6/10/2023 0 Comments Dead until dark seriesWhen Charlaine began to realize that neither of those series was ever going to set the literary world on fire, she regrouped and decided to write the book she’d always wanted to write. The books, set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, feature a heroine who has survived a terrible attack and is learning to live with its consequences. Soon Charlaine was looking for another challenge, and the result was the much darker Lily Bard series. Her first Teagarden, Real Murders, garnered an Agatha nomination. After a child-producing sabbatical, Charlaine latched on to the trend of series, and soon had her own traditional mystery books about a Georgia librarian, Aurora Teagarden. The resulting two stand-alones were published by Houghton Mifflin. After holding down some low-level jobs, her husband Hal gave her the opportunity to stay home and write. Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was writing poetry and plays. Charlaine lives in Texas now, and all of her children and grandchildren are within easy driving distance. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over thirty-five years.
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Necropolis by Catharine ArnoldBoth anecdotal history and cultural commentary, Necropolis will take its place alongside classics of the city such as Peter Ackroyd's LONDON. Ghoulishly entertaining and full of fascinating nuggets of information, Necropolis leaves no headstone unturned in its exploration of our changing attitudes to the deceased among us. Utilising archaeology, anthropology, anecdote and history, Arnold explores the presence of death in people's lives and the developments and. This fascinating blend of archaeology, architecture and anecdote includes such phenomena as the rise of the undertaking trade and the pageantry of state funerals public executions and bodysnatching. It's an intriguing, occasionally dark, occasionally humorous journey that reaches right back to the Romans and concludes with the most recent display of mass public mourning: Princess Diana's funeral. As layer upon layer of London soil reveals burials from pre-historic and medieval times, the city is revealed as one giant grave, filled with the remains of previous eras - pagan, Roman, medieval, Victorian. From Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian cemeteries to the development of cremation and the current approach of metropolitan society towards death and bereavement - including more recent trends to displays of collective grief and the cult of mourning, such as that surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales - NECROPOLIS: LONDON AND ITS DEAD offers a vivid historical narrative of this great city's attitude to going the way of all flesh. 6/9/2023 0 Comments The sympathizer pulitzerHis latest work, "Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War," is a critical companion to the novel. His first effort, "The Sympathizer," won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in April for what the jury called “a layered immigrant tale told in the wry, confessional voice of a 'man of two minds' - and two countries, Vietnam and the United States." The novel, told as a letter from a spy to his interrogator, starts at the end of the Vietnam War, moves to Southern California, and concludes on the set of a Hollywood war epic. This post appears courtesy of Asia Society.Īfter USC associate professor of American studies Viet Thanh Nguyen published two academic books, his agent suggested he try his hand at something else: a novel. The presence of sudden death in these families is notable, with a total of nine unexplained sudden deaths and four aborted SCD. All index cases but one were women and three of them presented with aborted sudden cardiac death (SCD) or syncope. Results: we evaluated seven unrelated families, with a total 34 KCNQ1 G168R carriers (two obligated carriers died without available EKGs to evaluate the phenotype). Genetic and clinical screening for all available relatives was performed. Methods: we identified all consecutive index cases referred for genetic testing with LQTS diagnosis carriers of KCNQ1 G168R variant. In this manuscript, we describe the phenotype of seven unrelated families, carriers of the KCNQ1 G168R pathogenic variant. Series analyzing families with the same pathogenic variants may help in the progress of elaborating strong specific genotype-phenotype management strategies. In general, patients with LQTS2 (KCNH2) and LQTS3 (SCN5A) are considered to be a greater risk of LAEs than LQTS1 (KCNQ1) patients. Background: Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is an inheritable arrhythmogenic disorder associated with life-threatening arrhythmic events (LAEs). 6/9/2023 0 Comments Edmond rostand playsAt midnight hours, when Percinet and Sylvette are about to meet, Straforel with his company kidnap Sylvette and put her into the sedan chair. Bergamin then hires Straforel and his company for a fake kidnapping. They are so in love with each other that they desire to die rather than separate with each other. They are deeply influenced by romantic literature of their times- especially by the romantic play “Romeo and Juliet” of William Shakespeare. They are emotional, daydreaming teenagers who have recently finished their school studies. They are worried that their love will also end in tragedy like that of Romeo and Juliet. They think themselves as the counterparts of Romeo and Juliet. In spite of their fathers’ warnings, Percinet and Sylvette fall in love. Similarly, Pasquinot also warns his daughter that she should not be near to his mortal enemy Bergamin and his son. As a part of their plan, Bergamin warns his son to stay away from Pasquinot and his daughter. In order to accomplish this, the fathers separate their children so that they may love each other the more, and desire to be reunited. Their fathers who are widowers and neighbors make a plan to marry their children with each other. Percinet is the only son of Bergamin and Sylvette is the only daughter of Pasquinot. In his play “The Romancers” Edmond Rostand satirizes the sentimentalism and escapism of Romantic literature of his times. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Twain the innocents abroadAll is orderly and beautiful-every thing is charming to the eye. There is no dirt, no decay, no rubbish anywhere-nothing that even hints at untidiness- nothing that ever suggests neglect. There are no unsightly stone walls and never a fence of any kind. How else are these marvels of symmetry, cleanliness, and order attained? It is wonderful. Surely the straight, smooth, pure white turnpikes are jack-planed and sandpapered every day. Surely the long straight rows of stately poplars that divide the beautiful landscape like the squares of a checker-board are set with line and plummet, and their uniform height determined with a spirit level. Surely the hedges are shaped and measured and their symmetry preserved by the most architectural of gardeners. What a bewitching land it is! What a garden! Surely the leagues of bright green lawns are swept and brushed and watered every day and their grasses trimmed by the barber. We have come five hundred miles by rail through the heart of France. 6/8/2023 0 Comments Blood & Ashes by Jane JordanMadeline’s course of action leads to an unfolding chain of events that will have disastrous and heartbreaking consequences. Madeline’s will to survive is tested to the limit, but she risks everything to escape and return to her beloved Darius and to Ravens Deep. There darkness rules, and terror awaits anyone that is lured to these hidden depths. An unexpected turn of events leads her to London’s underground tunnels. With Darius to guide her, it would seem that immortality might be bearable, but driven by a force she doesn’t understand, she carelessly disregards Darius’s warnings and succumbs to her treacherous instinct. Madeline’s story began years before, but now she has been given the kiss of death the new chapter begins. A mixture of love, revenge and horror that takes the reader on an unexpected journey through the lives of three enigmatic immortals. A story that is layered in myth and vampire culture, and set amongst London’s hidden world and the beautiful scenery of Exmoor. Blood & Ashes is a vivid and powerful follow up to Ravens Deep. 6/8/2023 0 Comments Asylum novellasFor the first time, these three terrifying stories will appear together. This edition also includes a bonus sneak peek at Escape from Asylum, a prequel to the mind-bending novel that started it all. This title features three chilling novellas set in the world of the novel Asylum. In The Warden, a young nurse starts a new job at the Brookline asylum, but soon becomes suspicious of its unorthodox procedures.…īe careful where you go digging in history. In The Bone Artists, Oliver tries to make a little extra money for college by working for a seedy organization that traffics in human bones. In The Scarlets, Cal is drawn into New Hampshire College’s twisted secret society-one with a deadly initiation. Enter the twisted world of the New York Times bestselling Asylum series with these three spine-tingling novellas starring supporting characters from the novels, available in a print bind-up for the first time. Three teens are pushed to the edge of their sanity in these chilling novellas set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Asylum series, featuring terrifying found photographs and a sneak peek at a new prequel novel, Escape from Asylum.īefore Dan, Abby, and Jordan ever stepped foot inside the Brookline asylum, its legacy of terror stretched far and deep. 6/8/2023 0 Comments We come apart bookPerfect for fans of Patrick Ness, Malorie Blackman, Rainbow Rowell and John Green. But they can't be together, forever, and stay safe - can they? An extraordinary, high-impact, high-emotion collaboration between two Carnegie honoured rising stars of YA. The only safe place they have is with each other. As Nicu and Jess get closer, their secrets come to the surface like bruises. But his dad's fists are the most powerful force in Nicu's life, and in the end, he'll have to do what his dad wants. He wants to get educated, do better, stay here in England. The last thing Nicu wants is to get married. His dad brought Nicu and his mum here for a better life, but now all they talk about is going back home to find Nicu a wife. Nicu is all big eyes and ill-fitting clothes, eager as a puppy, even when they're picking up litter in the park for community service. Jess would never have looked twice at Nicu if her friends hadn't left her in the lurch. YA rising stars Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan join forces to break readers' hearts in this contemporary story of star-cross'd lovers. 6/8/2023 0 Comments Deep Fathom by James RollinsI thoroughly enjoy a well-written techno-thriller with lots of slam-bang action pops and bangs, bells and whistles boy-girl action insufferably evil bad guys and lots of Hollywood thrills, chills and heroics thrown in. Kirkland narrowly escapes death avoiding an undersea eruption and lava flow as the Japanese freighter is swallowed into the earth's crust before his very eyes. we can smell a political crisis there, can't we!) Ex-Navy Seal, Jack Kirkland, is on board a deep sea submersible exploring a sunken Japanese vessel reputed to be carrying an enormous hoard of gold bullion when this series of inexplicable disasters shatter the earth's crust. The cataclysmic forces unleashed by these violent events bring down Air Force One in the middle of the ocean killing the President of the USA and everyone else on board. The first solar eclipse of the millennium and a series of intense solar flares have triggered a monumental series of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides and tsunamis around the entire circumference of the Pacific Ring of Fire. Everything but the proverbial kitchen sink. |