Sheriff Sunshine Vicram finds her cup o' joe more than half full when the small village of Del Sol, New Mexico, becomes the center of national attention for a kidnapper on the loose.ĭel Sol, New Mexico is known for three things: its fry-an-egg-on-the-cement summers, strong cups of coffee-and, now, a nationwide manhunt? Del Sol native Sunshine Vicram has returned to town as the elected sheriff-thanks to her adorably meddlesome parents who nominated her-and she expects her biggest crime wave to involve an elderly flasher named Doug. New York Times bestselling author Darynda Jones is back with the first novel in the brand-new snarky, sassy, wickedly fun Sunshine Vicram series- A Bad Day for Sunshine! "Narrator Lorelei King works well with the subtly snarky style of author Darynda Jones.Listeners will look forward to the next installment of this new series, as some mysteries are solved, and others remain." - AudioFile Magazine "This suspenseful and witty first novel in a new series is a perfect match for narrator Lorelei King." - Booklist
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One bad book could have derailed the momentum, so Bachman was a place to experiment with new forms, ideas, and voices. At the time the first batch of Bachman books came out, he was on a good trajectory, but hardly guaranteed the 4-decade career he’s had. It makes sense, if you consider that Stephen King was growing into a household name and the author was finally making some money for the first time in his life. There’s a decided second-hand quality to the Bachman stories, as though King was unwilling to launch a real novel under the name of Richard Bachman. Having now finished my second Bachman book, I’ve found that some of my trepidation, while uneducated, wasn’t terribly inaccurate. The reasons were myriad and largely uneducated: Bachman seemed “ uncanon” somehow I’m not a big fan of sci-fi, the synopses themselves didn’t pique my interest, etc. I have been a Stephen King fan for nearly 30 years, and during that time I’d managed to never read a Richard Bachman book, until starting this blog. Lord Illingworth, of course, is a man of high distinction. Well, you couldn’t come to a more charming place than this, Miss Worsley, though the house is excessively damp, quite unpardonably damp, and dear Lady Hunstanton is sometimes a little lax about the people she asks down here. What is the use of my always knitting mufflers for you if you won’t wear them? Ah! you must find it very draughty, I should fancy. They used to tell us at school that some of our states are as big as France and England put together. We have the largest country in the world, Lady Caroline. Have you any country? What we should call country? You have no country houses, I am told, in America? I believe this is the first English country house you have stayed at, Miss Worsley? Lawn in front of the terrace at Hunstanton. Miss Hester Worsley, Miss Julia Neilson Alice, Maid, Miss Kelly Lady Hunstanton, Miss Rose Leclercq Lady Caroline Pontefract, Miss Le Thiere Lady Stutfield, Miss Blanche Horlock The action of the play takes place within twenty-four hours. A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde Scanned and proofed by David Woman of No ImportanceĪCT I. That last one was mine – theoretical physicist Miles P. Underwater swarming robots! Imagination in primates! The melting of the Greenland ice shelf! The Late Antiquity religious roots of our contemporary concept of debt! The boundary between quantum and classical mechanics! It was an incredible line-up of some of my favorite contemporary authors, as well as scholars doing trailblazing work in many different disciplines. The initiative pairs science fiction and fantasy authors with leading scientists and scholars of the renowned Ivy League university, so that we can learn about their work and write original fiction shaped by their research, to be published in an anthology by Lightspeed later this year. Last weekend, I was privileged to join the first-ever installment of the Dartmouth Speculative Fiction Project. I was transported to the 1880s and Chile, to contemporary Sydney and Kew. Compelling storytelling' The Australian Women's Weekly With these dynamic women at the helm, Kayte weaves a clever tale of plant treachery involving exotic and perilous encounters in Chile, plus lashings of gentle romance. 'Two incredibly likeable, headstrong heroines. Praise for the bestselling The Botanist's Daughter: If you love Elizabeth Gilbert and Kate Morton you will devour this book. The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant is a deeply atmospheric, resonant novel that charts the heart's wild places, choices and consequences. When she is contacted by Rachel, it sets in motion a chain of events that threatens to reveal secrets kept buried for more than sixty years. Meanwhile, in London, Eve is helping her grandmother, a renowned mountaineer, write her memoirs. Captivated by their passion and tenderness, Rachel determines to track down the intended recipient. When a violent storm forces her to take shelter on a far-flung island, she discovers a collection of hidden love letters. Free-spirited marine scientist Rachel Parker embarks on a research posting in the Isles of Scilly, off the Cornish coast. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital is at first Esther's prison but soon becomes her refuge.Ģ018. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. A cache of unsent love letters from the 1950s is found in a suitcase on a remote island in this mysterious love story by top ten bestselling author, Kayte Nunnġ951. Anne would be so pleased to know that her story would see someone off to bed beautifully! All around it’s a treat of a book that cherishes the spirit of the original work. Kallie George’s writing is simple yet lovely, making the book just right for children. In fact, it will send them in search of more of Anne’s stories! There are just enough Anne references to please any fan, yet not so many that anyone would feel left out if they had not already heard Anne’s story. Some of the things that Anne says goodnight to, such as stars, trees, and flowers, younger readers already know. Lynde and Miss Stacy all make appearances in the book. Older readers already familiar with Anne will welcome the familiar names, but younger readers will not lose out. Page after page of Genevieve Godbout’s warm, winsome illustrations beckon the reader to join Anne as she remembers all the people and places she loves before she finally goes to sleep. Interior artwork from Goodnight, Anne written by Kallie George and illustrated by Genevieve Godbout, Tundra Books ©2018.Īnne (with an “e”) goes about her little world saying goodnight to everyone and everything around her. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, makes me smile! Everything about it is suitably comfortable, yet also dreamy. Goodnight, Anne, a welcome tribute to L.M. Rather than simply jumping between narratives in different time periods, she crashes the experiences together, playing out several story lines in one go. Indiana’s technical ingenuity is this novella’s greatest strength. It takes the aftermath of a series of ecological disasters in the 2020s as its starting point and follows the fortunes of maid Acilde and troubled artist Argenis as they travel back and forth between 20, in search of ways to save themselves and head off the catastrophes that precipitate the story’s beginning. Roving between an apocalyptic near future, the recent past and distant history, Tentacle, Achy Obejas’s translation of Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Omicunlé, is a bold and startling exploration of many of the big issues facing humanity today, including the role of technology, climate change, religion and colonial legacies. Having found translations from the Dominican Republic to be fairly thin on the ground during my quest, I was delighted to have the chance to sample this Caribbean nation’s Spanish-language literature (back in 2012, I read Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which was written in English with elements of Spanglish thrown in). This book came onto my radar by way of a tweet from Gary Michael Perry, acting head of fiction at the famous Foyles bookshop on London’s Charing Cross Road. These are the legends that Asha, daughter of the king of Firgaard, has grown up learning in hushed whispers, drawn to the forbidden figures of the past. But where there is light, there must be darkness-and so there was also the Iskari. In the beginning, there was the Namsara: the child of sky and spirit, who carried love and laughter wherever he went. Genre: Fiction, Young adult, Adult, Fantasy, High fantasy, Dragons, Adventure, Magic, Enemies to lovers Think How to Train Your Dragon but more adult and even better. The Last Namsara is a magical novel that leads the reader on an adventure of discovery through the eyes of a badass main character. Content warning: PTSD, murder, blood, death, domestic abuse, emotional abuse, slavery, insinuations of sexual assault // Elizabeth Gaskell and the English provincial novel. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.Ĭraik, W.A. The politics of story in Victorian social fiction. While industrial relations serve as a focal point in Gaskell’s text, North and South. When she becomes involved in a strike at a mill owned by John Thornton, Margaret literally and symbolically acts as a mediator, precipitating what critics have described as North and South’s case for “new models of class relations” (Bodenheimer 1991). Catapulted into the noisy, smoky, and constantly moving world of the textile industry, Margaret’s prejudices about the brash and ungenteel north are initially confirmed but then upended. The narrative follows the physical and philosophical journey of Gaskell’s protagonist, Margaret Hale, from the south of England to the north – from a grand house in Harley Street, London, and then her childhood home, a country parsonage in Helstone, Hampshire – to Milton, in the bleak-sounding county of Darkshire. Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South was her fourth novel, serialized in Household Words from 1854 to 1855 and published in two volumes in 1855. I would probably have become a writer wherever I lived, but would I have become the same writer if I'd spent the last 6 years in London, or Cape Town, or Moose Jaw, on an oil rig or in the circus? This is my answer to myself." Mitchell's first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), moves around the globe, from Okinawa to Mongolia to pre-Millennial New York City, as nine narrators tell stories that interlock and intersect. In an essay for Random House, Mitchell wrote: "I knew I wanted to be a writer since I was a kid, but until I came to Japan to live in 1994 I was too easily distracted to do much about it. After another stint in Japan, he currently lives in Ireland with his wife Keiko and their two children. He lived for a year in Sicily, then moved to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England. David Mitchell was born in Southport, Merseyside, in England, raised in Malvern, Worcestershire, and educated at the University of Kent, studying for a degree in English and American Literature followed by an M.A. |