![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These frequently have period settings that range from the Victorian era to echoes of 1930s detective fiction, and are most typically rendered as gently macabre or Gothic line-drawings, often with extensive cross-hatching and background detail such as lovingly rendered antique wallpaper. Though his many covers for Doubleday Anchor books in the 1950s were important in establishing the "quality paperback" as a prestige marketing category, he is best known for his more than 100 illustrated chapbooks. As an artist he was essentially self-taught despite a single semester of study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1943 his acknowledged influences included Chinese, Japanese and Symbolist art. (1925-2000) US author and artist who produced many book jackets and internal illustrations, often for children's books. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Verghese, 67, is an Ethiopian-born physician who has also written two memoirs. “After we hung up I realized that I’d reflexively risen to my feet and stayed that way throughout our long chat.” “My thoughts were racing back through the decade-plus of writing ‘The Covenant of Water,’ during which time my mother died, and Covid had descended on us,” he said. Verghese said in a statement that receiving the call from Winfrey, the dream of countless authors, felt like a “miracle.” I couldn’t put the book down until the very last page - it was unputdownable!” Many moments during the read I had to stop and remember to breathe. ![]() And I’ve been reading since I was 3,” Winfrey said in a statement. ![]() “This is one of the top five books I’ve read in my lifetime. Verghese’s current book is a multigenerational saga set in India from 1900-1977. “The Covenant of Water,” published Tuesday, is Verghese’s first work of fiction since his million-selling “Cutting for Stone” came out in 2009. NEW YORK (AP) - The long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, “The Covenant of Water,” is Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick. ![]() ![]() ![]() If they escape the deadly threats surrounding them, can Maksim overcome his past-to offer Cat his future? Only then will she tempt him with what he really wants: her, all tied up with a bow. After their mind-blowing encounter burns out of control, the lovers crave more. A master’s grad and former athlete, she has traveled over much of the world and draws from those experiences to create her. Her very first client is beyond gorgeous, but when he tells her what he plans to do to her, Cat almost walks out of the door. Kresley Cole is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Immortals After Dark paranormal series, the young adult Arcana Chronicles series, the erotic Gamemakers series, and five award-winning historical romances. ![]() Rich, irresistible politician/Mafiya boss Maksimilian Sevastyan prefers tall, obedient blondes to fulfill hiscomplicated desires. Now she’s hiding out, forced to start working as an escort in Miami. A need colder than Siberian winter meets an attitude hotter than the Florida sun in 1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Coles sultry new Game Maker novel. ![]() Except her.Catarina Marín was a well-off young wife until her world fell apart. That is, until the icy Russian encounters a disobedient brunette whose exquisite little body threatens his legendary restraint. Rich, irresistible politician/Mafiya boss Maksimilian Sevastyan prefers tall, obedient blondes to fulfill his…complicated desires. A need colder than Siberian winter meets an attitude hotter than the Florida sun in 1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Coles sultry new Game. ![]() A need colder than Siberian winter meets an attitude hotter than the Florida sun in #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole’s sultry new Game Maker novel.Everyone fears the Master. ![]() ![]() ![]() She wanted to blow up the whole goddamn charade. Solanas wasn’t interested in gender equality or partnerships. The SCUM Manifesto is equally amusing, arresting, and bludgeoning, without claiming allegiance to any one mood. It’s hard to not be swept up in her theatrics, even if you suspect she’s being facetious-and maybe she isn’t. Solanas edges past absurdity and into a kind of fanatical idealism in which men are strategically exterminated and women are free to “create a magic world.” There’s no more war in Solanas’s would-be utopia no government no economy just big-hearted women “grooving” on each other. Part satire, part feminist cri de coeur, part science-fiction reverie, it’s a text whose rhetorical power depends on excess. The SCUM Manifesto, which Solanas self-published a year earlier and peddled on the streets of New York, can’t be read at face value. “Read my manifesto and it will tell you who I am,” she said. She claimed she had lots of reasons-but didn’t elaborate. ![]() She’d turned herself in to a rookie traffic cop in Times Square, explaining that Warhol had “too much control of life.” When reporters at the station asked why she did it, Solanas was more evasive. On June 3, 1968, Valerie Solanas was hauled into Manhattan’s 13th Precinct booking room after shooting Andy Warhol in the torso. “I told you from the start just how this would end.” - Hole Valerie: or, The Faculty of Dreams: A Novel by Sara Stridsberg. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is known for writing stories full of action that keeps readers flipping pages well past their bedtimes, strong heroes who adore strong heroines, lovable secondary characters, swoon-worthy romance, and humor that readers frequently complain makes them laugh out loud at inappropriate moments. Audible chose Awaken the Darkness as Dianne Duvall is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of the acclaimed Immortal Guardians series, the exciting new Aldebarian Alliance series, and The Gifted Ones series. It was also a Barnes and Noble Top 5 Indie Favorite Pick. AudioFile Magazine chose The Segonian (Aldebarian Alliance Book 2) as one of the Best Audiobooks of 2021 and awarded it the AudioFile Earphones Award for Exceptional Audio. Dianne Duvall is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of the acclaimed Immortal Guardians series, the exciting new Aldebarian Alliance series, and The Gifted Ones series. ![]() ![]() New-come pale green bristled on every bush, and red new growth tipped every tree branch. It should have been summer by now, but spring had been late in coming, and the land had run wild to catch up. The sickly sweet smell of corruption faded by the time the wind crossed that invisible line men called the border of Shienar, where spring flowers hung thick in the trees. ![]() ![]() But it was a beginning.