![]() ![]() But the country continued to suffer atrocious political upheavals, often incited in the name of dogmatic ideology. After the 1945 Japanese surrender, the Communists drove the Nationalists off to Taiwan and established the People's Republic of China. ![]() Against such backdrop and in face of 20th century Japanese (and European & Russian) aggression on Chinese soil surged civil wars between the Nationalists and the Communists. Juxtaposed with such account is a sweeping depiction of China's own encompassing domestic woes, including but not limited to the Qing government's incompetent rule, abject rural poverty, backwardness of society, ceaseless rebellions and warlords' power struggles. Included in it is an honest and neutral account of how 19th century Western imperialism and the imposition on China of opium trade, extraterritoriality and exorbitant financial penalties irreversibly debilitated the country. This well-written and excellent piece of academic work is a concise and comprehensive history of China spanning 3-1/2 centuries from the end of the Ming Dynasty (1644) right through to the June 4th 1989 Tiananmen Square tragedy. This is a must-read for anyone who wishes to make sense of present-day international relations. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Nevertheless, Van Allsburg drew because Rhode Island winters are long and cold. I didn’t want to be enslaved by text, or worse, by an art director.” ![]() “In the world of fine art, illustration is too commercial. His wife encouraged him to submit his drawings to a children’s publisher, but Van Allsubrg was unenthused. Although his pictures had a narrative quality, he was not concerned about the story they told. “I had a drafting table at home and I amused myself by drawing pictures,” he says. Situated in a large factory building, Van Allsburg’s studio “stuck out from the main building like a finger on a glove” and was impossible to keep warm in the evening. Icy cold Northeast winters forced Van Allsburg out of his studio. Within two years of opening his own studio, he had the opportunity to exhibit his work in what he calls “a bona fide New York City gallery”-an opportunity made sweeter by the sale of a few pieces. Chris Van Allsburg, the author/illustrator of The Polar Express, graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975 as a sculptor. ![]() ![]() Told in a report format and comprised of interviews, blog posts, text conversations, found documents, and so much more, It Came from the Sky is a hysterical and resonant novel about what it means to be human in the face of the unknown. Can he find a way to banish the aliens before Lansburg, and his life, are changed forever? But Gideon's obsession with their tale threatened his whole world. As the brothers go to increasingly greater lengths to keep up the ruse and avoid getting caught, the hoax flourishes. And their lie was not only believed by their town-it was embraced. When one of his science experiments went wrong, he and his older brother blamed the resulting explosion on extraterrestrial activity. Gideon Hofstadt knows what really happened. There were believers, Truth Seekers, and, above all, people who looked to the sky and hoped for more. ![]() There were sightings of UFOs, close encounters, and even abductions. ![]() ![]() This is the absolutely true account of how Lansburg, Pennsylvania was invaded by aliens and the weeks of chaos that followed. ![]() From the author of The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett and As You Wish comes the unforgettable story of the one small town's biggest hoax and the two brothers who started it all. ![]() ![]() ![]() Moving inland he discovers a large manor-house on a cliff. As they pass through the Caribbean, Rainsford accidentally falls over the side of the yacht, but saves himself by swimming to the rocky shore of a mysterious island. Rainsford is presented as stereotypically heartless hunter, unconcerned about the life or feelings of his prey. One of Rainsford's boatmates who appears briefly in the introduction, wondering what it would be like if he was the hunted instead of hunter.Īt the start of the story, Sanger Rainsford is steaming south to Brazil to hunt jaguars in the Amazon with a fellow hunter named Whitney. This makes him ideal to Zaroff as it is impossible for Ivan to tell anyone of General Zaroff's murders if he escapes the island. Zaroff's large Cossack slave and bodyguard. The story is about a sardonic and ironic gothic inversion of the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s.Ī man of pre-Revolutionary Russian aristocratic background. ![]() Widely anthologized, and the author's best-known work, The Most Dangerous Game features as its main character a big-game hunter from New York, who becomes shipwrecked on an isolated island in the Caribbean, and is hunted by a Russian aristocrat. ![]() 1599869691 The Most Dangerous Game or The Hounds of Zaroff (1924) is a short story by Richard Connell. ![]() ![]() Yet something prompts him to aid Anna in her transition from orphan to lady. But the new earl’s guardian is interested in Anna…Īvery Archer, Duke of Netherby, keeps others at a distance. However, they want nothing to do with her or her attempts to share her new wealth. She is also overjoyed to learn she has siblings. Now she discovers that the late Earl of Riverdale was her father and that she has inherited his fortune. ![]() Humphrey Westcott, Earl of Riverdale, has died, leaving behind a fortune that will forever alter the lives of everyone in his family-including the daughter no one knew he had.