![]() ![]() ![]() Ramsay, their eight children, and assorted holiday guests. ![]() To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions into the life of the Ramsay family living in a summer house off the rocky coast of Scotland. The authorized, original edition of one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century: a miraculous novel of family, love, war, and mortality, with a foreword from Eudora Welty.įrom the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and conflict between men and women. "A classic for a reason. My mind was warped into a new shape by her prose and it will never be the same again." - Greta Gerwig ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She has been a bookseller on and off since 2009. Hillary Smith is Southern Pomo and Coastal Miwok and originally from Northern California. Lisa Swayze is the General Manager and Buyer at Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca’s cooperatively owned independent bookstore. You’ve heard me mention Buffalo Street Books on all episodes-and it is Lisa who has really transformed the store into a community space for all of our community, where anyone can find themselves represented in the books, events, and atmosphere of the bookstore. Khalid Khalifa, No Knives in the Kitchen of this City Her work has been translated into 20 languages, and her short fiction has been anthologized in The Pushcart Prize XLI (2017), The Best American Short Stories 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 and 2009, New Stories from the Midwest and Best American Fantasy, and featured on Public Radio International’s Selected Shorts and This American Life. ![]() The Great Believers was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and received the ALA Carnegie Medal and the LA Times Book Prize, among other honors. Makkai is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada College and Northwestern University, and she is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago. Rebecca Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the novels The Great Believers, The Hundred-Year House, and The Borrower, as well as the short story collection Music for Wartime. Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions for You (Viking, 2023) ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly, all their rules are thrown out the window, and the two of them must redefine what love really is. But when Lucy shows up for a routine physical just shy of their eleventh anniversary, she gets an impossible surprise that changes everything. In dealing with their unique challenges, they make the heartbreaking decision not to have children. Like any marriage, they have good days and bad days-and some very bad days. Lucy promises not to blame him for what is beyond his control. Cautious every step of the way, they are determined to make their relationship work-and they put it all in writing. But when their paths cross on the night of Lucy's twenty-first birthday, sparks fly, and there's no denying their chemistry. They're both plagued with faulty genes-he has bipolar disorder, and she has a ravaging family history of breast cancer. ![]() Lucy Houston and Mickey Chandler probably shouldn't have fallen in love, let alone gotten married. A powerfully written novel offering an intimate look at a beautiful marriage and how bipolar disorder and cancer affect it, Dancing on Broken Glass by Ka Hancock perfectly illustrates the enduring power of love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are no longer problems of the spirit. Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will some day stand here where I am standing. ![]() It will not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part of it commensurate with the purpose and significance of its origin. I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work – a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. William Faulkner’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, Decem* Share via Email: William Faulkner – Banquet speech Share this content via Email.Share on LinkedIn: William Faulkner – Banquet speech Share this content on LinkedIn.Tweet: William Faulkner – Banquet speech Share this content on Twitter. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Rivers of London was published in 2011 and has since developed into a series spanning 11 novels and novella’s as well as a number of graphic novels. The London that Aaronovitch creates in the first book of the urban fantasy Peter Grant series, manages to balance details familiar to anyone who has spent any time in London, while also weaving into the city streets a beautiful new magic world. While the first two may be real reasons I love living in London, the third is a creation of Ben Aaronovitch’s, Rivers of London, a creative re-imaging of modern-day London. London is an amazing city for the sheer breadth of people, cultures, and activities that live within it Brixton’s wealth of Caribbean food, 3000 parks, and green spaces, and an ancient form of magic first formalised by Sir Isaac Newton? ![]() Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch, Book Cover ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her historical romance novels, My Heart Belongs in the Blue Ridge and The Red Ribbon, and her contemporary novels, the