![]() But how had the seemingly confident, glamorous woman in those pictures become the mother she knew growing up - the mother who told her she was too ill to go to school and kept her isolated at home? In her journey to uncover her mother's past Nyna relives a story as classic, familiar, dark and dangerous as any fairy tale. Nyna had seen the photos of her mother at Grace's wedding, wearing the bridesmaid gown that had hung in her closet for years. She knew Carolyn had been a model - arriving in New York in 1947, where she'd met the young Grace Kelly, and that the two had become fast friends. The truth was, she barely knew who her mother had been before marriage. Nyna was stunned her family's private ordeal was front page news. Nyna Giles, twenty-nine, was in the queue at the supermarket when she looked down and saw the headline: 'Former Bridesmaid of Princess Grace Lives in Homeless Shelter'. ![]() 'The heart-rending story of two beautiful and glamorous women, and the spirals of disaster into which one of their lives tumbled.' Robert Lacey, author of Grace and The Crown A powerful memoir of friendship and marriage, childhood and motherhood. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As they age, flaws also slowly rise to the surface, such as Jack’s cruel streak and Laurie’s problematic consumption of alcohol. The story follows them through awkward dinners, double dates, and birthday celebrations that are full of highly flirtatious scenes where the two attempt to keep their mutual affection hidden. ![]() Silver, who is keenly aware of her influences (there is an immediate reference to the film Love Actually, and Laurie has a self-described love of Nora Ephron), divvies up chapters between Laurie and Jack. Laurie doesn’t mention anything, and neither does Jack. Over the next year, Laurie contemplates the moment, searching for Jack in vain until he shows up at her door for a holiday party-as her friend’s boyfriend. Seated in the bus shelter along the sidewalk, Jack gazes back at Laurie and something electric happens. Laurie, newly out of university, spots Jack while on the bus one December afternoon. Silver’s lovely debut follows two young Londoners after a missed connection alters the course of their lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() TB, Doesn’t it look hard-core? Totally perfect way to describe it.Īylee, I actually thought it was a contemp until I read the tagline and blurb.
![]() ![]() Harris takes the lad to hospital, to get the wound looked at, but he thinks his pupil has been mistaken: a rat the size of a cat? No. The first time that Harris hears anything about the rats is when one of his pupils walks into the classroom, rather late and sporting a rat-bite on his hand. Everyone knows that, and so when people hear the first stories of the attacks they don’t’ believe it-it’s fear, an exaggeration, a mistake-but as the attacks increase becomes obvious to even the most sceptical that the City of London has a real problem on its hands. Rats don’t attack people and they don’t grow to the size of a small dog. One little dog against so many rats didn’t stand a chance and they took the girl over his dead body. ![]() When they came for one-year-old Karen Blakely, the family pet, a mongrel dog named Shane, laid down his life to save her. They ate their fill and then went looking for more. The rat’s first victim was one of London’s many homeless. It was an instant hit and the success of this and many subsequent books made Herbert one of the UK’s top horror writers. The Rats was James Herbert’s first novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is the author of Wonders of the African World (1999), the companion book to the six-hour PBS television series of the same name. Anthony Appiah, of the encyclopedia Encarta Africana (1999), published on CD-ROM by Microsoft and in book form by Basic Civitas Books under the title Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. ![]() is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, as well as director of the W.E.B. ![]() Sorry, you need the latest version of the free flash player in order to watch the video clips. ![]() ![]() ![]() As they struggle to find safety, Sophie learns that Finn has suffered his own heartbreak but instead of playing it safe, Finn’s become the kind of guy who goes surfing in the eye of the hurricane. But when a hurricane forms off the coast of North Carolina’s Outer Banks and heads right toward their island, Sophie realizes nature is one thing she can’t control.Īfter she gets separated from her family during the evacuation, Sophie finds herself trapped on the island with the last person she’d have chosen-the reckless and wild Finn Sanders, who broke her heart freshman year. ![]() With nothing but pain in her past, all Sophie wants is to plan for the future-keep the family business running, get accepted to veterinary school, and protect her mom and sister from another disaster. The one that left Sophie’s older sister, Meredith, barely able to walk at all. The one that caused Sophie’s dad to walk out of her life. From award-winning author McCall Hoyle comes a new young adult novel, Meet the Sky, a story of love, letting go, and the unstoppable power of nature. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Named One of the Hottest Reads of Summer 2022 by Today ∙ Parade ∙ PopSugar ∙ USA Today ∙ SheReads ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ BookBub ∙ Bustle ∙ and more! "A radiant debut." - Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers ![]() ![]() ![]() Written in 1961, it tells a story of people who, faced with extraordinary circumstances, first evade formulating a theory in their own head, for fear of contravening their own set view of the world, then - forced by events - they do allow themselves to formulate a theory, but keep it to themselves for fear of ridicule, even when they see other people considering the same things, then they proceed to test those theories by themselves and only then share them with others. The thing that made me continue listening to it was its way of depicting the mentality from back then. ![]() Lovecraft and one of those books about people drinking and falling in love on boats in South America. Another book that can easily be found in audio format on Librivox and YouTube, Creatures of the Abyss (also known as The Listeners), by Murray Leinster, is a slow mid 20th century sci-fi that reads as a cross between Jules Verne, H. ![]() ![]() ![]() He died having been denounced by his homeland and is lesser known nowadays due to his sympathetic association to the Nazi party during WWII. When I read him about a decade ago I really enjoyed his work but now, writing this in 2019, I am less willing to overlook the misogyny in his work and his troubled history late in life. Hamsun is a difficult one to grapple with. Plunging into the existential mysteries of the human heart and soul, Hamsun pens some of his most memorable characters while keeping the reader forever pondering the truth behind the abundant mysteries. Written in 1892, just 2 years following Hunger, this novel once again demonstrates Hamsun’s signature frantic yet serene prose while showcasing Hamsun as a Modernist far ahead of his time and a master of the ‘psychological novel’. It is no surprise that Henry Miller claimed that Mysteries was ’closer to me than any book I have read,’ this novel is so probing and insightful that you feel it begin to pick your own mind as the pages churn by. Hamsun’s aptly named second novel, Mysteries, is a dazzling, dark look into human nature and man’s psyche. ![]() |