![]() As the portrait of a conspiracy of love between a father and a daughter, it is heartrending, a brilliant addition to the literature of American memoir." - Honor Moore, Author of Our Revolution "A beautiful, haunting book that instructs, even as it breaks our hearts." - Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion: A Memoir "Clear-eyed and heartrending, Fairyland captures a singular time and place in American history. ![]() ![]() ![]() "I'm so glad you wrote this book." - Terry Gross - NPR's Fresh Air "Compassionate, cleareyed." - Alexandra Styron - New York Times Book Review "More than the story of just one person also open a window on an entire society." - Leigh Newman - O, The Oprah Magazine "I love the book Fairyland it's a sweet and unique love story of a girl and her dad." - Sofia Coppola "Doubles as a portrait of a city and a community at a crucial point in history.funny, strange, and sweet." - The New Yorker "Alysia beautifully remembers the innocence of the age between the disappearance of the Beats and the onset of AIDS." - San Francisco Chronicle "Generous, precise, and deeply moving, Fairyland is a love story that not only brings a new generational perspective to a history we're in danger of forgetting, but irrevocably shifts the way we think about family itself." - Alison Bechdel, author of Are You My Mother? "Gorgeous.As a chronicle of the moment when the San Francisco of Armistad Maupin became the city of Harvey Milk, when gay and experimental poetry flourished in California, Fairyland is vivid and indelible. ![]()
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In the beginning, there was the Namsara: the child of sky and spirit, who carried love and laughter wherever he went. ![]() Kristen Ciccarelli’s debut fantasy explores an intricately woven world of deception, inner darkness, and dragons that fantasy fans won’t be able to resist. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a teeming canvas- vividly drawn- with mounting drama in the desperate situation Camilo has brought upon herself, in the involvement of Link, who knows the issues- but is unaware of the facts. Link Williams is a handsome and brilliant Dartmouth graduate who tends bar due to the lack of better opportunities for an African-American man in a staid. Meantime, as tensions mount with their passions, the pattern of life going on makes very real the doubts and jealousies of the staid Treadway butler as he knows his wife, Mamie, is plying her trade behind his back as their youngest, J.C., finds pilfering a new sensation as Link's friends at The Last Chance try to save him from his fate as Abbie Crunch, Link's foster mother, and her friend, Frances, discuss the impact of one human on another. Ann Petry, author of The Street writes of her own people in terms of people, not of Negroes, and the story of the Negro district in a small New England city is not a story of racial stresses until Camilo Treadway Sheffield, morbidly curious perhaps, runs for help from a crippled pervert, and finds in Link Williams a security that turns to love before either one realizes what they are getting in for. ![]() ![]() A powerful and moving book, dealing with an almost proscribed subject, the love of a white woman and a Negro. ![]() ![]() Torn between loyalty to the princess and her new friends' ideas, between an old love and a new crush, and between her small mountain home and the bustling city, Miri looks to find her own way in this new place. But as Miri befriends sophisticated and exciting students, she also learns that they have some frightening plans for a revolution. There, Miri also has a chance to attend school-at the prestigious Queen's Castle. ![]() She and her princess academy friends have come to Asland to help the future princess Britta prepare for her wedding. ![]() Coming down from the mountain to a new city life is a thrill to Miri. A New York Times Bestseller In this second book in New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale's Princess Academy series, Miri embarks on a brand new life in the city. ![]() ![]() ![]() The original novel ended on a surprisingly upbeat note, but how do the different finales for the movie iterations of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers stack up? ![]() Related: Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Scream: How The Movie Made The Sound Effect The movie was originally filmed as a slow-burn psychological thriller but later underwent extensive reshoots and re-edits to add a car chase and more overt thrills. The most recent take was 2007's The Invasion starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. While it did little business its since become a cult favorite. Body Snatchers from 1993 moved the action to an isolated military base, with director Abel Ferrara working form a screenplay co-written by Stuart Gordon. It was remade by Philip Kaufman in 1978 with Donald Sutherland, with this take being arguably the most acclaimed. ![]() Don Siegel ( Dirty Harry) helmed the first Invasion Of The Body Snatchers in 1956, which used the concept as a not too subtle metaphor for the Red Scare. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenary Kate Daniels has more paranormal problems than she knows what to do with these days. As they dig further into the merc’s business, they discover that the Mercenary Guild has gone to hell and that Eduardo’s recent assignments are connected in the most sinister way…Īn ancient enemy has arisen, and Kate and Curran are the only ones who can stop it-before it takes their city apart piece by piece. by Ilona Andrews (Author) (7,473) When magic strikes and Atlanta goes to pieces, it’s a job for mercenary Kate Daniels in this thrilling novel in the 1 New York Times bestselling series. ![]() While they’re thrilled to escape all the infighting, Kate and Curran know that separating from the Pack completely is a process that will take time.īut when they learn that their friend Eduardo has gone missing, Kate and Curran shift their focus to investigate his disappearance. Magic is coming and going in waves in post-Shift Atlanta-and each crest leaves danger in its wake in this gripping novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Kate Daniels series.Īfter breaking from life with the Pack, mercenary Kate Daniels and her mate-former Beast Lord Curran Lennart-are adjusting to a very different pace. ![]() ![]() ![]() Little ones will love wearing their color mixing activity when you let them tie dye a tee shirt! What a great book activity to do after reading Mouse Paint to your preschoolers. ![]() Transform a couple of water balloons into “mice” and let your kids explore color mixing in a fun hands-on way. Kids can explore primary and secondary colors with these Mouse Paint “learning about colors” activities. When you’re finished reading the story, choose one or more of these Mouse Paint preschool activities to extend the learning and bring the story to life. ![]() What happens when three white mice discover three jars of paint – red, blue, and yellow? Find out in Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh. These Mouse Paint activities for kids are a great way to bring Ellen Stoll Walsh’s book to life for your little ones. ![]() ![]() With penetrating insight, Amanda Foreman reveals a fascinating woman whose struggle against her own weaknesses, whose great beauty and flamboyance, and whose determination to play a part in the affairs of the world make her a vibrant, astonishingly contemporary figure. But Georgiana's public success concealed an unhappy marriage, a gambling addiction, drinking, drug taking, and rampant love affairs with the leading politicians of the day. She became the queen of fashionable society and founder of the most important political salon of her time. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of England's richest and most influential aristocrats. ![]() ![]() Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. ![]() ![]() He would also join the Sierra club at the age of 17 and would later become a director. Ansel first visited Yosemite in 1916 where he had frequent contact with the Best family who owned the Best studio. At the age of 12 Ansel was pulled out of school by his father to be taught by private tutors, to take piano lessons and to learn Greek. His nose never corrected and he would go on to live his whole life with a crooked nose. He was injured at four years old from an aftershock of the 1906 earthquake, during the aftershock he was thrown into a garden wall and broke his nose. His photography was used as inspirations for saving wilderness by turning it into national parks and also has recorded America’s past.Īnsel was born in San Francisco on February 20, 1902, he was born into an upper-class family. He was a photographer and concert pianist although he was more renowned for his photography. Ansel Adams was a California native and resident who was born in San Francisco. ![]() ![]() ![]() The case lands in Kane's lap, and he and Miki are caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Old loyalties and even older grudges emerge from Chinatown's murky, mysterious past, and Miki struggles to deal with his dead mother's abandonment, her secrets, and her brutal murder while he's hunted by an enigmatic killer who may have ties to her. ![]() It's a pity someone's trying to kill him. Miki's got a solid, loving partner named Kane Morgan - an inspector with the SFPD whose enormous Irish family has embraced him as one of their own - and his dog, Dude, at his side. His best friend, Damien, is back from the dead, and their new band, Crossroads Gin, is soaring up the charts. John believed happy endings only existed in fairy tales until his life took a few unexpected turns.and now he's found his own. ![]() |