![]() CJ is an overachiever who can’t seem to land a killer SAT score. The group at the center of the novel have been best friends since childhood, but are very different people. Related ArticlesĪ drug company abandoned a treatment for ‘bubble boy disease.’ After a 5-year fight, this little California girl is about to get it For now, though, they are girls on the brink of adulthood, focused on their futures, figuring out who they are and dealing with occasionally tumultuous lives. Decades later, in 2049 to be exact, one of them will become president. “Most Likely,” published this month by Little, Brown and Company, centers on four high school seniors. This is the president who deserves to have her story told right now.” “I started thinking, Gen Z, this is the generation that’s going to save us. ![]() “I watched these students rise up in unbelievable ways and use their voices in unbelievable ways,” the Santa Monica-based author says by phone from Atlanta where she’s currently working on a television pilot for Fox. That all changed after the Parkland shooting. ![]() When Sarah Watson first thought about writing her debut novel “Most Likely,” she considered setting it in the 1990s and showing one of the characters going on to become the President of the United States in the present day. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Lou figures it for milk run - how hard could it be to set-up moonshine shipments from a few ass-backward hillbillies? What Lou doesn't figure on is that Holt is just as cunning as ruthless as any NYC crime boss and Lou is in way over his pin-striped head. THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE NEW ON-GOING SERIES From writer, BRIAN AZZARELLO and artist, EDUARDO RISSO - the Eisner award-winning creative team behind the crime classic, 100 Bullets - comes a brutal new series! Set during Prohibition, and deep in the backwoods of Appalachia, MOONSHINE #1 tells the story of LOU PIRLO, a city-slick "torpedo" sent from New York City to negotiate a deal with the best moonshiner in West Virginia, one HIRAM HOLT. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The shifting weather patterns of today-what we call "global warming"-will far exceed anything our ancestors previously faced. ![]() What was it like to live with huge pack-hunting lions, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, and gigantic short-faced bears, to hunt now extinct horses, camels, and mammoth? Are there lessons for modern people lingering along this ancient trail? In this brand new landscape, humans managed to adapt to unfamiliar habitats and dangerous creatures in the midst of a wildly fluctuating climate. About 15,000 years ago, the weather began to warm, melting the huge glaciers of the Late Pleistocene. Yet shifting weather patterns have threatened humans before, right here in North America, when people first colonized this continent. The future is uncertain, probably fiery, and likely terrifying. ![]() ![]() My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still. I have all along known that I wanted to tell you directly of some lessons I have learned and under what conditions I have learned them. This letter has taken an extraordinary time getting itself together. ![]() Maya Angelou (Ap– May 28, 2014), a poet, activist, and writer, penned Letter to My Daughter in 2008 as a series of letters to the collective daughters she's nurtured and inspired throughout her life. I imagine for Maya Angelou it would be a task of unloading things pressed upon her heart. ![]() ![]() “How can I tell you Everything in my Heart?" asked illustrator Maira Kalman, heaving out her curious, observational mind into pictures and words. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They “love” and “need” each other, but an actual attraction is never written or even really implied on the page. Remy and Elise have an unhealthy codependency, but they are not romantically involved. As Remy is thoroughly questioned by police, she’s forced to recall the obsessive relationship she and Elise developed over the course of the last year and how to lead to the moment Jack was shot.īecause I’ve seen this book mislabeled a lot, it’s important to note that this is NOT sapphic romance of some sort. Remy knows Jack’s death was an accident– A deadly case of mistaken identity. ![]() Elise is more than Remy’s best friend, she’s her “soulmate.”īut now Remy’s wonderful boyfriend Jack is dead… and it was Elise who killed him. When she moved into town at the beginning of sophomore year, Remy found someone with whom she could share her darkest secrets about her seemingly normal family, someone who understood her and brought out her carefree side despite the havoc of her home life. Remy Tsai never had a friend quite like Elise. Sarah Lyu tells a gripping story of obsession, need, and rage in THE BEST LIES! ![]() ![]() I did like the Audible of "Heartburn" very much. ![]() ![]() I didn't like the movie version of "Heartburn," though - and I never read the 1982 book. Meryl Streep is a true wonder - remember "Sophie's Choice" (1982)? And I truly forgot she wasn't really Julia Child in "Julie & Julia" (2009). I've seen the movie version of "Heartburn" (1986). Ephron's New York is a vibrant, colorful place full of native and transplanted New Yorkers who adore the city, from sidewalk trash pickup to astounding views from the tallest skyscrapers. I love these films, and I've seen them so many times I can say the lines along with the characters. ![]() Nora Ephron (1941 -2012) wrote the scripts for "When Harry Met Sally" (1989), "Sleepless in Seattle" (1993), and"You've Got Mail" (1998). ![]() ![]() An additional narrative strand covers the experiences of Nazneen's sister, Hasina, through the device of her correspondence. ![]() At first her English consists only of sorry and thank you the novel explores her life and adaptations in the community, as well as the character of Chanu, and their larger ethnic community. ![]() Ali's 2003 novel of the same name follows the life of Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman who moves to London at the age of 18, to marry an older man, Chanu. ![]() She went to Bolton School and then studied philosophy, politics and economics at Wadham College, Oxford.