![]() ![]() One day while giving one of her lessons about living on’s dreams a student dared ask her if she was living hers. ![]() As such, teaching was a way to make herself comfortable with speaking up. She has said that she was interested in becoming a teacher since she wanted to get rid of her shyness. Over the years, she has won several awards including the CILIP Carnegie Medal, the CLiPPA Poetry Award, the CBI Book of the Year award, and the Young Adult Book Prize.Īfter she graduated from college, Sarah Crossan went on to teach English for a decade. She would later graduate with a degree in Literature and Philosophy and went to the University of Cambridge, where she trained as a drama and English teacher.Ĭrossan published her debut novel “The Weight of Water,” which went on to become an award-winning novel. While she was born in London when her parents were on vacation, she spend most of her childhood in New York, London, and Dublin. She grew up a quiet child amid the rough and tumble and the noise and soccer of her brothers. ![]() She was born to a stay-at-home mother and an architect father and was the only girl among four siblings. ![]() She grew up in a family that believed in hard work and appreciated the arts even though they were never seen as a necessity. Growing up, Crossan always knew that she wanted to write thought the never thought of pursuing it as a career as an adult. Sarah Crossan is a young adult romance, young adult fiction, and general fiction romance. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It’s often said that Blixen represents everything that’s bad about colonialism, and yet as we get to know her, we also come to see that she recognises enough in different tribal cultures to realise that while she ‘should never quite know or understand them, they knew me through and through’. While some readers will find Blixen’s Out of Africa unstructured and inconsequential, others will be enthralled by her writing from memory as she disentangles how the Rich White Lady can co-exist with the Poor Black Men that work on her farm. All this would spoil Blixen’s myth created by Sydney Pollack’s loose 1985 adaptation of the book in which Meryl Streep plays Blixen opposite Robert Redford’s Denys Finch Hatton. ![]() These days, no-one ever seems to mention that the gentlewoman who lived in the smart colonial villa just outside Nairobi battled syphilis and died of anorexia. Part legacy snapshot of colonial Africa, but mostly a lyrical meditation on the landscapes and people who touched her heart, it’s a favourite of dusty backpackers with a literary mind and a romantic soul. ![]() It’s one of those lines that every traveller knows: ‘I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.’ They are the first words of Out of Africa, a gorgeously old-fashioned and out-dated memoir by a Danish woman expat living in British East Africa almost a century ago, in the days when European aristocrats owned coffee plantations in what’s now Kenya. ![]() ![]() Mustakeem relates how this process, and related power struggles, played out not just for adult men, but also for women, children, teens, infants, nursing mothers, the elderly, diseased, ailing, and dying. As she shows, crewmen manufactured captives through enforced dependency, relentless cycles of physical, psychological terror, and pain that led to the the making-and unmaking-of enslaved Africans held and transported onboard slave ships. Mining ship logs, records and personal documents, Mustakeem teases out the social histories produced between those on traveling ships: slaves, captains, sailors, and surgeons. Sowande' Mustakeem's groundbreaking study goes inside the Atlantic slave trade to explore the social conditions and human costs embedded in the world of maritime slavery. Expanding the gaze even more deeply, the book centers how the oceanic transport of human cargoes-infamously known as the Middle Passage-comprised a violently regulated process foundational to the institution of bondage. This book reveals for the first time how it took critical shape at sea. ![]() ![]() Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This Description may be from another edition of this product. ![]() ![]() ![]() Given how incredibly productive the past few years have been for McManus, you may not believe that being a bestselling author is actually a second career for her. ![]() ![]() The excitement and renown does not stop there McManus’s One of Us Is Lying was recently given a pilot order by NBCUniversal for its upcoming streaming service, with Jennifer Morrison attached as the director. She speaks on author panels, has attracted extensive media coverage, and travels to international book fairs and events. Her books are young adult mysteries that have enchanted the minds of readers and become worldwide sensations, with translations into 40 different languages across the globe. McManus, who graduated from Northeastern University with a Master of Arts in Journalism, is the New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying, Two Can Keep a Secret, and, coming in January, One of Us Is Next. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kai starts to realize the hurt that has consumed her is fixable. At first, both are extremely awkward to be in the same room. ![]() But a meeting brings them face to face, and due to a bad snowstorm, they are stuck together in a cabin. Although legally still together, they have not seen or spoken to one another for over a year. After suffering several miscarriages and dealing with extreme depression, Kai walks away from her marriage. We get a glimpse into Kai and Kurt's turbulent lives. I'm a huge fan of Laura Florand's Amour et Chocolat series, which features Parisian chocolatiers and the women they love. Snow-Kissed by Laura Florand (contemporary novella). My Friday recommendations include three contemporaries - two novellas that pack a strong emotional punch and one that delivers a sexy Irish movie star. ![]() ![]() ![]() Existential detective Kurt Wallander must battle his own demons as he works to solve a series of bizarre crimes in southern Sweden. Inspector Wallander and his team investigate a murder and an unexplained death. It is also the first time Rolf Lassgård doesn't play the role of Kurt Wallander, he is replaced here by Krister Henriksson. Tracking a sadistic killer, detective Kurt Wallander follows a string of incidents - attacks on domestic animals, ritualistic murders of humans - with help from his daughter, Linda, a new member of the Ystad police force. The other 12 are brand new stories, written especially for the films. The first one in the series, Innan frosten, is the only one of the new stories to be based on a book by Henning Mankell. Tracking a sadistic killer, detective Kurt Wallander follows a string of incidents - attacks on domestic animals . ![]() Kurt Wallander Series by Henning Mankell. ![]() Wallanders erster Fall und andere Erzahlungen. Camille (Un caso del comandante Camille Verhoeven 4). Please select Production or behind the scenes photos Concept artwork Cover CD/DVD/Media scans Screen capture/Screenshot. Start by marking Asesinos sin rostro (Wallander, as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. ![]() ![]() ![]() The kind of love I wish for you.' A magical new love story about star-crossed lovers, perfect for hopeless romantics and fans of One Day and The Notebook. The kind of love that survives time, distance. ![]() But will they ever find a way to be together? 'It's about dreams and taking chances. Over the course of twenty years, Zara and Leon are destined to fall in love again and again. When they meet at an exhibition, they don't recognise each other – yet the way they feel is so familiar. After dreaming about him for years, Zara thinks she has already found him. In Paris, Leon no longer believes he will ever find the girl he lost that night. Both know their lives will never be the same. During a power cut in a small French museum, the two spend one short hour in the dark talking about their love for art, Monet and Paris. Zara is fifteen the first time she meets Leon. 'A deeply moving, richly evocative story of love, loss and the power of hope' Miranda Dickinson. 'An absolutely unforgettable love story' Mandy Baggot. 'An epic, sweeping romance about soulmates and second chances' Holly Miller. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It measured 12 feet long, and they estimated its weight at about 1,100 pounds. Two dog teams were required to bring the carcass into camp. It was less than 30 feet away when it finally dropped. Wild dropped to one knee and fired again and again at the onrushing beast. The sea leopard spotted Wild, and turned to attack him. The animal leaped out of the water again in pursuit just as Wild arrived with his rifle. Orde-Lees’ shouts for help rose to screams and he turned and raced away from his attacker. It made a savage lunge for Orde-Lees with its mouth open, revealing an enormous array of sawlike teeth. The animal had tracked his shadow across the ice. By then, Orde-Lees had nearly reached the opposite side of the floe he was about to cross to safe ice when the sea leopard’s head exploded out of the water directly ahead of him. After a half-dozen leaps, the sea leopard had almost caught up with Orde-Lees when it unaccountably wheeled and plunged again into the water. The beast looked like a small dinosaur, with a long, serpentine neck. The animal-a sea leopard-sprang out of the water and came after him, bounding across the ice with the peculiar rocking-horse gait of a seal on land. He turned and fled, pushing as hard as he could with his ski poles and shouting for Wild to bring his rifle. “Returning from a hunting trip, Orde-Lees, traveling on skis across the rotting surface of the ice, had just about reached camp when an evil, knoblike head burst out of the water just in front of him. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sam is still trying to figure out what he wants in life, but Richard already knows. With a little bit of luck and a lot of determination, Sam finds a job and also ends up in the company of a generous and handsome stranger. ![]() Even though he's living in his car, he believes a decent future is within his reach, and he's ready to begin living his life and maybe even find love. Unable to continue living at home, he packs a few belongings and sets out on his own. Richard wants someone who will submit and push their limits for him, but the last place he expects to find that person is on his doorstep. A dom with a room full of underused toys and life of unfulfilled promise, he decides it’s time to move on from one-night stands and to search for something real and lasting. Richard is 36 and tired of the same old thing. Richard Harrington is tired of saying goodbye. ![]() ![]() ![]() To make matters worse, they’ve got a pack of angry vampires on their tails-plus bad-ass vamp-killer Travis Kidd. But these young lovers are newly turned vampires trying to fight the bloodsucking urge inside them. In a time where America was on the lookout for the next Communist threat, was the real danger something far more insidious? A major turning point in AMERICAN VAMPIRE lore begins here!Īlso included here-it’s a story burned deep into the American psyche: two young lovers, a stolen car and the open road. In the first story, series mainstays Skinner Sweet, Pearl and company return to Hollywood in the '50s during the Red Scare. ![]() 2 collects all the blood-thirsty tales you've been craving! You are cordially invited to a party-to die for! The incredible AMERICAN VAMPIRE OMNIBUS VOL. ![]() |