![]() Richard Lindberg, author of Return to the Scene of the Crime, adds, "Standing only five feet four inches, Gillis compensated for his physical limitations with a murderous temper and a willingness to employ a switchblade or a gun without hesitation or remorse for the intended victim." "His angelic, pear-smooth face never betrayed his instant ability to kill." ![]() ![]() "Where outlaws such as Pretty Boy Floyd and the Barkers would kill to protect themselves when cornered, Nelson went out of his way to murder - he loved it," apprises Jay Robert Nash in Bloodletters and Badmen. Even his criminal peers were wary of his path. He was to emerge from the kick 'em-hard Chicago Stockyards district as Baby Face Nelson, one of the toughest, and definitely the most heartless, of the Depression-era gangsters. A social commentator would later describe Lester Gillis as "something out of a bad dream". He bore the pout of a devil-child and the cruelty of one of Milton's Inferno torturers. ![]() ![]() Lester Joseph Gillis came into this world a chronic child who, it was said, never lost the bleating ill-temper of a spoiled brat. ![]()
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![]() Lancaster's as adept at fiction as she is at telling her own stories no matter what she's writing, it's scathingly witty and lots of fun. But in so doing, will she, la Back to the Future's Marty McFly, mess up the future not only for herself but for others? The author explores that concept in several different eventualities for all involved. Armed with an insight she didn't possess then, Lissy aims to make up for being such an awful teenager. ![]() Mix in one hellish 20th high school reunion and a New Age classmate with a special potion (who's changed her name from Debbie to "Deva" and created a spiritual guidance industry), and suddenly Lissy's back to 1991. And by the second chapter, Lissy may finally be getting her karmic payback: her husband asks for a divorce, and she loses her PR job and moves back in with her parents. BUY THIS BOOK Here I Go Again Jen Lancaster. As in: boyfriend stealer, head cheerleader, the girl you hated but secretly wanted to be. ![]() "Every high school has a Lissy Ryder you know, the girl who's absolutely untouchable," she muses on the first page. ![]() Mean Girls meets Back to the Future as bestselling memoirist Lancaster (Bitter Is the New Black) makes her second foray into fiction (after If You Were Here). Lancaster (Here I Go Again) humorously considers the role of anxiety in American life in a delightful and perceptive book packed with tips on how to relax. ![]() ![]() The artist’s drawings had an instant appeal, and the verses and illustrations were published the same year in book form titled When We Were Very Young. Milne had written a series of children’s verses for Punch and Shepard was suggested as the illustrator. In 1906 Punch accepted his drawings for the first time, and he became a regular contributor by 1914. This gradually became his primary occupation. While attending the Royal Academy Schools he began submitting illustrations to magazines. Ernest Howard Shepard showed aptitude for drawing from an early age. His plays and novels, including the popular detective story The Red House Mystery, were enormously successful. In 1904, shortly after graduating from Cambridge, he published his first piece in Punch and by 1906 was an assistant editor. ![]() Before Pooh, Alan Alexander Milne had a thriving career as a humorist and playwright. Shepard (1879–1976) were the author and illustrator of the iconic Winnie the Pooh books. Shepard and are bound in gorgeous, new full leather bindings with gilt titles and stamps to the spine, custom gilt embossed stamps to the front, and a new custom-made cloth archival slipcase.Ī. These four volumes are illustrated throughout by Ernest H. The set includes four first edition, deluxe issue volumes. ![]() Milne's classic children's books based on the adventures of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh. About This is a complete deluxe edition set of A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He delved deeply into the life and history of the man, and discovered that although he never commanded an army nor engaged in the kind of brash and daring exploits that would fill the seats at a blockbuster movie, Adams’s integrity and determination were the hidden gears upon which the American Revolution turned, and that his humanity was a key that would guide modern readers into this world of giants and let them experience it on a comprehensible scale. ![]() Historian David McCullough saw, however, that this humanity was Adams’s strength. In the midst of such giants who seem to possess extraordinary powers and who performed patriotic miracles, Adams seems like a normal human being. It’s not easy to pinpoint his strengths at first glance his unassuming nature doesn’t effortlessly communicate a heroic trait like Washington’s inspiring charisma, Franklin’s pithy brilliance, or Jefferson’s lettered grace. Among the pantheon of American Founding Fathers, John Adams may not exactly fit the model that modern audiences expect from their revolutionaries. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But her plans go awry when she discovers that the most popular (and hottest) guy at Bay Water High, Jake, is a volunteer at her brother's school. Lori decides that the only way to survive the rest of the year is to blend into the background. She misses her old school- where her talent as an artist carried more weight than she does- and longs for her old family life, before her parents got divorced and her mom reinvented herself. Lori Palmer is the new girl at Bay Water High, where students prize glossy hair, beach bodies, and school spirit above all else. A story of body-positivity and self-love, perfect for fans of Dumplin' and Leah On The Offbeat.