![]() ![]() There are stories, too, everywhere you look. Take a peek into any cemetery that’s more than sixty or so years old and you’re bound to see interesting architecture, sculpture and art. A cemetery-I mean a really good old cemetery, not these new “memorial parks” where every headstone is flat to the ground and every one of them looks the same-is really a museum without walls. Why? Well, aside from the fact that the job would force me to step away from my computer and remind me that there was a life beyond writing (even in a place where just about everybody was dead), I love cemeteries. A pseudonym used by Connie Laux, A.K.A Miranda Bliss, Zoe Daniels, Connie Deka, Mimi Granger, Anastasia Hastings, Connie Laux, Constance Laux, Kylie Logan, Lucy Ness.Ī couple years ago I applied for a part-time job as a tour guide at a historic cemetery not far from where I live. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The exploration of this word was part of her search for both personal empowerment and a sense of cosmic connectedness, the yin and yang of our lives. It’s a marker for the gnawing craving for a connection which includes, but also stretches beyond, the human realm. But what if you’re a person seeking to understand both for yourself without an intermediary? What is the word for these feelings and the person we become when we honor them?įor writer Maia Toll, that word is magic. Magic points to something intrinsic to, and necessary for, the wholeness of the human spirit. ![]() ![]() What is the word for craving a relationship with the earth, plants, rocks, and stars? What do you call someone who finds their spirit sparked by these relationships whose concept of the sacred is altered by the scent of jasmine in bloom or the deep indigo of a sky awaiting nightfall? We’re taught that doctors know our bodies and priests know our souls. From Maia Toll, the best-selling author of the Wild Wisdom series and The Night School, comes the enchanted story of her own magical awakening, a journey from Brooklyn to Ireland that will inspire readers to uncover their own inner magic. ![]() ![]() The sudden return of his wife and daughter presents Henchard with a chance to finally make things right-or doom himself forever. But when Henchard falls in love with a young woman on a trip to the island of Jersey, his inability to marry her threatens to destroy her reputation. ![]() Eighteen years later, he is the wealthy-and sober-mayor of Casterbridge, his terrible secret buried deep in the past. The next morning, Henchard swears off drink. ![]() He sells his family to a sailor for five guineas, a monstrous crime that marks him for a lifetime of guilt and pain. At the town fair, Henchard quarrels with his wife and drunkenly auctions her and his daughter to the assembled crowd. Summary A captivating story of love and regret from the author of Tess of the D’Urbervilles and The Return of the Native Young farm worker Michael Henchard arrives in Casterbridge, Wessex, with his wife and child, looking for a job. READ The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He reported on several conferences and his struggles to survive and the people he met are chronicled in his book, "A Moveable Feast". Returning home, he briefly worked in Toronto for the Toronto Star before returning to Europe with his first of four wives. In 1918 he joined the Red Cross and experienced the horrors of World War I on the Italian Front where he was badly wounded. Excelling in English at school, he became a junior reporter for the Kansas City Star. Born in Chicago, he was grew up in the prosperous suburb of Oak Park. Įrnest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American writer of novels and short stories. Robert Jordan suspects that Pablo may betray or sabotage the mission. Along the way, they encounter Pablo, the leader of the camp, who greets Robert Jordan with hostility and opposes the bridge operation because he believes it endangers the guerrilleros’ safety. The Republican command has assigned Robert Jordan the dangerous and difficult task of blowing up a Fascist-controlled bridge as part of a larger Republican offensive.Ī peasant named Anselmo guides Robert Jordan to the guerrilla camp, which is hidden in a cave. An American man named Robert Jordan, who has left the United States to enlist on the Republican side in the war, travels behind enemy lines to work with Spanish guerrilla fighters, or guerrilleros, hiding in the mountains. Fiction, war, film/TV adaptation, Spanish Civil Warįor Whom The Bell Tolls opens in May 1937, at the height of the Spanish Civil War. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, with its capabilities being limited and astronomically costly to run, a deal was struck with the government allowing it to use Absolom to send the world’s worst criminals hundreds of millions of years into the past. Lost in Time takes place in the near future, where a team of scientists have developed a new technology capable of time travel called Absolom. ![]() As it turns out though, it wasn’t the story that got to be too much for me (it was, in fact, quite interesting and full of surprising twists) but factors like the lack of character development and some of the more arbitrary plot devices that took away from the experience. Time travel books often test the limits of what I can tolerate in terms of their mindfuckery and outrageous ideas, so I approached Lost in Time with no small amount of trepidation. Publisher: Head of Zeus (September 1, 2022) ![]() This does not affect the contents of my review and all opinions are my own. I received a