![]() ![]() But a teenage girl is missing, a kidnapper is on the loose, and all of this is reminding Sunshine why she left Del Sol in the first place. Del 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 ! "Laugh-out-loud funny, intensely suspenseful, page-turning fun." - New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan " A Bad Day For Sunshine is a great day for the rest of us." - New York Times bestselling author Lee Child 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. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Whatever the case, as the violence of her erratic behavior increases, Amanda knows that she must act to put her life right, or see it destroyed. A book on demon possession suggests that the figure on the shore could be the demon Naamah, known to scholars of the Kabbalah as the second wife of Adam, who stole into his dreams and tricked him into fathering her child. ![]() The new voice in Amanda's head, the one that tells her to steal things and talk to strange men in bars, is strange and frightening, and Amanda struggles to wrest back control of her life. At night she dreams of a beautiful woman with pointed teeth on the shore of a blood-red sea. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she's doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. In Come Closer, readers are taken into the first-person perspective of Amanda, a young woman who slowly begins to realize she’s possessed by a demon. Since I’ve read the classics with those tropes, the interwebs were helpful in directing me to this little 2006 gem by Sara Gran. Gran confirms that a story can be horrifying and funny at the same time. Scary: Demonic possession and creepy kids. One would not think that the descent into madness could be funny, but Ms. Amanda?a successful architect in a happy marriage?finds her life going off kilter by degrees. Surprisingly difficult to find, Come Closer is delightfully creepy, engaging, extremely well-written, and surprisingly humorous. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene insults. ![]() A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. ![]() ![]() With full access to Patton's private and public papers, and the cooperation of the general's family, D'Este shows us not only the extrovert Patton of public perception but also the intensely private Patton - the devoted student of history, the poet, the humble man very unsure of his own abilities - who could burst into tears, be charming or insulting quite unexpectedly, and the Patton who trained himself for greatness with a determination matched by no other general in the twentieth century. It is one of the achievements of this riveting biography that it reveals the complex and contradictory personality that lay behind the facade. Scott, in which he is portrayed as a swashbuckling, brash, profane, impetuous general who wore ivory-handled pistols into battle and slapped two hospitalized soldiers in Sicily. ![]() And the image of the man has been not a little influenced by the 1970 film Patton, starring George C. remains one of the most colorful, charismatic, misunderstood, and controversial figures ever to set foot on the battlefields of World War II. ![]() D'Este's Patton takes its rightful place as the definitive biography of this American warrior." -Dallas Morning NewsĪ comprehensive biography of General George Patton draws on hitherto unavailable letters, diaries, and memoirs, uncovering many new facts to create an insightful and definitive portrait of an American military hero.įifty years after his death, General George S. Literate and meaty, incisive and balanced, detailed without being pedantic. ![]() ![]() "It highlights 13 famous American women who changed history by persisting and not giving up when they were told 'no. This month is Women's History Month, and so we are promoting that with our Book March," said youth services librarian Lisa Ransom. "This last month has been Black History Month, and we promoted that. She Persisted: Sonia Sotomayor Paperback Jby Meg Medina (Author), Chelsea Clinton (Author), Alexandra Boiger (Illustrator), 21 ratings Part of: She Persisted (33 books) See all formats and editions Kindle 5.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 12.78 10 Used from 1.35 8 New from 7. Finally, the story concludes at Carnegie Library, 316 Massachusetts St. The complete exhibit can be viewed by then moving on to Washington Park Library at 1821 N. ![]() Using the book "She Persisted" by Chelsea Clinton, the library aims to attract patrons to all of its branches in sequence, starting with East Hills Library at 502 N. Women's History Month, established in 1987 as a recognition of all women have achieved in the struggle for a fair shot in society and the workplace, begins on Wednesday. She Persisted in Sports by Chelsea Clinton: 9780593114544 : Books From Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, the 1 New York Times bestselling team behind She Persisted, comes a new book featuring women athletes who overcame. This item: She Persisted in Science: Brilliant Women Who Made a Difference by Chelsea Clinton Hardcover 9.40 She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game by Chelsea Clinton Hardcover 10.98 She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton Hardcover 10. Joseph Public Library are highlighting some of the leading ladies of America's past with a special exhibit. ![]() ![]() ![]() The eponymous protagonist, Angélique Sancé de Monteloup, is a 17th-century woman born into the provincial aristocracy in the west of France. Only ten of the thirteen novels have been translated into English. Originally published from 1957 to 1985, the novels have reportedly sold 150 million copies worldwide and have been adapted into six feature films, several theatre productions, a Japanese manga series, and a French " global manga" comic book series. Series of historical adventure romance novels by Anne Golon Angélique AuthorĪdventure fiction, historical fiction, romanceĪngélique is a series of thirteen historical adventure romance novels written by French author Anne Golon. ![]() ![]() The Prelude section of The Fall of the House of Usher, although uncredited, is inspired by the opera fragment La chute de la maison Usher by Claude Debussy which was composed between 19. According to the album’s liner notes, The Raven was the first rock song to feature a digital