![]() ![]() ![]() Meeting a whole array of different characters, she’s drawn from it all putting it back into her work, thus bringing her material to life on the page. Moving around as a child from places as varied as Colorado to Denver and even to the West County of England, she’s managed to gain a wide-range of experience during her lifetime. Learning humor and romance, she schooled herself in the genre, whilst proving herself adept within the many different areas. With a keen interest in writing early on, she honed her craft over the years as it was always what she wanted to do. Growing up in the city of Gary in Indiana, Kristen Ashley had all American upbringing as she grew up in middle-class surroundings. This is a career that has run for some time now and shows no signs of slowing down with more books planned on the horizon. Taking a humorous approach to her subjects, she manages to attain a populist appeal with her light-hearted and easy going books. An American author of great repute, Kristen Ashley is well regarded for her easily accessible and entertaining brand of romance. ![]()
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![]() It has yet to achieve the momentum of gay rebellion that creates a mainstream gay culture-even today the majority of gay people simply stay in the closet. It’s a country that’s moved past the cultural stagnation of communism but still suffers from open homophobia and refuses even to acknowledge hate crimes.Ī communist country from 1946 until 1990, Bulgaria was relatively bereft of the tools that challenge the dominant heterostructure and propel discourse-film, literature, and art. In his debut novel, What Belongs to You, Greenwell expands Mitko into a 190-page meditation on sex, desire, identity, rejection, humiliation, and what it’s like to navigate these complex subjects in Bulgaria during the early 2010s. ![]() The book, a mix of fiction and memoir, is an account of the sexual and romantic relationship between two men: the eponymous Bulgarian male hustler, and the narrator, ostensibly based on the author, who works as a teacher at the American College in Sofia, where Greenwell taught for four years. Garth Greenwell, an American poet, critic, and fiction writer, first came to prominence in 2011 with his novella Mitko. ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on unpublished personal accounts by individuals at all levels and from all sides - not only from Britain, Australia and New Zealand, but unusually from Turkey and France too - Peter Hart combines his trademark eye for vivid personal stories with a strong narrative to bring a modern view of this military disaster to a popular audience. Peter Hart is Oral Historian of the Imperial War Museum and works as battlefield tour guide at Gallipoli. ![]() It had begun as a bold move led by the British to ultimately capture Constantinople, but this definitive new history explains that from the initial landings - which ended with so much blood in the sea it could be seen from aircraft overhead - to the desperate attacks of early summer and the battle of attrition that followed, it was a lunacy that was never going to succeed. Gueprette recalls the damage to the French ship Suffen during a naval battle in 1915.One of the most famous battles in history, Gallipoli forced Churchill from office, established Turkey's iconic founder Mustafa Kemal ('Ataturk') and marked Australia's emergence as a nation in its own right. As for our young men, a few minutes ago, so alert, so self-confident, all now lying dead on the bare deck, blackened burned skeletons, twisted in all directions, no trace of any clothing, the fire having devoured all.' Vice Admiral P. ![]() 'The scene was tragically macabre: the image of desolation, the flames spared nothing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Signed by the Author (her signature only). The first Bad Kitty novel by the author of the Arboretti Family Saga series and 'Minders.' Bound in the original black boards, stamped in bright metallic pink on the spine. Murder mystery set in Las Vegas, for younger readers (ages 12 and up). ![]() First printing with "First Edition" so stated and complete number row on the copyright page (123456789 10). HarperCollins, 16.99 (268pp) ISBN 978-0-06-078108-8 Quirky characters breathe energy into Jaffe's ( Bad Girl, for adults) silly, if sometimes confusing. DUST JACKET IN PROTECTIVE BRODART COVER - A VERY COLLECTIBLE COPY OF THIS BOOK - PHOTOS OF THE ACTUAL BOOK SENT UPON REQUEST. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket (lightly rubbed, half-inch closed tear to its rear panel). : Bad Kitty: FIRST EDITION/SECOND PRINTING - NEW & UNREAD - SPINE HAS NOT BEEN CRACKED - no flaws or defects - Hardcover in Dust Jacket as issued. ![]() ![]() She has also added a cute sketch of a cat beneath her signature. SIGNED by the AUTHOR in pink ink directly on the title page ("Be good!" and her signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: The cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the Earth once and for all. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. In Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White, 16-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him – the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The primary story involves a naïve country girl, Catherine Morland, who journeys to the big city to come out into the world. ![]() Gothic motifs are only one aspect of the book, of course. Several of Austen’s juvenilia played with gothic norms, making Northanger Abbey a bridge between her youthful writing efforts and her mature fiction. Gothic tales feature innocent heroines who, betrayed or abandoned by family and associates, meet with strange and terrifying happenings in the dark corners of gloomy castles or eerie old houses. It is also a book closely tied to one of the important forms of the eighteenth century, the gothic novel. It was the first finished and the last to be revised the first sold for publication, the last (with Persuasion) to see print a novel of her youth that has many touches of an old master. Northanger Abbey is the most anomalous of Jane Austen’s novels. ![]() ![]() And so Patty’s also running for her mom, who can’t. She runs from the reason WHY she’s not able to live with her “real” mom anymore: her mom has The Sugar, and Patty is terrified that the disease that took her mom’s legs will one day take her away forever. She runs for many reasons-to escape the taunts from the kids at the fancy-schmancy new school she’s been sent to ever since she and her little sister had to stop living with their mom. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team-a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. A newbie to the track team, Patina must learn to rely on her teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons in this New York Times bestselling follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Ghost by New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds. ![]() ![]() Thanks to her ability to speak her mind, readers experience the heavy truth of the often brutal and intense way African Americans have been treated. Ultimately, Cassie learns that she and her family have something nobody can take away from them. She learns about racism quickly the year the Night Riders come to town, as many dangerous, scary, and ill-natured things happen. ![]() Until now, Cassie had been well protected by her family from racism, and she had no idea just how important it was that her family had their own piece of land. Readers learn through the eyes of nine-year-old Cassie Logan what it was like to grow up during this often brutally dangerous time. ![]() The African American Logan family struggles in all areas of life, including socially and culturally. It was a time of depression (money is hard to come by for most) and segregation (when black people were treated poorly because of the color of their skin). ![]() Taylor won the Coretta Scott King Award and a Newbery Medal for Roll of Thunder, Hear Me Cry-plus too many more awards to list here. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of which have aged not at all but Babette's Feast, while unapologetically middlebrow, remains incredibly likable, soothing, and honest. One of those mainstream foreign movies that used to be able to make it huge in English-speaking countries because they were both unchallenging and good/not great in pretty much every manner of their creation, you know the ones. ![]() That is the last time I shall mention Out of Africa in comparison to Babette's Feast, for while the American film is prestigious and pokey and fricking dull, the Danish picture is charming and winsome and intensely pleasant. Remember after Out of Africa came out, how there was that huge Karen Blixen fad at the movies? Everybody trying to get a piece of that Blixen magic, and you could hardly walk into a multiplex without seeing three or four films based on her writing? No? Probably because it didn't actually happen: there were only two Blixen adaptations to come out in the next decade, both Danish: the hugely obscure TV movie Sorgagre, and the Oscar-winning costume drama Babette's Feast, but since both of those came out in 1987, the filthy cynic in me can't help but assume that Out of Africa helped serve as, let us say, an "inspiration" to the filmmakers. My thanks to him for letting me cover my ass. ![]() Chris Walters included a list of possible reviews along with his Carry On Campaign donation, and I used the excuse to fill one of the more embarrassing holes in my film viewing history. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Georgia and I have been friends for 25 years and I am deeply proud to be part of the team working to share her family’s remarkable story,” Kail said. Related Elijah Kelley to Star in Lee Daniels' Sammy Davis Jr. I couldn’t be more excited to partner with him, with our incredible show runner, Erica Lipez, and with the amazing teams at Old 320, 20th, and Hulu as we bring the story of my ancestors - and through it, the story of the Holocaust - to the screen.” When We Were the Lucky Ones landed in my dear friend Tommy Kail’s hands, I knew it had found its home. “It was a discovery that changed my life, inspiring a decade-long journey to unearth and record my family’s story. ![]() “I’ll never forget the day, at 15 years old, I learned that I came from a family of Holocaust survivors,” the author said in a statement, per Deadline. Hunter’s novel is inspired by her own ancestors. ![]() Thomas Kail ( Fosse/Verdon, Hamilton) has signed on to direct and executive produce, and Hunter will also serve as an executive producer. It will be written and executive produced by Erica Lipez ( Julia, The Morning Show). Hulu has given the adaptation an eight-episode limited series order. We Were the Lucky Onestells the story of a Jewish family separated in WWII and determined to reunite. Joey King will star in the Hulu adaptation of Georgia Hunter’s bestselling novel We Were the Lucky Ones, the streaming service announced April 29. ![]() |