Not much links this novel with Towles’ other work - “ Rules of Civility” and “ A Gentleman in Moscow,” two books that also have little in common except their historicity and their popularity. But they capture the essence of this old-fashioned, meandering tale of two orphaned brothers in the 1950s and their journey in search of a future. “Lovin’ to go to one place and havin’ to go to another.”ĭuchess, the felonious foil to law-abiding Emmett, does not open Amor Towles’ new novel, “ The Lincoln Highway,” with those words. “Well, that’s life in a nutshell, ain’t it,” says Duchess, recently escaped from a boys’ detention center in Salina, Kan., and recently arrived at his friend Emmett’s Nebraska farm. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.
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Thrilled at this renewed opportunity to wed her first love, Katharine doesn't realize that Sir Thomas now sees her as a mere stepping stone to the throne, his eye actually set on bedding and wedding fourteen-year-old Elizabeth. The king is no longer in any condition to father a child, but Katharine is content to mother his three children, Mary, Elizabeth, and the longed-for male heir, Edward.įour years into the marriage, Henry dies, leaving England’s throne to nine-year-old Edward-a puppet in the hands of ruthlessly ambitious royal courtiers-and Katharine's life takes a more complicated turn. Aware of his rival, Henry sends him abroad, leaving Katharine no choice but to become Henry’s sixth queen in 1543. She, however, is in love with Sir Thomas Seymour, brother to the late Queen Jane. Having sent his much-beloved but deceitful young wife Katheryn Howard to her beheading, King Henry fixes his lonely eyes on a more mature woman, thirty-year-old, twice-widowed Katharine Parr. “A superb read and a remarkable end to a brilliant series.”- Historical Novel Society Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir brings her Tudor Queens series to a close with the remarkable story of Henry VIII's sixth and final wife, who manages to survive him and remarry, only to be thrown into a romantic intrigue that threatens the very throne of England. The Bride and the Beast, Bantam Books (New York, NY), 2000. Nobody's Darling, Bantam Books (New York, NY), 1998.Ĭharming the Prince, Bantam Books (New York, NY), 1999. Touch of Enchantment (sequel to Breath of Magic), Bantam Books (New York, NY), 1997. Thief of Hearts, Bantam Books (New York, NY), 1994.įairest of Them All, Five Star (Unity, ME), 1995.īreath of Magic, Bantam Books (New York, NY), 1996. Once an Angel, Bantam Books (New York, NY), 1993.Ī Whisper of Roses, Bantam Books (New York, NY), 1993. Heather and Velvet, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1991. Shadows and Lace, Berkley Publishing (New York, NY), 1990. Lady of Conquest, Berkley Publishing ( New York, NY), 1989. Romance Writers of America, Novelists Inc., Kentucky Romance Writers. Worked as a registered nurse for nine years, including seven years as a charge nurse at Western State Psychiatric Hospital, Hopkinsville, KY. Agent-Andrea Cirillo, Jane Rotrosen Agency, 318 E. Hobbies and other interests: Reading, hiking, professional and personal correspondence, Star Trek, blogging, biking. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Madisonville Community College, A.A. citizen daughter of Drayton (an army officer and postmaster) and Linda (a homemaker) Hatcher married Michael Medeiros (a registered nurse), May 18, 1984. Born October 26, 1962, in Heidelberg, Germany U.S. Examining overarching themes of racism, sexism, family and belonging, the justice of truth and legacy, and America’s shapeshifting history, these stories reveal the need for not only more accountability, but also more humanity. Evans’ writing is simultaneously piercing, darkly funny, and deeply thoughtful, making this collection a must-read. In six short stories and the titular novella, Evans portrays memorable heroines who are struggling to find their place in the world in the aftermath of grief. Danielle Evans, author of story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, released another outstanding short story collection in November 2020 that poignantly collides with America’s current political and racial landscape. From the Imperial Palace in Tokyo to Oxford’s venerable Bodleian Library, Russell and Holmes race to solve a mystery involving a small book with enormous implications of international extortion, espionage, and shocking secrets that, if revealed, could spark revolution-and topple an empire. Once in Japan, Russell’s suspicions are confirmed in a most surprising way. After completing a case in India, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes board a. Haruki Sato agrees to tutor the couple in Japanese language and customs, but Russell can’t shake the feeling that the young woman is not who she claims to be. And then there’s the lithe young Japanese woman who befriends Russell and quotes haiku. Holmes recognizes the famous clubman the Earl of Darley, whom he suspects of being an occasional blackmailer: not an unlikely career choice for a man richer in social connections than in pounds sterling. The idea of the pair being on equal footing is enticing to a woman who often must race to catch up with her older, highly skilled husband.