![]() Shelley comes solidly to life as a woman who, like her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, bucked the conventions of her time to follow her own star. Reef manages to keep clear for readers the often complex tangle of Shelley’s family relationships and friendships. Recounted chronologically, the narrative reads smoothly, spiced throughout with quotes from letters, journals, and poems. Nearly every page has images of people or places that help establish the social context of the early 1800s. The bibliography is impressive the author has mined primary and secondary sources to provide a detailed picture of Shelley’s life. ![]() ![]() At a gathering in a house rented by Bryon, the group challenged each other to write a ghost story, and Shelley produced the story of Victor Frankenstein and the being he brought to life. ![]() Constantly short of funds, the couple often depended on the kindness of friends, including Lord Byron and editor/poet Leigh Hunt. Involved from age 16 in a relationship with the already married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, the teen wandered Europe for much of their time together, escaping disapproving families in England. Reef traces the unconventional life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, beginning with the somewhat gruesome discovery after her death of her husband’s shriveled heart in a portable writing desk. ![]()
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What brought these folks together in Mudville in 1888 at baseball's dawn? What happened next, and ever after? Del Leonard Jones writes with clarity as he constructs the memorable players in a tale that covers some 70 years. ![]() This book expands on the legend of the Mighty Casey, the strikeout immortalized in baseball legend, and the interplay of so many involved people - the umpire, Casey, the groundbreaking journalist Nellie Bly. Doctorow's "historical" novels that blend fictional characters with known persons of a time to create a different reality. Larry Weisman, USA Today sports writer for 25 years, says: “I found myself thinking of E.L. 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Glimpses of my past haunt me, the screams of terror echo in the silent darkness of my memories, trying to remind me that my Mother went from room to room butchering our family. ![]() How can I believe that’s what I’m born from? No matter what they try to tell me happened in my past, my mind denies me access, therefore how can I know it’s true? But after the death of his uncle, it can all be his: the power, the crown, and the wealth. Hawthorne Thorne Badd has lived his life as a reckless playboynot as a presumptive king. ![]() One born of dirty blood running through her veins can never truly be clean from its murky hue. Royal rivals feel the heat in the latest Bad Boy Royals novel from USA Today bestselling author Nora Flite. Is all terms used to describe the parents I refuse to remember. I was created from two evil souls and have the name to prove it.ĭevil worshipers, perverts, murderer. ![]() ![]() In comics, he’s written for characters like Spider-Man, Loki, Black Panther, Deadpool, Harley Quinn and others for Marvel, D.C. He is also the author of We Wish You a Harley Christmas: DC Holiday Carols (Chronicle Books, 2020) and the co-author of the humor book, How to Win at Everything (Chronicle Books, 2013). With illustrator, Ashley Quach, he is the author of the picture books Princess Dinosaur (LBYR, 2021) and Santa’s Husband(Harper Design, 2017). He was most recently a Co-Executive producer for Netflix Animation’s Inside Job (2021) and a former staff-writer for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (CBS, 2015 - 2020), as well as the writer of Celebrating Marvel’s Stan Lee (ABC, 2019) and a writer for the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards (2017). ![]() ![]() Daniel Kibblesmith is an Emmy-nominated TV writer and author from Oak Park, Illinois. ![]() ![]() Her "elaborate specifications" are a well-intentioned effort to protect Dorcas from the "Day of Judgment," "The Beast" and "Imminent Demise." Both the aunt and the niece, privately admire the songs and dances of the street, and Dorcas eventually acts upon her desires.Īfter hinting at Dorcas' "Imminent Demise" at the hands of Joe Trace, the chapter offers more details of Dorcas' history. Dorcas lives in an apartment of oppressionher clothes are unflattering Alice instructs her niece to be "deaf and blind " she teaches her how to avoid anything that is living and unknown. ![]() Alice's reason for continuing in Harlem, despite her overwhelming fear of the music and fast pace of the city, is never revealed, but Dorcas' arrival does allow Alice to make her fears and concerns vicarious. One of earliest memories of Dorcas is a Fifth Avenue parade in July, 1917, where silent men and women marched to condemn the lynch riots that had just occurred in East St. Alice Manfred lived in Harlem for several years before she called for her niece, Dorcas, to live with her. Chapter Three continues with the history of Dorcas' aunt, Alice Manfred. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many battles, curses, and afflictions accompanied their subsequent wanderings and those of their numerous progeny. ![]() The resulting “books” turned out to be a record set down by ancient prophets, beginning with Nephi, son of Lephi, who had fled Jerusalem in approximately 600 BC and come to America. Second, he was operating in an area which, unlike large tracts of the newly opening North America, did possess the signs of an ancient history. So notorious did this local tendency become that the region became known as the “Burned-Over District,” in honor of the way in which it had surrendered to one religious craze after another. First, he was operating in the same hectically pious district that gave us the Shakers and several other self-proclaimed American prophets. However, within four years he was back in the local newspapers (all of which one may still read) as the discoverer of the “Book of Mormon.” He had two huge local advantages which most mountebanks and charlatans do not possess. In March 1826 a court in Bainbridge, New York, convicted a twenty-one-year-old man of being “a disorderly person and an impostor.” That ought to have been all we ever heard of Joseph Smith, who at trial admitted to defrauding citizens by organizing mad gold-digging expeditions and also to claiming to possess dark or “necromantic” powers. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s spoken at Harvard, SXSW, and Netroots Nation. He currently writes a regular column at Medium’s GEN, and appears frequently at XTra. His pieces have appeared in Elle, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Awl, Buzzfeed, and all across the Internet. Jude Doyle also founded the feminist blog Tiger Beatdown in 2008, led several successful social media awareness campaigns, including #MooreandMe and #MenCallMeThings, won the Women's Media Center’s first Social Media Award in 2011, and was a founding staffer at Rookie Magazine and a contributor to the bestselling anthologies Book of Jezebel and Nasty Women. The collected edition was published in August of 2022. In 2021, Jude published Maw, a 5-issue comic series with artist A.L. The Atlantic predicted that " Trainwreck will very likely join the feminist canon." Doyle’s second book, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy and the Fear of Female Power (Melville House, 2019) was named a Best Non-Fiction Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews and was shortlisted for Starburst Magazine’s Brave New Words award. and Why (Melville House 2016), which has been called "smart, funny and fearless" (Boston Globe), "compelling" and "persuasive" (New York Times Book Review). Under his former pen name “Sady Doyle,” Jude is the author of Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear. Doyle is an author, columnist, and comic book writer living in upstate New York. ![]() |