![]() ![]() Faced with another nail-biting presidential election, and aging, and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, Henry realized how little control she had over her world. She was also approaching 30 and found herself wrestling with the bumps and lumps of a second coming of age, one that was a lot less optimistic than her first. ![]() “I didn’t have much more to say about teenagers at that point,” she explains, settling into her writing couch at her home in Cincinnati, legs crossed, elbows on knees in the position of eternal adolescence. ![]() The books were well received and sold modestly, but the back-to-back pace left her feeling burned out and uninspired. Henry wrote four books in three years, teenage coming-of-age stories full of darkish magic realism. ![]() When it was done, she Googled agents until she found Lana Popovic Harper, who agreed to represent her. So she woke up early before work and started churning out a YA novel. However, she discovered while spending her days writing company manuals and handbooks for set-top boxes that nothing makes the creative spirit bloom more than a mind-numbing job. She’d always liked creative writing, but it seemed as plausible a career choice as her childhood dream of being a WNBA player. Soon after Emily Henry left Hope College, a small, Christian-values-lite school in a tiny town in Michigan, she found herself living back in Cincinnati, trapped in her first postcollege job doing technical writing for the city’s phone-and-cable company. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ĭare then signed with Ballantine to publish her debut novel, Goddess of the Hunt. It was from this competition that she broke into publishing, along with the other winner, Courtney Milan. Shortly afterward, she entered and won the first Avon FanLit contest and her short story "Forget Me Not" was published as Chapter Four of the HarperCollins e-book, These Wicked Games. Her first publicly seen fiction was Jane Austen fan fiction written under the pen name Vangie. I would read through dinner, read through classes, read into the wee hours of the night, and, yes, I even read while walking!" ĭare works as a full-time author and currently resides in Southern California, USA with her husband, two children, and three cats. ![]() Whenever I felt lonely or uprooted, opening a familiar book gave me comfort. She says they became "my refuge, my entertainment, my source of information on all sorts of topics. ![]() Biography ĭuring childhood, her family moved often and books took on an important role for her. In 2012, she won the prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA award for Best Regency Historical Romance for her book A Night to Surrender. She has authored fifteen novels and novellas and created four different series. Tessa Dare is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling American historical romance novelist. ![]() RITA award – Best Regency Historical Romance ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Within 24 hours, Douglass was able to make his way to the safe house of an abolitionist in New York. He also carried identification papers obtained from a free black seaman. ![]() Murray had provided him with some of her savings and a sailor’s uniform. In September 1838, Douglass boarded a train to north-east Maryland. “Mr Thomas Lanman of St Michael’s killed two slaves, one of whom he killed with a hatchet, by knocking his brains out" In fact, Douglass made two escape attempts before he was assisted in a successful route to the free states by Anna Murray, a free black woman in Baltimore with whom he had fallen in love. At first, he sought to liberate himself through education and self-improvement, but came to recognise that he would have to become a fugitive from the south, like so many others. He was born into slavery in the Chesapeake shore, Maryland. According to many accounts, the determination from his earliest years to escape bondage set Douglass apart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With sweeping vision, historical precision, and unparalleled research, this book will stand as the definitive study of the 369th. It is this aspect of the storied regiment's history-its place within the larger movement of African Americans for full citizenship in the face of virulent racism-that Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War brings to the fore. It also, in its insistence on American identity, points to a truth at the heart of this book-more than fighting to make the world safe for democracy, the black men of the 369th fought to convince America to live up to its democratic promise. When on a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: "I'm an American, and I never retreat." The story, even if apocryphal, captures the mythic status of the Harlem Rattlers, the African-American combat unit that grew out of the 15th New York National Guard, who were said to have never lost a man to capture or a foot of ground that had been taken. ![]() ![]() In Panorama, the author broadens his stance on the importance of moments spotlighting loneliness and exposing the perks and ailments of escapism. After a friendship ignites and morphs into an awe-struck, curious tale of parallel souls with a Brazilian-American soldier serving in the military at the North Korean border protecting South Korea from Kim Jong-il, Panorama reflects on the author's contemplations to return to a crumbling family life in Los Angeles or to endure his life in Seoul for an end-of-contract cash payout. ![]() ![]() "item_description" : "After enduring a severe panic attack which left the author attached to breathing machines around foreign doctors in South Korea, Panorama-the missing chapter for the memoir, Views from the Cockpit: The Journey of a Son, expands on the author's experiences working and living abroad in Seoul, South Korea. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now available in print for the first time in many years (and in e-book for the very first time!), The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer chronicles Laura's life from age 12 to her death at 17, and is filled with secrets, character references, and even clues to the identity of her eventual killer.įans of the show will love seeing their favorite characters again, and Laura's diary makes compelling reading as she turns from a naive freshman having her first kiss to a "bad girl" experimenting with drugs, sex and the occult. Laura Palmer was introduced to television audiences in the opening scenes of "Twin Peaks"-as a beautiful dead girl, wrapped in plastic. Back in print for the first time in years-and available in eBook for the first time-the New York Times bestselling tie-in to the hit television show and cult classic, Twin Peaks. ![]() ![]() ![]() Three Margaret Wise Brown classics go mini in this slipcase containing miniature versions of Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and My World. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. 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The timeline of this story is split between two time periods around 13 years apart, and while the tv drama did a huge flashback that literally lasted for 60%+ of the show, so far the book is showing way more of the present timeline's story which is super awesome because honestly, the present timeline part of the story was what I found most compelling in the tv drama anyway! Ok, so I recently watched the drama adaption of this novel and it was LIFE-CHANGING so now it's time to read the source material! “Why would a living person worry about what happens after they die? I’ll just live freely for as long as possible.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though the book seems initially like a low-key and solid school and family story, Stead gives it her own original spin with the ongoing thread of mystery that blossoms into a science-fiction revelation. She's still puzzled and disturbed by the notes, though, and she begins to realize their meaning after a tragedy nearly takes Sal's life. Sophie deals with the first crisis by becoming friends with Annemarie, who is the rejected sidekick of the imperious Julia she also finds herself frequently in the company of cute and funny Colin. It's a puzzling time for sixth-grader Miranda: her former best friend, Sal, has turned his back on her a strange kid in school, Marcus, violently punched Sal in the stomach and now wants to talk to Miranda about time travel and mysterious notes, which know secrets about Miranda's life and accurately predict other things, are turning up. ![]() ![]() ![]() As King argues, this is financial alchemy-the creation of extraordinary financial powers that defy reality and common sense. Common paper became as precious as gold, and risky long-term loans were transformed into safe short-term bank deposits. We take these systems for granted today, yet at their core both ideas were revolutionary and almost magical. Yet the flowering of technological innovations during that dynamic period relied on the widespread adoption of two much older ideas: the creation of paper money and the invention of banks that issued credit. The Industrial Revolution built the foundation of our modern capitalist age. In The End of Alchemy he offers us an essential work about the history and future of money and banking, the keys to modern finance. ![]() We all sense that, but Mervyn King knows it firsthand his ten years at the helm of the Bank of England, including at the height of the financial crisis, revealed profound truths about the mechanisms of our capitalist society. Something is wrong with our banking system. ![]() |