![]() ![]() In the mornings, I waited for the young MoFo with the red headphones to hurtle past on his bike faster than a toupee in a hurricane, for him to use his black-and-white projectile to decapitate another hydrangea flower head. ![]() Honestly, the toilet wand has more dignity. ![]() Filling his water bowl proved tricky for me, so I escorted him to the porcelain throne which was fruitful and utterly revolting. I put clothes in the laundry machine and dealt with Dennis’s not-so-subtle hints at dinnertime when he pummeled his food bowls as if they had castrated him. Since Big Jim was so busy jabbing his finger at the basement wall and doing a stellar impression of a rabid raccoon, I took on even more of the household chores than I normally do. In the days after Big Jim’s eyeball rolled out of his head, it became clear that I was going to have to pick up some of the slack. Hollow Kingdom is about a pet crow fighting to save humanity from an apocalypse. She calls the tropical utopia of Seattle, Washington, home. Kira Jane Buxton’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Huffington Post, and elsewhere. ![]() The following is an excerpt from Kira Jane Buxton's genre-bending debut novel, Hollow Kingdom. ![]()
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![]() The roster of founding Council members includes numerous leading historians of the day and, in keeping with its aim to support historical scholarship, leading archivists as well. The OI is the product of discussions that took place in the early 20th century among a group of historians who thought that American History was overly concerned with the post-Civil War period. It’s available in your favorite app store for both iOS and Android devices.) You could also download the free custom app we have for the show. Just look for Ben Franklin’s World in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast provider. ![]() (You can still catch the bonus show by subscribing to our free podcast via your favorite provider. In this special episode, the history of the Omohundro Institute is brought to life through a look at the work of former OI Director and William and Mary Quarterly Editor Lester J. ![]() Cappon and the history of the OIĪs Ben Franklin’s Worldfans already know, a special additional episode of the show downloaded today just for subscribers. ![]() ![]() ![]() The eighth cover is a homage of the movie poster for the Breakfast Club.But with all the new magical threats, is it too late?! List of covers and their creators: Cover Young people from around the world with aptitude in magic have been brought together in New Orleans to study the Mystic Arts under Strange, Brother Voodoo, the Ancient One, the Scarlet Witch, Magik, Hellstrom and ALL your favorite Marvel magicians. But now they have to face the most terrifying villain STRANGE ACADEMY has introduced Cover price 3.99. ![]() The Marvel Universe has mysteriously changed in such an alarming way that Doctor Strange has done what he's avoided for decades he's opened a school for young sorcerers. The students still in Strange Academy have their biggest challenge yet Plus, our heroes finally get a lead on Gaslamp and their missing friend. A SORCERER SCHOOL FOR THE MARVEL UNIVERSE! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox - his partner and closest friend - find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is fitted with a non adhesive archival quality book protector to make a quality addition to your collection. For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. The rear panel has a couple of very small rubs. The spine ends are crimped, and there is a 8 mm tear with associated crease to the head. There is a rub to the head of the front joint. ![]() ![]() There are two 12mm closed tears to the top edge of the front panel. The fore-edge corners are a little rubbed. Jacket is in very good condition, but is smart. Previous owners book plate to front pastedown, partially hidden by front jacket flap. His earlier books were really speculative fiction crossing genre lines in unpredictable ways, always character-driven, and they always make you rethink what you thought you knew about genres. Another of the author's early and decidedly different than the normal approach to horror fiction - this one about vampires taking refuge on a steamboat on the Mississippi River. This story was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. The Near Fine price clipped dustjacket is crisp, clean, bright and unfaded but has 3 'very' tiny edge nicks. ![]() The spine ends are a tiny bit folded from shelving but the cloth is not at all limp or worn. Near Fine clean, straight and very tight (unread) book bound in blue cloth with silver gilt spine lettering, with no soiling or wear but with 2 very small, faint smudges to page edges - the page edges otherwise squeaky clean and text paper untoned. ![]() ![]() ![]() Julian cuts them away so she can make it. ![]() ![]() Scarlett’s dress and corset weigh her down. She made it look like Scarlett was kidnapped so she can still marry her Count. He says Donatella will be on the island with them. He thought this would win Annalise over, but he was wrong. He asked to have the best