![]() ![]() Other made-for-TV movies include Stranger with My Face, Killing Mr. Some of her works have been adapted for the screen, the most famous example being the 1997 film I Know What You Did Last Summer, adapted from her novel of the same title. ![]() In 1965 she married Don Arquette, and had two more children with him.ĭuncan was best known for her novels of suspense for teenagers. After her first marriage, which produced three children, ended in divorce, Duncan moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to teach journalism at the University of New Mexico, where she also earned a BA in English in 1977. During this time, she continued to write and publish magazine articles over the course of her career, she has published more than 300 articles, in magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook, McCall's, Good Housekeeping, and Reader's Digest. Duncan started writing and submitting manuscripts to magazines at the age of ten, and when she was thirteen succeeded in selling her first story.ĭuncan attended Duke University from 1952 to 1953 but dropped out, married, and started a family. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Sarasota, Florida. Duncan's parents were the noted magazine photographers Lois Steinmetz and Joseph Janney Steinmetz. ![]() Lois Duncan (born Lois Duncan Steinmetz) was an American writer and novelist, known primarily for her books for children and young adults, in particular (and some times controversially considering her young readership) crime thrillers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() APO/FPO, Afghanistan, Africa, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, China, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Europe, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Georgia, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Martinique, Mexico, Middle East, Mongolia, Montserrat, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Oceania, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Qatar, Reunion, Russian Federation, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South America, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S. Following on from the last time, inspired by Armistead Maupins Tales of the City books, for this weeks writing experiment: write the next chapter. ![]() ![]() Each plate gives a front view drawing of the building and the general floor plan. ![]() Shown and described are many of his villas in and near Venice and Vicenza (including the famous Villa Capra, or "The Rotunda," the Thiene Palace, and the Valmarana Palace). The Second Book deals with private houses and mansions, almost all of Palladio's own design. Palladio indicates the characteristic features of each order and supplies illustrations of various architectural details. ![]() The First Book is devoted to building materials and techniques and the five orders of Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite. The Four Books of Architecture offers a compendium of Palladio's art and of the ancient Roman structures that inspired him. But of even greater consequence was his remarkable magnum opus, "I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura" translated into every major Western European language in the two centuries following its publication in 1570, it has been one of the most influential books in the history of architecture. ![]() The wide spread of Palladianism was due partly to the private and public buildings he constructed in Italy, the designs of which were copied throughout Europe. Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) was one of the most celebrated architects of the Renaissance, so important that the term Palladian has been applied to a particular style of architecture that adheres to classical concepts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Evans follows the Coopers' high-end careers and estrangement from their domestic lives in meticulous, mind-numbing detail their separation propels the already idealistic Abbie into the arms of Rolf, a shadowy eco-terrorist. ![]() After a promising beginning that introduces a colorful cast of Montana locals, Evans breaks off and flashes back to Abbie's upbringing in suburban New York, and centers the book on Abbie's now-divorced parents, Ben and Sarah. ![]() A pretty, upper-middle-class girl is discovered frozen in Montana ice and is soon identified as Abbie Cooper, wanted for murder by the FBI. This fourth novel lacks the power and intensity of Evans's third, The Horse Whisperer (1995), and it's not nearly as carefully written. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story is about a female CEO who is hired to bring together a dysfunctional executive staff to work as a team in a company that just two years earlier had looked promising. Departing from the dry, theoretical writing of many management books, he presents his case in the context of a fictional organization, and in doing so succeeds at communicating his ideas. Building a cohesive team is not complicated, declares Lencioni, president of his own management consulting firm and author of The Five Temptations of a CEO. Succinct yet sympathetic, this guide will be a boon for those struggling with the inherent difficulties of leading a group. Story time over, Lencioni offers explicit instructions for overcoming the human behavioral tendencies that he says corrupt teams (absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability and inattention to results). In keeping with the parable style, Lencioni ( The Five Temptations of a CEO ) begins by telling the fable of woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive committee and helped its members succeed as a team. ![]() ![]() ![]() 5, and the exotic confection Turkish Delight, to the artistic play of Joyce, Lawrence, Stein, Rhys, and others. In The Problem with