![]() ![]() She lives in Rhinebeck, New York and with her husband and frequent collaborator, illustrator James Ransome, four children and St. 2021 Lesa Cline-Ransome infolesaclineransome. in Merchandising and Management from Pratt Institute and an M.A. some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. Originally from Malden, Massachusetts, Lesa has worked as a proofreader, fashion copywriter, publicist, teacher in the New York City Schools, and taught writing for adults. ![]() Other titles are Quilt Alphabet, Quilt Counting, Light in the Darkness, A Story about How Slaves Learned in Secret, and the 2018 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book Before She Was Harriet: The Story of Harriet Tubman. Her picture book biography titles include Satchel Paige, Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist, Young Pele, Soccer’s First Star, Helen Keller, The World in Her Heart, Before There was Mozart and Words Set me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass. Her first childrens book was a biography about Satchel Paige. Lesa Cline-Ransome is the writer of many picture books. Lesa Cline Ransomes Twitter profile says she enjoys giving past stories new life. Lesa Cline-Ransome is a 2-Time Bestselling Author ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() While you eagerly wait to read it or if you have already enjoyed it, here are some additional recommendations that will give you a similar feel of suspense and mystery, perhaps taking place in the warm tropics and water, exploring the intrigue of rare items, or even centering around characters who are writers themselves. When Cable happens to find Kerr’s unpublished manuscript, it is clear that something bigger is at hand. ![]() With the local police too overwhelmed with the disaster clean up, it’s up to local bookseller and roguish head of the literary society, Bruce Cable, to investigate Kerr’s death per request of the Kerr family. In this sequel, the aftermath of a hurricane in Florida’s Camino Island resort results in several deaths, including the suspicious death of popular thriller writer Nelson Kerr. Have you heard? John Grisham released a sequel to his popular 2017 Camino Island thriller (also available as eAudio), titled Camino Winds (also available as eAudio). ![]() ![]() "My parents became confused and bewildered by our relationship. There are other pictures where I am down and looking away," she said. "One request that he asked, that I not be teary-eyed. In a June 2022 video for Vogue, Priscilla reminisced on the outfit (pictured above) she wore to say goodbye to Elvis. ![]() "For the two days after Elvis left, I locked myself in my room, unable to eat, unable to sleep." "Would I ever see him again, be in his arms the way I had been nearly every night for the past six months? I could not bear the thought of the night ending and us saying goodbye for what I thought would be the last time. ![]() We were lying on his bed, our arms around each other. ![]() Of the night before Elvis went back to the US, Priscilla wrote in 1985, "It was March 1, 1960, the night before Elvis was to leave Germany to return to the States. It often indicates a user profile.Įlvis Presley's girlfriend Priscilla waves goodbye to Elvis as he departs from the air base in 1960. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “None of us older than twenty-five years old, cruising down Santa Monica Boulevard, planning our press strategy for the announcement of First Contact with a space alien,” says April. ![]() After they discover a complex riddle involving the Queen song “Don’t Stop Me Now,” the mystery becomes a quest for April Andy April’s roommate/kind-of-sort-of girlfriend, Maya a scientist named Miranda and April’s new assistant, Robin, to figure out what the Carls are doing here. ![]() April’s life is turned upside down when the video goes massively viral and immovable Carls appear in cities around the world. She phones her videographer friend Andy Skampt, who posts on YouTube a funny introduction to the robot she dubs Carl. On her way home late one night, April encounters an armored humanoid figure, which turns out to be alien in nature-“And I don’t mean alien like ‘weird,’" she says. It’s endearing how fully he occupies his narrator, a 20-something bi artist named April May who is wasting her youth slaving at a Manhattan startup. Luckily, he applies wit, affection, and cultural intelligence to a comic sci-fi novel suitable for adults and mature teens. A young graphic artist inspires worldwide hysteria when she accidentally makes first contact with an alien.įamous multimedia wunderkind Green is brother to that John Green, so no pressure or anything on his debut novel. ![]() ![]() You will get both books in one package every month.įind out more about the difference between Young Adult and the Adult categories here.
