![]() ![]() The only thing Odd knows for sure is who the killer will be: the homicidal stranger who tried to shoot him dead in a small-town parking lot. Who the potential victims are and where they can be found remain a mystery. Three helpless innocents will be brutally executed unless Odd can intervene in time. But this time, it’s the living who desperately need Odd on their side. ![]() How do you make sure a crime that hasn’t happened yet, never does? That’s the critical question facing Odd Thomas, the young man with a unique ability to commune with restless spirits and help them find justice and peace. or the destiny that will drive him into a harrowing showdown with absolute evil. Though he narrowly dodges a bullet, Odd can’t outrun the shocking vision burned into his mind. The truck driver is decked out like a rhinestone cowboy, only instead of a guitar he’s slinging a gun-and Odd Thomas is on the wrong end of the barrel. You’ll drop before you get the breath to scream.” ![]() “You think I won’t do it right here in the open. The pistol appeared in his hand the way a dove appears in the hand of a good magician, as if it materialized out of thin air. ![]()
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![]() ![]() If you want to know where to start with Shakespeare, you've come to the right place. That doesn’t have to be your process, but it’s what I do to get the most out of each play! I generally like to watch a play, then read it, then watch it again. Many film adaptations are available on Amazon Prime and other streaming services, often for free. If possible, you should watch a play first. Yes, reading a play is great because it allows you to really soak up every pun, thought, and detail. A Midsummer Night’s Dream might seem complicated if you’re just reading it, but watching it clears things up quickly.īy the way: Shakespeare wasn’t meant to be read! If you’re new to Shakespeare, it’s probably best to start with one of the easier plays.Īll of the plays in this list are fairly accessible. These plays all vary in complexity of plot and of language. The top five, to be exact!īetween 15, Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays: 17 comedies, ten histories, and ten tragedies. In this list, I outline the best Shakespeare plays for beginners. So, you want to begin reading Shakespeare, but you don’t know where to start? ![]() ![]() Jonathan Burnham, a publisher and senior vice president at HarperCollins, said that creating an entirely new image had "certainly crossed our minds," but that he and others kept coming back "to the central idea that the cover should in some ways connect to 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'" An oak tree, "Mockingbird" fans know, can be found on the property where the reclusive Boo Radley lives, in Lee's fictional Maycomb, Alabama. and Commonwealth edition - an orange-red jacket featuring a bird on branch and the words "by the author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'" prominently displayed along with the title. "This design is perfect - it draws on the style of the decade the book was written, but with a modern twist."īritish publisher Penguin Random House unveiled a different cover for the book's U.K. "There are so many wonderful parts of 'Go Set a Watchman' that it was hard to pick just one iconic image to represent the book," Morrison said. In a statement released by HarperCollins, company President Michael Morrison noted that "Go Set a Watchman" begins with "Mockingbird" protagonist Scout Finch returning by train 20 years later, in the 1950s, to her native Alabama. ![]() The new cover, like the one for "To Kill a Mockingbird," is a moody illustration featuring an oak tree in front, but also shows train tracks and a train in the distance. ![]() On Wednesday, HarperCollins unveiled the jacket art for Lee's "Go Set a Watchman," the unexpected follow-up to her classic "To Kill a Mockingbird." NEW YORK - The cover for Harper Lee's new novel will surely remind you of the cover for her old one. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s a little more info about my books: WARREN THE 13TH AND THE ALL-SEEING EYEĪ beautifully illustrated, action-packed middle grade adventure in the spirit of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton. You can follow me on Twitter: email is I love hearing from my readers! I live in Los Angeles with my husband and two dogs (a corgi and a chihuahua mix) where I spend a lot of time in traffic, daydreaming about new stories to write. I’m also a fan of less spooky things such as dogs, boba tea, and dance movies. I’ve always been a lover of spooky things and have had several strange supernatural experiences growing up! WARREN THE 13TH AND THE ALL-SEEING EYE and WARREN THE 13TH AND THE WHISPERING WOODS are out now, and the third book in the trilogy comes out in October 2019! ![]() Hi! My name is Tania del Rio and I’m the author of the spooky WARREN THE 13TH series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is what Michael Connelly