Back to Blog
Kate clayborn love lettering5/24/2023 But the signs are there - irresistible, indisputable, urging Meg to heed the messages Reid is sending her, before it's too late. I think I was expecting a book a little more serious, a little more like Love Lettering which I enjoyed in a different way. As they gradually open up to each other, both try to ignore a deepening connection between them. Dear Kate Clayborn, Oh what a delight this book was. But with a looming deadline and a bad case of creative block, Meg doesn't have time for Reid's questions - unless he can help her find her missing inspiration. She has another skill too: reading signs that other people miss. Meg Mackworth’s hand-lettering skill has made her famous as the Planner of Park Slope, designing custom journals for her New York City clientele. Ī year later, Reid has tracked Meg down to find out how she knew that his meticulously planned future was about to implode. Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn February 7 21, 2022. Meg may have thought no one would spot it, but she hadn't counted on sharp-eyed, pattern-obsessed Reid. Knowing the upcoming marriage of Reid Sutherland and his gorgeous fiancée was doomed to fail is one thing, but weaving a secret word of warning into their wedding program is another. Meg Mackworth's hand-lettering skill has made her famous as the Planner of Park Slope, designing custom journals for her New York City clientele.
0 Comments
Read More
Back to Blog
Inherit the wind robert e lee5/24/2023 not drama.”īringing history to life through drama involves a risk that the central issues will be seen as “of the past” and of no relevance to the present. But, the authors emphasize “Inherit the Wind is not history” and that the “collision of Bryan and Darrow at Dayton was dramatic, but. In a brief note at the beginning of the play, the playwrights admit that the Scopes Monkey Trial was clearly the inspiration for their work. Lee published their dramatized version of the events of the summer of 1925. Thirty years later, in 1955, playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. John Thomas Scopes, but it became known the world over as the Scopes “Monkey Trial.” The official name of this encounter was Tennessee vs. The issue? A state law that forbid the teaching of evolution and a local teacher’s violation of that law. In the blistering hot summer of 1925, two nationally-known legal minds, Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, battled in a tiny courtroom in Dayton, Tennessee, and, for a time, captured the attention of the world.
Back to Blog
Overdue by Richie Tankersley Cusick5/24/2023 There was an interesting cast of characters.Īn entertaining mystery, great to read near Halloween!įinally! A book that tells the truth about librarians! How they run around willfully stamping books, slapping stickers on their spines while they heartlessly shush our young! What could be worse than this army of literature-loving villains? I was curious to find out who the murderer could be. I enjoyed the great setting, a creepy, old, run-down library. This was a fun young-adult thriller from the 90's. Who could be behind this, who can she trust? And then there's the strange messages at the scene of the crimes with books sometimes left with the victims, leaving clues. A couple of Kathleen's good friends get run over by a car. Then they start having terrible accidents. Kathleen eventually tells some of her friends about this, but they don't take her too seriously. Passages are bookmarked, they seem like threats to her and she finds a slip of paper with the words "Horrors await you. Someone leaves some books in the book drop that have to do with death, torture. Later that night Kathleen feels like she is being watched. One day Miss Finch leaves Kathleen in charge while she has to go to a seminar. She dislikes the bossy librarian Miss Finch and she thinks the library is old, cold, and damp. Kathleen (who is 17) works at Freemont Public library and she hates it.
Back to Blog
Rainbow rowell she never looked nice5/24/2023 If Eleanor & Park is being challenged in your school, you can get help and resources from the National Coalition Against Censorship. Yes, this book has been challenged in various school districts since it was published in 2013. Is it true that Eleanor & Park is a banned book? I currently have no plans for another Simon and Baz book - but obviously I love them a lot, and I can imagine revisiting them someday. Cath and Levi make an important cameo in my book Landline. And I gave Reagan, Cath’s roommate, her own short story - “If the Fates Allow.”And, of course, I've written an entire trilogy about Simon Snow. (I don't want to Jar Jar Binks myself!) And I know I'd disappoint somebody! It would be impossible to write a sequel that lives up to everyone's hopes and imaginations. I'd hate to disappoint readers who really love the characters. The success of the book has made the prospect of writing a sequel really intimidating. I always thought I would - I almost started it as soon as I finished Eleanor & Park. And now I sort of wish that I had. What are the three words at the end of Eleanor & Park? No, seriously - is that on your birth certificate?
Back to Blog
Nikita gill wild embers5/24/2023 Review Quotes A set of short poems that explore femininity, transcendence of love, wild revolution, and self-empowerment. In these words, readers will find the magnificent energy to spark resistance and revolution. Featuring rewritten fairytale heroines, goddess wisdom, and verse that burns with magnificent beauty, this raw and powerful collection is an explosion of femininity, empowerment, and personal growth. In this magical poetry collection, Nikita Gill unflinchingly explores the fire in every woman and the emotions that lie deep in one's soul. Featuring rewritten fairytale heroines, goddess wisdom, and poetry that burns with revolution, this collection is an explosion of femininity, empowerment, and personal growth"-Back cover.īook Synopsis Discover a powerful and relatable poetry collection of love, loss, and healing - perfect for fans of Rupi Kaur and Amanda Lovelace. About the Book A poetry collection that "explores the fire that lies within every soul, weaving words around ideas of feeling at home in your own skin, allowing yourself to heal, and learning to embrace your uniqueness with love from the universe.
