![]() ![]() ![]() Sara Gran recombines all the elements of good, solid story-telling and lifts something original from a well-loved form. This is the first fresh literary voice I've heard in years. “A high-proof Nancy Drew drawn straight from the tradition of an opiated Holmes.” Claire is a charmer, but there’s nothing cute about her paranormal visions of a city living in torment.” But hope is on the way in the exotic person of Claire DeWitt. “The dead-eyed face of post-Katrina New Orleans that stares out from Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead is every bit as raw as the battered mug drew of 1950s Brooklyn in Dope. “With Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, Gran elevates the detective story as literature and brings together a sophisticated mystery, a witty, antagonistic private eye, and a city she knows too well.” “The mystery of Vic Willing’s disappearance pulls you in, but Gran’s enticing characters will keep you hooked.” “The most unusual, intelligent thriller I have read for a long time.” DeWitt’s mesmerizing character and memorable voice take your breath away.” Called in from San Francisco is Claire DeWitt, a detective whose expertise and methods derive from some unique sources. “The mystery captures post-Katrina New Orleans like no other novel yet has. New Orleans, and Vic Willing, Assistant District Attorney for the prosecutors office, has been missing since Hurricane Katrina hit. “Beautifully written in a tight, quirky style that distinguishes Gran as one of the more original writers working today.” ![]() Carol Monda perfectly renders Claire’s sarcastic repartee and keeps this tightly paced narrative moving quickly.” “Provides narration that is both engaging and entertaining. Reviews/Praise Library Journal Best of the Year Selection ![]()
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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:21:01 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40840216 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() CRUSH becomes a child, sad and staring at the ground, the one you reach out to comfort, only to realize the child is you.”Įlise Peyrat: “This man reaches inside my guts and pulls out my shame in a way no one ever really has before, and I find it quite terrifying, which is probably why I’m so obsessed with his poetry and will recommend it until the day I die.” Yet it is this denial of love, this pulse of aggression and insecurity that forces the reader to return. And so it is with the reader: waiting for some resolution between themselves and the book, but the poems never allow for safety, for love, only shove back harder or curl up into themselves wanting to disappear. Tyler: “The book feels like it could save your life, and so you’d die for it, too.” “It’s Siken’s use of repetition that corners the reader, a dizziness surfaces you’re moving but not going anywhere.” “But this is what the book does: it explores destructive relationships, the voice throughout begging for a place where it can just be safe and loved, but it never finds it. ![]() Thesis: Richard Siken’s poetry collection Crush, which is very poetic because his poem connects to the reader, his poetry is very pictorial, exquisite, and delicate. Introduction of the collection, Crush and explain the name. ![]() Art originates from life and is higher than life. ![]() ![]() ![]() She asked for a night off and a dress. Will Lizzie's prejudice and Will's pride keep them apart? Or are they a prom couple in the making? From Elizabeth Eulberg comes a very funny, completely stylish prom season delight of Jane Austen proportions. Prom and Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg 'Elizabeth Bennet, will you do me the great honor of not going to prom with me' Prom and Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg 'Cinderella never asked for a prince. Clearly, Will Darcy is a pompous jerk who looks down on the middle class-so imagine Lizzie's surprise when he asks her to the prom! It doesn't help that Charles doesn't seem to be asking Jane to be his prom date, or that Lizzie meets George Wickham, who tells her that Will Darcy sabotaged his scholarship at Pemberly. He doesn't seem to like Lizzie either, but she assumes it's because her family doesn't have money. Lizzie is happy about her friend's burgeoning romance, but less than impressed by Will Darcy, Charles's friend, who's as snobby and pretentious as his friend is nice. ![]() Lizzie Bennett, who attends Longbourn on scholarship, isn't exactly interested in designer dresses and expensive shoes, but her best friend, Jane, might be-especially now that Charles Bingley is back from a semester in London. ![]() ![]() Scholastic Inc | ISBN 9780545240772 Hardcover 240 Pages | 5.7" x 8.56" | Ages 13 & UpĪfter winter break, the girls at the very prestigious, very wealthy, girls-only Longbourn Academy are suddenly obsessed with the prom, which they share with the nearby, equally elitist, all-boys Pemberly School. ![]() ![]() ![]() He holds a MS and PhD in Library and Information Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is on faculty. He's also edited the two-volume international science fiction anthology, Sunspot Jungle.