![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the conversations recounted in this book took place over long periods of time, in multiple locations, and thus some conversations and scenes were re-created and compressed. I have based this dialogue on the recollections of participants of the substance of conversations. I do employ the technique of re-created dialogue. Other than the handful of public figures who populate this story, names and personal descriptions have been altered. In some instances, details of settings and descriptions have been changed or imagined, and identifying details of certain people altered to protect their privacy. I have tried to keep the chronology as close to exact as possible. Other scenes are written in a way that describes individual perceptions without endorsing them. ![]() I re-created the scenes in the book based on the information I uncovered from documents and interviews, and my best judgment as to what version most closely fits the documentary record. Trying to paint a scene from the memories of dozens of sources - some direct witnesses, some indirect - can often lead to discrepancies. There are a number of different - and often contentious - opinions about some of the events that took place. ![]() The Accidental Billionaires is a dramatic, narrative account based on dozens of interviews, hundreds of sources, and thousands of pages of documents, including records from several court proceedings. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Constant twists and turns in a mystery plot can often feel like the author is being confusing just for the sake of it, but with the plot of Vow of Thieves, stuff may surprise you, but it doesn’t feel unearned. You don’t know who to trust, and you don’t know if you can believe what you knew before. This book is full of all sorts of political intrigue. Separated by circumstance, Jase and Kazi must fight to discover who the real enemy is and how to defeat them. The Ballenger family – what’s left of it – have taken refuge in their vault and someone new rules the land. There is an ominous warning on Jase and Kazi’s journey back, and they are attacked before they can even set foot in Hell’s Mouth. The ending of Dance of Thieves gave us a little glimpse of what was in store, but trust me when I say that you are not ready for what is to come. ![]() Vow of Thieves returns us once again to the Ballengers’ homestead, but it’s in a very different state than it was when we left. This world is so rich and diverse and ripe with possibility, and I have fallen in love with each new part that’s been unlocked in every successive book set there. I am such a fan of the world that Pearson has created, both in this duology and in its predecessor The Remnant Chronicles. Trust me when I say that you are not prepared for what is about to go down in Hell’s Mouth. Kazi and Jase’s saga concludes in Vow of Thieves, the sequel to New York Times best-selling author Mary E. ![]() ![]() ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() She is sometimes confused with her daughter-in-law, the novelist Frances Eleanor Trollope. Frances Milton Trollope (1779 1863) was an English novelist and writer whose first book, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), caused an international. Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Trollope Domestic Manners of the Americans Analysis These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. Her first and third sons, Thomas Adolphus Trollope and Anthony, also became writers Anthony Trollope was influenced by his mother's work and became renowned for his social novels. She returned to England and published her book Domestic Manners of the Americans, which revealed an unfavorable perspective on American society in the late 1820s and early 1830s. ![]() ![]() Between 18 Trollope published her Widow Barnaby trilogy of novels, and her other travel books include Belgium and Western Germany in 1833, Paris and the Parisians in 1835, and Vienna and the Austrians. Frances Trollope was an English novelist who briefly resided in Cincinnati. Trollope’s more than 100 books include strong social novels, such as the first anti-slavery novel, Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw (1836), which influenced Uncle Tom’s Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe the first industrial novel, Michael Armstrong: Factory Boy and The Vicar of Wrexhill, which took on the corruption of the church of England as well as two anti-Catholic novels, The Abbess and Father Eustace. Frances Milton Trollope (1779 – 1863), more popularly known as Fanny Trollope, was an English novelist and writer whose first book, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), caused an international sensation upon its publication. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this poignant parallel story to Harold's saga, acclaimed author Rachel Joyce brings Queenie Hennessy's voice into sharp focus. How could she wait? What would she say? Forced to confront the past, Queenie realizes she must write again. What he didn't know was that his decision to walk had caused her both alarm and fear. ![]() Harold believed that as long as he kept walking, Queenie would live. From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes an exquisite love story about Queenie Hennessy, the remarkable friend who inspired Harold's cross-country journey.Ī runaway international bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry followed its unassuming hero on an incredible journey as he traveled the length of England on foota journey spurred by a simple letter from his old friend Queenie Hennessy, writing from a hospice to say goodbye. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anne is not only a dear friend, a talented historian, and an exacting reader she is also the mother of a childhood cancer survivor (as well as two other great kids). ![]() The director happens to be my best friend, Anne Spurgeon, whose name you might recall from the acknowledgment pages of my novels. Its mission is to educate, support, serve, and advocate for children with cancer, their families, survivors of childhood cancer, and the professionals who care for them. ![]() ![]() Dorothea’s project inspired me to create an Authors’ Album opportunity quilt for an organization close to my heart: Capital Candlelighters, the Madison, Wisconsin branch of the Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation.Īuthor Jennifer Weiner displays the quilt in progress.