Back to Blog
Raise the titanic by clive cussler5/24/2023 It would re-emerge later when published under the new title of Pacific Vortex which introduced the character of Dirk Pitt. The time working in the shop also brought him closer to expertise in diving that would later benefit his fulfilment of becoming an author of sea stories and grand tales.Ĭussler finished his first novel The Sea Dweller in 1967. While working in a managerial role at an Aquatic diving store in Newport Beach during 1968, he would bring into work a portable typewriter that he would turn to during the qui- et periods. “There is a fascinating aura about the sinking of the Titanic that has gripped thousands of nostalgia freaks, including myself.”Ĭlive Eric Cussler was born on 15 July 1931 in the City of Lights known as Aurora, located some forty miles from Chicago.
Back to Blog
Gilman the yellow wallpaper5/24/2023 Although the narrator writes in secret, she finds working against John’s wishes exhausting, so she “get unreasonably angry with John sometimes” (132). John is a physician, as is the narrator’s brother, and though the narrator accepts that her brother and her husband believe “there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression,” she feels they are wrong in forbidding her from doing “congenial work” (131). In the first diary entry, the narrator introduces her husband John, a pragmatic man who “scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures” (131). The ten journal entries vary in length and in tone, but they all trace the mental decline of the narrator, who is suffering from a serious postpartum episode of mental instability. She writes from her bedroom located on the top floor of “ colonial mansion” (131) that she and her husband John are renting for the summer with their infant son and two members of staff. The unnamed narrator of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” presents her story to the reader over a series of ten revealing diary entries.
Back to Blog
Gaining ground joan barfoot5/24/2023 WRITINGS:Ībra (novel), McGraw-Hill Ryerson (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1978, published in England as Gaining Ground, Women's Press, 1980.ĭancing in the Dark (novel), Macmillan of Canada (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1982.ĭuet for Three (novel), Macmillan of Canada (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1985.įamily News (novel), Macmillan of Canada (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1989. AWARDS, HONORS:īooks in Canada Award for first novel, 1978, for Abra London YM-YWCA Women of Distinction Award, 1986 Marian Engel Award, 1992 longlisted, Man Booker Prize, 2002 Huron University College Medal of Distinction, 2005. Windsor Star, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, reporter and religion editor, 1967-69 Mirror Publications, Toronto, Ontario, feature and news writer, 1969-73 Toronto Sunday Sun, Toronto, 1973-75 London Free Press, London, Ontario, 1976-79, 1980-94, current affairs columnist, 1997-2000. Agent-Bella Pomer, 22 Shallmar Blvd., PH2, Toronto, Ontario M5N 2Z8, Canada. Education: University of Western Ontario, B.A., 1969. Born May 17, 1946, in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada daughter of Robert (a salesperson and farmer) and Helen (a teacher) Barfoot.
Back to Blog
Slough house dead lions5/23/2023 'Mick Herron's novels are a satirical chronicle of modern Britain. ironclad storytelling and off-kilter humour' Financial Times Herron is difficult to overpraise' Daily Telegraph In the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, Jackson Lamb's crew of back-office no-hopers is about to go live. Now Lamb's got his phone, and on it the last secret Dickie ever told, and reason to believe an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in the Service's back-yard. Good at following people, bringing home their secrets.ĭickie was in Berlin with Jackson Lamb. And Dickie was a talented streetwalker back in the day, before he turned up dead on a bus. 'Razor-sharp prose, fully formed characters and an underlying pathos make this series the most exciting development in spy fiction since the Cold War' The Timesĭickie Bow is not an obvious target for assassination.īut once a spook, always a spook. 'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on Sunday *Soon to be a TV series starring Oscar-award winning actor Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb*
Back to Blog
Daggerspell by katharine kerr5/23/2023 She first became involved in the field of fantasy through role-playing games, writing articles for gaming magazines and authoring early quests for Dungeons and Dragons - all of which soon led her to fantasy writing, with her first Deverry novel, Daggerspell, appearing in 1986. Biography: Leaving snowy Ohio for California, Katharine Kerr studied at Stanford University for a spell before dropping out to join some of the many social movements sweeping San Francisco in the 60s.but young Jill has no idea what the destiny has in store for her. Their magical presence in her life marks her out as different special. Jill's only friends are the mysterious spirits known as Wildfolk: gnomes, sylphs, sprites and undines. After her mother died when she was young, father and girl took to the road, living from town to town, never settling. Jill is the daughter of a Silver Dagger, a band of wandering swordsmen who fight for money, not honour. A wait that may soon finally come to an end. He waits for the one who might break him free of his prison. The powerful sorcerer Nevyn broke a promise long ago and a curse has trapped him ever since. 'I was hooked and my enthusiasm for this series carried me through to the very last and then moved me to tears' - Fantasy Book ReviewĪ broken promise, a curse and a magic beyond imagining. Prepare to be spellbound by a sparkling fantasy classic: a tale of adventure and timeless love, perilous battle and pure magic. |