![]() ![]() From 1988 to 1998, she created scripts for television sitcoms, including The Cosby Show (1984) and its spin-off A Different World (1987). ![]() Trigiani made her off-Broadway debut in New York City as a playwright in 1985 at the Manhattan Theater Club with Secrets of the Lava Lamp, directed by Stuart Ross. Inspired by her Italian American heritage and Appalachian childhood in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, Trigiani arrived in New York in 1985 after attending Saint Mary's College in Indiana. Trigiani has published a novel a year since 2000. Adriana Trigiani is an American best-selling author of eighteen books, playwright, television writer/producer, film director/screenwriter/producer, and entrepreneur based in New York City. ![]()
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![]() "What you have in the Middle Ages are the beginnings of romantic love." Thomas Cahill "Bush called the war in Iraq a crusade." Thomas Cahill "There are that many disavowals of the crusades nowadays." Thomas Cahill This hour on Point: we go back to the Middle Ages with Thomas Cahill. Now he's taking on the high end of the Dark Ages - the age of Eleanor of Aquitane and Thomas Aquinas and Dante and crusades, and finding modern roots in the medieval. Time traveler Thomas Cahill has made himself one of the best-selling historians in history with his books "How the Irish Saved Civilization," "The Gift of the Jews" and "Sailing the Wine Dark Seas: Why the Greeks Matter." An image partly romantic, partly brutal, and always good for a Monty Python laugh. ![]() Lords and ladies, knights and castles, kings and queens in splendor - the Middle Ages still have a hold on the 21st century imagination. Facebook Email This article is more than 16 years old. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I like the fact that Villette talks about how it’s not easy to grow up, and that the book shows, rather than tells us, why strict gender roles can be harmful. It’s all about how one girl grown and develops against a varied backdrop. Villette is in some ways a very simple book. My opinion of the book: I’m struggling to figure out if this or Villette is my favourite Charlotte Brontë book. Shirley was named after the son her father never had. Her uncle, understanding something is wrong, tries to help by introducing her to Shirley Keeldar, who newly inherited a large fortune. While these visits are important for Caroline, they don’t cure her feeling of emptiness. Robert Moore and his sister are from Belgium, and the reasons for Caroline’s frequent visits are to learn French and all things woman from Hortense. ![]() The mill is owned by Robert Moore, a distant cousin of Caroline, who also lives with his sister Hortense. Her only highlight is when she travels to a mill close by. She is bored, because as the vicar’s niece she is too well off to get an occupation as a governess and as a woman she can’t find a job fitting her station. ![]() Plot: Caroline Helstone is an orphan, and therefore living with her uncle, one of the vicars in the area. ![]() ![]() ![]() The questions are time-stamped so my readers can easily locate the information from the interview that interests them the most.ġ. What follows are the questions I asked them during the YouTube interview. ![]() I predict this book will become a go-to resource for classroom teachers. They work directly with classroom teachers around the country to help those teachers develop their craft. Both these authors have now moved into consulting. As indicated in her biography, Hannah’s classroom was used as a model classroom for teachers around the city and country. As you can tell from their bios, both authors have spent considerable time successfully teaching in urban settings. In their collaboration over the past three years, they honed their ideas about how to effectively conference within the workshop setting and then expanded their inquiry into identifying effective ways to promote independent reading. At that presentation, they laid the framework for what became the foundational ideas for this about-to-be-released book. I had the honor of being the chair for their session and introducing them and their innovative ideas. I first met Jennifer and Hannah at the 2017 NCTE conference held in my hometown of St. Here is a little bit about the two authors. It is expected the first copies should be arriving in May. I was excited to interview Jennifer Scoggin and Hannah Schneewind about their upcoming book, Trusting Readers: Powerful Practices for Independent Reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() But as usual, Hawk takes the generic and spins it into the amazing. On the romance side, the stuffy government agent and the civilian getting caught up in a case are another well-worn trope. The idea that an entire branch of government is dedicated to it tickled my sense of the ridiculous. On the surface, this series appealed to me because it indulges in one of my favorite urban fantasy tropes, in which the