said about The Narrows: What follows is a taut and tantalizing mystery that has Harry Bosch racing from the hostile vistas of the Nevada desert to the glittering Las Vegas Strip to the dark corners of Los Angeles. Through it all, Bosch works at his newfound life as father to a young daughter, balancing the deepest love he has ever felt with his own sense of mission and his deep awareness of evil. The Narrows places Harry Bosch in league with Rachel Walling, at odds with the FBI, and squarely in the path of the most ruthless and ingenious murderer in Los Angeles’s history. ![]() The death appeared natural, but this man’s ties to the hunt for the Poet make Harry dig deep - and lead him into a terrifying and unknown world. The former LAPD detective hears from an old friend whose husband recently died. Rachel has never forgotten the killer who called himself the Poet - and apparently he has not forgotten her. Years earlier she worked on the famous case tracking down the serial killer who wove lines of poetry into his hideous crimes. FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she’s dreaded for years: the one that tells her the Poet has returned. ![]() ![]() ![]() But little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi occupation takes hold, and Alina’s tiny rural village, its families, are divided by fear and hate. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat, and dreams instead of the day Tomasz returns from college in Warsaw so they can be married. Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. ![]() It’s a decision that will alter her destiny…and it’s a lie that will remain buried until the next century. Just beyond the tents of the refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. ” -Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. “Fans of The Nightingale and Lilac Girls will adore The Things We Cannot Say. Now a New York Times bestseller! From the author of Truths I Never Told You, Before I Let You Go, and the The Warsaw Orphan , Kelly Rimmer’s powerful WWII novel follows a woman’s urgent search for answers to a family mystery that uncovers truths about herself that she never expected. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the last hectic days of the British Raj, Victoria has to choose between marrying a British Army officer or a Sikh, Ranjit, as she struggles to find her place in the new, independent India. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their place in the new India that is emerging. It is one of John Masters' seven novels which followed several generations of the Savage family serving in the British Army in India.īhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Forster's A Passage to India and the acclaimed works of later writers such as Paul Scott and Salman Rushdie, Bhowani Junction is both a richly intriguing novel and a superb evocation of the tensions and conflicts at the birth of modern India. First published in 1954 in the wake of the partition of India, John Masters' great novel Bhowani Junction has increased in stature over the years. ![]() ![]() Dea died on March 18 at an assisted living center in Las Vegas, her caregivers told local news outlets. In between those two splashes of publicity, Gloria Metzner adopted the stage name Gloria Dea, made history in Las Vegas, had a few tabloid-ish moments in a brief film career, faded into obscurity for a half-century or so, and then, in her final years, was rediscovered and celebrated by her fellow magicians. “Anything with sleight-of-hand and billiard balls I liked,” she said almost a century later, in a 2022 interview with KVVU-TV of Las Vegas on the occasion of her 100th birthday. An accompanying photograph showed Gloria holding three balls between the fingers of her right hand, a moment from a trick in which she would make the balls appear and disappear like, well, magic. ![]() ![]() “Seven-year-old Gloria Metzner, 3607 Park Boulevard, is the youngest working magician in the world,” The Oakland Tribune of California declared in a November 1929 article about her. ![]() ![]() When he saw the copper-skinned, ember-eyed newborn, upon whom the darkness of Africa had not completely left its indelible stamp, the master, adequately versed in the Scriptures, promptly named him Zion, which in Hebrew means “sun.” Wantone, as was the custom in those parts. ![]() Lacy uttered a benediction in that same language, and thereafter presented the infant to her master, Mr. Then her eyes rolled back in her head and she expired. ![]() For a half-hour after Mary delivered the child, a tempest raged within her as she lay screaming in a strange tongue, which was in part her native Akan. An older Negro servant, named Lacy, also belonging to Wantone’s retinue, attended Mary in her prolonged and exacting labor, during which the slave girl developed an intense fever. In January 1754, Mary, a young Negro servant to Isaac Wantone, wealthy farmer and patriot of the town of Roxbury, Massachusetts, gave birth in her master’s stables to a male child. ![]() |