![]() ![]() If you still can’t locate the email, please contact. If you don’t receive this email after registering, please check your SPAM folder. Chen is the author of "Mary B," a novel about the overlooked middle sister in "Pride and Prejudice." Her work has been published in "The New York Times," the "Los Angeles Review of Books," "Literary Hub," and the historical fiction anthology "Stories from Suffragette City." REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT All registered attendees will receive a follow-up email from “LibCal” with Zoom log-in information. Navigating the perils of the battlefield and the equally treacherous politics of the royal court, Joan draws wrath and suspicion from all corners, while her first taste of fame and glory leaves her vulnerable to her own powerful ambition. Chen’s hands, the legend of Joan of Arc is transformed into a flesh-and-blood young woman: reckless, steel-willed, and brilliant. ![]() ![]() From this chaos emerges a teenage girl who will turn the tide of battle. Its people are starving, and its king is in hiding. ![]() About the book In 1412, France is mired in a losing war against England. Chen, author of "Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc" (Penguin Random House, 2022). Eastern, for a special 2022 History Book Festival author presentation, via Zoom, featuring Katherine J. Please join us on Wednesday, November 2, at 5:00 p.m. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Jane Austen." -The Book Standard ".Enough dark, angsty touches that I was utterly wrung out by the end. The fourth volume in award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Colleen Gleason's International Bestselling Gardella Vampire Hunter Series. The battle is made even more difficult by the legacy of a vampire's touch-a vampire who left in Victoria's veins boiling blood that forces her fight evil on two fronts: against the new breed of undead threatening London.and against the darkness within herself. Meanwhile, her heart is still divided between the enigmatic Sebastian Vioget and her fellow slayer Max Pesaro. ![]() Not only is Victoria unable to detect the vampire with her heightened senses, but she's being framed as the prime suspect behind the killings. Ruining Victoria's homecoming, a vampire stalks the streets of London-during the daylight. After narrowly escaping from Rome, Lady Victoria Gardella returns to London, where not even sunrise can stop a vampire's carnage. ![]() ![]() ![]() The locals don’t take him seriously because of his appearance and soon instead of preaching, he spends time drawing people around him and admiring their beauty amidst squalor. When he fails the entrance exam to study theology at university, he is sent as a missionary to the mining town of Borinage in Belgium. This led to depression and he took comfort in religion.Įventually, Vincent becomes a Calvinist pastor. At this time, he developed a crush on Ursula, but she rejected him. ![]() He was raised in a strict household and religion played an important role in his life. The author begins the story with Vincent’s teenage years. The book focuses on Sunflowers (1888), Bedroom in Arles (1889), Wheat Field with Crows (1890) and other famous paintings of his time. In each section, he learns something that influences his work. ![]() It starts with London and ends in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. The book is divided into nine sections, each named after the place where van Gogh lived. He drew heavily from Vincent and Theo van Gogh’s letters to each other, as well as historical research. 1-Page Summary of Lust for Life Overall SummaryĪmerican author Irving Stone wrote the novel Lust for Life in 1934, which was based on Vincent van Gogh’s life. ![]() ![]() His Aqua Boy act becomes the star attraction and his fame increases, as does his need to dictate the actions and desires of his parents and siblings. Oly worships Arty and serves as his caretaker, even though she hates many of his actions. ![]() ![]() Over time, Arty increasingly dominates and manipulates his family members and the carnival as a whole. In her narrative of the past, the family travels the countryside with their carnival, the Binewski Fabulon, with a cast of characters such as Horst the Cat Man, who handles lions and tigers the redheads, young women who work the midway booths and Zephir McGurk, the carnival’s electrician. A journalist named Norval Sanderson also begins traveling with the carnival and his journal entries provide an outsider’s point of view of the narrative. The story sections alternate between Oly’s memories of her family life and her description of the present day, when she is 38 years old and living in Portland. ![]() The family believes that “norms,” or normal people, are inferior to those who are unique and they are therefore scornful of the “norms” who patronize the carnival. The youngest sibling is Fortunato, nicknamed Chick, who seems ”normal” at birth, but soon demonstrates telekinetic powers. ![]() Electra and Iphigenia, ”Elly and Iphy,” are Siamese twins they have individual upper bodies, are joined at the waist, and share one set of hips and legs. The eldest living child, Arturo, nicknamed Arty, is known professionally as Aqua Boy and was born with flippers instead of arms and legs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has the most faith out of all of her siblings, which means she is able to see Aslan when the rest of them cannot. Lucy is the youngest of the Pevensie children, a kind and gentle child. He fights for the Narnians and the rights because he believes it is the right thing to do, even if it means fighting his own people. ![]() He is similar to Peter in his chivalrous, being taught of the tales of Old Narnia by his nurse growing up. CaspianĬaspian is a Prince and heir to the throne of his people until his uncle betrays him and he is forced to flee. After the events of Prince Caspian, he cannot return to Narnia, as he is grown up and must learn to live in his own world. However, Peter is stubborn and often head strong. He is styled around the ideals of the old Christian knights, chivalrous and brave, he fights for honour and for what he thinks is right. Peter is the eldest of the Penvensie children and the High King of Narnia. Written by Anthony Gliozzo and other people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() But Maguire’s inspiration for Wicked was based on more than his childhood love of fairytales. His course in mythic patterns at Simmons looked at recurring archetypal traits across children’s literature, and his retelling of classic material for adults, such as Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, continue to tap our modern imagination. The first volume alone has sold five million copies since its 1995 publication.