wider world is aware that the supernatural exists in some form. I devoured this series the way Gray devours demons. My reading spree included staying up way too late on a work night. ![]() Honestly, my review can be boiled down like this: I purchased the series as a full set, but the books were so good that I didn’t want to pause in between to write individual reviews of each book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() First Grave on the Rightdeserves nothing less than a Five Angel, Recommend Read status.” - Fallen Angel Reviews I barely finished this book and already can't wait to visit with Charley Davidson again in the next novel, Second Grave on the Left. “This book is full of surprises and fun to be had for all. Do not walk run to get your copy of First Grave on the Right when it debuts.” - Night Owl Reviews “A true paranormal princess has been proclaimed. “It's a fun, sexy, exciting read.” - Suspense Magazine “Jones makes a truly memorable debut with her unique tale that is sexy, mysterious, and sarcastically fun!” - RT Books Reviews “Fast-talking Charley's wicked exuberance and lust for life will appeal to fans of MaryJanice Davidson and Janet Evanovich and maybe fill a hole for those mourning the recently canceled Ghost Whisperer.” - Publishers Weekly Fans of Sherrilyn Kenyon and other authors of paranormal romance will love this series debut.” - Library Journal (starred review) And let's be honest-the sex is pretty hot, too. “Jones skillfully establishes the novel's setting and keeps up the pace with plenty of action. ![]() “Jones's wickedly witty debut will delight aficionados of such humorous paranormals as Casey Daniels's Pepper Martin Mysteries and Dakota Cassidy's Accidental Friends series.” - Booklist (starred review) Jones's characters, both living and dead, are colorful and endearing. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the second chapter, the reader meets Charlie for the first time. After all, agents have been working on it for decades since Einstein’s death and have not come close. The CIA is desperate to get it before it gets into the wrong hands, and they have learned that a white supremacist group is hot on the trail.ĭante Garcia, the CIA agent, believes that Charlie Thorne, who stole millions from a large corporation (which had stolen from her first), could be the only one to figure out where the secret might be. The CIA is desperately trying to find where Einstein hid Pandora, which is a equation that would make it easy to create nuclear weapons but which could also create clean energy. The pre-teen is not just anyone, but Charlie Thorne, whose IQ almost rivals Einstein’s. The action then moves to Langley, VA, in CIA headquarters, where an agent is trying to convince the director that a twelve-year-old girl is the answer to their problems. ![]() You’ll be hooked from the very first page, which is the Prologue in which Albert Einstein is dying, leaving behind not only his theory of relativity, but something called Pandora, an equation which could change the world. ![]() Once you pick up “Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation” by bestselling author Stuart Gibbs, you won’t be able to put it down until the last page is over, and you’re reading the acknowledgements. ![]() ![]() ![]() And I promise is wasn’t intentional either.
![]() Much more than simply the prototype for Conan, Kull is a fascinating character in his own right: an exile from fabled Atlantis who wins the crown of Valusia, only to find it as much a burden as a prize. Yet while Conan the Cimmerian is indisputably Howard's greatest creation, it was in his earlier sequence of tales featuring Kull, a fearless warrior with the brooding intellect of a philosopher, that Howard began to develop the distinctive themes and the richly evocative blend of history and mythology that would distinguish his later tales of the Hyborian Age. ![]() From his fertile imagination sprang some of fiction's most enduring heroes. Howard single-handedly invented the genre that came to be called sword and sorcery. ![]() ![]() In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years, Robert E. ![]() ![]() She has been imprisoned – it’s dark, damp and she doesn’t know anything. All her lies have been uncovered and so has the shocking truth about her supposedly dead father. So what did I think of Corruption?I really liked it – for the most part! Maggie has been caught on her expedition with Quentin to the underground. So after reading and enjoying Disruption I was pleased to see that there was one more book, but not five or six.Even though I know that sounds like I didn’t like Disruption, I promise I did! I’m just glad that it didn’t give me a chance to really resent it because there were too many books. ![]() I think it’s great – there are way too many series to keep up with and not enough standalones – and here we have the solution. ![]() I like that the books are action packed, long but deep enough to cover everything it needs to in two books. ![]() |