![]() Violence is what made the revolution revolutionary.” Violence of the streets and of the state, then, is Schama’s central subject, which he confronts with both high moral seriousness and appalling superficiality. ![]() ![]() Worst of all, it was a vast spectacle of horror held together from beginning to end by popular savagery and official atrocities-”bloodshed was not the unfortunate by-product of revolution, it was the source of its energy. The revolution was a bizarre process of demanding human rights only to suppress them. Rather, it interrupted the bourgeoisifying of France, impeded modernization, and established human rights only to suppress them. ![]() The revolution was not, (as many other historians point out) bourgeois, a mere fantasy of Marxists. For the bicentennial of the French Revolution, Simon Schama sings no birthday songs, only litanies on the “normalization of evil.” Following some recent French historians, and ideas that go back to Alexis de Tocqueville’s “The Ancien Regime and the Revolution” (1856), he argues that much of what was progressive in the Revolution was already developing in the 18th Century. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But as her new life spins out of control, Frannie begins to worry if she’ll ever get back home. Plunged into lives and adventures she’s only imagined-from being a pop star to meeting one super-cute boy-Frannie finds courage in the unforgettable friends and families she meets along the way. Amazing! There’s only one catch: waking up as someone else keeps happening. When Frannie makes one desperate, crazy wish-BOOM!-she magically bounces into a whole new life, with a totally different family. And. ![]() And her parents have just announced they’re going on a last-minute vacation-without her. Seventh grader Frannie Hudson wonders what it would be like to trade in her family for a new one. Her wish is granted and she finds herself 'bouncing' into the lives of other girls and living Christmas Day on repeat-learning the value of family, finding your voice, and the power of love." (Variety)Ī celebration of the power of love and connection, Megan Shull’s extraordinary novel captures one girl’s journey to find her voice, heal her heart, and discover the joy of bouncing back. YouTube star Jojo Siwa to star in the upcoming movie adaptation! "Bounce is a heartwarming story about a teenage girl who wishes she could trade her family for a new one on Christmas Eve. ![]() ![]() When she meets Mattia she recognizes a kindred, tortured spirit, and Mattia reveals to Alice his terrible secret: that as a boy he abandoned his mentally-disabled twin sister in a park to go to a party, and when he returned, she was nowhere to be found. As a child, Alice’s overbearing father drove her first to a terrible skiing accident, and then to anorexia. Alice and Mattia, too, move on their own axis, alone with their personal tragedies. ![]() From the author of Heaven and Earth, a sensational novel about whether a "prime number" can ever truly connect with someone elseĪ prime number is inherently a solitary thing: it can only be divided by itself, or by one: it never truly fits with another. ![]() ![]() ![]() But at a certain point in the book, you may find yourself dramatically reassessing those assumptions while spinning backward and cringing with horror-tinged delight. If you add them up, you’ll have a relatively good sense of what reading Thompson’s first novel in the Wormwood Trilogy is like. ![]() So when I tell you that Rosewater is a science fiction mystery that is simultaneously about an alien invasion and a man trying to avoid being murdered, I do so knowing that each of those elements may conjure familiar generic conventions. By the fifth rotation, I decided that what the ride actually was, though unexpected, was far better than the ride I had anticipated. ![]() And then my roommate rocked our car entirely backward into a dedicated independent full-spin of at least six rotations.Ībout the third time around, I realized that I hadn’t actually known what the heck I was getting into. My roommate and I climbed aboard our car, were locked into the harness by the attendant, and joked as the wheel began to lift and slowly rotate. Tilting, hoisting, and rotating were all ride mechanics I’d experienced before - easily managed. At least two stories tall, painted orange and fuchsia, the new ride was a gyroscopic wheel made up of two-seater cars that could tilt independently forward and back as the whole wheel lifted and hinged at an angle. ![]() There was a new ride towering over the beloved, but outgrown, kiddie-sized swings. One summer, I went to the beach boardwalk with my college roommate. WHEN FINISHING Tade Thompson’s Rosewater, I had a visceral flashback. ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Vicky Bijur, Vicky Bijur Literary. Massey has never been better at pairing her redoubtable and impressive lead with a challenging murder to unravel. THE BOMBAY PRINCE Sujata Massey Bombay’s first female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, is compelled to bring justice to the family of a murdered female Parsi student just as Bombay’s streets erupt in riots to protest British colonial rule. The victim died, apparently of a head wound, on the 30-year anniversary of the unexplained deaths of two female students at the University of Bombay, who fell from a clock tower, suffering similar injuries. After the parade, which was disrupted by protesters inspired by lawyer Mohandas Gandhi’s advocacy for Indian independence, a woman’s corpse is found at the college. Mistry can only advise Freny that she and the others should feign illness to avoid punishment for not attending. Freny represents a group of students who wish to skip a parade scheduled for the prince, which their head of school says is mandatory. ![]() She is best known for the Perveen Mistry series published in the United States by Soho Press and in India by Penguin Random House