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The youngest of three children of the Miller family. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. More than seventy detective novels of British writer Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie include The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and And Then There Were None (1939) she also wrote plays, including The Mousetrap (1952). Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
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Charming as a verb6/10/2023 Soon what started as a mutual hustle turns into something more surprising than either of them ever bargained for. Henri agrees, seeing a potential upside for himself. When she uncovers Henri’s less-than-honest dog-walking scheme, she blackmails him into helping her change her image at school. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri’s charms: his “intense” classmate and neighbor Corinne Troy. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. He is a star debater and popular student at the prestigious FATE academy, the dutiful first-generation Haitian son, and the trusted dog walker for his wealthy New York City neighbors. Synopsis: Henri “Halti” Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. Published: September 22nd, 2020 (Balzer + Bray)
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Destroy me by laura bailey6/10/2023 She keeps a sketchbook that she appears to use as a kind of pictorial journal, in part as her way of devotion to the Traveler. She delights in small acts of mischief and trickery and can be plied with offerings of pastries. According to Molly (and herself), everyone tells her that she is pure of virtue, worthwhile, and a creature of some repute. Īs of " Titles and Tattoos" (2x84), Jester has a diamond dust tattoo covering her upper chest and shoulders, resembling clasped hands. She later attached it to a glaive to increase the weapon's value during a trade in Zadash. This ribbon was originally wrapped around Jester's map of Wildemount, but Jester kept it because it looked "pretty". She sometimes wore a ribbon tied around her left horn. She wears a belt with a symbol to the Traveler on her waist. She wears a pretty dress and has freckles. Jester Lavorre is a 5 feet, 3 inches tall blue tiefling with blue hair. Ģ019 Official full body portrait of Jester, by Ari.
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Matrix lauren6/9/2023 Over the next six decades, Marie relinquishes her grip on one kind of happiness (Westminster, Eleanor) to catch hold of another (her work, the hundreds of women who depend on it). She leaves behind not just the glamorous English court, but also her love: Eleanor of Aquitaine, the most powerful woman in the world, Henry’s wife. We meet Marie, the half-acknowledged half-sister of King Henry II, as she is departing for the abbey where she will spend the rest of her life. However, this plot synopsis does not do justice to the whimsy, empathy, and urgency that saturate the novel’s pages. Its premise is simple: the life of a medieval nun, the story of a rebellious teenager’s transformation into a respected spiritual leader. Like Fates and Furies, Groff’s new novel, Matrix, is full of surprises. Lauren Groff’s 2015 novel Fates and Furies-a finalist for the National Book Award, among other honors-is ostensibly about a marriage, but on closer inspection it’s about something thornier, unsettling in its very banality: the difficulty of knowing another person at all.
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Freeman’s mother died three years later, and she changed her middle name to “Eleanor” in her memory.įreeman’s father died suddenly in 1883, leaving her without any immediate family and an estate worth only $973. When the family’s dry goods business in Vermont failed in 1873, the family returned to Randolph, Massachusetts. She later finished her education at Glenwood Seminary in West Brattleboro. In 1867, the family moved to Brattleboro, Vermont, where Freeman graduated from the local high school before attending, Mount Holyoke College (then, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) in South Hadley, Massachusetts, for one year, from 1870–71. Religious constraints play a key role in some of her works. Freeman’s parents were orthodox Congregationalists, bestowing a very strict childhood. Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (Octo– March 13, 1930) was a prominent 19th-century American author.įreeman was born in Randolph, Massachusetts on October 31, 1852, to Eleanor Lothrop and Warren Edward Wilkins, who originally baptized her “Mary Ella”.
