![]() ![]() ![]() THE LONELINESS OF DISTANT BEINGS took us right into the middle of the Ventura’s several-hundred year mission so that, like main protagonist Seren, we are thrown into this rootless existence, hurtling through space in a tin can with no context, no history, no connection and also no hope of seeing the final destination. Right from the start, I have always known the Ventura’s origin story would have to be told. The answer, my friends, is both far more complicated and surprisingly simple. So here’s a question I keep getting asked… Is THE TRUTH OF DIFFERENT SKIES: Kate Ling, author of The Glow of Fallen Stars and The Loneliness of Distant Beings tells us about her new book coming May 2018, The Truth of Different Skies, and why she decided to write this as a prequel. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The original “On the Road” manuscript scroll. “He doesn’t want to stop to change sheets of paper in the typewriter and uses this teletype paper so he can write in a continuous flow.” Kerouac turned American literature on its head - and turned heads with explicit depictions of a disenfranchised mid-20th century underground freestyling in drugs and sexual liberation, particularly in his best-known work, “On the Road.” Wilbur T. “Jack changed his writing style for this new novel, which becomes ‘On the Road,’ ” explained Kerouac’s nephew, Jim Sampas, a music producer and the literary executor of Jack Kerouac’s estate. The main attraction at the event, dubbed is certainly the original 120-foot “On the Road” scroll, the original manuscript Kerouac typed out while living on West 20th Street in Chelsea. Now, his hometown is throwing him one heck of a party, with exhibits, readings and music, running from early March into April. On March 12, 1922, the counter-cultural icon and “The Dharma Bums” author arrived in Lowell, Massachusetts. It was 100 years ago this week that Beat author Jack Kerouac was born. Publisher drops children’s illustrator for posting anti-trans notes in publicĪuthor James Patterson rips New York Times over its ‘bonkers’ Best Sellers list ![]() How one of North America’s most daring criminals was finally caughtĪdoption rights activist recalls crusade to access birth records ![]() ![]() ![]() He is as cunning and clever as Odysseus - how does a mortal writer inhabit such a man? - and, like Homer, Mantel gives him plenty of grief.Įarly in the book, he hopes for a slightly easier day of just "the usual business, war and peace, famine, traitorous connivance: a failing harvest, a stubborn populace: plague ravaging London, and the king losing his shirt at cards." Incredibly, though, things get quickly more complicated. ![]() A welcome counterpoint to the slacker heroes who stagger through so many contemporary novels, Cromwell trains falcons, adopts orphans, drafts legal briefs, sweet-talks ambassadors, lends money at considerable interest, interrogates witnesses and speaks multiple languages, although he frequently keeps that a secret so he can eavesdrop on servants. The son of an abusive blacksmith, Cromwell has improbably risen to the heights of Master Secretary in the blue-blooded palace, where "the affairs of the whole realm are whispered in his ear." No man in England works harder than he does. Imagine "The Godfather" from the consigliere's point of view, "The West Wing" with Henry VIII instead of Martin Sheen. In "Bring Up the Bodies," the sequel to the Booker Prize-winning novel "Wolf Hall," Hilary Mantel continues the spectacular story of Thomas Cromwell, the 16th-century adviser to the English throne. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whereas Sabella had been a first-person narrative about a beautiful girl who always wears black in a future milieu of interstellar travel and computerized autonomous cars, Kill the Dead was a third-person narrative about a beautiful man who always wears black in an unspecified medievlish Europeanish Dungeons & Dragonsish countryside at first it seems like one of those fantasy novels in which a mysterious stranger shows up at the village tavern, hears rumors of the local monster, then goes off to slay it. After reading only two pages I realized I had been laboring under a delusion: this book, on the surface had very little in common with Sabella. So I had been thinking of Kill the Dead as a sequel to Sabella. ![]() ![]() Isfdb lists 1980's Kill the Dead as the second entry in the two-volume Sabella series, and Kill the Dead appeared with Sabella in a hardcover omnibus produced by the Science Fiction Book Club called Sometimes, After Sunset. ![]() ![]() ![]() This summer the girls become distracted by three handsome boys who arrive uninvited, but are treated to a warm welcome. She is also being visited by the ghost of her dead sister. Only Carrie appears to be grieving still, but she is highly addicted to pain medication after undergoing surgery to make her jaw more ‘Sinclair-like’, which renders her days dream-like and hazy. Their younger sister died the previous summer but the family don’t like to speak about sad things. There are three daughters – the eldest, Carrie, the narrator of the tale Penny, the beautiful one and Bess, now the youngest. They are also terribly unhappy, but well trained in appearing perfect and unassailable. The Sinclairs are beautiful, white and wealthy. You don’t need to have read the first book, however, to enjoy this novel it is fully self-contained. Set on the same private island owned by the wealthy Sinclair family, this story takes one of the adult characters in We Were Liars and looks back to her teenage summers on the island and the simmering passions and tragedy that occurred during her 17th year. We Were Liars, one of the most popular young adult books of recent years, is a thrilling read, and this prequel is just as enthralling. ![]() ![]() Why was Anne Boleyn executed? Who was responsible for Anne Boleyn's fall? Was Anne Boleyn's execution a foregone conclusion, and was she framed?Ĭlaire Ridgway, creator of The Anne Boleyn Files website and best-selling author of The Anne Boleyn Collection, George Boleyn, and On This Day in Tudor History continues her mission to share the real truth about Anne Boleyn.