7/6/2023 0 Comments The white princess book seriesEngland is united, but their marriage is soon divided, as rumors circulate that Elizabeth’s long-lost brother Prince Richard is alive and planning to take the throne. The year is 1485 and Princess Elizabeth, daughter of “The White Queen,” has been pledged in marriage to the newly anointed King Henry Tudor in hopes that it will bring peace to a war-torn country. The White Princess concludes the story of England’s War of the Roses and charts the rise of the House of Tudor through the tortuous marriage between Princess Elizabeth of York and King Henry Tudor. She executive produces with Gregory, Playground’s Colin Callender ( The White Queen) and Company Pictures’ Michele Buck. Lachlan MacKinnon ( Burton and Taylor) will serve as producer. The White Queen writer Emma Frost is returning to serve as showrunner. The 8-episode limited series drama is currently in pre-production. Adapted from Philippa Gregory’s best-selling novel of the same name and part of The Cousins’ War book series, The White Princess tells the story of England’s War of the Roses from the perspective of the women. Starz has greenlighted The White Princess, the follow-up to its critically-acclaimed miniseries The White Queen, from Company Pictures. The long-gestating The White Queen sequel is finally a go.
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7/6/2023 0 Comments Lois mcmaster bujold barrayarCetaganda (1995) Locus Award nominee, 1997.The Vor Game (1990)-Hugo Award winner, Locus Award nominee, 1991.First published in Analog magazine included in Borders of Infinity The Mountains of Mourning (1989)-Hugo Award winner, Nebula Award winner.Barrayar (1991)-Hugo Award winner, Locus Award winner, 1992, Nebula Award nominee, 1991. Shards of Honor (1986)-Set approximately one year before the birth of Miles Vorkosigan.Falling Free (1988)-Set approximately 200 years before the birth of Miles Vorkosigan-Nebula Award winner, 1988, Hugo Award nominee, 1989.Dreamweaver's Dilemma (1995)-Set in the Vorkosigan universe long before the rest of the series (included in the collection Dreamweaver's Dilemma) NESFA Press.Miles in Love (omnibus: Komarr, A Civil Campaign and Winterfair Gifts) (2008).Miles, Mutants and Microbes (omnibus: Falling Free, Labyrinth and Diplomatic Immunity) (2007).Miles Errant (omnibus: Borders of Infinity, Brothers in Arms, and Mirror Dance) (2002).Miles, Mystery and Mayhem (omnibus: Cetaganda, Ethan of Athos, and Labyrinth) (2001).
7/6/2023 0 Comments Ninety three by victor hugoYou may read any number of more "realistic" accounts of the French Revolution, but Hugo's is the one you will remember. Then, if you turn to modern literature for a nobler view of man, you are confronted by those cases of arrested development-the juvenile delinquents aged thirty to sixty-who still think that depravity is daring or shocking, and whose writing belongs, not on paper, but on fences.If you feel, as I do, that there's nothing as boring as depravity, if you seek a glimpse of human grandeur-turn to a novel by Victor Hugo. Every morning, when you read today's headlines, you shrink a little in human stature and hope. He is the worshipper and the superlative portrayer of man's greatness.If you are struggling to hold your vision of man above the gray ashes of our century, Hugo is the fuel you need.One cannot preserve that vision or achieve it without some knowledge of what is greatness and some image to concretize it. He is not a statistician of gutter trivia, but a Romanticist who presents life as it might be and ought to be. He is not a reporter of the momentary, but an artist who projects the essential and fundamental. "item_description" : "You may read any number of more realistic accounts of the French Revolution, but Hugo's is the one you will remember. Oh, and on an unrelated but practical note, I also learned that if you're ever attacked and you have a knife to defend yourself with, you should hold it with an overhand grip instead of an underhand one, as that allows for greater force. I find Joyce's voice to be particularly delightful and her colorful commentary of the events a real hoot and highlight. I've always enjoyed the dual points of view in this series, which alternate between third person omniscient and first person in the form of Joyce's journal. From that point on, I found it completely unputdownable. Though it took its time getting started, leisurely leading us to the murderous moment, once we get there it's off to the races. The mystery itself is compelling and an improvement over the first book. Their affection for one another, their enthusiasm for anything remotely exciting, and their good humor all exemplify the best of humanity, not just for old people, but for people of all ages. They are its heart and soul, and this book is another superb display of that. The draw of this series has always been its characters. This time, they need to recover twenty million pounds' worth of diamonds and suss out a murderer. With their trademark mix of sweetness, smarts, and humor, Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron come together to stick their noses where they don't belong. What sort of business though? Diamonds? Murder? Perhaps a bit of both? That would be nice.Our four loveable septuagenarian are at it again. 7/5/2023 0 Comments I Kill Me by Tracy H. TuckerHave we not been some part of Christine before? Where, after a bad relationship, we think “there must be something wrong with me”? Christine, however, does eventually realize that her ex (Richard, a/k/a “Dick) had in fact done her a great favor. The author Tracy Tucker did a great job of helping me to relate to the character Christine. There were so many laugh out loud, but relatable moments, I’ve lost count. I found this book to be roll on the floor funny. I received a copy of I Kill Me by Tracy H. In order to heal, she struggles to become her own person and to view her symptoms (and ex-husband) as less malignant, while searching for that special someone who will love her–despite her grave condition.” There is solace for Christine: in raising daughters Lily and Carli, leaning on her friends, and wearing out the shower massager. She isn’t a doctor, but she plays one on the internet. As her marriage to Richard, a/k/a “Dick,” falls apart, so, too, does Christine, whose fear of her own demise causes her to research every freckle, blemish, cough, bump, lump, tingle and hiccup. A veteran hypochondriac, her near-death experiences are exacerbated when her husband proposes they have a menage a trois with Eleanor, his busty British massage therapist, to “shake things up.” Christine reluctantly agrees (although she is more wholesome than threesome), never expecting just how much she’d be rattled. Instead, the human drama of one particular slave, Ona Judge, a Mount Vernon-born mulatto woman who became Martha Washington’s prized servant, takes center stage. As Dunbar, a professor of Black American history at the University of Delaware, recounts, Washington brazenly cycled his slaves in and out of his Virginia home, Mount Vernon, to avoid Philadelphia’s time limit on slaveholding.