![]() ![]() ![]() “ This story is reminiscent of one of Christie’s enigmatic works, and we are thrilled to be collaborating with Juliette Towhidi and our partners at The Gotham Group in bringing this truly captivating murder mystery to the screen.” “Nina de Gramont has written an astonishingly smart, layered and immersive novel, delivering a fascinating glimpse into history, with the astounding and peculiar disappearance of Agatha Christie,” said Marc Helwig, Head of Worldwide Television, Miramax TV. Miramax will produce with the The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Rich Green, and DJ Goldberg. ![]() Set mostly in the beautiful and historic British spa town of Harrogate, The Christie Affair is part sweeping love story– but not the one you expect - part exploration of the bonds of womanhood and part murder mystery to rival one of Christie’s own, now very famous stories. Agatha and Nan transform from competitors to unlikely allies while the world around them remains cloaked in the dark, unable to grasp the complexities of each woman’s relationship to her past and her female identity. ![]() This reimagining is told through the eyes of her husband’s mistress, Nan O’Dea (a fictionalized version of his real-life paramour, Nancy Neele). In 1926, when her husband’s affair became public, Agatha Christie vanished for eleven days. ![]()
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![]() "Part Tristram Shandy, part Ishmael, part Holden Caulfield, Cal is a wonderfully engaging narrator. ![]() Lyrical and thrilling, Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. My most recent driver's license.records my first name simply as Cal." ![]() ![]() My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960 and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. ![]() Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Ī dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides-the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() A Brazilian terrain-mapping drone has detected a bizarre anomaly of otherworldly matter in the middle of the jungle, and, worse yet, the tell-tale chemical signature of the deadly microparticle. On the verge of being shut down, the project has registered no activity - until now. And the world thought it was safe.ĭeep inside Fairchild Air Force Base, Project Eternal Vigilance has continued to watch and wait for the Andromeda Strain to reappear. In the ensuing decades, research on the microparticle continued. In the moments before a catastrophic nuclear detonation, they succeeded. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. ![]() ![]() Accidental exposure to the particle - designated the Andromeda Strain - killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. ![]() In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name - and spawned a new genre, the technothriller - the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant. ![]() ![]() ![]() So she called me, I sent her a couple of my plays and she said 'Great, would you like to pitch on a couple of comic books in the works?'" ![]() A couple of different theaters said she should look at me. So she started calling theaters and asking if they knew any playwrights who might be good for comic books. He began writing for Marvel Comics, he explained, when "Marvel hired an editor to find new writers, and they hired her from a theatrical agency. I would read them all over and over again, and draw my own pictures and stuff." He is Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics.Īguirre-Sacasa grew up liking comic books, recalling in 2003, "My mom would take us out to the 7-Eleven on River Road during the summer, and we would get Slurpees and buy comics off the spinning rack. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is an American playwright, screenwriter, and comic book writer best known for his work for Marvel Comics and for the television series Glee, Big Love, Riverdale, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because it’s easy for Hannah to protect Jack. But the more time she spends with Jack, the more real it all starts to seem. Even though her ex, like a jerk, says no one will believe it. And so Hannah-against her will and her better judgment-finds herself pretending to be Jack’s girlfriend as a cover. Only one catch: He doesn’t want his family to know about his stalker. When Jack’s mom gets sick, he comes home to the family’s Texas ranch to help out. ![]() But a few years back, in the wake of a family tragedy, he dropped from the public eye and went off the grid. Jack Stapleton’s a household name-captured by paparazzi on beaches the world over, famous for, among other things, rising out of the waves in all manner of clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center's The Bodyguard is unabashedly romantic, laugh-out-loud funny, and the perfect summer story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are pages that amusingly convey tedium and pages that refreshingly offer sweeping landscape spreads interspersed with tense scenes of how hard life is at the camps. What were your overall impressions?Įmily: This book is long, and spans years - though the setting feels bleak and unchanging at times, the pacing is nicely varied. Her experiences there, in a bleak and unfriendly environment where men outnumber women drastically, and almost everyone is displaced, are the subject of the memoir. She goes to isolated mining camps in Alberta to pay off her student loans as quickly as possible. WWAC-ers Elvie, Emily, and Masha gathered to discuss its features and impact.