![]() She can take whatever she wants from me, whenever she wants it, because I'm her best friend.o A Line in the Dark is a story of love, loyalty, and murder. oIt doesn't even matter that she probably doesn't understand how much she means to me. When the inevitable darkness finally descends, Angie will need her best friend. Secrets and cruelty lie just beneath the carefree surface of this world of wealth and privilege, and when they come out, Jess knows Angie won't be able to handle the consequences. As Angie drags Jess further into Margot's circle, Jess discovers more than her friend's growing crush. Suddenly her powers of observation are more a curse than a gift. With an active focus on female friendships and relationships, A Line in the Dark is a twisty, dark psychological thriller that will leave you guessing til the very end. But when Angie begins to fall for Margot Adams, a girl from the nearby boarding school, Jess can see it coming a mile away. And that’s the most important thing, even if Angie can’t see how Jess truly feels. Jess Wong is Angie Redmond’s best friend. ![]() ![]() If nobody notices her, she's free to watch everyone else. A twisty, dark psychological thriller that will leave you guessing til the very end.'Teen Vogue A riveting read'NPR The line between best friend and something more is a line always crossed in the dark. Being the girl no one quite notices is OK with Jess anyway. And that's the most important thing, even if Angie can't see how Jess truly feels. Jess Wong is Angie Redmond's best friend. ![]()
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Shaara also wrote The Last Full Measure, published in 2000, which follows the events presented in The Killer Angels. Written by Jeffrey Shaara after his father Michael's death in 1988, the novel relates events from 1858 through 1863, during the American Civil War, ending just as the two armies march toward Gettysburg. ![]() ![]() Gods and Generals is a novel which serves as a prequel to Michael Shaara's 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning work about the Battle of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not only that, but he was a terrific storyteller. My stepfather, George, definitely fell into this latter category. But in reality, most stepparents are just doing their ever-loving best, and they aren’t evil at all. How many stepmothers and stepfathers come with the word “evil” in front of their monikers? See what I’m saying. ![]() ![]() There are also lots of stories that feature the stepparent as the Anna Grossnickle Hines’s When We Married Gary is a notable exception. But even today, while there are plenty of middle grade and young adult stories that feature blended families, there aren’t that many picture books. Of course, that was many years ago, and blended families seem more common now than they did back then. So, my sisters and I had to learn to adjust to all of these new people in our lives who were-for better or worse-suddenly related to us.Īs a person who has always found refuge in the pages of a book, I could have used a story or two that featured a family like mine. My parents were divorced and first my dad remarried then a few years later my mom remarried. When I was growing up, I was part of a blended family. ![]() Why did you decide to write a book about blended families? I was very fortunate to be able to ask Kathi Appelt about her new picture book When Otis Courted Mama. ![]() ![]() ![]() Let the Right One In is a truly rare piece of theatre, an enchanting, brutal vampire myth and a coming-of-age love story. A 2010 British-American remake of the film entitled ‘Let Me In’ followed, with both films and achieving cult status and equal critical acclaim. ![]() Jack Thorne’s adaptation of Let the Right One In is based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist ( Låt den rätte komma in, 2004) and the subsequent Swedish-language film version). What Oskar doesn’t know however, is that Eli has been a teenager for a very long time… As their friendship deepens, a series of sinister killings shock the neighborhood. Sensing in each other a kindred spirit, the two quickly become devoted friends. She doesn’t go to school and never leaves the flat by day. Eli, a girl who has just moved in next door. Oskar is a lonely bullied teenage boy living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town. Based on the novel and film by John Ajvide Lindqvist ![]() ![]() ![]() When he gave speeches, he leaned toward the crowd, and the. He had deep-set blue eyes and lost his hair early, and he talked with his hands. For this speech he was arrested and convicted in federal court in Cleveland, Ohio under the war-time espionage law. ![]() You can follow up or “track” your submissions by email, or call 60 on Wednesdays between 1-4 pm CST to ask if we received it, has it been reviewed, has it been added to our library, and what kind of airplay it’s getting-e.g. Debs was a tall man, lanky and rubbery, like a noodle. Eugene Debs made his famous anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, protesting World War I which was raging in Europe. wav or other lossless files, or high quality mp3s wav or mp3, but currently we still prefer CDs to digital submissions because it’s the quickest way to get it into the hands of our programmers and onto the airwaves, though we have