īut this legal issue is hardly the book’s subject. In this case, we learn how our first president, George Washington, skirted Philadelphia’s anti-slavery laws during the five years he and his wife, Martha, resided there, while the nation’s eventual capitol was being built - by slave labor, largely - along the Potomac River. Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (37Ink/Atria, 253 pp., **** out of four stars) is a chronicle that throws considerable shade on America’s Founding Fathers for their slaveholding hypocrisy. If there’s an irony to the fact that February, Black History Month, also contains Presidents' Day, Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s new book brings that irony into sharp relief. Thrown into close proximity with the person who used to be her best friend and the man who broke her heart, Holly realizes it’s time to face her feelings and figure out what she really wants from her life. She finds herself growing close to handsome Joseph, who is unlike anyone she’s ever met before, even if Nana isn’t so keen on the dashing stranger with the mysterious past.īut charming and irresistible musician Rhett Burton is also back in town. And it looks like he’ll be staying for the holidays.ĭetermined to make the best of the surprise situation, Holly tries to bring everyone together by baking delicious treats and decorating the cabin with plenty of festive sparkle. Someone unexpected is joining them…Īfter Holly and her beloved Nana struggle through a snow storm to reach the cabin, they discover gorgeous and wealthy Joseph Barnes, who has been renting the cabin for the last few weeks, is now snowed in. Holly McAdams loves spending the Christmas holidays at her family’s cozy cabin, with its little red door and twinkling lights, tucked in the snowy hills outside Nashville. You’ll laugh, cry, and fall in love with this wonderfully warm and MAGICAL festive romance… These stories are macabre in tone, centering, in keeping with the other tales, on characters who are often artists or decadents, inhabitants of the demi-monde. A mysterious and malevolent supernatural and gothic entity known as the King in Yellow.A play in book form entitled The King in Yellow. The first four stories are loosely connected by three main devices: The British first edition was published by Chatto & Windus in 1895 (316 pages). There are 10 stories, the first four of which ("The Repairer of Reputations", "The Mask", "In the Court of the Dragon", and "The Yellow Sign") mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read it. Lin Carter called it "an absolute masterpiece, probably the single greatest book of weird fantasy written in this country between the death of Poe and the rise of Lovecraft". Klein as a classic in the field of the supernatural. The first half of the book features highly esteemed horror stories, and the book has been described by critics such as E. The book is named for the fictional play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by the American writer Robert W. 7/5/2023 0 Comments The 10 000 doors of januaryOverall a compelling story with plenty to say. And the worlds that she explores through her book and her adventures are welldrawn and captivating. January is a lively, intelligent and feisty heroine. LET’S GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK Set in the early 20th century, The Ten Thousand Doors of January features a book within a book, hidden doors that move between worlds, villains with evil plans, and a wise, bookish girl named January. It took me a while to get hooked, as the tone at the beginning when January is a child is a little stilted. This is an ambitious book, exploring themes of race, gender, privilege, power, and progress and telling stories within stories. With the help of her childhood friend Sam, an enigmatic Kenyan women named Jane sent by her father to be her governess, and loyal dog Bad, she escapes from the asylum in which she has been imprisoned and sets out on an adventure to find her past, and to protect the future from those who want to stifle growth and change. January refuses to follow the path laid out for her by her mentor and his sinister New England Archaeology Society. When she finds a mysterious book it unlocks the story of her own past, and the secret of the Doors that she had first stumbled on as a young child. The mixed race protégé of a wealthy and controlling man, she barely knows her father, who travels the world in search of artefacts for his employer, her benefactor. January Scaller is a young woman of uncertain status. “If we address stories as archaeological sites, and dust through their layers with meticulous care, we find at some level there is always a doorway.” The sequel series to the viral sensation My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness! Series: My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness (My Solo Exchange Diary Volume 2 is scheduled for a February release.) As she struggles with an uncomfortable home and family life, Internet fame, mental illness, and her newly acknowledged sexuality, Nagata Kabi once again uses her engaging comic style to explore raw, relatable topics that are sure to resonate with readers of all stripes. This new book in Nagata Kabi's personal saga is structured as a series of diary entries, and includes the way her life has changed since the success of My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness. Seven Seas is thrilled to announce that one of our most anticipated books of 2018 is now available: My Solo Exchange Diary Volume 1, the sequel to last year's critical and commercial hit My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness. |