![]() ![]() So much so that, when the book was published, Brian and the group tried to suppress its coverage and the British music press went along, eager to contribute to the stock facade that all pop musicians were just happy-go-lucky rascals. As such, you get accurate portraits of the four as people, warts and all. ![]() What makes the book noteworthy is that it is pre-Beatlemania, before the Legends of the Cute One, the Smart One, the Quiet One and the Cuddly One were each created. In the early autumn of 1963, the author was given total access to the then-emerging Beatles and followed them on tour in Britain, to Paris and then, in early 1964, to New York and DC for Ed Sullivan and their first American concert, as things got crazier on each stop. If you are also so inclined (not necessarily the Old Guy part), I cannot recommend too strongly Love Me Do!, the 1964 book by Michael Braun that was recently republished after being out of print for far too long. ![]() As some of you may have picked up from my periodic comments here, like many of you, I am a relatively Old Guy who loves music, particularly that of the Beatles. ![]()
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![]() The digital edition includes interactive versions of those plates plus 60 more, bringing the total to 122. In the physical book, the plates served as exercises that reproduced the illusions and perceptions of color interactions described in the text. When examining this resource, it is interesting to reflect on how the physical object has evolved over time and has now been made available as a website. At the heart of the site is the complete text of the 50th-anniversary edition and its color plates. The Interaction of Color Complete Digital Edition expands upon Albers’ classic art education work and offers a new and exciting way to experience it. Yale University Press and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation recently transformed Interaction of Color into an interactive website. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() □ □ □ ✨Īs always, enjoy the treasures, and if our list is missing an author or a book, or if you have a book coming out next month, please email us with the month of your publication date in the subject line. Youre You Bach, Mette, 1976- 'In this book author Mette Bach offers a believable portrayal of an LGBTQ teen who has always identified as a lesbian. ![]() Have you your sexton and nightlamp, brave reader? Because we’ve laid out the treasure map for this month’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature, and like always, the tales of queer lit are vast and take many forms.įrom a novel on twins doomed to fall to an ancestral curse, to a deep re-imagining of sissiness in our modern understandings of race and gender, to teen love between hockey players that’s literally too hot to handle, to poems textured with mountains and folkloric goddesses asking “what name / do you crown yourself,” this is the first chapter to a saga defined by ample brains, bravery, and dare we say… booty for all to share. Shake off those last dregs of Lang Syne daze caught in the rafters and rub away the indents on your nose, fresh from the heft of those numeral glasses, fashionably bold… It’s 2022, and you’ve made it aboard! Of course, each month brings a new beginning, but the first of the year, when the ripe sun drops into endlessly dark waters, is a potent time for re-evaluation, reflection, and course correction for the quiet nights to come. ![]() January’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Also included is Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, the unfinished sequel to Wieland, in which Brown considers power and manipulation while tracing Carwin's career as a disciple of the utopist Ludloe. Based on an actual case of a New York farmer who murdered his family, the novel employs Gothic devices and sensational elements such as spontaneousĬombustion, ventriloquism, and religious fanaticism. One of the earliest major American novels, Wieland (1798) is a thrilling tale of suspense and intrigue set in rural Pennsylvania in the 1760s. Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5" W x 7.6" (0.55 lbs) 336 pagesįeatures: Price on Product, Table of Contents Series: Oxford World's Classics (Paperback) ![]() WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĬlick for more in this series: Oxford World's Classics (Paperback) Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the BiloquistĬontributor(s): Brown, Charles Brockden (Author), Elliott, Emory (Editor) ![]() ![]() A Quiet Night In was shortlisted for the same medal in 1994. ![]() ![]() She is also well known for her picture books and was commended in the 1980 Kate Greenaway Medal for Peace at Last. They were also made into a major ITV series. The Worst Witch stories have become some of the most outstandingly successful titles on the Young Puffin paperback list and have sold more than 3 million copies. However, Jill continued working as a nanny until the publication of The Worst Witch Strikes Again prompted her to devote herself to full-time writing. ![]() The book was published when Jill turned 24 and proved an instant success. Mildred Hubble is very much a self-portrait! She put the book on hold as she attended both Chelsea and Croydon Art Schools, but continued to write it whilst living in a village in Togo, West Africa for a year and then whilst working as a nanny back at home. Jill Murphy was born in London and attended the Ursuline Convent in Wimbledon which, together with the boarding school stories she enjoyed reading, provided much of the material and inspiration Miss Cackle's Academy in the The Worst Witch, which she started when she was 15. ![]() She has been described as "one of the most engaging writers and illustrators for children in the land." Jill Murphy is a London-born English children's author, best known for The Worst Witch series and the Large Family picture books. ![]() ![]() The narrator is able to see the planet Mars, impossibly remote, but he does not see what he refers to as the "Things" that are being sent towards him. However, this receives little attention other than a short article at the back of a newspaper.