![]() ![]() I live near Boston, and love all the museums and long, leafy walks this part of the world provides, but if you ask me where I’m from, I’ll always say California. I’ve lived on both coasts, and currently call Massachusetts home. ![]() I am also the founder of an award-winning journal of YA literature, YARN. If you want to know more about those years, check out my memoir This Is Not a Writing Manual: Notes for the Young Writer in the Real World(Writer’s Digest Books) under the name Kerri Majors. I’m proud to say it spent four weeks on the Indie Bestseller List, and got some great buzz! I’ll also have another historical novel coming your way from Berkley in 2023, a fact that makes me feel incredibly lucky and grateful after spending so many years (and years!) writing and working on the craft. My third, The Paris Bookseller, about trailblazing entrepreneur Sylvia Beach and the original Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris, came out this year. ![]() ![]() My first novel, The Kennedy Debutante, came out in 2018, and my second in 2020: The Girl In White Gloves: A Novel of Grace Kelly. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I read the splendid Everyman’s Library edition – a hardback with an excellent 15-page introduction by Michael Dirda that’s isn’t expensive nonetheless. Only the very first chapter, “The Psychohistorians”, was written for the publication of the first book itself. At first I wanted to do one book at a time, but when I finished Foundation, it was obvious that these books are better reviewed as a whole, as they are a sole collection of short stories and novellas first published in Astounding Science-Fiction, from 1942 to 1950, under the auspices of editor John W. I read some more of Isaac Asimov too: I, Robot (1950), Caves of Steel (1954), The End of Eternity (1955), The Gods Themselves (1972), and the godawful Foundation prequels – Prelude to Foundation (1988) and Forward the Foundation (1993).Īnd now, after my rereads of the entire Dune series, and Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun, the time felt right to reread and review Foundation, Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation. It became one of my favorite series, even liking book 4 and 5 from 1982 and ’86 most – back then because of their scientific-mystical all-is-one slant. ![]() So I dove into its canon, and the Foundation series became the first thing I read after I gobbled up Iain M. Some Culture novels by Banks followed, and I became enamored with science fiction as genre. ![]() About 14 years ago a friend recommended me Anathem by Neil Stephenson, and I’ve been back at reading fiction since. For about a decade I didn’t read any fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() – Eros: Misconceptions About the Art of Romance and Sexuality ![]() – The Actor: How to Live an Authentic Life Continue your transformation with the other three books of the Mystery School Series: ![]() Use your new understanding to make peace with the past transform your relationship with the present and create a new script for your life. As a student of life, learn to recognize the creative choices that have made your reality what it is now, and the choices that are still available to you. The Mystery School Series, is a four-part course exploring the spiritual mystery of life, with lessons that bring insight on its specific challenges taught through theory, practice, and imaginative exercises. Focusing on developing everyday awareness of human thinking and behaviour, this is an enlightening and accessible book for people of all ages looking to understand themselves better, and transform themselves through mindful awareness. Divided into five days' worth of teaching, it shows readers how observing their loss can help them recover. Grief is the third book in Don Miguel Ruiz and Barbara Emris Mystery School series. And while you cannot control that loss, this book will help you consciously guide your own recovery, overcome grief and grow personally. When a loved one passes away, those left behind can often lose their bearings. In the latest from the Mystery School Series, world-renowned spiritual guru and international best-selling author Don Miguel Ruiz guides us through the painful process of dealing with grief. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite their past quarrels, Hadrian makes Vix his personal guard, and he and Sabina resolve to defy the new emperor, the foreshadowed consequences of which point to the continuation of the series. After Trajan suffers a stroke, Plotina’s manipulations secure Hadrian’s ascension to the throne, making Sabina the reluctant empress. Vix quickly rises in the ranks, finds favor in the eyes of Trajan after killing the king of Dacia, and marries, though the sexual tension between Vix and Sabina remains. Meanwhile, Norbanus’s intellectual and independent daughter, Sabina, falls into a heated love affair with Vix, though Sabina eventually chooses to marry Hadrian, the tribune detested by Emperor Trajan but beloved by the emperor’s wife, Plotina. In Quinn’s epic, sexy romp-the long-awaited sequel to Daughters of Rome-young, gruff, and cunning Vix has returned to Rome to set about making a name for himself, beginning as a guard in the home of Senator Marcus Norbanus. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mallenbrandt, the gym teacher, blew his whistle: Change sides. The wind was from the east, and the crematorium between the United Cemeteries and the Engineering School was operating. ![]() Through the stalks of grass the caretaker's black cat showed a white bib. A trimotored plane crept across the sky, slow and loud, but couldn't drown out my tooth. On the cinder track the sprinters were practicing starts or limbering up. My tooth kept saying one word, over and over again. In the stadium, handball goals were being made thick and fast on both sides. We had lost hands down and were waiting for the return game. The tournament had been going on for two hours. Hotten Sonntag rubbed his bat with a woolen stocking. The cat belonged to the caretaker and was black. A few of the boys were chewing or plucking at blades of grass. A cat sauntered diagonally across the field and no one threw anything at it. I ought to have gone to the dentist, but they wouldn't let me because I was hard to replace on the team. “… and one day, after Mahlke had learned to swim, we were lying in the grass, in the Schlagball field. