![]() Following up his first Oscar win with a steamy after-hours romp with an enigmatic woman seems like the perfect way for actor Sam Pleasant to celebrate-until she suddenly disappears. But she never expects to come face to face-and closer than close-with one of the hottest stars in the game. When her employer is felled by the flu on Hollywood's biggest night of the year, Amanda gets her glam on, struts out the door, and parties with the glitterati. ![]() In the meantime, she'll settle for a temporary escape. ![]() Working as the personal assistant to one of Hollywood's cruelest divas has left Amanda Queen more determined than ever to sell her screenplay and gain her independence. Summary From award-winning author Rebekah Weatherspoon comes a thoroughly modern take on the timeless tale of a struggling Cinderella who finds her prince charming at the eleventh hour-and the adventure that ensues the morning after. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Previously he worked for Newsweek Magazine as Paris bureau chief and Middle East editor, and before that for The Washington Post as Cairo bureau chief and Central America bureau chief.ĭickey’s books include W ith the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua Expats: Travels from Tripoli to Tehran Innocent Blood: A Novel and Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son. More information about the weekend can be found on the Commencement website.ĭickey is the foreign editor for The Daily Beast. ![]() ![]() Cash will receive an honorary degree from Hamilton in December.Ī total of 506 students are expected to receive bachelor’s degrees at Hamilton’s Commencement. Singer and songwriter Rosanne Cash will offer the Baccalaureate sermon on Saturday, May 24, at 3 p.m., in the Scott Field House. ![]() Those who are unable to attend the Baccalaureate or Commencement ceremonies can watch a live webcast of the ceremony from any computer with Internet access.ĭickey will be awarded an honorary degree, along with Deborah Bial, founder and president of the Posse Foundation, and Thomas Schwarz, a 1966 Hamilton graduate and president of Purchase College. Award-winning author and journalist Christopher Dickey will deliver the Commencement address at Hamilton College on Sunday, May 25, at 10:30 a.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. ![]() ![]() ![]() The basis of two bestselling computer games Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light, the Metro books have put Dmitry Glukhovsky in the vanguard of Russian speculative fiction. It would take three unlikely heroes to face this menace. A new horrible threat looms that can eradicate the remains of humanity and end our era. And then all can be ruined in matter of days. Stations become city-states that wage trade and war on each other. ![]() So they rebuild a strange and grotesque civilization in the tunnels and at the stations of the subway. ![]() There's no hope for humans to return to the surface of Earth, to repopulate the forsaken cities, and to become once again the masters of the world they used to be. As the entire civilization was wiped out by atomic bombs and the surface of the planet is polluted with neclear fallout, the only place suitable for men to live are shelters and bunkers, the largest of which is the subway system of Moscow, aka the Metro. The long-awaited sequel to the cult bestseller Metro 2033, the second volume in the Metro trilogy, Metro 2034 continues the story of survival and struggle that unfolds in the mazes of the Moscow subway after WWIII. ![]() ![]() even if that means allying with the one who will be anything but happy to help her. Jack makes the sacrifice and he's now trapped in the Everneath. But Nikki and Jack, her boyfriend, will do anything to stop him, if Nikki can cheat death. The problem is that Cole, the Everliving who brings her to the Everneath in the first place, is following her everywhere and trying to take the throne of the Everneath. ![]() She's trying to spend her six months on the Surface saying one final goodbye to those she loves before the Everneath claims her again. ![]() Neverfall (Book 1.5, Published on December 26, 2012)Įverbound (Book 2, Published on January 22, 2013)Įvertrue (Book 3, Published on January 21, 2014)Ĭlick the titles to check out my reviews.Įveneath starts with Nikki Beckett returning to the Surface after six months (or one hundred years, depending on how you see it) of disappearance into the Everneath. Everneath (Book 1, Published on January 24, 2012) ![]() ![]() (My own unfortunate mullet included a braided rattail-just in case I wasn’t white trash enough.) And in your author photo from that time there is a fierce, steady engagement in your eyes that reflects exactly that quality in the book-you are drawn in by the humor, the sorrow, and the anger over injustice, the steady and unblinking cost of admission. J.W.: Yes, undoubtedly: Chief Joseph’s business in front carries more power and meaning than say, Brian Bosworth’s. My mullet said to the literary world, “Hello, you privileged prep-school assholes, I’m here to steal your thunder, lightning, and book sales.” And it felt epic, scary, and dangerous for many years. The contrast between my literary life and my real life was epic. Army surplus bed in the unfinished basement bedroom in my family’s government-built house. I was called “one of the major lyric voices of our time” while I was sleeping in a U.S. When “The Lone Ranger” was published, I was being fêted by the publishing world while I was back living on the rez, after college. ![]() ![]() ![]() Looking at my hair through a slightly more serious lens, I think I wore such an exaggerated mullet as a means