Īnna Snow grew up in an orphanage in Bath knowing nothing of the family she came from. Also in this series: Someone to Hold, Someone to Wed, Someone to Care, Someone to Honor, Someone to TrustĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Books ![]() ![]() ![]() Mariana sweeps you off your feet from the very first page. I’ve said this about other split-time novels, but it so often happens that books like this one sacrifice the modern-day narrative for that which takes place in the past not so with this book. The world of the late 17th century is portrayed in painstaking detail, and Kearsley’s modern-day world is just as meticulously described. ![]() This is the second Susanna Kearsley novel I’ve read (after Sophia’s Secret, which is fantastic, too), and let me just say that she’s won herself another fan. Not only does Julia live the life of her predecessor, she actually is Mariana, feeling her feelings and thinking her thoughts. She begins having “flashbacks” of sorts, to when she was Mariana Farr, a young woman living during the Restoration. ![]() In Mariana, Julia Beckett moves from London to Greywethers, a house in the country that has seemingly called out to her for years. ![]() ![]() “Have I mentioned that this is a bad idea?” mumbled Shara, when the stairs touched down in front of us.
![]() ![]() ![]() From early on in my writing of the Jonquil Brothers’ books, I knew I wanted to write their parents’ love story. ![]() ![]() Eden: I have a Regency-era series that followed the romantic misadventures of a family of brothers, the Jonquils, and throughout this series reference is repeatedly made to their late father and their parents’ courtship. Shauna Kosoris: What inspired your new book series, the Gents? Sarah is represented by Pam Pho at D4EO Literary Agency. She holds a bachelor’s degree in research and happily spends hours perusing the reference shelves of her local library. Combining her obsession with history and her affinity for tender love stories, Sarah loves crafting deep characters and heartfelt romances set against rich historical backdrops. She is a two-time “Best of State” Gold Medal winner for fiction and a three-time Whitney Award winner. Eden is a USA Today best-selling author of witty and charming historical romances, including 2019’s Foreword Reviews INDIE Awards Gold Winner for Romance, The Lady and the Highwayman, and 2020 Holt Medallion finalist, Healing Hearts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, she enrolled at Seton Hill University where she graduated with an MFA in creative writing. She would then attend the Univerity of Miami, which is where she discovered that she loved persuasive writing. Wright’s novels have been popular all across the world and have been published in audio, eBook, and print.īefore she became an author she was a foreign linguist that transcribed and translated Persian Farsi for the United States administration.Īfter more than half a dozen years in the military, she got into academics and graduated from the New College of Florida with a Social Psychology bachelor’s degree. Wright is also an author of mystery fiction works that explores societal issues in the millennial technological age. ![]() She has also been known to be an author that works hard to improve the inclusion of diverse characters in her novels. Kenya Wright is the multi-bestselling writer of more than forty works of romance and fantasy fiction. Chocolate and Vanilla Swirl (By:,Kasey Martin) ![]() ![]() ![]() Before long, she’s infiltrated his work, his kitchen-and his spare bedroom. Now his arm is broken, his B&B is understaffed, and the dangerously unpredictable Eve is fluttering around, trying to help. Then she hits him with her car- supposedly by accident. So when a purple-haired tornado of a woman turns up out of the blue to interview for his open chef position, he tells her the brutal truth: not a chance in hell. The bed and breakfast owner’s on a mission to dominate the hospitality industry and he expects nothing less than perfection. It's time for Eve to grow up and prove herself-even though she's not entirely sure how… But when her personal brand of chaos ruins an expensive wedding ( someone had to liberate those poor doves), her parents draw the line. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wrong. In Talia Hibbert’s newest rom-com, the flightiest Brown sister crashes into the life of an uptight B&B owner and has him falling hard-literally.įeatured on Parade, PopSugar, Marie Claire, Oprah Mag, Bustle, Shondaland, CNN.com, Kirkus Magazine, Bookpage, USA Today, Bookish, Bookriot, and more!Įve Brown is a certified hot mess. ![]() |