![]() ![]() ![]() A fairly late convert to all things feminist, Fowles writes from a position blind to the recent growth in the popularity of women’s soccer, but his rather crude Freudianism may serve as an interesting - if tangential - comment on The Football Factory, more recently described by Hugh MacDonald in The Glasgow Herald as ‘Fever Pitch with testosterone and eight pints of lager’. John King’s first novel The Football Factory was published some four years after Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch in 1996, but in spirit it seems to belong to a slightly earlier period in English cultural history and its obsession with a game once described by John Fowles as long ago as the I960’s as ‘twenty-two penises in pursuit of a vagina’ (150). ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In Devil's Brood, the compelling story of Henry and Eleanor's once great love affair is explored in an uniquely vivid way. Aligning themselves with Henry's most bitter enemy, King Louis of France, their treacherous actions will have devastating consequences as they bring about the downfall of a brilliant man and a powerful empire. In this gripping tale of passion, politics and conflict, King Henry II finds himself brutally betrayed by his wife Eleanor and three eldest sons when they enter into a rebellion against him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jeannette moves to the city a year later and finishes high school there, interning at a Brooklyn newspaper for credit. Lori loves life in New York City, where she works in a restaurant and lives in a women’s hostel. Mom decides it’s time to move to Dad’s hometown of Welch, West Virginia. ![]() Unfortunately, Dad loses his job, and his alcoholism reaches crushing lows. For about a year, the kids enjoy regular meals, their own bicycles, and public schooling. They move into the massive house, and Dad gets a job as an electrician. On the way to Phoenix, Jeannette learns that Grandma Smith has passed, leaving Mom a large sum of money and a house. ![]() She misses him on purpose, but the police get involved. ![]() Jeannette returns fire with Dad’s pistol. Their time in Nevada comes to an end when Billy Deel, a delinquent neighbor boy whose advances Jeannette rejected, comes to the Walls residence and opens fire with his BB gun. Dad confiscates most of her paycheck, and the family continues to go hungry. After an explosive argument, Mom gets a teaching job. The family enjoys six months of relative stability until Dad loses his job. Dad moves the family to Battle Mountain, Nevada, where he works as an electrician. When Jeannette is in first grade, Mom gives birth to another baby, Maureen. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Jewish Book Council reviewed the book, saying: "In the Satmar world, what Feldman did was scandalous, but her story didn't provide the drama and intrigue it seemed to have promised. How did she handle such a tough transition, raising a child while attending college at Sarah Lawrence? She spends so much time on the world she left-without much exploration of where she's ended up." ![]() I certainly understood that Feldman wanted more out of life but in the end, I wanted more from her narration. The lopsided book traverses her childhood in painstaking detail, which is often redundant and overwrought. Lisa Bonos of The Washington Post wrote that "Feldman seems to render this secretive community authentically I only wish she'd spent a bit more time editing herself. ![]() Publishers Weekly called the book an "engaging and at times gripping insight into Brooklyn's Hasidic community". ![]() After becoming pregnant, she realized she wanted something more for her child, and planned to leave the community. Feldman said she did not have sex education, claimed she was trapped in a sexually and emotionally dysfunctional marriage, and the failure to produce a child dominated her life. The community maintains a code of customs governing everything from what one wears, what is read, and to whom one generally speaks.įeldman's move away from the community started with going to the library and hiding books written in English. Feldman was born into Satmar community in Brooklyn where the primary language is Yiddish. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of his widely known works are Shakespearean Grammar (1870), Philochristus (1878), Onesimus (1882), and The Kernel and the Husk (1886), but he is best known for his novella Flatland. ![]() Others had to be explained by Abbott himself in the introduction to the second edition, which followed one month after the rst, at the. Some of these were obvious to his readers and remain obvious today. Though Abbott was a scholar of several disciplinesincluding mathematics, theology, and Shakespeare Flatland is his most popular work. After he retired, Abbott devoted most of his time to his literary and theological interests. Social Satire in Flatland When Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote his little masterpiece over one hundred years ago, he did it for several reasons. Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Abbott (18381926) produced a short book titled Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. In 1865, he was appointed as headmaster of the City of London School and stayed there for 24 years until he retired in 1889. In order to marry Mary Elizabeth Rangeley from Unstone, Derbyshire, he resigned the fellowship and taught at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and then at Clifton College. He was elected to a fellowship at his college and was ordained a deacon. ![]() John ’s College of Cambridge, where he received highest honors in classics. He attended the City of London School for his early education years, and then studied at St. Edwin Abbott Abbott was born in 1838 to Edwin Abbott, the headmaster of the Philological School in Marylebone, England and Jane Abbott-they were first cousins. ![]() ![]() She has been training to survive, to outshoot, outfight, and outrun a murderer.