![]() ![]() His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation.īut when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother’s belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret. ![]() From the author of Nowhere Boy - called “a resistance novel for our times” by The New York Times - comes a brilliant middle-grade survival story that traces a harrowing family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine that devastated Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s. ![]()
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![]() In 1849, after a period of heavy drinking, he disappeared for three days. Poe suffered from severe bouts of depression and madness, and he attempted suicide in 1848. Nevertheless, Poe managed to produce a steady stream of reviews, critical essays, poems and short stories. Poe had struggled with a drink and drugs problem, and after the death of his wife these problems became much worse, and were further complicated by poverty and nervous disorder. She burst a blood vessel in 1842, and remained a virtual invalid until her death in 1847. In 1836 he married his 13-year old cousin Virginia Clemm. It was during these years that Poe wrote some of his best-known stories. In 1833 he lived in Baltimore with his father’s sister and won a prize of $50 for a short story. In 1827 he joined the army under an assumed name and in 1830 entered West Point Military Academy, from where he was dismissed the following year for intentional neglect of his duties. ![]() This led to a quarrel with John Allan, who refused to pay Poe’s debts and later disowned him. He completed his schooling in the United States and entered the University of Virginia in 1826, but was expelled soon after due to his gambling debts. The family moved to England, and he went to school in Stoke Newington from 1815 – 1820. ![]() Poe was raised by a Richmond merchant, John Allan, after the early death of his parents. Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 19 January 1809. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Hunger, she explores her past-including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life-and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.” I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. “I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. ![]() ![]() ![]() The publisher, NewSouth Books, has been roundly criticized for making the word change. ![]() In an introduction to the new edition, he wrote, “even at the level of college and graduate school, students are capable of resenting textual encounters with this racial appellative.” The Project Gutenberg A scene from Chapter 9 in the 1885 edition of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."Ī new edition of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has generated much controversy because it will replace the word "nigger," which occurs 219 times in the book, with "slave." (The edition also substitutes "Indian" for "injun.") Alan Gribben, an English professor at Auburn University at Montgomery, proposed the idea to the publisher because he believes the pervasive use of that word makes it harder for students to read or absorb the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() It sits side the very finest football classics of the last twenty five years, from The Damned United by David Peace to A Life Too Short by Ronald Reng, but it is ultimately a book that defies categorization and can be enjoyed by all. For Nick Hornby, his devotion to the game has provided one of few constants in a life where the meaningful things - like growing up, leaving home and forming relationships, both parental and romantic - have rarely been as simple or as uncomplicated as his love for Arsenal.īrimming with wit and honesty, Fever Pitch, winner of the William Hill Sports book of the Year, catches perfectly what it really means to be a football fan - and in doing so, what it means to be a man. 'įor many people watching football is mere entertainment, to some it's more like a ritual but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself. 'I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring. Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby's million-copy-selling, award-winnning football classic ![]() ![]() ![]() Anyone familiar with these books knows that they have never rested comfortably on the shelves of academia. ![]() The archaeologist most closely linked with the “Goddess Movement” is indisputably Marija Gimbutas, whose prodigious publication record includes three major books on the Goddesses of Neolithic Europe and the Mediterranean: The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe (1974), tellingly renamed and reissued as The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe (1982) The Language of the Goddess (1989) and The Civilization of the Goddess (1991). 