Beautiful and green, she preferred the countryside of her home county over the London townhouse her father kept. The town nearest to her parents’ estate sat right in the middle of Hertfordshire. Charlotte loved the familiar warm atmosphere of her local tea shop in Little Marbury. The low chatter of the other patrons in the tearoom buzzed around them. “And that’s how we met.” Charlotte leaned back in her chair and chuckled softly at her friends’ astonished expressions. Charlotte knows her duty, but what about her heart? Enjoy an Excerpt → But perfect girls do not share searing kisses with men who are not their betrothed. What could possibly go wrong?Ĭharlotte immediately realizes her fiancé has sent in a doppelgänger, but continues the ruse so no one will realize her fiancé has all but abandoned her. They used to pretend to be each other all the time in their youth. Daniel allows his twin to talk him into going to the week-long house party in his stead…just for a few days. Moreover, he’s begging off his own engagement party. Before Charlotte knows it, she is engaged to be married.ĭaniel Weston can’t believe his identical twin brother is marrying a lady he barely knows. The Marquis of Hawksridge is titled, handsome, and heroic-precisely the kind of gentleman her parents want for her husband. When Charlotte Grisham is saved from an out-of-control carriage by a handsome gentleman, she knows fate has sent her the perfect man.
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One lick of strawberry-blond hair escaped the band of his hat. His skin was smooth and pale with just a few freckles. It’s not just that he was white but he wore an off-white linen suit and shirt with a Panama straw hat and bone shoes over flashing white silk socks. I WAS SURPRISED TO SEE A WHITE MAN walk into Joppy’s bar. “More than simply a detective novel… a talented author with something vital to say about the distance between the black and white worlds, and with a dramatic way to say it” ( The New York Times). Drinking in his friend’s bar, he’s wondering how he’ll manage to make ends meet, when a white man in a linen suit approaches him and offers him good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a missing blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs.Įasy has no idea that by taking this job, his life is about to change forever. The year is 1948, the town is Los Angeles.Įasy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his job at a defense factory plant. Named one of the “best 100 mystery novels of all time” by the Mystery Writers of America, this special thirtieth anniversary edition features an all new introduction from the author. The first novel by “master of mystery” ( The New York Times) Walter Mosley, featuring Easy Rawlins, the most iconic African American detective in all of fiction. 17 on the American Library Association's list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books 2000-2009 due to its sex, violence, and strong language. The novel vividly portrays the harsh life of rural, poor African Americans - especially women - in the pre-civil-rights South, and has been criticized for its negative depiction of African American men. It won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Parents need to know that Alice Walker's The Color Purple is a moving, inspirational novel told in letters that includes an abundance of mature content - explicit sex, rape, incest, sexism, violence toward women, and a lesbian relationship. One character is a great enthusiast for smoking marijuana, which was not made illegal in the United States until 1937, and there is a mention of harder drugs.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Drinking, hard drinking, and obvious alcoholism are also a part of the fabric of their lives. Many of the characters smoke - cigarettes, cigars, and pipes -– as a regular part of their daily routines. She is also a best-selling novelist in The New York Times and USA Today. Among her many plays is Anne Frank & Me, which Bennett directed off-Broadway to a stellar review in The New York Times. She also pens the nationally syndicated teen advice column ÒHey, Cherie!Ó and is available for workshops, speeches and numerous creative, interactive programs for middle schools, high schools and universities.Ĭherie Bennett is one of the most successful playwrights for family audiences in the country. Since June 2011, she's been the Artistic Director at Amusings Productions in Sherman Oaks. She headed her own improv comedy trio, Zaniac, and performed as a vocalist, singing backup for John Mellencamp and in her play, Honk Tonk Angels. Bennett worked frequently as an actress, doing national musical tours, regional theatre productions including Mark Medoff's When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? and a well-reviewed turn in the off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton. As such, Ka's story gives Pamuk the chance to explore themes as disparate as the cultural, religious, and political divide between the East and West (broadly construed) feminism the link between artistic imagination and harsh reality and the complex, nuanced nature of Turkish identity. Ka is ostensibly in town to write about the suicide of many young girls who were banned from wearing their religious headscarves in secular, government-run schools, but he is really there to rediscover shattered fragments of his own youth and reconnect with a woman he loves, Ipek. The novel-which follows a Turkish poet named Ka as he returns from exile in Germany and travels to the rural town of Kars-is at once satirical, detached, and empathetic with the characters whose lives it depicts. Two years later in 2004, it was translated into English by Maureen Freely and published for an Anglophone audience. Snow is a novel by Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, originally written in Turkish in 2002. So