Ĭan you truly be yourself in a one-size-fits-all world? A brand new novel by bestselling author of Burning Moon, Jo Watson. ![]() ![]() However, his meeting with an astute teacher by the name Mrs. However, he was not at ease with the titles that were suggested to him and therefore he ended up losing interest in reading them. When he was young, he enjoyed reading a lot. Sanderson’s writing career was nurtured in a rather challenging way. He currently lives in America Fort, Utah. In 2005, he graduated with a masters degree in Creative Writing from BYU. Upon his return to BYU, he enrolled for an English major instead of pursuing biochemistry. It is in this period that he realized that his interest was not in biochemistry but rather in writing. ![]() One of such missionary work was based in Seoul, South Korea. He joined Brigham Young University as a biochemistry major and consequently took a break to do mission work with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. ![]() New Spring is a prequel to the Wheel of Time series.īrandon Sanderson was born in the year 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. Crossroads of Twilight (By:Robert Jordan) ![]() ![]() ![]() Will she find a way to repair what matters most to her?Ī debut from a stunning talent, Post-traumatic is a new kind of survivor narrative, featuring a complex heroine who is blazingly, indelibly alive. But after a family reunion prompts Vivian to take a bold step, she finds herself alone in new and terrifying ways, without even Jane to confide in, and she starts to unravel. She lives in a constant state of hypervigilant awareness that makes even a simple subway ride into a heart-pounding drama.įor years, Vivian has self-medicated with a mix of dating, dieting, dark humor and smoking weed with her BFF, Jane. Privately, Vivian contends with the memories and aftereffects of her bad childhood-compounded by the everyday stresses of being a Black Latinx woman in America. A "deeply original" (Elif Batuman), "violently funny" (Myriam Gurba), "brilliant and unforgettable" (Deesha Philyaw) debut about a young Black Latina lawyer finally confronting her dark past To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story-a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at a New York City psychiatric hospital. ![]() ![]() ![]() Put out by The Marvell Press, a small operation run by George Hartley and his wife Jean Hartley in Hessle, East Yorkshire, the book through the depth of its appeal, the formal skill of its verse, and its consistent striking of Larkin's distinctive tone gained wide readership. ![]() Larkin was unaware that postal rates had gone up, and most recipients, when asked to pay the difference for delivery of a pamphlet by a little-known writer, turned them away only around 100 copies were printed.ĭespite this setback, 13 of the 20 poems, together with 16 new poems, were finally published to much acclaim in 1955 as The Less Deceived, which was selected as a book of the year by the Times Literary Supplement and immediately went through several impressions. The Less Deceived, first published in 1955, was Philip Larkin's first mature collection of poetry, having been preceded by the derivative North Ship (1945) from The Fortune Press and a privately printed collection, a small pamphlet titled XX Poems, which Larkin mailed to literary critics and authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not much is known about the real 10-year-old enslaved girl, but Kidd names her Handful and gives her a fierce and powerful mother, Charlotte, who wars against the dehumanizing forces in the Grimke household. While the sisters’ journeys are already immensely compelling, Kidd raises the stakes by weaving Sarah’s first-person narrative together with that of an enslaved girl who was given to Sarah for her 11th birthday. The real Sarah Grimke and her sister Angelina were born and raised in an elite slaveholding family, but they rebelled against their destinies as debutantes to become leading abolitionists and feminists. In “The Invention of Wings,” the latest Oprah book club pick, Kidd fictionalizes an inherently dramatic true story from our shared history of slavery to illuminate the lives of four women coming of age in Charleston during the volatile early 1800s. With her sweeping third novel, Sue Monk Kidd continues her exploration of female empowerment that began with her memoir “The Dance of the Dissident Daughter” and led to her enormously successful novel “The Secret Life of Bees.” ![]() ![]() It would take a slow reader 5 hours, an average reader 2 hours, and a fast reader 1 hours to read it. The word count is between 17,250 and 20,700 (estimated). Night Of The Ninjas was published in 1995 by Mary Pope Osborne. It would take a slow reader 4 hours, an average reader 2 hours, and a fast reader 1 hours to read it. The word count is between 16,250 and 19,500 (estimated). Mummies In The Morning was published in 1993 by Mary Pope Osborne. The word count is between 16,500 and 19,800 (estimated). ![]() The Knight At Dawn was published in 1993 by Mary Pope Osborne. It would take a slow reader 5 hours, an average reader 3 hours, and a fast reader 1 hours to read it. ![]() The word count is between 20,000 and 24,000 (estimated). Pirates Past Noon was published in 1992 by Mary Pope Osborne. The word count is between 17,000 and 20,400 (estimated). Dinosaurs Before Dark was published in 1992 by Mary Pope Osborne. ![]() |