![]() ![]() I think of the things I have lost: my compass, stolen laptop, two shoes – one in the canal, one out of the door of a moving car – my boyfriend. I was washed up: no longer buoyant, battered and storm-tossed. When I first came back to Orkney I felt like the strandings of jellyfish, laid out on the rocks for all to see. ![]() My options were ever decreasing and I didn’t know where to turn, desperately seeking comfort in sexual encounters and obsessive memories. My once promising future, for which I’d moved to London, was turning into bitterness and frustration. I was out of work, living in a tiny room in east London, not getting invited out, heartbroken and drinking alone. It stung because at that point it was fairly true. A few years ago, I drunkenly got into an argument with someone I shouldn’t have. ![]()
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It’s unusual-a gripping yet essentially plotless novel consisting of intercut segments of the lives of people caught up in the war, concentrating on four American men and a Canadian woman. Tree of Smoke is an ambitious, long, dense, daunting novel sited at the heart of a great American evil, the Vietnam War. ![]() ![]() This tale of courage, love, cruelty and treachery, one of the great legends of Ireland, receives vivid, evocative treatment here. previous 1 2 3 next sort by previous 1 2 3 next Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. ![]() A thousand civilians and soldiers set out but, harassed at every turn by those seeking the price on O'Sullivan's head and tormented by fierce winter weather and by hunger, only 34 men and one woman survive. Books by Morgan Llywelyn (Author of Lion of Ireland) Books by Morgan Llywelyn Morgan Llywelyn Average rating 3.99 33,232 ratings 2,162 reviews shelved 83,424 times Showing 30 distinct works. When this work opens a year later, a chieftain from the south, Donal Cam O'Sullivan of the now destroyed fortress town of Dunboy, has resorted to the desperate expedient of leading his people across a hostile Ireland to seek safety with loyal clans far to the north. Others, led by Hugh O'Neill, held out during the Nine Years' War until the final defeat at the Battle of Kinsale in 1602. ![]() When Elizabeth I sent her forces to the Catholic country to guard against attempts to retake the British Isles for Rome, her commanders used bribery and threats to coerce some nobles to swear fealty to the English throne. This powerful partisan novel by the author of Druids recounts the aftermath of the last concerted attempt by Celtic nobility in Ireland to throw off English domination. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And after the body disappears, she can't help but pull on the mystery's thread and unravel an entire wardrobe of suspects. But her first day goes completely A-line when she stumbles across her legendary boss dead in the elevator. Ready to redesign her life, style expert Samantha Kidd accepts a job in her Pennsylvania hometown as a trend specialist. She wasn't prepared for it to turn deadly. ![]() She expected the fashion industry to be ruthless. " ~Shawna, Reviewer National bestselling author Diane Vallere delivers your new favorite fashionable amateur sleuth! Join Samantha Kidd as she trades high fashion for dirty laundry and learns a great wardrobe isn't enough to turn her life around, let alone catch a killer. Samantha Kidd could not be more entertaining and, surprisingly, relatable. "Wonderful read regardless of your fashion sense. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite multiple predictions of disaster, Jane and her four sisters wind up aboard the Titanic as it departs England on its maiden voyage, and she faces a choice: Should she believe the prophecies and get them all off the ship when it stops in France or Ireland, or should she have faith in science and proceed with the transatlantic crossing? The well-researched story relies heavily on dialogue to impart rich historical detail, resulting in stiff, unnatural exchanges. As a clever and independent young woman, Jane is skeptical of her mother’s work as a renowned spirit medium but not willing to write it off completely her fate hinges on her agnosticism. ![]() ![]() Starlin also drew "The Secret of Skull River", inked by frequent collaborator Al Milgrom, for Savage Tales #5 (July 1974). Here he developed his ideas of God, death, and infinity, free of the restrictions of mainstream comics publishers' self-censorship arm, the Comics Code Authority. In the mid-1970s, Starlin contributed a cache of stories to the independently published science-fiction anthology Star Reach. ![]() ![]() Death and suicide are recurring themes in Starlin's work: Personifications of Death appeared in his Captain Marvel series and in a fill-in story for Ghost Rider Warlock commits suicide by killing his future self and suicide is a theme in a story he plotted and drew for The Rampaging Hulk magazine. ![]() With a career dating back to the early 1970s, he is best known for "cosmic" tales and space opera for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos and Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu. "Jim" Starlin is an American comic book writer and artist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the handsome young editor of the school newspaper invited her to his reading group, she expected to pop into the cafeteria to talk about Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Scarlet Letter. In this charged political climate, with Molotov cocktails flying and fellow students disappearing for hours and returning with bruises, Hyun Sook sought refuge in the comfort of books. This was during South Korea's Fifth Republic, a military regime that entrenched its power through censorship, torture, and the murder of protestors. But literature class would prove to be just the start of a massive turning point, still focused on reading but with life-or-death stakes she never could have imagined. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature far from the drudgery she was promised at her family's restaurant. When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. ![]() "It's hard to imagine a world where Banned Book Club could be more relevant than it is right now." - A.V. "A timely read about friendship amid chaos." - NPR "The messages of hope are universal." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, Starred Review "Sure to inspire today's youthful generation of tenacious changemakers." - BOOKLIST, Starred Review "Highly recommended for readers passionate about activism." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, Starred Review ![]() ![]() ![]() I instantly fell in love but didn’t have the confidence to pursue it. On this journey, I found myself in Tokyo, where I was asked to do my first commercial. Over the course of eight years, I walked the globe’s top runways and graced the pages of GQ, Vogue, Men’s Fitness, and Men’s Journal, among others. After winning a national modeling contest, I was signed by a top agency and began a successful career in fashion, appearing in campaigns for Ralph Lauren, Prada, Structure, Versace, Hugo Boss, Chaps, Guess, and Abercrombie and Fitch. Navy before making the leap into entertainment, leading to gigs in shows like Friday Night Lights, Breaking Bad, and HBO’s True Detective.ĬomingSoon: Looking through your bio, you served eight years in the US Navy, then decided to jump into the entertainment industry - what prompted that decision?ĭrew Waters: As I neared the end of my military career, I was discovered by a modeling scout. Drew Waters’ career is interesting, as he spent eight years in the U.S. ![]() ComingSoon recently spoke with actor Drew Waters about his career and his work on HBO Max’s Love & Death from David E. ![]() ![]() His advanced technology dazzles Lyn and lets her keep alive in her mind the fantasy narrative of his wizardry and her own heroic quest. He is a simple scientist trying without much success to do his job of observing the local civilization without ever getting directly involved in its affairs.īut the linguistic chasm between the young Lyn and the ancient Nyr (kept younger than his centuries of life would suggest by means of sleep stasis technology) keeps getting in the way. Though quite formidable in appearance and with advanced technology that looks like magic to her, Nyr forever tries to convince Lyn that there is no magic and he is no wizard. ![]() ![]() When she comes knocking at the door of the formidable Nyrgoth Elder, a sorcerer of legendary powers, what she finds instead of a wizard is Nyr Illim Tevitch, anthropologist second class of the Earth’s Explorer Corps. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My 2018 Favorites: The Fourth Annual Pinecone Awards!.This book is pretty standalone, but there's for sure room for a sequel, which I'd be happy to read if it ever happens. And of course the big reason, I think, why Elizabethan English religious strife has been so popular in lit and film lately: a reflection of today's bitter political divisions. Crossdressing rooted not only in spycraft, but also in the first production of Twelfth Night - and with Shakespeare himself as a major supporting character, possessed of a sharp wit and more than a touch of madness. Queer rep, for one thing - Toby's bi, and very deep in the closet because of how rampantly phobic pretty much all of Europe was back then. Though Assassin's Guide is a little more slow than I'd like at times, and the two POVs of Katherine and Toby are sometimes a little hard to tell apart, it's got a lot going for it too. Earlier this year, Nadine Brandes gave it a magical twist in Fawkes, and now, Virginia Boecker makes her return to alternate-historical YA with a less magical but still pretty fun read. I feel like there's been a bit of an uptick in books rooted in the historical conflicts of Protestants and Catholics in Elizabethan England lately. An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason by Virginia Boecker ![]() |