Īn astronomer named Ogilvy invites the narrator to look at Mars through his telescope to see this for himself. ![]() The narrator notes that humanity must seem like pests to Martians, and they would be no more hesitant to exterminate us than humans would be to kill animals or Europeans to wage war against people such as the Tasmanians.įor several years before the invasion of Earth, astronomers had noticed peculiar lights on the surface of Mars, which the narrator asserts must have been the cannons that fired the canisters toward Earth. Therefore, he presumes, the Martians turned their attention to the rich bounty of Earth. He also points out that the polar ice caps of Mars are shrinking and its atmosphere is growing thin. This is because Mars is older and because the civilization that emerged from there is mind-bogglingly advanced in comparison to humanity. ![]() The narrator describes Mars and suggests that life must have emerged there before the earth was cool. The obliviousness of humanity to this menace cannot be sustained for long the unnamed narrator points out that these minds are to those of humans as human minds are to those of beasts. The novel begins with the ominous assertion that there is intelligent life watching humanity. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her young adult debut, Pessl ( Night Film, 2013, etc.) manages to keep her first-person narrative moving forward while her characters are stuck in time. They will remain in this limbo until the point when they decide which one of them may return to the world of the living. A mysterious man who calls himself the Keeper tells Beatrice, Kipling, Whitley, Cannon, and Martha that they are trapped in a Groundhog Day–like existence called Neverworld Wake. Heading back to the mansion where they’re staying following a punk-rock concert in Newport, Rhode Island, they nearly collide with a tow truck and barrel off the road into a ditch, setting up a strange journey into the unknown. Five close friends-who used to be six until one of them died-are together again a year after their graduation from boarding school. ![]() ![]() Young and ambitious, Twain and Harte form the Bohemian core. The star of the moment is Bret Harte, a rising figure on the national scene and mentor to both Stoddard and Coolbrith. Twain and the Bohemians find inspiration in their surroundings: the dark ironies of frontier humor, the extravagant tales told around the campfires, and the youthful irreverence of the new world being formed in the west. The bards of the moment are the Bohemians: a young Mark Twain, fleeing the draft and seeking adventure literary golden boy Bret Harte struggling gay poet Charles Warren Stoddard and beautiful, haunted Ina Coolbrith, poet and protectorate of the group. The Gold Rush has ended the Civil War threatens to tear apart the country. ![]() The unforgettable story of the birth of modern America and the western writers who gave voice to its emerging identityThe Bohemians begins in 1860s San Francisco. ![]() ![]() ![]() Favorite things to do (other than reading): Canning and cheese making, gardening, exploring new places, crossword puzzles, and spending time with family.Book currently reading/most recently read: THE BREWER’S TALE: A HISTORY OF THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BEER.Favorite time of day/place to write: In the morning, after everyone else leaves for the day, with a cat on her lap and a dog at her feet.Childhood aspiration: Doctor-actress-journalist-novelist, which she learned is not technically a thing.FRANKWEILER, CHARLOTTE’S WEB, anything by Edward Eager or Ellen Raskin. Favorite book(s) growing up: HARRIET THE SPY, FROM THE MIXED UP FILES OF MRS.EDITH’S (Simon & Schuster/ Aladdin, Spring 2016), the last boy at an all-girls school that failed in an attempt to go coed tries to get himself kicked out through a series of pranks, but faces unforeseen consequences to himself, his friends, and his family. ![]() ![]() In Lee’s debut middle grade novel, THE LAST BOY AT ST. with her husband, daughter, and a rotating cast of pets. Her interests include amateur cheesemaking, traveling, associating with animals, shushing people in movie theaters, kickboxing, and blinking very rapidly for no reason. As a journalist she’s written about everything from wedding planning to the banking crisis to how to build your own homemade camera satellite. Lee Gjertsen Malone is a Massachusetts transplant, via Long Island, Brooklyn, and Ithaca, NY. ![]() ![]() ![]() While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified. In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.ĭalinar Kholin’s Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. ![]() ![]() The eagerly awaited sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling Words of Radiance, from epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson at the top of his game. ![]() |