James mcbride deacon king kong5/12/2023 I felt creatively free to do what I wanted to do. I’ve already demonstrated that I can write to the satisfaction of my peers and colleagues on the business side. “I never thought I’d win a National Book Award, you know,” he says. Following up a major award winner would cause anxiety in some, but not for McBride. McBride’s third novel, 2013’s The Good Lord Bird, won the National Book Award in fiction. Following a short story collection and a well-received biography of James Brown, Deacon King Kong marks McBride’s return to the novel. Since then, he’s worked in multiple genres and formats to explore race, love, loss and the basic human threads that unite us all. He first captured our hearts and minds with his 1995 memoir, The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother. James McBride is one of America’s foremost storytellers, a contemporary urban griot whose works offer nuanced portrayals of America’s complex cultural landscape.
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The original hellraiser5/12/2023 Nobody really needs “Hellraiser,” but it can sometimes be fun anyway, especially if you haven’t seen “Hellraiser” in a while. The new “Hellraiser” evokes Barker’s original adaptation in the same way a good cover song recalls its source material: with love, intelligence, and an inevitably crushing sort of redundancy. In that movie, Barker introduces readers to the Cenobites, a race of God-like sadists who threaten their human victims with sensual experiences far beyond their (or our) tired understanding of pleasure and pain. Watching the original “Hellraiser” still feels like happening upon a profane, if by now familiar, event. The halting pace, scattered focus, and potent ghastliness of Barker’s movie reflects its nature as Barker’s feature directorial debut, a decent adaptation of his 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart. The 2022 “ Hellraiser,” the horror franchise reboot, often resembles an artful and over-produced tribute to “Hellraiser,” Clive Barker’s kinky and sometimes genuinely nightmarish 1987 shocker. Soon enough shy Juliet is the apple of every Venus Harbor boy's eye. She presses an amulet into Juliet's hand and shoves her out the side door. Elives (how many kids got that pun?) who emerges from the backroom but a shifty looking woman. Previous Magic Shop scenes are almost identical, but this time it is not Mr. Running away from her latest victim Juliet finds the Magic Shop and Coville breaks his formula. Juliet, who is an intelligent girl, knows exactly what cruel remark will cut a person deepest. Some children crave the spotlight and having eyes on them, I was more than willing to stay in the sidelines. Juliet Dove's problem is shyness and a sharp tongue that stems from a strong desire to get away from the center of attention - something I can relate to. They were infrequent, but I hadn't thought before they were absent how much they added to the story (if you have it, just flip to the dinner-table scene in 'Skull of Truth' and see Granny in mid-breast-shake, priceless). The newest Magic Shop book, 'Juliet Dove, Queen of Love' is also the only one without the benefit of Gary A. Angelique and the King by Anne Golon5/11/2023 The climax of the book is a decision by the French court which has an impact on the whole of the rest of the story – destined to move to the dangerous streets of Paris for the second book…Īnne Golon was a French author, better known to English-speaking readers as Sergeanne Golon. One of the scenes in the book sees Angélique and Joffrey attend the wedding of Louis XIV and his queen, Marie-Therese.Īs Angélique and Joffrey tangle with powerful forces, it is a classic and gripping adventure story, but we also learn about the couple’s tender and often unpredictable relationship. The book also tells of Angélique’s first meetings with two crucial characters – King Louis XIV of France and Joffrey. Angélique de Sance de Monteloup, a vibrant twelve-year-old tomboy, is the daughter of a simple nobleman impoverished by taxes and other burdens.Īngélique joins the local peasant children in their games, ranges the ancient forests and swamps of Poitou and when bandits visit destruction and rapine on the humble villagers, our heroine’s leadership qualities come to the fore for the first time. The story begins in 1648 during a time of insurrection, terror and revolt in a divided France. Adrian goldsworthy cesar5/11/2023 Includes all of Caesar’s works, and the continuators, extant fragments of his letters, etc. Hirti Aliorumque Supplementis (Leipzig: Teubner, 1886). Iuli Caesaris Commentariorum Libri III De Bello Civili (Oxford: OUP, 1900). Iuli Caesaris Commentariorum Libri VII De Bello Gallico cum A. 1, Bellum Gallicum (Stuttgart: Teubner, 1961). Sihler, A Complete Lexicon of the Latinity of Caesar’s Gallic War (Boston: Ginn & Co. BG 1.1-20 recast as colloquia, with questions and answers (evidently intended to be memorized).Į.G. Sauveur, Talks with Caesar: De Bello Gallico. Julius Caesar's Art of War, maps to accompany BG Books 1-7, made using Google Earth by Antonio Salinas: The Coinage of Julius Caesar: The Gallic Wars, from Maquarie University in Australia: Caesar Annotated Bibliography, intended for teachers, from the Society for Classical Studies: Ĭaesar's Campaigns in Gaul, from the Athena Review vol. “Straightforward and refreshingly candid, this book is an impressive presentation of a life with a plethora of helpful lessons to share. Follow the adventures of one such boy as he searches for the two desires we all have in common: to be accepted by others and to be truly happy.