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![]() ![]() I live in Bath now but I always come and say hello at Daunt every six months or so. I just went and had a drink with her in her huge soundproof Georgian flat. And then there was a very, very, very old concert pianist and she invited me to come round. ![]() When I worked there, Miriam Margoyles used to come in and be incredibly good fun. It went from being a kind of slightly scruffy spot to almost how it is now: a very chic place.ĭaunt is an amazing place to just chat with people. I remember when I first moved to London as a student and went to Marylebone, the difference between that and five years later was just incredible. I’m 38, and about 20 years I worked in Marylebone at Daunt Books. What are your fondest corners of Marylebone? He is speaking at the Daunt Books Festival in Marylebone in March. His new novel, Lanny, is a story entwining folklore and poetry with the story of a couple whose son disappears. Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Max Porter’s award-winning debut about a crow that moves in with a bereaved family, was a startlingly innovative mediation on the funny and awful things grief does. ![]() ![]() The artwork is intended to evoke the dark, mysterious and oriental themes of the novel. Its cover is the work of designer, Caryn Gillespie. The Ming Storytellers was released on Amazon Kindle in July 2012. “It is with pleasure that I submit the cover of The Ming Storytellers for your consideration in this competition. Laura Rahme submitted The Ming Storytellers designed by Caryn Gillespie. e-Book Cover Design Award Winner for November 2012 in Fiction ![]() Now, without any further ado, here are the winners of this month’s e-Book Cover Design Award. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think, too. I’ve added comments ( JF:) to many of the entries, but not all. ![]() This edition is for submissions during November, 2012.ġ6 covers in the Nonfiction category Award Winners and Listing Welcome to this edition of the e-Book Cover Design Awards. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'a star'.her success does not come without In "Silver", we meet an actress - Anna May Wong. which, the author continues to show us through the years for Chinese Americans. It's through Ling directly we feel the conflicting emotions of what's to become of historical growth of more and more immigrants. We see different moral perspectives from the choices made - success and growth on one end - but sadness and fear -questioning identity and personal power living in this county right from this first story. He takes several jobs, ( laundry - valet), before eventually becoming an organizer - a leader- of Chinese labor.building the transcontinental railroad. He's an orphan from China.(Pearl River), and we follow him to Gold Mountain in California. Ling, from the first story "Gold", ( 1860's), is one of those characters that stays with you. Real historical characters].challenges are examined of immigrant life. In each of the four stories told by Peter Ho Davies -[three which are inspired by Four Stories: Gold, Silver, Jade, and Pearl. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the things that I love most about Smile is the role that Raina's parents are given in the graphic novel. Telgemeier does a fabulous job capturing the fear that she and her parents felt as well as their response to the situation. When she pulls herself together, she realizes that she has knocked out her two front teeth. Later that night, running with her friends after a Girl Scouts meeting, Raina trips. The next page shows cars zooming down the freeway, taking sixth grader Raina to her first orthodontist appointment where she'll get prepped for braces. Smile has a fabulous title page that shows the view from the top of a mountain overlooking San Francisco, where Telgemeier grew up. ![]() ![]() The Wire made its point about embedded corruption over and over. He soon discovered Jenkins’ Gun Trace Task Force had been shadowing the same dealer – and that this had been done off the books, the task force pursuing its own murky agenda. Yet, he is a revelation in We Own This City, with a performance modulating somewhere between Woody Harrelson in Natural Born Killers and Denzel Washington in Training Day.Įlsewhere the episode had a slow-burn intensity, with a script written by Simon with thriller author George Pelecanos (adapting a non-fiction book by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton).Īs Jenkins expanded his empire, an officer from the Baltimore suburbs (David Corenswet) was on the trail of the supplier of a batch of lethal heroin. ![]() He played him as a charismatic anti-hero who had carved out an empire by shaking down criminals for his cut of the action.īernthal is perhaps best known as the star of Netflix’s bleak series The Punisher. Jon Bernthal gave a force-of-nature turn here as real-life corrupt officer Sgt Wayne Jenkins. ![]() ![]() Between a rock and a hard place, Baltimore was caught in an institutional death grip. The upshot was those cops who continued to demonstrate brutality on the job were regarded by city hall as more valuable – they were the only ones the city could rely on to throw their weight around on the streets. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether she was shooting visiting snakes in the family’s laundry sink or solo-piloting a motorboat at age ten through a river full of angry hippos, Keena grew up with a sharp awareness of the intricate ways that danger and beauty coexist in the natural world and a deep love for the wild African landscape she called home.īut once a year, she and her family had to make a return trip to America, where for several months she had to hone her survival skills in a much more treacherous environment-the social hierarchy of a ritzy Philadelphia private school. Raised by primatologist parents, she and her sister spent most of their time in a rustic island camp in a national wildlife preserve in Botswana, tracking baboons through the bush even as even as they themselves were tracked by lions, treed by buffalo, or chased by elephants. ![]() Years before anyone had heard of the movie Mean Girls, it was real life for Keena Roberts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And though they face all kinds of dangers in a landscape that is at times breathtakingly beautiful, at others brutal, they're committed to their job: bringing books to people who have never had any, arming them with facts that will change their lives. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. What happens to them-and to the men they love-becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity, and passion. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky. ![]() The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. About the Book Place of publication taken from publisher's website.īook Synopsis #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "A great narrative about personal strength and really captures how books bring communities together." -Reese Witherspoon From the author of the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond in Depression-era AmericaĪlice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve, hoping to escape her stifling life in England. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In fulfillment of a promise Eliade made to Maitreyi that his novel would not be published in English during their lifetimes, an English translation, of Mayitreyi, Bengal Nights did not appear until 1993. It was published in English as It Does Not Die. Entitled Na Hanyate, it was originally published in Bengali. After reading it, she wrote her own version of the relationship in 1974. ![]() For many years, Maitreyi Devi was not aware that the story had been published. Its most famous translation is the one in French, published as La Nuit Bengali in 1950. The novel was translated into Italian in 1945, German in 1948, Spanish in 1952, Bengali in 1988, Esperanto in 2007 (as Fraŭlino Maitreyi as part of the Serio Oriento-Okcidento), Catalan in 2011 and Georgian in 2019. It is a fictionalized account of the love story between Eliade, who was visiting India at the time, and the young Maitreyi Devi (protégée of the great Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, who became a famous writer herself). La Nuit Bengali (transl. Bengal Nights) is a 1933 Romanian novel written by the author and philosopher Mircea Eliade. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zoellner teaches at Chapman University in Orange, California, and at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Zoellner is the New York Times bestselling author of nine nonfiction books, including “Uranium Train” and “The Heartless Stone.” His most recent book, published in February 2023 is “Rim to River,” the story of walking across Arizona on a 46-day solo hike. In the book, Zoellner “takes to the highways and byways of a vast land in search of the soul of its people,” according to. The event is free and open to the public.įor a link to the program, call 57 or email will talk about his books and take questions from the audience with emphasis on his book, “The National Road – Dispatches from a Changing America,” published in 2020, the book club said. ![]() Thursday, March 30, the club said in a news release. The Readers of the Purple Sage Book Club will host author Tom Zoellner on a zoom presentation at 4 p.m. ![]() |