![]() ![]() ![]() Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream they are bound by rules and force.Īmidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. ![]() A gut-wrenching, startling historical thriller about communist Romania and the citizen spy network that devastated a nation, from the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray. ![]()
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![]() ![]() His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004). He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. ![]() McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. ![]() Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. ![]() ![]() Seren was born on a spaceship and, along with her entire family, she knows it is where she will die. Visit Kate Ling's website for more information To lose him would be like losing herself. He becomes the sun for her, and she can't help but stay in his orbit. But when you're hurtling through space at thousands of kilometres an hour, sometimes you have to accept there are things you cannot change.Įxcept that the arrival of Dom in her life changes everything in ways she can barely comprehend. ![]() It's something she feels she needs to stay sane. And it is also totally impossible.Įven though she knows it's impossible, Seren longs to have the sunshine on her skin. ![]() It is that quick, that strong, that beautiful. ![]() ![]() "Crash & Burn" by Jonathan Woods is an amazingly intricate story for short fiction, one which has the plans for revenge of several players unfolding on a collision course of epic proportions.Ĭlassic Matthew C. "Mori Obscura" by Nik Korpon and "Herniated Roots" by Richard Thomas both use addiction and what its overpowering pull can do to a man as their backdrop. In "You Dirty Rat" by Nigel Bird a powerful combination of festering guilt and a quest for justice drives a soldier to take action years after a series of tragic events occurred on the battlefield. Edited by Sandra Ruttan and Brian Lindenmuth, Speedloader is a collection of six hard hitting crime fiction stories from an impressive group of authors. Snubnose Press is the new e-publishing arm of Spinetingler Magazine, and they’ve come roaring out the gate with their first offering, Speedloader. ![]() ![]() ![]() It concerns 40ish Evangeline Knapp who performs her housewifely duties intensely and aggressively. I read slightly more than a third of this novel, originally published in 1924. This book powerfully examines society's expectations for men and women and what happens when those expectations just do not fit. But what will happen if all goes back to "normal"? Though all feel sorry for them, they end up flourishing in these circumstances. Then all is flipped on its head when an accident leads to a role reversal, Eva going out to work and Lester staying home to mind the kids. ![]() ![]() Everyone in the family has healthy problems and their youngest child, Stephen, is acknowledged by all their acquaintances as a terror, despite Eva's excellent mothering. Eva, the mother, runs a beautifully functioning household on her husband's meager salary, but is constantly slaving away and feeling stifled by her housework and her needy children. Lester, the father, is hopeless at getting along at work, constantly making errors and not progressing at all. The Knapps are a family of five struggling to get by. ![]() I loved this 1920s book that flips the typical man/woman roles on its head. ![]() ![]() Lietenant Teri Howe, has always had a passion for flying ever since she was young. But somewhere between peril and resolution, the line between friends and lovers begins to blur, pushing both their lives over the edge. The rescue mission will be daring and dangerous. ![]() But when a jet carrying an American senator’s daughter is hijacked, Stan’s unflinching determination and Teri’s steadfast courage are put to the ultimate test. So it’s no surprise when he comes to Teri’s aid, knowing that his personal code of honor–and perhaps his heart–will be at risk. Rock steady Senior Chief Stan Wolchonok has made a career of tackling difficult challenges. As one of the best helicopter pilots in the naval reserves, Lieutenant Teri Howe is strong, dedicated, and highly skilled–until a past mistake surfaces, jeopardizing everything she’s worked for. Now she has written the most gripping novel of her career–an unforgettable story of an explosive hostage situation in which two people are caught between the call of duty and the lure of destiny. Genres: Contemporary Romance, Military Romance, Romantic SuspenseīONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Suzanne Brockmann's Born to Darkness.Suzanne Brockmann has taken romantic suspense by storm with her action-packed thrillers. Published by Random House Publishing Group on September 1st 2001 ![]() ![]() ![]() In a world where humans and praeterns conspire for the ultimate power, violence is a way of life.and death. Stripped to the waist, Rand alThor shivered at the winds cold caress, and. ![]() Lara, born to fight in service to the Were alpha, finds herself caught between two worlds, belonging