īorn among black, knife-edged peaks, where death roamed the high passes yet hid from things still more dangerous, the wind blew south across the tangled forest of the Great Blight, a forest tainted and twisted by the touch of the Dark One. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Dhoom. The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass leaving memories that become legend, then fade to myth, and are long forgot when that Age comes again. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What makes him different from other entrepreneurs is his “notebook”. No, I am not talking about a sword or a knife, Sir Branson’s secret weapon is his tiny notebook. He thinks one should not indulge in a business at all if it is for money making purpose only. While many entrepreneurs start a business to motivate money, Branson argues that if a business is started for money purposes, it is not good. ![]() Branson is known to run his companies not for its revenue collection but for the creativity it provides. Branson has introduced a legion of businesses, and he presumes that a business must exercise one’s creative instincts. While many entrepreneurs think that a business must generate revenues, therefore, they prefer to keep their enterprises under a profuse amount of pressure, on the contrary, Branson postulates that a business must be fun to indulge in and this is one the best quality of Richard Branson. Richard Branson believes in Having Fun in Business So how exactly do you think a dyslexic British teenager became conspicuous in public and why is he disparate from other business tycoons. ![]() Branson owns around 400 companies under the name of Virgin Group, few of them being one of their kind and highly successful. That entrepreneur today is known as Sir Richard Branson. A 15-year-old dyslexic boy who could not read or write struggled his way through the cutthroat competition and became one of the most sought after leader and entrepreneur. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Mummy tells of Im-Ho-Tep an Ancient Egyptian priest who was mummified alive for blasphemously attempting to bring back to life his deceased lover, Ankh-es-en-amon using the Scroll of Thoth. They landed on Ancient Egypt, still popular thanks to the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb ten years earlier and all the associated talk of curses. Universal Studios, fresh from their success with Dracula and Frankenstein (both 1931) were looking for a vehicle for their new star, Boris Karloff. It wasn’t until 1932 that the definitive mummy movie would make it onto screens. Most dealt with reincarnation and some were comedies in which a character wraps himself up as a mummy in order to scare people. However, few of these films actually featured a reanimated mummy. With the rise of cinema, mummies were every bit as suitable for celluloid terror as vampires and other monsters and there were several silent mummy-themed movies like The Eyes of the Mummy (1918, released in the U.S. Although the concept of reanimated mummies are never mentioned in Egyptian sources, the writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century were fascinated by the creepy possibilities they posed as plot devices. In writing them I drew on mythology more modern than ancient. Mummies feature in my novels Curse of the Blood Fiends and Silver Tomb. ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters seem as thin as the book before, as a strong female character Ever again falls short, she stumbles into every situation without a clue, although she can hear people's thoughts as well as see their lives with a touch she still manages to not have much insight into the way other people think and feel. The story follows the same outline as the last book.Ī rogue immortal threatens the happy lives of Ever and Damen and soon the whole school is turned against Ever and she is running out of time to save Damen's life. This is the second book in the Immortals Series, we start off where we left off with Ever and Damen happy together, which means that they aren't going to be happy for very long. It's all she's ever wanted – but so is Damen. But in searching for a cure for him, Ever accidentally discovers a way to twist time so she can save her family from the accident that killed them. Panicked at the thought of losing him, Ever finds a path to the in-between world known as Summerland, where she learns the secrets of Damen's tortured past. ![]() Just as she's getting stronger, though, Damen seems to be weakening. Things have changed for Ever since she met her beloved Damen – not least because she's got a whole new set of powers, courtesy of her new Immortal status. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Early life Ĭarle was born on June 25, 1929, in Syracuse, New York, the son of Johanna (née Oelschlaeger) and Erich W. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2010. who have made lasting contributions to the field. In 2003, the American Library Association awarded Carle the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal (now called the Children's Literature Legacy Award), a prize for writers or illustrators of children's books published in the U.S. He illustrated more than 70 books, most of which he also wrote, and more than 145 million copies of his books have been sold around the world. His career as an illustrator and children's book author took off after he collaborated on Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?. His picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, first published in 1969, has been translated into more than 66 languages and sold more than 50 million copies. Eric Carle (J– May 23, 2021) was an American author, designer and illustrator of children's books. ![]() |