![]() ![]() ![]() Rakoczy Ferncsi, as Saint-Germain is known, passes his days making jewels to delight Queen Kunigunde and trying not to become involved in the Court\'s intrigues. Each novel is written as a stand-alone and they are not chronologically consecutive, so readers may enter the saga with any book and move backward or forward in time as they choose, from Pharaonic Egypt to Paris in the 1700s, from the fall of the Roman Empire to World War II Europe.In An Embarrassment of Riches, the vampire Count finds himself a virtual prisoner in the Court of Kunigunde in Bohemia in the 1200s. ![]() Historically accurate, often involving key events or figures from throughout world history, these deeply emotional novels have a devoted readership. More than two decades strong, the Saint-Germain cycle is one of the most compelling works of dark fantasy and horror of our age. ![]()
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![]() Many excellent books have been written about race and class and privilege, but I sometimes have trouble getting my white students to read them because they take place in urban settings or for whatever reason they feel they can’t relate. Honestly, it’s a very rare author who truly writes appropriately for middle schoolers (many books are either slightly too mature or too goofy), and so far I have yet to read a book that quite takes this perspective. The epistolary style makes it so engaging and accessible for the middle school audience. But the book also takes on the issue of white privilege in the context of a rural north country town where most kids have no idea what it really means. ![]() I thought I was going to be reading a book based on the true story of a prison breakout that happened near my home, which had me intrigued from the start. ![]() ![]() ![]() I just finished Breakout and I hardly know what to say except please do yourself a favor and read it! I’ve been a fan of Kate Messner’s books for years but this is by far her best and perhaps most important work yet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through this, the author touches upon musical theatre, country music and nostalgia, Woodstock, censorship, classical music reception, limited animation, and characterization through music, as well as many other topics. The music used in Animaniacs played a vital role in its popularity and still does, as is evident from the number of hits on YouTube for songs like "Yakko's World" and "Wakko's America." In The Music of Animaniacs: Postmodern Nostalgia in a Cartoon World, the first ever book-length study on the subject, Lisa Scoggin examines how the music functions in Animaniacs, from its basis in the sounds of Carl Stalling to its role in parody to its use in the educational segments. ![]() The 1990s television show Animaniacs, with its sharp wit, double entendres, and zany humor reminiscent of the Golden Age Warner Brothers cartoons, was a hit with adults and children alike. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jensen was a Story Editor on HBO's Emmy-winning limited series "Watchmen," receiving Hugo and Nebula nominations for co-writing the episode "A God Walks Into Abar." He was an executive producer and writer on the 2015 Brad Bird film "Tomorrowland" and co-authored the movie's prequel novel, "Before Tomorrowland," with Jonathan Case.įrom 1998 to 2017, Jensen wrote for Entertainment Weekly, covering TV shows like "Lost" and film franchises like "Harry Potter" and serving as their chief TV critic from 2013-2017. His other comics work includes short stories for the anthologies "Captain America: Red, White and Blue" (Marvel Comics, 2002), "Love Is Love: A Comic Book Anthology to Benefit the Survivors of the Orlando Pulse Shooting" (IDW Publishing, 2016), "Planet of the Apes: When Worlds Collide" (Boom! Studios, 2019) and "Firefly: Watch How I Soar" (Boom! Studios, 2020). His acclaimed 2011 graphic novel "Green River Killer: A True Detective Story" (Dark Horse Comics), drawn by Jonathan Case ("Dear Creature," "The New Deal"), won the Eisner for Best Reality-Based Work and was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. Jeff Jensen is a screenwriter, comic book writer, journalist and author based in Lakewood, California. ![]() ![]() If Bree can’t come up with the money, that means she’ll have to close her studio for good. And since she can’t admit her feelings, Bree focuses on other things, like her dance studio, which just got another rent increase. ![]() And love with an element of humor always makes for light hearted and easy reads, and we’ve rounded up some true delights.