Crawford exposes the double standards applied to male and female sexuality that enables victim blaming. Yet, after her assault rumours begin spreading and Crawford is labelled a ‘slut’ and ostracised by her friend and fellow students. Although Crawford’s vision of this rarefied world is far from idealistic, she also writes about the friendships she formed at St. Paul’s, a place predominantly attended by the children of WASP families. She recreates the atmosphere and toxic culture of St. The physical violence of the assault is followed by a different kind of violence when the school, more concerned with its own reputation than pursuing the matter, silences her.Ĭrawford revisits the assault, the months that led up to it and what followed. Paul’s School, an elite boarding school in New Hampshire, where, at the age of fifteen, she was sexually assaulted by two older students, both of whom went unpunished and were able to graduate with awards. With clarity and precision, Crawford describes her time at St. Notes on a Silencing is a profoundly poignant memoir and a deeply moving account of a young girl’s sexual assault and its aftermath.
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(Arun Sharma/Hindustan Times) 336pp, ₹1802 Algonquin Books Safe houses shelter inter caste and inter faith couples who are in danger of being attacked by their families. A young married couple at a government safe house in Rohtak, Haryana in July 2015. As she grows from an unwilling bystander reluctant to cover a story to a deeply involved champion of Meena’s rights, Smita goes through an emotional journey that brings her face-to-face with judicial, social and individual failures. As she follows the case of Meena, a Hindu woman attacked and ostracized by her own family and village for marrying a Muslim man, Abdul, Smita comes face to face with complex social norms and, in the process, pieces together a story that threatens to unearth the painful secrets of her own past. Smita, an Indian-American journalist, whose family had moved from Mumbai with no intention of ever returning, reluctantly goes back to India to cover a story. 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Toward the end of the mini-series, based on the Agatha Christie novel of the same name, viewers think that they are finally getting a rational explanation for a spate of killing that people think are being committed by witches. The Pale Horse is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video after airing on the BBC in the UK in February. He’s a man who can get you anything you want… at a price. Only then will the beads disappear.Įveryone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer to make it happen. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations. For the last seven years she’s been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she’s received. Here are the covers for the entire series:Īnd, if you need a little push to get started, here’s the synopsis for Book 1, titled Rhapsodic:Ĭallypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. They’re gonna look really pretty on your bookshelves, that’s all we’re saying And if you haven’t read the series before, well, consider this your sign. You’re gonna be too, once you get to see them. Laura Thalassa‘s Bargainer series is coming to Bloom Books - one of our favorite imprints - and we’re absolutely in love with the new covers. And when it comes to a book series getting a re-release, good covers can be the reason new audiences finally discover a new world of adventures. A good cover can be the difference between picking up a book and not noticing it. We read books because of the words inside, that much is true. Weaving fantasy with the salacious and fascinating details of real history, New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Herman reimagines the greatest emperor the world has ever known: Alexander the Great, in the first book of the Blood of Gods and Royals series.įrom the first time I read the synopsis, I knew this was the kind of book I would devour. And far across the sea, Zofia, a Persian princess and Alexander’s unmet fiancée, wants to alter her destiny by seeking the famed and deadly Spirit Eaters. But Kat’s first love, Jacob, will go to unthinkable lengths to win her, even if it means competing for her heart with Hephaestion, a murderer sheltered by the prince. A time when cities burn, and in their ashes, empires rise.