ĭamian Duffy is a cartoonist, scholar, writer, curator, lecturer, teacher, a Glyph Comics and Bram Stoker Award-winner, and a New York Times bestselling graphic novelist. Delany, APB: Artists against Police Brutality, and Future Fiction. He co-edited the groundbreaking anthology, Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond in addition to Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Follow Afro Desia, Cali Vera, Alley Bastard, Candy Ass, Katana Jade, and Snake on their madcap cosmic adventures as they funk up the galaxy in search of the almighty booty!īill Campbell is the author of Sunshine Patriots, My Booty Novel, Pop Culture: Politics, Puns, "Poohbutt" from a Liberal Stay-at-Home Dad, and Koontown Killing Kaper. ![]() Follow Afro Desia, Cali Vera, Alley Bastard, Candy Ass, Katana Jade, and Snake on their madcap cosmic adventures as they funk up the galaxy in search of the almighty booty"-Back cover.īook Synopsis These women are truly baaaad. About the Book "These women are truly baaaad. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Library's Biography Book Club meets on the third Monday of the month (except July and August) at 6:30 pm on Zoom. ![]() ![]() With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation.” These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like “love” and “illness” now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. “With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. * A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * * A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * ![]() ![]() Brideshead’s narrator and protagonist is Charles Ryder, a painter. ![]() It was, he said later, “an attempt to trace the workings of the divine purpose in a pagan world, in the lives of an English Catholic family, half-paganized themselves, in the world of 1923–1939.”įor the few Commonweal readers unfamiliar with the novel, a brief synopsis may be in order. The scope of more than a decade, the heightened style, and the complex structure would all stretch his powers and produce what early on he called his magnum opus. ![]() When he sat down to begin work on Brideshead Revisited in February, 1944, he was aware that this would be his most ambitious novel. Evelyn Waugh cultivated a reputation for being cantankerous-he once listed some provocations as “cooking and theology and clothes and grammar and dogs”-so it is surprising to discover that he kept his equanimity about responses to various stages of the composition and reception of Brideshead Revisited, his best-known and most profitable novel and the one in which he seems to have had the greatest emotional and artistic investment. ![]() ![]() Though the story is set in a bygone era, it still seems to connect with younger audiences, he says. "A lot of young people at that time would go into marriages knowing very little about sex," says the British novelist whose previous works include Saturday, Amsterdam and Atonement. The year 1962 "stands on the cusp of that huge shift in sexual relations, but also social relations," McEwan tells Robert Siegel. He is eager to consummate their relationship. ![]() Florence, the bride, is a violinist in a string quartet. In Ian McEwan's new novella On Chesil Beach, a disastrous wedding night in 1962 becomes a cautionary tale about the transition from innocence to experience.Įdward, the groom, has studied history, and likes American rock 'n' roll. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blissful week they leave behind their daily lives have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. And still haven’t told their best friends. Except, now-for reasons they’re still not discussing-they don’t. ![]() Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by BuzzFeed ∙ Paste Magazine ∙ Elle ∙ Southern Living ∙ SheReads ∙ Culturess ∙ Medium ∙ Her Campus ∙ Readers Digest ∙ Zibby Mag and more!Ī couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Anyone who appreciates historical narrative in which the boundaries of human endurance are examined will wholeheartedly appreciate this book. The endless monotony of not knowing whether they would survive and the toll it took upon their psyche is profound and gut-wrenching. One can almost feel the sting of the Antarctic coldness and imagine the endless darkness and despair as it wraps its brutal shroud upon the crew. The use of primary sources and Sancton’s unique, almost novel-like writing style is captivating. In its most basic structure, this work is a study of human nature under horrific conditions and how leadership, professionalism, and compassion ultimately prevailed over madness and disease. ![]() Sancton does a brilliant job of transporting the reader to a far-off place and time. Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgicas Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Paperback). filled with historical facts, astonishing detail, and firsthand narratives of the Belgica’s crew. In graphic and meticulously researched detail Sancton describes the countless impediments that pushed these men to the brink of insanity. ![]() |