![]() Later in life, Stephen finds herself enamored again, this time with married American beauty Angela Crossby. Once Sir Philip hears of the debacle, he removes Collins from his service, leaving Stephen to grieve her first love. Stephen reacts violently to this discovery, causing an uproar in the Morton household. Following Collins about the house and obsessing over Collins’s wounded knee are two of Stephen’s favorite pastimes, until she witnesses Collins kissing one of the men in the Gordons’ service. Around the age of seven, Stephen develops a crush on one of the Gordons’ maids, Collins. She loves to wrestle Sir Philip, ride horses, hunt, and make the most of the green hills of Morton, the Gordon’s ancestral home outside of Upton-on-Severn in England. ![]() ![]() They use the name anyway.Īs a child Stephen has a zest for life. When Stephen is born, Stephen is a girl, not the young boy they’d been dreaming of. They joyfully plan for the birth of Stephen, a name selected by Sir Philip to remind him of his favorite saint. ![]() After 10 years of marriage, Sir Philip and Lady Anna Gordon are finally expecting a child. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The old hitman refuses to fade quietly into oblivion at the hands of his disease or the business he’s dedicated his life to. With every one of SynCorp’s Five Factions gunning for him-and his own mind slowly rebelling-Fischer leads a pack of would-be assassins in a final, deadly chase across the solar system. When SynCorp decides Fischer has outlived his usefulness, they decide it’s time to permanently retire him. Now, Stacks has a problem-he’s losing his mind to an incurable form of dementia, and unwittingly spilling corporate secrets in public. ![]() He’s buried the company’s dirty laundry six feet deep, no matter who had to be taken out to do it. For more than three decades, he’s loyally served the SyndicateĬorporation as its most-feared and respected enforcer around the solar system. When retiring isn’t an option, it’s kill or be killed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ĭracula studied the black arts at the academy of Scholomance in the Carpathian Mountains, overlooking the town of Sibiu (also known as Hermannstadt) and has a deep knowledge of alchemy and magic. there was no branch of knowledge of his time that he did not essay. He had a mighty brain, a learning beyond compare, and a heart that knew no fear and no remorse. Which latter was the highest development of the scientific knowledge of his time. ( November 2020)ĭetails of his early life are undisclosed, but it is mentioned that Further details may exist on the talk page. Please expand the article to include this information. This article is missing information about Dracula's backstory outlined in the 2018 prequel novel Dracul, written by Dacre Stoker from Bram Stoker's manuscripts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Intriguing characters, fine plotting, and a richly worked narrative carry the reader into Lucinda’s vaguely medieval world. A strong seller in hardcover, this original fairytale marks an exciting debut from a lyrical new voice.Per usual, the review from Booklist is more descriptive and helps to convey the Cinderellesque qualities: With the help of the Amaranth Witch, a young (and harmless) con-artist, and a prince, Lucinda uncovers secrets about her own royal past. When a mysterious piece of jewelry and a strange visitor arrive in the jewelry shop where she works for her evil aunt, Lucinda's course takes a surprising turn. Here's the book description if you are interested: :) Her latest book, Secondhand Charm, is also on my TBR list. A good portion of my pleasure reading has nothing to do with SurLaLune. She has been on my "be aware" of list which is the same as the TBR (to be read) list, I guess, but with a SurLaLune influence. so that is a goodly savings and a way to read Berry's backlist. I downloaded it myself, although I haven't read it yet. The Amaranth Enchantment by Julie Berry, which some reviews have compared to Cinderella, is currently $4.88 as a Kindle book. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the perfect opportunity for Hannah and Fox to get to know each other better, especially since Hannah has to stay with him. ![]() Surprisingly, they listen to Hannah and they all came to the village to make their movie here. However, now, she has convinced the production company with whom she was working that Westport is so beautiful and the perfect location for their movie. “Hook, Line, and Sinker” starts with Hannah and Fox having kept in touch in a platonic way, given that Hannah already had a crush on one of her colleagues. While on her first visit, she had befriended fisherman Fox Thornton. In the meantime, Piper has decided to remain here and Hannah is an occasional visitor. In “It Happened One Summer”, Hannah and her sister, Piper, had come to a forgotten fishermen’s village after one of Piper’s dramas to stay for the summer and learn more about their father’s legacy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In