![]() The journalists inquired upward, and were told not to worry our little heads. News International no longer recognized our contracts of employment. When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world.” In “Union Blues,” an essay that ran in this magazine in 2003, he described being temporarily laid off from the London Sunday Times, and subsequently revealed the phrase he most regrets having written:Īs a by-product of a labor dispute with the printers, everyone else at the paper-all fourteen hundred of us-was informed that we were suspended. In an interview with the Paris Review, in 2000, Barnes remarked that “I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction…. Some may be unaware that Barnes also worked as a reporter in London during the late seventies. ![]() Despite profuse apologies from my fellow-countryman, our hostess refused to speak to him for several days. ![]() Apparently, the effects of pharmaceutical overload on the porcine digestive system are spectacular, and not quickly over, either. He, to his shame, had large quantities of prescription drugs in his suitcase, in non-pigproof containers. I subsequently learned that an earlier guest-an Englishman, too, and one of the politest men I know-had been negligent in the same way. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “They weren’t just advancing a technological argument. “The whole argument of the Bomber Mafia, their whole reason for being, was that they didn’t want to cross that line,” Gladwell writes. The minds at the Air Corps Tactical School thought there might be a different way. As he would say later, “They were all active soldiers, to my mind.” What if, instead of battering the enemy into submission, you could take out key infrastructure that would incapacitate your opponent while avoiding mass death? For Harris, civilians were viable targets if for no other reason than some of them worked in the factories that made bombs and submarines. England’s answer to this was Arthur “Bomber” Harris, whom Gladwell describes as, simply, a “psychopath.” Harris was one of the chief architects of the British tactic of “area bombing” or “morale bombing”: Reduce cities to rubble and incinerate the civilians until they submit. The London Blitz was designed to overwhelm the British and demoralize them into submission. In the opening years of World War II, aerial bombing meant total destruction. ![]() ![]() In addition, advanced medical technology allows any injury, even fatal, to be repaired in a matter of days through nanites (or for more serious injuries, a hospital procedure known as revival). In the year 2042, effective immortality is discovered, allowing humans to reset their physical age while retaining their memory. ![]() The book was an Honor Book for the Michael L. However, the new draft is being written by Gary Dauberman. The notable exception to the Thunderhead's rule is the Scythedom, a group of humans whose sole purpose is to replicate mortal death in order to keep the population growth in check.Ī feature-film adaptation is in the works. It is set in the far future, where death, disease, and unhappiness have been virtually eliminated thanks to advances in technology, and a benevolent artificial intelligence known as the Thunderhead peacefully governs a united Earth. ![]() Scythe is a 2016 young-adult novel by Neal Shusterman and is the first in the Arc of a Scythe series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Set in the same wild town Widdershins, Unhallowed follows the adventures of Archivist Sebastian Rath and his love interest Vesper Rune as they battle the unknown forces hellbent on destroying their precious town. I was hoping that we might get to meet Whyborne and Griffin and sorely was disappointed by their absence, yet Unhallowed managed to keep me from putting the book down. Unhallowed takes place eight years later after the final battle of Deosil. Imagine my surprise when I chanced upon Jordan’s new spin-off series Unhallowed (Rath and Rune #1). I was totally devastated when the series drew to a conclusion with Deosil. I rarely remember quotes from the books I read, but this one will forever be etched in my psyche. “Widdershins knows its own, in blood and spirit, breath and bone.” What fascinated me the most about this series was the way, Jordan Hawk gave substance to a town and turned it into an entity with feelings as well as emotions. I’m a huge fan of his “Whyborne and Griffin Series”, where he created a town full of wonders and arcane lines that draw its people closer and keeps their enemies far away. Jordan L Hawk is one of those few authors who manage to create an alternate universe that leaves you spellbound and flummoxed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Past design consultancies include two opened by Charles III when Prince of Wales Tudor-inspired gardens for a Humanist Renaissance 'journey' around Notre Dame de Calais, 16th –18th century orchards and gardens with modern operatic borders at High House for the Royal Opera House and devising the poisons planting in The Alnwick Garden. She is planning two areas to be planted in January 2023 for the ‘Queen’s Green Canopy’ marking the royal Platinum Jubilee. Other titles include Monet at Giverny and Follies of Europe - architectural extravaganzas.Ĭaroline is currently consulting on creating landscapes around a new housing development in Norfolk that will also evoke the history of its plantings and people. Her RHS Herbs for the Gourmet Gardener was finalist in the 2014 Garden Media Guild Reference Book of the Year Award. In 2019, she was a keynote speaker at the International Water Gardens Symposium at Giverny based on the research for her book Water Lilies and Bory Latour-Marliac - the genius behind Monet's Water Lilies. She is a guest lecturer for the cruise companies Viking and Seabourn.Ĭaroline is the author of 12 books: her latest, Where the wildness pleases – the English Garden celebrated, was published in 2021. Caroline Holmes lectures regularly for the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, as well as The Arts Society and for The Gardens Trust, nationally and internationally. ![]() |