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Eden robinson trickster series6/9/2023 The trickster is a powerful figure across the globe. Soon, his life is enveloped by supernatural sights, such as talking ravens, doppelgangers and shapeshifters.Īnd then Jared discovers that the raven he keeps seeing everywhere - at bus stops, at parties and even at his makeshift ecstasy lab - is actually a trickster, and that trickster is his biological father. From looking after his partying mother who often speaks to the voices in her head, to paying his father’s bills, it seems like Jared’s life can’t get more chaotic. Set in Kitimat, B.C., the show goes through the ins and outs of the difficult life of Jared, who is played by newcomer actor Joel Oulette from Medicine Hat. Based on Eden Robinson’s best-selling novel Son of a Trickster, “Trickster” tells the story of an Indigenous teenager, Jared, who makes ecstasy and sells it at his after-school job to keep his family afloat. If you know anyone who has watched CBC Television’s new supernatural series, “Trickster,” you have probably heard that the show is truly like no other.
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Bunny mona awad hardcover6/8/2023 Oooh, goodreads choice awards semifinalist for BEST HORROR 2019! what will happen? The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort-a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one.īut everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door-ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University.
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Barnstorming by Martin Caidin6/8/2023 Several years before publishing the first Steve Austin novel, Cyborg, Caidin featured bionics in a speculative science fiction novel entitled The God Machine (1968).Ĭaidin's canon was prolific and varied, ranging from additional speculative/SF novels such as Marooned, which was made into an acclaimed film and considered a harbinger of the Apollo 13 accident, to a novel based upon the character Indiana Jones. A number of his books were notable for their reasonable, realisitc predictions of then-futuristic technology. Like his hero, Caidin had a long history in military aviation, and most of his work tends to center around the adventures of pilots and astronauts. From 1972-1975, he wrote four novels featuring a bionic protagonist named Steve Austin. Martin Caidin (14 September 1927 - 24 March 1997) was the author of the book series on which The Six Million Dollar Man is based.
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I'll Scream Later by Marlee Matlin6/8/2023 Matlin lost all hearing in her right ear and 80% of the hearing in her left ear at the age of 18 months due to illness and fevers. Matlin was born in Morton Grove, Illinois, to Libby ( née Hammer 1930–2020) and Donald Matlin (1930-2013), who was an automobile dealer. In 2009, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Matlin is a prominent member of the National Association of the Deaf, and her interpreter is Jack Jason. For her role in CODA (2021), she won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Matlin starred in the police drama series Reasonable Doubts (1991–1993), which earned her two Golden Globe Award nominations, and her guest roles in Seinfeld (1993), Picket Fences (1993), The Practice (2000), and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2004–05) earned her four Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She is the first deaf performer to win an Academy Award, as well as the youngest winner in the Best Actress category. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a BAFTA Award, and four Primetime Emmy Awards.ĭeaf since she was 18 months old, Matlin made her acting debut playing Sarah Norman in the romantic drama film Children of a Lesser God (1986), winning the Academy Award for Best Actress. Marlee Beth Matlin (born August 24, 1965) is an American actress, author, and activist.
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If you don’t own any, Binocular Highlights explains what to look for when choosing binoculars for stargazing and provides observing tips for users of these portable and versatile mini-telescopes. In fact, as even experienced stargazers know, to go beyond the naked-eye sky and delve deep into the universe, all you need are binoculars - even the ones hanging unused in your closet. You don’t need fancy or expensive equipment to enjoy the wonders of the night sky. The Millennium Star Atlas was constructed as a collaboration between a team at Sky & Telescope led by Roger Sinnott, and the European Space Agencys. Also included are four seasonal all-sky charts that help locate each highlight. Each object is plotted on a detailed easy-to-use star map, and most of these sights can be found even in a light-polluted sky. This new (2017), expanded edition of Binocular Highlights adds 10 objects to the original edition’s tally to provide a tour of 109 different celestial sights - from softly glowing clouds of gas and dust, to interesting stars, clusters, and galaxies - all visible in binoculars. Everything you love, all in one place, easy. See your Sky TV next to your Netflix, YouTube, Spotify, and All 4. 12 month minimum term and further terms apply. Using the links provided for purchasing any of these from helps keep this site up and running - thanks! (Canadian readers can use this link to go to Amazon.ca if preferred.) Standard pricing applies after 12 months. The books, atlases, and maps listed here are ones that I’ve had a hand in producing - either writing, editing, or some other behind-the-scenes effort. |