![]() ![]() Who is truly responsible for Billy’s life and death, and what does it mean to mythologize a friend’s suffering?īeautifully written and teeming with fine portraits of Irish-American life in New York, Charming Billy is Alice McDermott’s masterful and beloved novel about how a community can pin its dreams to one man, and how good intentions can be as destructive as the truth they were meant to hide. Alice McDermotts striking novel, Charming Billy, is a study of the lies that. As they comfort his widow, the gentle Maeve, they remember as well his first love, Eva, who died of pneumonia, and whose ghost haunted his marriage and drove him to the bottle. Alice McDermotts striking novel, Charming Billy, is a study of. It won the National Book Award for fiction as well as the American Book Award, and was shortlisted for the International Dublin IMPAC Literary Award. Through the night, his friends and family will weave together the tale of a husband, lover, dreamer, and storyteller, but also that of a hopeless drunk whose immense charm was but a veil over a lifetime of secrets and all-consuming sorrow. Charming Billy is the winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Fiction. Charming Billy, a novel by American author Alice McDermott, tells the story of Billy Lynch and his lifelong struggle with alcohol after the death of his first love. In a small bar somewhere in the Bronx, a funeral party has gathered to honor Billy Lynch. ![]() ![]() Winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller, Charming Billy is “Alice McDermott’s masterpiece” (NPR). ![]()
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![]() ![]() The astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions. ![]() Just when the frayed strands of Bella’s life-first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse-seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed… forever? Islands rose out of the steel harbor water with sheer cliff sides, reaching to uneven summits, and crowned with austere, soaring firs. Even in the sunlight, white-capped and heaving to the gray, rock shore. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Bella, on La Push Beach (Twilight, Chapter 6) The water was dark-gray. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. ![]() ![]() How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a 2013 interview, Herman Parish recalls how his aunt created Amelia Bedelia's character because of the need to target children of a certain age when they are both interested in reading and able to use their imagination without restraint. The inspiration for the protagonist was likely a housekeeper at her grandparents home where Peggy Parish played as a child. 2013 marked the book's 50th anniversary and commemorated its popularity with the publication of a new line of Amelia Bedelia books. Over 35 million copies of books in the series have been sold. Amelia Bedelia has been referenced for its use of language and portrayal of gender norms. The idea for the book came from a former housekeeper as well as Peggy's third-grade students at the Dalton School in Manhattan who tended to confuse vocabulary, often with comic results. It was written by Peggy Parish, illustrated by Fritz Siebel, and published by Harper and Row in 1963. ![]() ![]() Amelia Bedelia is the first book in the popular Amelia Bedelia children's picture book series about a housekeeper who takes her instructions literally. ![]() ![]() Liz Baker and her three roommates work at the Nether Fields, a queer magazine in New York that’s on the verge of shutting down-until it’s bought at the last minute by two wealthy lesbians. ![]() The only thing worse than hating your boss? Being attracted to her. “A juicy sapphic romp sweet, sexy, and tender in all the right ways.”-Gabrielle Korn, author of Everybody (Else) Is Perfect “ The L Word, but better.”-TJ Alexander, author of Chef’s Kiss “Brims with heart, spice, and humor.”-Ashley Herring Blake, author of Delilah Green Doesn’t Care Equal parts witty and steamy, this debut rom-com brings a healthy dose of queerness and a whole lot of spirit to a Pride and Prejudice-inspired enemies-to-lovers romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is the co-coordinator of The Writer's Studio, a weekly workshop series sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Stanford Storytelling Project, and the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking. from its origins in the 19th-century, through the intense debates about animal life, suffering, and intelligence at century's end, and into the young adult animal novels of the early 20th-century. Her dissertation traces the animal welfare movement in the U.S. Shannon also holds a PhD in American Literature and Culture from the University of California, Davis. Her novel, On Swift Horses, about gambling, sex, and the post-war American West, was published in 2019 by Riverhead Books. She has published essays in The Threepenny Review, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere, on topics ranging from John Brown and the Antebellum Midwest, to personal memoir. She was a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford, where she received a Centennial award, the University's highest honor for teaching assistants. ![]() ![]() ![]() She teaches fiction, creative nonfiction, and writing across genres. Shannon Pufahl is a Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘An utterly absorbing insight into the full spectrum of responses from ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.’ These are the stories of ordinary lives at the crossroads of history. This is a tale of conflicting loyalties and desires, of shattered dreams – but one in which, ultimately, human resilience triumphs. We meet the Jews who survived – and those who didn’t the Nazi mayor who tried to shield those persecuted by the regime and a blind boy whose life was judged ‘not worth living’. Within its pages we encounter people from all walks of life – foresters, priests, farmers and nuns innkeepers, Nazi officials, veterans and party members village councillors, mountaineers, socialists, slave labourers, schoolchildren, tourists and aristocrats. Drawing on personal archives, letters, interviews and memoirs, it lays bare their brutality and love courage and weakness action, apathy and grief hope, pain, joy and despair. Yet even this remote idyll could not escape the brutal iron grip of the Nazi regime.įrom the author of the bestselling Travellers in the Third Reich comes A Village in the Third Reich: an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Germany under Hitler, shining a light on the lives of ordinary people. ![]() ![]() Hidden deep in the Bavarian mountains lies the picturesque village of Oberstdorf – a place where for hundreds of years people lived simple lives while history was made elsewhere. A Village in the Third Reich Julia Boyd € 23.99 If ordered before 12:00h, this title will be in our store within 24 hours. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meno has some choice words for "conservative" publishers such as Judith Regan, warning against the reluctance to publish riskier material. Hairstyles of the Damned started off at a significantly less well known publisher with only 4,000 copies to start. The main character, Brian, attends Catholic school and pines after his best friend Gretchen, a punk-loving brawler who "the rest of the world considered fat." The music they listen to - by the Misfits, Ramones, Black Flag - provides the soundtrack for their struggles.Ī previous novel by Meno, How the Hula Girl Sings, was published by St. Hairstyles is an autobiographical tale about growing up in the '90s on Chicago's South Side. ![]() Scott Simon talks with the novel's author, Joe Meno. With almost no major reviews or marketing, the coming-of-age story Hairstyles of the Damned has sold 20,000 copies and gone into its third printing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her final year is not easy as she struggles to keep up with her studies, basketball games and the two jobs she should pay her way. He felt so much drawn to her.Īmy is almost completing her college studies and is planning on taking her next step in life. When she walked into the class, he knew there was no line Aaron wouldn’t cross to be near Amy. She also enjoys inventing elaborate dream worlds to play in. When not writing, Gia spends time with her family, bakes, reads and jumps in muddle puddles. Her heroines are intelligent, sweet and ambitious no matter what they go through in their journeys, they finally get happily ever after. Her heroes range from mountain men to billionaires who have one thing in common: possessive, obsessive, and go for the woman they fall for. Her novels have high heat, high emotion, and no cliffhangers or cheating. ![]() ![]() Gia Bailey is a romance author of steamy stories, which she believes, keep her warm during cold nights. Wedding Guest Dad Bod (By:Nell Alexander)Ī Delicate Negotiation (By:Layne Daniels)īecause of the Brave (By:Mellie Callahan)īeards and Love Letters (By:Heather Lauren) Devoured by the Dad Bod (By:Autumn Knight) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her published works include Friends with Boys, The Adventures of Superhero Girl, The Last of Us: American Dreams (with Neil Druckmann), The Nameless City trilogy, Comics Will Break Your Heart, and the New York Times bestselling Pumpkinheads (with Rainbow Rowell). Not like that.įaith Erin Hicks is a writer and artist who lives in Vancouver, Canada. Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong is her first book. Prudence Shen is a writer and caffeine addict who pays rent in Virginia even though she mostly lives in airports. She’s an uncommonly talented visual artist, plus a pretty good writer. Running away from home on Thanksgiving to illicitly enter a televised robot deathmatch? Let's do this! At stake? Student group funding that will either cover a robotics competition or new cheerleading uniforms, but not both. But they are friends, however unlikely-until Nate declares war on the cheerleaders and the cheerleaders retaliate by making Charlie their figurehead in the ugliest class election campaign the school has ever seen. Prudence Shen is a writer and caffeine addict who pays rent in Virginia even though she mostly lives in airports. Nate is the neurotic, scheming president of the robotics club. Charlie's the laid-back captain of the basketball team. ![]() You wouldn't expect Nate and Charlie to be friends. About the Book Captain of the basketball team Charlie and president of the robotics club Nate battle it out in a school class election campaign for funding to cover a robotics competition or new cheerleading uniforms. ![]() ![]() Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. ![]() King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. ![]() When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. ![]() |