Ĭapital Candlelighters is a non-profit organization serving families whose children have been diagnosed with cancer, especially those treated at the University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital. Instead of the customary signatures of her friends, Dorothea obtain scraps of muslin autographed by authors and “other personages of note.” She stitches a signed piece into the center of each block, sews the blocks together, and raffles off the finished quilt to raise money to build a public library. In my new novel, THE SUGAR CAMP QUILT, Dorothea Granger sews a quilt using the Album block, a traditional “friendship quilt” pattern. Since the publication of the first Elm Creek Quilts novel, it has become a tradition for me to recreate the quilts my characters make in my stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() When she recalls how their daughter Celia, seven years younger than Kevin, adored her brother even while he sadistically manipulated her, she characteristically senses Franklin's response. ![]() She knows that he would tell a different story. Eva is not, as it were, writing for us she is writing for Franklin, and continually rebutting his different ideas about their son. ![]() Partly it is for the letter-writer's self-consciousness about explaining herself. Why does Shriver choose it for her modern nightmare? Some of the pioneers of the English novel in the 18th century, notably Samuel Richardson, used the novel-in-letters to explore human psychology, but the highly artificial form was abandoned in the 19th century. ", writes Eva to Franklin in the book's first letter. These letters are written by Kevin's mother, Eva, to her apparently estranged husband, Kevin's father, Franklin. It is also an "epistolary novel": a narrative composed entirely of letters. It is the story of Kevin, a boy who has shot dead seven fellow pupils and a teacher at his suburban high school. T he strangest thing about Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin is that this thoroughly contemporary tale employs an old-fashioned fictional form. ![]() ![]() ![]() In that definition, fey would then include not only the fae but those who are touched by the fae, those who are connected to our world and able to see us when others cannot do so or at least choose to ignore the obvious reality of our existence and pretend otherwise. The word fey has also been used to indicate a person who has supernatural or psychic powers of clairvoyance or sight or is a faerie seer, perhaps. Although, it might be pointed out that while people often sense our otherworldly natures, they are not always sure what it is that they are sensing, merely that we are strange and different and sometimes make them feel vaguely uneasy. Although, there is generally nothing vague about the otherworldliness of the Fae accept our answers to intrusive questions from outsiders. ![]() In that sense Fae and Fey would be quite the same really. ![]() But then everything otherworldly is mysterious by definition. ![]() Is there a difference in those terms? Traditionally, fey is a word that has been used to indicate giving an impression of otherworldliness, sometimes in a vague or mysterious fashion. In a recent Netflix series entitled Cursed, they used the term Fey for the Elfae folk, instead of Fae. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Fascinating, eye-opening, compelling - like the film Parasite, If I Had Your Face is also an exposé of the class system in South Korea' Independent Touching, compelling and icily cool' Observer ![]() Set in the drinking dens and beauty salons of Seoul, If I Had Your Face is an electrifying debut novel about female strength, resilience and the solace that friendship can provide. Wonna, their neighbour, pregnant with a child that she can't afford. ![]() Miho, an artist whose life becomes enmeshed with the offspring of the super-wealthy elite.Īra, a hairstylist whose obsession with a K-pop star leads her to violent extremes. Kyuri, a beautiful 'room salon' girl paid to entertain wealthy businessmen after hours. In South Korea, where impossible beauty standards and ruthless social hierarchies dictate your every move, four women are balancing on a razor's edge: 'Gripping' Curtis Sittenfeld * 'Electrifying' Taylor Jenkins Reid * 'Remarkable' Kevin Kwan * 'Stunning' Sunday Times * 'Brilliant' Pandora Sykes ![]() ![]() Full of behind the scenes details and intimate interrogations on sex, love, trauma, and Hollywood, Pageboy is the story of a life pushed to the brink. The career that had been an escape out of his reality and into a world of imagination was suddenly a nightmare.Īs he navigated criticism and abuse from some of the most powerful people in Hollywood, a past that snapped at his heels, and a society dead set on forcing him into a binary, Elliot often stayed silent, unsure of what to do, until enough was enough. He was forced to play the part of the glossy young starlet, a role that made his skin crawl, on and off set. His dreams were coming true, but the pressure to perform suffocated him. With Juno’s massive success, Elliot became one of the world’s most beloved actors. But for Elliot, two steps forward had always come with one step back. Getting closer to his desires, his dreams, himself, without the repression he’d carried for so long. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person, as a trans person. ![]() ![]() The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. ![]() “Can I kiss you?” It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. ![]() The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Under the Udala Trees is a new entry in Okparanta’s ongoing commitment to chronicling the lives of gay and lesbian people in Nigeria. Like an animal casting off old hair or skin.” When Ijeoma at last returned to her mother, she is the “warden”. ![]() “To shed, if she could have, all memories of the war. “In a warped, war-induced sort of way, it made sense that she should find ways to shed us all: the soldiers, me, and the house,” Okparanta writes. When Ijeoma and her mother Adaora emerge from a nearby bunker, they discover his blood-soaked body.Īdaora survives the aftermath physically, but not psychologically. Her father, “a man who liked to wallow in his thoughts”, becomes so consumed by sorrow for his massacred people that he refuses to seek refuge during an air raid over their town of Ojoto. The novel is set in 1968, one year into the Biafran conflict, and Ijeoma’s world is beset by “the ruckus of armored cars and shelling machines, bomber planes and their loud engines sending shock waves through our ears”. Ijeoma’s secure, stable childhood has already unravelled by then. ![]() |