![]() ![]() The plays, later made into films, defined their times and also gave defining roles to many of the century’s greatest players: Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in Street Car, Laurette Taylor as Amanda in The Glass Menagerie, Maureen Stapleton and Eli Wallach as Serafina and Alvaro in The Rose Tattoo, and Geraldine Page as the Princess in Sweet Bird of Youth. Williams put his best self – and most of his life – into his plays: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Night of the Iguana among many. Williams’s work ushered in – as Arthur Miller declared – ‘a revolution’ in American theatre. John Lahr’s Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, follows Lahr’s other ground-breaking theatre biographies to give intimate access to the mind of one of the greatest American playwrights of the twentieth century. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book Dark Places is a murder mystery horror novel. The sole survivor of a family massacre is pushed into revisiting a past shed much rather leave alone, in Flynns scorching follow-up to Sharp Objects. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in The Satan Sacrifice. Almost broke, Libby agrees to go back to her hometown to investigate - for a fee.īut when Libby's search uncovers an unimaginable truth, she finds herself right back where she started: on the run from a killer. In this case it furthers the main protagonist of the book Dark Places by Gillian Flynn, Libby Day. Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (3 Books Set). Twenty-five years later the Kill Club - a secret society obsessed with notorious crimes - gets in touch with Libby to try to discover proof that may free Ben. Libby Day was seven when her family was murdered: she survived by hiding in a closet - and famously testified that her older brother Ben was the killer. 'Every bit as horribly fascinating as In Cold Blood' Daily Mail 'A nerve-fraying thriller' New York Times But what if he didnt do it The thrilling novel from the award-winning author of Gone Girl. ![]() Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Everything Alex has ever known changes before his eyes, and it’s a wondrous transformation.īut it’s a rare, unique occurrence for twins to be divided between Wanted and Unwanted, and as Alex and Aaron’s bond stretches across their separation, a threat arises for the survival of Artime that will pit brother against brother in an ultimate, magical battle. There, Alex and his fellow Unwanteds are encouraged to cultivate their creative abilities and use them magically. It’s hard for Alex to leave behind his twin, Aaron, a Wanted, but he makes peace with his fate - until he discovers that instead of a “death farm”, what awaits him is a magical place called Artime. Wanteds get more schooling and train to join the army. ![]() While Aaron is hopeful of becoming a Wanted, Alex knows his chances are slim. On the day of the Purge, identical twins Alex and Aaron Stowe await their fate. That is the way of the people of Quill: Each year all the 13-year-olds are labeled as Wanted, Necessary, or Unwanted. Every year in Quill, thirteen-year-olds are sorted into categories: the strong, intelligent Wanteds go to university, and the artistic Unwanteds are sent to their graves. When Alex finds out he is Unwanted, he expects to die. The New York Times best-selling author of the Wake trilogy makes her middle-grade dystopian fantasy debut! ![]() ![]() Publisher Weekly has dubbed her the "medical suspense queen". She has won both the Nero Wolfe Award (for Vanish) and the Rita Award (for The Surgeon.) Critics around the world have praised her novels as "Pulse-pounding fun" (Philadelphia Inquirer), "Scary and brilliant" (Toronto Globe and Mail), and "Polished, riveting prose" (Chicago Tribune). ![]() Her books have been translated into 31 languages, and more than 15 million copies have been sold around the world.Īs well as being a New York Times bestselling author, she has also been a #1 bestseller in both Germany and the UK. Her suspense novels since then have been: Life Support (1997), Bloodstream (1998), Gravity (1999), The Surgeon (2001), The Apprentice (2002), The Sinner (2003), Body Double (2004), Vanish (2005), The Mephisto Club (2006), and The Bone Garden (2007). Tess's first medical thriller, Harvest, was released in hardcover in 1996, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. She also wrote a screenplay, "Adrift", which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson. Call After Midnight, a romantic thriller, was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. ![]() While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D. ![]() Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He didn’t think one could do what he did and lack empathy, though he couldn’t understand how someone like Ms. Linus Baker, for what it was worth, did care about the children he was tasked with observing. As Arthur and Linus grow closer, long-held secrets are exposed, and Linus must make a choice: destroy a home or watch the world burn. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management, he’s given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children and their elusive but charming caretaker, Arthur, live. As a caseworker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, Linus Baker spends his days overseeing the well-being of gifted children in government-sanctioned orphanages. The following is a chapter from Lambda Literary Award winning TJ Klune’s forthcoming The House in the Cerulean Sea (Tor, March 17th). Whether February 14th brings Valentine’s Day or Singles Awareness Day for you this year, we all could use a little more romance in our lives. ![]() Love & Magic! Read a Chapter from TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea ![]() ![]() ![]() They even wear masks while in public because it’s forbidden for nonmagical people to see their faces. These are set in an Italian Renaissance-like society in which the magical people consider themselves superior to the “ordinaries” and set themselves apart to the point of having strict rules about interacting with nonmagical people. ![]() A few 8,000-word days will help.īut I have also made time for reading and discovered a new-to-me series, the Sanctuary books by Carol Berg. Probably not the best time to start writing a new book, but I’m behind and am trying to get back on schedule. I get a weekend off, and then I’m going to the World Fantasy Convention in San Antonio. I get a weekend off, and then I’m going to Necronomicon in Tampa. I have a weekend off after that, and then I’m going to the Missouri Library Association conference. ![]() This weekend is FenCon in the Dallas area. Then I have an event every other weekend until November. Now I want to top that number, so we’ll see what I manage to do today. I’ve already started a new book and have written 8,000 words - all in one day. I’ve been so busy lately, and it’s only getting worse! Last week, I finished the book I was working on and sent it to my agent Monday. ![]() ![]() ![]() A major complication is that he’s misrepresented himself to his boss in order to be employed and the lie is constantly getting in his way. So we have a conventional comic novel setup here, the pathetic loner in a pathetic job. Its agents, if you will – such as our man Andrew – enter the home or flat to root through personal belongings in search of money stuffed under a mattress and names and addresses of the next of kin who should be contacted. It’s a benevolent bureaucracy, its purpose being to learn if there are people – like family – who ought to know an elder has passed away unnoticed. ![]() He’s, a forlorn, reclusive, apparently long-suffering man of 42, who works for something called the “council,” which is apparently some British governmental agency that looks after elderly people who have died alone. The story centers on Andrew, his last name unspecified until near the end (as if it would make any difference, but which I assume was unmentioned to give him more of an “everyman” vibe). ![]() ![]() ![]() Now club member Lord Peter Wimsey must fight an uphill battle to solve the case. ![]() The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club: On Armistice Day, a wealthy general dies in his club, surrounded by fellow veterans-while across town his sister also dies suspiciously, throwing a half-million-pound inheritance into turmoil. In these Golden Age whodunits, “Lord Peter can hardly be spared from the ranks of the great detectives of the printed page” ( The New York Times). ![]() For Lord Peter Wimsey-a Great War veteran with a touch of shell shock-collecting rare books, sampling fine wines, and catching criminals are all most pleasant diversions. The British aristocrat and sleuth takes on four more puzzling whodunits in this beloved series from “one of the greatest mystery story writers” ( Los Angeles Times).Ī gentleman needs hobbies. ![]() ![]()
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