![]() His pseudonymous novels, as Jack Yeovil, play elegant games with genre cliche-perhaps the best of these is the sword-and-sorcery novel Drachenfels which takes the prescribed formulae of the games company to whose bible it was written and make them over entirely into a Kim Newman novel. In horror novels such as Bad Dreams and Jago, reality turns out to be endlessly subverted by the powerfully malign. He is complexly and irreverently referential the Dracula sequence-Anno Dracula, The Bloody Red Baron and Dracula,Cha Cha Cha-not only portrays an alternate world in which the Count conquers Victorian Britain for a while, is the mastermind behind Germany's air aces in World War One and survives into a jetset 1950s of paparazzi and La Dolce Vita, but does so with endless throwaway references that range from Kipling to James Bond, from Edgar Allen Poe to Patricia Highsmith. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Note: This author also writes under the pseudonym of Jack Yeovil.Īn expert on horror and sci-fi cinema (his books of film criticism include Nightmare Movies and Millennium Movies), Kim Newman's novels draw promiscuously on the tropes of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() This led to the idea for the relationship of Brittany and Alex. I love cultural diversity and I noticed between the two schools there were many cultural differences with Hispanic and white races. ![]() I went to Deerfield High School and our biggest rival was Highland Park High School. ![]() Perfect Chemistry was created off of what I noticed in my own high school life. NWN : Many of the teens at Niles West enjoyed reading the book Perfect Chemistry, what was your inspiration for that book?Įlkeles. My first book published was How to Ruin a Summer Vacation, which was based a lot on my trip to Israel that I took as a teenager between my junior and senior years of high school and the experiences I had while I was there. NWN : Which book did you publish first, and what was your inspiration for writing it?Įlkeles. NWN : Did you have a favorite author or book growing up?Įlkeles: As a teenager, I didn’t enjoy reading at all! There was one book I remember reading called Cute is a Four Letter Word (by Stella Pevsner) which I did enjoy reading as a teen. NWN was able ask Elkeles questions that many of our readers would like to know. Some books the author is famous for are Leaving Paradise, How to Ruin a Summer Vacation, and Perfect Chemistry. New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Simone Elkeles has written multiple books that have enthralled many teen readers here at Niles West. ![]() ![]() ![]() So when a former colleague-now Chief of the Russia Division-recruits her for an internal investigation, she jumps at the chance to prove herself. After lines are crossed with another intelligence agent during an assignment, she is sent home to Washington on administrative leave. Lyndsey Duncan worries her career with the CIA might be over. Both authors are veterans of the CIA (we are sure the similarities to the set up of RED WIDOW end there though).Īn exhilarating spy thriller written by an intelligence veteran about two women CIA agents whose paths become intertwined around a threat to the Russia Division-one that's coming from inside the agency. ![]() ![]() We are lucky to host some our store's favorite authors in February, March and April! That includes this event with Alma Katsu to celebrate the publication of her latest novel, RED WIDOW! She'll be joined in conversation by author Karen Cleveland. ![]() ![]() ![]() This year, she was honored by the Colorado Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists with their Keeper of the Flame Lifetime Achievement Award for her work. Along the way, she and her team won numerous state and national honors, including the First Amendment Award and the National Journalism Award for Public Service. She began her writing career as a columnist and investigative reporter and eventually became the first woman editor-in-chief of two different newspapers. She attributes her love of historical romance with the years she spent visiting ruins and castles in Europe. ![]() She loves history, having studied Archaeology in college, and has traveled extensively, living for almost three years in Denmark, which feels like home to her. Pamela Clare writes historical romance and comtemporary romantic suspense books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nonetheless, Hoare has profiled vividly and in depth a complex legend who had a talent for creating and re-creating both himself and his works. The author's prose can be stilted, and his prolix plot summaries of Coward's plays could be tighter. ![]() Nor does Hoare hide Coward's personal shortcomings-his financial mismanagement, temper and quarrels with England-which show the ring around his Eton-collared image. While Hoare pays homage to Coward's numerous plays, revues, songs and stories, he doesn't ignore the failures. Particularly insightful are the accounts of how, in bursts of creativity, Coward translated real-life encounters and experiences into written art, though often to the extreme displeasure of the friends he wrote about, like Edith Sitwell. In painstaking detail, Hoare chronicles Coward's devotion to his mother, his homosexual affairs and his travels within the beau monde. Written in English 463pages From Goodreads: Stephen Tennant died intestate in 1987, aged 80, and has become a cult figure. The author traces Coward's colorful family history back to the early 17th century and shows how his middle-class upbringing only fueled his passion for success, a yearning that remained with Coward throughout his life. Serious pleasures the life of Stephen Tennant by Philip Hoare 0Ratings 3 Want to read 1 Currently reading 1 Have read This edition was published in 1992by Penguin Booksin New York. ![]() Like his life of Stephen Tennant, Serious Pleasures (1990), Hoare's substantial biography of Coward is fastidiously researched and documented. ![]() ![]() ![]() Elizabeth received her degree in dental surgery from Columbia University and was the second black woman licensed to practice dentistry in New York State. Sarah received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Columbia University and was New York City's first appointed black home economics teacher at the high school level. ![]() Their father, born into slavery, was an administrator at the school and America's first elected black Episcopal bishop. (Sadie") Delany were born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the campus of St. ![]() Having Our Say, first published in 1993, is considered a classic of the oral history genre.