![]() ![]() ![]() She grew up admiring his works of art and in large part, it was because of him that she decided to pursue her own artistic endeavors. When she found a job listing for a personal assistant to one of biggest inspirations, Briar thought she’d found the perfect opportunity and a job that would provide her with not just money but valuable experience.Ĭade Booker was Briar’s hero. ![]() Something to help cover the cost of her tuition and give her a little money to live on while she worked her way through school. But when she’s threatened by an obsessed classmate, Cade is surprised to learn just how far he’ll go to protect her-and to keep her in his life. He tries hard though, to resist her siren song. ![]() He can’t afford to lose yet another PA because he can’t keep it in his pants.īut Briar gets under his skin in ways nobody ever has before, and he finds himself inexorably drawn to her. But Cade knows she is forbidden fruit and that he needs to keep her at an arm’s distance. Cade is rich beyond measure and famous the world over.īut when he goes in search of a new personal assistant, he runs into a woman who challenges the way he sees the world. Cade Booker spends his mornings on his surfboard, his afternoons in his studio creating works of art that are universally celebrated, and his evenings with a seemingly never-ending string of women. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose!” Achebe writes. But the structure remains the same: men ask for immortality and the god is willing to grant it, but something goes wrong and the gift is lost forever. Sometimes, Achebe writes, the messenger is a chameleon, a lizard, or another animal sometimes the message is altered accidentally rather than maliciously. ![]() The Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe recounts this myth, which exists in hundreds of versions throughout Africa, in one of his essays. Thus, men may be born again, but only in a different form. The god said that he would do as they wished, and when the dog arrived with the true message he refused to change his mind. Wanting to punish man, the toad reversed the request, and told Chuku that after death men did not want to return to the world. ![]() ![]() But the dog delayed, and a toad, which had been eavesdropping, reached Chuku first. In a myth told by the Igbo people of Nigeria, men once decided to send a messenger to ask Chuku, the supreme god, if the dead could be permitted to come back to life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So that’s why she’s completely thrown by the discovery that she sent out the wrong invitation list for her own wedding, more than tripling the number of her guests who will be expecting to party in just one week. One for the Books: A Books Lovers Mystery by Jenn McKinlayīriar Creek Library Director Lindsey Norris prides herself on having a very well-organized, triple-checked, detailed plan for her life. Details at the end of the post on how to enter to win a copy of One for the Books and a link to order it from Amazon and an indie bookstore. This week we have a review of the latest Book Lovers Mystery by Jenn McKinlay and an interesting interview with Jenn. ![]() ![]() Olympe de Gouges never allowed the prejudices of her time, the disparagement of her critics or the dangers inherent in being outspoken during the Terror to silence her. Believing in the power of drama to encourage political change she wrote several plays that ingeniously highlight contemporary concerns. She called for a form of welfare state, trial by jury and reasonable divorce laws to protect women and children from penury. She pleaded against slavery and the death penalty, dreamt of a more equal society and proposed intelligent taxation plans to enable wealth to be more fairly divided. Her texts chart her battles against injustice and inequality, her belief that solidarity and cooperation should predominate, her hatred of dictatorships and the corrupting influence of power, her profound pacifism, her respect for mankind, her love of nature, and, of course, her desire that women be allowed a worthwhile role in society. ![]() She is best remembered for championing women's rights in her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791) but her profound humanism led her to strongly oppose discrimination, violence and oppression in all its forms.ĭenied a place in the powerful circles of her day she found her political voice by writing an astonishing number of pamphlets and posters that she freely disseminated around Paris. ![]() ![]() ![]() Olympe de Gouges ( – 3 November 1793) was one of the first women to fight for equal rights. ![]() ![]() I loved reading his descriptions of Jack Smith and The Ridiculous Theater, Hot Peaches. I did have The Art of Performance, edited by Gregory Battcock and Robert Nickas, and I had Queer Theatre by Stefan Brecht. But there weren’t many books available then. Was there anyone like that for you?Ĭynthia Carr: Well, Jill Johnston definitely. They talked about her latest book, Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz (Bloomsbury, 2012), and her time spent writing for the Village Voice during a period that spanned the culture wars, the AIDS crisis, and the fabled East Village art scene.