![]() ![]() ![]() Louis Post-Dispatch), and “an extraordinary collection, thrillingly merciless, and a career high point” ( The Telegraph, UK). ![]() Like Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, King’s Full Dark, No Stars is a “page-turner” ( The New York Times) “as gripping as his epic novels” ( St. In “A Good Marriage,” the trust forged by more than twenty years of matrimony is irrevocably shattered when a woman makes a chance discovery leading to the horrifying implications of just who her husband really is. In “Fair Extension,” making a deal with the devil not only saves a man from terminal illness but also provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. In “Big Driver”, a mystery writer is brutally assaulted by a stranger along a Massachusetts back road and plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself. In “1922,” a violence awakens inside a man when his wife proposes selling off the family homestead, setting in motion a grisly train of murder and madness. “The pages practically turn themselves” ( USA TODAY) in Full Dark, No Stars, an unforgettable collection centered around the theme of retribution. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, four “disturbing, fascinating” ( The Washington Post) novellas-including the story “1922,” a Netflix original film-that explore the dark side of human nature. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The argument that an economy of abundance renders anarchy and adhocracy viable (or even inevitable) attracts many as an interesting potential experiment, were it ever to become testable. He lived most recently in North Queensferry, a town on the north side of the Firth of Forth near the Forth Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge.Īs with his friend Ken MacLeod (another Scottish writer of technical and social science fiction) a strong awareness of left-wing history shows in his writings. ![]() However, he announced in early 2007 that, after 25 years together, they had separated. He moved to London and lived in the south of England until 1988 when he returned to Scotland, living in Edinburgh and then Fife.īanks met his wife Annie in London, before the release of his first book. Iain Banks was educated at the University of Stirling where he studied English Literature, Philosophy and Psychology. Banks is a pseudonym of Iain Banks which he used to publish his Science Fiction.īanks's father was an officer in the Admiralty and his mother was once a professional ice skater. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Read the brand-new novel from husband and wife writing team, Zane & Jenna Michaelson.įor men, their advancing years can mean many things–eyebrows that grow together, an ever-expanding waistline, thinning hair, or worst of all, a low hanging scrotum.įor women, their advancing years can mean only one thing–the curse of dry vagina.Īffluent beauty salon owner, Michelle Cooper-Brown is suffering such symptoms and declaring enough is enough, she makes an appointment to visit her GP desperate for help. My gorgeous wife and I have a number of co-writes coming over the next six months and this is the one we are most excited for you all to read is The Curse of Dry Vaginaīy Zane Michaelson & Jenna Michaelson Author ![]() ![]() In 1701 New Haven was designated a co-capital of the colony with Hartford. Each minister presented a donation of books, stating, “I give these books for the founding a College in this Colony.” Purchases and plans for a college library date back to 1656 but were suspended when King Charles II forced the colony to unite with Connecticut in 1665.Īccording to the early histories of Yale, a group of ten ministers led by the Reverend James Pierpont of New Haven met in nearby Branford in 1700 to found a college. ![]() It was the dream of the Reverend John Davenport, the religious leader of the colony, to establish a theocracy and a college to educate its leaders. Yale University had its beginnings with the founding of the New Haven Colony in 1638 by a band of 500 Puritans who fled from persecution in Anglican England. ![]() By Judith Schiff, Chief Research Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives Beginnings ![]() ![]() ![]() Recently returned to England from abroad, he intends to shun both marriage and society-just as his callous father shunned Simon throughout his painful childhood. She is simply too deuced honest for that, too unwilling to play the romantic games that captivate gentlemen.Īmiability is not a characteristic shared by Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings. Everyone likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. The fourth of eight siblings in her close-knit family, she has formed friendships with the most eligible young men in London. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable… but not too amiable.ĭaphne Bridgerton has always failed at the latter. ![]() A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince-while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood. In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. The Duke and I is a romance set in the Regency era. Librarian note: See alternate cover editions here and here. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are analyzed all kinds of romantic unions, monogamous or not, taking care of the public interest that they can present. ![]() In the first one is defined the notion of the authentic marriage and the consequences that it has on the common good (consequences that justify the State’s actions in this matter). With a systematically method, authors review the most important opinions about marriage, for and against the usual notion, and then they weigh their consistency. By the way, the analysis shows how this debate has profound consequences in the common good and how its protection should be regulated. ![]() ![]() ![]() As warned, Rump quickly learns that the gold invites an evil greed that casts a curse on all who succumb to its allure. Though advised against it by his grandmother and his best friend (Red Riding Hood) Rump convinces himself that his new gold spinning talent will deliver the happiness he yearns to find. Rump’s desperation wanes when he finds his mother’s old spinning wheel and discovers that he can spin straw into magical gold. Rump is adamant that your name is your destiny and has convinced himself that finding his full name is the key to freedom from his own bleak destiny. Rump spends his days dodging bullies and working at the mines, unsuccessfully looking for gold to trade for food to share with his frail grandmother. To make matters worse, Rump’s half-a-name garners more than its share of teasing and bullying, adding misery to the life of a boy who stopped growing at 8. ![]() The story begins with an introduction to Rump, a hopeless 12 year old whose mother died before revealing his full name, leaving him an orphan with only half-a-name. In Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin, author Liesl Shurtliff crafts an entertaining fractured fairy tale based on the Brothers Grimm character by the same name. What to expect: Fantasy, Fairy Tale, Mystery, Magic, Suspense, Humor, Adventure, Friendship Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers (April 2013) Gi Hallmark | The Children’s Book Review | SeptemRump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin ![]() ![]() ![]() Heart-stopping and utterly captivating, the complete Never Never series, now available in one volume, will leave readers breathless and believing in the power of love. Colleen Hoover, the 1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us joins forces with Tarryn Fisher, the New York Times bestselling author of The Wives. Forgetting is terrifying, but remembering may be worse. Now Charlie and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why.īut the more they learn about the couple they used to be.the more they question why they were ever together to begin with. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love.every memory has vanished. But as of this morning.they are complete strangers. ![]() They've been in love since the age of fourteen. Together, they have created a gripping, twisty, romantic mystery unlike any other.Ĭharlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. Just remember.Ĭolleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us joins forces with Tarryn Fisher, the New York Times bestselling author of The Wives. Never Never: A romantic suspense novel of love and fate Hardcover Februby Colleen Hoover (Author), Tarryn Fisher (Author) 4.0 4. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "They're an incentive to follow rules, think, and plan for re-entry - and how you're not going to end up back in prison. "Those connections are lifelines to the outside world, and they remind you that you have a life waiting for you," Kerman said. Piper has written for the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Guardian, Cosmopolitan and other publications. ![]() The book has been adapted into an Emmy Award-winning original series for Netflix. It is important, she told, that incarcerated women stay close to their homes and families. Orange is the New Black is based on Piper Kerman’s 2010 memoir of the same name, written about the time she served at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut. Piper Kerman is the author of the memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, a 1 New York Times Bestseller. Kerman wrote a New York Times op-ed earlier this week criticizing the Board of Prisons plans to transfer the female prisoners incarcerated at the Danbury facility to Alabama. Piper Kerman is the author of the book that has become a Netflix hit and she has become a campaigner for prison reform since her release from the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Danbury in 2005. 16, 2013 — - The author of the prison memoir "Orange Is the New Black" is relieved that federal prison officials have halted plans to move 1,000 female inmates from Connecticut to a prison far from their families in Alabama, but questions the "rationale" for wanting to send the women far from their homes in the first place. ![]() ![]() Of course, love bargains are a tricky thing, and these two have a long, perilous journey ahead of them-that is, if they don’t kill each other first. To save him, Wren proposes a bargain: if Tamsin will help her catch the dark witch responsible for creating the plague, then Wren will give Tamsin her love for her father. When a magical plague ravages the queendom, Wren’s father falls victim. ![]() Sources are required to train with the Coven as soon as they discover their abilities, but Wren-the only caretaker to her ailing father-has spent her life hiding her secret. Wren is a source-a rare kind of person who is made of magic, despite being unable to use it herself. The only way she can get those feelings back-even for just a little while-is to steal love from others. But after committing the worst magical sin, she’s exiled by the ruling Coven and cursed with the inability to love. Maire is a baker with an extraordinary gift: she can infuse her treats with emotions and abilities, which are then passed on to those who eat them. ![]() Tamsin is the most powerful witch of her generation. Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet The peculiar tale of an enchanted baker who creates fairy tales’ darkest and most magical confections. In this charming debut fantasy perfect for fans of Sorcery of Thorns and Girls of Paper and Fire, a witch cursed to never love meets a girl hiding her own dangerous magic, and the two strike a dangerous bargain to save their queendom. ![]() |