![]() ![]() In that year he warily falls in love with Delfina, a streetwise Dominican ("That was the curse attached to the gift: You buried everyone you loved"), and comes into contact with a descendant of the Earl of Warren, the newspaper publisher Willie Warren. What follows is a portrait of the "city of memory of which Cormac was the only citizen." Cormac fights in the American Revolution, sups with Boss Tweed (in a very sympathetic portrait) and lives into the New York of 2001. His recovery takes a miraculous turn when Kongo's dead priestess, Tomora, appears and grants Cormac eternal life and youth-so long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan, thus the "Forever" of the title. Cormac saves Kongo from death, but is shot in the process. ![]() ![]() After the rising is quelled, mobs take to the streets and Kongo is seized. On board ship, Cormac befriends African slave Kongo, and once in New York, the two join a rebellion against the British. Seeking to avenge the murder of his father by the Earl of Warren, he follows the trail of the earl to New York City. The year is 1741 and this is the story of Cormac O'Connor-"Irish, and a Jew"-who grows up in Ireland under English Protestant rule and is secretly schooled in Gaelic religion, myth and language. For those interested in details, here's a synopsis courtesy of Publishers Weekly (via Amazon): ![]()
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![]() ![]() For Barbara “Babs” Langford, her husband, Kit, was the love of her life. One that will force her to commit the ultimate betrayal and to confront at last the shocking circumstances of her family history.įrance, 1964. ![]() ![]() ![]() She holds dear, she uncovers a devastating secret. At first reluctant to put herself and her family at risk to assist her grandmother’s Resistance efforts, Daisy agrees to act as a courier for a skilled English forger known only as Legrand, who creates identity papers for Resistance members and Jewish refugees.īut as Daisy is drawn ever deeper into Legrand’s underground network, committing increasingly audacious acts of resistance for the sake of the count and the man. Raised by her indomitable, free-spirited American grandmother in the glamorous Hotel Ritz, Marguerite “Daisy” Villon remains in Paris with her daughter and husband, a Nazi collaborator, after France falls to Hitler. Despite their conflicting loyalties, Aurelie and Max’s friendship soon deepens into love, but, betrayal will shatter them both, driving Aurelie back to Paris and the Ritz- the home of her estranged American heiress mother, with unexpected consequences.įrance, 1942. She and the dashing young officer first met during Aurelie’s debutante days in Paris. When the Germans move into their family’s ancestral estate, using it as their headquarters, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major’s aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternberg. As war breaks out, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. ![]() ![]() ![]() She isn’t one to be fazed by a set of broad shoulders.Īfter the semester ends, will the bad boy land the nerd girl or will the secrets they keep from each other separate them forever? Too bad for him Delaney’s sworn off dating athletes forever after her last heartbreak.īut Maverick wants more than one night and refuses to give up on winning Delaney’s heart. The most talented football player in the country. One sexy hook-up later, her mind is blown and the secret’s out. ![]() She knows she shouldn’t, but what else is she going to do with her boring Valentine’s Day? His dare? Spend one night in his bed-a night he promises will be unforgettable-and she can solve the mystery of who he is. The late night text is random, but “Bad Ass Athlete” sure seems to know who she is… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Van Pelt has woven the story of Marcellus the octopus with that of widowed Tova and the young Cameron who comes to town in search of his father. While dual narratives are fairly common, it’s not every day that you read a novel with chapters told from the first-person perspective of an octopus. ![]() They are undoubtedly, remarkably bright creatures, and Van Pelt’s debut novel explores the characteristics, and indeed feelings, of one particular octopus in the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.Īnyone who watched the documentary My Octopus Teacher will know that octopi are incredibly intelligent animals, capable of forming bonds with humans. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late… One night she meets Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium who sees everything but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors – until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.Įver the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. ![]() Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty years ago, keeping busy has helped her cope. After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has waded through a PhD’s worth of articles, interviewed a score of physicians and biologists, read a library of books, and had a great deal of fun along the way. If you laid all the DNA in your body end to end it would stretch 10bn miles, beyond the orbit of Pluto: “Think of it: there is enough of you to leave the solar system,” Bill Bryson writes “You are in the most literal sense cosmic.”