India. Before the royal’s arrival, Freny Cuttingmaster, a student at Woodburn College, seeks Mistry’s guidance. Sujata Massey is the author of historical and mystery fiction set in Asia. Agatha winner Massey’s exceptional third mystery featuring Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s first female solicitor (after 2019’s The Satapur Moonstone), finds the city’s residents preparing for the visit of Britain’s Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII, in 1921. ![]() ![]() Holtz was on the verge of an important new discovery, Dash finds out, and it’s a secret that could change everything for the Moonies-a secret someone just might kill to keep. Holtz went onto the lunar surface without his helmet properly affixed, simple as that. Dash senses there’s foul play afoot, but no one believes him. Then Moon Base Alpha’s top scientist turns up dead. Kids aren’t allowed on the lunar surface, meaning they’re trapped inside the tiny moon base with next to nothing to occupy their time-and the only other kid Dash’s age spends all his time hooked into virtual reality games. ![]() Like his fellow lunarnauts-otherwise known as Moonies-living on Moon Base Alpha, twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson is famous the world over for being one of the first humans to live on the moon.Īnd he’s bored out of his mind. It’s a murder mystery on the moon in this humorous and suspenseful space adventure from the author of Belly Up and Spy School that The New York Times Book Review called “a delightful and brilliantly constructed middle grade thriller.” ![]() ![]() ![]() But when Bee's favorite producer casts her to star in a Christmas movie he's making for the squeaky-clean Hope Channel, Bee's career is about to take a more family-friendly direction.įorced to keep her work as Bianca under wraps, Bee quickly learns this is a task a lot easier said than done. ![]() With a huge following and two supportive moms, Bee couldn't ask for more. "The charming holiday romp you absolutely need in your life!" - Tessa Baileyīee Hobbes (aka Bianca Von Honey) has a successful career as a plus-size adult film star. Cowritten by #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy and USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone-a steamy plus-size holiday rom-com about an adult film star who is semi-accidentally cast as a lead in a family-friendly Christmas movie, and the former bad-boy pop star she falls in love with. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Forster’s career as a novelist also spanned the wider period of Modernism, but he avoided the experimental technical styles of famous Modernists like Virginia Woolf ( Mrs. These writers reflected and commented on England’s social conditions at the height of the British Empire, when the material luxuries enjoyed by the rich contrasted strikingly with the squalid conditions experienced by four-fifths of the English population. Wodehouse (“Keeping it from Harold,” “Best Seller”). Contemporaries of Forster in the Edwardian Period, named for King Edward VII and spanning from Queen Victoria’s death in 1901 to the outbreak of WWI in 1914, included George Bernard Shaw ( Pygmalion), Rudyard Kipling ( The Jungle Book), and P. ![]() ![]() ![]() When I'm not at my day job for the Oklahoma House of Representatives as a Legislative Assistant, I love to sit on the back porch at home and write as I wait for deer and other creatures to mosey on by. We call our thirty acres of heaven The Dirty Thirty. In the fall of 2018 after my three sons flew the coop, my husband and I moved out to the country. I am a writer of fiction (Salvaged, Rise, Collision, Losing Brave, The Presidents. In 2016, I saw the release of my first feature film (co-writer) Annabelle Hooper and the Ghosts of Nantucket, and I'm currently working on multiple scripts and a new Young Adult novel. Follow Stefne Miller to get new release emails from Audible and Amazon. In 2010, based on the ratings and reviews of my self-published first novel, Salvaged, I was a Top 15 Finalist in the Reader’s Choice Awards in the category of Debut Author of 2010, and I was pretty stoked about it. ![]() It was modern, funny, sweet, heart-wrenching, romantic, and beautifully spiritual. Boy, was I wrong This book was delightful. I am a writer of fiction (Salvaged, Rise, Collision, Losing Brave, The Presidents' Daughters series), non-fiction and made for-for-television and feature film scripts. I read for enjoyment, not to be preached at. ![]() ![]() Of course, Riden, the youngest of Jeskor’s sons, has spent his life dealing with troublesome Pirate Captains. “Numerous escape attempts, causing bodily injury to the first mate as well as several members of the crew, the death of a Pirate…” - P126, Daughter of the Pirate King Alosa herself is quite the troublemaker and makes her captor work hard to keep her in line. Being the Daughter of the Siren Queen giving her a particular set of abilities that makes her invaluable to the Pirate King. In Daughter of the Pirate King, we see Alosa’s struggle to make her father happy and the eventual revelation that Alosa is not just the daughter of the Pirate King, but also the Daughter of the Siren Queen. ![]() When she isn’t holed up in the brig during her stay on the Night Farer, she spends her time trying to fulfill the true reason behind her capture, finding Jeskor’s portion of a map that would lead to the Siren Queen’s lair, and more importantly the treasure of the Siren Queen. She has grown up learning how to fight and has a certain ability that makes her able to easily identify men’s desires. ![]() Alosa has no such qualms, she's the Daughter of the Pirate King, and she makes sure that is known when she is captured. ![]() While some of my favorite pirate stories often start with a girl stowing away on a ship bound for adventure, usually the girl in question has commandeered men’s clothes and is trying to hide who she is and the fact that she is a woman. ![]() |