Mitchell’s Crossroads and Pleasant Gap series, showcase her Appalachian heritage, as well as her love for humor and family. Her historical romance, The Thorn Healer, was a finalist in the 2018 RT Awards. Both her historical and contemporary novels have garnered recognition in the Grace Awards, Inspys, and ACFW Carol Awards. Pepper Basham is an award-winning author who writes romance peppered with grace and humor with southern Appalachian flair. As the suspects mount in an antiquities’ heist of ancient proportions, will Frederick and Grace’s attempts to solve the mystery lead to another death among the sands? Click here to get your copy! About the Author From an assortment of untrustworthy adventure-seekers to a newly discovered tomb with a murderous secret, Frederick and Grace must lean on each other to navigate their dangerous surroundings. Newlyweds Lord and Lady Astley have already experienced their fair-share of suspense, but when a honeymoon trip takes a detour to the mystical land of Egypt, not even Grace with her fiction-loving mind is prepared for the dangers in store. Clue meets Indiana Jones with a fiction-loving twist only Grace Percy can provide. ![]() ![]() ![]() evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.Īs psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King’s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents-telekinesis and telepathy-who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. but trapped in the hedonistic world of 1920s Havana. ![]() The operation takes less than two minutes. A stunning novel about two Russian Jewish sisters, desperate to get to the U.S. In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The Institute by Stephen King is published by Hodder & Stoughton (20) To order a copy go to or call 03 Free UK p&p over 15, online orders only. ![]() ![]() ![]() When it’s time to change, she goes back to into the closet – to find Austine there as well, unrolling her own long winter underwear from under her costume. But as she’s moving around, so does the underwear, until it’s bunching up in the strangest places and interfering with the grace of the dance. She rolls them up inside her leotard and tutu, and goes out to join the class. No one else wears such old-fashioned underwear, and she would just die if anyone knew. Needing her privacy, Ellen slips into the janitor’s closet and there reveals to the reader what she hopes no one in her dance class will ever know – she is wearing long woolen underwear for the winter. She races up to the changing room, only to find Austine, the new girl, already there. ![]() ![]() Ellen is off to ballet class, but she’s determined to get there first. The first chapter in the book is my very favorite. In “ Ellen Tebbits,” Beverly Cleary brings us another little girl who’s very ordinary, who has the same hopes, fears and dreams that nearly every little girl does. ![]() ![]() ![]() This first-ever reprint features deliciously creepy new cover art by Mike Mignola. Ĭold Moon Over Babylon (1980), the second novel by Michael McDowell (1950-1999), author of Blackwater and The Elementals and screenwriter of Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas, is a chilling Southern Gothic tale of revenge from beyond the grave that ranks among his most terrifying books. And when the full moon rises over Babylon, it will seek a terrible vengeance. Night after night it will pursue the murderer. ![]() And beneath the murky surface of the river, a shifting, almost human shape slowly takes form. Now they are about to endure another: fourteen-year-old Margaret Larkin will be robbed of her innocence and her life by a killer who is beyond the reach of the law.īut something strange is happening in Babylon: traffic lights flash an eerie blue, a ghostly hand slithers from the drain of a kitchen sink, graves erupt from the local cemetery in an implacable march of terror. Welcome to Babylon, a typical sleepy Alabama small town, where years earlier the Larkin family suffered a terrible tragedy. ![]() ![]() "McDowell has a flair for the gruesome." - Washington Post "Readers of weak constitution should beware." - Publishers Weekly "The finest writer of paperback originals in America." - Stephen King ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He's also an artist who paints at night and hides his work in the light of day, which Chloe knows because she spies on him occasionally. Redford 'Red' Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten-thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job. Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage.īut it's not easy being bad, even when you've written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly. Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex. After almost-but not quite-dying, she's come up with seven directives to help her "Get a Life", and she's already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family's mansion. Perfect for fans of Sally Thorne, Jasmine Guillory, and Helen HoangĬhloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. ![]() a flawless balance of humor, heat, sweetness, and depth, and I loved every page." - Helen Hoang,Ī witty, hilarious romantic comedy about a woman who's tired of being "boring" and recruits her mysterious, sexy neighbor to help her experience new things ![]() |