![]() ![]() Soon, she's involved in a romance she thought she had no time for and dealing with the shock of two unexpected deaths, forcing her to make some difficult decisions. Except Emily holds a button jar – a gift from her recently deceased Granny Mayfair – which, unbeknownst to her, could contain the solution to all her problems.īut just when Emily thought things were beginning to go her way, everything takes a turn. Hopeful and tentative, Emily feels she is taking a step in the right direction, although is unsure how she will raise the money. Now she's received an offer from the elderly owners of her beloved rented home to buy the property, land and all. Against all odds, she's found a sense of place and purpose, but is still too scarred by her past to form any romantic attachments, regardless of who's vying for her attention. She's ditched her abusive husband and embarked on her own adventure, renovating a dilapidated property and starting up her own business. The bestselling author of Nowhere Else, Wattle Creek and Paycheque brings us the much anticipated sequel to Saving Grace.Įmily Oliphant has made some drastic changes in her life. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() House of Stone is the story of a battle-scarred home and a war correspondent’s jostled spirit, and of how reconstructing the one came to fortify the other. Instead, he returned to his great-grandfather’s estate, a house that, over three years earlier, Shadid had begun to rebuild. Not to Boston or Beirut-where he lives- or to Oklahoma City, where his Lebanese-American family had settled and where he was raised. In spring 2011, Anthony Shadid was one of four New York Times reporters captured in Libya, cuffed and beaten, as that country was seized by revolution. “In rebuilding his family home in southern Lebanon, Shadid commits an extraordinarily generous act of restoration for his wounded land, and for us all.” - Annia Ciezadlo, author of Day of Honey should be read by anyone who wishes to understand the agonies and hopes of the Middle East.” - Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and author of Crossing Mandelbaum Gate ![]() “Evocative and beautifully written, House of Stone. ![]() ![]() ![]() Decades later, it really stands the test of time and still sounds great. The record is truly a snapshot of what was a burgeoning genre at the time. The 10 Best Metalcore Bands of All TimeĬonverge are among the forefathers of metalcore, and their 2001 album, “Jane Doe,” is one of the genre’s defining releases. ![]() Reach out to us on social media to offer your picks. There’s no denying that each of these bands have a place in the genre’s history books, whether it’s at the beginning or now. ![]() Read on for 10 of the best metalcore bands of all time. But today, metalcore can sound very different, as it works in electronic elements and experimental sounds. Some view the metalcore sound as a mix of heavy metal and classic hardcore punk, while others look to the specific sounds of big metal choruses and scream-fueled, hardcore vocals.īands such as Converge and Earth Crisis were the first in the genre’s movement, as they blended melodic metal and hardcore punk in a novel, fresh way. Metalcore is a unique genre and one that can mean different things to different people. Here are Audio Ink Radio’s 10 best metalcore bands of all time Killswitch Engage are among Audio Ink Radio’s 10 best metalcore bands of all time – Story by Anne Erickson, courtesy photo ![]() ![]() ![]() We meet Jack and Fleur well into their odd relationship, developed over years of their flirting before Fleur kills Jack each spring, but we never get insight into how their relationship developed. ![]() This storyline, I believe, is more like love at first sight, but without any zing or any other indicator. I would much rather she leave her characters alone, especially because I don't believe Seasons of the Storm is all that strong a story.I say that because the love story that drives the plot, between Winter and Spring, is weak. Cosimano continue, I don't think it necessary for her to do so. While I can see the potential storyline should Ms. In theory, it is the beginning of a new series, but with the ending it has, I am not certain how that is the story is complete as it stands. Seasons of the Storm by Elle Cosimano is a cute story that personifies our seasons. ![]() ![]() ![]() The translation received a good welcome, including by a young Hemingway, who recalls telling a friend that he could never get through War and Peace-not “until I got the Constance Garnett translation.” Garnett published her translation in 1904, working on it while Tolstoy was still alive, and she once travelled to Russia to meet Tolstoy at home. ![]() She hired a secretary who would read the Russian text to her aloud, and she would dictate back the English translation. But she also had the hurdle of losing her eyesight while working on War and Peace. Garnett was largely a self-taught translator and lacked a lot of the dictionaries and resources that would have made translation easier. I don’t think it’s necessarily the translation you should read – it’s neither easy-to-read nor precise – but it does have an interesting backstory. Garnett’s translation of War and Peace is in the public domain ( ), or via Dover Thrift as a paperback. Constance Garnett translation (Dover Thrift Editions) ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments The story of mankind 1921![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This new version, which retains van Loon's original illustrations, has been brought up to date by John Merriman, professor of history at Yale University. His unique ability to convey history as a fascinating tale of adventure has endeared the book to countless readers and has accorded it a unique place in publishing history. Beginning with the origins of human life and sweeping forward to illuminate all of history, Hendrik van Loon's incomparable prose enlivens the characters and events of every age. Written for Van Loon's children (Hansje and Willem), The Story of Mankind tells in brief chapters the history of western civilization beginning with primitive man, covering the development of writing, art, and architecture, the rise of major religions, and the formation of the modern nation-state.