degree in 19th century European History.". She says that chose a Regency romance for her debut because: "as any published author will tell you, it's best to limit the unknowns in a first book, and not only had I grown up reading Georgette Heyer, but I earned my M.A. Her novel "The Autumn Countess" was published in 1978. Catherine wrote the novel in the evenings, and when she finish it, she sent it to an editor at Signet. Her husband challenged her to prove herself, and the two spent the weekend plotting out a storyline for a gothic romance. One night when they were home together, she found herself in the middle of a particularly bad book and threw it across room, asserting that even she could do better. She spent many of her evenings alone, reading romance novels. She graduated from the University of Texas and earned a degree at Boston College in early 19th-century European History.Ĭatherine married Anton Pogany, a medical student, and she took a job as a speech writer for a Wall Street company president. Jean Catherine Coulter was born on 26 December 1942 in Cameron County, Texas, USA, where she grew up in a horse ranch.
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His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868), considered the first modern English detective novel. Read it for the female doubling central plot device alone - a rare feature in the writing of men about women. William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. It was first published, in weekly parts, in All the Year Round, beginning in the number for November 23rd 1859, and ending with the number for August 22nd 1860. Possibly Wilkie Collins' most famous novel, The Woman In White remade the Gothic Horror novel by taking its characters and tropes and setting them in commonplace surroundings among "people like us", Featuring unforgettable characters such as the incomparable Count Fosco and the redoubtable Marion Halcombe (a woman for whom male Victorian readers politely inquired of Wilkie the address as they wanted to marry her), The Woman In White with its compassionate treatment of those suffering mental distress ought to be credited with having put the cause of mental health care a hundred years ahead - had not Jane Eyre with its madwoman in the attic been generally credited with the reverse. The original Mss of The Woman in White By Wilkie Collins ‘I began this story on 15 August 1859, at Broadstairs, and finished it on the 26th July 1860 at 12 Harley Street, London. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Woman in White - version 2 of the American West: Aislynns Story- Book I (I) Denning, Susan on Amazon. Night Sky with Exit Wounds Hardcover 7 June 2019 by Ocean Vuong (Author) 1,720 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 15.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 51.25 13 New from 46.32 Paperback 19.25 13 New from 19. Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as a 2016 100 Leading Global Thinker, alongside Hillary Clinton, Ban Ki-Moon and Justin Trudeau, Ocean was also named by BuzzFeed Books as one of “32 Essential Asian American Writers” and has been profiled on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” PBS NewsHour, Teen Vogue, VICE, The Fantastic Man, and The New Yorker.īorn in Saigon, Vietnam, he lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he serves as an Assistant Professor in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at Umass-Amherst. and is currently reading Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong. Vuong's writings have been featured in The Atlantic, Harpers, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and American Poetry Review, which awarded him the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. A Ruth Lilly fellow from the Poetry Foundation, his honors include fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Academy of American Poets, and the Pushcart Prize. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016, winner of the T.S. Ocean Vuong is the author of the debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, out from Penguin Press (2019) and forthcoming in 12 other languages worldwide. Flagler and a woman named Julia Tuttle stand at the center of the story: The importance of Flagler’s East Coast Railroad and Royal Palm Hotel led some residents to propose naming the city after him, and he is often depicted as the city’s “father.” Tuttle, a businesswoman who lured Flagler to Miami and otherwise promoted the region during the 1890s, earned the title of “Mother of Miami.” But Tuttle and Flagler did not create something out of nothing. This legend, repeated for more than a century, blends truth with fiction, and reminds us that history is as much about forgetting as it is about remembering. Onlookers marveled as the “metropolis” seemed to emerge overnight from the “wilderness.” Miami’s population boomed, from roughly 300 in 1896 to nearly 30,000 in 1920. From their vantage point, South Florida was the Wild West-and Miami could only exist if incoming settlers were able to tame it. Visitors from across the country were lured to this extravagant five-story hotel, at the edge of the nation’s southernmost frontier. Miami is widely known as the “Magic City.” It earned its nickname in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, shortly after the arrival of Henry Flagler’s East Coast Railroad and the opening of his opulent Royal Palm Hotel in 1897. I do try to give a certain amount of leeway to books that are blatantly escapism, but I have watched commercials more compelling than this. Sky keeps a great deal of the plot hidden, forgetting to show instead of telling. The metaphors and similes are bizarre, the characters are flat, and the language choices are repetitive to say the least. My review, though, is based not on the content - which was disturbing enough that I did not even get 1/4 way into it - but on the spectacularly lackluster writing. Now, having seen the summaries of Sky's other offerings, I can see that this was the wrong expectation entirely. I did not expect torture, rape, or violence, but found all three. Apparently what I define as "dominant" is very different from what others imagine. I got this on the strength of a particular review, but oof. Nancy had been content to love Kitty secretly for almost a year before realising that Kitty felt the same way about her, and they started their secret romance. Shockingly for the times, both girls wore their hair short, like a boy’s, for their act. The two girls lived and worked together for some time before Nancy joined Kitty on stage, singing and dancing in men’s clothes. Eventually Kitty was offered work in a better theatre in London and asked Nancy to go with her as her dresser, an opportunity which Nancy leapt at. Nancy went to every one of Kitty’s shows until someone introduced her to Kitty and they became friends. Nancy was a teenager when she first saw Kitty Butler impersonating a London ‘masher’ on stage and was instantly smitten. It is set in the late 1800s in London and tells the story of a young woman who falls in love with a music-hall entertainer, leaving her family and security to follow her heart. No 526 Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (Book 2 of #20booksofsummer) I would have devoured them and developed a big appetite for even more of this sort of truth-telling. I wish I could have read History Smashers when I was in elementary school. History Smashers Myths Lies Secrets Smash the stories behind famous moments in history and expose the hidden truth. "Informative and fun, eye-opening and entertaining. Absolutely smashing!" -Candace Fleming, award-wining author "Kate Messner serves up fun, fast history for kids who want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Southern French Indochina was close to the Philippines, and US leaders worried that Japan might use its new position to stage an attack. "A history book for middle-graders that should be on everyone's (child and adult) to-read list." -Shelf Awareness History Smashers: The American Revolution by Kate Messner, Justin Greenwood (Illustrator) 5.0 Paperback 8.99 Hardcover 12.99 Paperback 8.99 eBook 6.99 Audiobook 0. “Messner and Meconis provide a timely perspective on an important part of American history.” - School Library Journal "Well-researched, entertaining, and packed with facts." -Booklist "The book’s format may be a good match for those with shorter attention spans, and permits it to be gratifyingly capacious in what it covers." -The New York Times Book Review "Critical, respectful, engaging: exemplary history for children." -Kirkus Reviews, starred review Fatal Attraction on Paramount+ May 5, 2023 If you felt the first few installments were slow, rest assured that they’ve picked up the pace, and we can’t wait to see your reactions, so share them with us after the episode! Things escalate rather quickly as the pieces fall into place, and we gain more insight into how Dan ended up in prison for a decade in a half. We can’t call it Fatal Attraction if we don’t get dangerously close to the edge on that front, yes? Now this poor maid is on the run, dodging being the primary suspect in her boss’ death, there’s a missing 8-year-old in peril, and oh yeah, this batsh*t crazy film is inspired by actual events! Sunday, May 14 We’ve all had some rough days, but waking up next to your employer’s pool, covered in their blood, while they’re dead isn’t what anyone signs up for, am I right? All a girl ever wants to do is clean a wealthy person’s house, get paid well, and go about their day, but it’s never that simple. What the reader will find most interesting about the statements made in the book is the factual approach the author gives, and his facts speak bluntly for themselves. Keel’s observations on phantoms and ultraterrestrials will surprise and intrigue readers. Timothy Leary, Adolph Hitler, Charles Manson, Moses, Jesus Christ, and the Cosmic Consciousness. “The Revolution of the Mind” contains some excellent observations and comments on such people as Dr. Each chapter is crammed full of factual data, and this is data that will lead the reader to other topics of personal study. The total number of chapters is 16.Ī sampling of the chapters will give the reader a good clue to what the author is writing about: “The Continent That Vanished,” “Towers of Glass and Theories of Putty,” “Scientists in Collision,” “Men-in-Black Lore and the CIA,” “The Demise of the Gods,” “The Secret of the Ages,” “Where Is Everybody Going,” “The Revolution of the Mind,” among others. Keel pulls no punches when he examines myth and facts. If you are politically correct, the information revealed in this book may upset you in more ways than one. Our Haunted Planet will find a ready audience of readers interested in some of the great myths and cover-ups in cultures, and its blunt honesty of observation may offend some who are politically correct to the point of ignorance. There are no dull moments in reading a Keel book! He writes in a style that is both educational and entertaining. Keel is a well-known occult historian and has written numerous books over the past 50 years. Harman G (2003) No character or personality. State University of New York Press, Albany Hall DL, Ames RT (1998) Thinking from the Han: self, truth, and transcendence in Chinese and Western culture. J Bus Ethics 113(4):567–581ĭoris J (2002) Lack of character: personality and moral behavior. J Bus Ethics 77(3):347–360Ĭrossan M, Mazutis D, Seijts G (2013) In search of virtue: the role of virtues, values and character strengths in ethical decision making. 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