If you get bitten, you don't have to prey on others when the moon is full.Īnd it includes trick shooting and bull whip manipulations and plenty of romance. But we do have a twist that not all werewolves are bad. And Wild Bill and Calamity Jane and Annie Oakley and Frank Butler the Pistol Prince all get involved in a wild adventure with the Alpha as the adversary. And we’ve got an evil werewolf, the Alpha, who’s forming a Pack of werewolves who follow the Alpha in wickedness. The twist they put into this story was that Wild Bill Hickok and his Wild West show featuring Calamity Jane were werewolf hunters as well. Then I remembered that it’s intentionally melodramatic and silly, and I settled in and enjoyed it. I was not very familiar at all with the life of Calamity Jane of the Old West, so that made the book not quite as much fun.Īt first, I felt like it was all melodramatic and silly. She reckons that if a girl wants to be a legend, she should just go. JANE (a genuine hero-eene) Calamity’s her name, and garou hunting’s her gamewhen she’s not starring in Wild Bill’s Traveling Show, that is. The first two – My Lady Jane about Lady Jane Grey and My Plain Jane about Jane Eyre – I was very familiar with the stories they were based on, and especially enjoyed the way they'd been shifted. Welcome to 1876 and a rootin’-tootin’ America bursting with gunslingers, outlaws, and garou. This is the third book by “The Lady Janies” about a historical (or fictional) Jane retold with a paranormal twist. Review written October 10, 2020, based on a library book. By Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
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No prior colonial rebellion had succeeded, though the Dutch Republic had won independence from Spain after a long struggle. As he notes, a larger portion of Americans perished in the revolution than any conflict save the Civil War. Rick Atkinson, who won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 2003 for The Guns at Last Light, turns his attention to the American Revolution in The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777, the opening volume to a new trilogy. Current interest in the eighteenth-century struggle that won independence should be no surprise, as the American Revolution was the most defining conflict of them all. World War II, a larger global struggle, had a similar role in the twentieth century by reviving America’s economy and morale after the Great Depression and then establishing the country as a victorious superpower. The Civil War marked an inflection point for the nineteenth-century United States. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777Įpic conflicts that punctuate American history have profoundly shaped it. Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from Berlin’s remaining stories―twenty-two gems that showcase the gritty glamour that made readers fall in love with her. The book’s author, Lucia Berlin, earned comparisons to Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Alice Munro, and Anton Chekhov. It was a New York Times bestseller the paper’s Book Review named it one of the Ten Best Books of 2015 and NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and other outlets gave the book rave reviews. In 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. Club, The Millions, BUST, Reinfery29, Fast Company and MyDomaine.Ī collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin Named a Fall Read by Buzzfeed, ELLE, TIME, Nylon, The Boston Globe, Vulture, Newsday, HuffPost, Bustle, The A.V. Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The Boston Globe, Kirkus, and Lit Hub. NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE. "Berlin probably deserved a Pulitzer Prize." ―Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Legend of Mickey Tussler is the story of a 17 year old autistic kid who is mired in the obscurity of a small farm in Indiana in 1948. Frank lives on Long Island with his wife Julia and their two sons, Nicholas and Anthony. Frank continues to produce quality work, including Sophomore Campaign, the intriguing sequel to the much heralded original story, and is presently at work on a third installment of the unique series. His follow-up novel, The Legend of Mickey Tussler, garnered rave reviews as well, including a movie adaptation of the touching story "A Mile in His Shoes" starring Dean Cain and Luke Schroder. His debut novel, Echoes From The Infantry, received national attention, including MWSA's silver medal for outstanding fiction. Frank Nappi has taught high school English and Creative Writing for over twenty years. Any time a villain can say, "It's nothing personal!" they're probably not very exciting because you WANT it to be personal in a pulpy book like this. You get introduced to the villains with only 50 pages left in the story and they're pretty boring overall. The biggest problem is the ending, which feels anticlimactic. She's inquisitive and not-dumb enough to fulfill the Girl Detective role adequately and exhibits the vulnerability that gets the reader feeling protective of her. Probably the only thing I could tell you about her is that she likes horses. Teenage Rachel is, as protagonist, generally appealing, if a tad bland. No gore, no naughty language, no real sexuality to speak of. October Moon is meant, ostensibly, for