![]() In addition to being the only two-time recipient of the Romance Writers of America's prestigious Favorite Book of the Year award, she also holds Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. Her subsequent novels have gone on to win awards and land on bestseller lists. Susan had been bitten by the writing bug and continued to write when Claire moved to the southwest. With blind luck, they worked their way through a story and Dell bought that manuscript published under the pseudonym of Justine Cole (reedited under their real names). They decided that they would write a book together. She and her best friend, Claire Kiehl Lefkowitz, were avid readers. She started to write by accident when her husband’s job moved them from Ohio to New Jersey. ![]() She obtained a BFA in Theater Arts from Ohio University and taught high school until her first child was born. She met her husband, Bill Phillips, on a blind date while in college. Susan Elizabeth Titus was born 11 December 1948 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, daugther of Louesa Coate and John Aller Titus. ![]()
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![]() The country contained a large percentage of European settlers with close ties to France, and virtually every major French political tendency opposed its independence - including the Socialist and Communist Parties. While French and British imperialism were willing to concede political independence to some of their African colonies by the late 1950s, matters were very different in Algeria. The Algerian Fulcrumįanon had good reason to see the Algerian revolution as the fulcrum and vanguard of the wider African revolutions. Its focal point is rather a detailed mediation on the Algerian revolution, in which its author had directly participated since shortly after his arrival in Algiers in 1953. ![]() ![]() Several focused on what Fanon called his “testament”: his pathbreaking evaluation of the African revolutions in The Wretched of the Earth, completed only weeks before his death from leukemia at the age of thirty-six.Īlthough many hailed The Wretched of the Earth at the time of its publication as a “bible of Third World revolution,” the book only makes passing reference to developments in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, and does not attempt to provide an exhaustive analysis of the many African liberation movements that were active at the time. ![]() ![]() The sixtieth anniversary of Frantz Fanon’s death on December 5 last year has prompted a number of reconsiderations of his legacy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Varying type styles and colors emphasize key words, and amateur actors can have a blast performing the sinister monologue. As smiling ghosts and skeletons dance on the bedroom walls, looking like run-of-the-mill Halloween decorations, the faceless, flirtatious Bogeyman instills real fright. Likewise, Kroninger's (If I Crossed the Road) cut-paper-and-cloth collages balance humor and horror. YA novelist Park (Mick Harte Was Here) expertly toys with her victims. ![]() The Bogey's only mistake is admitting his allergy to smelly socks, and the boy's alarmed expression turns to a sly smirk as he realizes how to banish his nemesis. As the boy keeps his arms and legs away from the under-the-bed abyss, the monster-protagonist clears up misconceptions, insisting that he doesn't say ""boo"" (""Boo's a baby word, Bubbie""), and that he doesn't plan to ""get ya"" (""If I got ya, what would I do with ya?. The disembodied Bogeyman, represented as two icy-blue hands with spiky scarlet fingernails, traps a boy at bedtime. In this accurate appraisal of nighttime fear, a bona fide Bogeyman describes his terror tactics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The other narrative voice is that of Adam Wiebe, born in Saskatchewan in 1935, whom we encounter at telling stages of his life: as a small boy playing in the bush, as a student hunting caribou a week before his wedding, and as a middle-aged man carefully negotiating a temporary separation from his wife. The first strand consists of different voices of historical figures. ![]() It is told episodically in a double-stranded narrative. The novel tells the story of the Mennonite people from the early days of persecution in sixteenth-century Netherlands, and follows their emigration to Danzig, London, Russia, and the Americas, through the horrors of World War II, to settlement in Paraguay and Canada. Ambitious in its historical sweep, tender and humane, Sweeter Than All the World takes us on an extraordinary odyssey never before fully related in a contemporary novel. Rudy Wiebe’s latest novel is at once an enthralling saga of the Mennonite people and one man’s emotional voyage into his heritage and his own self-discovery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her official website is located here –> Celia KyleĪny reviews that appear here on Shifter Haven have been linked back to that review post. ![]() Crazy werecats or not, an evening at Genesis is exactly what she needs. ![]() Kyle has other books out that are not listed here – because of the focus of this blog, I’ve included Shifter