![]() ![]() ![]() A Pushcart Prize–nominated writer, her short stories have appeared in CRAFT Literary, Mud Season Review, and Angel City Review. Loan Le holds an MFA degree in fiction from Fairfield University, also her undergraduate alma mater. But then, of course, they immediately remember.Ĭan Linh and Bao find love in the midst of feuding families and complicated histories? Bao and Linh, who’ve avoided each other for most of their lives, both suspect that the feud stems from feelings much deeper than friendly competition.īut then a chance encounter brings Linh and Bao in the same vicinity despite their best efforts and sparks fly, leading them both to wonder what took so long for them to connect. The only problem? Her parents rely on her in ways they’re not willing to admit, including working practically full-time at her family’s pho restaurant.įor years, the Mais and the Nguyens have been at odds, having owned competing, neighboring pho restaurants. She loves art and dreams pursuing a career in it. Stable when unlit, but full of potential for joy and fire. If Linh Mai had to describe herself, she’d say she was a firecracker. He works at his parents’ pho restaurant, and even there, he is his parents’ fifth favorite employee. ![]() ![]() His grades are average, his social status unremarkable. Steady and strong, but not particularly interesting. If Bao Nguyen had to describe himself, he’d say he was a rock. ![]()
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But no, here was one of those blasted covers, stuck to the fridge with magnets shaped like a pan of paella and the Puerto Rican flag. “Who put this here?” Jasmine demanded, slapping her hand over the words, as if that could make them disappear, as if the whole embarrassing ordeal could be concealed so easily.Īvoiding the tabloids with her face on them had been hard enough in places like Target and the airport, but she thought she’d be safe in her grandmother’s kitchen in the Bronx. All caps, of course, and below it: Exclusive details from soap star Jasmine Lin’s humiliating breakup with rock star playboy McIntyre. ![]() The word glared at Jasmine in bright yellow letters, emblazoned directly beneath a picture of her own face. 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Housed in a custom made solander case for perfect protection. ![]() Signed and inscribed by the author in green ink on the front free endpaper to his daughter and her husband James Pierce less than two months after the publication: With love and best wishes | to Joan and Jim| Ed | Tarzana |. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1928) Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, US first edition, first printing, published by A.C. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Beautifully written, this poignant play resounded to our cast and audiences in a time when kindness and connection are needed more then ever. It has great roles for actors of all ages and skill levels." ![]() The joys and challenges of everyday life are richly depicted in this classic which the New York Times called "an exquisite, sometimes painfully touching tale." The School Library Journal said the book "is filled with wisdom and gentle humor…a tender story about the fragile beginnings of a family relationship on its way to permanence." 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Narrated by Anna reminiscing on the eve of her wedding, the story unfolds in a fascinating flashback on that often exciting, sometimes tumultuous month when Sarah and the Wittings came to know one another and learned a few things about themselves as well. ![]() He receives a letter from a Sarah Wheaton of Maine who says she will visit the family for a month to see how things work out: "I will come by train. ![]() Set in the early 1900s, this play brings to life the charming, heartwarming story of a Kansas farmer, Jacob Witting, a widower with two children-Anna and Caleb, who places an ad in the newspapers seeking a wife. ![]() ![]() ![]() Any reader who believes that Lolita is, as Nabokov himself states, an aesthetic work with no moral message, or that it is an extension of Nabokov’s sexual desires or even that it portrays the narrators actions in a positive light obviously hasn’t been paying attention. Yet, as any good Nabokovian would know, not everything is as it seems with Lolita. ![]() Lolita has slowly seeped into the public subconscious, it is a dirty word, with sexual and paedophilic connotations few remember that the term comes from a book from a Russian émigré with an unpronounceable name, even those who know tendentiously associate it with imaginary sexual proclivities (and perversities) of its author, after all what kind of man writers not only one, but several stories, about an adult man’s sexual desire for a teenage girl? Not only that, but Lolita seems to sympathise with the man who kidnaps and rapes a teenage girl, it imbues him with everything we associate with “goodness”: handsomeness, erudition, charm and wealth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It tells you how Princess Selene came to be with Michelle Benoit, how Scarlet came to live with her grandmother, the story of Cinder becoming a part of the Linh family, and so much more. ![]() Well, here they are now, just as fleshy as can be. It tells you all the stories that are mentioned in the aforementioned series but never fleshed out. There are so many little gems for people who like to tie off all the loose ends. Stars Above is a collection of short stories centered around the characters we have come to know and love from the mother series, The Lunar Chronicles. This book is wonderful for people who want to know what happens after the story is over. If you are at all like me, you always want to read more, to know the entire story from start to finish. I finally got my hands on Stars Above by Marissa Meyer, (a special ‘thank you’ to for stealing it from me and taking FOREVER to finish it), and I love it so much for the closure it provides. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her character Aud Torvingen, is the protagonist of three novels in which Griffith’s embodied meditations on grief, trust and communities of support include self-defense classes, cavernous bars, and spiky queer ways of dressing and being, along with subtle observations of city life. Her work is full of women with gripping lives who have intense sexual and emotional relationships with each other. She has also written short stories, essays and a memoir. Griffith has written five previous novels. Reading Hild is an urgent, expansive pleasure. Hild–so young, sharp and tall–is very much a human being, and her story grabs a reader like a king’s gesith grabs a sword. In it, a girl whose mother has dreamed her to be the light of the world finds out more about what that means than most human beings could bear. Her new novel, Hild, about the most powerful woman in seventh century Britain, is magnificent. ![]() Nicola Griffith is a brilliant, prolific, entertaining, risk-taking writer. ![]() |