the same audience that would have been reading Fear Street in 1993, but-sexy cover werewolf notwithstanding-it's pretty tame even by those standards. It's almost like some Scooby Doo villain is trying to scare them away. Barns burn down, libraries get ransacked, waterbeds get sliced. The important thing is that there's an American family in Ireland and they're being menaced by a werewolf or fifteen. Rachel Stone and her family go to Ireland cuz her dad buys horse ranches (or whatever the Irish term would be) and flips them. OL14987768W Page_number_confidence 93.00 Pages 402 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.7 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210210104417 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 571 Scandate 20210206011026 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780385665834 Tts_version 4. Urn:lcp:sweetnessatbotto0000brad_u9k4:lcpdf:d7e50f4a-af8e-44cb-a70e-ddad3a58822c Foldoutcount 0 Identifier sweetnessatbotto0000brad_u9k4 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t84k0n95d Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780385665834Ġ385665830 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9954 Ocr_module_version 0.0.11 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0000491 Openlibrary_edition In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:01:35 Boxid IA40058818 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Willy ran Searchlight so hard and long for the race that the dog's heart burst. Willy should be locked up for animal abuse. really? )Īnd then we get to that shit ending. It was about a 2.5 star book - pretty bland writing, characters telling rather than showing, and a fairly unbelievable plot (ten year old handles an entire farm in his own. I'm so angry with the author about that ending. Will Willy win? Or will Willy lose the farm? Stone Fox, an Indian who races dogs, also entered. The farm is going under (Grandfather hasn't paid taxes in years) and the only way Little Willy can come up with the money is to enter himself and Searchlight into a dog sled race. Willy holds down the farm, brings in the crops and cares for his depressed grandfather all at the tender age of ten, with the help of his faithful dog, Searchlight. Little Willy's grandfather gives up on life. Young William needs to save the farm, the crops and above all, his grandfather.Īlso me: They call him Little Willy. A book to be read with dignity and grace. I honestly have not gotten whiplash like that in years. Now, in King, we get the most comprehensive and complete portrait ever written about this iconic figure.The first major new biography of Martin Luther King Jr in over 40 years, Jonathan Eig's superb King is based on years of research, hundreds of interviews with those who knew him and many thousands of previously unreleased documents, including a huge cache from the FBI.Įig reveals King's story to be more compelling and more complex than we knew.For too long, his radical vision for the future has been erased. The compelling story of Martin Luther King's life and achievements has become simplified and domesticated in a way that fails to do full justice to his radical vision and importance. Print King: The Life of Martin Luther King An 11-year-old boy and the elderly captive who helped raise him seek escape via the Underground Railroad. In a heartbreaking and hopeful first novel, Shelley Pearsall tells a suspenseful, emotionally charged story of freedom and family.Trouble Don't Lastincludes an historical note and map. Dell/Yearling, 5.50 (239pp) ISBN 978-1-5. And old Harrison begins to see past a whole lifetime of hurt to the promise of a new lifeand a poignant reunion in Canada. But as they move from one refuge to the next on the Underground Railroad, Samuel uncovers the secret of his own pastand future. The journey north seems much more frightening than Master Hackler ever was, and Samuels not sure what freedom means aside from running, hiding, and starving. Eleven-year-old Samuel was born as Master Hacklers slave, and working the Kentucky farm is the only life hes ever knownuntil one dark night in 1859, that is.With no warning, cranky old Harrison, a fellow slave, pulls Samuel from his bed and, together, they run. Their ill-fated love turned medieval Siena upside-down and went on to inspire generations of poets and artists, the story reaching its pinnacle in Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.īut six centuries have a way of catching up to the present, and Julie gradually begins to discover that here, in this ancient city, the past and present are hard to tell apart. In 1340, still reeling from the slaughter of her parents, Giulietta was smuggled into Siena, where she met a young man named Romeo. This key sends Julie on a journey that will change her life forever-a journey into the troubled past of her ancestor Giulietta Tolomei. The only thing Julie receives is a key-one carried by her mother on the day she herself died-to a safety-deposit box in Siena, Italy. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a mother to her has left her entire estate to Julie’s twin sister. Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved aunt Rose. A young woman who discovers that her family’s origins reach all the way back to literature’s greatest star-crossed lovers. |