ĭucks: Two Years in the Oil Sands Kate Beatonĭucks: Two Years in the Oil Sands introduces Katie graduating from college and making the tough decision to work far away from her comfortable but impoverished home town. At over 400 pages of Beaton’s distinctive intimate and emotional style, Ducks is a remarkable addition to the graphic memoir genre, at turns hilarious and heartbreaking, telling a story I, personally, had never known. ![]() ![]() Here at WWAC, we’ve been fans of Kate Beaton for a long time, so we were especially excited for the publication of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Beaton’s highly anticipated memoir of her time working in the isolated Alberta oil-mining camps. ![]() ![]() and, of course, answer the all-important question: What do you wear?! Go back to the "world at large" without ruffling feathers ![]() Care for your relationships as you explore new territory Familiarize yourself with the many types of events available to you Understand etiquette in different adventurous sex communities Ease your way into established communities ![]() Examine your own motivations, needs, wants and desires While there are plenty of other books out there that explain how to give a spanking or tie a half-hitch, Playing Well With Others is the first book that explains kink *culture* - the munches, parties, leather bars, conferences, workshops, fetish nights, exploratoriums and all the other gatherings of kinksters that turn BDSM and leather from a bedroom predilection to a lifestyle and a community. Whether you're a trembling novice or a jaded expert, there's always something new to be discovered in the endlessly changing, complex and titillating world of kink. ![]() ![]() ![]() Amowitz, who teaches graphic design at Bronx Community College and also goes by the name Lisa Zank, used visual terms to describe her novel. A supernatural touch - Jeremy wonders if the object of his not-quite-requited love is sending him messages from the grave - taps into the ongoing vogue for fantasy in serious young adult fiction. In it, protagonist Jeremy Glass works out his feelings toward a deceased paramour along with his hidden alcoholism, all while in high school. Amowitz’s first published novel, Breaking Glass, presents a world full of risk and uncertainty. “Considering that I raise children in a post-9/11 world, I had no plans to protect my kids from the reality of the fact that they can leave in the morning, and you just don’t know,” she said. 11, 2001 shaped her worldview and enabled her to tackle themes on the tenuous border between young adult fiction and regular fiction. She added that the terrorist attacks of Sept. ![]() “What Harry Potter taught me is that you can write for kids, but you don’t have to sugar coat it,” Ms. ![]() Rowling’s books offered both entertainment and lessons for Ms. During the height of the Harry Potter craze, young adult author Lisa Amowitz read books in the series to her daughter at night, employing a British accent for effect. ![]() ![]() ![]() She says, " Our horses tired at Stammel, three hours from it, where I was forced to pass the night in my clothes in a room, not at all the better than a hovel." The Simile of the Jesuit ChurchĪlmost in all her letters, Lady Mary Wortley compares churches' magnificence from one country to the other. In one of the stops during the trips, Lady Mary Wortley seeks accommodation in an old lodge, and she compares its room to a hovel. ![]() The author writes, “ No tow places were ever resembling one has but to give the Maese the name of the Trent, and there is no distinguishing the prospects the houses, like those of Nottingham, built above another and intermixed in the same manner with trees and gardens.” The Simile of Horses ![]() The author discovers that the house and famous buildings throughout her trips are similar to the Nottingham castle. The author writes, " The common servants and the little shop women here are more nicely clean than most of our ladies, and the variety of great variety of neat dresses is an additional pleasure in seeing the town.” Houses of Nottingham In her comparison, she realizes that the foreign women are neater, smarter, and cleaner than those of her native land. Lady Mary Wortley has traversed the world, and she takes her time to compare women in other countries to those of her native land in England. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() The best thing about Breakable is that it can be read as a standalone, but I highly recommend that you read Easy. How awesome is this? Not only do you get a steaming hot gentleman but a character that changes throughout rough experiences that life throws at him. Enough with giving the story away, but we come to learn more about his past and how this broken child turns into a beautiful gentleman. Well, yes, not only do we get to read about Lucas but of Landon… As any Easy fans would know, Landon is Lucas but before his mother died… (Oopsy, spoiler alert). Maybe because Breakable alternative from point of views and you know how I go crazy with this. I had a pretty hard time getting into Lucas’ mind. ![]() Now you understand why I couldn’t wait for Breakable? Well, we get this and a little more! Double the win for Easy fans! I mean who wouldn’t want to get into his head? After reading Easy, every woman would go gaga for him! He is hot, mysterious, smart talented… the list goes on and on. And the cover is to die for! I wanted to know what he was thinking in some of my favorite scenes of Easy. I wanted to get inside Luca’s mind from the moment I found out about this book. How amazing is it to open a book to find out you've been quoted? I freaked out! It is an amazing feeling =DĪs a fan of Easy, I couldn’t wait to dive into Breakable. ![]() |