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![]() ![]() Until Perseus embarks upon a fateful quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon… Cursed with the power to destroy all she loves with one look, Medusa condemns herself to a life of solitude. Writhing snakes replace her hair and her gaze will turn any living creature to stone. Punished for Poseidon’s actions, Medusa is forever transformed. ![]() Furious by the violation of her sacred space, Athene takes revenge–on the young woman. When the sea god Poseidon assaults Medusa in Athene’s temple, the goddess is enraged. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know. Unlike her siblings, Medusa grows older, experiences change, feels weakness. The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. They will fear you and flee you and call you a monster. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The harshness of her life in this new country of India, feeling torn from all that is familiar, comes close to crushing her, yet she endures. She arrives in a brothel, working in guaranteed slavery until she is broken or dies, astonished at the charges beyond what she could possibly earn for everything she touches. She’s determined to excel, even though she can’t imagine the place. When she is sold to an itinerant “Auntie,” she thinks she’ll be working as a maid in the city. In her village in Nepal, Lakshmi’s life is more than difficult and requires her to endure hunger, harsh weather and poverty. The book is appropriate for ages 13 and up the film is PG-13. A film-screening, book-signing, and discussion of "Sold" based on Patricia McCormick's award-winning novel which raises the topic of human trafficking. ![]() ![]() ![]() From dense jungles and terrifying firefights to chaotic helicopter rescues and harrowing escapes, each individual experience reveals a different facet of the war and moves us forward in time. But it's the personal stories of eight people-six American soldiers, one American military nurse, and one Vietnamese refugee-that create the heartbeat of Boots on the Ground. ![]() ![]() The history of this era is complex the cultural impact extraordinary. More than forty years after America left Vietnam in defeat in 1975, the war remains controversial and divisive both in the United States and abroad. In over a decade of bitter fighting, it claimed the lives of more than 58,000 American soldiers and beleaguered four US presidents. ★ "Partridge proves once again that nonfiction can be every bit as dramatic as the best fiction."*Īmerica's war in Vietnam. ![]() ![]() When an ambitious engineer saw the potential to use mechanicals in the war effort, subsequent tragic events created the need for strict laws controlling these artificial life forms. ![]() This period saw the rise of the Mechanicals, robot helpers who could do a variety of useful services for humans. Tin is a science fiction fairytale set in an alternative version of our world where history appears to have diverged around the time of the Great War. He has his mechanical friends to keep him company. However, his present life working for the eccentric engineer isn't all bad. He remembers the fire most of all his last, most powerful memory of his old life that chokes out everything else. Snatches of memories sometimes surface images of his mother and father that appear suddenly before fading into the smoke, blackness and flames of the fire. ![]() ![]() Summary: A group of mechanical children go on a dangerous quest in search of their best friend, Christopher.Ĭhristopher can't remember much about his life before he came to live with Mr Absalom. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Those Humes, also known as Home, inspired this novel so a great deal of my family history and heritage are woven in. The Jacobites are also fascinating to me personally since my Scottish ancestors, the Humes, were Jacobites who got into more than a wee bit of trouble for their allegiances, forfeiting all that they had in 1715. Your site is lovely! I’ve always been fascinated with the intertwined history of England and Scotland, especially when the Stuart dynasty ended and the Hanoverians came to the throne. ![]() ![]() So happy to be your guest, Laurel, thank you. Can you share your inspiration for selecting this time in British history for your new novel? The Rose and the Thistle is set in Northern England and Scotland during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. Grab a cup of tea and some shortbread and settle in. Releasing next month, Laura graciously agreed to talk with me in advance of publication sharing insights into the storyline, characters, historical context, and her writing career. Bestselling author Laura Frantz’s forthcoming, The Rose and the Thistle, is briming with heather, history, and romance during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. If you are as big a fan of historical novels set in Scotland as I am, take heed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Publishers and publishing > New York (State) > New York > Fiction. Search for related items by subject Subject: Simon comes to realize that everyone is not what they seem, that everyone is keeping secrets, and that ordinary events may conceal a diabolical plot. Simon meets The Vixen author, reckless, seductive Anya Partridge, ensconced in her opium-scented boudoir in a luxury Hudson River mental asylum. ![]() Simon's mother was a childhood friend of Ethel Rosenberg's his parents mourn Ethel's death. It is a potboiler intended to shore up the firm's failing finances. ![]() Simon Putnam, newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm, gets his first assignment: editing The Vixen, the Patriot and the Fanatic, a lurid bodice-ripper improbably based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. ![]() ![]() Nothing about her flat, spare language signals that a drug that makes the user invisible, or a pregnancy condition in which a tiny, grasping fetal arm drops out from the mother’s vagina, is a shift away from the known universe. ![]() (Well, almost-another story details interspecies sex with a yeti.) Elsewhere in the collection, her plots move just a half-step away from reality, integrating fantastical elements so seamlessly that they almost escape notice. The story’s obvious satire of LA’s moneyed class is the closest Ma gets to exaggerating for effect. The charming idiosyncrasies of one, a young love, once made her laugh the physical abuse of the other has left a lasting mark, deep as a bone bruise. The husband, a match of convenience found on, is a blank outline who speaks only in dollar signs, but two of the woman’s ex-boyfriends still remind her of real emotion. On the husband’s dime, they while away the hours indulging in the city’s bougie diversions: Barney’s, LACMA, Moon Juice. Her 100 ex-boyfriends reside there, too, to keep her company during the day. Moneybags husband and their two children. ![]() A woman lives in a multi-winged Los Angeles mansion with her Mr. ![]() ![]() The collection opens with a housewife’s reverie. ![]() ![]() ![]() And, as ever, the Rabbi is the quickest draw in the West-when it comes to pulling out bits of Talmudic insight to fit any occasion, that is. He encounters the return of “Big Milt” and Wolfie Wasserman (the most feared father-and-son outlaw team east of Nevada), and investigates another bold crime by the sweet-faced Bad Bubbe. These adventures combine Jewish and American folklore by creatively retelling comic Jewish folktales and setting them loose on the western frontier of the 1870s.Īs his fame grows throughout the Rocky Mountains, Rabbi Harvey meets new characters-including the luckless gold miner Abigail-and faces a slew of new challenges. ![]() ![]() Part Wild West sheriff, part old world rabbi, Harvey protects his town and delivers justice, wielding only the weapons of wisdom, wit, and a bit of trickery. In this follow-up to the popular The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Wisdom and Wit in the Wild West, the Rabbi returns to the streets of Elk Spring, Colorado. Rabbi Harvey is Back with Ten Hilarious New Adventures ![]() ![]() ![]() It was Zapata’s first published solo book. It was first published on February 8th, 2012, and is now available in 12 editions. Lingus (2012)ĭescription: Lingus is a story about acceptance and friendship and a love born out of the most unexpected of places. Mariana Zapata Books Reading Order (In Detail) 1. Here’s more detail about every Mariana Zapata book separately. ![]() There’s also an additional 56-page extract from The Wall of Winnipeg and Me book published in 2019 in French, called “Et puis quoi encore!”. That’s why it’s best to read Mariana Zapata’s books in publication order, as follows: You can sometimes pick up on subtle hints about her other books, but you can easily read every book separately as a stand-alone piece. ![]() Do You Need To Read Mariana Zapata Books In Order? Mariana Zapata Books Reading Order (At A Glance)Īlthough Mariana Zapata has over a dozen romantic novels behind her, they are actually all stand-alone, non-series novels that can be read separately at will. ![]() |