īrick Lane is a street at the heart of London's Bangladeshi community. Her father is originally from the district of Mymensingh. When she was three, her family moved to Bolton, England. Her fifth novel, Love Marriage, was published by Virago Press in February 2022 and became an instant Sunday Times bestseller.Īli was born in Dhaka, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in 1967 to a Bangladeshi father and an English mother. She has also published three other novels. It was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2003, she was selected as one of the "Best of Young British Novelists" by Granta magazine based on her unpublished manuscript her debut novel, Brick Lane, was published later that year. ![]() Monica Ali FRSL (born 20 October 1967) is a British writer of Bangladeshi and English heritage. ![]() ![]() When he met Buffalo Bill he shifted from sensational newspaper and magazine stories generally, to focusing his pen on Westerns, often published as Dime Novels, and established tales of the West as a genre. Under his penname of Ned Buntline, Edward Judson would, for a short time in the 19th century, become America’s most popular and wealthiest writer of fiction. Only 1 authentic copy in a correct jacket has sold at auction in the last 50 years, a chipped, worn, stained, and, repaired jacket, 25 years ago at Sotheby’s (the only other sale in the auction records was in a reprint jacket miscataloged by PBA). It’s just the 2nd copy I’ve seen, and the finest one I’ve ever heard about. Item #336 Almost all 1912 dustjackets are rare but this one is notoriously so, as rare as any major 20th century 1st edition in jacket. Near fine in the enigmatically rare 1st printing dustjacket (red lettering on the front, blue on the spine and back, the spine priced $1.30, 5 titles on the back, and flaps with Harper boilerplate), back panel with a crease, front flap fold with a partial tear secured with 1 tiny speck of tape, and a few short edge tears, else near fine. 1st printing with “MCMXII” on the title page, and 3 lines of copyright (the last line “published January, 1912”). ![]() 1st edition of the preeminent early Western novel and the most popular one of all time. ![]() ![]() Access to the exhibition is via lift and the entire exhibition is wheelchair accessible. ![]() His archive at the Ashmolean has been central to our understanding of the site of Knossos, and many of his excavation plans, artworks and records will be on display alongside objects from the site.Ī RESTORATION (2016), an 18-minute, two-screen digital video and sound installation by Turner Prize winning artist Elizabeth Price, is shown in the third gallery. It will include over 100 objects which have never left Crete and Greece before, alongside discoveries from the Ashmolean's Sir Arthur Evans Archive and an exclusive experience of Knossos Palace from the acclaimed video game Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.Īrchaeologist Sir Arthur Evans led excavations at Knossos in the early 20th century, and would later re-imagine and partially restore the palace. This will be the first UK exhibition to focus on Knossos. The palace of Knossos, discovered and excavated over 100 years ago, was the centre of a Bronze Age civilisation of people we now call the Minoans, named after the legendary King Minos. Discover the palace of Knossos, and the search for the labyrinth, in this major exhibition in Oxford. ![]() ![]() A major exhibition open 10 Feb – 30 Jul 2023Īccording to legend, an elaborate labyrinth was built at Knossos on the island of Crete to hold a ferocious Minotaur. ![]() ![]() ![]() She realized long ago that she is a bit different, both innately (her eyesight, her agility, her toes, her flexibility) and in her living circumstances. Finally, while she has spent all of her life hidden in isolation, Serafina at last stands in the open at the side of the forest at the end of the story, and this moment symbolizes how she will grow and change to welcome-and be welcomed by-others in her life. Serafina’s curiosity about her origin and her identity is strong at the start of the story, and it only grows stronger when she learns that Pa adopted her. ![]() ![]() Trying on the cloak symbolizes her continued search for answers about who she is deep inside and what her contributions to the world should be. Thorne (instead of catching him while hiding herself) represents a redefined identity. Her struggle-and success-with walking slowly down the hall in the dress to bait Mr. ![]() When she dons the dress Braeden gives her, it marks her maturation and symbolizes her chosen transformation into someone who faces new situations with courage and confidence. These features also represent her connection, literally and figuratively, to her mother, who shares similar features. For example, Serafina’s eyes and interesting hair-color symbolize her individuality. The novel contains a variety of symbols for identity, changes or discoveries about identity, or hidden identities. ![]() |