![]() ![]() Marci cannot remember what set off his first attack on her and Corin, her younger sister. ![]() Throughout most of the novel, Eddie is drunk when he becomes violent, but his outbursts are otherwise arbitrary. She recalls a night in which Eddie tries to commit suicide with a hunting rifle. ![]() Marcía Cruz, or Marci, asks God to make her father, Eddie, leave and to turn her into a boy. Occurring sometime in the 1960s, the Vietnam War is the main point of historical context in the novel, serving as a mirror to the violence and hopelessness Marci experiences. The scope of the novel is mostly limited to Marci’s home, her extended family, and locations in California. The reader is only privy to Marci’s thoughts and experiences. What Night Brings is written in a first-person limited point of view. She also won the Miguel Mármol prize for bringing light to human rights issues. Trujillo also earned accolades for What Night Brings, including writing awards such as the Paterson Fiction Prize and the Latino Literary Foundation Latino Book Award. She edited an anthology of works by lesbian Chicana writers titled Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About in 1991, and she edited another anthology, Living Chicana Theory. What Night Brings is Trujillo’s first novel, but not her first published work relating to its central themes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Without giving too much away, the protagonist is rescued from his pursuers, but his rescuers have been looking for him. This man is an expert in certain occult lore that’s about to come in really handy. Cut to our protagonist stealing an artifact from ancient ruins, then running through a swamp while being chased by some kind of fish people. To start things off, we see that something strange is going on in the world, as several people are shown suddenly killing their entire families and writing strange words on the walls with their blood. I enjoyed it, but the reader needs keep an open mind. It’s confusing and weird and fascinating. ![]() It’s part horror, part psychological thriller, part mystery, part adventure, part a lot of things (not for kids, though). Nameless, by Grant Morrison is not a conventional comic book. Better than calling it “Bob.” Who would buy that? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lively and intriguing, this is a fast-paced, wonderful read. “Ryan creates characters you care about and a plot that holds your interest as you try to unmask the killer. Originally published by Berkley Prime Crime, Murder in a Mill Town was nominated for the prestigious Mary Higgins Clark Award. Working with Viola’s black sheep son, Will, Nell uncovers a web of schemes and greed and dark obsession… and what she knows may just be the death of her. Viola, confined to a wheelchair, enlists Nell to locate the missing mill girl. Fallon, unwilling to believe that Bridget would just run off without a word, fears that she’s come to a bad end-possibly at the hands of her ex-con lover. Their wayward daughter, Bridget, a pretty young employee of Hewitt Mills and Dye Works, hasn’t been seen for days. The lowborn Fallons come to Viola Hewitt with a desperate plea for help. As governess to the wealthy Hewitt family, she finds plenty of opportunities to use both-especially when the seamy side of society shows itself. Ryan knows how to write a tale that will grip and keep readers’ interest throughout the novel.” -Midwest Book Reviews Nell Sweeney, a young Irish-born governess in post-Civil War Boston, may not have much, but she does possess both a keen mind and a brave heart. “Nell is one of the strongest, most honorable, and dearest heroines to grace the pages of an amateur sleuth novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lothrop and Co., 1882) (page images at Google US access only) Alden, Isabella Macdonald, 1841-1930: The Hall in the Grove (Boston: D.Alden, Isabella Macdonald, 1841-1930: Grandpa's Darlings (Cincinnati: Western Tract Society, c1875).Nelson and Sons, 1902) (page images at Google US access only) Alden, Isabella Macdonald, 1841-1930: Grandma's Miracles, or, Stories Told at Six O'Clock in the Evening (London et al.: T.Alden, Isabella Macdonald, 1841-1930: Grace Holbrook, and Other Stories of Endeavor and Experience (Boston: Lothrop Pub.Alden, Isabella Macdonald, 1841-1930: Gertrude's Diary and The Cube (Boston: Lothrop Pub.Lothrop and Co., c1878), also by Faye Huntington (multiple formats at ) Alden, Isabella Macdonald, 1841-1930: From Different Standpoints (Boston: D.: "Alden, Isabella Macdonald, 1841-1930: From Different Standpoints" to "Alden, Isabella Macdonald, 1841-1930: Miss Dee Dunmore Bryant" ( Hide titles Exclude extended shelves) Browse authors with titles: alden isabella macdonald 1841 1930from different standpoints | The Online Books Page The Online Books Page ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There she joins a ragged band of humans who are seeking a legend - a possible cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and created the rabids, the mindless creatures who threaten humans and vampires alike.īut it isn't easy to pass for human. Then Allie is forced to flee into the unknown, outside her city walls. To survive, she must learn the rules of being immortal, including the most important: go long enough without human blood, and you will go mad. Die or become one of the monsters.