The manningtree witches by ak blakemore6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ‘The best historical novel I’ve read since Wolf Hall.’ This beautifully written historical novel won the Desmond Elliott Prize and explores the witch trials of 17th century East Anglia with a humane grace. We are reading The Manningtree Witches by AK Blakemore (published by Granta) during April and May 2022. ![]() NCW Book Club: The Manningtree Witches by AK Blakemore We’ll always choose books that are easy to purchase in hard copy online or in e-book format. We’ll explore short stories, novels, non-fiction, poetry, and works in translation, making these informal and friendly sessions the perfect way to meet like-minded readers and to discover exciting new reads. Join us and share your passion for reading! The Manningtree Witches by AK Blakemore has been revealed as our new book.Įvery two months we meet in person and virtually over tea and biscuits to discuss some of the best works in contemporary literature. ![]()
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Fun home book6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Thirty years later, I still remember the images. ![]() Within a few minutes, I made my way to the back and left the room. His matter-of-fact warning that the film was “explicit” didn’t prepare me for what appeared on the screen. When I was a college freshman, my psychology professor showed a documentary about sex. ![]() As he explained in a nuanced and reasoned Washington Post essay, his decision not to read Fun Home comes out of a distinction between words and images. By the time national media picked up on the news, the controversy mushroomed into a debate over Christian censorship.ĭespite the exaggerated headlines, the Duke freshman at the center of the story doesn’t take issue with narratives from LGBT authors or ideas that oppose his worldview. He shared his decision with classmates in a closed Facebook group, citing passages of the graphic novel that included illustrated sex scenes. The memoir Fun Home, by lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel, made news this summer when a Duke University student chose not to read the book as part of the freshman reading program. ![]() Joe pickett series book6/29/2023 ![]() Boxs series is the gold standard in the Western mystery subgenre.- Library Journal (starred review) Tightly written.Keeps the reader off balance with a series of plot twists as startling as anything on TVs 24. ![]() sturdy series with Joe Pickett, a stand-up Wyoming game warden and all-around good guy.- The New York Times Book Review Pickett one of the most appealing men in popular fiction, a laid-back, good-natured guy until hes riled, and then youd better look out.- Chicago Tribune Wyomings immense spaces make a fitting background for another tense thriller, with the iconic Devils Tower holding court over a frantic chase through the tangled roads of the Black Hills. Review Quotes Praise for Below Zero Murder well done. ![]() And as the phone calls grow closer, so does the danger. As his family struggles with the disturbing event, he discovers that the calls have been placed from locations where serious environmental crimes have occurred. Now, someone is leaving phone messages claiming to be the dead girl. Six years ago, Joe Picketts foster daughter, April, was murdered. ![]() Book Synopsis Dont miss the JOE PICKETT series-now streaming on Paramount+ In this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, a voice from the past has a chilling effect on Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett and his family. About the Book Includes excerpt from Nowhere to Run (pages 365-378) and Off the Grid (pages 381-389). ![]() Not Dead Enough by Peter James6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() I'm also unbelievably excited to work with producer Joshua Andrews and director Ian Talbot. James (born 22 August 1948) is a British writer of crime fiction. Peter has created a strong character in Cleo Morely and I can't wait to sink my teeth into the role. ![]() ![]() Now a major ITV series, Grace, adapted for television by screenwriter Russell Lewis and starring John Simm. Speaking about her role, Laura Whitmore said: “I'm a huge fan of Peter James' books and so honoured to be cast as his Cleo for her first theatrical outing. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace thinks he’s found a serial killer, but not everything is as it seems in Not Dead Enough, by award-winning crime author Peter James. She is currently gracing our screens on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing and is excited about her imminent return to acting. Laura is best known for her work as a presenter for MTV, The Brits and I’m a Celebrity Get Me Here Now. No stranger to theatre, Laura Whitmore’s acting career began at a young age with the Leinster School of Music and Drama in Dublin. It is the next story to feature James' much-acclaimed character Dectective Superintendent Roy Grace. Following James’ 11th consecutive Sunday Times No.1 in the UK Book Charts and the huge sell-out success of The Perfect Murder and Dead Simple on stage, Not Dead Enough receives its world stage premiere in January 2017. ![]() Carmichael black power6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Protesting segregation, they believed, failed to adequately address the poverty and powerlessness that generations of systemic discrimination and racism had imposed on so many Black Americans. By 1966, the civil rights movement had been gaining momentum for more than a decade, as thousands of African Americans embraced a strategy of nonviolent protest against racial segregation and demanded equal rights under the law.