![]() ![]() ![]() The first of these was "Leda's Portrait", for Lights Out in 1951. Professional life Scriptwriting Īfter college, Levin wrote training films and scripts for radio and television. He served in the Army Signal Corps from 1953 to 1955. He attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa from 1946 to 1948 and then New York University, where he majored in philosophy and English. During his youth, he was described as "a nice Jewish boy from New York". Levin was educated at the private Horace Mann School in New York. He grew up in both Manhattan and the Bronx. ![]() Levin was born on August 27, 1929, in the New York City, New York borough of Manhattan. He received the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award and Edgar Awards (1992–2003). Many of his novels and plays have been adapted into films. His works include the novels A Kiss Before Dying (1953), Rosemary's Baby (1967), The Stepford Wives (1972), This Perfect Day (1970), and The Boys from Brazil (1976), Sliver (1991), as well as the play Deathtrap (1978). Ira Marvin Levin (Aug– November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She is an award-winning journalist with stories published in daily to weekly newspapers and in various magazines. ![]() She also is author of a young adult book, GIRL Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie, and books on dollhouse collecting and crafting, including Dollhouse Decor & More and In Miniature Style II.Ĭhristine's short stories have appeared in various anthologies including: Happy Homicides 3: Summertime Crime, Mystery Weekly, Young Adventurers: Heroes, Explorers and Swashbucklers, Athena's Daughters, Silence in the Library Feast of the Dead: Hors D'Oeuvres Darlings of Decay 100 Doors to Madness Timeshares, Steampunk'd, and Hot & Steamy: Tales of Steampunk Romance, DAW Books and The Corner Cafe: A Tasty Collection of Short Stories. Her latest book, Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter, offers a twist on the Lizzie Borden murders. ![]() Christine (C.A.) Verstraete enjoys putting a little "scare" in her writing. ![]() ![]() Terrible things have happened in my life, but I’ve used that insight to find the things that make me happy and inform my life choices, and I’ve had extraordinary experiences as a result.” “When you read about queer Muslims” in the news, most often, “many of the experiences are traumatic. “I hoped that sharing my experience might provide them with a sense of comfort or a belief that it does get better,” she says. But her subjects’ generosity inspired her to share her story in return. ![]() ![]() “Often when I would interview and photograph young people, they didn’t really know that much about me,” says Habib, a Toronto-based writer, photographer, and activist. Several years ago Samra Habib began traveling the world to photograph and interview queer Muslims, to discover the ways in which Islam shapes their personal identities. ![]() ![]() I thought that Christina Lauren did a cute job of giving readers a "behind the scenes" of making a movie. Without that time, it would’ve been easy to brush off Tate’s feelings as young love, but those first chapters were well built and my heart was broken alongside hers. I was really happy to find that a solid chunk of the novel was dedicated to when Tate and Sam first meet because it was important to lay the groundwork of how they fall in love before the jump happens. The 14 year time jump was a great idea because it shows us Tate’s heartbreak and how these two characters have changed over time. I really loved getting to see Tate and Sam at two different stages of their lives. We’re given a time jump from when the characters first meet to their second face-to-face interaction after Sam has betrayed Tate. ![]() I’ve gone on a big Christina Lauren binge lately, which is why I was so excited to receive this ARC of their newest book. ![]() Thank you Simon & Schuster Canada and NetGalley for sending me an advanced copy of Twice in a Blue Moon in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Its rulers are obsessed with Protocol-its mechanism of shielding society from the dangers of technology. I wanted to leave it ambiguous as to whether Finn is Giles or not. “Finn is an interesting character to write about. “Claudia’s looking for a substitute, so she latches on to Finn,” says Fisher. If she can help Finn escape, she can avoid marriage to the horrid Caspar. She thinks he is Giles, the heir to the Outside kingdom who was betrothed to her in childhood. “A lot of the things that are in the story at the end were not conceived of at the beginning,” says the author.