to neither, and her unexpected obsession with an enemy Alpha puts ancient loyalties to the test. may take you a year of steady reading, but by next year youll be chomping. Francesca's enforcer Michel, with a secret sexual conquest in Sylvan's Pack and a Were centuri newly-turned Vampire, Lara under her command, may have divided loyalties, too. Sylvan must confront the Vampire Chancellor Francesca, a one-time lover, about her part in a recent attack on Mir Laboratories-a confrontation that will test Sylvan's alliance with the Vampires and lead to war. Wolf Were Alpha Sylvan Mir wants nothing more than to keep her pregnant mate Drake safe in their secluded stronghold, deep in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains, but enemies, political and praetern, force her into battle. A world of violent passions and inhuman hungers explodes as ancient taboos and primal desires collide. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The producer thinks that the play will succeed, but decides to change a few details. The professional actors (who are not wearing masks) start playing the roles of the characters, but when they arrive at a crucial scene, the characters intervene, complaining that they are not being fairly represented. The producer agrees to create a play about them. ![]() They tell the rather melodramatic story of their lives. Six characters, wearing masks, and identified only as Father, Mother, Stepdaughter, Son, Boy, and Girl, follow the attendant up the aisle and beg the producer to find them an author who can write a play about them, or to include them in the play he is about to produce.Īfter some bewilderment, the characters explain that the author who invented them did not complete their play. The producer and a company of actors arrive and begin reading out stage directions the actors complain about the script, but the producer (who also serves as director) explains that he “can’t get hold of good French plays any more so that now we’re reduced to putting on plays by Pirandello.” Before the rehearsal can get underway, an attendant comes up the central aisle of the auditorium and announces unexpected visitors. A stage-hand is starting to build a set, but the stage manager interrupts him to say that it is time for rehearsal. When the lights come up on Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author ( 1921), the first thing the audience sees is a bare stage, with no scenery and only a few folding tables and chairs scattered about. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Ocean Vuong navigates the politics and emotions of this changing body-from an observer and supplicant to an agent that is capable of loving others, harming them, and creating new things, so too does he trace the way that language is protean. In one poem, the body is fragile, but in the next, it is a testament to the stubborn truth of simply living despite hardship. Vaughan have noted, Night Sky With Exit Wounds is a collection that locates the intersection of all these tensions and conflicts in the body, which mutates throughout the collection to fill a variety of roles. ![]() Moreover, as critics like Michiko Kakutani and Christopher R. The collection itself is an exploration of the uncanny closeness between life and death, trauma and rebirth, nationhood and exile, pleasure and pain, parents and children, and love and violence. Instead, what Vuong received was an offer for the work to be published, and the collection was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2016. Since Vuong thought that such a rejection would provide him with valuable information regarding next steps and meaningful advice on how to advance his writing, he submitted the poems to the contest with low expectations. Vuong initially wrote the poems in the collection and assembled them for an open contest that claimed each rejection would be personalized. Night Sky with Exit Wounds is the debut full-length poetry collection by Vietnamese-American author Ocean Vuong. ![]() ![]() Pyg fuses plastic masks onto peoples’ faces, wiping out their identity and turning them into his Dollotrons, mindless slaves to do his bidding. Morrison warps the traditionally campy nature of Batman’s villains – an overweight guy in a pig mask calling himself Professor Pyg - with some dark twists. ![]() It’s like a circle, reminding the man he is now (Batman) of the boy he once was (Robin). Remember Dick grew up in the circus? Nice touch. Grant Morrison gives Dick a suitable first adventure as Batman by sending him against a disturbing new adversary: Professor Pyg and his Circus of Strange. ![]() While Bruce is temporarily away, Dick Grayson steps up to don the cowl and become the new Batman with surly sidekick Damian Wayne as his Robin. But after his “death” in Final Crisis, a lot of great comics followed: The Return of Bruce Wayne, this great series as well as Scott Snyder’s The Black Mirror, culminating with Batman Incorporated. The Dynamic Duo are back – Batman and Robin? No, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely - ‘ray!īatman’s “dead”! I know, I know, le sigh, cue eye-rolling, etc. ![]() |