![]() ![]() ![]() He earned his PhD in 1946 under the eminent, leading Lincoln scholar, James G. Majoring in history and sociology, Donald earned his bachelor degree from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. Beyond this, we are shown a personal side of the man who managed one of the most difficult periods in American history. "Lincoln at Home" is an intimate and rare glimpse of the president as husband and father, a cheerful man pinned to the floor while playing with his children, and a desolate man struck down with grief at the death of his son. With a brief account of their first years in the White House and the complete collection of all the known letters exchanged by Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, this elegant portrait defines the sixteenth president as a dedicated - though often a desperately busy and distracted - family man. "Lincoln at Home" offers a view into the life of family through their written correspondence. As Lincoln led the nation into the Civil War, managing the Union war effort, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, winning reelection in 1864, and planning the Reconstruction of the South, he also led a private life, defined by his close relationship with his wife and by his devotion to his children. ![]()
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![]() Back home, he vanquishes the bullies with some Lincoln-like eloquence, and is even elected class president. Teased relentlessly ("Hey, Stinkin' Lincoln!"), Benjy has resigned himself to spending the summer in his room when his parents announce he's going to Camp What-Cha-Ma-Call-It, "the camp for kids who look like things." Surrounded by campmates who are dead ringers for a frog, a back of a horse and even a toaster (Catrow comically and effectively translates these descriptions quite literally), Benjy not only finds comradeship, but also a new sense of pride. Even if he's not in the show," Benjy complains, as Catrow shows him incongruously commanding the stage during a school play on dental hygiene. "In every school play, I have to be Lincoln. ![]() Benjy, the hero, does indeed bear a startling resemblance to the famously homely 16th president. ![]() Simpsons writer Reiss and Catrow are back for a third pairing ( How Murray Saved Christmas), their class clown hearts beating as one. ![]() ![]() And I do need to say in fairness to both author and publisher that, in hindsight, this was likely the wrong book to have read during these times. But that’s where my happiness and enjoyment of The Monster Baru Cormorant pretty much ended. ![]() I gobbled up the first quarter of this book in a couple of days. And this is all part of an absolutely devastating opening quarter of book. The story starts with failure: failure of courage, failure of combat, failure of death, and who knows how many others-all leading, eventually, back to the secret rebel accountant, Baru. When the publisher sent me through links for both Monster and Tyrant at the start of iso, I thought this was going to be brilliant–the world was burning around us but I had two books I was so excited to read back-to-back during lockdown. I was so excited to read The Monster Baru Cormorant after absolutely loving The Traitor Baru Cormorant, and calling Baru one of the best protagonists in fantasy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a desperate bid for freedom Alex discovers a horrifying truth - that the Furnace Penitentiary is a place of pure evil, a place where cruel experiments take place every day, where inmates are guinea pigs, where monsters make monsters, and where death is the least of your worries.Īction-packed, gritty and gruesome - this is the perfect read for thrill-hungry teenagers. ![]() Where are they taken and why are they returned covered with scars, acting as though they are not quite human? Only in Furnace, death is the least of his worries. Every night an inmate is taken from his cell by guards and returned the next morning changed. A vast building sunk deep into the ground, there's one way in and no way out.īut rowdy inmates and sadistic guards are the least of Alex's problems. Now he is an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary - the toughest prison in the world for young offenders. When thirteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, his life changes forever. Alexander Gordon Smith's cult teen series has been reissued with the bestselling US covers. Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown (English Edition) de Alexander Gordon Smith (Autor) (1. Prison Break meets Darren Shan in an unforgettable story of terror, evil and intrigue. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Chronicles of Ixia Series by Maria V. ![]() ![]() Opal must make the choices to secure her own future, even as the path she treads becomes more dangerous than she could have ever imagined. And everywhere she turns, people want to control her powers for their own deadly gain. But as she travels through the Moon Clan’s lands, she begins to hear disturbing rumors that Ulrick’s desire for blood magic has eclipsed any sense of reason-and perhaps even his passion for her.