![]() There was lots of tension and outside distractions that kept me smiling over the course of the novel. Imagine a historical 'road trip,' where one of the participants is under arrest and trying to escape, while the other is trying to do the honorable thing. Besides the wonderful characters, it was the adventure that made Night Hawk so much fun to read. ![]() It was Ian's response that meant the most and he was viewing her with a subtle delight that put heat in her blood. And Ian was the perfect man for her with his steady and calm demeanor. The way Maggie's firey attitude was balanced with her vulnerable side was superb I LOVED her. So, wow! Beverly Jenkins knows how to write a strong heroine. Through events that start the story, Maggie finds herself in the custody of US Marshall, Ian Vance. Melancholy be damned, she was still standing, and still fighting to hold on to who she was in her heart and mind. Over the years she's endured a lot, but it was her Kaw Nation mother and Black father who shaped her into the strong, take-no-prisoners woman that she is today. Small town Kansas in 1889 would be a tough place for anybody, but as a single woman of color with no family, life is particularly hard for Maggie, who's been living a rootless, hand-to-mouth existence since she was orphaned at the age of twelve. ![]() Happy Dance! Is there anything better than finding a quality author with a huge back log of books?!! ![]() 4 solid stars! Maggie was like a kick of raw tequila. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() A feel-good story about the French Resistance that might very well inspire more than a few designers and engineers. "McAllister effectively turns what could have been a humdrum story about car design into a real page-turner and a daring tale. Half-silly, half-serious and full of human interest, The Tin Snail brings 10- to 14-year-olds into endearing and unusual company." ( Wall Street Journal) "Feel-good, funny, romping, filmic adventure" ( Sunday Times) Illustrated with panache in pen and ink by Sam Usher." ( Spectator) Plus it has a human element: the plot revolves round the designer’s young son, and his wan hopes that the car will help his parents stay together. Norah, an English war guest living with the wealthy Ogilvie family in Toronto, can hardly wait for August. It manages to turn the struggle to invent the Citroen as the first people’s car, and then to keep its design from the German invaders, into a story of the Resistance, which is saying something. ![]() "I honestly never thought I’d find myself reading, let alone taken with, a book about the making of a French motor car but The Tin Snail by Cameron McAllister is a thoroughly engaging read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Clare! Here comes Kate Haute, mistress of Richard III. The richly imagined story of the woman who might have been the mother of Richard's three illegitimate children, this tale plunges the reader into the treacherous politics of the War of the Roses."- Judith Merkle Riley, author ofThe Oracle Glass, "Anyone interested in history, honor, and lost love will want to readA Rose for the Crown." - Sharon Kay PenMan, author ofThe Sunne in Splendour, "Move over, Amber St. With Richard, Kate shares passion, regal glamour, and, in the end, partakes of the bitter cup of loss." - Judith Merkle Riley, author of "The Oracle Glass", "This is a strong biographical fictionalized account of the life of Kate Bywood that provides a warmer loving side to Richard III through the tender eyes of his paramour.Kate is a fabulous heroine whose story makes for a fascinating indirect look at another perspective of Richard III."- Harriet Klausner, "Move over Amber St. ![]() The richly imagined story of the woman who might have been mother of Richard's three illegitimate children, this tale plunges the reader into the treacherous politics of the War of the Roses. "Anyone interested in history, honor, and lost love will want to read "A Rose for the Crown."" - Sharon Kay PenMan, author of "The Sunne in Splendour", "Move over, Amber St. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Jed narrates his adventure-the people and places he encountered on his way to the bottom of the world-as well as the internal journey that started it all. He chronicled the trip on Instagram, where his photos and reflections drew hundreds of thousands of followers, all gathered around the question: What makes a life worth living? On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of being funneled into a life he didn’t choose, Jedidiah Jenkins quit his dream job and spent sixteen months cycling from Oregon to Patagonia. “With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycles across two continents and delves deeply into his own beautiful heart.” -Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things. ![]() ![]() Surprisingly, Adam Snow doesn’t feel spooked in a horrid way by this sensation, in fact he rather likes it, and wishes he could feel it again. ![]() He is strangely drawn to the house and then,Īs I stood I felt a small hand creep into my right one, as if a child had come up beside me in the dimness and taken hold of it. ![]() The story is narrated by Adam Snow, an antiquarian bookseller, who gets lost on a winding country road and ends up by a derelict house. And perhaps that kind of tension and thrill counts as being scary in its own way. But it only took ten pages or so to get me completely gripped, longing to know what would happen next, where the eerie ghostly grip of the hand would take me. In other words I wasn’t expecting to find it particularly scary.