![]() So did the Seaforth Doom come at last to pass. Some time later, while driving her sister out in her carriage, the ponies took fright and both sisters were thrown out. Recently widowed, she returned from the East to take possession of the estate wearing her widows’ weeds – a black dress and white cap – and named Lady Hood, an uncanny fulfilment of the prophecy. ![]() The Puzzle Ring begins with Hannah discovering a letter addressed to the Viscountess of Wintersloe Castle, her mother, whom has. For nearly four hundred pages, I was drawn into the magic words and world woven by Kate Forsyth. The elder, Mary Mackenzie, had married a man called Sir Samuel Hood who lived in the East Indies. From the very first sentence of The Puzzle Ring, I was hooked. He died soon afterwards, leaving only his two daughters. One by one his sons died, and in his grief the Earl turned his face to the wall and would not speak. ![]() ![]() Among his friends and neighbours were four great lords, one of which was buck-toothed, one had a cleft palate, another stammered and the fourth, unfortunately, was not very bright. An attack of scarlet fever when he has twelve left him deaf, but he still married and in time had four sons and two daughters. Then the ninth Earl of Seaforth, called Francis Humberton Mackenzie, was born in 1794. ![]()
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![]() And, with her extensive background would certainly have first-hand insight into the criminal world, more than most, and it shows here. Clark has resurrected her career as a crime thriller author. ![]() ![]() Right? She was brilliant then, though we all know how that ended. We all remember Marcia Clark from the days of OJ. But when a shocking secret at the core of the case shatters her personal world, Sam realizes that not only has her client been playing her, he might be one of the most dangerous sociopaths she’s ever encountered. Notorious for living by her own rules-and fearlessly breaking everyone else’s-Samantha pulls out all the stops in her quest to uncover evidence that will clear the detective. Though Sam has doubts about his innocence, she and her two associates (her closest childhood friend and a brilliant ex-con) take the case. It promises to be exactly the kind of media sensation that would establish her as a heavy hitter in the world of criminal law. Sam lands a high-profile double-murder case in which one of the victims is a beloved TV star-and the defendant is a decorated veteran LAPD detective. ![]() ![]() Samantha Brinkman, an ambitious, hard-charging Los Angeles criminal defense attorney, is struggling to make a name for herself and to drag her fledgling practice into the big leagues. Simpson trial prosecutor Marcia Clark, a “terrific writer and storyteller” (James Patterson). First in a new series from bestselling author and famed O. ![]() ![]() As could be expected, the charm goes sideways and Noura ends up in love with beautiful artist Bewaji. She doesn’t want to marry without being in love, so she gets a charm to make her fall in love with her boyfriend (who is terrible). Noura’s family is pressuring her to get married. I really enjoyed this first sapphic romance from Love Africa Press. Please let me know via my contact form if you find something yikes in a book I recommend.Ī Little Bit of Love’s Magic by Bambo Deen ( Amazon / Goodreads) Obviously a re-read years later might reveal a problematic aspect I didn’t pick up on back then. ![]() Most of them are sadly overlooked, but working together we can change that! (Disclosure: Amazon links are affiliate links.)Īny story on this list I loved at the time I read it, whether I had a chance to write a review or not. Not everyone does, and that’s okay, but in case you love them like I do, here are a bunch of my faves. I love a good romance novella or short story. ![]() ![]() Mason, a 24-year old who inherited a fortune from his father Charles, one of the four men who, in 1875, launched the Silver King Mine near Florence in the Arizona Territory southeast of Phoenix. ![]() This lavish revival by theatrical impresarios Klaw and Erlanger starred Conway Tearle (1878-1938), who’d performed in the play earlier in the decade and who went on to a successful career in over 90 silent and sound films between 19, as the titular character.Īs for the theater, it was completed in June 1903 by John A. ![]() ![]() The highlighted artifact from the Museum’s collection for this post is a program for the week of 14 December 1908 at Mason Opera House on Broadway between 1st and 2nd streets featuring the “stupendous production” of the work. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, she grows old and frail, and the roles reverse as he cares for her the way she once did for him.īut the backstory behind its creation makes it even more powerful. The story within the book is poignant enough: A mother watches her son grow from infancy until he becomes a father himself. His wife delivered two stillborn babies within short succession, and the overwhelming sorrow felt unbearable to Munsch.