![]() ![]() In that presentation, judge Graham Cowley describes Dark Star as “a joy to read. The current pandemic meant the planned public presentation had to be cancelled and the announcement simply made online through the STR web site but, following what has become a traditional procedure, the online presentation includes the judges' remarks on the books, especially those on the shortlist. The judging panel of theatre and dance critic Donald Hutera, stage producer Graham Cowley and academic Prof Edith Hall chose it from 44 books about British theatre submitted by publishers, from which they had already announced a shortlist. ![]() The winner of the Theatre Book Prize, awarded annually by the Society for Theatre Research (STR), is Dark Star, Alan Strachan’s biography of actress Vivien Leigh, published by I B Tauris. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “I loved changing people's perceptions of life of the disabled, of the chronically ill,” she said. Since the beginning, McDaniel’s books have been centered on young adults dealing with issues of chronic illness and mortality, a topic she says was inspired by her son’s struggles with diabetes. ![]() “Your legacy can live in perpetuity if the library takes it.” “I'm so excited - you know, it's not every day that your legacy gets showcased,” McDaniel said. Thirty years after her first novel, young adult author Lurlene McDaniel has decided her latest book, “The Girl with the Broken Heart,” will be her last.Ī graduate of one of University of South Florida’s first classes in 1965, McDaniel will be returning to her alma mater to discuss her career and see an exhibition of her work at the Tampa campus library Thursday. ![]() ![]() Though she has no wealth, she trades her stories like currency with people who are kind to her. ![]() Eva is a naturally gifted and imaginative storyteller who meets people from all stations and walks of life. ![]() ![]() Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende’s most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller-available for the first time in ebook.Įva Luna is the daughter of a professor’s assistant and a snake-bitten gardener-born poor, orphaned at an early age, and working as a servant. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Julian's mother attends a weekly exercise session at the local YMCA but is wary of riding the bus by herself after the recent racial integration of the city's transportation system. The story's protagonist is a recent college graduate and aspiring writer named Julian who lives with his mother in an unnamed Southern city. The short story that lends its name to the 1965 short story collection was first published in the 1961 issue of New World Writing. " Parker's Back", the collection's only completely new story, was a last-minute addition. " Judgment Day" is a dramatically reworked version of " The Geranium", which was one of O'Connor's earliest publications and appeared in her graduate thesis at the University of Iowa. Henry Awards: " Greenleaf" (1957), "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (1963), and " Revelation" (1965). Of the volume's nine stories, seven had been printed in magazines or literary journals prior to being collected, including three that won O. The collection was published posthumously in 1965 and contains an introduction by Robert Fitzgerald. The collection's eponymous story derives its name from the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. ![]() Everything That Rises Must Converge is a collection of short stories written by Flannery O'Connor during the final decade of her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has said that the fictional nation of Danland is "in the same world as Bayern but on a different continent and in a different time". ![]() Hale drew from the similar concepts of speaking through wind, fire, and water found in her Books of Bayern series to develop this idea of communicating through stone. Her first draft didn't include the concept of "quarry-speech" and was added in the second. Hale first came up with the idea for Princess Academy while writing her first novel, The Goose Girl her husband, Dean Hale, was reading a fiction book about a tutor to a princess, which prompted Hale to develop the idea of a group of "princesses in training". It is the first in the Princess Academy series, followed by Princess Academy: Palace of Stone and Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters. The book was named a 2006 Newbery Honor winner as well as a New York Times Bestseller. It tells the story of fourteen-year-old Miri who attends a princess academy that will determine who wins the hand of the prince. ![]() Princess Academy is a fantasy novel exploring themes of families, relationships, and education by Shannon Hale published on June 16, 2005, by Bloomsbury. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With INSEAD business school professor Erin Meyer, he will explore his leadership philosophy – which begins by rejecting the accepted beliefs under which most companies operate – and how it plays out in practice at Netflix.įrom unlimited holidays to abolishing financial approvals, Netflix offers a fundamentally different way to run any organisation, one far more in tune with a fast-paced world. They are part of a unique cultural experiment that explains how the company has transformed itself at lightning speed from a DVD mail order service into a streaming superpower – with 125 million fervent subscribers and a market capitalisation bigger than Disney.įinally Reed Hastings, Netflix Chairman and CEO, is sharing the secrets that have revolutionised the entertainment and tech industries. These are some of the ground rules if you work at Netflix. Adequate performance gets a generous severance. ![]() ![]() ![]() No Easy Day puts readers alongside Owen and his fellow SEAL team members as they train for the biggest mission of their lives. Naval Special Warfare Development Group-known as SEAL Team Six-has been a part of some of the most memorable special operations in history, as well as countless missions that never made headlines. From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden's compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. The #1 New York Times bestselling first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is where Watts comes into her own and her purpose in paying homage to Fitzgerald becomes clear: Pinewood has no Nick Carraway, but it does have Ava’s mother, Sylvia. When Henry is caught philandering, Ava and Jay get caught up in their old cycle-but in a town populated by people without jobs or purpose, it’s difficult to say whether or not the course of true love could run smooth even if one of the nearby furniture factories planed it so. Unfortunately, Ava is now married to the feckless Henry and caught up in trying to conceive after many miscarriages and failed fertility treatments. Yet he feels impoverished, aching with love for his high-school girlfriend Ava he wants to win her back with his material gains. Jay (that’s what he’d like to be called, except that everyone in Pinewood refers to him as “JJ”) is a rich man, although no one knows exactly how his real-estate dealings have made him so. ![]() Set in the fictional town of Pinewood, the story begins as JJ (Jay) Ferguson has returned home to build a mansion on a hill. That’s how Stephanie Powell Watts, prize-winning author of the acclaimed short-story collection We Are Taking Only What We Need, describes her debut novel No One Is Coming to Save Us. “Imagine The Great Gatsby set in rural North Carolina, nine decades later, with desperate black people.” ![]() ![]() (Check out my literature extension post on this book at Bright Ideas Press Blog – Learn American History Through Literature – Ghosts of the Titanic) Ghosts of the Titanic – by Julie Lawson looks at another side of the story – set in Halifax, Canada where boats were charted from to clear the bodies from the water.That Fatal Night: The Titanic Diary of Dorothy Wilton – by Sarah Ellis and told from the perspective of a child survivor haunted by the memories of the voyage.Dear America: Voyage On The Great Titanic – by Ellen Emerson White follow the trip of an orphaned girl hoping to get to America to be reunited with her brother. ![]() Walter Lord interviewed scores of Titanic passengers, to create a gripping you-are-there account of the ship’s sinking. A Night to Remember – by Walter Lord is a minute by minute account of the sinking of the ship.Titanic Crossing – by Barbara Williams follows 13 year old Albert Trask with his mother and little sister Virginia.17) – by Mary Pope Osborn where Jack and Annie take a trip back to the decks of the Titanic. Tonight on the Titanic (Magic Tree House, No. ![]() ![]() This second installment of my Historical Fiction Series covers the tragedy of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Using historical fiction is a great way to bring history alive. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Missy simply adores animals of all shapes and sizes, and they love her right back–from the strays she collects at her home, to the black cat in town who seems to read her thoughts. Between juggling the needs of her family and a part-time writing gig, she soaks in quality girl time with her besties, aiding them in the running of their side-by-side popular coffee shop and handmade soap boutiques. Melissa Fitzpatrick (aka Miss Fitz) is a blissfully married mother of four living happily ever after in a cozy-yet-bustling tourist village in picturesque Brown County, Indiana. The book is available for pre-order now, and it will release on the 30th. Woah! It’s Bethany, Missy, and Salma, stirring up trouble! If you’re on the email list, then you probably have already seen this… ![]() |