ĭeep in hostile territory, without proof or allies, Opal isn’t sure whom to trust. SNYDER brings readers into a world of molten magic where a magicians power can remain hidden.until challenged. Snyder Harlequin, Fiction - 400 pages 30 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified Student. Ordered to house arrest by the Council, Opal defies them to search for Ulrick, the man she thinks she loves. New York Times bestselling author MARIA V. And that makes her too dangerous to be set free. Opal Cowan, glass magician-in-training, has discovered a terrifying and powerful new ability: she can steal the power of other magicians. Return to the realms of Sitia and Ixia, where a young glass magician becomes ensnared in a deadly power struggle that may cost her everything… From New York Times bestselling author Maria V. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Losing one family member early to cancer is a tragedy. It is a unique and elegiac meditation on grief, memory and longing, and of the redemptive power of stories and nature. Ghostland is Parnell’s moving exploration of what has haunted our writers and artists – and what is haunting him. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn and Graham Swift’s Waterland to the archetypal ‘folk horror’ film The Wicker Man… James, Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood to the children’s fantasy novels of Alan Garner and Susan Cooper from W. He explores how these landscapes conjured and shaped a kaleidoscopic spectrum of literature and cinema, from the ghost stories and weird fiction of M. ![]() In Ghostland, Parnell goes in search of the ‘sequestered places’ of the British Isles, our lonely moors, our moss-covered cemeteries, our stark shores and our folkloric woodlands. For comfort, he turned to his bookshelves, back to the ghost stories that obsessed him as a boy, and to the writers through the ages who have attempted to confront what comes after death. ![]() In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family tragedy. ‘An exciting new voice’ Mark Cocker, author of Crow Country ‘A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature’ Philip Hoare SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2020 ![]() ![]() Now Edgard has returned from Brazil to sort out their tangled past. Trevor never expected to see Edgard Mancuso again, after it became clear he couldn't be the man Edgard needed. Then Trevor's old roping partner ambles up the driveway throwing Chassie's life into chaos. ![]() Plus running a ranch has mellowed Trevor's rodeo wanderlust. Chassie West Glanzer hasn't been a stranger to tragedy, so a year of wedded bliss to sexy-as-sin cowboy Trevor Glanzer has brought her the happiness and contentment she never thought she'd find. "Torn between the love he has and the love he's always wanted. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |a Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return. |a Originally published in the United Kingdom by Allen & Unwin in 1937. |a 300 pages : |b illustrations, maps |c 21 cm |a Boston : |b Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, |c 2013. Tolkiens The Hobbit is one of literatures most enduring and well-loved novels. |a The hobbit, or, There and back again / |c J.R.R. Set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth, at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale, J.R.R. RLD Woodland Park Science Fiction & Fantasy ![]() ![]() I was desperate for any small scrap of info about what other people’s sub process had been like. I obsessively researched online every time I went out, and it’s so funny because I read a LOT of these Submissions Hell interviews. So technically this was my fourth time out, but the process is so secretive that it STILL feels like I don’t know as much as I’d like. The third time my new agent sold my MG book. The first two times were failed attempts year ago, with my first agent. I had actually been on sub several times before my first YA, Witches of Ash and Ruin sold. How much did you know about the submission process before you were out on subs yourself? She also vlogs weekly on the Word Nerds Youtube channel, and spends the rest of her days reading, writing and consuming too much tea. She lives on Vancouver Island, and her breakout success on the online writing platform,, has resulted in a fanbase of over 100k followers, with over 20 million combined reads. ![]() ![]() ![]() Latimer, the author of Witches of Ash and Ruin, and The Strange and Deadly Portraits of Bryony Gray. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() įollowing years of drug abuse and a series of mystical experiences in 1974, Dick's work engaged more explicitly with issues of theology, metaphysics, and the nature of reality, as in novels A Scanner Darkly (1977), VALIS (1981), and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982). Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. His 1974 novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said won the John W. He followed with science fiction novels such as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) and Ubik (1969). He found little commercial success until his alternative history novel The Man in the High Castle (1962) earned him acclaim, including a Hugo Award for Best Novel, when he was 33. He began publishing science fiction stories in 1952, at age 23. īorn in Chicago, Dick moved to the San Francisco Bay Area with his family at a young age. His fiction explored varied philosophical and social questions such as the nature of reality, perception, human nature, and identity, and commonly featured characters struggling against elements such as alternate realities, illusory environments, monopolistic corporations, drug abuse, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness. ![]() He wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982), often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer. ![]() |