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![]() ![]() ![]() However this book is so much more than a love story and so much more than a piece of historical fiction as well. I am a self-confessed sucker for a love story so this book would have had to be pretty bad for me not to love it. Their well-documented romance persisted through decades of war, adultery, murder, loneliness and redemption. ![]() In this era of dangers and passion, John of Gaunt, the king’s son and the proudest of the Plantagenets, fought for power and fell desperately in love with the already married Katherine. It is set in the vibrant 14th century England of Chaucer when magnificent pageantry was confronted by the Black Death, when knights went to battle in expensive foreign wars while peasants struggled to survive, and when the magnificent but despotic Plantagenets – Edward III, the Black Prince, and Richard II – ruled over a court rotten with intrigue. This classic novel tells the most romantic love story in British history – the true tale of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of much of the British Royal family. ![]() ![]() ![]() These small-scale farmers did not have ready cash to be able to pay the tax and were unable to easily pass on the burden to their customers, like the operators of large distilleries in the east. Unfortunately, this tax on production adversely impacted farmers on the western frontier. The 1791 passage of the whiskey excise tax was an attempt to begin paying down that debt through a direct tax on the distillation of alcohol. ![]() In 1790, in order to solve a congressional deadlock over the permanent placement of the new nation’s capital, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison reached a compromise that would result in an eventual shift of the capital to a location on the border of Maryland and Virginia, as well a promise that the federal government would assume the Revolutionary War debts of the thirteen states. ![]() ![]() Moon has other talents in addition to writing. Moon’s short stories became a regular occurrence in Analog over the next few years. Her first short story was published in Analog and she was published in one of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress anthologies. She married Richard Sloan Moon in 1969 and they had one son, Michael who was born in 1983.Įlizabeth Moon started her professional writing career in her mid-thirties with a newspaper column in a country weekly. She served on active duty for a number of years, reaching the rank of 1st Lieutenant. That year, she enlisted in the US Marine Corps as a computer specialist. In 1968, she earned her bachelor’s degree in History from Rice University in Houston, Texas and later followed up with a second B.A. ![]() She considered writing to be a hobby and focused her career on other interests. ![]() In her teens, she began writing science fiction. Her first novel was about the family dog. Born in McAllen, Texas, Susan Elizabeth Norris started writing when she was a small child. ![]() ![]() This is the first book in The Blossom Street Series. Discoveries that lead to friendship and more. These four very different women, brought together by an age-old craft, make unexpected discoveries - about themselves and each other. And Alix Townsend is knitting her blanket for a court-ordered community service project. Carol Girard feels that the baby blanket is a message of hope as she makes a final attempt to conceive. Jacqueline Donovan wants to knit something for her grandchild as a gesture of reconciliation with her daughter-in-law. Lydia teaches knitting to beginners, and the first class is “How to Make a Baby Blanket.” Three women join. It’s owned by Lydia Hoffman, and it represents her dream of a new life free from cancer. There’s a little yarn shop on Blossom Street in Seattle. ![]() ![]() “When he painted Tanneke she stood there happily pouring milk for months without a thought passing through that head, God love her.” One example is the explanation about The Milk Maid painting: It feels like Chevalier used Vermeer’s paintings to recreate his life, his home, and the social relationships existing in Delft at that time. What I enjoyed the most while reading this book was that even if the main focus of the book was on Girl with a Pearl Earring, other paintings of Vermeer were beautifully integrated into the storyline. And I thought: ” (The Telegraph, 2008) Vermeer’s paintings I saw it as a portrait of a relationship rather than a portrait of a girl. “I wonder what Vermeer did to her to make her look like that. Tracy Chevalier started from a real painting of a mysterious girl and imagined the story that led to its creation: ![]() The story follows Griet as she grows up from girl to woman while going through intense emotional transformations and turmoil caused by her family, her feelings, and the Dutch painter himself. She is hired as a maid in the