The haunted, hallucinogenic mix of spell workings, witchcraft and disguised sex magic in "The White People" was hailed by HP Lovecraft as the second greatest horror story ever written (after Blackwood's "The Willows"), and it bears the imprint of one who believed in the "wild improbability" of what he wrote. His great stories, and the key works in this collection, date from the Decadent 1890s. TS Eliot was among those who secured him a Civil List pension against the poverty of his later years. Alas, Machen had sold the rights decades before. It wasn't until the 1920s that his books began selling in large quantities. But Wilde's 1895 imprisonment turned the moral tide against Machen's tales of supernatural horror. Aubrey Beardsley and, later, Austin Osman Spare illustrated his works. Machen had already lived in London more than a decade, as he plied a trade as a freelance writer, translating Casanova and writing an essay on tobacco, before an inheritance allowed him to write what he fancied.
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The whole being of Bertha scandalizes and perplexes. Bertha’s oddities are numerous: bicycling in a split skirt, building an octagonal house named Superba high on a hill, marrying a black doctor named Leviticus Sprague and then letting women bowl in full view of spectators. A turn-of-the-20th-century candlepin bowling alley works its way into people’s lives and under their skin in Elizabeth McCracken’s sixth book.Īfter she seems to materialize in a cemetery in Salford, Massachusetts, Bertha Truitt opens Truitt’s Alleys (later rechristened Bowlaway), which takes on a life as mysterious as her own. To tell a good tale, you need drama-and in this area, Bowlaway spares no expense. Roosevelt, Papers as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-1920 | Franklin D. LouisĮxplore more resources, ask questions and get research help on History Hubįranklin D. War in European history by Michael Eliot Howard, 1976, Oxford University Press edition, in English. 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The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. "Full of dramatic twists and turns right up until its moving, beautiful end." -NPR BooksĪt fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. Named a Best Book of the Month by Entertainment Weekly, PopSugar, Bustle, Chicago Review of Books, PureWow, a Best Book of Summer by Daily Beast and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of 2021 Finalist for the Women's Prize in Fiction Her name is romanized as "Yû Watase" in earlier printings of Viz Media's publications of Fushigi Yūgi, Alice 19th, and Ceres, The Celestial Legend, while in Viz Media's Fushigi Yūgi Genbu Kaiden and Absolute Boyfriend her name is romanized as "Yuu Watase". In October 2008, Watase began her first shōnen serialization, Arata: The Legend in Weekly Shōnen Sunday. Because of her frequent use of beautiful male characters in her works, she is widely regarded in circles as a bishōnen manga artist. Since writing her debut short story "Pajama de Ojama" ("An Intrusion in Pajamas"), Watase has created more than 80 compiled volumes of short stories and continuing series. She received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for Ceres, Celestial Legend in 1997. She likes all music, except heavy metal and old traditional music. She is known for her works Fushigi Yūgi, Alice 19th, Ceres: The Celestial Legend, Fushigi Yūgi Genbu Kaiden and Absolute Boyfriend. She is fixated on the number three and often must do things in threes, like scratch her neck three times. until she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she holds dear. In EVERY LAST WORD by Tamara Ireland Stone, Sam is a young woman with Purely-Obsessional OCD. Slowly, she begins to feel more "normal" than she ever has as part of the popular crowd. Sam is drawn to them immediately, especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent for verse, and starts to discover a whole new side of herself. So when Sam meets Caroline, she has to keep her new friend with a refreshing sense of humor and no style a secret, right up there with Sam's weekly visits to her psychiatrist.Ĭaroline introduces Sam to Poet's Corner, a hidden room and a tight-knit group of misfits who have been ignored by the school at large. Yet Sam knows she'd be truly crazy to leave the protection of the most popular girls in school. Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn't help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off. Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling. The New York Times bestseller everyone is talking about. Armed with new and unexpected information about his eating habits that could change everything, he sets out with three tactical impress the girl, outsmart the bully, and avoid every single meal. Knowing he can’t handle the gag-worthy menu, Ben prepares for the outing like it’s a survival mission. Even worse, there’s an upcoming three-day class trip to a colonial campsite. Suddenly everybody’s on his case about what he’s eating and what he’s not-his old friends, his new friends, his weird lab partner, the girl he’s crushing on, and a bully-and Ben finds himself in social free fall, sliding toward the bottom of the middle school food chain. But his super picky eating, which has never been a big deal before, is about to take him down. "A must-read for anyone who has ever fought their own battles with both fitting in and being themselves." - Shannon Schuren, author of Where Echoes Lie Ben Snyder is ready for middle school. He currently divides his time between New England and Europe. His books have been translated into twenty languages.Įdward has lived in London, New York, New Hampshire and Ireland. Since then he has written five more bestsellers: RUSSKA, a novel of Russia LONDON THE FOREST, set in England's New Forest which lies close by Sarum, and two novels which cover the story of Ireland from the time just before Saint Patrick to the twentieth century. Four years later, when the book was published, it became an instant international bestseller, remaining 23 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. After numerous attempts to write books and plays, he finally abandoned his career in the book trade in 1983, and returned to his childhood home to write SARUM, a historical novel with a ten-thousand year story, set in the area around the ancient monument of Stonehenge, and Salisbury. Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. Francis Edward Wintle, best known under his pen name Edward Rutherfurd, was born in the cathedral city of Salisbury. The collection includes objects such as armbands, brooches, ingots, and a touchstone (used for identifying precious metal alloys), all of it stored in a silver vessel. Much of the hoard, discovered in 2014 by a retiree using a metal detector, is on view in the newly opened Kirkcudbright Galleries, named for the county in southwest Scotland where it was found. After conservation, a Latin inscription was found etched on the bottom of the vessel that reads: “Bishop Hyguald had me made.” Historical records do indicate several church officials by that name, says professor Alex Wolff, senior lecturer at the University of St Andrews in an announcement, but none of them a bishop, so Hyguald’s identity remains a mystery. The National Museums Scotland, the hoard’s owner, has revealed that one object that was wrapped in a fragile cloth is a two-inch rock crystal jar encased in gold filigree. The Galloway Hoard, one of the most significant Viking-era treasures ever to emerge in Scotland, has provided yet another gift, seven years after it was discovered and just in time for the festive season. (Possibly some day some Jobivaras might appear there by unknown means) ) (Above the "tree line" at 100 ft elevation, 42.7N 70.6W) Unfortunately a hundred years is insufficient for the evolution of a new flora. Every woody plant that grows there is a natural bonsai, except the most exposed areas which are essentially above the "tree line" due to salty winter gales. There is a granite promontory on NE Cape Ann (Massachusetts) which is partially covered by up to 100 feet of granite quarry tailings. I've been thinking a bit about more extreme constructions of rock gardens and what the results might be in unfavorable climates. The person who originally introduced me to rock gardening, Larry Rue, built a huge sand berm about 15 feet long, 3 feet wide and 5 feet tall, and had them self sowing on the south face. I've grown them in sand, in gravel and sand, and pretty much every other soil medium possible, yet they've simply never really liked it here in the northeast. I've tried them from seed 10 times, and although I've actually gotten a few flowers one year, they have only wintered over once. |