īut for an increasing number of African Americans, particularly young Black men and women, that strategy did not go far enough. ![]() ![]() To help you with lesson planning, every title has its own activity worksheet – extra background information, photocopiable activities, teacher’s notes, answer keys and progress tests for every title. Listening to audio recordings can help to improve the learner’s understanding and fluency, which is why the majority of Penguin Readers titles are also available as audio packs. ![]() There’s something for everyone – classics, films, biographies, drama, romance, comedy, crime… Whether it’s British or American English you’re looking for, there are hundreds of titles to choose from. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner’s own language ability. ![]() ![]() Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. Penguin Readers are a carefully graded collection of Readers that enable English language learners to enjoy reading whatever their language level. ![]() Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() For both the team and the squad, watching Robbie get replaced by newcomer Jack Walsh is brutal. In this sweet and funny new f/f romance from the author of Cool for the Summer, a cheerleader and the school's newest quarterback are playing to win, but might lose their hearts in the processĪmber McCloud’s dream is to become cheer captain at the end of the year, but it’s an extra-tall order to be joyful and spirited when the quarterback of your team has been killed in a car accident. An instant favorite, perfectly capturing the power in being true to yourself and fighting for what is right." - Rachael Lippincott, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Feet Apart and She Gets the Girl A swoony romance, characters you will be cheering for from start to finish, and a plot that sucks you in from the very first page. ![]() Story of my life ted chiang6/29/2023 ![]() Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, at least on a superficial plot level. “Story of Your Life,” published in 1998 by an occasional but acclaimed science-fiction writer, Ted Chiang, is in some ways the inverse of Ursula K. …At least that’s if you’re fluent in Heptapod B, the written language of an alien species that is wired to see the world in an entirely different way from humans.* Simply speaking, these aliens already know everything that happens in the future as well as the past and present because their “mode of awareness” is simultaneous (as encapsulated in the structure of their written language) rather than sequential, like ours they “act to create the future.” ![]() (Side note: I never know when I’m using the word “literally” correctly.)Īnti-spoiler militants, lay down your arms: According to the premise of the short story I’m about to present, it’s impossible for me to spoil the plot, because you will already know the ending by the time you’ve begun reading the first sentence. I think it’s an appropriate cover photo for the eponymous short story, at any rate, given that the story uses the conceit of language/linguistics to explore the (literal?) construction of one’s present, past, and future. ![]() This is actually the cover for a collection of short stories by Ted Chiang, entitled Stories of Your Life and Others. ![]() These hollow vows book 26/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Unwilling to let her heart distract her, she accepts help from a band of Unseelie misfits with their own secret agenda. ![]() Brie's only choice is to pose as a potential bride for Prince Ronan, and she soon finds herself falling for him. Gaining unfettered access to the Seelie court is easier said than done. But when her sister is sold to the sadistic king of the Unseelie court to pay a debt, she'll do whatever it takes to get her back-including making a deal with the king himself to steal three magical relics from the Seelie court. Cruel Prince meets A Court of Thorns and Roses in this sexy, action-packed fantasy about a girl who is caught between two treacherous faerie courts and their dangerously seductive princes.īrie hates the Fae and refuses to have anything to do with them, even if that means starving on the street. ![]() Pablo Neruda by Monica Brown6/28/2023 ![]() Thousands lined the roads and tossed flowers on the poet’s flag-draped casket as it passed. Nearly two decades later, Chile’s new, democratically elected president asked his “special events” director, Javier Egana, to supervise Neruda’s government-sponsored exhumation and reburial in Isla Negra. ![]() The speeches at his graveside were the last act of public protest allowed by Chile’s new dictator, Gen. Soldiers ransacked one of Neruda’s homes, then surrounded the mourners at his funeral procession. Instead, Neruda was hastily interred in Chile’s capital, Santiago, when he succumbed to cancer two weeks after his friend Salvador Allende was deposed as president in a bloody 1973 coup. ![]() Famous for his love of the sea, Nobel-winning poet Pablo Neruda wrote in his landmark book “Canto General” that he wanted to rest for eternity next to his stone and wood cottages in this hamlet on the Pacific. ![]() |