perhaps his newfound career is him vicariously reexperiencing passion, a one-way method of engaging with other people. Ethan cannot remember the details, and his emotions have been dulled, creating a disconnect from his old double-life. But not only did he fall in love with the leader’s sister Rainy, but he got injured during a bomb explosion. For in the ‘70s Ethan used to be an undercover FBI Agent, living with radical left-wing revolutionaries. Perhaps Ethan wants compensation, and not just financially. Although not exactly a private investigator, Ethan has a phone number ( Reckless being set in the early 1980s) where clients call up and pitch what they cannot go to the police for. The El Ricardo is a temple,” Ethan explains to his handler Anna, “I can’t have it being ruined by other people.” It’s somewhat ironic coming from someone making their living by interfering in other people’s business. Despite his current shortage of funds, he is not eager to rent it out. Ethan Reckless, freelance enforcer, operates out of an abandoned cinema. Now our hero must reclaim Thor’s hammer, outwit the frost giants and release the gods… First published in 2009, Odd and the Frost Giants has been reimagined by acclaimed artist Chris Riddell in the style of his epic black-and-white artwork from New York Times bestselling The Sleeper and the Spindle, enhanced here with metallic silver ink. The eagle, bear, and fox Odd encounters are Norse gods, trapped in animal form by the evil frost giant who has conquered Asgard, the city of the gods. Odd is on his way with the trio to Asgard to save it from the Frost Giants. Odd, a young Viking boy, is left fatherless following a raid. Er, though not in their normal form, in animal form (a fox, a bear, and an eagle). The thrilling, wintry Nordic tale by Neil Gaiman, who weaves a magical story of legend and adventure that will enchant readers from beginning to end. Fleeing to the woods, Odd stumbles upon and releases a trapped bear…and then Odd’s destiny begins to change. Odd and the Frost Giants is a story about Odd, a young boy, and his meeting with Loki, Thor, and Odin. In his icy, ancient world there is no mercy for an unlucky soul with a crushed foot and no one to protect him. A beautifully illustrated edition of the thrilling, wintry Nordic tale by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell, who together weave a truly magical story of legend and adventure that will grip and enchant readers from beginning to end. Dante also meets his Italian contemporaries, chief among them, Florentines and neighboring Tuscans. Along the way, Dante meets an array of sinners from Christian and classical history and legend. They begin at the dark and savage wood near the Inferno entrance and then enter into its nine circles going deeper, one after another, in sin. We the readers place faith in him to represent us in finding our way through the Inferno to come out the other side enlightened.įor his fateful journey through the perilous terrain of the Inferno, Dante is lead by Virgil, the great poet of classical Rome. He begins a journey down into Hell in which terror and confusion transform into an understanding of the divine plan and the realization of divine love. But that forbidding inscription applies only to those who have no faith. “All hope abandon, ye who enter in!” reads the now famous words above the gate through which Dante, the protagonist of the Inferno, crosses the threshold. It is actually 1996, and their home is a reconstructed village that serves as a tourist site. In Running Out of Time, Jessie and her family live in the frontier town of Clifton, Ind., in 1840-or so the girl thinks. Tegen acquired the novel from Haddix’s agent, Tracey Adams at Adams Literary, who negotiated the deal for North American rights.įittingly, since more than two decades passed between the publication of the first book and its follow-up (which takes place 25 years after the original), time plays a pivotal role in the story arcs of both novels. That will change in summer 2023, when HarperCollins’s Katherine Tegen Books releases a follow-up, Falling Out of Time. Yet despite its success, Haddix firmly stood her ground, and the novel remained a one-off. Published by Simon & Schuster in 1995, the middle-grade adventure settled onto bestseller lists and over the past 25+ years has sold almost one million copies. When she finished writing her first book for children, Running Out of Time, Margaret Peterson Haddix deemed it a stand-alone novel. So you know HOW it will end but you have no idea how she’ll get there.Īnd that work is what really makes this book worth a read. Carrie knows, based on records, that Sophie Paterson will get married in a few years to David McLelland, which puts her whole romantic story in question. I also liked how Kearsley uses a few genealogical facts to frame the story. It’s kind of cool to see how a historical novelist works. I really liked how Kearsley incorporates genealogical and historical research into the story. This is not a time travel or paranormal book, although Carrie does “see” the past of her main character, which turns out to be completely factual even though Carrie thinks she’s inventing the story. The story and the setting call to her in a very strong way as she begins writing.Ĭarrie uses one of her ancestors, Sophie Paterson, as her main character. She rents a cottage in Cruden Bay, a small seaside town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, near a ruined castle called Slains. Carrie is writing a novel set in Scotland in 1708 about one of the failed attempts to put James Stewart back on the throne. It’s a historical novel, written from the perspective of a modern day writer, Carrie McLelland. And since I’m always looking for something half as good as Outlander, it was worth a try. The Winter Sea popped up on Amazon as a recommendation because I like Diana Gabaldon’s books. |