ĭ. quickly learns, Charlie Grant, haunted and damaged, doesn’t plan on going down without a fight. The victims are Charlie’s childhood best friends, and Charlie expects to be next. Warren asking for her help because, she says, “in four days, someone is going to kill me.” Charlie tells a disturbing story: For each of the last two years, at 8:00 p.m. ![]() Now 28, Charlie lives in Boston and seeks out Detective D.D. ![]() Everyone has to die sometime.”Ĭharlie was saved by her aunt and managed to make something of a normal life for herself. ![]() Charlie has been burned by an iron, fed glass, and told frequently, “be brave. Young Charlie Grant and her older sister, Abby, suffer at the hands of their mentally ill mother. Warren novel Catch Me begins with a chilling prologue. ![]() ![]() ![]() The last time that this confluence occurred was between 19. ![]() ![]() They included huge debts and zero or near-zero interest rates that led to massive printing of money in the world’s three major reserve currencies big political and social conflicts within countries, especially the US, due to the largest wealth, political, and values disparities in more than 100 years and the rising of a world power (China) to challenge the existing world power (US) and the existing world order. From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Principles, who has spent half a century studying global economies and markets, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes-and to offer practical advice on how to navigate them well.Ī few years ago, Ray Dalio noticed a confluence of political and economic conditions he hadn’t encountered before. ![]() ![]() After working for several years as a journalist, he began to write fiction with tremendous success. Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) was a French author of detective fiction who’s contribution to the genre has drawn parallels to Arthur Conan Doyle. The novel was famously adapted in 1925, starring Lon Chaney as the Phantom and later arranged into a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. We can all sympathise with the love that never was or could be, in this tale of destructive desire reminiscent of ‘Wuthering Heights’. ![]() It is an immortal tale of love, lust and tragedy. However, when Christine’s childhood friend Raoul comes in to her life, the phantom’s jealously will have fatal consequences. The phantom soon becomes enamoured with the young singer Christine, becoming her ‘Angel of Music’ and guiding her musical career. A strange phantom haunts the opera, causing fatal accidents on stage and committing some gruesome murders when his demands aren’t met. Inspired by true events from the Paris Opera, ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ is the most famous novel from French author Gaston Leroux. ![]() ![]() When he crosses the line to get what he wants, he knows he has lost his way. More than listening to his heart, and even more than caring for the infuriating figure skater who gets under his skin. But when he’s called up in the run for the Stanley Cup to cover injuries he has a taste of what it’s like playing in the NHL and he realizes that a place on the Railers roster is what he wants more than anything. Deep Edge ( 2017) (The third book in the Harrisburg Railers series) A novel by V L Locey and RJ Scott Buy from Amazon Search Sorry, we've not found any editions of this book at Amazon Find this book at One man's passion, another man's lies. ![]() His ex is blackmailing him and he’s close to walking away from it all. Who would have guessed that the man fate has decided to pair him off with is Dieter Lehmann, all-around sex god and a man who seems to have everything to prove and doesn’t care who he hurts to get what he wants.ĭieter has spent too many years languishing in the minors and a secret addiction to prescription painkillers means his career is in a downward spiral. All those fears will have to be shelved though when he’s hired to spend the summer working with the Harrisburg Railers ice hockey team. But the constant fighting has left Trent tired, lonely, and skittish. From the playground to the Olympics to his parent’s living room, Trent has fought against bullies and homophobes to be the out and proud gay man he is. His whole life has been dedicated to the sport he loves even when the sport – and his own family – have turned against him. Trent Hanson is a figure skating phenom adored by millions around the world. ![]() ![]() Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well. It’s a hedge against interstellar war-and, for the empire’s rulers, a system of control. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. Riding The Flow, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. ![]() Faster than light travel is impossible-until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Redshirts and Old Man's War “John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today.” -Joe Hill, author of The Fireman ![]() *2018 HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL* *2018 LOCUS AWARD WINNER OF BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL* ![]() |