įirst published in 1921, The Story of Mankind has charmed generations of readers of all ages with its warmth, simplicity, and wisdom. In 1922, it was the first book to be awarded the Newbery Medal for an outstanding contribution to children's literature. The Story of Mankind was written and illustrated by Dutch-American journalist, professor, and author Hendrik Willem van Loon and published in 1921. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments Zolas raquin![]() ![]() It is almost like once you are in it, it is so confining that there is no possible escape but to keep going forward. Long flowing sentences are used describing one thing at a time, in extensive detail which helps to create the never ending austere atmosphere. The thick dust that hangs heavily on all objects is grey and dismal, with “strange greenish reflections” shining on the merchandise, much like the description of the flagstones the reflections on the merchandise are not strong in colour Zola describes it as being “greenish” hinting now all vibrancy has been sucked out of the atmosphere leaving it almost like a forgotten world, with the inescapable dominant colour of black that is prevalent throughout. “… Yellowish flagstones… ” illustrates a sickly discolouration to the stone, it is not even a full colour, it is almost a shadow of what it once was, which fits perfectly in with the surrounding atmosphere as everything is old and weathered and lost amongst the shadows. Zola uses an array of differing dreary colours to describe the objects that reside along the passage du Pont-Neuf. ![]() ![]() I will take a “Mulligan” disclaimer that the twenty years that have passed since we worked with Howard may have fuzzed my recollections a bit, but my memory is generally pretty good. Our films, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and even Hercules, to a certain extent which I’ll elaborate on later, had the good fortune to have Howard not only writing songs for them, but helping to shape story lines, characters, and even visuals in some cases. ![]() Hopefully my answers to the questions you devoted fans of Howard have thoughtfully posed will shed some light on his invaluable part in shaping some of the films Ron and I directed and co-wrote with a number of talented writers. ![]() John Musker here, he of the tall, spindly frame and hatchet face, and happy to shed some light on the man who particularly helped Ron Clements and me bring a mermaid to life, and a genie to strut his stuff: the uber-talented, brilliant, and sorely missed Howard Ashman. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments Black Magic by Chad Sanders![]() ![]() Black Magic has emboldened his every step since. Accounting for this turnaround, Chad believes, was something he calls Black Magic, namely: resilience, creativity, and perseverance, forged in his experience navigating America as a Black man. He earned the respect of his colleagues and clients. Chad began to land more exciting projects and eventually got promoted. He reverted back to methods he learned at the dinner table, or at the Black Baptist church where he’d been raised, or the concrete basketball courts. Instead, he decided to give up the charade. Carrying the unbearable weight of his imposter syndrome - the constant burden of not being true to himself - left Chad exhausted and ashamed. And while he finally felt included, he felt awful. He changed his wardrobe, his behavior, his speech - everything that connected him with his Black identity. Each meeting was drenched in white slang and the privileged talk of international travel or a folk concert in San Francisco, which led Chad to realize that he could only be successful if he emulated whiteness. When Chad Sanders landed his first job in lily-white Silicon Valley, he quickly realized that to be successful at work meant playing a certain social game. It felt like a death sentence for my career.” ![]() “I remember the day I realized I couldn’t play a white guy as well as a white guy. A powerful exploration of Black achievement in a white world based on honest, provocative, and moving interviews with Black leaders, scientists, artists, activists, and champions. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments Crying by Tom Lutz![]() ![]() Now attracting roughly 7 million page views a year (12 million including its blog and channels) and coming out in print quarterly, it is supported by donations. But in the meantime, he launched the Los Angeles Review of Books as a nonprofit intended to fill the void as large newspapers, including this one, pulled back on book coverage. He tooled it for a decade or so, shifting the voice and chronology. ![]() ![]() “Still in the back of my mind, the novel was always the goal,” he says. Notwithstanding his ambitions in fiction, he published only nonfiction - eclectic popular histories like “Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears” and “Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums in America,” for which he won the 2008 American Book Award. That position freed him up to write what he wanted. “I was always interested in the novel-writing process,” he said, “interested in how they talked about how their characters surprised them as they took form.”Īfter 10 years in L.A., Lutz took a position at UC Riverside, where he’s a professor in the creative writing department. His first book, “American Nervousness, 1903,” told the life stories of a dozen novelists, including Henry James and Edith Wharton. He started his academic life as a literary critic and cultural historian. ![]() |