įaced with her own mortality, Allie becomes what she despises most. Until the night Allie herself is attacked - and given the ultimate choice. The vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them. ![]() By night, any one of them could be eaten. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. And one girl will search for the key to save humanity.Īllison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a vampire city. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Redbrick, Sam Wait states "Brown has succeeded in writing a collection that, though deeply personal, is universally relatable". Writing about Sweetdark for i-D, Jenna Mahale notes the collection "explores how we live vulnerably, pleasurably, and chaotically at the end of the world". In 2020 she released a second poetry collection called Sweetdark. Īt age 19, Brown self-published a collection of poetry titled Gratffiti (and other poems) which was a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards. Career īrown gained prominence after videos of her performing original poems, one exploring the topic of self-love and another about female sexuality, went viral. She graduated from Wadsworth High School in 2014 then shortly after moved to London. She credits the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and her eleventh grade English teacher for cultivating her interest in poetry. 1996) is an American-British poet and author.īrown was born in Cleveland, Ohio. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was thinking ’bout shit and he just happened to look up at the wrong time.” “If you’re talking ’bout my smile the other day, it wasn’t at him. “You don’t want Marko, cos you want Jasper Rakete.” If you don't already know, Jenna and Phelia are prison guards at a men's prison. Just remember, they aren't episodes like My Masters' Nightmare, they are novels. I'm doing it like this so you don't have to wait much. ![]() You'll have two books very close together. BTW, the book is practically ready to send out to my editor, but I'll wait a tick until I finish the second book, which is already well under way and won't take long to finish (a week or two). Also, different characters have different speech patterns, hence the change between cos and 'cause/wuz and was. I'll pop in Phelia's name so you know the first line belongs to her, with Jenna following. Here's an unedited peekaboo at a scene with Jenna and Phelia talking about Jasper in the ladies' restroom at the pub (from Chapter 9). ![]() ![]() ![]() She speaks to the important work of raising a girl in today's world, and provides her readers with a clear proposal for inclusive, nuanced thinking. This short, sharp work rings out in Chimamanda's voice: infused with deep honesty, clarity, strength, and above all love. Here, too, are ways parents can raise their children-both sons and daughters-beyond a culture's limiting gender prescriptions. So she sent Ijeawele a letter with some suggestions-15 in all-which she has now decided to share with the world.Ĭompelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive, Dear Ijeawele offers specifics on how we can empower our daughters to become strong, independent women. But as a person who'd babysat, had loved her nieces and nephews, and now, too, was the mother of a daughter herself, she thought she would try. Here is a brilliant, beautifully readable, and above all practical expansion of the ideas this iconic author began to explore in her bestselling manifesto, We Should All Be Feminists.Ī few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking how to raise her new baby girl a feminist.Īlthough she has written and spoken out widely about feminism, Adichie wasn't sure how to advise her friend Ijeawele. ![]() An instant feminist classic, and perfect gift for all parents, women, and people working towards gender equality. ![]() ![]() He explores why doctors err and shows when and how they can- with our help-avoid snap judgments, embrace uncertainty, communicate effectively, and deploy other skills that can have a profound impact on our health. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong-with catastrophic consequences. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. This book describes the warning signs of flawed medical thinking and offers intelligent questions patients can ask. A New Yorker staff writer, bestselling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the mystery of how doctors figure out the best treatments-or fail to do so. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, a Russian winter is the coldest of them all, and Mila soon learns the only way to escape intact is to do the impossible and thaw her captor’s heart. But it doesn’t take long for his caress to become a rough grasp muffling her screams. ![]() One with unexplained wealth, tattoos on his hands, and secrets in his eyes. She never expected to fall for a man on the way. ![]() Suffocated by the rules and unanswered questions, Mila does what she’s always wanted to. Not about her papa’s absences or his refusal to let her set foot in her birthplace-Russia. ![]() Having always done what is expected of her, Mila dresses the part, only dates college boys with exemplary backgrounds, and doesn’t ask questions. She refrained from telling her it would be literally while Mila ran for her life. A fortune teller once told Mila she’d find a man who would take her breath away. ![]() |