Īlexander, Macedonia’s sixteen-year-old heir, is on the brink of discovering his fated role in conquering the known world but finds himself drawn to newcomer Katerina, who must navigate the dark secrets of court life while hiding her own mission: kill the Queen. News: Legacy of Kings picked up by Warner Bros for TV show development Synopsis Imagine a time when the gods turn a blind eye to the agony of men, when the last of the hellions roam the plains and evil stirs beyond the edges of the map. Legacy of Kings: Amazon | iBooks | Barnes & Noble.Related Posts: 2015 Favorites | Fantastical Adventures | I Love YA.An utterly spellbinding and fascinating mix of magic and history. I like that their friendship grew little by little when the pieces of the truth begin to come out. There funny and unrelentless to each other. Sarcastic and witty, both characters fight each other like cats and dogs. The characters of the book totally rocked. Not only was it funny, but a delightful read that I want to read again. I read this book, no joke in a matter of a few hours. No one can see or hear Kimberlee except Jeff, so–in hopes of bringing an end to the snarkiest haunting in history–he agrees to help her complete her “unfinished business.” But when the enmity between Kimberlee and Jeff’s new crush, Sera, manages to continue posthumously, Jeff wonders if he’s made the right choice.Ĭlash meets sass in this uproarious modern-day retelling of Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel.” But nothing is worse than finding out the first girl you meet is dead. He forayed into the jungle of Hollywood and started with creating scripts for the well known TV series like Miami Vice, Hill Street Blues, and Cagney & Lacey. He knows that both of these are paving his way to what he really wants, which is to write his own books. Short fiction stories defined his earlier works as well as dabbing into the intriguing world of making films. He is aware that getting catapulted to glory and recognition as a novelist will entail not just hard work but sheer dedication on his part. Baby Steps to the FutureĬrais knows what he wants out of life and he is willing to work for it. Those eternal words on paper changed the direction of his life and roused the flame of his love, that of writing. Raised as an only child by the childless couple who took him under their wings, he could have followed in the tradition of his family and either went into the upholding the law as a police officer or working in one of the oil refinery which Louisiana is so famous for.īut at fifteen years of age, he got his eyes and hands on a second hand copy of The Little Sister written by Raymond Chandler. Precious Ramotswe (By:Alexander McCall Smith)Ī star was born in Louisiana on the night of Jwhen Robert Crais was brought into the world. Ian Rutledge: A Mysterious Profile (By:Charles Todd) Pendergast (By:Douglas Preston)Ĭharlotte and Thomas Pitt (By:Anne Perry) Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus (By:Faye Kellerman)Īloysius X. How Fred and her friends grow with Miss Agnes is the heart of this story, told with much humor and warmth by Fred herself This is a story about Alaska, about the old ways and the new, about pride. Fred knows what this is about: Just when things seem to be good, things go back to being the same. But then Miss Agnes says she's homesick and will go back to England at the end of the year. Maybe it's because Miss Agnes can't smell anything, let alone fish, that things seem to be all right. And no other teacher ever, ever told the kids they were each good at something. No other teacher ever said Fred's deaf older sister should come to school, too. No other teacher plays opera recordings, talks about "hairy os," and Athabascan kids becoming doctors or scientists. No other teacher throws away old textbooks and reads Greek myths and Robin Hood. Will another teacher come to the small Athabascan village on the Koyukuk River to teach Fred and her friends in the one-room schoolhouse? Will she stay, or will she hate the smell of fish, too?įred doesn't know what to make of Miss Agnes Sutterfield. It's 1948 and ten-year-old Fred has just watched her teacher leave - another in a long line of teachers who have left the village because the smell of fish was too strong, the way of life too hard. I enjoyed this one more than I thought because I wasn’t sure when I had started it if I was in the mood for a more tame book (compared to some of the books I have been reading) but it was a nice fun read. I have always have a soft spot for egotistical, thinks highly of themselves bad boys! I mean who doesn’t?! I had read that this one was a good and sweet story and I have to say that I do agree! I fell absolutely in love with Jack Carter the minute he was introduced. Sometimes life gets ugly before it gets beautiful… Strap yourselves for a ride that will not only break your heart, but put it back together. They’re both damaged, filled with mistrust and guarded before they find one another (and themselves) in this emotional journey about love and forgiveness. But Jack has other things on his mind… like getting Cassie to give him the time of day. When Cassie meets rising baseball hopeful Jack, she is determined to steer clear of him and his typical cocky attitude. The Perfect Game tells the story of college juniors, Cassie Andrews & Jack Carter. And she’s the game changer he never knew he needed. |