Ĭlaudia, daughter of Incarceron’s Warden, also believes Finn was born Outside. ![]() Fisher also creates one significant character-who shall remain nameless-who was born Inside and lives Outside, as well as Finn, who believes he was born Outside and has wound up Inside. “The Outside believes the Inside is perfect, but it isn’t.” That duality is crucial from the beginning. “Most of the characters Inside want to get out,” says Fisher. ![]() The second volume, Sapphique, takes its name from the legendary prisoner believed to be the only person to have Escaped. However, from the first chapter of Incarceron, readers learn that this is false. Those on the Outside believe that life on the Inside is superior. As readers learned in Catherine Fisher’s first book of her mind-bending, two-volume prison epic, Incarceron, the living, breathing prison that gives the book its title, was allegedly created as an utopian experiment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Looking for the LARGE PRINT edition? Search ISBN: 9781719928298 The beloved inspirational romance series Uncharted includes these books:Įach book stands alone, but it’s best to read them in order. Prepare to be hooked! Discover why readers worldwide have fallen in love with the Uncharted series. The Land Uncharted weaves past and future in this inspirational story of life in a hidden land. ![]() Connor Bradshaw’s parachute carries him from the world war to Lydia's hidden land, his mission could expose her simple society.Īs Connor searches for a way to return to his squadron, his fascination with life in the Land makes him protective of Lydia and her peaceful homeland, and Lydia’s attraction to Connor stirs desires she never expected.īut will they be able to keep the Land hidden? Lydia Colburn is a young physician dedicated to serving her village in the Land, an undetectable island in the South Atlantic Ocean. A hidden land settled by peaceful people ~ The first outsider in 160 years ![]() ![]() ![]() As perennial bachelor Kamal methodically visits his father's favorite brothel and frets about whether to marry, the focus of the trilogy shifts from Palace Walk to Khadija's home with Ibrahim Shawkat on Sugar Street, where the couple's sons-Abd al-Muni'm, turning toward fundamentalist Islam, and increasingly committed Communist Ahmad-argue about their duty to the country and the nature of Egyptian society, but both end meeting the same fate. Yet national politics, for all its importance as background accompaniment here (as in Palace Walk and Palace of Desire), is usually kept just offstage-"They say that Hitler has attacked," old family servant Umm Hanafi announces halfway through, and matriarch Amina's final illness coincides with a bombing raid-as Mahfouz continues to dramatize the emergence of modern Egypt through ailing family head Ahmad Abd al-Jawad's family-his sons, sensualistic Yasin and scholarly Kamal his daughters, prematurely aged widow Aisha and settled wife and mother Khadija and his five grandchildren. The final volume in Nobel laureate Mahfouz's magisterial Cairo trilogy takes the Abd al-Jawad family from a rising tide of nationalist sentiment in 1935 through the darkness and confusion of WW II, as Britain defends an Egypt officially neutral. ![]() ![]() ![]() She died five months after Black Beauty came out, but did live long enough to see it become a success. It had a big impact on the way people thought about horse cruelty and the book has been compared to Uncle Tom's Cabin in the way it influenced social protest.Īt the time of publication, the author was an invalid who didn't leave her house. Although now it is seen as a children's book, Sewell wrote it to educate adults on the ways in which horses were treated - in particular it mentions the conditions of horses pulling cabs in Victorian London, with emphasis on the restrictive objects used on them, such as blinkers and reins. Beginning with his life on a farm in England, the story tells how he is passed from owner to owner and experiences acts both of cruelty and of kindness. One of the best-selling books of all times, the book is narrated as a first person account of a horse called Black Beauty. Or read online.īlack Beauty is a novel by English author Anna Sewell, first published in 1877. ![]() Black Beauty Anna SewellĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle (mobi and AZW3) ebook formats. ![]() ![]() While Ben was responsible for that “Early to bed, early to rise” crapola, it was some nameless biblical sage who decreed, “Do not love sleep or you will grow poor.” And, man, that advice lingered. I’m what’s left at the tail end of human evolution - a lazy, shiftless profligate who should be thoroughly ashamed of myself.Īctually, I should start with whatever dude wrote the Book of Proverbs. Me, I’ll sleep in till the last possible minute, grab coffee at Dunkin’, and barely make it to my office at the appointed hour.ĭoug is viewed by society at large as a rock, a pillar, a stand-up guy with clean morals and a superb work ethic. He’ll be up by 3:30, hurrying downstairs to make himself a big hot breakfast, then dashing off to the gym before he heads for work. Upstairs, my husband of 35 years has been asleep for hours. ![]() Is it any wonder this is my favorite time of day? ![]() ![]() I don’t have to justify myself if I want to turn the thermostat higher I don’t need to negotiate over whether to mute the commercials. En español | It’s 1 a.m., and I’m sitting in my living room, watching what I choose on TV, as happy as a clam. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Johnny, quite naturally, froze in his tracks, scared out of his wits. As he passed the local Post Office, four guys in ski masks rushed out with shotguns and lump hammers, having just robbed the place. He had his usual couple of Guinness’s in the pub before the matinee and strolled back to the theater. Some time after The Commitments came out, Johnny Murphy who had played ‘Joey the Lips’ was doing a play in Cork. The Commitments The making of the film by Alan Parker ![]() |