1 A few minutes surfing the Net produces hundreds of “Goddess” entries ranging from scholarly articles, lectures, course syllabi, and videos, to Goddess aromatherapy, “spiritual stencils” for furniture, walls, and fabrics, and pilgrimages to Goddess sites. ![]() As millennium fever heats up, the Goddess is surfacing, perhaps predictably, with renewed vigor in every conceivable venue. Even the Internet is now protected by a deity - the Net Goddess’ Page - guarding against quakes, viruses, and stalled links, and granting continuous connections and fast-loading pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, she sets out alone on a dangerous quest to find the one responsible for this dreadful spell. But Karyna, a former lady-in-waiting, will not abandon either her father, who stands in the throne room among the other statues, or the prince. Years ago a terrible curse swept over the revelers at Thorndale Castle, turning them to stone and transforming Prince Barend himself into a hideous beast. ![]() ![]() She will find this Briarstone Abbey-and the Beast who lives there-whatever the cost. But Lilybet Haverly will never allow her sister to face such a dreadful fate! Armed only with a butcher knife and her own determination, Bet climbs the village wall and plunges into the Neverway, where the dead walk and ghouls hunt human flesh. Trapped aboard a ghost ship with a crew of condemned souls and aided only by charismatic Captain Pepin, can this pirate’s daughter unlock the secret to the Fee’s dark omens?Īs penalty for the merchant’s theft of a single rose, the Beast of Briarstone Abbey demands his youngest daughter, sweet and innocent Sookie. ![]() But when she is taken as substitute, Cecilia discovers that the punishment meted out by the Fee is far stranger than she could ever have imagined. To steal from the Fee is to suffer their wrath! So Cecilia learns when these fabled beings charge her father with the theft of a certain mirror and sentence him to torment. Rediscover the enchantment of "Beauty and the Beast" in these five beautiful novellas. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thes Joseph Campbell was an American author and teacher best known for his work in the field of comparative mythology. While abroad he was influenced by the art of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, the novels of James Joyce and Thomas Mann, and the psychological studies of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Campbell was educated at Columbia University, where he specialized in medieval literature, and continued his studies at universities in Paris and Munich. ![]() He loved to read books about American Indian cultures, and frequently visited the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where he was fascinated by the museum's collection of totem poles. He was born in New York City in 1904, and from early childhood he became interested in mythology. Joseph Campbell was an American author and teacher best known for his work in the field of comparative mythology. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, with the world around them falling victim to a malignant Northern-born magic, Tiger gathers Del and his adult son, Neesha, to end the magic threatening the world-and discovers, along the journey, yet another element of magecraft within himself. He is constantly challenged to death-dances where rules, and oaths, no longer apply. By doing so, he made himself a target of men formerly his colleagues, now sworn enemies. Death-dances are few and far between the goal is simply to win within the confines of “the circle.”īut Tiger is an outcast, a man who attained the highest level of achievement at the training school he attended faster than anyone before him, only to voluntarily break all oaths in order to save Del. Tiger and Del have settled into semi-retirement to raise their daughter, establishing a school for those who wish to become sword-dancers, part of a highly ritualized rite in which specially trained sword-fighters are hired to settle feuds among rich and powerful desert princes. Sword-Bearer marks a return to the vivid world of Jennifer Roberson’s highly popular Sword-Dancer saga, featuring iconic characters Tiger-the South’s most famous and gifted sword-dancer-and Del, a Northern-born woman and expert sword-singer. A return to the vivid fantasy world of the highly popular Sword-Dancer saga, featuring iconic characters Tiger and Del. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first printing of the reissue is a modest 13,500 copies, but Long is confident the company will be going back to press. Andrews Day,” which it will mark with a Facebook Live campaign. Jennifer Long, v-p and associate publisher of Gallery Books Group, said S&S will declare the Flowers pub date of November 12 “V.C. ![]() To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the publication of the book, Gallery Books, which took over publication of the Andrews franchise from sister company Pocket, employed a 2019-style campaign that doesn’t seem to have radio or PW ads but does feature a heavy dose of social media promotions, including ads on Facebook and Goodreads posts on Gallery’s Bookstagram ambassador program, which S&S said reaches more than one million people and a dedicated e-blast. The marketing effort for the $2.50 mass market paperback featured a network radio campaign plus 36-copy floor displays highlighting the book’s “striking cover art.” Flowers in the Attic did indeed prove to be highly salable, and there are now 3.3 million copies in circulation (including print copies and e-book sales), S&S said. ![]() Andrews-Pocket Books took a full page ad in PW touting the novel as its November “Total Release” selection, a program Pocket used to promote what it believed were “highly salable” books. As part of its 1979 launch for Flowers in the Attic-the first book by a then-unknown author named V.C. ![]() |