Īs a scholar and novelist, Maguire draws deeply from the cauldron of story for inspiration. Baum’s Land of Oz in the series that begins with Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. ![]() ![]() He is perhaps best known for his reimagining of Frank L. Well-known for the book and broadway sensation Wicked, Gregory Maguire '78MA was one of the first graduates of the Master of Arts in Children’s Literature program at Simmons, staying on to teach in the program for nine years before pursuing his doctoral studies in literature at Tufts.Īn incredibly versatile author, Maguire has written more than 20 books for children, eight novels for adults, and a selection of short stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, this is the least of their worries as a deadly plague is mutating at the speed of light with terrifying results and one of the ships AI’s has turned against them. Main characters Kady and Ezra have recently split up and are now on separate spacecraft, with an enemy ship in hot pursuit, trying to communicate in secret online. Illuminae is set in 2575 in the midst of an intergalactic war. But, honestly, I really struggled to get into this book hence why I didn’t finish it til over halfway through March. However, I am trying my best to read outside of my comfort zone this year. ![]() To put it simply Sci-Fi really isn’t my genre. The whole book is basically a case file, a collation of Wiki-like pages, interactions online and surveillance reports. Originally, I purchased this book because of its interesting format. This book has been collecting on my desk for a good couple of years and only decided to finally read it because this month’s theme is Space. ![]() I have come away not feeling any connection to the characters and have little desire to finish the rest of ‘The Illuminae Series’. I feel like this may be controversial to some as I have seen many reviews about how much people have loved this book/the whole series. ![]() ![]() It insists that if women are paid less, then that's because their labor is worthless. ![]() Such a point of view disregards the unpaid work of mothering, caring, cleaning, and cooking. Nevertheless, the economic man has dominated our understanding of modern-day capitalism, with a focus on self-interest and the exclusion of all other motivations. It's an ironic point of view coming from a bachelor who lived with his mother for most of his life - a woman who cooked his dinner every night. He argued that the baker and butcher didn't give bread and meat out of the goodness of their hearts. ![]() When economist and philosopher Adam Smith proclaimed that all our actions were motivated by self-interest, he used the example of the baker and the butcher as he laid the foundations for the “economic man”. How do you get your dinner? That is the basic question of economics. ![]() ![]() ![]() This raw and graceful memoir digs deeply into what it means to be comfortable in one’s body. Gay turns to memoir in this powerful reflection on her childhood traumas…Timely and resonant, you can be sure that Hunger will touch a nerve, as so much of Roxane Gay’s writing does. a memoir that’s so brave, so raw, it feels as if ’s entrusting you with her soul Seattle Times At its most symphonic, it’s an intellectually rigorous and deeply moving exploration of the ways in which trauma, stories, desire, language and metaphor shape our experiences and construct our reality. Ann Patchett, Commonwealth and Bel CantoĪt its simplest, it’s a memoir about being fat - Gay’s preferred term - in a hostile, fat-phobic world. ![]() HUNGER is an amazing achievement in more ways than I can count. Roxane Gay shows us how to be decent to ourselves, and decent to one another. It turns out that when a wrenching past is confronted with wisdom and bravery, the outcome can be compassion and enlightenment-both for the reader who has lived through this kind of unimaginable pain and for the reader who knows nothing of it. ![]() ![]() Then Michael told me he’d had to close the bookstore. When I’d pictured what it would be like to publish a book, one of the things I’d imagined was having my book displayed in the window of Williams Corner. He congratulated me on my first novel, The Fires, which was about to be published. Many years later, after I’d moved to New York City, I got an unexpected phone call from Michael Williams, the owner of Williams Corner. I was just starting to become a writer then, and this store was a haven on both dark days and good ones, the place I often went to feel less lonely. I took note of the new books published that week and which author would be reading soon. When I was a starving graduate student in my early twenties, I went into the store twice a week, and walked past those windows nearly every day, on my way to my waitressing job a little farther down the mall. Its picture windows faced the cobblestone walkway, new books displayed behind the antique glass. In Charlottesville, Virginia, on the historic pedestrian mall, there once was a bookstore called Williams Corner. ![]() |