![]() Anna’s elder sister Sybylla of Cleves became a Duchess Consort of Saxony by marrying Johann Friedrich of Saxony. Darsie, Author of “Anna, Duchess of Cleves Enjoy a small sampling of Heather’s research in our interview below, and check out QAB’s review of the book HERE. A frequent contributor to, Heather blessed us with the initial introductory visit on her fun blog tour. In doing so, we are introduced to extensive previously unexplored territory, learning far more about Anna of Cleves than previously available to those studying history from English language sources. Darsie maximizes her outstanding research skills and German fluency to uncover Anna of Cleves early life in Germany, as well as the lives of her powerful family. A fantastic premier biography of King Henry VIII’s fourth wife and queen, Heather R. ![]() Author of “Anna, Duchess of Cleves: The King’s Beloved Sister”Įditor’s Note: Amberley Publishing is releasing Anna, Duchess of Cleves: The King’s Beloved Sisterin the United Kingdom on 15 April 2019 and on 1 July 2019 in the United States. ![]()
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After many editing changes, I finally sold the story to Disney but enough about “THE WIZARD OF OZ” I think I’ve gotten the hang of this writing stuff. ![]() ![]() If your bored, stuck in traffic, waiting for your flight to depart, or waiting for dinner to be ready, this book is FOR YOU!The first story that I ever wrote was a science fiction piece about a girl who traveled to an alternate universe by using “wind energy.” The young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. It has everything in it including the kitchen sink From Mitt Romney, Costa Concordia Cruise Ship, sex, love, suspense, bad waiters. ![]() ![]() ![]() To my surprise, that Friday, then New York Times theater czar Frank Rich wrote a lengthy and rhapsodic review, assuring the play’s success. The Normal Heart was a piece of agitprop about the AIDS crisis, and the failures of will that exacerbated it-plus a love story! It was less successful as drama than as political battle cry, but I felt it was an important work whose message was urgently needed in 1985.Īrnold, who let out a sound of disgust when the two male leads kissed on stage, told me after the play ended that there would be no point in our considering publication if the notices were not good there was no conceivable market for a failed play, important or not. The AIDS epidemic was in its first years, and, trying not to feel powerless in the face of such a horrible scourge, I’d taken my immediate boss Arnold to a play at the Public Theater starring Brad Davis and D. ![]() Those of us in the room-in the club, as it were-were all in agreement that receiving a letter from Larry was akin to being mugged. Gay female authors would come only after I quit the company during my tenure, the publisher Elaine rejected every lesbian book I brought to her, for reasons known only to her. I went in search of some, and soon NAL/Dutton, as it was then known, had amassed a growing list of (primarily literary) fiction and nonfiction with a gay male slant. It was 1985, and I was a young editor at a publishing house whose sales force had recently conveyed to our publisher its desire for gay books, which they said were an underexploited market that could sell well for us. ![]() ![]() ![]() Skeptical of the doctor’s initial diagnosis (alcohol withdrawal), Cahalan’s mother pleads with the doctor for hospitalization. 9).Ĭahalan’s health continues to deteriorate as her symptoms mount – migraines, tingling and eventual numbness in her left hand, insomnia, racing thoughts, anxiety, fatigue, nightmares, nausea, hallucinations, and episodes of mania and psychosis – eventually leading Cahalan to the doctor. ![]() It is unknown how she acquired her illness, but the author notes that the episodes that followed nearly sent her to an asylum (p. After returning home, Cahalan dismisses her ailments as the flu, and speculates on where she might have contracted the bug, attributing it to a sneeze on the subway. The memoir opens with the author convinced of a bed bug infestation, and preoccupied by this thought, Cahalan uncharacteristically neglects her work as a reporter at the New York Post. ![]() ![]() The book offers numerous themes on which student affairs professionals can pull perseverance, grit, persistence, determination, patience, positive thinking, and hard work – all important traits to instill in students. Susannah Cahalan’s breathtaking and terrifying memoir, Brain on Fire, chronicles the weeks preceding her illness, her month long hospitalization of which she has no memory, and recovery. ![]() ![]() We lived at White Haven then, the place where I met General Grant, and where he met my sister and courted her, and where they afterward lived at different times. For I was only seven then now I am two and seventy. All this was a long time ago, a very long time ago, as I look back upon all that has happened since. It was I whom he first met, and in years after, when my sister Julia had become his wife, it used to be my teasing boast that I knew him best because I had known him longest. I was a very little girl when general Grant first came to our house in fact, I was not yet seven years old. ![]() Grant National Historic Site and is republished here in full. The original manuscript is in the collections at Ulysses S. At various points she uses racialized language that is inappropriate today and was inappropriate at the time. Like her sister's own recollections in The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant, Emma romanticized slavery at White Haven. Grant and described her childhood at White Haven. In 1908, she provided a