The fairest beauty by melanie dickerson5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() And Gabe! He’s a roguish Prince Charming who follows his own path, despite what his family tells him to do.įor most of the story, there is plenty of action. While Sophie’s character is strong in some things and weak in others, she makes a perfect Snow White. Sophie’s story enchanted me from the first few pages, and I had a difficult time putting it down. WHAT I LIKED: I just love fairy tales, and this Christian retelling of Snow White is endlessly sweet and fun. Sophie flees with Gabe to the Cottage of the Seven, where she and Gabe grow ever closer, despite the fact that, if Sophie is indeed the missing girl, she was betrothed years ago to Gabe’s older brother. Soon, the duchess decides to have Sophie murdered, Sophie barely escapes with her life. When a handsome stranger named Gabehart shows up and claims Sophie may be the daughter of the deceased Duke, Sophie is cautiously optimistic that this boy may be the key to her freedom. ![]() ![]() She’s endured the duchess’s unreasonable hatred and abuse for years. SUMMARY: Seventeen-year old Sophie has been a servant in Duchess Ermengard’s house for as long as she can remember. ![]()
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A thousand pieces book5/30/2023 ![]() Before long she begins to question Paul's guilt-as well as her own heart. But she also meets alternate versions of the people she knows-including Paul, whose life entangles with hers in increasingly familiar ways. So she races after Paul through different universes, always leaping into another version of herself. Marguerite refuses to let the man who destroyed her family go free. But then Marguerite's father is murdered, and the killer-her parent's handsome, enigmatic assistant Paul- escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him. Their most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users to jump into multiple universes-and promises to revolutionize science forever. Marguerite Caine's physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. Cloud Atlas meets Orphan Black in this epic dimension-bending trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray about a girl who must chase her father's killer through multiple dimensions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While “I Love Lucy” showcased the fun-loving, madcap couple, behind the scenes, there were extramarital affairs and plenty of scandal.īall - born Aug. Lucille Ball met Desi Arnaz in 1940 at RKO Pictures. Volume II is set for release later this year. The book, which is Volume 1 of the authors’ Ball/Arnaz bio, is 576 pages long and covers the years until the end of their marriage, documenting their careers, hardships, and many, many lovers in all their gossipy glory. “He didn’t deny that, but claimed, ‘It doesn’t mean a thing, my fooling around with some hookers. She accused him of having sex with two prostitutes the night before,” writes Porter in his new book with Danforth Price, “Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz: They Weren’t Lucy & Ricky Ricardo,” (Blood Moon Productions, out now). “She shouted denunciations at him, at one point calling him. In the late 1950s, Darwin Porter, student body president at the University of Miami, arranged “Lucy & Desi” Day at the school, a celebration of the country’s most popular entertainers and favorite couple, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.īut when he arrived to take them to the event, the snide and bickering couple he found resembled anything but America’s sweethearts. ![]() Javier Bardem is quite the actor, but not much of a singer in ‘Being the Ricardos’ ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ star Barbara Eden: I was ‘careful’ around ‘playboy’ Desi Arnaz The 12 hottest celebrity redheads according to their zodiac signĬarole Cook, Lucille Ball protégé and ‘Sixteen Candles’ star, dead at 98 ![]() Dream factory by brad barkley5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The same light that keeps flickering across his eyes. “Ella, we need to focus here.” Luke slides his hands into the pockets of his jeans and rocks on the balls of his feet. “Ding dong? We’re at the name calling phase of our relationship?” “Where do you want to go?” Luke keeps watching me with this half-grin on his face. Her writing has also appeared in the Southwest Review and the Cincinnati Review. The second, The Dream Factory (Dutton) will be released Spring 2007. Her first novel, Scrambled Eggs at Midnight (Dutton) is set for release in May 2006. She works as a reviewer for VOYA, Kirkus Reviews, Publisher’s Weekly, Library Media Connection, and The New York Times. She holds a Master's in Library Science from the University of North Texas and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine. She has lived in Reno, on the coast of Maine, in the interior of Alaska, and near Death Valley, but she currently is being held against her will in Tyler, Texas. He lives in western Maryland where he teaches fiction writing and raises two children, both too smart for their own good. ![]() His short stories have appeared in over thirty magazines. ![]() Two of his books have been Booksense 76 selections. Brad Barkley is the author of two adult novels ( Money, Love and Alison's Automotive Repair Manual) and two story collections, the most recent of which is Another Perfect Catastrophe. ![]() Nina simon the art of relevance5/30/2023 ![]() Prior to his work at YBCA, John served for 15 years as artistic director of the California Shakespeare Theater (Cal Shakes) in Berkeley and Orinda, California. John works to promote YBCA’s mission for the public he focuses on creative placemaking, youth programming, political advocacy and community partnerships. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jon Moscone, Chief of Civic Engagement at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), wrote the foreword to The Art of Relevance and introduced Nina at the October event. She was named one of the 50 most “powerful and influential people in nonprofit arts” by the Western States Arts Federation in 20. In 2012, Nina received the American Alliance for Museums’ Nancy Hanks Memorial Award. She has previously worked as a curator at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA and as the Experience Development Specialist at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. Nina comes from an unusual background for the arts and museum world– she holds a BS in electrical engineering and mathematics. She has made her mark as an independent “experience designer” focusing on creating audience-driven exhibitions and education programs. Over the past decade, Nina has been revolutionizing conceptions of museum-visitor interaction and exploring ways that museums can become relevant to more diverse communities. Nina Simon, Executive Director, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History ![]() U2 by u2 book5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The Edge thought God wanted him to quit U2 - but their manager said he didn’t. Instead, 1980’s Boy began U2’s early partnership with Steve Lillywhite, who also produced the two following albums, October and War. Now, as our dream was beginning, the Beatles’ dream was over,” Bono explains. “We’d written a song called ‘The Dream Is Over’ sparked by his throwaway explanation of the demise of the Fab Four. Speaking of confidence, how’s this? Bono had been writing a letter to Lennon in 1979, months before his assassination, to ask him to produce the band’s debut album, Boy. “Another miracle attributable to Joey Ramone.”