![]() Selene has several love affairs during her college years, always with older women who remind her of Donatella, particularly her abundantly hairy body. Sexual encounters extend through the rest of Selene's upbringing, though Donatella never touches her. One day, Donatella strips naked before Selene and asks her to perform acts of a sexual nature. ![]() Selene's lesbian experiences began at a young age, when in a nun's school, her beauty attracted the attention of Donatella, an Italian nun who little by little approached her family and began to give her private classes in her bedroom. For some time now she has been concentrating on writing a new work, which she defines as "my first, and perhaps my last, lesbian novel", inspired by the life and love relationships of a friend of hers who receives the name Selene. Cristina Rosas is a fifty-year-old writer in the care of her mother with Alzheimer's. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia or Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy.Īfter I grew up and finished university, I tried on jobs like new sets of clothes before rediscovering my love for writing. My favorite authors were Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, Alexander Key, C.S. I adored a picture book called The Bear Who Couldn’t Sleep, starring a baby bear who refused to hibernate in winter. I also loved jaunts to the library, where I checked out the same Curious George books dozens of times. Growing up in a small town in Manitoba, Canada, my favorite family event was the weekly drive to the garbage dump to watch for bears. After that, I churned out a series of mysteries and adventure novels with preposterous premises and impossible plots. I illustrated the book, stapled the pages together and pasted a copyright notice inside the front cover. Then, inspired by my maternal grandmother-an English writer who lived in India-I wrote a mystery, The Green Secret, at the age of nine. When I was seven, I penned my first story about an abandoned puppy on a beach in Bengal. ![]() I was born in India, raised in Canada and California, and I now live in the Pacific Northwest, in a cottage in the woods, with my husband and six rescued cats. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hiram is the mixed-race son of the owner of a Virginia tobacco plantation called Lockless and a mother who was tragically sold away when he was 5. ![]() “America understands itself as God’s handiwork,” he writes in “Between the World and Me,” which is structured as a letter to his teenage son, “but the black body is the clearest evidence that America is the work of men.”įor “The Water Dancer,” his first novel, Coates ventures into the perspective of Hiram Walker, a slave born under “the Task” who serves as the story’s narrator and fulcrum. Ta-Nehisi Coates imagines the furthest reach of that power as a means to transcend borders and bondage in “The Water Dancer,” a spellbinding look at the impact of slavery that uses meticulously researched history and hard-won magic to further illuminate this country’s original sin.įor Coates, whose epistolary quasi-memoir “ Between the World and Me” won a National Book Award in 2015, this trip to the past was foreshadowed in his vividly drawn examination of what it means to be black in today’s United States. ![]() The best writers - the best storytellers, in particular - possess the enchanting, irresistible power to take the reader somewhere else. ![]() ![]() It appeared in translation in a further 12 countries. Our Endless Numbered Days, the first of her five novels, was published in the UK by Penguin Books, and in the United States ( Tin House) and Canada ( House of Anansi Press). Once they're written, I love rewriting, editing and polishing." Of the process, she told a fellow writer, "Getting the words down is torture. She began writing fiction at the age of 40 and holds a master's degree in creative and critical writing from the University of Winchester. Her most recent novel, Unsettled Ground, won the Costa Book Awards Novel Award 2021 and was shortlisted for the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction Life and career įuller, born and raised in Oxfordshire, studied sculpture at Winchester School of Art in the 1980s, working mainly in wood and stone, before embarking on a marketing career. Bitter Orange, her third, was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award. Her second novel, Swimming Lessons, was shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society of Literature Encore Award. ![]() ![]() She won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize for her first novel, Our Endless Numbered Days, the BBC Opening Lines Short Story Competition in 2014, and the Royal Academy & Pin Drop Short Story Award in 2016. University of Southampton, University of WinchesterĬlaire Fuller (born 9 February 1967 in Oxfordshire) is an English author. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Please contact Special Collections to learn more. This collection is currently being processed. This includes correspondences between Hill & Garland, autographed & annotated copies of Garland’s work, Garland’s letters and other documents, and Hill’s own research on Garland’s works. by Alice Barber Stephens (multiple formats at ). The collection is held in 6 archival boxes and includes over 130 volumes. Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940: A Son of the Middle Border (New York: Macmillan, 1928), illust. After his death in 1987, his widow, Mary, arranged for his collection to be donated to the Walter Havighurst Special Collections. Drawing on the history of his own family, Pulitzer Prize-winner Hamlin Garland chronicles the experiences of a generation. A sequel to that autobiography won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize.Įldon Hill was a major 20th century scholar of Garland’s works and a professor of English at Miami University for 34 years. Publisher's Summary A Son of the Middle Border is an epic story of the quest for new frontiers during the last half of the nineteenth century, and of the gradual, heartbreaking failure of America's pioneer ideal. In 1891, one of his most respected books, Main-Travelled Roads, was published, and the autobiographical A Son of the Middle Border appeared in 1917. ![]() Hamlin Garlands A Son of the Middle Border: Autobiography as Art. His ashes rest in the Garland family plot in Neshonoc cemetery, heart of the Coulee Country immortalized in his books, Trailmakers of the Middle Border, A. Garland gradually won a place for himself in the literary set of Boston and Cambridge and was influenced by the novelist William Dean Howells. Discussion and explanation of Garlands populist values and political activities. Hamlin Garland (1860-1940), American novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist, won the Pultizer Prize for biography in 1922 for “A Daughter of the Middle Border.” ![]() ![]() If she can discover who she truly is before vengeful forces unmask her, she may still win this deadly game of revolution.ĮVERYTHING THAT BURNS is an enchanting YA historical fantasy. In this new Paris where allegiances shift and violence erupts, the answers Camille seeks set her on a perilous path, one that may cost her the boy she loves―even her life. As bonfires incinerate enchanted books and special police prowl the city, the time for magic―and those who work it―is running out. ![]() ![]() Then Louis XVI declares magic a crime and all magicians traitors to France. But as her writings captivate the public, she begins to suspect a dark magic she can’t control lies at the heart of her success. In the pamphlets she prints, she tells the stories of girls living at society’s margins. ![]() But as the people of Paris starve and mobs riot, safety may no longer be possible.Not when Camille lives for the rebellion. Gita Trelease's Everything That Burns is the transporting sequel to All That Glitters, hailed by NPR as a “soaring success”! Camille Durbonne gambled everything she had to keep herself and her sister safe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wallen recently announced the postponement of six weeks' worth of tour dates after doctors put him on mandatory vocal rest due to a vocal injury he suffered on tour. Wallen's second album, Dangerous: The Double Album, spent its first 10 weeks at No. 1 in late 1976 and early 1977.ĭespite his many controversies, Wallen's third studio effort has broken his last personal best on the Billboard 200. The only other album to rival Houston was Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life, which spent its first 13 weeks at No. 1, which the late icon achieved with Whitney. Wallen has also matched Whitney Houston's 1987 record for an album spending its first 11 weeks at No. READ MORE: Morgan Wallen Fan Suing Country Star for Canceled Concert: REPORT Swift's fifth studio album and first fully pop album, 1989, also topped the chart for 11 nonconsecutive weeks after its release in 2014. The record launched classic T-Swift tracks such as "Love Story" and "You Belong With Me" into the stratosphere. 1 was Swift's 2008 sophomore studio album. The last country album to take on the Billboard 200 with 11 nonconsecutive weeks at No. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is no ordinary boarding school. The Circle is hot on their trail and willing stop at nothing to prevent Cammie from remembering what she did last summer. Ally Carters wildly popular Gallagher Girls series continues with Out of Sight, Out of Time, exposing readers a new, darker side of Cammie and the Gallagher. 9.29 Add to cart 12 - 15 Reading age 320 Page count 700L Lexile measure Publication date Buy from other retailers Amazon Bookshop What's This Book About Publisher Summary Friendship. Cammie, her friends, and mysterious spy-guy Zach must face their most difficult challenge yet as they travel to the other side of the world, hoping to piece together the clues that Cammie left behind. Once she returns to school, however, Cammie realizes that even the Gallagher Academy now holds more questions than answers. The only traces left of Cammie’s summer vacation are the bruises on her body and dirt under her nails, and all she wants is to go home. The last thing Cammie Morgan remembers is leaving the Gallagher Academy to protect her friends and family from the Circle of Cavan–an ancient terrorist organization that has been hunting her for over a year.īut when Cammie wakes up in an alpine convent and discovers months have passed, she must face the fact that her memory is now a black hole. Published by: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ![]() ![]() ![]() Very thoughtful, yet energetic and with a real purpose to his work. The almost two-hour interview with the director Annaud is very inspiring, and he really comes over as almost a renaissance man. Very entertaining indeed! If you buy the DVD, the extra material is almost as interesting as the movie itself. Sean Connery does one of his best, if not the best, role as a combination of Sherlock Holmes and a medieval philosopher. The movie is perhaps more "shallow", but it has a totally unique atmosphere and an exciting plot. The book is very good indeed, but to my taste slightly too dry. In fact, I have to admit that I think the movie is superior to the book. But it is important to remember that to fit a 600-page, quite academic novel into a two-hour movie one just have to make adjustments. It is a quite free adaption of Umberto Eco's novel, and if you have just recently read it, you may be irritated by all the deviations from the story of the book. Recently, I purchased the DVD and my memory did not prove me wrong, the film is still great. I think I watched it three times in a couple of months. I remember this film made a huge impression on me when I first saw it in the cinema almost 20 years ago. ![]() |