![]() ![]() 1 Bestseller of 2015' by the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.Ī blurb on the book jacket says, 'Imagine 'A Year in Provence' with alligators and assassins, or 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil' with hunting scenes and swamp-to-table dining.'Ī native of Southampton, England, Grant is a widely published journalist and author of three previous nonfiction books: 'Crazy River,' 'God's Middle Finger' and 'American Nomads,' the latter of which was adapted for a BBC TV series that Grant hosts. The book, which came out in October 2015, was a New York Times bestseller, won the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize, and was named 'Mississippi's No. He currently writes for Smithsonian magazine, the New York Times, Al Jazeera America, the Telegraph (UK), and several other publications. ![]() Richard Grant's 'Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta' recounts his experiences of living in a plantation house in Pluto, Mississippi. Richard Grant is an award-winning author, journalist, and television host. The author of a popular memoir about an Englishman living in the rural South will appear this week at the Hernando Public Library. Dispatches from Pluto - Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta, by Richard Grant. ![]()
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Jason has commercial finance experience assisting in the representation of lenders and borrowers in a variety of transactions including: real estate acquisition, development and construction loan transactions asset-based finance transactions and structured and mezzanine finance transactions. ![]() As a Member in the Business Department, chair of the firm's Real Estate Practice Group, and chair of the firm's Commercial Finance Practice Group, Jason focuses his practice on real estate transactions and commercial finance and lending. ![]() ![]() The Dead Duke, his Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse is a historical true-crime story. Tell us about The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse… So - and you know where we’re going with this by now - Piu is here to give us the intel on the whole lurid affair.īorn in Calcutta and raised in the UK, Piu has lived in Paris for the last decade, where she found the inspiration for her first book, about the French, called They Eat Horses, Don’t They? Liu talks double lives, intensive research and slogging… The Druce Portland affair was one of the most drawn-out legal sagas the Uk has ever seen, and Piu weaves an eccentric tale of tunnelling dukes, desperate widows and dirty, rotten scoundrels, spanning the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Simply scroll down a bit, a little bit more, nearly there, to see that triumphant review. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But don’t despair, take your head out of your hands. If macabre Victorian litigation is your thing then you’ll be kicking yourself for forgetting to read our review of The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse. ![]() ![]() ![]() The effect is of character refracted and ventriloquized by environment, catching as it bounces her longings, frustrations, and disappointments-the ending of an affair, or the ambivalent beginning with a new lover. Sidestepping the usual conventions of narrative, it focuses on the details of her daily experience-from the best way to eat porridge or bananas to an encounter with cows-rendered sometimes in story-length, story-like stretches of narrative, sometimes in fragments no longer than a page, but always suffused with the hypersaturated, almost synesthetic intensity of the physical world that we remember from childhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() A deceptively slender volume, it captures with utterly mesmerizing virtuosity the interior reality of its unnamed protagonist, a young woman living a singular and mostly solitary existence on the outskirts of a small coastal village. Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett's debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. "Dazzling.exquisitely written and daring. reminds us that small things have great depths." - New York Times Book Review Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. Description "A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut. ![]() ![]() ![]() Katie, Peter hello.įrank: Before we get started on our conversation about the Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc let me read a quick introduction, written by Mark Twain and originally serialized in Harper's Magazine, The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc is a fictional biography of Joan of Arc, though it purports to be a memoir written by her paige secretary and lifelong friend Sieur Louis De Conte. ![]() So if you love hearing a good story you're in the right place.