a growing digital library. Bedford St, Madison, WI 53703 and/or to do accept digital files on. Please send your music, indicating any tracks with language that needs to be aired after 10 pm and including a one-sheet description and any biographical and tour information, to WORT Music Director, 118 S. We accept submissions in most genres and styles of music, focusing on noncommercial, out-of-the-mainstream, independent releases (check out our playlists and music charts for more information.) It may take up to a few weeks for us to review and process your submission so we appreciate your patience, and feel free to contact us to follow up. ![]() ![]() The play tells the story of a woman nicknamed Li'l Bit as she comes to terms with her sexually abusive relationship with her Uncle Peck throughout her adolescence. ![]() Using the metaphor of driving and the issues of pedophilia, incest, and misogyny, the play explores the ideas of control and manipulation. The story follows the strained, sexual relationship between Li'l Bit and her aunt's husband, Uncle Peck, from her pre-adolescence through her teenage years into college and beyond. It was written and developed at the Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska, with Molly Smith as artistic director. Vogel received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work. The play premiered on March 16, 1997, Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre. How I Learned to Drive is a play written by American playwright Paula Vogel. ![]() ![]() 1997 play by Paula Vogel How I Learned to Drive ![]() ![]() ![]() She muses on the consuming, capacious experience of maternal love, and the near total destruction of the self that ensues from it, as she confronts the friction between domestic life and the seductions and demands of art. As they confront an array of common catastrophes-a colicky baby, bedbugs, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions-the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. ![]() Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband, postmarked Dept. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. ![]() ![]() Ead's purpose in Sabran's court is to ensure that Sabran remains safe, in case her line is tied to the Nameless One. Ead, however, holds with a different set of beliefs, though she pretends to bow to the Six Virtues. Sabran's beliefs are centered around an entire religion known as the Six Virtues. The Nameless One will not return as long as Sabran's lineage continues. Sabran is descended from a warrior who had battled a horrific dragon known as the Nameless One. Kindle AZW file.Įad seems to be a servant in the court of Sabran, Queen of Inys, but she is actually a member of the Priory of the Orange Tree, a secret organization of mages that is sworn to kill dragons. ![]() Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, New York, 2019. ![]() ![]() The following version of the book was used to create this study guide: Shannon-Jones, Samantha, The Priory of the Orange Tree. ![]() ![]() Her determination places both her family and her heart in jeopardy, for a bounty hunter is afoot-and he is none other than Hannah's childhood friend and first love. A gifted healer, this striking young woman of two worlds finds herself in peril when a dangerously ill runaway slave is discovered near the family home and Hannah insists on nursing the outlaw. ![]() But despite a devastating personal loss, the Bonners persevere, with Hannah, Nathaniel's half-Indian daughter, working as a doctor in training. It is the spring of 1802 and the village of Paradise is still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous summer. Now she takes on a new chapter in the life of Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner-as their brave and beautiful oldest daughter comes of age with a challenge that will change her forever. ![]() ![]() In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning author Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilds of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the spirited Bonner family. ![]() ![]() She hears stories of how wonderful Rebecca was and starts to believe that her husband is still in love with his ex-wife. de Winter is haunted by the memory of Rebecca wherever she turns and she begins to feel jealous of her predecessor. Danvers who remains a faithful assistant to Rebecca, Maxim’s dead wife. She is constantly intimidated by the housekeeper, Mrs. The narrator is met with a beautiful home with an eerie atmosphere. de Winter move to Maxim’s wealthy estate, Manderley house in England to begin their married life. After a few short weeks of a whirlwind romance, the young couple gets married. The heroine of the novel meets the love of her life, the character Maxim de Winter, on a fateful day in Monte Carlo. The novel Rebecca is the story of a young unnamed woman that is recalled as a flashback. That is until a ship is suddenly washed ashore and the truth comes out. ![]() The narrator is convinced that everyone in the world – her husband included – loves glamourous and talented Rebecca more than they love her. ![]() ![]() Danvers and the ghostly presence of her husband’s ex-wife, Rebecca. Rebecca recounts the story of a young woman who marries a wealthy widower and moves into the hauntingly beautiful Manderley house. ![]() |