![]() ![]() Lois Lowry has four children and two grandchildren. One of her other hobbies is photography, and her own photos grace the covers of Number the Stars, The Giver, and Gathering Blue. When she’s not writing, Lowry enjoys gardening during the spring and summer and knitting during the winter. I never get tired of writing about her and her family. Before she begins a book, she usually knows the beginning and end of her story. The Anastasia Series Anastasia was born in 1979, at the age of ten.Shes been around ever since, and shes only thirteen now. Now she spends time writing every single day. ![]() ![]() After some time, she returned to college and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Maine.Lowry didn’t start writing professionally until she was in her mid-30s. She left school at 19, got married, and had four children before her 25th birthday. ![]() She still likes to travel.At the age of 17, Lowry attended Brown University and majored in writing. Army and his job entailed a lot of traveling. An author who is “fast becoming the Beverly Cleary for the upper middle grades” (The Horn Book Magazine), Lois Lowry has written more than 20 books for young adults and is a two-time Newbery Medal winner.Lowry was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and attended junior high school in Tokyo, Japan. Whether she’s writing comedy, adventure, or poignant, powerful drama–from Attaboy, Sam! and Anastasia Krupnik to Number the Stars and The Giver–Lois Lowry’s appeal is as broad as her subject matter and as deep as her desire to affect an eager generation of readers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Elric went on to appear in numerous short stories, novellas and novels (most notably Stormbringer, published in 1965), the most recent of which was published in 2010.Įlric may be counted as one of fantasy's single most influential and important characters, inspiring a character of the same name in the television series Babylon 5, the rather blatant homage character of Anomander Rake in Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen and, indeed, Geralt of Rivia. ![]() So much for “homages”."Įlric's creation first appeared in the 1961 novella The Dreaming City, as a nobleman of a doomed empire cursed to wield the soul-feasting, intelligent sword Stormbringer. "Heard today that some companies are turning down Elric project because it reminds them too much of GOT and The Witcher. ![]() ![]() ![]() Within this dark and violent story I got a procedural crime story of sorts. I expected a dark story, which I got, but I also got a sleuths story. Read moreĪ Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis was not completely what I expected. In this beautifully twisted historical thriller, Mindy McGinnis, acclaimed author of Not a Drop to Drink and In a Handful of Dust, explores the fine line between sanity and insanity, good and evil-and the madness that exists in all of us. Grace, continuing to operate under the cloak of madness, must hunt a murderer while she confronts the demons in her own past. But gruesome nights bring Grace and the doctor into the circle of a killer who stalks young women. Escaping from Boston to the safety of an ethical Ohio asylum, Grace finds friendship and hope, hints of a life she should have had. ![]() ![]() With her keen eyes and sharp memory, Grace will make the perfect assistant at crime scenes. When her voice returns in a burst of violence, Grace is banished to the dark cellars, where her mind is discovered by a visiting doctor who dabbles in the new study of criminal psychology. Those secrets, along with the bulge in her belly, land her in a Boston insane asylum. She keeps it locked away, along with her voice, trapped deep inside a brilliant mind that cannot forget horrific family secrets. ![]() ![]() Tornado climatologies are important for understanding the formation and characteristics of severe convective storms, and also for better quantifying the risks that tornadoes pose. Tornadoes were more frequently reported over eastern Romania compared with other regions of the country, with a maximum over southeastern Romania. Most of the tornadoes (28 reports) occurred during the afternoon hours 1500–1659 local time. ![]() Of the 129 tornadoes from the Romanian tornado database, 98 were reported between May and July with a peak in May (36 reports). The recent period (1990–2013) contains 89 tornado reports that came from mass-media sources and eyewitness reports. The socialist period (1945–89) contains only seven tornado reports, likely because during this period it was believed that tornadoes did not occur in Romania. Evidence of tornado observations in Romania before the nineteenth century is found in the representation of tornadoes in the Romania folk mythology. ![]() The historical period (1822–1944) contains 33 tornado reports originating from historical newspaper archives and publications of the Romanian Meteorological Institute. The first tornado climatology for Romania is presented based on datasets attained from three periods between 18. ![]() ![]() ![]() After the war, when she served as a member of the American Women's Voluntary Services, she began hosting a live variety show, "Hollywood on Television," in 1949. The Associated Press contributed to this gallery.