ĭr. They saw the post-Reconstruction South, the beginning of Jim Crow laws, Harlem's Golden Age, and the mid-twentieth century Civil Rights movement-and, in their own feisty, wise, inimitable way, they've got a lot to say about it.Ī firsthand account of American history from a rarely-heard perspective, Having Our Say teaches us about surviving, thriving, and embracing life, no matter what obstacles are in our way. They saw their dedicated mother-a woman of mixed racial heritage who was born free-work fulltime as a teacher and school administrator while bringing ten children into the world, all of whom would become college-educated, successful professionals. They saw their extraordinary father, who was born into slavery, become America's first elected black Episcopal bishop. In their 200-plus combined years of living, centenarians Sadie and Bessie Delany have seen it all. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first, The Maze of Bones, is written by Rick Riordan, who also designed the story arc for the entire series. The 39 Clues will feature ten action-packed books. ![]() Other teams will try to eliminate them by any means necessary, because in this treasure hunt only one team can win, and there are no rules. They will explore every continent, and delve into the strangest, darkest chapters of world history to find the secret origins of their family. Or you may take one million dollars in cash right now and walk away.Īmy and Dan take the challenge! Soon, they are catapulted into a dangerous round-the-world race for the thirty-nine clues. The first team to successfully put together the clues, which are scattered across the world, will discover the secret of Cahill power and become the richest, most important people in history. In Grace’s last will and testament, she issues this challenge:įor your inheritance, you may have the first of thirty-nine clues. Relatives arrive from all over the world by special invitation. ![]() Amy and Dan Cahill know their family is big, but they don’t realize how big until their grandmother Grace’s funeral. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Samantha Haywood, Transatlantic Literary. The question of his fate will keep readers guessing to the end. A teasing prologue reveals that Miles goes missing after the hurricane strikes. ![]() Underneath the surface, everyone is hiding secrets that could put them all in peril, more so than the category 4 hurricane barreling toward the island. Also present are mining industry executive Colin Williams and his wife, Shell, who longs to reconnect with her workaholic husband. Miles and Grace Markell, the last resort offers a chance for partners to repair their relationships in a luxurious setting on the. District attorney Ben Reid and his social worker wife, Joanna, come hoping to reestablish intimacy in their two-year-old marriage. Marissa Stapley’s writing is a gift.Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan’s Tale The Harmony Resort promises hope for struggling marriages. In the gripping latest from Stapley ( Things to Do When It’s Raining), celebrity marriage counselor Miles Markell and his wife, Grace, run the Harmony Resort, located on an island off Mexico’s Mayan Riviera, where unhappily married couples can enroll in a two-week course designed to rebuild troubled relationships. ![]() ![]() But it is only when her lover takes her to Paris that Coco discovers her destiny. ![]() She immerses herself in his world of money and luxury, discovering a freedom that sparks her creativity. ![]() Transforming herself into Coco-a seamstress and sometime torch singer-the petite brunette burns with ambition, an incandescence that draws a wealthy gentleman who will become the love of her life. The sisters nurture Gabrielle’s exceptional sewing skills, a talent that will propel the willful young woman into a life far removed from the drudgery of her childhood. For readers of The Paris Wife and Z comes this vivid novel full of drama, passion, tragedy, and beauty that stunningly imagines the life of iconic fashion designer Coco Chanel-the ambitious, gifted laundrywoman’s daughter who revolutionized fashion, built an international empire, and become one of the most influential and controversial figures of the twentieth century.īorn into rural poverty, Gabrielle Chanel and her siblings are sent to orphanage after their mother’s death. ![]() ![]() ![]() In it she finds the corpses of her husband’s previous wives, all with their throats cut. This keyring includes one key that she must not use: the one to the “room at the end of the great gallery.” Of course, like all fairytale heroines worth their salt, she enters the room forbidden to her. Called away on business, the newlywed husband leaves his wife the keys to every room and cabinet in the house. The legend, as recorded by the seventeenth-century author Charles Perrault, begins with the marriage of a girl to an eccentric, wealthy man. The title story re-appropriates the legend of Bluebeard, the mysterious French nobleman who murders his many wives. You might think that fairy tales are the sorts of stories to read to children in bed to lull them to sleep – not these versions! Her renditions are intended not to comfort but to disturb and titillate. Angela Carter revises Sleeping Beauty, for example, from an adult, twentieth-century perspective. ![]() Published in 1979, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories retells classic fairy tales in a disturbing, blood-tinged, explicit way. (Caution: contains strong language) Introduction This BBC documentary from 2018 explores the visions and writing of Angela Carter, and reveals Angela’s unconventional childhood and education. ![]() |