![]() Marryat’s novel is fascinating not only for its sensational plot and bizarre characters, but also because of its engagement with many of the issues that haunted the late Victorian imagination, such as race, heredity, women’s roles, Spiritualism, and the occult. One of the strangest novels by the prolific Florence Marryat (1837-1899), The Blood of the Vampire was the “other vampire novel” of 1897, appearing the same year as Dracula. Are the misfortunes that seem to follow Harriet merely coincidence? Or is she really afflicted with the curse of the vampire? Doctor Phillips has a theory: the blood of the vampire flows through Harriet’s veins, and she is draining the life out of those she loves. ![]() Everyone she gets close to seems to sicken or die. Beautiful and talented, Harriet will gain the affections of many of the men and women she meets and a bright future seems assured for her.īut there is something strange about Harriet. ![]() Miss Harriet Brandt, daughter of a mad scientist and a voodoo priestess, comes of age and leaves her home in Jamaica for the first time, travelling to Europe. Florence Marryat, Edited by Brenda Hammack ![]()
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![]() ![]() They also visit New York in 1939, which turns out to be languishing in an alternate history of war and destruction, and Petrograd in 1919, in which Czar Nicholas II still lives. They travel separately with various companions through such places as the Vatican in 1499 and Carthage in 148 B.C.E., experiencing real history. Nicholas and Etta also want to find the astrolabe, but mostly they want to find each other again. Both are searching for Cyrus Ironwood, master time traveler, who pursues the elusive astrolabe that will allow him complete control over time travel. She is in love with Nicholas, a biracial ex-slave. Etta is a white violin prodigy who learns that she comes from a family of time travelers. Star-crossed time-traveling lovers Etta and Nicholas, now separated, try to find each other in adventures across the world and history in this continuation of Passenger (2016).īracken plunges right in, filling in back story as she goes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Taking responsibility for “the way things are” means neither giving into despair nor pretending it isn’t there. ![]() His wife Roz is an executive coach and family systems therapist. Ben Zander is conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, professor of music at New England Conservatory, and a speaker on leadership and creativity. There are far fewer resources for dealing with the low points in our professional lives.įortunately, however, there is The Art of Possibility by Roz and Ben Zander. ![]() Likewise, if you’ve been laid off or you’ve decided you want to make a change, there’s no lack of information on how to start a job search.īut where do you turn when your start-up activities are completed, and things aren’t going so well, when the initial excitement you felt at owning your own business has cooled, and no one is walking in the door, or you’ve perfected your career marketing package, and the phone isn’t ringing. If you’ve decided to launch a new business venture, you’ll find plenty of books telling you how to go about writing a business plan, securing financing, setting up payroll, etc. ![]() ![]() ![]() * Publishers Weekly, starred review *Shusterman does a masterful job.The intensity of living inside Caden's mind makes this a wrenching read. After this, the big dive to the Challenger Deep was the one great prize left to grasp. ![]() Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd behaviour. story turns symptoms into lived reality in ways readers won't easily forget. BOOK REVIEW 24 April 2023 Diving deep: the centuries-long quest to explore the deepest ocean. Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman From Goodreads: Caden Bosch is on a ship that's headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench. This affecting deep dive into the mind of a schizophrenic will captivate readers, engender empathy for those with mental illnesses, and offer much fodder for discussion." * School Library Journal, starred review *A powerful collaboration. * Horn Book, starred review *Teens, especially fans of the author's other novels, will enjoy this book. Illustrations by the author's son Brendan, drawn during his own time in the depths of mental illness, haunt the story with scrambling, rambling lines, tremulousness, and intensity. ![]() * Booklist, starred review *Clearly written with love, the novel is moving but it's also funny, with dry, insightful humor. Haunting, unforgettable, and life-affirming all at once. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly she finds herself caught in a web of magic, intrigue, passion, and betrayal that stretches across centuries and ultimately reveals that Aurelia is the final piece of a deadly apocalyptic plan that is only days away.Īll Aurelia wants is to reclaim her life and reunite with those she loved and lost but with the end of the world looming, she’s forced to unravel the dark secrets of the distant past before she can get that chance. When Aurelia awakens from her magic-induced sleep, it is to the face of a rescuer she didn’t expect, in a body she doesn’t understand, and into a world she no longer recognizes.