![]() Then acts of unspeakable cruelty kept them separated. ![]() She and the man she loved were a star-crossed couple who were destined to be together––until the Great War, a pandemic, and shameful secrets tore them apart. ![]() It began decades before, in Ireland, when Nan was a young girl. Nan’s plot didn’t begin the day she met Archie and Agatha. Soon, Nan became Archie’s mistress, luring him away from his devoted wife, desperate to marry him. In every way, she became a part of their life––first, both Christies. In 1925, Miss Nan O’Dea infiltrated the wealthy, rarefied world of author Agatha Christie and her husband, Archie. "Sizzles from its first sentence." - The Wall Street Journal Why would the world's most famous mystery writer disappear for eleven days? What makes a woman desperate enough to destroy another woman's marriage? How deeply can a person crave revenge? ![]()
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![]() In order to ask these questions, King also resurrects the spirit of Mary Shelley, taking from Frankenstein the theme of reanimation of the dead. First, it elaborates on the recurring theme in King of existentialist angst precipitated by the death of a child or loved one, which King uses to question God's benevolence or existence. Beyond this, Revival plays with its title in two more senses. ![]() It is also, however, about religious revivals, both in the specific sense of the religious gatherings held by minister and main antagonist Charles Jacobs, and in the more general sense of attempting to find something in which to place one's faith in a world where accidents can claim the lives of loved ones. It is first a familiar Frankenstein-esque narrative about a mad scientist who seeks to revive the dead. Stephen King's 2014 novel, Revival, plays with its title in several respects. ![]() ![]() ![]() James must return to his village and marry another woman named Amma Atta, but he fantasizes about running away and living a simple life with Akosua. ![]() There, James meets a girl named Akosua and falls in love with her. When the Asante king, Nana Yaa's father and James's grandfather, dies, the family travels back to Asanteland to pay their respects. Quey and Nana Yaa have a son named James. After Fiifi and other men from the village capture Nana Yaa, the daughter of the Asante king, Quey is married to the girl to form a political alliance. He is educated in England and then returns to his mother's village to handle business negotiations with his uncle Fiifi. Quey grows up in the Cape Coast Castle, where the white men live and where slaves are kept before being shipped away to the United States. ![]() Effia and James Collins, the white, British man she is married to, have a son named Quey. The chapters titled " Quey," " James," " Abena," Akua," " Yaw," and "Marjorie" follow the descendants of Effia. Effia, Maame's first daughter, is married to a white man who has come to Africa as part of the British slave trade, while her sister Esi, Maame's second daughter, is sold into slavery in the United States. Maame has one daughter while enslaved in a Fante village and another daughter after escaping back to Asanteland as a consequence, her daughters never meet. Homegoing follows the descendants of an Asante woman in the 1700s named Maame. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Luckily, just when it reaches the boiling point, secrets are revealed and twisted upon, serving up an explosive finale that reframes the slower bits and ends the book on a high note. The author crafts spooky set pieces and an intriguing cast of supporting characters, but Jane’s repetitive cycle of grief, dread, anxiety, repeat comes very close to wearing out its welcome. As Jane stumbles through anxiety, mystery readers will itch for the big reveal. Jane makes friends at school and gets an after-school job in a bookstore that contains a coffee shop, but all the while there’s a creeping dread in the back of her mind: Something is very wrong with this place, and her mother isn’t being completely honest with her. ![]() The house, North Manor, is the subject of whispers and rumor in the small town. After selling their California home to settle debts, Jane’s mother, Ruth, has relocated the small family to the childhood home left to her by her estranged parents. Jane arrives in Bells Hollow, Maine, hoping to rebuild her life in the wake of her father’s unexpected death. A spooky New England town gets a couple new residents. ![]() ![]() He had come with a message for Karata, but Dashe informs him she's in the library with Galladon otherwise pre-occupied Ashe delivers his message from Sarene about the shipment of weapons coming into New Elantris to Dashe. While watching Galladon lecture the Elantrians, Matisse and Dashe are approached from behind by Ashe. Searching out her adoptive father, Dashe, he explains to her that Galladon is having the Elantrians practice Aons in the new form that he and Raoden discovered in Elantris - adding the chasm line. ![]() As Matisse observes many of the adults outside surrounding Galladon, Idotris claims Aons are useless before Matisse leaves the Roost. ![]() Matisse ushers the children to bed with threats of doing more school work if they wanted to stay up. Outside, many of the adults have begun drawing Aons. ![]() Ashe, Sarene's seon, floats in through an open window to inform Raoden his wife will not be attending their dinner, because she is pregnant and "it's his fault." Raoden settles in to listening to Ashe's testament to his whereabouts during the last hours before Elantris' restoration.Įveryone has a role in New Elantris Matisse looks after the children of the Roost but on this night they cannot find the will to sleep. After Elantris' restoration Raoden sits alone in his palace noting the city's new found wealth. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the highpoints of my year has to be the release of the new volume of the Usagi Yojimbo comic by Stan Sakai. Usagi Yojimbo: Volume 38: The Green Dragon by Stan Sakai I am hoping to read it in the next few weeks, and I have no doubt I will love it. I love a great historical adventure and this book sounds particularly fun. Set during one of the earlier English civil wars, Battle Song follows a young squire and his devious master as they try to figure out which side to fight for. The first book I recently received was the amazing historical fiction adventure novel, Battle Song by Ian Ross. I am extremely keen to check out all of the books below and they should make for some amazing reads. ![]() These novels include some truly awesome new releases, including some books that have the potential to be the top novels of 2023. I have been having an absolutely fantastic couple of weeks for book, as I have been lucky enough to receive several incredible and amazing new novels from some of my local publishers. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, not all is idyllic in this west Texas landscape. When Mance’s electronics whiz boy Willy (Chris Miller) flies down for a summer with his dad, things seem just about perfect. Even the oddball Chief Sam John (Michael Wren), a Comanche medicine man who anoints tractors with water and chants over by the busted down oil rig on their property, is charming enough. ![]() Dad Mance Cashen (Patrick Kilpatrick), wife Emily (Suzanne Savoy), and newborn daughter April (Anthony Childs, Ryan Childs) are charmed by the place. van Houten (Ford Rainey) sells the dump that is his family estate to a young couple from Chicago. Haunting Fears: Dark… on Whosoever Meets Her Gaze Shall…Īfter getting cajoled by local oil man Kyle Boatwright (Lou Perryman), oldster T. The World Is Much La… on Haunting Fears: Darker Than Ni… ![]() To Become The Wicked… on Haunting Fears: Darker Than Ni… Richard III in the 1… on Traumatic, Dramatic, and Kinda… Michael on Richard III in the 1980s: Warl… The World Is Much Larger Than One Small Village: Rapiña.To Become The Wickedest Witch of All: Poison for the Fairies (1986).Infected With Where I Live/Let Me Live Without This Empty Bliss: Cyn Balog’s You Won’t Believe Me.Richard III in the 1980s: Warlock (1989). ![]() ![]() ![]() The people of the island finally drive it off. This dinosaur-like creature is supposedly 65 feet tall. ![]() After dark, a monstrous creature surfaces, attacks a group of fishermen, then comes ashore to wreak havoc on the island. Some of his men have disappeared mysteriously it turns out that one has died of fear. Ryan and Slade consult the harbour master, who also has archaeological pretensions: he has been salvaging in the harbour. As they enter harbour, they discover the floating carcasses of marine animals, the first hint that something dangerous was awoken by the volcano eruption. Ryan and his first officer, Sam Slade, take the ship to Nara Island for repairs. Captain Joe Ryan is salvaging for treasure off the coast of Ireland, when a volcano erupts, nearly sinking his ship. ![]() ![]() Wayward mammals, urban saplings, beaches, forests, and yards (as in the eight poems all titled “Deep Lane”) stand for the omnipresence of mortality, and the persistence of wild desire: a “Little Mammoth,” “milk-tusks not even/ sprouted,” drowns in a prehistoric clay pit “the striped snake in the garden loves me/ so fiercely she never comes near.” The people in the poems-a needle-drug addict, a survivor of a suicide attempt-make frightening choices, though such choices seem natural to them. He also does some of his best work yet as a nature poet. Having gained renown for his self-consciously beautiful, heart-on-sleeve elegies about the devastations of HIV/AIDS, Doty remains elegiac and continues to attend to beauty. Doty ( Sweet Machine), whose Fire to Fire won the 2008 National Book Award, will sate his many admirers with this eighth collection. ![]() ![]() Through the book’s fascinating journey, Redhill shows us that how we look at the past can tell us much about ourselves. ![]() His characters suffer the absence of family yet manage to find strength beyond. In the storyline involving the past, former apothecary Jem Hallam and widow Claudia Rowe take over the work of photographer Samuel Ennis by several accidents of fate.Īuthor Michael Redhill has fashioned a story that shifts easily between past and present, though his novel’s finest moments are found within the 19th century passages. Marianne Hollis and John Lewis know they must witness the test of her late husband’s theory because-even if David’s supposition is true-present concerns may prevent the plates’ existence from ever being properly verified. Different as they are, the two sets of characters form integral parts of the story that parallel and mesh across their chronology. The characters involved are all prevented somehow from doing what they feel they were meant to do with their lives. Sally Wolfe is a marketing communications consultant for the. It is 1951 and young Fiona Ingram is full of the fervor of a new convert. ![]() The narrative alternates between two different times, present-day (1997) Toronto and Toronto in the mid- 1850s. Book Details A beautiful and haunting story of forbidden love, Consolations portrays a womans lifelong struggle to reconcile her all-too-human feelings with her quest for the highest spiritual life. The glass plates were being returned from an exhibition in London when the boat they were on sank. ![]() Consolation revolves around a set of glass photographic negatives (and their prints) that bear images of early Toronto. ![]() |