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author currently makes her home in South Carolina, where she lives with her beloved husband. The Wall Street Journal has even highlighted her engaging and educational presentations, which have appeared on the newspaper's front page.Īn accomplished author with rich and authentic characterization, Deeanne has received several awards, including: Best Long Historical of the Year (RITA Award), National Readers’ Choice, Best Historical of the Year (RT Reviewers), Librarians’ Choice, Golden Quill, and many more. ![]() in Elementary Education from Texas A&M, Deeanne taught for five years before becoming a freelance journalist with credits including People Magazine, Parents and Parenting. She is popularly known for writing the bestselling It Happened at the Fair (2013) and Fair Play (2014), and the RITA Award-winning Tiffany Girl (2015). ![]() Deeanne Gist is an American international bestselling and award-winning author of historical fiction and historical romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Having amassed years of consuming South Korean culture (and/or studying Korean contemporary literature and history like I did), I suppose Singaporeans are now more comfortable with Korean history lessons, which would otherwise have been entirely uninteresting and irrelevant. It is opportune as many Singaporeans have gradually come to embrace the Hallyu wave that swept the region over the last decade with an equal measure of Kpop and Korean cinema/TV (think makjang, variety shows, thriller films and period dramas). The exhibition, which started in April, was intellectually and visually satisfying as it attempted to condense the vicissitudes of Joseon’s 500-year history (1392–1897) by relating stories of more than 150 artefacts. Finally, I visited the Joseon Korea: Court Treasures And City Life exhibition at Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) before it closes this Sunday. ![]() ![]() ![]() Can Azalea possibly force Christian-now the illustrious Earl of Glaedon-to remember the truth? Or must she somehow win him away from her dazzlingly beautiful cousin to prevent him from committing bigamy-and breaking her heart again?īook 6 of Brenda Hiatt's bestselling Hiatt Regency Classics collection and Book 1 of the Americana Dreaming collection. but seems to have no memory whatsoever of their marriage, or of her! Even worse, he is betrothed. Once there, she is stunned to discover that Christian, the beloved husband she has believed dead all this time, is quite definitely alive. ![]() Six years later, Azalea honors her grandfather's dying wish by sailing for England herself to recover her inheritance. THE SAINT OF SEVEN DIALS The Complete Collection Scandalous Virtue Prequel to the Saint of Seven Dials Series. When she learns of his death at sea, she is devastated. Azalea, however, falls head over heels in love with her handsome new husband with all the impetuousness and romanticism of her youth before he sails back to England mere days after the wedding. ![]() To safeguard her future, orphaned Azalea's grandfather arranges her marriage-in name only, of course, as she is not yet of age-to the son of his oldest friend, Lord Glaedon. Brenda Hiatt is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of twenty-three novels (so far), including historical romance, traditional Regency. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nada como apelos a ninguém pensa nas criancinhas, apontado os traumas morais infligidos às mentes juvenis pelo simples olhar para uma vinheta de banda desenhada como causa maior do evidente declínio e queda da moralidade clássica. Este usou a violência gráfica dos comics de terror como forma de fomentar uma cruzada moralista que levou a indústria a auto-regular-se com um redutor código de conduta. Depois de levar por tabela, ou melhor, ser um poster case da censura aos comics motivada pelo pânico moral alimentado pelo falso psicólogo Hayes, a EC Comics teve de mudar de linha editorial. ![]() ![]() ![]() The old chief Neptune, however, was there still. He told me that the Indians were nearly all gone to the seaboard and to Massachusetts, partly on account of the smallpox, of which they are very much afraid, having broken out in Oldtown. The ferryman's boy had the key to it, but the father, who was a blacksmith, after a little hesitation, cut the chain with a cold chisel on the rock. We were ferried across to the Indian Island in a bateau. The succeeding morning, a relative of mine who is well acquainted with the Penobscot Indians took me in his wagon to Oldtown to assist me in obtaining an Indian for this expedition. Canoeing in the Wilderness, Author(s)-Henry David Thoreau, Publisher-Bottom of the Hill Publishing, ISBN-9781612035123, Pages-86, Binding-Paperback. No one could have been better fitted than Thoreau to enjoy such a region and to transmit his enjoyment of it to others.I started on my third excursion to the Maine woods Monday, July 20, 1857, with one companion, arriving at Bangor the next day at noon. Here was a vast tract of almost virgin woodland, peopled only with a few loggers and pioneer farmers, Indians, and wild animals. The chief attraction that inspired Thoreau to make the trip was the primitiveness of the region. It is particularly charming in its blending of meditative and poetic fancies with the minute description of the voyager's experiences. ![]() The record of the journey is the latter half of his The Maine Woods, which is perhaps the finest idyl of the forest ever written. At the time Thoreau made this wilderness canoe trip he was forty years old. ![]() |