Īs a way to cope with his feelings, he created this private poem that he would say aloud to himself, saying that it was his “way of crying.” Munsch, a children’s book author, came up with the book’s most famous lines (“I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be”) as a way to grieve the loss of two of his children. Love it or hate it, it’s a book that most of us either grew up with or read to our children.īut do you know the heartbreaking and beautiful true story behind the book? Most of us have read the iconic children’s book “ Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch. ![]() ![]() Gabe is fantastic and realistic not a depressed character but also not a Pollyanna. The author isn't squeamish to go into the details. I found it highly devy, the level of his injury isn't mentioned but his hands are affected so I would assume that he is a low level quadriplegic. There are a few issues that are revealed which make you think and challenge yourself as to "what would I do?" The characters are fully formed and very likeable. The comedy factor is very fresh and nothing is off limits in this regard. Her life is lonely and insular until a mishap befalls Gabe Riley's mother's table cloth and a wonderful relationship develops. While all her school colleagues head off to new adventurous lives at college, Brynn decides to learn the ropes of her family's dry cleaning business. Trying to avoid a party she decides to hang out on its fringes and see something that effects her deeply and never really gets over. She tends to opt for the road with speed humps and pot holes. ![]() ![]() Brynn Garrett finds it hard to fit in anywhere. ![]() ![]() ![]() Burns died of heart failure in 1990, at age 65, in a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, before finishing the manuscript, and the uncompleted novel was published in 1992 along with her notes. The first white-authored southern novel I read when my family moved from Michigan to Tennessee was Olive Ann Burns’s Cold Sassy Tree. Burns received so many letters pleading for a follow-up novel that she began writing Leaving Cold Sassy. The novel was finally published eight years after it was begun, in 1984. In 1975 she was diagnosed with lymphoma and began to change the family stories into a novel that would later become Cold Sassy Tree. Burns worked for the Atlanta Journal and wrote under the pseudonym "Amy Larkin". Her sophomore year she transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in journalism. The Burns family then moved to Commerce, Georgia. Olive Ann Burns has given us a timeless, funny, resplendent novel - about a romance that rocks an entire town, about a boy's passage through the momentous but elusive year when childhood melts into adolescence, and about just how people lived and died in a small Southern town at the turn of the century. Her father was a farmer but was forced to sell his farm in 1931 during the Great Depression.īurns attended Mercer University, where she wrote for the college magazine. Olive Ann Burns was born in Banks County, Georgia. Olive Ann Burns was an American writer from Georgia best known for her single completed novel, Cold Sassy Tree, published in 1984. ![]() ![]() ![]() The soundtrack contains only bird noises and brief military orders. Union troops prepare a civilian prisoner, Peyton Farquhar, for death by hanging from a rural railroad bridge. ![]() The film was later screened on American television as episode 22 of the fifth season of The Twilight Zone on 28 February 1964.Ī handbill posted on a burnt tree, dated 1862, announces that anyone interfering with bridges, railroads or tunnels will be summarily executed. It won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards. It was directed by Robert Enrico and produced by Marcel Ichac and Paul de Roubaix with music by Henri Lanoë. It was based on the 1891 American short story of the same name by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge ( French: La Rivière du hibou, lit.'The Owl River') is a 1961 French short film, almost without dialogue. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() Based on research involving crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, whales, and of course chimpanzees and bonobos, Frans de Waal explores the scope and the depth of animal intelligence, revealing how we have grossly underestimated their abilities. Take the way octopuses use coconut shells as tools elephants that classify humans by age, gender, and language or Ayumu, the young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose photographic memory puts that of humans to shame. ![]() But in recent decades, these claims have been eroded, or disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the preeminent species on Earth. ![]() |