īono wanted John Lennon to produce Boy before he died. The band made it onto the show, where they played “Street Mission,” an early song of theirs. U2 had original songs at the time, but the band had been arguing about what to play - so when the producer asked for an original, Bono passed off “the not-very-but-quite-famous Ramones tune ‘Glad to See You Go’” as a U2 cut. One example: the band’s first audition, for a children’s-TV program called Young Line, in 1978. Surrender makes clear early on that Bono had that bravado from U2’s first days. U2 faked their first audition with a Ramones song. ![]() The jane austen society novel5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Now in her fifties, she has never married and has no children. Jocelyn has been best friends with Sylvia since they were eleven and introduced her to her husband, Daniel, when they were in high school. Jocelyn ( Emma): a Rhodesian Ridgeback breeder and matchmaker who organized the Jane Austen Book Club. ![]() In turn, each of Austen's novels parallels the individual characters' experiences lives with their relationships, family, and love.Ĭharacters and their corresponding novels Each of the six chapters is dedicated to one of the six book club members as well as one of Austen's six works. The novel takes place over the course of several months in Davis, California, a university town in California's Central Valley near Sacramento. The novel was a critical success and became a national bestseller.Ī film adaptation of the same name was released in autumn of 2007 starring Emily Blunt, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Jimmy Smits, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Grace, and Maria Bello. ![]() The story, which takes place near Sacramento, California, centers around a book club consisting of five women and one man who meet once a month to discuss Jane Austen's six novels ( Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Northanger Abbey). The Jane Austen Book Club is a 2004 novel by American author Karen Joy Fowler. ![]() Garth nix sabriel series5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Why did I take away one star, then? My issue lies with the first half of the book. Thankfully, this wonderfully written and utterly absorbing story was far from disappointing. Seeing that it’s also known as one of the pioneers in the young adult high fantasy genre, I had pretty high expectations for it. ![]() With SABRIEL, the first installment in the Abhorsen trilogy, Garth Nix exploded onto the fantasy scene as a rising star, in a novel that takes readers to a world where the line between the living and the dead isn’t always clear-and sometimes disappears altogether.Įver since hearing about Sabriel and catching sight of its gorgeous new cover, I’ve been dying to read it. And every step brings them closer to a battle that will pit them against the true forces of life and death-and bring Sabriel face-to-face with her own destiny. As the three travel deep into the Old Kingdom, threats mount on all sides. She soon finds companion in Mogget, a cat whose aloof manner barely conceals its malevolent spirit, and Touchstone, a young Charter Mage long imprisoned by magic, now free in body but still trapped by painful memories. But during her final semester, her father, the Abhorsen, goes missing, and Sabriel knows she must enter the Old Kingdom to find him. Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random power of Free Magic or the Dead who refuse to stay dead in the Old Kingdom. ![]() Dark secrets, deep love, and dangerous magic. ![]() Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Multiple sets of characters compete for the possibly animated ruby-eyed skull and jeweled hands of an ancient Master Thief in the madcap "Thieves' House" (1943). In the first story, "The Circle Curse" (1970), the friends are so sick of grief, guilt, and loss in Lankhmar that they leave the city forever, they believe, wandering the world of Nehwon and living by "thievery, robbery, bodyguarding, brief commissions as couriers and agents… and by showmanship," gaining "new scars and skills." In "The Jewels in the Forest" (1939), Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser go on an amusing and suspenseful treasure hunt involving an architectural guardian, a quirky peasant family, and some rival rogues. Swords Against Death (1970), the second book in Fritz Leiber's classic sword and sorcery series featuring Fafhrd (the pale giant barbarian) and the Gray Mouser (the dusky, compact ex-slum boy), is a collection of ten entertaining short stories assembled by Leiber into a fix-up that, with some strain, is almost a composite novel dealing with the attempts of the duo to come to terms with the violent deaths of their beloved lovers at the end of the first book, Swords Against Deviltry (1970). Delicious Prose, Ironic Vision, & a Fun Odd Couple ![]() Half a war joe abercrombie5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() A failure in his eyes and hers, he has one chance at redemption.Īnd weapons are made for one purpose. Beside her on her gruelling journey is Brand, a young warrior who hates to kill. Crossing half the world to find allies against the ruthless High King, she learns harsh lessons of blood and deceit. Fate traps her in the schemes – and on the ship – of the deep-cunning minister Father Yarvi. But she has been named murderer by the very man who trained her to kill. Desperate to avenge her dead father, she lives to fight. ![]() Sometimes a girl is touched by Mother War. Thorn is such a girl. The story deals with two new characters, Thorn and Brand, while Yarvi remains as a central character. Half the World is the second book of the Shattered Sea series, a trilogy written by British author Joe Abercrombie. Just as some women are touched by Mother War. ![]() |