įrank: Today I'm going to have a conversation about the novel The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain and I'll be joined in conversation by our Novel Conversations readers Katie Smith and Peter Toomey. We'll introduce you to the characters and tell you what happens to them. Each episode of Novel Conversations, I talk to two readers about one novel and together we summarize the story for you. I'm Frank Lavallo and you're listening to Novel Conversations, a podcast about the world's greatest stories. ![]() ![]() Stine says he was writing a Fear Street and a Goosebumps book every month. At the height of the Fear Street and Goosebumps craze in the 1990s, R.L. Fear Street Books in Orderīut let’s finally take a look at the books. Whether you’re looking for a dose of nostalgia, to hook someone on the series for the first time, or just hearing about the books, this will be your ultimate guide to the Fear Street books in order. However, the books were just as iconic at Scholastic book fairs. Keep reading to find out how to read the Fear Street books in order.įear Street is a young adult horror fiction series that is much more brutal and gorier than Stine’s equally famous Goosebumps series. ![]() ![]() Along the way he’s written more than 400 books, more than 100 of which are part of the Fear Street series. Even if it was never his original intention, he’s been scaring children, young adults, and grown-ups since 1986. Stine is synonymous with frightening and creepy. ![]() ![]() His size - just over two inches - does give him some trouble now and then. Littles and is a pleasantly debonair little character, with a shy, engaging manner and a somewhat philosophical turn of mind. Stuart Little is a mouse in the family of the Frederick C. "Stuart Little: The famous story of a most unusual mouse. With the help of Templeton, the rat who never did anything for anybody unless there was something in it for him, and by a wonderfully clever plan of her own, Charlotte saved the life of Wilbur, who by this time had grown up to be quite a pig." - from the rear outer cover. ![]() Cavatica, a beautiful large grey spider who lived with Wilbur in the barn. ![]() This is the story of a little girl named Fern who loved a little pig named Wilbur - and of Wilbur's dear friend Charlotte A. "Charlotte's Web: One of America's best-loved children's books. ![]() All three volumes are illustrated with black-and-white drawings. Fine condition color illustrated slipcase containing three fine condition unread softcover wraps volumes, as follows: 1) Charlotte's Web: 30th printing, 1973, 184 pages, illustrated by Garth Williams, (this volume contains a neatly affixed Coat of Arms bookplate affixed to the inner front cover 2) Stuart Little: 28th printing, 1973, 131 pages illustrated by Garth Williams and 3) The Trumpet of the Swan: 1st Harper Trophy Book printing 1973, 210 pages. Williams, Garth Frascino, Edward (illustrator). ![]() ![]() Jake Van der Berg, her father’s stepbrother and her only living relative, assumes guardianship of Tiernan who is still two months shy of 18. But has anything really changed? She’s always been alone, hasn’t she? The shadow of her parents’ fame followed her everywhere.Īnd when they suddenly pass away, she knows she should be devastated. ![]() Shipped off to boarding schools from an early age, it was still impossible to escape the loneliness and carve out a life of her own. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she’s grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. ![]() Tiernan de Haas doesn’t care about anything anymore. Three of them, one of her, and a remote cabin in the woods. From New York Times best-selling author, Penelope Douglas, comes a new stand-alone! ![]() ![]() ĭiaz has published two novels, which have been published in more than 20 languages. Career ĭiaz has received fellowships from the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Ingmar Bergman Estate. ![]() He received a doctorate of philosophy from New York University. After obtaining a BA in Literature (Licenciatura en Letras) in the University of Buenos Aires, he moved to London to study for an MA degree at King's College. His family returned to Argentina after democracy was restored. When he was two, his family moved to Sweden. ![]() ![]() For his second novel Trust, he was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Īlthough Diaz was born in Argentina. His 2017 novel In the Distance was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. ![]() ![]() In his words, he wanted to "do a big thing, and help a lot of people. This week, we have the story of a hedgehog by the name of Don Laub: a young surgeon who was eager to make his mark. ![]() In most MBA programs, they'd probably be viewed as better leadership material," Tetlock says. "The hedgehogs are more the big idea people, more decisive. They reduce every problem to one organizing principle. Hedgehogs, on the other hand, focus on the big picture. They are comfortable with nuance they can live with contradictions. ![]() There are many different interpretations of this parable, but psychologist Phil Tetlock sees it as a way of understanding two cognitive styles: Foxes have different strategies for different problems. ![]() The Greek poet Archilochus wrote, "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." "The hedgehogs are more the big idea people, more decisive," while the foxes are more accepting of nuance, more open to using different approaches with different problems. ![]() Psychologist Phil Tetlock thinks the parable of the fox and the hedgehog represents two different cognitive styles. ![]() |