Īt last an account of Anne's last year based on the actual sources from the time, a concentration on the facts and events without sentimentality and overemotional reaction but with distanced appraisal on the part of the author to the possible interpretations of the events. Special features include mini biographies of those involved, a timeline of events, and full referencing. ![]() ![]() The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown is presented in a diary format, allowing listeners to dip in, look up a particular date, or listen from start to finish. The coup against the Queen results in the brutal executions of six innocent people - Anne Boleyn herself, her brother, and four courtiers - and the rise of a new Queen.ĭrawing on 16th-century letters, eye witness accounts, and chronicles, Claire Ridgway leads the listener through the sequence of chilling events one day at a time, telling the true story of Anne Boleyn's fall. During the spring of 1536 in Tudor England, events conspire to bring down Anne Boleyn, the Queen of England. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Quinn Brody, a talented alienist, she submits Beatrice to a series of tests to see if she truly can talk to spirits. ![]() Has she been touched by magic or is she simply losing her mind?Įleanor wants to tread lightly and respect the magic manifest in the girl, but Adelaide sees a business opportunity. Objects appear out of thin air, as if gifts from the dead. Beatrice soon becomes indispensable as Eleanor's apprentice, but her new life with the witches is marred by strange occurrences. Together they cater to Manhattan's high society ladies, specializing in cures, palmistry and potions-and in guarding the secrets of their clients.Īll is well until one bright September afternoon, when an enchanting young woman named Beatrice Dunn arrives at their door seeking employment. Two hundred years after the trials in Salem, Adelaide Thom ('Moth' from The Virgin Cure) has left her life in the sideshow to open a tea shop with another young woman who feels it's finally safe enough to describe herself as a witch: a former medical student and "gardien de sorts" (keeper of spells), Eleanor St. The beloved, bestselling author of The Birth House and The Virgin Cure is back with her most beguiling novel yet, luring us deep inside the lives of a trio of remarkable young women navigating the glitz and grotesqueries of Gilded-Age New York by any means possible, including witchcraft. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Harrowing and moving…In her previous book, Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks proved herself to be a wonderful novelist. “Honorable, elegant and true.”-John Freeman, The Wall Street Journal “A beautifully wrought story….Gripping….A taut plot, vivid characters and provocative issues.”-Heller McAlpin, Los Angeles Times Book Review “Brilliant…Geraldine Brooks’ new novel, March, is a very great book….Brooks has magnificently wielded the novelist’s license.”-Beth Kephart, Chicago Tribune A lushly written, wholly original tale steeped in the details of another time, March secures Geraldine Brooks’s place as a renowned author of historical fiction. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. ![]() With “pitch-perfect writing” ( USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. ![]() Winner of the Pulitzer Prize–a powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord, coming from Viking in October 2015įrom Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story “filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man” (Sue Monk Kidd). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pearce and Lewis are exquisite in the lead roles. There’s a multitude of layers to the script as the key players try to make sense of the information they’re given – assuming the intel isn’t part of another intricate double bluff, of course. And amongst all that, the double agent gives his own account of events. Simultaneously, Elliott reflects on his history with Philby as he questions his friendship, seemingly unsure himself why he did what he did. The crux of the series sees intelligence agent Lily Thomas (Anna Maxwell Martin) interviewing Elliot to determine how much he new about his friend’s secret life and for how long. ![]() What follows is an enthralling hunt for the truth that’s approached from several angles and spans many decades and locations. ![]() Long-time friend and fellow SIS agent Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis) is sent to Beirut to find out why however, the double agent flees during the night and escapes to Russia. The series begins with the bombshell revelation that Philby has been a Soviet spy for two decades. Based on Ben Macintyre’s book of the same name, A Spy Among Friends recounts the taut espionage thrills of SIS (MI6) and Soviet double agent Kim Philby (Guy Pearce) and boasts a tremendous, star-studded cast. ![]() ![]() ![]() Schiavone said that Short isn’t obviously funny, and many of the issues Julia deals with are actually serious. Schiavone said she and her colleagues chose Short for this week’s “Comedy and the Human Condition” theme because she didn’t want a book with typical, slapstick humor, but rather one that was a little humorous but still good literature. ![]() If I was a regular-sized kid I wouldn’t be welcome there.” Short people are in charge in Munchkinland. “I used to think about it all the time, but then I became a Munchkin and everything changed. “I’d stopped worrying about growing,” Julia says in the story. But throughout the novel, she discovers that sometimes what you thought were your flaws are actually your biggest strengths. When her mother forces her to audition for the local university’s summer play, The Wizard of Oz, she’s less than thrilled to be cast as a munchkin. She’s small enough to fit through the dog door in her house, and can roll into a ball and fit in the third seat of the car. Julia is always in the front row for school pictures. “Whether it’s being short or just feeling like you don’t fit in, it’s very relatable.” ![]() “Her struggles are things that every kid faces,” said Karen Schiavone, Special Studies and youth programs associate. Wednesday in Smith Memorial Library, followed by a program put on by Chautauqua Theater Company. Julia is Holly Goldberg Sloan’s lively protagonist in Short, this week’s CLSC Young Readers selection. Julia Marks might be small, but that doesn’t stop her from having a big personality. ![]() |