![]() ![]() Johnson, to whom she writes frequently, recommends she marry the very eligible Reginald, but Lady Susan considers him to be greatly inferior to Manwaring.įrederica, Lady Susan's 16-year-old daughter, tries to run away from school when she learns of her mother's plan to marry her off to a wealthy but insipid young man she loathes. Lady Susan toys with the younger man's affections for her own amusement and later because she perceives it makes her sister-in-law uneasy. Manwaring.Ĭatherine's brother Reginald arrives a week later, and despite Catherine's strong warnings about Lady Susan's character, soon falls under her spell. ![]() Among Lady Susan's conquests is the married Mr. Catherine is far from pleased, as Lady Susan had tried to prevent her marriage to Charles and her unwanted guest has been described to her as "the most accomplished coquette in England". Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and charming recent widow, visits her brother-in-law (late husband's brother) and his wife, Charles and Catherine Vernon, with little advance notice at Churchill, their country residence. This early complete work, which the author never submitted for publication, describes the schemes of the title character. Lady Susan is an epistolary novella by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Not so much in a cliff-hanger way as in a never-got-back-around-to-it kind of way. The story takes some predictable turns, and there are a few plot elements that are either unexplained or left hanging. The words are explained, so there’s no confusion, but pronunciation will be tricky for those not familiar with the language. The only catch for some will be the Hawaiian words peppered throughout the novel. It’s a short, quick read-appropriate for the age group. Many books for younger readers attempt to merge entertainment with education, but few do it well. It also has magic, mystery, and a message of environmentalism weaving a natural thread throughout the story. Set in a fantasy version of a timeless Hawaii, it has fire walking and surfing and sharks and zombie fish… plenty of thrills to capture the imagination. ![]() The Kingdom of Oceana is a classic story of sibling rivalry-a novel based on action and adventure that we’d recommend for readers twelve and up. ![]() ![]() Slowly the systematic oppression against poor farmers in his native country dawns on the young Bulosan, and disillusioned by the hopelessness of his nation he blindly takes a ship to America in search of greener pastures. Consequently his family is left to the mercies of farming for wealthy landowners who take almost everything they raise. His father is a poor farmer attending to a small plot of land which they eventually lose as collateral after missing a single loan payment taken so that they could give a proper education to one of his elder brothers. America is in the hearts of men."Ĭarlos Bulosan's semi-autobiographical novel starts out with his early life born from a lowly peasant family in the Philippines. ![]() America is not merely a land or an institution. America is not bound by geograpahical latitudes. We are all Americans that have toiled and suffered and known oppression and defeat, from the first Indian that offered peace to the last Filipino pea pickers. ![]() "It is but fair to say that America is not a land of one race or one class of men. ![]() ![]() Maxwell is a seventh generation Louisianan of English, Irish, Welsh, Scots-German, French, and Indigenous descent. Many of her books are set in her native Louisiana. As Maxine Patrick, she wrote contemporary romances, and as Jennifer Blake historical romances. ![]() Under her maiden name, Patricia Ponder, she wrote a murder mystery and a romantic suspense story. She wrote one book in collaboration with Carol Albritton that was published under the name Elizabeth Trehearne. ![]() Using her real name, Patricia Maxwell, she wrote Gothic mystery-suspense romances. Maxwell has published books under five different names. Her first novel in the romance genre, Love's Wild Desire, became a New York Times Bestseller. A member of the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame and the Affaire de Coeur Romance Hall of Fame, Maxwell has received numerous awards for her writing. Patricia Maxwell, born Patricia Anne Ponder (born Manear Goldonna, Louisiana) is an American writer. ![]() Elizabeth Trehearne (with Carol Albritton), ![]() ![]() ![]() It was ON! I read so many books by English and Canadian authors that I started to sound different from my friends. ![]() Man, I could go through two or three books on a Saturday or Sunday and keep up with my reading from the school library. She had the early Pyramid series of books – first editions! Then I happened upon a Bantam series book at school, THE CRUEL COUNT, which I “took”. I also went through her stash of Barbara Cartlands. So I went through my parent’s closet – they had bookshelves in their closet – and one by one, pulled them down and read practically everything mom had, specifically the Harlequin Presents® and a handful of basic Harlequins®. What’s worse – I was all like, “yeah, whatever”. Let the plain women be nurses because they could not hope for better. Zarco told the heroine that she was too beautiful to be a nurse. I know I was reading a ton of books that year from my school library. Maybe, the year that I read it, my mind was finally ready. ![]() I read it again to see what made this one different than the others I had tried to read. Before, I had tried, but could not connect with the text. Next thing I knew, I was halfway through (which wasn’t much considering how lean these books were). One evening, I just picked it up and started reading. I started reading romance novels in the mid-70s, starting with this tiny tome-ette. Women’s Lib completely missed this boat.