![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a noir detective series set in the land of fairy tales and Mother Goose with one of the three pigs as a detective. I first came across Frank Cammuso’s work with his wonderful, not-quite-for-kids comic, Max Hamm: Fairy Tale Detective. That’s why books like Otto’s Backwards Day are so welcome, especially when they’re as entertaining, adorable, and non-didactic as this one is. But paragons of putting other people first they are not, and so – like the rest of us – they sometimes need reminding that they’re not the only important person in the room. For one thing, I’ve known too many kids.ĭon’t get me wrong I love kids. Maybe it says more about me than about other people, but I have a hard time believing that anyone is just naturally selfless. ![]() At least, I imagine that all good people do and that anyone who doesn’t has probably just given in to it. ![]()
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![]() It was later made into the 1990 film directed by Penny Marshall and was produced by Walter Parkes and Lawrence Lasker, who first encountered Sacks's book as undergraduates at Yale University and optioned it a few years later. He documents their spiritual and medical obstacles with great care to portray their individual personalities, long suppressed but finally released. Sacks came to work at a long-term care facility shortly before the first exciting results with L-dopa and Parkinson's in the late 1960s his patients soon embarked on dramatic, difficult recoveries from up to 50 years of torpor. ![]() These patients, only occasionally able to communicate or move, were nearly all institutionalized for life, their ranks increasing every now and then with similarly afflicted men and women. ![]() Hailed by The Washington Post as, "One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time." The Awakenings tells the story of sleeping-sickness epidemic of 1918 which caused hundreds of survivors to slip into a paralysis with similarities to advanced Parkinson's disease. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For John Rogers, with best wishes, Oliver Sacks Aug 2015.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ![]() $1,200.00 Item Number: 95790įirst edition of Sacks’ classic work. ![]() ![]() ‘ I must feed on beauty and rapture in order to grow strong.’ “Dorothy Strachey (1865-1960) was the sister of the novelist Lytton Strachey and a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group…….Olivia, originally published under a pseudonym, is her only novel.”. In 1999, Olivia was included on the Publishing Triangle’s widely publicized list of the 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels of the 20th Century. Colette wrote the screenplay for the 1951 film adaptation of the novel. Olivia was dedicated to the memory of Strachey’s friend Virginia Woolf and published to acclaim in 1949. Marie Souvestre, whose influence lived on through former students like Natalie Barney and Eleanor Roosevelt. “Although not strictly autobiographical, Olivia draws on the author’s experiences at finishing schools run by the charismatic Mlle. Julie and the other head of the school, Mlle. Julie, and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Mlle. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress, Mlle. ![]() Dorothy Strachey’s classic Olivia captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. “Considered one of the most subtle and beautifully written lesbian novels of the century, this 1949 classic returns to print in a Cleis Press edition. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hell is the same as any hood and certainly the Brooklyn hood she grew up in. Will she blow Winter’s head off? Can Winter dodge the bullets? Or will at least one bullet blast Winter into another world? Either way Winter is fearless. Simone, Winter’s young business partner and friend, is locked and loaded and Winter is her target. But Winter is not the only one with revenge on her mind. She’s eager to pay back her enemies, rebuild her father’s empire, reset his crown, and ultimately to snatch Midnight back into her life no matter which bitch had him while she was locked up. Still stunning, still pretty, still bold, still loves her father more than any man in the world, still got her hustle and high fashion flow. The long-anticipated sequel to Sister Souljah’s million copy New York Times bestseller The Coldest Winter Ever. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Katheryn Howard’s choices in her relationship with Thomas Culpepper while married to Henry, and Jane Boleyn’s role in that relationship, can seem very odd based on what we know so can some of the things Katharine Parr is alleged to have said and done after Henry’s death, when she was married to Thomas Seymour (particularly in the incidents where Seymour was accused of flirting with and possibly sexually assaulting the young princess Elizabeth). The difficult nature of this task is definitely on display in both these last two volumes. This is not always easy when a writer has to incorporate known historical facts and contemporary accounts into a fictional story and make a character’s actions seem justified (at least to the character herself). While she may not be as brilliant a novelist as some others who have written about the Tudor period, she is the only writer I know of to have dedicated a full-length, well-developed novel to each of Henry’s queens, following each woman’s life from childhood to death, and told each story in a way that makes that woman’s choices believable in the context of what we know about her and her time. Weir’s competent handling of history in her turn from writing popular non-fiction to writing historical fiction continues here as she concludes the series. These two books conclude Alison Weir’s “Six Tudor Queens” series on the wives of Henry VIII, the earlier volumes of which I have reviewed here and here. ![]() ![]() ![]() Should you read MY LOVELY WIFE?