įind out what happens when sensitivity and sex collide! The journey we are on is a difficult one, even more so for those of a broken family. “If you want people to remember you, you have to be a little different, you must always be sincere, and finally you have got to make them all feel special, especially the girls.” I’m sure she didn’t mean it the way that I took it. “If you want people to remember you, you have to be a little different, you must always be sincere, and finally you have got to make Nana always said. Along the way he learns to aapreciate the fairer sex and develops a higher understanding of just what it takes to make them happy. "It is less a self-help guide to relationships and more a vicarious journey throught one man's quest for self discovery. Follow the adventures of one such boy as he searches for the two desires we all have in common: to be accepted by others and to be truly happy. Follow the adventures of one such boy as he searches for the two d The jouney we are on is a difficult one, even more so for those of a broken family. The jouney we are on is a difficult one, even more so for those of a broken family. The brideship wife5/11/2023 She can't continue to live off the generosity of her sister Harriet and her wealthy brother-in-law Charles, whose political aspirations dictate that she make an advantageous match. Shy and bookish, she knows her duty is to marry, but with no dowry, she has little choice in the matter. All of us hoped for a better life than we could ever have found in England. Like pebbles tossed upon the beach, we would scatter, trying to make our way as best we could. Tomorrow we would dock in Victoria on the northwest coast of North America, about as far away from my home as I could imagine. "Inspired by the history of the British "brideships," this captivating historical debut tells the story of one woman's coming-of-age and search of independence-for readers of Suzanne Desrochers's Bride of New France. Brother by David Chariandy5/11/2023 Michael's dreams are of Aisha, the smartest girl in their high school whose own eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. Propelled by the pulsing beats and styles of hip hop, Francis, the older of the two brothers, dreams of a future in music. Always Michael and Francis escape into the cool air of the Rouge Valley, a scar of green wilderness that cuts through their neighbourhood, where they are free to imagine better lives for themselves. They are the sons of Trinidadian immigrants, their father has disappeared and their mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home.Ĭoming of age in The Park, a cluster of town houses and leaning concrete towers in the disparaged outskirts of a sprawling city, Michael and Francis battle against the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry - teachers stream them into general classes shopkeepers see them only as thieves and strangers quicken their pace when the brothers are behind them. With shimmering prose and mesmerizing precision, David Chariandy takes us inside the lives of Michael and Francis. An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991. Max lucado wemmicks5/11/2023 He has done freelance illustrative work for Disney Press and other major publishers, and has illustrated internationally renowned gift editions of several literary classics including Peter Pan, Pinocchio, and A Christmas Carol. Max lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife, Denalyn, and has three daughters and one granddaughter.Sergio Martinez was born in Mexico City, studied art in Paris, and has worked as an art director and illustrator on three continents. His award-winning books have been translated into more than fifty-four languages and he has been named one of the most influential leaders in social media by The New York Times. Max Lucado (MA, Abilene Christian University) serves as the minister of preaching at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, and is a best-selling author and speaker. Zeus carly spade5/10/2023 Though all can be read as a stand alone, there are Easter Eggs for those that read in order as books intersect. Can she fight her growing attraction for him? Does she want to? ** This is the LAST book in the Contemporary Mythos series. His emotions are the strongest she's ever felt-borderline overwhelming. Tensions flare as the two immediately butt heads, but there's something about Zane she can't put her finger on. So when she discovers Zane Vronti, one of New York's finest, has been brought in on her newest murder case, it's anything but good news. There's nothing Keira Bazin dislikes more than defense lawyers. Or does she? An empath criminal prosecutor. Too bad the one woman he has his sights on wants nothing to do with him. Zeus/Zane, King of the Greek gods, holds the world in his palm in both his mortal and godly form… until Hera leaves him, forcing him to uphold Gaea's clause: There must always be a Queen, or he loses his title and part of his power along with it. A god-king disguised as a criminal defense lawyer. Paper Myths Media is ECSTATIC to be hosting the release week tour of ZEUS by CARLY SPADE ZEUS is the 6th book in the Contemporary Mythos Series & each book. |