Īnd I’m not sure that it was scary in a gory, terrifying, panic-inducing way. So I read The Small Hand with a certain naïve scepticism. I’m not sure that I’ve ever read a proper ghost story, other than The Turn of the Screw and a few various gothic moments that have incidentally come my way via bits and pieces of literature. It would be weird to feel too spine-tinglingly chilly in the heat of summer, whereas now it would be forgiven for prompting another cup of tea or making one draw a little closer to the fire. It was a choice based on the feeling that a ghost story was the right sort of thing to read in winter. Last week I read The Small Hand by Susan Hill. ![]() ![]() ![]() SV: As a child, I wrote stories and articles (for a newspaper I created), but it wasn’t until college that I realized I was a writer. ![]() MK: When did you realize you were a writer? ![]() I also had the opportunity to interview Alphabet Trucks Illustrator Ryan O’Rourke… you can read it here. PLUS… I get to give away her beautiful new book: Alphabet Trucks! Check out the interview and scroll down for the giveaway. Samantha is spilling the good, the challenging and the surprising about being a published author. Hello Friends! I am so excited about today’s post– an interview with author Samantha Vamos! Samantha is a former attorney and mom who quit the corporate world to pursue her dream of writing books– and she made it happen! You may know her from some of her other work, including the award winning bilingual book The Cazuela That The Farm Maiden Stirred. ![]() ![]() ![]() –Wayne Tefs, recalling the night in 1976 when he created a press with the mandate to publish chapbooks by Manitoba poets. ![]() No, you are in love with words, with story, with song, and you are doing nothing more than dreaming the book – a simple thing, a good thing, a thing that carries and sustains what you are and what the place you live in may become.” The work alone would have thrown you off. You certainly are not contemplating twenty years of labour, of screening twenty thousand manuscripts, of Editorial Board meetings, conferences with writers, proofreading, copy-editing, launches, grant-applications, Literary Press Group, the ACP, conference calls – if you had, you probably would not have hazarded the dream. You haven’t heard yet of perfect binding, of dingbats, of saddle stitching, Corel, Ventura, fulfillment, or financial statements. “You’re dreaming the book, the tangible, tactile object. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Well, Felicity,’ said Darrell Rivers to her younger sister. ![]() Visit our web site at First e-book edition 2010 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher and copyright owner. The moral rights of the author and illustrator have been assertedĪ CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British LibraryĪll rights reserved. Goodbye Malory Towers first published in Great Britain 2009ĮNID BLYTON® text copyright © 2009 Chorion Rights LimitedĬover illustration copyright © 2009 Nicola Slater ![]() 5 The Third Form at St Clare’s (written by Pamela Cox)Ħ Kitty at St Clare’s (written by Pamela Cox)ĩ The Sixth Form at St Clare’s (written by Pamela Cox)ħ New Term at Malory Towers (written by Pamela Cox)Ĩ Summer Term at Malory Towers (written by Pamela Cox)ĩ Winter Term at Malory Towers (written by Pamela Cox)ġ0 Fun and Games at Malory Towers (written by Pamela Cox)ġ1 Secrets at Malory Towers (written by Pamela Cox)ġ2 Goodbye Malory Towers (written by Pamela Cox)īased on characters and stories created by Enid Blyton ![]() ![]() ![]() She has to have grown up poor in a rural environment, because those things not only formed me. She has to have been estranged from her father since a young age like I was. From the start, Strayed tells us, she knew that Clare, aka Sugar, had to have her past.ĬHERYL STRAYED: She has to have lived through many of the most formative experiences I had, namely the death of my mom - my mom died very suddenly of cancer at 45. ![]() And although the series is generally fictional, it does closely mirror Strayed's own life and experiences, many of which were captured in the advice columns that Cheryl Strayed wrote anonymously under the name Sugar. The show stars Kathryn Hahn as an adult Clare and Sarah Pidgeon as a young Clare, and Merritt Wever plays Clare's mother, Frankie. It follows Clare, both the woman she is today and the teenager she was. ![]() "Tiny Beautiful Things" is a brand-new series on Hulu based on Cheryl Strayed's bestselling book of the same name. ![]() ![]() 'My Lord,' answered the Minister, 'I will take the furniture and the ghost at a valuation. ![]() After the unfortunate accident to the Duchess, none of our younger servants would stay with us, and Lady Canterville often got very little sleep at night, in consequence of the mysterious noises that came from the corridor and the library.' Augustus Dampier, who is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Otis, that the ghost has been seen by several living members of my family, as well as by the rector of the parish, the Rev. 'We have not cared to live in the place ourselves,' said Lord Canterville, 'since my grand-aunt, the Dowager Duchess of Bolton, was frightened into a fit, from which she never really recovered, by two skeleton hands being placed on her shoulders as she was dressing for dinner, and I feel bound to tell you, Mr. Indeed, Lord Canterville himself, who was a man of the most punctilious honour, had felt it his duty to mention the fact to Mr. ![]() ![]() Otis, the American Minister, bought Canterville Chase, every one told him he was doing a very foolish thing, as there was no doubt at all that the place was haunted. ![]() |