![]() ![]() Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. ![]() Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. ![]() So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE-The #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 15 million copies sold, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature.”For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. ![]()
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![]() What it's about: Parker Valentine's dream of opening her own winery in her hometown of Boulder, Colorado, has finally come true. If you're in the mood for laugh-out-loud humor, unprecedented mayhem (involving meddlesome family members and over-the-top drama), and delightful twists and turns at every corner, I highly recommend Dial A for Aunties." - Shealea ![]() Without even realizing it, I was 84% in, gripping my stomach from laughing too hard and extremely eager to reach the conclusion. Dial A for Aunties has redefined what 'page-turner' means to me. In one weekend, Meddy and her aunts have to try to evade murder chargers, pull off a high-class wedding, and get Meddy's ex to fall back in love with her.Ī promising review: "What a ride. To make matters even more complicated, Meddy's long-lost love turns up as a guest. ![]() ![]() Her mom and meddling aunts help her get rid of the body, but things go awry and it's mistakenly shipped in a cake cooler to the site of the wedding Meddelin and her family are working at later that week. What it's about: Blind dates are usually bad but when Meddelin Chan accidentally kills hers, things go from bad to worse. ![]() ![]() ![]() State-Making as a Cosmopolitan Ingathering Ethnogenesis, A Radical Constructionist Case On the Disadvantages of Writing and the Advantages of OralityĬHAPTER 7. The Narrowness of Literacy and Some Precedents for Its Loss ![]() In the Shadow of the State, in the Shadow of the Hills Shifting Agriculture as “Escape-Agriculture”Įvading Stateness and Permanent Hierarchy Location, Location, Location, and Mobility State Evasion, State Prevention The Culture and Agriculture of Escape The Friction of Distance: States and CultureĪutonomy as Identity, State-Evading PeoplesĬHAPTER 6. Keeping the State at a Distance The Peopling of the HillsĬrowding, Health, and the Ecology of State Space Leaving the State, Going over to the BarbariansĬHAPTER 5. The Domestication of Borrowed Finery: All the Way Down Valley States, Highland Peoples: Dark Twins The Shaping of State Landscapes and State Subjects The State as Centripetal Population Machine Concentrating Manpower and Grain Slavery and Irrigated Rice The Geography of State Space and the Friction of TerrainĬHAPTER 3. ![]() State Space, Zones of Governance and Appropriation Toward an Anarchist History of Mainland Southeast AsiaĬHAPTER 2. The Symbiotic History of Hills and Valleys The Great Mountain Kingdom or, “Zomia” or, The Marches of Mainland Southeast Asia Hills, Valleys, and States, An Introduction to Zomia ![]() ![]() ![]() The complicated connections between the characters of There, There at times seem too coincidental to be real. As the story builds towards a giant powwow, during which nearly all of his characters find themselves collected in the Oakland Coliseum, Orange argues that not only are people connected in ways they often can’t begin to imagine-but also that the connections which ripple through the world have the power to change lives for the better. As the story deepens, however, it becomes clear that all of the characters are interconnected-by their occupations, by chance, and even by blood. In the early pages of There There, it seems as if Orange’s hopping and skipping around through the perspectives of various Native Americans living in Oakland-Urban Indians, as they often call themselves-is highlighting disparate and isolated points of view.
![]() ![]() ![]() And two, because Shauna's baby does not, as we now know, live through childbirth. And, contrary to the incestuous stretch of a theory tossed around on Reddit and elsewhere, Adam (Peter Gadiot) does not end up being the grown-up version of the baby either. We've known that Shauna was pregnant - and that the father of the baby is her best friend Jackie's (Ella Purnell) boyfriend, Jeff (Jack DePew/Warren Kole) since Season 1, but the fate of that baby has rested on the musings of our own imaginations.īased on what we know of adult Shauna's (Melanie Lynskey) life, she only has one living child, Callie (Sarah Desjardins) who - being that she's in high school - is much younger than "wilderness baby" would be had it been brought back from the cabin they were stranded in over 25 years ago. "Yellowjackets" takes a page from "Flatliners" ![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by an enthusiastic reader's curiosity, written with flair and based on a lifetime's study, What Matters in Austen will appeal to all those who love and enjoy Jane Austen's work. Though not a book about Jane Austen's life, it uses biographical detail and telling passages from her letters to explain episodes in her novels readers will find out, for example, what novels she read or how much money she had to live on or what she saw at the theatre. What Matters in Austen explores the rituals and conventions of her fictional world in order to reveal her technical virtuosity and sheer daring as a novelist. ![]() ![]() So the reader will discover when people had their meals and what shops they went to, how they addressed each other, who was allowed to write letters to whom, who owned coaches or pianos, how vicars got good livings and how wealth was inherited. In twenty-one short chapters, each of which answers a question prompted by Jane Austen's novels, Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most to the workings of the fiction. Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call each other, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? And which important Austen characters never speak? In What Matters in Austen, John Mullan shows that you can best appreciate Jane Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction - by asking and answering some very specific questions about what goes on in her novels, he reveals their devilish cleverness. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Melissa de la Cruz is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of many critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for teens including The Au Pairs series, the Blue Bloods series, the Ashleys series, the Angels on Sunset Boulevard series and the semi-autobiographical novel Fresh off the Boat. And when Alex and Eliza meet that fateful night, so begins an epic love story that would forever change the course of American history. ![]() Though Alex has arrived as the bearer of bad news for the Schuylers, he can’t believe his luck-as an orphan, and a bastard one at that-to be in such esteemed company. Still, she can barely contain her excitement when she hears of the arrival of one Alexander Hamilton, a mysterious, rakish young colonel and General George Washington’s right-hand man. Descended from two of the oldest and most distinguished bloodlines in New York, the Schuylers are proud to be one of their fledgling country’s founding families, and even prouder still of their three daughters-Angelica, with her razor-sharp wit Peggy, with her dazzling looks and Eliza, whose beauty and charm rival that of both her sisters, though she’d rather be aiding the colonists’ cause than dressing up for some silly ball. The rest was history.Īs battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance, servants flutter about preparing for one of New York society’s biggest events: the Schuylers’ grand ball. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Kayla draws Jojo’s attention to a flock of “birds” in the prison fields, and Jojo has a brief vision of men picking cotton. At Parchman the following day, Leonie and Michael share a passionate reunion. ![]() They stay the night with Michael’s lawyer, where Leonie attempts to make an herbal remedy for Kayla before disappearing to get high with Misty and the lawyer, Al. On their way, they stop to pick up a bag of meth from a friend of Misty’s, and then to tend to Kayla, who has developed a fever and is throwing up. Leonie, Jojo, and Jojo’s toddler sister Kayla drive north to Parchman Misty, whose boyfriend is an inmate there, also joins them. While high, she sees the ghost of her dead brother Given, who was killed as a teenager by Michael’s cousin in a racially-motivated murder. After the birthday celebrations are over, Leonie goes to her friend Misty’s house to snort cocaine. As the family gathers for cake, Leonie learns her boyfriend Michael-Jojo’s father-is being released from Parchman after three years’ imprisonment Jojo’s grandfather (Pop) also served time in Parchman as a teenager and has told Jojo stories about his friendship with a 12-year-old inmate named Richie. ![]() The day is subdued: Jojo’s grandmother (Mam) is dying of cancer, and his mother ( Leonie) is addicted to drugs. ![]() In the fictional southern Mississippi town of Bois Sauvage, a biracial boy named Jojo celebrates his 13th birthday. ![]() ![]() He wrote multiple novels, as well as other books including a children's book, a biography of lawyer F. Writing In 1978, he stepped away from journalism to concentrate on his other writing. In 1972 he was arrested with Hank Adams for removing boxes of documents from the Bureau of Indian Affairs after the Trail of Broken Treaties protest led to the occupation of the BIA offices, but the case was quickly dismissed. He was an investigative reporter at the Washington Post beginning in 1969, and shared the "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column with Jack Anderson there. Whitten began his reporting career working for Radio Free Europe from 1951 to 1957. Journalism Whitten then moved to Mexico and again to Paris, continuing to try to be a writer, before shifting back to journalism in order to support his new family. ![]() He returned to Lehigh, this time majoring in English and journalism, became the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper and graduated magna cum laude in 1950. ![]() Army and moved to Paris to become a poet. However, after three semesters he left school, did a stint in the U.S. (born 1928 is an American investigative reporter and novelist.īackground Whitten started his education at Lehigh University, majoring in civil engineering. ![]() ![]() "We're all still young adults with the same garbage sense of humor," says Kate Diamond, who studies mechanical engineering at Colorado School of Mines.Īt first, the American students were apprehensive about talking about the war with their newfound friends. One of the first class assignments was to share memes with one another: Shrek, the road work ahead vine and the trend of trying to work but ending up in bed were a few favorites. ![]() ![]() The idea: American students would learn about life in Ukraine during the war, and the Ukrainians would learn American cultural references to help them if they took up work as Ukrainian-English translators. She and other students in her master's program in Dnipro have been meeting - over Zoom - with undergraduate students at Colorado School of Mines since early February. Daria Samotuga Before the war, Daria Samotuga attended classes in-person at Alfred Nobel University in Dnipro, Ukraine.īut Samotuga's life is also shaped by a new set of relationships - with American college students. ![]() |