of aggressively declaring my Indian identity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() and directed four episodes, he wasn’t a writer. But it’s important to keep in mind that while Murphy executive-produced O.J. Simpson, which many pointed to as a sign of his growth and maturity as a creator and showrunner of television. ![]() There was near-unanimous praise for his latest anthology series, The People v. But is Ryan Murphy the right man to bring these dynamic women to the screen? head Jack Warner, with whom Davis had her own feud, Judy Davis stars as the influential gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, and Alfred Molina plays director of Baby Jane Robert Aldrich. Stanley Tucci will play infamous Warner Bros. It sits perfectly in Murphy’s wheelhouse, with its campy potential and powerful female leads, and the cast is already capturing people’s imaginations: Jessica Lange is re-teaming with Murphy to bring Crawford to life while Susan Sarandon will co-star as Davis. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford between scenes on the film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?Įarlier this month, FX announced that veteran TV producer Ryan Murphy will be doing a new anthology series for the network, Feud, which, in its first season, will detail the rivalry between Hollywood legends Bette Davis and Joan Crawford when they co-starred in the 1962 horror film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? The news has been met with a lot of buzz, and for good reason. ![]() ![]() In the book, Eliot drew on her own experiences with a once-beloved but rigid and controlling brother to depict the relationship between Maggie and her brother Tom. Perhaps the most offended reader was Eliot's brother Isaac, who was very close to her in childhood but who had become estranged from her when he found out about her life with Lewes he communicated with her only through his lawyer. Social disapproval of her actions spilled over into commentary on the novel, and it was scathingly criticized because it did not present a clear drama of right and wrong. ![]() Like Maggie, Eliot was disorderly and energetic and did not fit traditional models of feminine beauty or behavior, causing her family a great deal of consternation.īy the time Eliot published The Mill on the Floss, she had gained considerable notoriety as an "immoral woman" because she was living with the writer George Henry Lewes, who was married, though separated from his wife. Tulliver in the novel, was a businessman who had married a woman from a higher social class, whose sisters were rich, ultra-respectable, and self-satisfied these maternal aunts provided the character models for the aunts in the novel. ![]() The Mill on the Floss, published in 1860, is based partially on Eliot's own experiences with her family and her brother Isaac, who was three years older than Eliot. ![]() ![]() ![]() The weapon is being offered by secret auction to the highest bidder, and when the government asks Wrexford and Charlotte to help in recover it, they and their quirky inner circle of family and friends must outwit a cunning villain to prevent the situation from exploding into all-out war.ģ-How did you decide where your book was going to take place? ![]() In this latest addition to my Wrexford & Sloane Regency-set historical mystery series, Charlotte and her husband, Lord Wrexford, find themselves caught up in a dangerous intrigue when the prototype for a revolutionary new weapon goes missing from a British military research laboratory during a gala international celebration that has brought the major European leaders to London. 1-What is the title of your latest release?Ģ-What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? ![]() ![]() ![]() I must be as revolting to others as I am to myself" (p 65). When I come to a lake, I know I must metamorphose once more. The story is told as though the Ugly One is somewhat narrating to herself: "I run at first randomly. She has iron teeth, can shape-change and cannot bleed or cry. ![]() She flees, leaving behind her cherished daughter, and the story picks up with the one most of us are familiar with-but with more details. She serves her village well for many years until she makes a fatal mistake one day and is from then on doomed to serve demons as a witch. The novel begins with The Ugly One as a pious Christian midwife and follows her as she is encouraged by a neighbor to become a healer-a sorceress. This version of the famous story of Hansel and Gretel and their encounter with a candied house and the witch inside is told from the perspective of the witch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that’s their secret weapon. First, a bit of a synopsis courtesy of the publisher’s back-cover copy: But onwards to the merits and demerits of Killers. If this were to be a series, I’d not follow Raybourn to the next book, but it looks, at least to me, it’s a standalone (I’d still argue the ending had a whiff of sequel-bait to it, though). But a premise is a premise is a premise and it’s Raybourn’s, so I can’t fault her for it. In the end, Killers of a Certain Age entertained me, but wasn’t powerful enough to dispel my niggling ugh-assassins conscience. Um, no, vigilante justice is problematic whether men or women exact it. I do love me older-women-kick-ass heroines and in this case, there are four, but I’ve never been able to stomach making heroes out of assassins, or heroines for that matter as the narrator quips, “It was the Wild West with no law but natural justice”. I’m a Deanna-Raybourn fan-girl and would read her napkin doodles, but I wasn’t sure about Killers of a Certain Age. ![]() |