![]() ![]() Then a dashing French prisoner of war, cousin to the king of France, is brought to London, and Jane finds she cannot help giving some of her heart-and more-to a man she can never marry. But as she grows into a lovely young woman, she still receives flattering attention from the virile young men flocking to serve the handsome new king, Henry VIII, who has recently married Catherine of Aragon. With no money of her own, Jane could not hope for a powerful marriage, or perhaps even marriage at all. ![]() ![]() Jane Popyncourt was brought to the court as a child to be ward of the king and a companion to his daughters-the princesses Margaret and Mary. Basing her gripping tale on the life of the real Jane Popyncourt, gifted author Kate Emerson brings the Tudor monarchs, their family, and their courtiers to brilliant life in this vibrant novel.īeautiful. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Julie Otsuka’s long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine (“To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for novels like Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird” - The New York Times) is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as ‘picture brides’ nearly a century ago. Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I had never meant to write anything but the Bone Season series until all seven books were finished. Unable to move on to the fourth installment until I knew the rough shape of the third, I had a window of opportunity to work on a book about dragons. I would later discover that this was because I hadn’t quite hit the mark with the draft: The Song Rising would require a comprehensive overhaul (and remains the most troublesome book of my career to date). My editor was taking an unusually long time to get back to me, which left me without a project to work on. That year, I submitted the first draft of The Song Rising, the third installment in my ongoing Bone Season septology. Ever since I was young, I had dreamed of dragons-and from the start of my life as an author, I knew I wanted to write about them. When I started The Priory of the Orange Tree in 2015, I intended for it to be a standalone novel. In this essay, Shannon explains how the next installment in the Roots of Chaos series came to be. It was originally billed as a standalone novel, so fans were surprised and thrilled when Samantha Shannon announced not only that she was writing a prequel, A Day of Fallen Night, but also that even more books were to follow. ![]() ![]() A tale of dragons and queens that sprawls across an entire world (and over several hundred pages), The Priory of the Orange Tree has become a modern fantasy classic in the eight years since its release. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() was it a perfect portrait of the loneliness and despair of a queer woman not over her breakup with a beautiful but ephemeral woman, in a relationship with another woman she despised but also couldn't stop committing to long terms plans/having sex with, the unresolved childhood trauma of an absent father and the abandonment of a mother, and the banalities and stress of owing her drug dealer money she doesn't have while working as a dishwasher at an upscale London restaurant and bar with a boss who calls her "Puppy"? YES!!!!! I adored how this novel, following the blueprint of My Year Of Rest and Relaxation (sorry, I know, an overused comp title for sure), gives us a glimpse into the psyche of a highly disturbed, deranged, and unlikeable main character, a young woman on the run from her feelings, constantly chasing what has already been lost while stewing in her unresolved past. ![]() ![]() A man who's always had things easy for all the wrong reasons. A privileged member of the Archambault family. He’ll be faithful because he’s a man of honor, but she’ll never have his heart.Įlie knows who he is. He’s not expecting love or some happy ever after, just a partner that knows exactly what she signed up for. All he has is a signed contract and a list of his new bride’s expectations for their arranged marriage. And there’s nothing faster than choosing to marry a woman you’ve never met. ![]() Shadow Rider Elie Archambault has been called many things: domineering, brash, loyal, but most of all fast. ![]() Journey deeper into the world of Chicago’s most dangerous, alluring crime family in this incendiary installment of the Shadow Riders series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was developed by a mathematician, statistician and astronomer working exclusively with data from French and Scottish military conscripts in the 1800s. GORDON: The BMI was not developed by a health care provider. ![]() SUMMERS: Or that BMI, body mass index, is a reliable way to measure health. GORDON: Researchers have been clear for years that our body size isn't solely or even primarily the result of our own choices. SUMMERS: And along with that come myths, a whole lot of them about fat people - myths like being fat is a choice. And a lot of that pressure is rooted in what author and podcast host Aubrey Gordon describes as anti-fatness.ĪUBREY GORDON: Anti-fatness is a sort of web of beliefs, interpersonal practices, institutional policies that are designed to keep fat people sort of on the margins. This time of year, there's a lot of pressure to change the way you look. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And while critics can and do bemoan the surface similarities these disparate properties tend to share, the strength of the MCU remains how much variation it manages to offer up in tone, scope, stakes and subject matter. We're neck-deep into Phase 5 now, after all we've had dozens of movies and streaming series and one-off specials. ![]() What, in your mind, is the Marvel Cinematic Universe still missing? L to R: Mantis (Pom Klementieff), Drax (Dave Bautista), Quill (Chris Pratt) and Nebula (Karen Gillan) go for a walk in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. ![]() ![]() It consists of 15 well detailed chapters which speak about points like the truth about relativity and the attraction for words like 'zero' and 'free'. The author uses various real life examples that enable the readers to understand that most of our decisions in life tend to be irrational. This book tries to answer this basic question. To lead a happy and prosperous life, one must make right decisions, which only happens after one gathers the understanding of how these decisions are made. The things we do, buy or experience are all based on the decisions we make. ![]() This book has been written by Dan Ariely and was published by HarperCollins publications in 2010. The intriguing language of this book along with the powerful narration makes this book a must have. The main aspect of this book is to find out the process behind decision making. ![]() ![]() This book takes into account human reactions across a wide range of situations and tries to decipher the reasons. 'Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions’ is a book on human behavior which tries to understand why we humans tend to make certain decisions and behave in certain ways. ![]() ![]() ![]() In deciding to take his son's class, Mendelsohn pere tends to dominate the exchanges. With great narrative craft he manages to illuminate text through the cut and thrust of the student-teacher dialogue, and to train that light on the theme of fathers and sons, loss and recognition, and storytelling itself. It's a close encounter with a canonical work of Western literature – one of those books that everyone wants to have read but relatively few, in reality, do read – set largely in a classroom. Mendelsohn's An Odyssey fits neatly into the distinctive sub-genre of American non-fiction, the intellectual-pedagogical adventure. While this is manifestly Homer's song, Mendelsohn has transcribed it for contemporary voices: those of his students – one of whom, for a semester, is his 81-year-old "Daddy" – and a few travellers on a cruise around Odyssean sites in the Mediterranean. But Mendelsohn's odyssey ultimately succeeds in its aim: to bring the ancient epic home to us. The tone is gentle and erudite, now and then a little earnest, and every so often slightly naff: even if Jay, is actually called "Daddy" by his son, the repetition of this childlike honorific grates terribly. ![]() ![]() ![]() One whose character even that old curmudgeon Twain judged to be “ flawless.” Joan deserves to be remembered for who she really was. 250 by Mark Twain Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Volume 2 by Mark Twain. No, not a “misfit.” An amazing individual. The artifices that Mark Twain used to publish his novel Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Sieur Louis de Conte in 1895-6 mystified his readers no. And with her little hand that child of seventeen struck him down and yonder he lies stretched on the field of Patay, and will not get up any more while this old world lasts.” ![]() It was an ogre, that war, an ogre that went about for near a hundred years, crunching men and dripping blood from its jaws. ![]() ![]() At Orleans she struck it a staggering blow on the field of Patay she broke its back. . . In seven weeks she hopelessly crippled that gigantic war that was ninety-one years old. Then began the briefest and most amazing campaign that is recorded in history. Now came the ignorant country maid out of her remote village and confronted this hoary war, this all-consuming conflagration that had swept the land for three generations. Take the words of Mark Twain, whose last completed novel (what he called a labor of love) was “ Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.” Twain summed up Joan’s impact as only he could: “France was a wreck, a ruin, a desolation. ![]() |