Īboard the ship, intrigue stirs almost immediately. Though they’re not the vacationing types, Russell is looking forward to a change of focus-not to mention the chance of traveling to a place Holmes has not visited before. After a lengthy case in India ( The Game) Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are on the steamer Thomas Carlyle, bound for Japan. Perhaps her best known work was The Winged Watchman (1962), based on a true story about the Dutch Resistance in World War II. She memorialized her brother Willem, who was killed piloting a bomber over France in World War II, in her book The Mitchells (1945). Over the next four decades, she produced a book a year. She translated books from the Dutch, worked as a freelance children's book illustrator, and wrote a dozen of her own children's books, beginning with A Day on Skates (1934), which won a Newbery Honor. Later Hilda and the children accompanied him to other assignments in Ireland and London. The couple married in 1932 and had six children who featured in many of her books.īy 1935, the family was living in Washington, D.C., where Marlin worked for the Social Security Administration. She attended art school in Amsterdam and later in Dublin, where she met her future husband, Ervin Ross "Spike" Marlin, a friend of her brother Willem van Stockum, later an important mathematician. Her maternal grandfather Charles Boissevain was an editor of the Algemeen Handelsblad, an influential Dutch newspaper. Bram van Stockum, an officer in the Dutch Royal Navy, and his wife Olga Boissevain. Hilda van Stockum was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and grew up there, near Amsterdam, and in Ireland, the only child of Capt. As it turns out, everything has a lot to do with nothing-and nothing to do with God. "In A Universe from Nothing, Lawrence Krauss has written a thrilling introduction to the current state of cosmology-the branch of science that tells us about the deep past and deeper future of everything. Provocative, challenging, and delightfully readable, this is a game-changing look at the most basic underpinning of existence and a powerful antidote to outmoded philosophical, religious, and scientific thinking. With a new preface about the significance of the discovery of the Higgs particle, A Universe from Nothing uses Krauss’s characteristic wry humor and wonderfully clear explanations to take us back to the beginning of the beginning, presenting the most recent evidence for how our universe evolved-and the implications for how it’s going to end. One of the few prominent scientists today to have crossed the chasm between science and popular culture, Krauss describes the staggeringly beautiful experimental observations and mind-bending new theories that demonstrate not only can something arise from nothing, something will always arise from nothing. “Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing?” Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place. If you walk in any of the same circles as I, you’ve likely heard about Netflix’s new animated anthology, Love Death + Robots. Today we’ll be taking up way too much space to look into the short film, Beyond the Aquila Rift, and compare it to the 2005 short story of the same name by Alastair Reynolds. What did they change that worked? What did they not change that they could have? What made it tick? Time to take a deep dive and find out. So when I found out that a short story I enjoy was turned into a short film, I checked it out… and found myself in the middle. You’ve all heard it before: “The book was better!” countered by a smaller but no less vocal, “The book sucked, the film streamlined the story and made it so much better!” (Okay, a much smaller group there, but still.) Middle ground is hard to find, it seems. There’s a general narrative that goes around the internet when any adaptation, particularly book-to-film, drops. My wife and I set out to study the borderland between sociology, psychology, architecture, and planning." Influence Īs a " young architect working in the suburbs," Gehl married a psychologist and " had many discussions about why the human side of architecture was not more carefully looked after by the architects, landscape architects, and planners. He co-founded Gehl Architects in 2000 with Helle Søholt, held a Partner position until 2011, and remains a Senior Advisor. He became a professor of urban planning at KADK, and a visiting professor around the world. In 1966 he received a research grant from KADK to study " the form and use of public spaces" his book Life between Buildings (1971) reports his studies of public life in public spaces, and develops his theories about how city planning and architecture influence public life. Gehl received a Masters of Architecture from the School of Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KADK) in Copenhagen in 1960, and practiced architecture from 1960 to 1966. He is a founding partner of Gehl Architects. FAIA (born 17 September 1936, Copenhagen) is a Danish architect and urban design consultant based in Copenhagen whose career has focused on improving the quality of urban life by re-orienting city design towards the pedestrian and cyclist. Global Award for Sustainable Architecture (2015) Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture She lead a protest against The Whitney museum, who in 1968 had only had 8 out of 151 female artist showing at the museum. I learned Ringgold was significant in organizing protest of museums that were not representing female artist and artist of color. Instead of being overtly political she had begun to paint optimistic story lines for black females in her art, as she did for Cassie in Tar Beach.ī. Faith’s early paintings had been very political however she had begun to change her approach in her paintings. I also learned that this painting to her symbolizes “potential for freedom and self possession”. This is one of Faith Ringgold’s story quilts, entitled Tar Beach (the first in her “women on a bridge” series) It was painted in 1980 and depicts the dream world of the Heroine, Cassie flying over the George Washington bridge and laying on her magical tar beach. |