review copy from the publisher. #SciFiMonth Book Review: Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() See the complete Dracula Horror series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. , Paperback,, New English Library Ltd, New English Library Ltd, Book,, , New English Library Ltd, 1973 NEL paperback >British edition different cover and publisher. The Dracula Horror book series by Robert Lory includes books Dracula Returns, The Hand of Dracula, Dracula's Brothers, and several more. 3 Draculas Brothers (1973) by Robert Lory also appeared as. , Paperback,, New English Library Ltd, New English Library Ltd, Book,, , New English Library Ltd, 1973 NEL paperb… More. Translation: De hand van Dracula Dutch (1974) Translation: Draculas Opfer German (1974). ![]() ![]() ![]() If you can, please consider making a gift to The New York Public Library as we serve New Yorkers remotely. Click through to each book’s title for more. Foreign Correspondence (1997), which won the Nita Kibble Literary Award for women's writing, was a memoir and travel adventure about a childhood enriched by penpals from. Summaries provided via NYPL’s catalog, which draws from multiple sources. Brooks's first book, Nine Parts of Desire (1994), based on her experiences among Muslim women in the Middle East, was an international bestseller, translated into 17 languages. ![]() Interested in more reading recommendations? Sign up for the Library's Book of the Day email. Visit our website for more details about placing holds and what to expect when visiting one of our open locations. The Library has begun to reopen our physical locations, with eight branches currently offering limited grab-and-go service. Geraldine Brooks is the author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel March and the international bestsellers Calebs Crossing, People of the Book, and Year of. Learn more and download for iPad/iPhone and Android. Plus, new users who live in New York State can apply for a library card directly through the app. ![]() NYPL cardholders can find these books on SimplyE, the Library's free e-reader app. Horse by Geraldine Brooks (Viking: 28) Before the Civil War, an enslaved young man, a racehorse and an artist launch a complex story that spans generations. By the best-selling author of TransAtlantic. Two fathers, a Palestinian and an Israeli, navigate the physical and emotional checkpoints of their conflicted world before devastating losses compel them to work together to use their grief as a weapon for peace. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the February 1974 general election, Pimlott contested Arundel on behalf of the Labour Party, and Cleveland and Whitby the following October. In 1970, despite a pronounced stammer, he was appointed as a lecturer in the politics department of the University of Newcastle, where he also took his PhD. He was educated at Rokeby School (at the time in Wimbledon), Marlborough College and Worcester College, Oxford, where he took a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a BPhil in politics, having originally won a scholarship to study there. His father was John Pimlott, a civil servant at the Home Office and former private secretary to Herbert Morrison. ![]() He made a substantial contribution to the literary genre of political biography. Benjamin John Pimlott FBA (4 July 1945 – 10 April 2004), known as Ben Pimlott, was a British historian of the post-war period in Britain. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are many oddities the narrator, sometimes accompanieed by local native guide Longhorn, encounters. ![]() There is no mention of the city being on another planet other than on Earth. Indeed, the narrator reached it by ship though she can’t remember exactly how. No explanation is given as to how it came to be. Tianaron is a city full of what seems like a variety of sentient, insectoid life. The story is long on strange elements and short on dialogue and a conventional plot except in the sequence of events mentioned in the letters. The 30 letters of varying lengths are addressed to someone, seemingly in Europe, who never answers back. It is narrated, seemingly, by a woman given that we have a dream with a rapist and mention of a dress she wishes she had. This story is long enough that the anthology’s introdctory blurb calls it a short novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Naturally, in short order I was promoted - twice. Wow, did it work - as my fellow Asperger’s sufferer John Elder Robison echoes in his great recent book on the subject, Switched On. I had new energy for reading, and the reason for that is simple…Īfter my Mom died, my doc gave me a long session of trans-cranial magnetic brain stimulation, to get me up and running from out of my deep blue funk. ![]() So I wolfed this one down - all 1400 dense pages of it - at work, and in our high rise apartment, in about four days. It was a year marred by the market-slavery of Reaganomics, but back then I just didn’t care.Ĭause I played Freddy Mercury to the rabid Me Generation that surrounded me on all quarters, for:Īnd all I read on lunch hour in my unfriendly workplace Stress Farm was pure, unadulterated escapism that year - and it would take quite a while before I was once again ready for heavyweight reading. This first choice of books may sound strange to my GR friends, but that was just ME that year. My Mom had recently passed away, and I had been treated for my resultant depression with electromagnetic brain stimulation. ![]() I gorged my famished literary appetite on this one in the spring of 1982. ![]() |