![]() ![]() During the progression of the story, the author provides perspective on the gender roles women faced in 1956 New York, and gives the reader insight into the thoughts and reservations of a lesbian couple in this time period. ![]() ![]() Three Girls by Joyce Carol Oates is a story about a lesbian couple, and their observation of the behavior of a disguised Marilyn Monroe who, surprisingly to the narrator and her companion, wants to be seen as nothing more than a common person. The importance of female celebrities to stay in the spotlight based on their appearance and sex appeal is a clear example of the imbalance between the genders, and their roles in society. “A sex symbol’s currency lies in her youth, her curves, in the suggestion that a sexual encounter lurks around the next corner.” (Sharon Krum, The Guardian) The power struggle between genders in society is something that can be seen every day, particularly in the media. ![]()
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![]() verso Bibliography note Includes bibliographical references and index Carrier category volume Carrier category codeĬarrier MARC source rdacarrier Content category text Content type codeĬontent type MARC source rdacontent Contents South Africa - Prologue : an unwelcome visitor - No-touchism - Among Zulus - Upper house - Leading the indentured - India - Waking India - Unapproachability - Hail, deliverer - Fast unto death - Village of service - Mass mayhem - Do or die Dimensions 25 cm. Great soul : Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India.Label Great soul : Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India, Joseph Lelyveld Instantiates Index index present Literary form non fiction Nature of contents bibliography Language eng Summary In this ambitious, original study, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhi's accomplishments as a politician and an advocate for the downtrodden-against Gandhi's own expectations and in light of his complex, conflicted feelings about his place in Indian history Biography type individual biography Lelyveld, Joseph Illustrations ![]()
![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Sapphira, Acacia’s Oracle sister, stays in the underworld with Bonnie and Shiloh, waiting for the signal to emerge and join the battle. In search of aid, Billy escorts Acacia, an Oracle of Fire, through a dangerous volcano portal. A wall of fire protects the inexperienced villagers of Second Eden from a planned invasion of dragons and Nephilim, but how long will the flames last? Billy, Walter, Ashley, Elam, and the faithful dragons help the people prepare, but they are woefully outnumbered and will have to go back to Earth and recruit the humans who have the ability to revert to their former dragon states. ![]() ![]() ![]() Primarily remembered today for her trio of classic children's novels - Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911) - Burnett was also a popular adult novelist, in her own day, publishing romantic stories such as The Making of a Marchioness (1901) for older readers. She died in her Long Island, New York home, in 1924. Following her great success as a novelist, playwright, and children's author, Burnett maintained homes in both England and America, traveling back and forth quite frequently. ![]() ![]() In 1900 Burnett married actor Stephen Townsend until 1902 when they got divorced. Swan Burnett, with whom she had two sons, Lionel and Vivian. Here Hodgson began to write, in order to supplement the family income, assuming full responsibility for the family upon the death of her mother, in 1870. She was educated at The Select Seminary for Young Ladies and Gentleman until the age of fifteen, at which point the family ironmongery, then being run by her mother, failed, and the family emigrated to Knoxville, Tennessee. Frances Eliza Hodgson was the daughter of ironmonger Edwin Hodgson, who died three years after her birth, and his wife Eliza Boond. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She lives alone in the middle of the woods and has no visitors. She cared for her family dutifully before they all died. Its a great open and gives the protagonist immediate dimension: She’s okay with being complicit in these murders in order to remain undisturbed. We’re quickly introduced to a mysterious pile of rheumy bodies in the woods and a woman who doesn’t seem to think twice about hiding them. Emily Carroll’s Out of Skin is one of my favorite stories of hers to date and it does exactly that. It especially works when the sublime is contained in the fragile carcass of a woman’s body or mind, a favored subject of deconstruction in the horror genre. Horror works when it upsets the boundary between life and death, the mundane and sublime. ![]() ![]() ![]() They say she was a creative genius who made a room come to life with her excitement. Margaret died after surgery for a bursting appendix while in France. The puppies had licked all the paint off the paper. When he woke up, the papers he painted on were bare. The illustrator painted many pictures one day and then fell asleep. One time she gave two puppies to someone who was going to draw a book with that kind of dog. She also taught illustrators to draw the way a child saw things. She tried to write the way children wanted to hear a story, which often isn't the same way an adult would tell a story. ![]() She said she dreamed stories and then had to write them down in the morning before she forgot them. There are many scraps of paper where she quickly wrote down a story idea or a poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. Even though she died nearly 70 years ago, her books still sell very well. ![]() ![]() Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. ![]() ![]() ![]() Surprisingly, paradise transforms to a place of sinister doings when a smuggler washes up dead in a nearby cove and then a young Greek guy drowns off the coast of Albania, – both seemingly unconnected. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story surrounds an out of work actress, Lucy Waring, who travels to the idyllic Ionian Island of Corfu to spend time with her sister and contemplate her future. One such novel was This Rough Magic, a mid-sixties tale with plenty of romance, lashings of intrigue and a soupçon of golden lipstick. Strong women with good hearts were her “anti-namby-pamby” reaction, as she called it, to the “silly heroine types” of conventional contemporary thrillers, that might be told, “it’s imperative you don’t open the door for anybody,” then immediately lay down a welcome mat during a power-cut to any creep wielding wire-cutters. British author, Mary Stewart was a pioneer of romantic-suspense novels and appeared regularly on bestseller lists at a time when Alfred Hitchcock was producing the kind of glamorous and colourful movies that attracted the likes of Grace Kelly and Cary Grant.Įxotic locations were a feature of her work, as were smart, highly educated young women thrust into daring adventures from which they’d emerge intact and happily romantically involved. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Against the backdrop of a tangled web of deviant sexual practices Hal must rescue his lover before the killer strikes again. ![]() And when an horrific murder in a sleepy Welsh village stirs a seasoned reporter, a conceited detective and an overweight IT expert into action, they too always seem to be one step behind the mysterious killer - Hagar. The game’s afoot! Whether hunting a vandal, a killer, or a shadowy conspiracy, in Indiana, California or New York, Holmes and Watson are on the case.ĭescription: When beautiful Jenny Morris uses Facebook to get her ex-boyfriend Hal Griffiths to stalk her she has no idea what a dangerous game she is playing - for someone else is watching from the murky shadows of cyberspace. ![]() In, the creators of Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets have invited three talented writers to bring startling visions of the Great Detective and the redoubtable Doctor Watson to the page: as a carnival owner and fortune teller in the ’thirties American Dust Bowl, as a drugged-up, tuned-out weirdnik in ’sixties New York City, and as the most irregular consultant in present-day Hollywood. Every era has its thieves and monsters, its exploiters and abusers, and in every era the detective of Baker Street will piece together the clues and bring the guilty to book. Brilliant, distracted, sarcastic, abrasive, superior, fiercely loyal and-above all-ferociously principled, Sherlock Holmes is a hero for all times. Description: THREE VERY DIFFERENT BAKER STREETS. ![]() ![]() Not to mention thehousehold's five computers. Anne says hasbeen writing since the dawn of time, and when she's not writing she'sfeeling guilty.Īnne lives on 20 acres in a town in northern Vermont with her magnificenthusband of more than 25 years, Richard Ohlrogge, two wonderful teenagechildren (a boy and a girl), four cats, a springer spaniel, a satellitedish, seven televisions, six VCRs, a DVD player, six CD players, a Husqvarnasewing machine and serger. ![]() ![]() She is the winner of RomanceWriters of America's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. Martin's, Pocket Books, Avon, Signet, Zebra,Fawcett, Silhouette, Harlequin, and MIRA. In theensuing years she's written for almost every publisher, including Dell,Doubleday, Berkley, St. It sold toBallantine and was published in 1974, when she was just 25 years old. Whenthere wasn't enough of either to keep her happy she moved to Vermont towrite her first romance, a gothic entitled Barrett's Hill. ![]() In her early 20s Anne lived for rock and roll and gothic romances. She read voraciously and began towrite novels in fifth grade, usually involving technically impossible lovescenes (back then fifth graders were innocent). ![]() Anne Kristine Stuart was born on in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,U.S.A., just after World War II to overeducated parents and grew up inPrinceton, New Jersey (back in the days when girls didn't go to Princeton).Her childhood was classically dysfunctional, but she managed to survive andeven thrive, helped by her love of story. ![]() ![]() ![]() This ebook edition is updated with the diary that Sandy Woodward kept during the course of the campaign. One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander: Woodward, Sandy, Robinson, Patrick: 9781557506511: : Books Skip to main content. ‘One Hundred Days’ is an engrossing and authoritative retelling of these dramatic events, as well as a candid and revealing insight into what it is to lead your country to war. ![]() In this acclaimed account, he takes us from day 1 to day 100 of the conflict through the tragic losses of ships and men to the defeat of the Argentinian Navy and the retaking of the islands. But with no advantage in the air or on land and the vast distances involved, many felt that victory was at best unlikely – and at worst, impossible.Īs Battle Group Commander, Admiral Sandy Woodward was the man in charge on the frontline. ![]() ![]() It soon became obvious they were sailing to war. On 5 April 1982, three days after Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, British armed forces were ordered to sail 8,000 miles to the South Atlantic. 1 Admiral Sandy Woodward, One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1992), xviii. The bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the Falklands War, written by the commander of the British Task Force. ![]() |