house of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, where she secretly becomes the painter’s assistant, too. ![]() The historical novel tells the story of Griet, a poor young girl living with her family in Delft (The Netherlands), in the 17th century. ![]() The WanderBook in Bilbao, Spain, hosted by Anca Girl with a Pearl Earring in a nutshell ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Winslow forges his relationship with his readers like a great film director does with his audience. All four deal with the Barrera Brothers, two heirs to one of the largest drug empires, as allies and enemies at different times. We follow four characters: Art Keller, a former CIA spook who trades in Vietnam for Latin America with the DEA Nora Hayden, a high priced call girl Cullan, an Irish American enforcer and hitman and Father Prada, a Mexican priest dealing with the poverty and cartel corruption in his country. The novel has the sweep and structure of a Herman Wouk-style historical novel, but since it is Winslow’s look at our war on drugs in the last three decades of the Twentieth Century, the style, attitude, and content are hard boiled without a doubt. Now I’m kicking myself for not reading it sooner. Being spurred on by the June release of its sequel, The Cartel, I finally cracked it open. Maybe it had to do with the five hundred pages. While I love Winslow’s work, for some reason, I never picked up. Over ten years ago, Bobby McCue, my boss at LA’s The Mystery Bookstore, gave me a copy of Don Winslow’s The Power Of The Dog for Christmas. ![]() ![]() Read more funny, like the Malay word pisanzapra, which translates as 'the time needed to eat a banana'. The words and definitions range from the lovely, such as goya, the Urdu word to describe the transporting suspension of belief that can occur in good storytelling, to the. Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or, that there's a Swedish word that means a traveller's particular sense of anticipation before a trip? Lost in Translation, a New York Times bestseller, brings the nuanced beauty of language to life with over 50 beautiful ink illustrations. Num Pages: 112 pages, Full colour throughout. Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or, that there's a Swedish word that means a traveller's particular sense of anticipation before a trip? This book includes a collection full of surprises that will make you savour the elusive, untranslatable words that make up a language. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() It is a remarkable debut.ĭon't tell me you know how to map someone's memories, then not tell me how! THAT'S JUST A BIG TEASE. The Glass Sentence plunges readers into a time and place they will not want to leave, and introduces them to a heroine and hero they will take to their hearts. But even as Sophia and Theo try to save Shadrack’s life, they are in danger of losing their own. Together with Theo, a refugee from the West, she travels over rough terrain and uncharted ocean, encounters pirates and traders, and relies on a combination of Shadrack’s maps, common sense, and her own slantwise powers of observation. ![]() And Sophia, who has rarely been outside of Boston, is the only one who can search for him. Life with her brilliant, absent-minded, adored uncle has taught Sophia to take care of herself. Eight years ago, her parents left her with her uncle Shadrack, the foremost cartologer in Boston, and went on an urgent mission. ![]() Sophia Tims comes from a family of explorers and cartologers who, for generations, have been traveling and mapping the New World-a world changed by the Great Disruption of 1799, when all the continents were flung into different time periods. She had no idea they were so dangerous.īoston, 1891. She has only seen the world through maps. ![]() ![]() ![]() Clarke has brought together outstanding works in which extreme environments bring out the best and worst of human nature. Courage and imagination may sometimes be twisted for bad ends, but they’re vital to perilous journeys, and they adeptly underpin most of the tales. The critical element in many of these stories is that even among danger and violence, there can still be wonder in exploration and discovery. The Final Frontier By: Neil Clarke - editor The Collected Stories of Arthur C. “The Voyage Out” by Gwyneth Jones follows a band of prisoners as they prepare for exile on another world, a journey that could either kill them or offer a rebirth of hope. Vandana Singh’s “Sailing the Antarsa” is a beautiful and sometimes harsh journey celebrating kinship among life forms of all kinds. ![]() The late Jay Lake’s “Permanent Fatal Errors” shows how far a band of vicious explorers will go to hide a truly monumental discovery. ![]() Clarkesworld editor Clarke’s stellar reprint anthology explores the expansive variety of space exploration stories, in shades from brutal to elegantly poetic. ![]() |