Pleasure, Frost draws upon a wide variety of materials, linking interwar amusements, such as the talkies, romance novels, the Parisian fragrance Chanel no. Laura Frost follows these experiments in the art of unpleasure, connecting modernism's signature characteristics, such as irony, allusiveness, and obscurity, to an ambitious attempt to reconfigure bliss. Lawrence, and Jean Rhys, sought to radically redefine pleasure, constructing arduous and indirect paths to delight through their notoriously daunting work. He and his contemporaries, including James Joyce, T. Aldous Huxley decried "the horrors of modern 'pleasure,'" or the proliferation of mass produced, widely accessible entertainment that could degrade or dull the mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, rank 8 The Tor hardcover editions (see table) were almost 1200 pages long in sum. The Whorl of volume three's title is the generation ship setting of Long Sun. Most of the story takes place in a star system with two habitable planets, Blue and Green, which lend their names to the first two volumes. The "Short Sun" of the title is an ordinary star, in contrast to the "Long Sun" of the Whorl where the narrator grew up. Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Field considered the three Short Sun volumes separately for annual "Best Novel" awards. The two works are set in the same universe as The Book of the New Sun series that Wolfe inaugurated in 1980 and the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) catalogs all three as sub-series of the "Solar Cycle", along with some other writings. It continues The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996): they share a narrator and Short Sun recounts a search for Silk, the Long Sun hero. ![]() The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001) is a series of three science fantasy novels or one three-volume novel by the American author Gene Wolfe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the aftermath of a slave revolt, Cormac saves the life of an African magician and is granted the power of immortality-provided he never sets foot off Manhattan Island. ![]() Soon, he gets work in a printing shop run by a German immigrant named John Peter Zenger, eventually becoming a kind of journalist who roams the city’s back alleys and reports the gossip and events of the day. So Cormac boards ship and lands in Manhattan in 1741. Vowing revenge for his mother’s death, he sets off in pursuit of Warren but finds that he’s left for America. The O’Connors have secretly preserved the Irish language and the ancient (pre-Christian) religion, and Cormac is now inducted into the family mysteries. As a Protestant, Robert was inclined to have more sympathy than most Irishmen with the English and Scots-until his mother was killed by the English Earl of Warren and Robert’s father revealed to him that his true name was Cormac O’Connor. Growing up in the Ulster countryside in the 18th century, Robert Carson was constantly regaled with tales of the chieftains and warriors who’d fought over Erin across the centuries. Journalist and author Hamill (the novel Loving Women, 1989 Why Sinatra Matters, 1998, etc.) offers a chronicle of 250 years of Manhattan life as experienced by an immortal Irish immigrant. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Set in Soviet Russia in the mid-1970s, it traces the tensions and dangers of the period through the eyes of frustrated diplomatic wife Martha. Sarah Armstrong’s new novel The Wolves of Leninsky Prospekt(Sandstone Press) is a highly original Cold War thriller. I love the original cover with its creepy Russian dolls, which perfectly captures the novel’s mesmerising ‘stories within stories within stories’ structure. ![]() Tinker Tailor draws heavily on the jaw-dropping 1960s revelations that high-ranking British MI6 officers such as Kim Philby had for decades operated as Russian double agents. Pretty much all Smiley knows at the beginning of the novel is that there’s a mole at the top of ‘the Circus’, and his against-the-odds quest to unearth the spy remains a brilliant and exhilarating tale. Le Carré’s novels detail the epic battle between master spy George Smiley and KGB supremo ‘Karla’ for the soul of the British Secret Intelligence Service. I suspect the Alec Guinness TV series will be next.Īll, of course, are set during the 1970s at the height of the Cold War. ![]() First, I found myself revisiting two novels in John le Carré’s Karla Trilogy – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley’s People – then reading Sarah Armstrong’s thought-provoking The Wolves of Leninsky Prospekt, and then watching the 2011 film adaptation of Tinker Tailor. My reading has veered off in a curious direction in the last couple of weeks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Everything Forbidden” is the first novel in the “Albright Sisters” series and was released in the year 2007. She’s written for many publishers and is now fully indie and loves every minute of it, well just about every minute. When Jess isn’t obsessively checking her steps on her Fitbit or trying some new flavors of Greek yogurt out, she writes her erotic historical romances with smoking hot alpha males and sassy women that do anything but wait to get what they want. She’s lucky to be married to her favorite person in the entire world and live in this beautiful home. She watches far too much daytime court shows, yet just the right amount of Once Upon a time (Captain Swan FOR LIFE). Jess also likes geeky stuff like Bob’s Burgers, collecting POPs!, Star Wars, and playing video games, shipping herself with Dragon Age’s Cullen. ![]() Jess Michaels, a USA Today Bestselling author, likes Vanilla Coke Zero, just anything coconut, smooth cats, fluffy cats, any cats, many dogs, and people that care about the welfare of their fellow humans. ![]() |