hunger has the voice of a hard-boiled detective novel, as if metaphor-happy Raymond Chandler handed the reins over to the sexed-up femme fatale and really let her fly. "One of the most uniquely fun and campily gory books in my recent memory. One of Vanity Fair's Books That Will Get You Through This Winter ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The force comprised one commander, five captains, ten sergeants, forty corporals, lance-corporals, constables and lance-constables, and, in times of emergency, a "citizens militia" of varied size. during the day and the Watch, who served the same purpose in the hours of darkness. ![]() Since he had little interest in maintaining a police force the smart armour and equipment of the Watch quickly deteriorated.Īt this time there were four separate forces: The Palace Guard, who guarded the palace the Cable Street Particulars, who served as government intelligence the Ward, who acted as gate-guards, thief-takers etc. Four days later Veltrick's son assassinated him, and became Veltrick II. They had full copper armour and a copper shield inscribed "Fabricati Diem, Pvncti Agvnt Celeriter" ("Make the Day, the Moments Pass Quickly", Veltrick's motto). ![]() The Ankh-Morpork Watch & Ward was founded in AM 1561 by King Veltrick I. Note: Some of the information repeated below was taken from The Discworld Companion and the 1999 Discworld Diary, which had a City Watch theme, and has not been confirmed in any of the Discworld novels. 4.16.1 Special-Constable Andy "Two Swords" Hancock.4.11 Constable Visit-the-Infidel-with-Explanatory-Pamphlets.4.9 Lance-Constable Salacia "Sally" von Humpeding. ![]() ![]() ![]() Together they speak of sharing their direct experience of God but Yeshu’a unexpectedly gains a reputation as a healer, and as the ill and the troubled flock to him, he and Magdalene are forced to make a terrible decision. Salome too begins to believe, but Mariamne, now called Magdalene, is drawn to his cousin, Yeshu’a, a man touched by the divine in the same way she was during her days of illness. It is her prophesying that drives the two girls to flee to Egypt, where they study philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy in the Great Library of Alexandria.Īfter seven years they return to a Judaea where many now believe John the Baptizer is the messiah. But Mariamne has a further gift: an illness has left her with visions she has the power of prophecy. Raised like sisters, Mariamne and Salome are indulged with riches, position, and learning-a rare thing for females in Jerusalem. ![]() ![]() transnational history and reflect tensions between restorative and reflective nostalgia while provoking the ambivalences of longing and belonging, guilt and innocence, the repercussions of repressed memories, and disillusionment with American exceptionalism. ![]() Nonetheless, this chapter argues, the first three books embedded within the framework of fictionalized Petit’s story rigorously employ a critical approach to the U.S. On the surface, McCann’s representation of Petit’s walk may seem to embrace restorative nostalgia for an idealized past and romanticized homeland. This chapter examines the cultural and political implications of nostalgia that Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin brings to the fore in relation to American innocence and exceptionalism. In bringing healing to a wounded society, the representation of Petit’s walk is usually infused with a general sense of nostalgia. ![]() Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk of 1974 has served as an inspiration for a growing number of artistic works which claim to provide post-9/11 mourning. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a resourceful and innovative solution to a horrific problem. ![]() The Green Book listed hotels, restaurants, department stores, gas stations, recreational destinations, and other businesses that were safe for Black travelers. ![]() Because of segregation, Black travelers couldn’t eat, sleep, or even get gas at most white-owned businesses. Overground Railroad chronicles the history of the Green Book, which was published from 1936 to 1966 and was the “Black travel guide to America.” For years, it was dangerous for African Americans to travel in the United States. The Overground Railroad (The Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in AmericaĪ young reader's edition of Candacy Taylor’s acclaimed book about the history of the Green Book, the guide for Black travelers ![]() ![]() ![]() But as she tells us many times, she is 33, so she feels her clock is ticking. They exchange letters and she starts to weigh his words: “This is what I want for us…” Her earlier experience tells her this will only last a few years this is France around 1900 - all well-off married men take a mistress after a few years of marriage. She goes on the road for a 40-day show tour without him and promises to give him her answer when she returns. She’s fond of him, maybe even in love with him, and she’s tempted. ![]() He’s unmarried, persistent, very well off, good-enough looking and he loves her and wants to marry her. Now she is independent and really loves her work as an actress, mime and dancer (like Colette). Still, she stayed with him for eight years. She was married to an artist who beat her and who spent most of his time bedding other women. So our main character is a 33-year old woman, footloose at the moment. In addition to being an author, Colette was a stage performer – actress, mime and dancer and that time of her life informs this book, considered an early feminist novel. ![]() (There’s a word for that: mononymous.) And long before gay rights, Collette, who was bisexual, flaunted her numerous lesbian affairs. Long before Cher and Madonna thought they invented “first names only,” there was Colette (1873-1954). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The wrappers of the 1971 version are brown with an orange and pink border with a top hat over the "W" in Wonka, similar to the film's logo, and the chocolate bars resemble Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate bars. In Roald Dahl's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its film adaptations, a Wonka Bar is a chocolate bar and Willy Wonka’s signature product, said to be the "perfect candy bar". These bars were discontinued in January 2010 due to poor sales. Other varieties of Wonka Bars were subsequently manufactured and sold in the real world, formerly by the Willy Wonka Candy Company, a division of Nestlé. ![]() ![]() Quaker Oats had a problem with the formulation of the bars and Wonka Bars had to be pulled from store shelves. The movie was funded largely by Quaker Oats for the intention of promoting the soon to be released Wonka Bars. Wonka bars were created by Quaker Oats (in conjunction with the producers of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory). Wonka Bars appear in both film adaptations of the novel, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and the play, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical (2013) each with different packaging. The Wonka Bar is a fictional chocolate bar, introduced as a key story point in the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Prop Wonka Bars from 2005's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. ![]() ![]() Once readers get past the subject matter, the storytelling is fairly straightforward. But Sala harnesses the weirdness to tell a briskly paced thriller. Murmer"), femme fatales, non-humans and so on. The first story (named "Thirteen O'Clock," incidentally) occupies the first 42 pages of the book and brings together many of Sala's preoccupations: strange scientists, detectives, funny names ("Mr. In Sala's world, thieves steal faces, skulls glow, madmen run free, plants eat people and it's always Thirteen O'Clock. This collection of short stories from hither and yon goes back nearly two decades. ![]() His closest antecedent may be Edward Gorey, but Sala's work is all his own. He creates noir stories, some serious, some funny, most both, in a unique visual style. His work is neither fish nor fowl, not too spooky, not too silly and not so far out as to be unreachable. Sala holds a unique place in the comics world. ![]() |