![]() ![]() Police quickly identify a suspect, the boyfriend of one of the victims, who flees and is never seen again.įifteen years later, more teenage employees are attacked at an ice cream store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive. But at a Blockbuster Video in New Jersey, four teenagers working late at the store are attacked. Y2K is expected to end in chaos: planes falling from the sky, elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing. “The night was expected to bring tragedy.” So begins one of the most highly-anticipated thrillers in recent years. One of the Best or Most Anticipated Books of 2022: Newsweek Ī Library Reads Selection-Best Book Voted By Librarians for March 2022 First Edition.įrom the author of the breakout thriller Every Last Fear, comes Alex Finlay's electrifying next novel The Night Shift, about a pair of small-town murders fifteen years apart-and the ties that bind them. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Mary, sadly, believed that she neither carried typhoid germs nor that she was responsible for outbreaks and spent most of her life virtually imprisoned on North Brother Island in New York’s East River. The work of Soper and Baker led to a dramatic decrease in typhoid cases as well as other infectious diseases. Citing newspaper articles, courtroom documents, and the personal accounts of several doctors, Jarrow acts as a medical detective, following the lives of Mallon, Soper, and Baker while illuminating a fascinating chapter in public health history. Jarrow skillfully weaves Mallon’s story into that of two other key figures working to fight and contain the disease: George Albert Soper, a sanitation engineer and typhoid expert and Sara Josephine Baker, a doctor working at the New York City Department of Health. ![]() A symptomless carrier of typhoid, Mallon was a cook who inadvertently infected numerous people and was responsible for many deaths. ![]() Just who was Typhoid Mary? In this second installment of a planned trilogy featuring deadly diseases, the first being Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat (Calkins Creek, 2014), Jarrow relates the account of Typhoid Mary, also known as Mary Mallon, and places it in historical context, explaining the devastating effects of typhoid fever. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the vignette "They/Them," Shapland tells of her interactions with the icon Eileen Myles, who spoke to her about "what it means to be queer in being and in writing. Is, in style and in form, one of the most fundamentally queer texts I've read recently. ![]() Perhaps, to me at least, the two books called to each other much like two queers nodding across a crowded train car. Promises to be an uncovering of hidden facts but manages something more complex and more difficult-to write around absence until its outline begins to give it form. ![]() Ableism and homophobia are also frequent antagonists in McCullers' oeuvre, but much of the latter is subtextual, particularly when the characters in question are girls or women. McCullers' work took the racism of small-town Georgia to task so unapologetically that she earned the public scorn of old guard greats like Flannery O'Connor. ![]() Her characters chafe against a multitude of constrictions, from the South's most oppressive social forces to the limitations of language itself. Like many of the other novels she penned before her death just three decades later, HunterĬenters quirky outcasts from the margins of Southern society whose big emotional lives blossom in oxygen-deprived places. Was a precocious debut, released to great acclaim when McCullers was just 23. Traces Shapland's attempts to map this omission from McCullers' cultural legacy and the accounts of her biographers, which parse nearly every other aspect of the authors bohemian, liquor-laden personal life. ![]() ![]() Steinunn’s brave move shows her as a forward-thinking and deeply devoted mother doing something unheard of. When the mother announces a move to a city where her children can be educated, the neighbors decide she is the mad one, not the maid. The book opens in 1915 with a comical introduction of the family’s maid who is prone to losing her wits. Karitas is a young girl living in the Westfjords with her mother, Steinunn, and five older siblings after their father is lost at sea. With the talent of a true artist, the author paints stunning descriptions: “The rain holds the house in its embrace, the windowpanes weep.” This is a novel about Icelandic life in the early 20th century it is about family within a closely-knit village, country life, and delightful characters and most importantly it is about Karitas-her choices and her journey to define herself within conflicting desires and responsibilities. ![]() ![]() Karitas Untitled is a newly translated Icelandic novel peopled with unique, quirky, and well-defined characters. Written by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir Philip Roughton (trans.) ![]() ![]() You can keep up with Lily's latest releases and read the exclusive short stories '3 Dates' and ‘Playground Games’ by subscribing to her newsletter: įacebook Group: Facebook: Instagram: Pinterest: Bookbub: This story was signature Lily Morton, in all the best ways. It's the start of a snarky new series revolving around a wedding planning agency. In the process she discovered that she actually loved writing because how else would she get to spend her time with hot and funny men? ![]() She has spent her life with her head full of daydreams, and decided one day to just sit down and start writing about them. ![]() ![]() She lives in sunny England with her husband and two children, all of whom claim that they haven't had a proper conversation with her since she got her Kindle. Lily is a bestselling gay romance author. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia. In April 2015, he was a research fellow at the Robert H. In 2003 he was the speaker representing the French Government with a talk on the French Spies in the American Revolution at the Franco-American Alliance Celebration on the 225th anniversary of the Treaties signed in Paris on 6 February 1778 held on Februat Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He also appeared in "The President's Inner Circle" episode of Brad Meltzer's Decoded. He has appeared on C-SPAN, the History Channel, and been interviewed twice in hour-long programs for Pennsylvania Cable Network. Clements Library of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan on espionage. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at George Washington's Mount Vernon, and the William L. He was a Scholar in Residence at Saint Francis University, Loretto, Pennsylvania and has been a consultant for Colonial Williamsburg, Fred W. ![]() Nagy died at his home in New Jersey on April 1, 2016. He later attended Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, and graduated in 1979 with a master's degree in Management Science. In 1968 he graduated from Saint Francis University, Loretto, Pennsylvania. Nagy was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and graduated from Perth Amboy High School in 1964. John Allan Nagy was a nonfiction writer on the American Revolution with an expertise in the field of espionage and mutinies. ![]() ![]() Dynamic lighting gives the scene great tension, casting menacing shadows across the faces of villains like the Mad Hatter, Solomon Grundy, the Joker, Two-Face, the Penguin, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, and Catwoman in their early days of terrorizing Gotham. ![]() In this vibrant homage to Tim Sale's iconic splash page from the conclusion of the Batman: The Long Halloween saga, artist Alex Garner skillfully recreates each criminal character in the composition with stunning, lifelike detail. ![]() Sideshow presents the Batman: The Long Halloween Fine Art Print by acclaimed illustrator Alex Garner after Tim Sale. ![]() ![]() Similar to McGee’s other series (The Thousandth Floor) this book was told through mulitple POVs. It ended up being a fun, fast read, with some fluffy romance, but ultimately lacked in drama. ![]() As someone who has been interested in the British royal family my entire life, I was so excited when I came across the premise of this book. Published September 3rd 2019 by Random House Books for Young Readers REVIEW: but two very different girls are vying to capture his heart. Most of America adores their devastatingly handsome prince. If he'd been born a generation earlier, he would have stood first in line for the throne, but the new laws of succession make him third. ![]() And then there's Samantha's twin, Prince Jefferson. except the one boy who is distinctly off-limits to her. ![]() Nobody cares about the spare except when she's breaking the rules, so Princess Samantha doesn't care much about anything, either. Two and a half centuries later, the House of Washington still sits on the throne.Īs Princess Beatrice gets closer to becoming America's first queen regnant, the duty she has embraced her entire life suddenly feels stifling. ![]() When America won the Revolutionary War, its people offered General George Washington a crown. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I’ve always liked the challenge with horses,” Sima said. The pastel-colored creatures hail from opposite parts of the planet (sea and sky) and have different distinguishing features - Kelp a striped horn, Nimbus feathery wings - but both have equine bodies. Welcome to the career trajectory of Jessie Sima, a writer and illustrator who uses they/them pronouns and who in a phone interview sounded both pleased and humbly baffled by the success of “Perfectly Pegasus” and “Not Quite Narwhal.” Their companion stories bring young readers into the worlds of Kelp, a unicorn who doesn’t fit in with his narwhal brethren, and Nimbus, a Pegasus who feels lonely among the clouds and stars. ![]() Now you have two picture books on the best-seller list. Suddenly the kid in front of you turns around and says, “Someday you’re going to make children’s books.” You might think you’re too cool for such a job, but the prediction sticks with you and somehow comes true. slightly bored, slightly anxious - sketching horses in your notebook as a teacher drones, “Peanuts”-style, at the front of the classroom. Imagine you’re an eighth grader in Woodbury, N.J. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was delighted to receive a call from OUP at the beginning of January 2023, inviting Shepherds, Sangorski & Sutcliffe, as one of the oldest bookbinders in England, to bind four bibles for His Majesty King Charles III’s Coronation. ![]() The history of binding in leather dates back as far as the six century and, withstanding the digitalisation of the publishing industry, is a specialized trade that remains in demand today, writes Alison Strachan, Director at Shepherds, Sangorski & Sutcliffe of Westminster. ![]() |