Romances on this list. Celia Kyle He Ain't Lion He Ain't Lion Life sucks And then you get turned into a werelionCurvaceous, blonde bombshell Maya Josephs is looking for a little action to take her mind off of her recent break-up. I do need to do some backtracking though on her works, many I read long before I started this Shifter focused blog – so I have some reviewing to catch up on but that’s not a hardship by any means. I first discovered her through the Grayslake series, but there are others that I’ve read and enjoyed… and some I have yet to dig into (but I will be). And when she meets the hotter than hot, super-sexy owner, Alex OConnell, the alpha lion shifter is just the man to fit the bill for a one-night stand. If you are a reader who loves intricately detailed stories, solid background on characters, and believable world-building – no matter the genre – then you might want to check out Celia Kyle’s works. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Aunt Belle who has a thing about alligators, and uncle Jimbuddy who has a knack for losing pieces of him self. I had some big laughs because her humor is so infectious with her account of rural southern life with her family and a very, very, odd assortment of relatives and friends! It is a real life Lake Woebegon.gone crazy! Bailey's mama is the center character and and she is a very unique(to say the least!) and charming person who will take you to a juke joint that was so raunchy it scared Ernest Hemingway, and then tuck you into a bed that folds up on you as you're sleeping. Bailey White isn't just an author, she's an original! Her observations of Southern life and tradition from a young girl's point of view are pure genius! She dramatizes so naturally the warmth and humor of her youth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jones) after the 1964 shooting of Black teenager James Powell by an off-duty police officer, who was white. Kennedy took special interest in Bedford-Stuyvesant as a junior Senator for New York, founding the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (along with cofounders John Lindsay, Jacob Javits, and Thomas R. In 1971, House Beautiful detailed how the fabrics came to be: through a collaboration between the now-shuttered community-driven nonprofit Design Works of Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn and Tillett, the favorite textile company of well-heeled socialites. The style icon also decorated her New York apartment with striking fabrics that supported a good cause. It's no surprise the beloved former First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, widely known as Jackie O, had a chic home. ![]() For House Beautiful’s digging into some of our favorite spaces from our archive Sister Parish’s New York Apartment Tony Duquette from 1971ġ25th anniversary this year, we're -including decorator and the West Hollywood home and studio of designer extraordinaire, dubbed "the house of a magician." Here, we revisit Jackie Kennedy’s New York apartment that featured eye-catching fabrics, which was first published in our November issue that year. ![]() ![]() We all knew Elena would eventually end up a vampire and now we get to see that play out. The Fury was a good conclusion to the first two books. But something Evil shows up once again in Fells Church (at least we get an explanation why evil is drawn there) and it is up to the old gang to take it on. Stephan is gone, the rest of them are trying to move on. At first, Elena has a hard time adjusting but soon she is back to her old self and ready to solve the newest mystery in Fells Church: what is this other Power that keeps turning up? With a visit from an old acquaintance, some help from Damon (who’s not quite as evil as we all thought), and some good old-fashioned team work, the characters face-off against this Power.ĭark Reunion is the story of what happens after Elena’s death. The Fury is the story of Elena’s new life as a vampire. ![]() But you can read my post on the first two books here. Actually, you better be prepared for spoilers galore. Spoiler Warning: I can’t really discuss these books without assuming you’ve read at least the ones that came before it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Year: 2007 (books originally published separately in 1991) Title: The Vampire Diaries: The Fury and Dark Reunion ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Ramachandran from Darwin's The Descent of Man: I came across a cool and relevant quote in The Tell-Tale Brain by V. As with any book, don't read it passively, decide what you buy and what needs to be further examined. Whatever harm that may come from the lack of rigorousness in his brand of pop-psychology is easily overshadowed by the positive cultural impact that comes from people giving serious consideration to his ideas and how they apply to their personal lives and to society on a larger scale. He knows how to tell a compelling story and the conversations he sparks go on for years. That may be the case, but he is a heck of a writer. Gladwell is taking a lot of heat for biasing the examples he chooses in his books to make points that are often later shown to be somewhat tenuous. ![]() |