recollection of her relationship with Ulysses S. ![]() ![]() Library of Congress Emily "Emma" Maurbury Dent Casey (1836 - 1920) was the youngest sister of Julia Dent Grant, wife of Ulysses S. ![]() ![]() ![]() An incident in their past puts a strain on their friendship. Jack was the ultimate adventurer, he would travel underground searching for treasures and stories to tell his avid follower. Lindsay once had a friend called Jack, they were inseparable. Each level goes deeper and deeper, until we hit total darkness. At the top we have running water and electricity. Each level has their hierarchy, rules and laws. ![]() Imagine a city under a city, levels of this city divided, until we get to the lowest of the low. I give it a 4/5 rating This book is full of danger, intrigue and friendships. Each encounter takes them closer to Lindsay’s niece but also closer into the clutches of the mad creatures that will enslave them. Jack navigates Lindsay through a strange territory, populated with the eccentric, the insane and the desperate. But when Lindsay is nearly killed there after going it alone, Jack feels compelled to save her skin. He refuses to descend into that hell again, especially for a girl who’s probably dead anyway. It was a soul-sucking experience that’s left him a shell of a man. Lindsay lost her entire family except for her niece in a car accident, and Jack was held captive in New York’s underbelly for nearly two years by demented sub-humans. Twenty years ago they were good buddies but horrors have changed them both. Lindsay Sterling’s niece has gone missing in the New York underground and the cops do nothing except pass along a name. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her third book, Bezimena, won the Artemisia Prize for best drawing in France and the Best Book Jury Prize in 2019 in Lucca, Italy. Featuring 30 pages of new material and powered by an expressive black and white drawing. Her books include Heartless and Fatherland, which each earned a Doug Wright Award. Nina Bunjevacs brilliant debut graphic novel returns in this expanded 10th Anniversary paperback edition. Nina Bunjevac is a Yugoslav Canadian cartoonist. ( From Conundrum Press)Ģ0 Canadian comics to check out in the first half of 2023 Withthis new paperback edition, featuring new stories and drawings, she returns to her roots and shows why she is considered a master of the form. ![]() ![]() Nina Bunjevac's brilliant debut graphic novel returns in this expanded 10th Anniversary paperback edition.įeaturing 30 pages of new material and powered by an expressive black and white drawing style, reminiscent of Robert Crumb and the meticulous pointillist technique of Drew Friedman, the dark undertone of Bunjevac's humour brings into light the range of socio-political issues her comics deal with, such as gender, nationalism or urban alienation, always from an ironic feminist perspective. ![]() ![]() She performs a miracle which saves on the black op members and puts the focus even more on herself. ![]() Major Mark Henderson, her CO, has called her up on a dangerous mission. Nothing wrong with displaying her true feelings. So she shoots the computer that is relaying the feature. Makes Emily pretty pissed to be portrayed as a sex object. ![]() But she is shocked when CNN does a feature on her, which didn’t exactly point out her flying talents, more of her cooking techniques and her being a woman…not what she needed at all. Over the past couple months, she has been ordered to go on dangerous missions, so she has been working her tail off to prove herself. Can she learn to keep her desire at bay before her covert mission implodes.Įmily Beale is the first woman to fly for the SOAR, which is some of the best black hawk pilots in the coutrny or even the world. Ace-pilot Captain Emily Beale goes undercover as bodyguard to the First Lady, with her rugged commander, Major Mark Henderson, who is determined to cover her back. ![]() (SOAR are the heroes of Black Hawk Down.)īuchman's heroine flys the most dangerous military ops and tries to find the one man who can be a hero in her own life. ![]() Genres: Contemporary Romance, Romantic Suspense, Military Romanceįirst in a thrilling military romantic suspense series based on the real-life elite helicopter pilots who transport Navy SEALs and Delta Force teams in and out of combat and covert missions. Published by Sourcebooks Casablanca on February 1st 2012 ![]() ![]() ![]() I became so engrossed in the characters, their lives, their pain, and all they endured. The moment I started listening there was no chance of stopping. It is also a top read of 2021 for me! This is tragic, beautiful, heartbreaking and ALL CONSUMING. ![]() This story contains sensitive subject matter. Given the chance.can I reclaim my wife and the pieces of our life? When 30 seconds destroys everything, I have to find a new existence and keep my promise to always love our daughter, Lucy, the most.įor Lucy, I will keep a secret, and I will watch my wife drift into the arms of another man. No one can prepare for the unimaginable - the heartbreaking exception to all the rules in life. Unfortunately, perfection is an illusion, like the promises of our wedding vows. Once I confess my true identity and convince her I’m not a creep - just a thief - it’s only a matter of time before my sexy smile and quick wit claim her heart, her hand in marriage, and the perfect life. ![]() When she mistakes me for her blind date, I decide she deserves a man who shows up on time.like me. I’m the wrong guy in the right place the night I steal Tatum Bradshaw from another man. Ann comes a novel so heartfelt and real it redefines the meaning of love. 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