![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ward, Erika Wilde, Gena Showalter, and Carly Philips.įind Ella Frank at the Y/CON for conference and workshop. Some of her favorite authors include Tiffany Reisz, Kresley Cole, Riley Hart, J.R. Her Confessions series has been praised as “scorching hot!” and “enticingly sexy!”Ī life-long fan of the romance genre, Ella Frank writes contemporary and erotic fiction. Y/CON gets hot with new guests: Ella Frank and Brooke Blaine!Įlla Frank is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the Temptation series, including Try, Take, and Trust and is the co-author of the fan-favorite Preslocke series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() At the macro level of the story, the circular structure of the novel and the concepts of space as a container and space as a network are being shown and so is the use of local names. This article tackles a close reading of McEwan’s novel Saturday from a narratological perspective testing the applicability of a series of spatial categories systematized by Marie-Laure Ryan in the already existing narratological tradition and in her own research in narrative space. Although the work of Ian McEwan, one of the most important modern British writers, has been quite thoroughly researched, the narrative space was rarely the subject of narratological treatment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony. Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Christian Pineau, Imre Nagy and David Ben-Gurion. Blood and Sand is a revelatory new history of these dramatic events, for the first time setting both crises in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the treacherous power politics of imperialism and oil.īlood and Sandtells this story hour by hour, with a fascinating cast of characters including Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anthony Eden, Dwight D. Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November 1956, the twin crises of Suez and Hungary pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear conflict and what many at the time were calling World War III. It is illuminating to pick up this book with the twenty-first century's crises of Brexit and Iraq in mind.' Jeremy Bowen (BBC correspondent, and author of Six Days). ![]() Blood and Sand is a revelatory new history of these dramatic events, for the first. ![]() ![]() We The Living takes place from 1922 to 1925 in post-revolution Russia. It was adapted into a short-lived play titled The Unconquered in 1940, and a 1942 Italian film adaptation soon followed. It was revised for a 1957 re-release after Rand became a successful author, and has been reissued six times, most recently in 2011, and has sold over three million copies. ![]() Although it is not one of Rand’s best-known novels, it received overall positive reviews upon its release and was praised for its detailed depiction of Soviet politics, although reception varied widely based on the political sympathies of the reviewer. ![]() It also explores themes of family and the endurance of the human spirit. ![]() Like many of Rand’s novels, its primary theme is anti-communism and the way communism suppresses achievement. ![]() Set in post-revolution Russia, it is a heavily autobiographical tale focusing on Kira Argounova, the young daughter of a bourgeois family whose comfortable existence is thrown into turmoil when the revolution strips them of their wealth and forces them into a struggle for survival. We the Living is the 1936 debut novel of Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand. ![]() ![]() You have to love a heroine named Athena Hera Sinistra. She also won the Dragon Award for Uncharted (with Kevin J. Her space-opera novel Darkship Thieves was the 2011 Prometheus Award Winner, and the third novel in the series, A Few Good Men, was a finalist for the honor. Her short stories have been published in Analog, Asimov's, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, and a number of anthologies from DAW and Baen. She has over 30 published novels, in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical mystery, historical fantasy and historical biography. Worst of all she was, for a long time, a multilingual scientific translator.Īt some point, though, she got tired of making an honest living and started writing. ![]() She has also washed dishes and ironed clothes for a living. She has never actually wrestled alligators, but she did at one point very briefly tie bows on bags of potpourri for a living. ![]() In between lays the sort of resume that used to be de-rigueur for writers. Hoyt was born (and raised) in Portugal and now lives in Colorado with her husband, two sons, and a variable number of cats, depending on how many show up to beg on the door step. ![]() ![]() ![]() It seemed as though their irrelevance was a foregone conclusion, and we were just practicing this quaint exercise of pretending something mattered when of course everyone knew it didn't." She added her own aim as book critic would be "to endow something with importance, by treating it as an emotional experience." Scott how'd she decided on The Believer's tone: "I really saw 'the end of the book' as originating in the way books are talked about now in our culture and especially in the most esteemed venues for book criticism. In 2005, she told the New York Times culture writer A.O. ![]() She wrote the article "Rejoice! Believe! Be Strong and Read Hard!" (subtitled: "A Call For A New Era Of Experimentation, and a Book Culture That Will Support It") in the debut issue of The Believer, a publication which attempts to avoid snarkiness and "give people and books the benefit of the doubt." She later went on to earn an MFA from Columbia University. She was born and grew up in Portland, Maine, before attending Dartmouth College. Her novels include The Mineral Palace (2000), The Effect of Living Backwards (2003) and The Uses of Enchantment (2006) and The Vanishers (2012). 2, Esquire, Story, Zoetrope All-Story, and McSweeney's Quarterly. She has been published in The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. ![]() Heidi Suzanne Julavits is an American author and co-editor of The Believer magazine. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Val succumbs to addiction, siphoning Ravus's potion for personal thrills. Val joins her fellow squatters as a courier for the faerie healer Ravus, a troll who, in a Beauty-and-the-Beast-inspired twist, becomes Val's romantic interest while turning her skills with a lacrosse stick into prowess with a sword. It isn't until Val realizes that they're shooting up faerie drugs that this unevenly paced companion to Black's debut novel, Tithe, takes off. ![]() They survive by rooting through trash, and shoot up to take the edge off their urine-scented, rat-infested existence. When 17-year-old Valerie Russell finds her boyfriend having sex with her mother, she splits Jersey for Manhattan, takes in a Rangers game and falls in with some creepy homeless teens who live on an abandoned subway platform. ![]() ![]() ![]() But again, Maria had had her fair share of sufferings so probably a little bit of fairytale was due in her life. ![]() ![]() Now that, I feel, is too fairytale like for such a perfect book. Also, my mum once told me that the love left incomplete is the sweetest… Eleven Minutes ends with Ralf meeting Maria in Paris airport with roses and quoting his favourite line from Casablanca. I’m not a fan of happy endings in fiction, they are just too far off from reality. However, there is one small thing that makes the book a little less perfect to me. When I first read it, there were several sections that were so deep that I would pause reading at the end of the page and let it all sink in. However, there is something about Eleven Minutes that stays with you long after you have finished reading it. The Alchemist is no doubt Paulo Coelho’s best work in English. ![]() ![]() Du Jardin frequently spoke at schools, and students enjoyed meeting in person the creator of some of their favorite stor Rosamond du Jardin, née Neal, first wrote humorous verse and short stories for newspaper syndicates, then went on to sell approximately a hundred stories to such magazines as Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, McCall's and many other publications, abroad as well as in the United States. They had three children, Jacqueline Neal, Victor Junior, and Judith Carol, with whom she would later co-author Junior Year Abroad. She was married to Victor Du Jardin on October 28, 1925. ![]() ![]() She also wrote five novels for adults before her first novel for teenagers, Practically Seventeen, which was published in 1949. ![]() Rosamond du Jardin, née Neal, first wrote humorous verse and short stories for newspaper syndicates, then went on to sell approximately a hundred stories to such magazines as Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, McCall's and many other publications, abroad as well as in the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australia, she began to wonder how the lives of whales reflect the condition of our oceans. ![]() Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardĪ “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” ( The New York Times Book Review) about the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about ourselves, our planet, and our relationship with other species. Winner of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction * Finalist for the PEN/E.O. ![]() |