The weird comes when the storytellers diverge from the known path. The authors remained true to the source material while adeptly exploring their own story. Each voice rings true, and actions and their actions are believable. It’s fun seeing these characters interact, and it truly feels as if Stohl and de la Cruz know their characters intimately. Reading this mashup was a mixture of cool and weird (which isn’t a bad thing). Putnam’s Sons Books for Young ReadersĪ Secret Princess is being billed as a mashup of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess and The Secret Garden, but it actually draws from Burnett’s Little Lord Fauntleroy, as well. When one of the friends suffers a personal tragedy, a plan - and a secret - change everything for the trio. And thank goodness, since their boarding school is basically insufferable. What if Mary Lennox and Sara Crewe ended up at boarding school together? Find out in A Secret Princess, by Margaret Stohl and Melissa de la Cruz.īest friends Mary Lennox, Sara Crewe, and Cedric Erroll are best friends. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, June 28, 2022, Hardcover, $18.99 (young adult) A SECRET PRINCESS, by Margaret Stohl and Melissa de la Cruz, G.P.
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She is a little unsure of her business decisions, but under the influence of her astonishingly capable 10-year-old shop assistant Christine, Florence hardens a bit. She is all determination and forthrightness. Widow Florence Green decides to open a bookshop and buys a haunted, crumbling building in which to sell her wares. Delightful because the world of books, fictional and real, has booksellers like Florence Green, who buys hundreds of silk bookmarks because they are beautiful and hundreds of copies of Lolita because, after taking advice, is assured that regardless of how much money it will make, it is a book worth reading. Dark because the forces of evil, in the guise of a woman named Violet, seem to prevail. What a delightfully acerbic and dark read this is. I have to begin by saying that I can’t think of how to write about this book without spoilers. The book might be ex-library copy, and may have the markings and stickers associated from the library-The book may have considerable highlights/notes/underlined pages but the text is legible-Safe and Secure Mailer-No Hassle Return-Used books may not include supplementary material. The dust jacket if present, may be marked, and have considerable heavy wear or might be missing. creased spine/cover, scratches, curled corners, folded pages, sunburn, stains, water damage, bent, torn, damaged binding, dent). The book may have some cosmetic wear (i.e. The item is fairly worn but still readable. The boiled frog syndrome : a novel of love, sex and politics by Rubin, Marty Publication date 1987 Publisher Boston : Alyson Publications. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Empire of pain sacklerEmpire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of 21st century greed. In this masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing Oxycontin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis-an international epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a million people. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations in the arts and the sciences. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions - Harvard the Metropolitan Museum of Art Oxford the Louvre. The gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium and Oxycontin, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing. Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award Shortlisted for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2022 Shortlisted for The British Book Awards 2022 Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2021 Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2021 Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month for March 2022 7/4/2023 0 Comments Pearl earring bookThen Vermeer employs her as his assistant-and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries-and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title. In the society in which the novel takes place during the English Reformation period, differences in background serve to divide the public. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. Chevalier presents a fictional account of Vermeer, the model and the painting. Set in 17th-century Delft, Holland, the novel was inspired by local painter Johannes Vermeers Girl with a Pearl Earring. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 1999 historical novel written by Tracy Chevalier. Reading Length provides a calculation for the word count of this book, find out how long it will take you. With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. Girl with a Pearl Earring: A Novel has 240 pages. For a list of prominent citizens of Troy and Rensselaer County prior to 1925, click here.For now, you can click on those excerpts that are ready so far, and I will attempt to locate the remaining information and will transcribe and post it as I have time. Thirty years reviewed : being an anniversary discourse, delivered in St. The list below shows the excerpts she had intended to post here. The city of Troy and its vicinity, by Arthur James Weise. The late Lin Van Buren transcribed the material below, but she passed away before finishing it. 1891 Troys One Hundred Years, 1789-1889 by Arthur James Weise : As early as 1800, the small stream running along the Hollow Road, later known as.Rensselaer County Mailing List and has kindly granted permission for us to reproduce them here for your benefit. Many thanks to Bill McGrath of Clifton Park, Saratoga County, NY, who has posted excerpts from the book on the. (See Origins of Place Names in Rensselaer County.) The book chose as the starting point for its 100 years of coverage the date 5 January 1789, on which date what previously had been informally called Vanderheyden was renamed Troy.The village of Troy became the city of Troy when it received its city charter on 12 April 1816. A., the book marks the 100th anniversary of the granting of the first village charter in 1791. 