vocoder. The Raven features actor Leonard Whiting on lead vocals, with Alan Parsons performing vocals through an EMI vocoder. The complete line-up of bands Ambrosia and Pilot play on the record, along with keyboardist Francis Monkman of Curved Air and Sky. Musicians featured on the album include vocalists Arthur Brown of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown on The Tell Tale Heart and Terry Sylvester of The Hollies on To One In Paradise. ![]() ![]() The title of the album is taken from a popular title for a collection of Poe’s macabre tales of the same name, Tales of Mystery & Imagination, first published in 1908 and reprinted many times since. The lyrical and musical themes – retellings of horror stories and poetry by Edgar Allan Poe - attracted a cult audience. Tales of Mystery and Imagination Edgar Allan Poe, is the debut album by the progressive rock group The Alan Parsons Project, released in 1976. LP featuring alternate artwork inspired by M.C. The Catapult of Desert, René Magritte, 1926 ![]() ![]() In support of this conclusion the court makes the following principal findings of fact:ġ. ![]() The basic question presented is whether the defendants, the Superintendent of Schools and the members of the Board of Education, in the operation of the public school system here, unconstitutionally deprive the District's Negro and poor public school children of their right to equal educational opportunity with the District's white and more affluent public school children. Board of *406 Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. The present litigation, brought in behalf of Negro as well as poor children generally in the District's public schools, tests the current compliance of those schools with the principles announced in Bolling, its companion case, Brown v. 884 (1954), the Supreme Court held that the District of Columbia's racially segregated public school system violated the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment. Counsel at time of trial, for defendants. Counsel for District of Columbia, Matthew J. United States District Court District of Columbia. HANSEN, Superintendent of Schools of the District of Columbia, the Board of Education of the District of Columbia et al., Defendants. ![]() ![]() HOBSON, individually and on behalf of Jean Marie Hobson and Julius W. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On the night before the wedding, Tita’s tears fall into the cake batter and icing. She remembers when she first met Pedro the year before at a holiday party, where he declared that he would love her forever. That night, feeling chilled and devastated, Tita continues to crochet the wedding bedspread she had secretly been making for her potential wedding with Pedro. When Pedro comes to ask for Tita’s hand, Mama Elena offers to let him marry her older daughter Rosaura instead, and Pedro agrees. ![]() Mama Elena angrily reminds Tita of the family tradition demanding the youngest daughter stay at home and care for her mother (until the mother’s death) instead of getting married. One holiday season when Tita is fifteen years old, she tells Mama Elena that a suitor, Pedro Musquiz, wants to come speak to her. Mama Elena must manage the ranch, so she leaves Tita’s care to Nacha, the cook, whom Tita comes to see as her “real mother.” Unlike her older sisters, Gertrudis and Rosaura, Tita develops a deep love of cooking. Two days after her birth, her father, Juan de la Garza, dies of a heart attack. ![]() Her tears send “Mama Elena” into labor, and Tita is born on the kitchen table. Each chapter begins with a recipe in Tita’s cookbook, which has been inherited by the story’s narrator, Tita’s great-niece.īefore Tita’s birth, she cries in the womb while her mother, Elena de la Garza, is chopping onions. Like Water for Chocolate is set in Northern Mexico during the Mexican Revolution, from about 1910-1920. ![]() ![]() ![]() These readers will, no doubt, be more flummoxed than others, because it's the very nature of a genre novel that it keeps its promises, fulfilling certain pleasures of expectation and discovery, including standard types of characters and standard kinds of premises and challenging but satisfying denouements.įrom its opening pages, Pynchon's novel seems set to offer at least some variation of such fulfillments. mayhem and mystery and thought it looked like something fun to try writing himself.įor years now, Pynchon's books have provoked reactions that, generally, correspond to these two theories: Either you're convinced that he's a literary genius and you're willing to write a doctoral dissertation to prove it, or you're convinced that he's a literary wing nut and you're amazed that people keep reading his books. Having returned home from his latest midnight-bag-of-burning-dog-poop gag on Dick Cheney's front stoop (Cheney and Pynchon are, according to a recent Wikipedia entry, next-door neighbours living in converted missile silos in the western suburbs of Undisclosed Location, America), this theory goes, Pynchon caught this double feature about the often very funny intersection of hapless hippie-dippie druggie dudedom and hard-boiled L.A. Theory two: It's an idea Pynchon came up with late one night after watchingįletch. ![]() ![]() Inherent Vice, by Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press, 369 pages, $35. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cheery conversation over cigarettes and cold vodka and the occasional head injury.” “We talked a lot about the coming pandemic-make no mistake, we will experience a pandemic-and how we are actively bringing it on sooner and weakening our ability to fight it with our criminally negligent over-use of antibiotics, and how big the depopulation will be when it hits. ![]() “He helped protect the human race from anthrax and other nasty little monsters, basically,” said Chercover. He did his post-doctoral at Harvard, worked at the University of Illinois in Chicago, traveled the world sharing his research with other microbiologists. As a writer of political thrillers, he enjoys conspiracy theories, and says his latest thriller came about as the result of a promise he made to a friend.Īlexander “Sasha” Neyfakh was a prominent microbiologist, originally from the Soviet Union. His latest, “ The Devil’s Game,” picks up where the first left off. Sean Chercover is the author of two political thrillers. ![]() |