Ībsolutely! I was hooked on this story about a seemingly normal couple. It’s a binge-worthy read that allows you to look inside the mind of serial killers, and a psychological thriller that will keep you guessing. Samantha Downing balances a perfect blend of chilling plot + character development, and she doesn’t shy away from plot twists. MY LOVELY WIFE is dark, but it isn’t overly violent. The characters seem authentically sinister yet hauntingly normal. In the couple’s eyes, murder is justified, and the first-person narration makes readers believe that too. You’re put in the mindset of a couple who are truly demented, and my favorite part is that you see it from their perspective. I devoured this book because it was fast-paced and chaotic. The characters are wicked & remorseless, but find sneaky ways to disguise their murderous personalities. Domestic suspense is one of my favorite sub-genres because the families seem so normal, but they’re anything but. Ours just happens to be getting away with murder. We all have secrets to keeping a marriage alive. We’re your neighbors, the parents of your kid’s friend, the acquaintances you keep meaning to get dinner with. We told each other our biggest dreams, and our darkest secrets. A couple’s fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting… ![]() ![]() ![]() If you have multiple profiles created on your NOOK, the profile you are using may not have access to the book you are trying to open. Manage Content (For NOOK Devices with Profiles only) ![]() ![]() For instruction on how to update your BN.com payment method, click here.įor more information about credit card requirements to purchase and access NOOK content, click here.ħ. A valid credit card must be saved to your BN.com account in order to download your content. If so, please update the credit card information in your account and try downloading your books again. Tap on the lowercase i in a circle (shown below) to display content compatibility details.Ĭonfirm that the credit card saved to your BN.com account is valid, as it may have expired. 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To Refresh Your Library on most other devices: ![]() ![]() My research thus redeploys female madness as a research category. ![]() Employing theories of Judith Butler and Michel Foucault, I argue that the madness discourse represents a key site where writers negotiate the ongoing hegemony of societal ideologies defining the special status of the female psyche, body, and sexuality as entities which need to be monitored, shaped or optimized. Since the late 19th century, female authors from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland have been appropriating discourses of madness in order to critique the contradictory ramifications of mandatory adherence to the construct of femininity. While scholars have studied the madwoman of the previous centuries extensively, my dissertation presents the first comprehensive study of representations of female madness from 1894 onward. ![]() ![]() Using an interdisciplinary approach, my dissertation examines the intersection of womanhood and madness in German-language literature and culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her critically acclaimed science fiction novels, Linda Nagata explores issues she believes will profoundly affect life in the next century: biology, evolution, and nanotechnology-technology on an extremely small and efficient scale. ![]() WORK IN PROGRESS:Ī sequel to Memory two mainstream novels. Contributor to books, including More Amazing Stories, edited by Kim Mohan, Tor Books (New York, NY), 1998 contributor to periodicals, including Analog: Science Fiction and Fact and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Limit of Vision, Tor (New York, NY), 2001.Īlso author of the novella "Goddesses," published in Sci Fiction and at, Jalso author of novelettes "Liberator," 1993, and "Hooks, Nets & Time" and "The Bird Catcher's Children," both 1997, all for Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and "Small Victories," 1993, for Analog. Tech-Heaven, Bantam Books (New York, NY), 1996.ĭeception Well, Bantam Books (New York, NY), 1997. The Bohr Maker, Bantam Books ( New York, NY), 1995. Locus Award, best first novel, 1996, for The Bohr Maker Nebula Award for best novella, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, 2000, for "Goddesses." WRITINGS: SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS Currently works as a database programmer for Web sites. ![]() Agent-c/o Author Mail, Tor Books, 175 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10010. ![]() National Park Service) children: one daughter, one son. Born November 7, 1960, in San Diego, CA married Ron Nagata (with the U.S. ![]() ![]() Then it was guilt at having survived and enjoyed opportunities for education that so many in her community had never had and never would. First it was guilt at her mother educating her when she could not afford it. Guilt entered her soul early and settled into sediment, she says. ![]() She heard some lighter-skinned African Americans talk of how they used to “pass” as white, assuming certain habits, tastes, language and mannerisms, just as her mother had mimicked those of upper caste Hindus.Īs part of her book tour, Dutt was back in India appearing at the Jaipur Literature Festival last month when the Guardian met her in a Delhi cafe, she cut a striking figure with her wavy hair, black leather jacket and hands flashing with chunky rings. ![]() In the US Dutt, 34, discovered a parallel with her own experience. She worked as a journalist in Delhi and pursued a master’s at Columbia University in New York, where she now lives and works for an advertising agency. ![]() Dutt went to boarding school and then studied at St Stephen’s, perhaps the most prestigious university in India. It tells of her mother’s ambition to overcome poverty and give her children an education, without support and with an alcoholic husband. Dutt recounts the story in her book, Coming Out as Dalit. ![]() |