Stories about a group of friends and the complexities of those relationships (think Friends, St. When workaholic Bernie Purcell is forced to take some vacation. Specifically, here is a list of what is currently on my #MSWL:įamily sagas/stories with hidden secrets (like The Joy Luck Club)Ĭontemporary stories with complex relationships (like Normal People or The Light We Lost) and moral ambiguity plots (like Little Fires Everywhere) Burroughs (The Marriage Code) drops wounded souls into a beautifully described wilderness in this heartfelt if predictable tale. I am interested in adult commercial fiction, with an emphasis in general/book club fiction, women’s fiction and romance. And once they achieve that goal, I have them pick another. One of the first things I ask an author that I sign is-in a perfect world, what is your ideal scenario when it comes to your writing? And together we put together a plan to get that author to that place. While authors have creativity coming out of them in spades, it's my job to help facilitate turning that creativity into a career. While I love getting lost in an author's world, one of my favorite parts of my job is working with authors to help get them to achieve their goals. I love books and I love the business of books.
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No one could make up these outrageous-but-true tales: the young woman who rejected the recommended safari-friendly khaki to wear a more "fashionable" hot pink ensemble the lost tourist who happened to be drunk, half-naked, and a member of the British royal family establishing a real friendship with the continent's most vicious animal the Japanese tourist who requested a repeat performance of Allison's being charged by a lion so he could videotape it and spending a crazy night in the wild after blowing a tire on a tour bus, revealing that Allison has as much good-natured scorn for himself. As he serves the whims of his wealthy clients, he often has to stop the impulse to run as far away from them as he can, as these tourists are sometimes more dangerous than a pride of lions. Passionate for the animals of the Kalahari, Allison works as a top safari guide in the wildlife-rich Okavango Delta. Peter Allison gives us the guide's-eye view of living in the bush, confronting the world's fiercest terrain of wild animals and, most challenging of all, managing herds of gaping tourists. A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: "only food runs " With a new introduction and new material from the authorIn the tradition of Bill Bryson, a new writer brings us the lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide. In a minute, he'd have to herd his other siblings. Behind her, through the open, intricately carved double wooden doors, assorted family members traipsed back and forth, while the groom and his two brothers, Javier and Miguel, carted luggage out to the cars. Scott turned, smiling in spite of himself at Wendy's newly wedded-and not-so-newly pregnant-glow. But the heavens jeered at his insignificance, the icy rain jackhammering the battered winter lawn, the gravel drive where a pair of SUVs waited to ferry them to the regional airport ten miles away and the chartered jet that would take them home to Atlanta. Too bad the weather on this blustery, end-of-December afternoon hadn't gotten that particular memo.įrom underneath the expansive portico fronting the main entrance to La Casa Paloma, an exclusive resort where he, his parents and his siblings had stayed while in Red Rock, Texas, to attend his youngest sister Wendy's wedding to Marcos Mendoza, he glowered at the charcoal sky. If Scott Fortune could attribute anything to his success-in life, in business-it was that simple mantra, doggedly applied to every challenge that dared him to fail. Between the years 19 he was a chaplain with the US Army, more than fifteen months of his service being in Korea with a front-line medical battalion and an engineering combat battalion. At the age of 25 he was ordained a Conservative rabbi. Herman Harold Potok was born in New York City in the Bronx as the eldest son of Jewish immigrants from Poland. A central theme in Potok’s novels is the tension between Judaism and the values and culture of modern society. Throughout his publishing career Potok has written scholarly and popular articles and reviews. Potok’s works in the 1980s have been autobiographical. If you have benefitted from any of our materials, and/or if making Unitarian Universalist intellectual heritage materials widely available and free is a value to you, please donate whatever you can–every little bit helps: DonateĬhaim Potok is a rabbi and author whose novels depict the life and culture of Orthodox Jews. Harvard Square Library exists solely on the basis of donations. In 1959, the Duchess and her family took up residence in Chatsworth, the four-hundred-year-old family seat, with its incomparable collections of paintings, tapestry, and sculpture-the combined accumulations of generations of tastemakers. Her friendship with that family would last through triumph and tragedy. Her life changed utterly with his unexpected inheritance of the title and vast estates after the wartime death of his brother, who had married "Kick" Kennedy, the beloved sister of John F. The autobiography of one of Britain's most beloved figures, last of the Mitford sisters, renowned writer and social figure.ĭeborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood of six daughters and one son that included the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote, when Deborah was born, "How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl." Deborah's effervescent memoir Wait for Me! chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood roaming the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with Adolf Hitler and her sister Unity in 1937, to her marriage to Andrew Cavendish, the second son of the Duke of Devonshire. It's a fresh, original concept, handled beautifully by someone who knows how to write extraordinarily well, and whose love of the music comes through in every scene. Cunning does an outstanding job of weaving in the music, and making the concert scene-in all its grungy reality-come alive for the reader. Their journey, played out against the background of a rock tour and all the accompanying insanity of that, makes me glad I got to go along for the ride. And one of them is going to resist that feeling with everything they've got. Two very real, wonderfully three dimensional people with histories, and baggage, and hang-ups, who come together for a night of hot sex and find themselves in love. Backstage Pass is most of all, a love story. It's laugh out loud funny in places, and heartbreaking, and heart-warming. What they may not mention is this book also has real heart. Other reviews will use words like hot, or sizzling, or steamy, and all those words are true. Jason Fung presents a groundbreaking theory about what causes people to acquire weight. Known as the father of intermittent fasting, Dr. Only by understanding the effects of insulin and insulin resistance can we achieve sustained weight loss, as well as strive to prevent and reverse type 2 diabetes or obesity naturally. Have you been informed by your doctor that you need to lose weight because you have been diagnosed with obesity or type 2 diabetes? In this book, you'll learn that much of the weight-loss advice you've been given is incorrect. Let go of the drudgery of calorie counting, yo-yo dieting, and excessive exercise for good. Learn about the science of obesity and insulin resistance. JASON FUNG, a New York Times best-selling author: millions of people lose weight and recover from disease thanks to this ground-breaking book Intermittent fasting can help you lose weight, improve your health, and live longer. The story covers her discovery that she isn’t a human agent of the IPCA but is actually one of the paranormals that they are monitoring, swiftly followed by first-love with a paranormal boy and an escape from the IPCA centre to the outside world. Evie plays a valuable role within the IPCA, she is the only person in the world who can see through supernatural glamours to view the real paranormal being lurking underneath. Firmly aimed at the young adult market, Paranormalcy introduces readers to Evie, a 16 year-old girl who works for the IPCA – an international organisation that monitors and neutralises paranormal activity. Paranormalcy is the first novel in a proposed urban fantasy trilogy by Kiersten White. She begins to suspect there is a link between her abilities and the sudden rash of deaths, and even worse, that she is at the centre of a dark prophecy promising destruction to all paranormal creatures. Only now paranormals are dying and Evie’s dreams are filled with haunting voices and mysterious prophecies. Sure, her best friend is a mermaid, her ex-boyfriend is a faerie, she’s falling for a shapeshifter and she’s the only person who can see though paranormals’ glamours, but still. Shapeshifters.Įvie’s always thought of herself as normal. Published 2010 335 pages Summary (from the book jacket) Beginning with young Jamie back in embattled Shanghai, the novel follows him through return to England, an abortive fling at medical school and a try at flying for the R.A.F. Women is a poignantly vivid account of Ballard's radically dislocated life in which the only constants have been an abiding love for his children and the variety of emotional and erotic consolations provided by a number of different, beautifully drawn women. It takes the (lightly fictionalized) events of the author's life through three turbulent decades to end, ironically, with the making of the movie, with the narrator as a bemused extra, and his lifelong obsessions-with America, with planes, car crashes and the fantasies of technology-apparently exorcised. That mesmerizing novel, based on his childhood in 1930s Shanghai and internment by the Japanese, finds a sequel here. Ballard is a brilliant writer whose Empire of the Sun has been his only major commercial success to date in this country. Tyler’s the Surfer Dude: board shorts and a tank top even though it’s only fifty degrees out. He’s wearing a suit…even has a spot on his chin where he nicked himself shaving and left the little piece of tissue there “for effect.” He’s really into it too: as soon as he was dressed, he started calling Jus “old chap” and “my good man.” Manny’s the Token Black Guy: khakis, loafers, and polo with a cable-knit sweater draped over his shoulders and tied loosely at the chest. He and Manny even made a grill out of a gum wrapper for Jus to wear on his bottom teeth. Jus is the Thug, naturally: pants belted around his thighs with boxers exposed, Thug Life T-shirt, thick gold chain with a huge medallion, fitted flat-billed baseball cap. Jus, of course, wasn’t real keen at first…but he let Manny talk him into it.įive of the six costumes are mostly fine. Last week, he told Manny and his crew about this “brilliant-ass idea” he had: “Bros,” he said, “let’s all dress as different stereotypes for Halloween, and then go out together. It’ll be this massive political statement about racial equality and broken barriers and shit.” Dude even asked Justyce to participate. In the month and a half since the racial equality discussion in Socio Evo, Jared’s been on a crusade to prove things in America are equal. The minute Jared, Kyle, Tyler, and Blake step into Manny’s basement, it’s clear Jared’s Equality Brigade thing was a terrible idea. |