7/3/2023 0 Comments Charles portis books in orderThere’s the easy erudition-knowing that an English translation of de Soto’s journey was published in Shakespeare’s lifetime-and the sly allusion, relocating Gertrude’s lament for Ophelia to a tributary of the Ouachita River. But, bad luck, there is no play, with a scene at the Camden winter quarters, and, in another part of the forest, at Smackover Creek, where willows still grow aslant the brook.”Įverything about this grievance is pure Portis. To Portis, it was also perfectly obvious that the exploration of his home state could have been fine fodder for the Bard: “It is just the kind of chronicle he quarried for his plots and characters, and DeSoto, a brutal, devout, heroic man brought low, is certainly of Shakespearean stature. As the novelist pointed out, it wasn’t, strictly speaking, impossible: Hernando de Soto had ventured to the area in 1541, members of his expedition wrote about their travels in journals that were translated into English, and at least one of those accounts was circulating in London when Shakespeare was working there in 1609. It was a source of some annoyance to Charles Portis that Shakespeare never wrote about Arkansas. Sozomen, on the other hand, while correcting Socrates’ narration, restricted the meaning of the term canon only to the particular church regulations, excluding those established by heterodox synods, which had a significant impact on how frequently they appeared in the text. Moreover, some regulations in ecclesiastical law were not always called canons by Socrates, which demonstrates some lack of precision while using legal terminology. The analysis of both Ecclesiastical Histories proves that the word canon had numerous meanings for Socrates, who used it while referring to pure ecclesiastical law, as well as to church regulations or practices, ordinances, resolutions, church registry, or even expressions of faith. The purpose of this article is to try to answer whether Socrates, as viewed from the work of Sozomen, also presumably a lawyer, could have knowledge of ecclesiastical law and distinguished between the terms of canon (used in ecclesiastical law) and nomos (used in civil law). Recently, however, his legal education has been questioned by some scholars. For quite long he has been believed to be a lawyer, owing to the title scholastikos, attributed to him. In subject literature there has been a discussion regarding juridical education of Socrates, the author of Ecclesiastical History. "Putney's endearing characters and warm-hearted stories never fail to inspire and delight."â?Sabrin … ( more) "Intoxicating, romantic and utterly ravishing."â?Eloisa James Praise for Mary Jo Putney and the Lost Lords series Yet they cannot keep apart and are soon drawn into a union that may bring joyâ?or shattering danger. If he recognizes her, the demons of her past will surely erupt. But dangerously attractive Daniel Herbert is not the kind of husband she has in mind. Now alone with a young daughter and a perilous secret, she is in need of protection. Jessie Kelham's looks have always been a curse. He does not expect to become intoxicated by a woman called the Black Widow, who is as mysterious as she is shockingly beautiful. Warily he accepts that he must enter society and seek a wifeâ?a sensible woman who can oversee his properties, leaving him free to continue his work. Most men would be thrilled to learn they've inherited a title and estate from a distant relative, but Daniel is appalled because the burden of wealth will interfere with his medical calling. Viewed as a saint by those who know him, in his own mind he never quite manages to live up to his own high standards. Regency thrills from the New York Times bestselling author of Not Quite a Wife, who always delivers "a dventure, passion and pure reading pleasure" (Jo Beverley).Īfter the death of his sweetheart when he was at university, Daniel Herbert buried his grief in medical studies and his passion for healing. Unfortunately, the trial quickly spirals out of control, and Sirius is banished to hell for a hundred years. Leaving his faithful vampire Maltese, Garlic, behind, Sirius travels to court to defend himself with the help of his demon attorney, Maximillian Justice. You would think by now he'd know having sex can lead to horrific consequences like marriage, children, and ex-wives-but some habits just won't die. Regardless of the truth, Sirius is put under the jurisdiction of Immortal Divorce Court. Immortal vampire assassin Sirius Sinister learns this the hard way when he's served divorce papers by Bloodsucker Number One-a shady woman from his past-he realizes there's a major problem: he was never even married to her, or so he thought. With a forever ex, the drama never goes away! Welcome to a world where mythological creatures mess up their relationships just like we do. |