troupe of actors. Legend thought you could have your one greatest wish with the help of magic. He fell for Annalise, the one girl he couldn’t have. Scarlett dreams about their grandmother telling them about the Caraval master, Legend. Scarlett offers her three Caraval tickets if Julian will sail away without Donatella. Her father drowned her friend Felipe here and threatened to do the same thing to Donatella. Scarlett calls a secret meeting with Julian on the beach. The sisters argue because Scarlett thinks they should skip the Caraval because her marriage will get them off the island. ![]() ![]() ![]() Freedman as Herself), she would say: “So that’s the bad news, sweetie pie. When I told my grandmother something bad happened (I wrote this in Starring Sally J. Well, guess what? I’ve learned that this is your real life happening while you’re waiting. ![]() Yes, I am 85-woo-hoo! I remember talking with friends when we were much younger about when our real lives would begin and how we’d then be free to do this and enjoy that. Now I’ve decided to embrace it and enjoy it for as long as I can. I hate to disappoint them, but Margaret is always going to be 12.įirst I had to accept it. Then there are women who grew up with my books who want me to age Margaret. You can’t protect yourself from bad things happening. You can’t stop your parents from moving or splitting up. Being a child can be very hard-there’s so little you can control. It especially brings back the hard times. I think it’s because I represent their childhoods and meeting me brings it all back, not just for them but for me, too. I have a bookstore in Key West, and I work there three days a week, so I meet a lot of women who grew up with my books. ![]() Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playĭoes it surprise you that readers are so nostalgic for your books? ![]() ![]() ![]() Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel is a cookery writer, and between trying to win Mark back and wishing him dead, she offers us some of her favourite recipes. The fact that this woman has a 'neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb' is no consolation. Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel' NIGELLA LAWSON 'A perfect example of Ephron's gift for turning tragedy into comedy' PAULA HAWKINS, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN 'She is wit without cynicism, the ultimate romantic' GAIL COLLINS, NEW YORK TIMES Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. ![]() A BESTSELLING NOVEL AND MAJOR FILM STARRING MERYL STREEP AND JACK NICHOLSON 'I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other. ![]() ![]() Jeff Garvin is an author, musician, and podcaster. The hero’s journey, applied to writing and life.Writing a character that is hyper-attuned to her inner life.Starting a book with a question you can’t answer.Breaking the stigma around mental illness. ![]() How real life experiences inspired Lightness of Hands.I am so thrilled to be recording this interview (finally! After 8 months!) and to introduce Jeff and his moving (sometimes gut-wrenching) YA novels to my word nerd listeners. ![]() This book grapples with some heavy topics, but one in particular that really hits home for me: mental health. We connected right away and when Jeff told me about his new novel The Lightness of Hands I knew I just had to have him on the show. Now, I have been looking forward to this episode since last July, when Jeff and I met at a ThrillerFest cocktail party. He has a BFA in Film from Chapman University and lives in Southern California. ![]() It is an ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection, Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and has garnered starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly.īefore becoming a novelist, Jeff acted on TV and toured as the lead singer of a rock band. ![]() Jeff is an author, musician, and podcaster and his debut novel, Symptoms of Being Human has received a ton of accolades. Hey there word nerds! Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Jeff Garvin. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He looks, as Hilary Mantel has him say in her new novel, "like a murderer". Then there's the portrait of him, after Holbein: a dewlapped man in dark robes with a shrewd, unfriendly face, holding a folded paper like an upturned dagger. Law and financial administration - his main activities - don't always ignite writers' imaginations, and in the pop-Foucauldian worldview of much historical fiction since the 1980s, his bureaucratic innovations would be seen as inherently sinister. He's a sideshow to Wolsey in Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII, a villain who hounds Thomas More to his death in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons. Geoffrey Elton used to argue that he founded modern government, but later historians have pared back his role, and one recent biographer, Robert Hutchinson, portrayed him as a corrupt proto-Stalinist. T homas Cromwell, the chief minister to Henry VIII who oversaw the break with Rome and the dissolution of the monasteries, was widely hated in his lifetime, and he makes a surprising fictional hero now. ![]() |