īryson’s The Body is a directory of such wonders, a tour of the minuscule it aims to do for the human body what his A Short History of Nearly Everything did for science. Through her nipples a breast-feeding mother’s body gauges the microbes in her baby’s saliva, to adjust the antibody content of her milk. Over a lifetime your heart performs the equivalent work to lifting a tonne weight 150 miles into the air. Our ears can discern a volume range of a 1,000,000,000,000 factors of amplitude. A study of 60 people’s belly buttons found 2,368 species of bacteria, 1,458 of them “unknown to science”. ![]() We are made of seven billion billion billion atoms, the constituent elements of which would cost £96,546.79 on the open market (excluding VAT). Taste receptors trigger insulin release, so that before we’ve even swallowed our bodies are preparing for a meal (there are even taste receptors in the testicles). The more exercise we do the more our bones produce a hormone that boosts mood, fertility and memory – staving off frailty, depression and dementia. T he cartilage in your joints is smoother than glass, and has a friction coefficient five times less than ice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their marriage ended in 1936 and Sam returned to London and went back into the book business with his brother Jack. Soon after he left the book business and he and Binnie Barnes moved to Hollywood where she appeared in many movies including The Private Life of Henry VIII, in which she had a leading role as his fifth wife Katherine Howard. ![]() Joseph in the famous book street Charing Cross Road. The recipient was actually Sam Joseph the partner of Jack Joseph in the renowned bookshop E. A fine copy in an almost fine dust jacket. Original dust jacket, spine very slightly darkened. Publisher's red cloth over boards, front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Joseph.-/Your friend/Charles Chaplin/Sept 30th 64". Inscribed in black ink on the front free endpaper Item #04906 Inscribed by Charlie Chaplin to his Friend Sam JosephĬHAPLIN, Charles. ![]() ![]() Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. ![]() The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. The Interestings explores the meaning of talent the nature of envy the roles of class, art, money, and power and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kudos to the editors for bringing this lost classic back into print-it never should have left us in the first place. The edition includes an illuminating interview with the author and an afterword by Judith Mayne that nicely contextualizes the narrative as well as the book's curious publishing history. Truly, it is a more literary novel than the lurid original cover would have one believe-its many sexual encounters invariably veer from the promise of pornography to the achingly real, and often painful, emotional excavations of these women's lives. English: Cover of 'Women's Barracks' by Tereska Torrs1950 Franais : Couverture de 'Women's Barracks' par Tereska Torrs, 1950. It is, in fact, a moving and bittersweet tale of a tight-knit community of women, their loves and losses, hopes and despairs, with a charmingly modest salaciousness that runs through to justify its ""pulp"" marketing. This book, which is fiction, purports to deal with the life of a number of French women who enlisted in a French women's army organization during the period of the late war and the action is laid largely in the city of. Translated from the French (though never published in France), this heavily autobiographical tale of life in the Free French Army women's barracks in WWII London is a delicious blend of sex and melodrama that manages to be sentimental without ever becoming mawkish or campy. The Woman’s Barracks was entered as evidence with the passages dealing with lesbians marked for the court’s attention. From the Feminist Press's 'Femmes Fatales: Women Write Pulp' series comes this reissue of a long out-of-print 1950 classic, the ""first lesbian-themed pulp"" novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Furthermore, this is the book that says the B word, ON THE PAGE. It’s a heartbreaking but beautiful story which takes the girls at its core entirely seriously. ![]() When Mina is tragically killed, Sophie must look to the past and the future to lay her pain to rest. Inspired by the amazing community and solidarity of the past month, I’ve picked some of my favourite reads with women who love women.įar From You by Tess Sharpe is the amazing and devastating story of recovering teen pain killer addict, Sophie and her relationship with best friend turned romantic interest, Mina. I am honoured to be rounding off Pride Month and Jim’s series of LGBTQ* themed #6Degrees feature with my guest post. ![]() ![]() But I have never encountered a book whose author is so fundamentally unacquainted with its subject. Christopher Hitchens is a brilliant man, and there is no living journalist I more enjoy reading. Readers with any sense of irony - and here I do not exclude believers - will be surprised to see how little inquiring Hitchens has done and how limited and literal is his own ill-prepared reduction of religion. ![]() To read this oddly innocent book as gospel is to believe that ordinary Catholics are proud of the Inquisition, that ordinary Hindus view masturbation as an offense against Krishna. assumes a childish definition of religion and then criticizes religious people for believing such foolery. Hitchens says a lot of true things in this wrongheaded book.What Hitchens gets wrong is religion itself. an unrelenting enumeration of religion's sins and wickedness, written with much of the rhetorical pomp and all of the imperial condescension of a Vatican encyclical. ![]() |