more recent years, she has focused on the World War I era and the treatment of minorities in the Ottoman Empire. Tusan, a native of Fresno, received her PhD in history (specializing in British history) from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999. Michelle Tusan of the University of Nevada – Las Vegas, showed the ways in which modern mapping technology can be used to better understand the geography of the Armenian Genocide and in particular of refugee movements that spanned the Middle East and the globe in the wake of the First World War. On Wednesday, April 20, the University of Michigan Ann Arbor’s Center for Armenian Studies played host to a lecture in conjunction with the commemoration of the Armenian Genocide on April 24. ![]() ![]() "Tamaki and Valero-O'Connell's tender-hearted narrative sings with real, honest emotion that will resonate with anyone trying to figure out love." - The New York Times ![]() ![]() Maybe it's Freddy, who is rapidly losing her friends, including Doodle, who needs her now more than ever.įortunately for Freddy, there are new friends, and the insight of advice columnists like Anna Vice to help her through being a teenager in love. But Laura Dean keeps coming back, and as their relationship spirals further out of her control, Freddy has to wonder if it's really Laura Dean that's the problem. Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her, a mysterious medium, who leaves Freddy some cryptic parting words: break up with her. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend. Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. Author Mariko Tamaki and illustrator Rosemary Valero-O’Connell bring to life a sweet and spirited tale of young love in Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, a graphic novel that asks us to consider what happens when we ditch the toxic relationships we crave to embrace the healthy ones we need. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the news comes that her grandmother has died, it seems like maybe Alice and her mother can finally catch their breath. Alice doesn't know her grandmother, who shut herself away in an estate called the Hazel Wood before Alice was even born, but she is secretly obsessed with her and the elusive world that she created. It's a book so rare and compelling that it has die-hard fans who've never even read it - including Alice. They can't ever seem to escape their family legacy: Alice's grandmother is a famous author, who wrote a book of dark fairy tales set in a mythical world called the Hinterland. ![]() ![]() ![]() Will it deliver what you want like a golden box full of perfect snowmelt from atop the highest mountain? Or will you open the box to discover the cut-out heart of a poor maiden who never had a fair shot?Īlice has spent her whole life on the run with her mother, almost as if something terrible is chasing them. It's a writer problem: now and then, a book comes along with a premise so delicious that you wish you'd thought of it. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Hazel Wood Author Melissa Albert ![]() ![]() But a leading Reform rabbi, fearful that airing Jewish transgressions could prove dangerous in a climate of rising xenophobia, when Henry Ford’s newspaper was denouncing Jews as un-American, rallied a campaign against the play. It was a hit in New York, too, first on the Lower East Side and, eventually, in an abridged English translation, at the Apollo Theatre, where it featured the first lesbian kiss on Broadway. Asch ignored his mentor’s warnings: he found a star in more permissive Berlin to play the father, and the production became a controversial success, touring across Europe. It’s a shtetl tragedy: a Jewish brothel owner buys a Torah to celebrate his daughter’s wedding to a scholar, but, when he learns that his daughter has fallen in love with one of his prostitutes, he casts her and the Torah down into the brothel. When the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch presented his play “God of Vengeance” at a Warsaw salon in 1906, his mentor, I. PHOTOGRAPH BY TAWNI BANNISTER / NYT / REDUX ![]() “The purpose of theatre is to bring into public that which is kept offstage,” Vogel said. ![]() ![]() Many passages are perversely ambiguous, even when read over and over, and for the current production by Touchstone Theatre, Albee cut a large portion of dialogue that provided a clue to the play’s meaning. ![]() Tiny Alice is epistemology disguised as drama, and rather than present his ideas clearly, Albee, like some insecure scholar, chooses to obfuscate at every opportunity. But after the critics came and said the play was difficult, people started leaving the theater looking perplexed and frustrated.Īlbee is being disingenuous. Audiences who saw the play in previews in 1964 had little trouble deciphering the meaning, Albee said recently. ![]() In fact he blames the critics for confusing people. Everyone but the critics seems to understand it just fine, he says.
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