ĭesperate to know what happened to Conrad, Zan, and Kellan after the events at Greythorne Manor, Aurelia follows the threads they left behind straight into the forest. Get ready to be swept away, seduced, and swindled in the wickedly vicious third and final installment in the Bloodleaf series that Laura Sebastian called “enchanting, visceral, and twisty.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Hardbacks are preferred but not required. I’ve also put together a wish list of all the books that will be featured on this blog tour. The CCPL is accepting monetary donations sent via PayPal to donations of new or gently used books, send them to: With a focus on MG and YA books, the CCPL aims to expose especially its young patrons to new and diverse perspectives and cultures. However, the library doesn’t believe that should stop people from learning more about the world around them, so they’re running a Diverse Book Drive through the month of September in an attempt to bring the rest of the world to the county instead. It’s in conjunction with a Diverse Book Drive hosted by the CCPL-a small, rural library in an area with a high poverty rate and a very homogeneous population, where people rarely have the means to travel or experience new perspectives. Tour the World in 30 Books is a blog tour focused on introducing readers to our favorite diverse books. ![]() ![]() I’m so excited to present this special post for the Tour the World in 30 Books blog tour hosted by Sammie The Bookwyrm’s Den. ![]() ![]() Compulsively readable, it is a novel of resonant depth and encyclopaedic richness, mixing human and natural history and exploring the tragic forces that take us both forwards and back. Waterland is a classic of modern fiction: a vision of England seen through its mysterious, amphibious Fen country a sinuous meditation on the workings of time a tale of two families, startling in its twists and turns and universal in its reach. ![]() ![]() Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of history-and tell stories. One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner ![]() ![]() ![]() “People are often afraid of me when I get agitated or angry. Bartholomew has little in common with his pen-pal: “I’m six foot three inches tall with too much hair on my arms and in my ears, but not enough on the top of my head,” he writes. ![]() The story of The Good Luck of Right Now unfolds in a series of letters from Bartholomew to his late mother’s favorite movie star, Richard Gere. I have pretended my entire life,” says thirty-nine-year-old Bartholomew Neil, the protagonist of the new novel from Matthew Quick, author of The Silver Linings Playbook, a New York Times bestseller. What if the only thing that made your life bearable was pretending that it was? “Pretending has always been easy for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() “This is what fantasy is for.” -The New York Times Book Review “The best magic universe since Harry Potter.” -Bustle ![]() “Utterly, extremely bewitching.” -The Guardian “A master of fantasy.” -The Huffington Post The Severed Moon: A Year-Long Journal of Magic ![]() The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic (previously published as The Grisha Trilogy) To win this fight, she must seize a legend’s power – but claiming the firebird may be her ruin. Now her hopes lie with the magic of a long-vanished ancient creature and the chance that an outlaw prince still survives.Īs her allies and enemies race toward war, only Alina stands between her country and a rising tide of darkness that could destroy the world. The Darkling rules from his shadow throne while a weakened Alina Starkov recovers from their battle under the dubious protection of the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Saint.The nation’s fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army. Now with a stunning new cover and exclusive bonus material: The Demon in the Wood (a Darkling prequel story) and a Q&A with Leigh Bardugo. Perfect for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J. See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with Shadow and Bone, now a Netflix original series.Įnter the Grishaverse with book three of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by number one New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo. ![]() ![]() ![]() This fortieth-anniversary edition includes a new preface in which White explains his motivation for writing Metahistory and discusses how reactions to the book informed his later writing. The first work in the history of historiography to concentrate on historical writing as writing, Metahistory sets out to deprive history of its status as a bedrock of factual truth, to redeem narrative as the substance of historicality, and to identify the extent to which any distinction between history and ideology on the basis of the presumed scientificity of the former is spurious. ![]() ![]() To support his thesis, White analyzes the complex writing styles of historians like Michelet, Ranke, Tocqueville, and Burckhardt, and philosophers of history such as Marx, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Croce. This latent poetic and linguistic content-which White dubs the "metahistorical element"-essentially serves as a paradigm for what an "appropriate" historical explanation should be. In this classic work, White argues that a deep structural content lies beyond the surface level of historical texts. ![]() Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. This penetrating analysis of eight classic nineteenth-century thinkers explains how historians use literary techniques to write sophisticated historical works. ![]() |