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![]() ![]() ![]() But letting him in is as dangerous as hunting the cold-blooded killers stalking the streets. With forest-green eyes and a smile that’s surely left a stream of broken hearts in its wake, he has an uncanny, almost unnatural ability to make her yearn for everything he has to offer. He’s six feet and three inches of temptation and swoon-inducing charm. Ren Owens is the last person Ivy expected to enter her rigidly controlled life. After all, four years ago, she lost everything at the hands of the creatures she’d sworn to hunt, tearing her world and her heart apart. ![]() She, and others like her, know humans aren’t the only thing trolling the French Quarter for fun… and for food. Twenty-two year old Ivy Morgan isn’t your average college student. Things are about to get Wicked in New Orleans. ‘S**t.’ Tink’s eyes widened and he dropped the scarf.” – Jennifer L. ‘You do remember what happened to Dobby, right?’ I said. ‘There is no reason to apologize when it comes to Harry Potter.’ Tink darted back into the room, holding the scarf to his bare chest. Tink is free!’ He flew out into the hallway like a little cracked-out fairy, screeching, ‘Tink is freeeeee!‘ He caught it, clutching it to his chest as he flew into the air. Grabbing a scarf off the chair, I threw it at him. Genre(s): Fantasy, New Adult Romance Total Star Rating: 4 Stars ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rob Yasinsac, HHV’s operations manager and member of the Education staff for 24 years, showed Isolation Multiple-Exposure Self-Portraits. Two members of the HHV team had their work on view in ArtsWestchester’s exhibition “Together apART: Creating During COVID,” a show that reveals the way people have turned to creative outlets during this stressful moment in history. ![]() If you haven’t yet experienced the deeply personal journeys of the enslaved people who lived and worked at Philipsburg Manor, the documentary can be viewed here. “ People Not Property is a content-rich education resource that uses unique media design and technical characteristics to allow the general public, students, and teachers to learn about historical topics and connect them with issues of race in America today,” according to the Anthem Awards. The Webbys and the Anthems are awarded by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences to honor the best of the internet. It has won several awards, including a prestigious Webby in 2020 in the Websites/Education category. People Not Property was supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and produced by creative design studio C&G Partners. ![]() The Anthem Awards, a new initiative that “amplifies the voices that spark global change,” honored HHV’s documentary People Not Property: Stories of Slavery in the Colonial North this year with a Silver award in the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Awareness - Special Projects category. ![]() ![]() What drew you to this idea in particular? On the topic of Cemetery Boys, I read that the idea began forming after you read a writing prompt on Tumblr. I can believe it! I like to think that social distancing has perhaps given people more time to read, and the more people read, the more authors they discover. I'm so thankful for all the love and support my book and I have received - I'm not exaggerating in the least when I say it’s been life-changing! Thank you so much! 2020 has definitely been a wild year, to say the least, especially as a debut. ![]() ![]() Incredibly well-deserved! It is so, so wonderful to hear news like this during such a turbulent year. Hey Farrah! I’m super excited too! I thought this was such a cool way of doing an interview!įirst, I want to congratulate you on all your success this year with your debut novel, Cemetery Boys, which debuted on the New York Times bestseller list and was longlisted for the National Book Award. I’m thrilled we could set up this interview! ![]() Thanks so much for taking the time to chat with me today. ![]() ![]() ![]() From generational traditionalism to household roles, and even the place of eunuchs in the larger power structure, Rutherfurd shows the mentality of the Chinese and how set rules trumped any outside progress as the world changed. ![]() Pitting the three major world powers-China, Britain, and America-against one another to control opium, Rutherfurd explores how they were able to deceive one another while pushing an addictive substance onto the masses.Īs time progresses, exploration of China’s deeply-rooted dynastic adherence and tradition of cultural castes, as well as some of the key roles within the Emperor’s own court. Trade hinged on control of trading routes and the most sought-after items, of which opium was surely a key. The British may have a powerful hand on parts of the continent, but it was China’s control of opium that could not be ignored. Stunning in its delivery and full of powerful history, Edward Rutherfurd proves his mettle with this epic novel.Ĭhina’s power could not be denied in 1839, as the First Opium War pushed across Asia. The Great Dynasty is better understood in Rutherfurd’s writing and keeps the reader hooked throughout. Rutherfurd confines his narrative time beginning in the mid-19th century, but loses none of the intensity or historical impact. ![]() His latest novel takes on one of the most intense settings to date, tackling China and all its history. Any reader looking for an epic, multi-generational story about a city or region need search no further than Edward Rutherfurd. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Much of what she does is up to interpretation: is she truly cold and emotionally unavailable? Or is she simply coping with her loss by trying to ignore it? While Guest often allows us into Cal's and Conrad's minds, we never see Beth's thoughts, only the perceptions filtered through others' eyes. ![]() The true stand-out, however, is the mother. His grief can be heartbreaking to read, but his desperate attempts to hide it are even more so. Conrad is by turns a normal, sarcastic teenager, a kid wracked with guilt over his brother's death, and a little boy who doesn't know where to go from here. Richly drawn, each of the characters feels real and three-dimensional. Finally, there is Beth, the mother, who comes across as cold and aloof to even her own family, and struggles with finding out that not everything in the world can be perfect and controlled. Calvin, the father, feels as if he has let down both his sons and suddenly feels uncertain, reeling from the fact that he could not protect his own family. Conrad, the surviving child, struggles with his own guilt and pain by attempting suicide and has just been released from a mental hospital. ![]() A deeply moving, thoughtful book, Ordinary People takes a brutally close look at the dynamics of a family coping with the loss of a child. ![]() ![]() ![]() Acevedo has been a fellow of Cave Canem, Cantomundo, and a participant in the Callaloo Writer’s Workshops. ![]() She holds a BA in Performing Arts from The George Washington University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. Her books include, Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths (YesYes 2016), The Poet X (HarperCollins, 2018), & With The Fire On High (HarperCollins, 2019), and Clap When You Land (HarperCollins, 2020). Additionally, she was honored with the 2019 Pure Belpré Author Award for celebrating, affirming, and portraying Latinx culture and experience. She is also the recipient of the Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Fiction, the CILIP Carnegie Medal, and the Boston Globe-Hornbook Award. Her critically-acclaimed debut novel, The Poet X, won the 2018 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. ELIZABETH ACEVEDO is a New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X, With the Fire on High, and Clap When You Land. ![]() ![]() With Marjorie Weinman Sharmat's passing in 2019 Andrew has continued writing the series with Nate the Great and the Earth Day Robot (2021). In the late 2010s, their other son Andrew co-wrote the last two Nate books written while Marjorie Weinman Sharmat was alive. During the 1990s, their son Craig Sharmat (then in his thirties) wrote three Nate books with his mother. Husband and wife wrote four Olivia Sharp books published 1989 to 1991. Sharmat's husband Mitchell Sharmat expanded Nate's storyline by creating Olivia Sharp, his cousin and fellow detective. One story, Nate the Great Goes Undercover, was adapted as a made-for-TV movie that won the Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival Award. He was inspired by and named after her father, who lived to see the first Nate book published. Perhaps Sharmat's most popular work features the child detective Nate the Great. They have won awards including Book of the Year by the Library of Congress or have become selections by the Literary Guild. She wrote more than 130 books for children and teens and her books have been translated into several languages. Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (Novem– Ma) was an American children's writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Book of the Year Citation from the Library of Congress 1967 ![]() ![]() But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. ![]() Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough – who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. But first, let’s start with: The Offical Description So, I’m just going to offer some brief thoughts about the book. Now that I’ve finally tackled it, I’m afraid that it’ll take me 16 months to write this up the way I normally would. I’ve jumped on each book in this series, but this book sat on my shelf for 16 months after its release. ![]() ![]() ![]() Melusine's legend becomes a refrain to Elizabeth's story as Gregory weaves into the historical fact that Elizabeth and her mother were accused of witchcraft the fiction that they were gifted with second sight and practiced folk magic. She was the mother of his sons, the Princes in the Tower whose fate remains a mystery to this day.Įlizabeth's mother descended from the ruling house of Luxembourg, whose founder was said to have married Melusine, a water creature half-woman, half-fish. As Edward distributed lands, titles and marriage alliances to the numerous relatives of the wife he loved, but to whom he could not stay faithful, she became one of the most hated women in the land. Their secret marriage offered none of the diplomatic advantages of the French princess for whose hand Edward's advisers were negotiating, and it infuriated them. A widow in her late twenties when she and the young King Edward IV of England met, she was considered one of the most beautiful women of her time. Elizabeth's story, even in the bare outline history gives us, is extraordinary. ![]() First in a planned series, The White Queen takes a fresh, intriguing look at the Wars of the Roses from the perspective of Elizabeth Woodville. ![]() |