įirst romance I ever read: BRIDE OF ZARCO, Margaret Rome 1970s: No such thing as political correctness. ![]() ![]() ![]() Editor of Inside DBS, the official blog website of Dublin Business School, and the Sustainable College blog.Ģ022 - Winner, Journalism Relating to Health, National Student Media Awards.Ģ021 - Winner, Blog/ Vlog Of The Year, National Student Media Awards.Ģ021 - Nominated, EPA Award for Journalism Relating to The Environment.Ģ021 - Dublin Business School Volunteer Of The Year.Ģ020 - Second, Dublin Business School Create Contest.Ģ014 - Winner, Arkady Renko Short Story Contest held by Simon & Schuster.Ģ013 - Winner, Print Journalism in Ireland's National Media Awards.Ģ012 - Runner-Up, Print Journalism, National Media Awards. Her credits include Writing.ie, The, Mensa Magazine and Mensa International Journal. She has served on the Royal Dublin Society's Forestry and the Environment Committee.Ĭlare is an award–winning writer, award-winning blogger, and award-winning photojournalist, whose journalism work has been published in more than thirty countries. She has qualified in multimedia journalism, data visualisation, and ecology, and writes on environmental themes. Clare O'Beara is a tree surgeon and expert witness, and a former national standard showjumper. ![]() ![]() |a In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth. |a 1 volume (unpaged) : |b color illustrations |c 24 x 29 cm Beautiful watercolor illustrations and extra historical information at the end. This story, written in free-verse poetry, begins with one Texas family learning about their freedom, leaving the sweltering cotton fields, and going to celebrate with a whole community on a cool beach at night. |a New York : |b Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, |c All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom. ![]() |a All different now : |b Juneteenth, the first day of freedom / |c Angela Johnson illustrated by E.B. ![]() ![]() ![]() Specialty programming tends to make slow strides in terms of overall growth and Wall Street doesn’t care much about the “everything to someone” approach when the someone pays, at most, $8.99 per month – the cost of AMC+ (it also includes access to Shudder and Sundance Now). We are instead trying to be everything to someone.” “Simply put, we’re not trying to be something for everyone. “We’re growing a business that is less speculative, less costly, and more sustainable than larger players trying to deliver something to everyone in a household,” AMC Networks’ interim CEO Matt Blank said on the company’s February earnings call. AMC has leaned into the new reality of cord-cutting and audience fragmentation by investing in diverse, niche streaming services. In the decade-plus since the debut of “The Walking Dead,” its massive success also proved to be an outlier: Short of NFL football and maybe Paramount Network’s “Yellowstone,” almost nothing on linear television today comes close to what the zombies drew in terms of audience size. ![]() ![]() Such attributes have been entirely discarded in this, her first novel, in which she takes a great story – in part based on the experiences of her grandparents – and flattens it beneath a mountain of incident and often embarrassing prose.Īndras Lévi is a poor young Hungarian who goes to Paris in 1937 to study architecture, while his elder brother Tibor goes to Modena to study medicine in their native land, quotas for Jewish students prevent such education. ![]() Julie Orringer is a young American whose first book, the much-praised collection of short stories How to Breathe Underwater, was noted for its ironic humour and verbal precision. T his excessively long epic of war and love is almost impossible to review with charity, yet charitable criticism must be included in any assessment of it because the author is ambitious, has done prodigious research, and has certain remarkable talents. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room of his apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland, where spiders, rats, cockroaches coexist uneasily with humans. There is a code to be cracked, a mysterious new princess, Gregor's burgeoning dark side, and a war to end all wars. The story of a boy who embarks on a dangerous quest in order to fulfill his destiny - and find his father - in a strange world beneath New York City. ![]() The stunning conclusion to the riveting Gregor the Overlander series by. The entire existence of the Underland is in Gregor's hands, and time is running out. Buy Gregor And The Code Of Claw (Underland Chronicles, Book 5) Paperback Book. Now, with an army of rats approaching and his mom and sister still in Regalia, Gregor the warrior must gather up his courage to help defend Regalia and get his family home safely. Gregor suspected it says something awful but he never imagined just how awful: It calls for the warrior's death. Annotation: The stunning conclusion to Suzanne Collins's Gregor the Overlander series will have a fresh new cover on July 1st!The final book in the NYT bestselling Underland Chronicles!Everyone in the Underland has been taking great pains to keep The Prophecy of Time from Gregor. ![]() |