The bone tree trilogy6/9/2023 The only way Penn can save his father, Dr. The puppeteer who actually controls the terrorist group is a man far more fearsome: the chief of the state police’s Criminal Investigations Bureau, Forrest Knox. But the real danger has only begun as FBI Special Agent John Kaiser warns Penn that Brody wasn’t the true leader of the Double Eagles. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles comes the second novel in his Natchez Burning trilogy-which also includes Natchez Burning and the upcoming Mississippi Blood-an epic trilogy of blood and race, family and justice, featuring Southern lawyer Penn Cage.įormer prosecutor Penn Cage and his fiancée, reporter and publisher Caitlin Masters, have barely escaped with their lives after being attacked by wealthy businessman Brody Royal and his Double Eagles, a KKK sect with ties to some of Mississippi’s most powerful men.
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Harold bloom macbeth6/9/2023 He suggests, for example, that it’s possible the Macbeths have no children because Macbeth suffers from premature ejaculations. Although Bloom’s interpretations are invariably sound and based on a lifetime of reading and teaching the play, there are times when he ventures near the border of the plausible. Although Bloom condemns these events (more than once and unequivocally: “his greatest iniquity”), he also notes that, somehow, we still feel something of a loss when Macduff, later, carries Macbeth’s severed head onto the stage for us to see. For example, Bloom lingers on the grim and grotesque Macbeth-ordered murder of Macduff’s wife, son, servants. Throughout, the author muses on Macbeth’s “proleptic and prophetic imagination” and wonders-all the way to the final paragraph-what it is about this sanguinary, murderous character that so deeply appeals to audiences. Having previously presented brief volumes on Iago, Lear, Cleopatra, and Falstaff, Bloom (Humanities/Yale Univ.) walks us through Macbeth, quoting lengthy passages from the text to illuminate his points. The venerable and prolific literary scholar completes his Shakespeare’s Personalities series with a lingering and deeply curious, even troubled, look at the titular character in the legendary play. Serpico by peter maas6/9/2023 The papers primarily consist of records that document Maas' work as an author of fiction and non-fiction books. The collection includes business files, clippings, correspondence, drafts, interviews (both tapes and transcripts), manuscripts, and research files. Peter Maas (1929-2001) was an author and journalist, best-known for his non-fiction books on organized crime, particularly The Valachi Papers and Serpico, which were later made into films. Series III: Book Files, circa 1963-2000.Series I: General and Personal Correspondence, 1949-1973. This collection is arranged in five series. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account. You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. 26.5 linear feet (21 record cartons 3 document boxes 4.5 audiocassette boxes and 1 poster tube) Speaking of sequels and franchises, of course there are a ton of superhero movies. It's another big year for horror, too: after M3gan was a hit, the Conjuring and Insidious franchises keep rolling, while horror icons The Exorcist and The Evil Dead rise again. We also return to the world of the Hunger Games and Willy Wonka with new prequels. We've lost count of how many Transformers movies there are, but there's a new one in 2023. And Harrison Ford may be in his 80s, but that won't stop the fifth Indiana Jones adventure swinging into theaters. Netflix is bringing back hugely popular action flick Extraction and TV detective Luther. Look out for sequels involving John Wick, The Expendables, Ghostbusters, Creed and Kenneth Branagh's version of Hercule Poirot. The Saw and the Fast and Furious franchises hit their 10th entry, while Tom Cruise will be looking to repeat his Top Gun: Maverick mega-success with Mission: Impossible movie no. The just so stories6/9/2023 The great Stephen Jay Gould referred to these hypotheses concerning adaptation of features as “Just So Stories,” named after the popular children’s book by Rudyard Kipling that, through a series of charming tales, told how different animals acquired their unique features, such as the camel and his hump. ~Rudyard Kipling, How the Camel Got His Hump.Īlthough we all realize that the camel didn’t get its hump out of laziness and that this is just a cute children’s story designed to impress upon kids the value of honest work, some days I’m not so sure that current theories about adaptation aren’t far off the same mark. Come out of the Desert and go to the Three, and behave. You will be able to work now for three days without eating, because you can live on your humph and don’t you ever say I never did anything for you. ‘That’s made a-purpose,’ said the Djinn, ‘all because you missed those three days. ‘How can I,’ said the Camel, ‘with this humph on my back?’ To-day is Thursday, and you’ve done no work since Monday, when the work began. ‘That’s your very own humph that you’ve brought upon your very own self by not working. And the Camel said ‘Humph!’ again but no sooner had he said it than he saw his back, that he was so proud of, puffing up and puffing up into a great big lolloping humph. The drive in by joe r lansdale6/8/2023 Set your mind clear and see if you can imagine a drive-in so big it can hold four thousand automobiles. The world, for that matter, though I doubt there are that many of them in, say, Yugoslavia. I’m writing now about the time before things got weird and there was high school to kiss off, college to plan, girls, parties and the All-Night Horror Show come Friday night at the Orbit Drive-in off I-45, the largest drive-in in Texas. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.ī Table of ContentsĪBOUT THE AUTHOR THE DRIVE-IN A B-Movie with Blood and Popcorn, Made in Texas Fade-in Prologue Where real-life historical figures appear, the situations and dialogues concerning those persons are fictional and are not intended to depict actual events within the fictional confines of the story. All incidents and all characters are fictionalized, with the exception that well-known historical and public figures are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Race to the sun rebecca roanhorse6/8/2023 When Dad disappears the next day, leaving behind a message that says Run!, the siblings and Nizhoni”s best friend, Davery, are thrust into a rescue mission that can only be accomplished with the help of Diné Holy People, all disguised as quirky characters. Nizhoni knows he”s a threat, but her father won”t believe her. Charles, her dad”s new boss at the oil and gas company, and he”s alarmingly interested in Nizhoni and her brother, Mac, their Navajo heritage, and the legend of the Hero Twins. Lately, seventh grader Nizhoni Begay has been able to detect monsters, like that man in the fancy suit who was in the bleachers at her basketball game. Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Indigenous fantasy writer Rebecca Roanhorse”s thrilling adventure about a Navajo girl who discovers she”s a monsterslayer. Among the many various changes that arise as a result of this innovation are an even more powerful British Empire, a Divided States of America, an early Communist Revolution in Manhattan led by Karl Marx himself, steam-powered gurneys (this timeline's equivalent of cars), and the premature invention of "camphorated cellulose" (aka celluloid - the first thermoplastic). 1855 in which a great wave of technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer (actually his Analytical Engine rather than the titular Difference Engine). It is a prime example of the steampunk sub-genre, often considered the Genre Popularizer. The Difference Engine is a 1990 alternate history novel written collaboratively by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. In fact, things not going to plan is a tension at the heart of Confessions of the Fox, a debut novel that's fascinated with the the power of a little chaos, for freedom's sake, in the face of the kind of commodification - of people, of sexuality, of identity, of knowledge, of stories - that threatens to suffocate life itself. Voth ("a guy by design, not birth") soon discovers he's inherited the autobiographical "confessions" of notorious thief and jailbreaker Jack Sheppard and his lover Edgeworth Bess, and sets about attempting to add some academic footnotes. Voth gets his hands on a moldering manuscript nobody in his university library seems to want. In some version of our maybe-present, professor R. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Confessions of the Fox Author Jordy Rosenberg In the years since, I have published New York Times bestselling books that have been translated to 20 languages written hundreds of cover stories, features, profiles, opinion pieces, and reviews for publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Time, People, Slate, Salon, O, The Oprah Magazine, New York Magazine, Parents, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Self, Redbook, Town and Country, Working Mother, Women’s Health and many others become a contributing editor and weekly “Dear Therapist” columnist at The Atlantic and contributed regular commentaries to NPR. While there, my first book was published and ultimately I decided to pursue writing full-time. In my twenties, I focused on visual storytelling as a film and television executive until I returned to Stanford for medical school. The professional part of my story goes like this: I studied language and culture first at Yale and then at Stanford University, where I explored beliefs and traditions across the globe-and immersed myself in those stories. Our own role might change, too-from bit player to lead, from victim to hero. Some major characters might become minor ones, and some minor characters may take on star billing. What first got included in the telling may now be left out, and what was left out may become a central plot point. Of course, in the best of therapy and writing, the story we start out with may not be the story we end up with. |