įor generations, the actress, comedian and television presenter Betty White (January 17, 1922-December 31, 2021) was one of TV's most familiar and beloved faces, often hilariously playing against the sweet image of her smiling eyes and dimpled cheeks on the series "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Golden Girls."īorn in Oak Park, Illinois, and raised in California during the Great Depression, White performed on radio and for an experimental TV station in Los Angeles in the 1930s. ![]() ![]() Betty White, of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." | CBS Photo Archive Getty ImagesĪ look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.īy senior producer David Morgan. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is no “both sides” affair: Perry is an unabashed “movement” baby, raised by intellectual freedom-fighter parents. ![]() Any attempt to classify this ambitious work, which straddles genre, kicks down the fourth wall, dances with poetry, engages with literary criticism and flits from journalism to memoir to academic writing - well, that’s a fool’s errand and only undermines this insightful, ambitious and moving project. After all, Perry addresses everything from hip-hop to the United Fruit Company and her own grandmother. SOUTH TO AMERICA A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation By Imani PerryĪt the start of “South to America,” Imani Perry implores the reader: “Please remember, while this book is not a history, it is a true story.” I tried to keep these instructions in mind - not always easy with a narrative so scrupulously researched and teeming with facts and citations - but ultimately, I discarded them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book contains mature situations and content.Īsher and Levi have been rivals since the beginning. Savage Rivals is a standalone M/M new adult high school romance with enemies to lovers and gay awakening themes. Things between us will never be the same again. He pushed me too far, and we crossed a line that should never have been crossed.Ĭan we ever be more than rivals, or are there too many obstacles in our way? Until one night when everything between us changed. From our first encounter, our rivalry has been escalating, spiralling out of control. ![]() Captain of the Highnam Academy football team, and the bane of my existence.Īs Alstone High’s team captain, I’ve been pitted against him from the beginning, but our conflict isn’t only reserved for the pitch.Įveryone knows we’re enemies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Healed from his injuries, Clark tracks down a corrupt Russian diplomat, who issued the passports to his wife’s murderers, and forces him at gunpoint to give up the name of the surviving assassin. If something isn’t done soon, the result could be a full-scale war. ![]() Leaked news of Russia’s unprecedented attack on American soil has caused the already-strained relations between the two nations to sour further. Commander Karen Greer (Jodie Turner-Smith) meets with CIA officer Robert Ritter (Jamie Bell) and Secretary of Defense Thomas Clay (Guy Pearce) to discuss response options. Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., Clark’s friend and former SEAL team member Lt. ![]() Despite being shot multiple times himself, Clark manages to kill all but one of the attackers before being rushed to the hospital. Three months later, in apparent retaliation for his role in the mission, Clark’s pregnant wife Pam (Lauren London) is murdered by a squad of Russian assassins. Jordan) rescues a CIA operative taken hostage by ex-Russian military forces. In a war-torn region of Syria, an elite team of US Navy SEALs led by Senior Chief John Clark (Michael B. ![]() ![]() Yet I did not feel the same level of involvement as I enjoyed with the first volume, and for a number of reasons that taken singly do not amount to much, but all together do indeed cast some shadows on an otherwise engaging story. I quite looked forward to this second book in Rachel Caine’s Great Library trilogy, and I was not disappointed: the story advances toward what I envision as the final showdown between the Library and those who feel the need to break the shackles it imposes, and there are a good many breath-taking moments and harrowing escapes, not to mention a few important revelations. ![]() ![]() More ingenious decoders will discover deeper numerological meaning within Brown's novel. ![]() Brown chose May 14, 2013-5/14/13-for his book launch because the numerals in reverse (31415) match the first digits of pi, the irrational number essential to the symbolic properties of circles, including the fact that they can't be squared (except by God), as Dante reminds us in the finale to his poem. Shamefully easy prey for the book's marketing campaign, I auditioned for a spot among Dante's over-spenders in Circle 4 by paying an extra charge to have UPS deliver my copy right on the much-ballyhooed release date. A Dante scholar by trade, and an unrepentant fan of The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons to boot, I was genetically susceptible to the contagion. Soon after its publication Dan Brown's Inferno predictably spawned an ecosystem-tweets, blog-posts, essays, books-telling us how he used and abused Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy in this thriller named for the poem's first and most famous part. ![]() Guy Raffa (The University of Texas at Austin) Dante Notes / March 22, 2018 ![]() |