Ĭlaudia La Rocco: So many things changed for me as a writer when I found you and Jill Johnston your books were incredible guides to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() Photo: Tom Rauffenbart.Ĭritic and writer Claudia La Rocco recently caught up with the pioneering performance art journalist Cynthia Carr in SoHo. Left: Cover of Cynthia Carr's Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz. ![]() ![]() Package content is not flexible and cannot be modified. Please note that if your order ships in multiple boxes, package components may not all be in the same box. The package item number is also listed at the bottom of your packing slip for reference. On your packing slip, package components are picked and packed individually and are identified with the code "PKGCMP" in the price column. Any backordered components will ship separately as they become available. In-stock components will ship according to our normal shipping time. I remember thinking it was taking the bend far too fast. 'Edmund and I were standing on the platform and we saw your train coming in. When you order a package, you are charged one price for all package items. 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A "package" is made up of two or more items sold as a set, often for a reduced price. ![]() ![]() He seemed to be idling along, but they had all been surprised before and Temujin kept a close eye on him.Īlready some way behind his brothers, the smallest and youngest of them could be heard calling plaintively for them to wait. Temujin glanced over his shoulder to where Kachiun had positioned himself, his balance perfect. Kachiun had a knack with the ponies that few others could match, able to nurse a burst of speed when the rest were flagging. ![]() He spoke only rarely and did not complain, no matter what Bekter did to him. ![]() ![]() Of all of them, Kachiun seemed the most serious, even secretive. Kachiun came next in the galloping line, an eight-year-old not given to the openness that made people love Khasar. His red-mottled stallion snorted and whickered after Bekter’s mare, making the little boy laugh. At ten, Khasar was a favorite in the tribe, as lighthearted as Bekter was sullen and dark. Behind them came Khasar, whooping wildly as he moved up on the two leaders. The eldest, Bekter, rode a gray mare with skill and concentration, and Temujin matched his pace, waiting for a chance to go past. ON A SPRING DAY in his twelfth year, Temujin raced his four brothers across the steppes, in the shadow of the mountain known as Deli’un-Boldakh. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The concussion, the shattering glass, the rip of steel, the roar of falling concrete. Aubyn.Īmazon * Barnes & Noble * IndieBound * Powell’s ![]() When Dmitry’s office building in Taipei explodes in an enormous fireball, Frank heads to Asia, meets Dmitry’s wife, and things go from bad to worse.Ī literary thriller about misogyny, unembarrassed rapacity, and unrestrained capitalism, Born Slippy will appeal to fans of Elmore Leonard, Patricia Highsmith, and Edward St. Dmitry heads to Asia and makes a neo-imperialist fortune as an investment banker, leaving a trail of corpses in his wake. Dmitry is a charming sociopath, who develops a fascination with his autodidactic philosopher boss, perhaps thinking that, if he could figure out what made Frank tick, he could be less of a pig. One of his workers is a charismatic eighteen-year-old kid from Liverpool, Dmitry, spending his summer before university in the US. Frank Baltimore is a bit of a loser, struggling by as a carpenter and handyman in rural New England when he gets his big break, building a mansion in the executive suburbs of Hartford. ![]() ![]() March, an army chaplain, has just survived a brush with death as his unit crossed the Potomac. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse – one studying the stallion’s bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success.īased on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, “Horse” is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism. March, Brooks has created a conflicted and deeply sensitive man, a father who is struggling to reconcile duty to his fellow man with duty to his family against the backdrop of one of the most grim periods in American history. ![]() Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. ![]() ![]() A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a high-wire feat of metatextual derring-do, Morgenstern weaves Zachary's adventure into a stunning array of linked fables, myths, and origin stories. ![]() What begins as a journey for answers turns into something much bigger, and Zachary must decide whether to trust the handsome stranger he meets at a highflying literary fundraiser in New York or to retreat back to his thesis and forget the whole affair. But when he recognizes himself in the pages of a mysterious book from the university library, he's unnerved-and determined to uncover the truth. Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a typical millennial introvert he likes video games, escapist reading, and drinking sidecars. ![]() A withdrawn graduate student embarks on an epic quest to restore balance to the world in this long-anticipated follow-up to The Night Circus (2011). ![]() |