ĭon’t miss the most anticipated romance books coming in 2023>īree Camden has it bad for her longtime best friend and NFL legend Nathan Donelson. And it’s said that laughter is the best medicine and love cures all, so this powerful combination of a romantic comedy genre should put anyone in good spirits. You can’t go wrong with two people on a journey discovering their feelings and being just plain silly along the way. ![]() ![]() Feature image read a book that has you smiling from ear to ear with every turn of a page? That’s a rom-com for you. ![]() ![]() ![]() with varying levels of success, as he continues to be mistaken for either a Dutchman, the wrong writer, or, worst of all, a “bad gay.” He grows a handlebar mustache, ditches his signature gray suit, and disguises himself in the bolero-and-cowboy-hat costume of a true “Unitedstatesian”. Less roves across the “Mild Mild West,” through the South and to his mid-Atlantic birthplace, with an ever-changing posse of writerly characters and his trusty duo – a human-like black pug, Dolly, and a rusty camper van nicknamed Rosina. But nothing lasts: the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis has Less running away from his problems yet again as he accepts a series of literary gigs that send him on a zigzagging adventure across the US. ![]() “Go get lost somewhere, it always does you good.”įor Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. In the follow-up to the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less, the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America. ![]() ![]() ![]() I enjoy writing about relationships and exploring different parts of them. So why have you written so much about love? Audience demand or your choice? I signed up with Penguin though and now have been working with Harper Collins since past few years. But by then, the book had already come out a week before with Pustak Mahal. I got a response from Pustak Mahal within two days of submission, and I told them I already had the book written and as I had only two weeks left, so I finished the book because I had the publisher’s attention and did not want to lose that! This could’ve been my one shot! And that’s how the first book got published.įour months after submitting the manuscript, I heard from Penguin for the same book. We didn’t even have a computer at home back then, so I went to the internet café to look for addresses of the publishers and how to submit a manuscript etc. I started leafing through details of publishers. I started going to a library, and looking at the shelf where my book could fit in. Something I couldn’t imagine myself writing. ![]() ![]() In this mental state, I started reading again. But by the end of the first year, I realised that this is going to be my life if I didn’t do anything to change it – a 9 to 5 job, marriage, husband, kids, and I was in this fear of a mediocre, run-of-mill life. Not really, college started and I got distracted making new friends, living my new life. ![]() ![]() ![]() In classically elegant and engrossing prose, he tells of his early years as an impoverished student and law clerk in Johannesburg, of his slow political awakening, and of his pivotal role in the rebirth of a stagnant ANC and the formation of its Youth League in the 1950s. The foster son of a Thembu chief, Mandela was raised in the traditional, tribal culture of his ancestors, but at an early age learned the modern, inescapable reality of what came to be called apartheid, one of the most powerful and effective systems of oppression ever conceived. ![]() ![]() He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. Summary: Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although most of that material is background, it conjures a sense of time passing, and of the larger country changing too,” he stated. ![]() The book is structured around four funerals, each in a different decade, with a different president in power and a different spirit reigning over the land. But what makes them ‘representative’ isn’t their characters, it’s the times they’re living through. They’re a mix of English and Afrikaans, and a hodge-podge of creeds and beliefs too. “The Swart family is a kind of amalgamation of everything I grew up with in Pretoria, I guess. In an interview with the Booker Prize, the author reflected that the characters came from people he grew up with. The Promise is Galmut’s ninth novel, one that he wrote after seven years. ALSO READ | South African Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To make matters worse, terrible things keep happening to her neighbors. But when William, her neighbor, starts pressing for her hand in marriage, the bank calls in a loan she didn’t even know about, bullets start flying, and a burlap dummy with a knife in its chest shows up on her doorstep, Nicki wonders if this ranch is worth all the trouble. ![]() Determined to bring her ranch back from the brink of death, Nicki hires handsome Jason Jordan to help. When her husband dies in a mysterious riding accident, Nicki Trent is left with a toddler and a rundown ranch. Is Jason Jordan really who he says he is?Įverything in Nicki’s life depends on the answer. This is Book 2 in The Shepherd's Heart Series If you enjoy Christian historical western romance, ![]() |