Holly is reminded that friendship is not only life-affirming but can be life-saving. There is also evil's opposite, which in King's fiction often manifests as friendship. One of King's great concerns is evil, and in If It Bleeds, there's plenty of it. If these novellas show King's range, they also prove that certain themes endure. And in "Rat," a struggling writer must contend with the darker side of ambition. "The Life of Chuck" explores, beautifully, how each of us contains multitudes. Harrigan's Phone" an intergenerational friendship has a disturbing afterlife. Mercedes trilogy and The Outsider) must face her fears, and possibly another outsider-this time on her own. In the title story, reader favorite Holly Gibney (from the Mr. The four brilliant tales in If It Bleeds prove as iconic as their predecessors. Many of his novellas have been made into iconic films, including "The Body" ( Stand by Me) and "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" ( Shawshank Redemption). Readers adore Stephen King's novels, and his novellas are their own dark treat, briefer but just as impactful and enduring as his longer fiction. Harrigan's Phone"- now a Netflix original film starring Donald Sutherland and Jaeden Martell!įrom the legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new "exceptionally compelling novellas that reaffirm mastery of the form" ( The Washington Post). Description *#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
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Hate fueled me, lies tore me apart, and in the end everything I thought I knew turned out to be fake.Įxcept… Riot Night also brought Archer, Kody, and Steele back into my life. I’ve been hunted, stabbed, stalked, tormented, and used. The blurb below may contain spoilers for previous books, and I urge you not to read it until you've finished HATE, LIAR and FAKE.Ĭoming back to Shadow Grove turned it on its head. KATE is book 4 of 4 in the MADISON KATE series. If this isn't your cup of tea, then this isn't the series for you. This is a reverse harem series, meaning the leading lady has several love interests and she doesn't have to choose between them for her happily ever after. Madison Kate is a new adult/college age dark romance with enemies to lovers/hate to love themes. Shay shared her passion for radio with her late father, and she often wonders what he would think about her career choices Dominic is determined to make a positive impact with his journalism degree but is unsure how to do so in the world of click-bait content. Shay and Dominic are brought to life with multilayered backstories. As the show skyrockets in popularity, the fake exes become real friends, but a growing attraction might spell disaster. Of course, there’s one huge problem: They’ve never actually dated. But their shouting match has unexpected consequences when the station's program director tells them their verbal sparring and obvious tension would make them the perfect hosts for Shay’s show-and that it just might save them from upcoming layoffs. Their competition boils over during a stationwide brainstorming session when Shay suggests starting a new dating show hosted by exes, and Dominic writes it off as tawdry commercial radio. Dominic, 24 years old and armed with a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern, which he obnoxiously mentions every chance he gets, is already breaking big news on the air. The 29-year-old senior producer has been with Pacific Public Radio for 10 years but has never realized the dream of hosting her own show. Shay Goldstein hates her new co-worker, Dominic Yun. To save their jobs, rival public radio co-workers pretend to be exes for a new show and end up getting much more than they bargained for. In My Life in Middlemarch, her unusual and deeply felt mashup of lit-crit, biography and memoir, Mead describes a long, complicated relationship with Middlemarch, and, by association, with its brilliant author, George Eliot. Her first time out with Middlemarch, at age 17, she found not only a way in, but the book came to serve as a touchstone that she sought out at critical moments in the years that followed. But then one day, when I was older and more discerning and less antsy, I tried again, and this time I was swept in. Buck and Go Ask Alice, found the novel difficult and dry. My teenage self, feeding heavily at the time on Pearl S. I have to admit that the first time I tried to read Middlemarch by George Eliot, I ended up putting it aside after only 20 pages. Meg Wolitzer's latest novel is The Interestings. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title My Life in Middlemarch Author Rebecca Mead The narrator of the story tells of his dream, in which he imagined he was a Pharisee who has just helped to crucify Christ. The Post gives no more identification of the author than the letter “P.” One is a short story entitled “A Dream” from 1831. There’s also mystery of unsigned pieces that might be the work of Poe. By the time of it appeared, Poe was long gone from the Academy. Poe had dedicated his book to the cadets of West Point because many of them had loaned him money to have the book printed. Corps of Cadets, as the volume is dedicated to that body. The author is, we believe, a member of the U.S. Poe, a part of which was published in a former edition. We extract the following poetry from a small 18mo volume of poems, by Edgar A. The Post also printed one of Poe early poems, “To Helen.” (“Helen, thy beauty is to me/ Like those Nicean barks of yore…”) When it appeared on May 21, 1831, Poe was so little known that the editors felt obliged to give him an introduction: But as he adjusts to his new environment, finding companionship and even love, he can envision a life for himself after servitude. Orphaned and afraid, Tony initially longs for home. Kidnapped and transported to the New World after traveling from the British East India Company’s outpost on the Coromandel Coast to the teeming streets of London, young Tony finds himself in Jamestown, Virginia, where he and his fellow indentured servants-boys like himself, men from Africa, a mad woman from London-must work the tobacco plantations. Meet Tony: insatiably curious, deeply compassionate, with a unique perspective on every scene he encounters. Inspired by a historical figure, an exhilarating debut novel about the first native of the Indian subcontinent to arrive in Colonial America-for readers of Esi Edugyan and Yaa Gyasi. This exploit had a whiff of the Grand Old Tour about it, tinged with a gung-ho “Boys’ Own” sense of adventure. In 1933, aged “18 and three-quarters” Leigh Fermor set off on a daunting but enthralling voyage - a journey on foot across mainland Europe, from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. The volume remained unopened on my shelves until, one fine day, driven by boredom and a vague curiosity, I immersed myself in its pages. But this was one of the more affordable books in the catalogue, one that didn’t unduly stretch my restricted budget. My first order included a handsome set of fairytale collections, a few history and fiction titles, and the Society’s edition of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s. When I was a student at University (longer ago than I’d like to think.) I decided to become a member of the Folio Society. Poor immigrants and their descendants mined it. Anthracite coal fueled the industrial revolution. in the Lackawanna Valley deep in the coal fields of Pennsylvania. Richard Rousseau, University of Scranton Secret meetings hidden in the mountains, informants, agents, spies. comes across as an authentic record of what must have been in part a result of personal experience, family tradition and the dramatic events of the late 19th century here in the greater Scranton area-a valuable record. ADVANCE PRAISE for MINE SEED: A powerful story-something extraordinary in literature. INSKEEP: In a moment, we will hear the Gettysburg Address as read by some of our NPR colleagues. KILLAM: (As character).this reviewer watched the president's speech at Gettysburg. TARAN KILLAM: (As character) Four snores and seven yawns ago. (SOUNDBITE OF A "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" CLIP) That prompted NBC's "Saturday Night Live" to invite the reviewer to say why he still hates it. MONTAGNE: Last week, a Pennsylvania newspaper retracted its own criticism of the speech back in 1863. Generations of students memorized it - or at least heard the joke about sending a letter to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. It was read aloud to mark the anniversary of 9/11. The speech, beginning "Four score and seven years ago," holds a giant place in American culture. One hundred fifty years ago today, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address. Our Culture chatted with Julia Armfield about her research from the book, the banality we meet with extreme events, and how queer relationships are portrayed. Combining bodily horror with an unnerving sense of realism, Our Wives Under the Sea is one of the most frightening of the year - no jumpscares required. Sections correspond to the ocean’s laters, starting from the benign “Sunlight Zone,” ending with the dark and horrifying “Hadal Zone.”Īs Leah recalls her time stuck at the bottom of the ocean, losing track of time, Miri attempts to find the wife she once knew underneath the literal and metaphorical watery wall an unknown entity has erected in front of Leah. While Miri tries again and again, through repeated calls and online forum visits, to see what has happened with her wife, Leah grows stranger, her symptoms worsening as the book deepens. The book switches between the two characters - Miri, contacting her friends for some relief and being neglected by the enigmatic Centre which Leah’s expedition was a part of - and Leah, recalling her time under the sea surrounded by two crewmembers. She returned from her deep-sea exploration weeks ago, but she’s troubling her wife, Miri, plodding around the apartment seeping water, spending days in the bath, and locking herself in the bathroom. |