![]() ![]() Harboring secrets, Esme Lancaster has her own reasons for wanting to discover who's behind the conspiracy that's still afoot. His search forces him to turn to a woman he despises for her unforgiveable betrayal-a woman known as the heartless harlot. Vowing to return honor to his family, he seeks to expose the others involved in the treasonous plot and bring them to justice. When his father, the Duke of Wolfford, is hanged for an assassination attempt on Queen Victoria, Marcus Stanwick is stripped of everything. ![]() In the thrilling third book in New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath's Once Upon a Dukedom series, the dashing son of a disgraced duke teams up with a sultry beauty to thwart an assassination plot against Queen Victoria. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He changed the title from “I Will” to “We Shall,” and the lyric “Down in My Heart” to “Deep in My Heart.” Along with several colleagues, he copyrighted the updated song and assigned the royalties to a social activist foundation. His father was the musicologist Charles Seeger, and his mother Constance was a classical violinist. ![]() Seeger and some colleagues revised the title and the lyrics of an old African-American gospel song, I Will Overcome, which had become a labor union song in the 1940s. Growing up in a musical family, he had a long and productive career as a folk song leader and social activist. He was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) on August 18, 1955, refused to name names to the committee, and was convicted of contempt of Congress. Seeger then performed largely on college campuses. The singer, banjo player and songwriter Pete Seeger, who has died aged 94, popularised folksong performance during the 1940s and 50s and was a key figure in the folk revival from the 60s. ![]() Seeger and his group The Weavers had several popular recordings in the early 1950s, but, because of his civil rights and left-wing activism, they were blacklisted in the 1950s. LSeeger also made a major contribution to American culture by ocating and recording many long-forgotten folk songs and making them available to other, younger folk singers. The great American folk singer Pete Seeger, who is credited with being a key figure in the folk music revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s, died on this day. ![]() ![]() ![]() A middle-aged woman standing next to me with her daughter suddenly got mad at another girl, a teenager and total stranger. One time, on my way to visit a big, graceful and quiet bookstore, I was crammed into an elevator in Causeway Bay. Like it or not, though, like everyone else living in a stressful city, I have had the experience of witnessing angry outbursts. In reality, however, I’ve never seen anyone vomit blood as a result of rage. ![]() Some characters would even vomit a mouthful of blood after a scream-what a vivid scene! Through the character’s body, readers could almost see rage twisting the organs like an electric blender at high speed, forcing the body to react in seconds. I showed a forced smile and thought, what kind of question is that? Who isn’t enraged these days? In Hong Kong, we’re about to have a collective heart attack.īack in my novel-reading days, I often encountered the phrase 急怒攻心 (“rapid rage seizing the heart”). Then, with a frown, he asked, “What have you done lately? Are you in a rage?” He asked me to stick out my tongue, put it back, and slowly stick it out again. Aside from the usual health issues, my heart often beat unnaturally fast, which made me feel that I shouldn’t procrastinate anymore. Other body functions had also suddenly gone wrong. My insomnia suggested that everyday life had collapsed. Or, at other times, I was simply an insomniac, almost never missing the first soft beam of sunlight shining through the curtain cracks. I’ve tossed and turned in bed, awake and asleep. It’s been over a week since I first failed to sleep normally. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Previously, Simon served as curator at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA, and was an experience developer at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. She composed it online in a wiki format, inviting others to contribute and hone the final publication. She is the author of The Participatory Museum (2010), a practical guide to working with community members and visitors to make cultural institutions more dynamic, relevant, essential places. Simon is the creator of the popular Museum 2.0 blog, which explores how the philosophies of Web 2.0 can be applied in museums. Before that she was the principal of Museum 2.0, a consultancy working with cultural institutions worldwide on projects designed to engage visitors as collaborators and active participants. Currently she is executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in California. Described as a "visionary" by Smithsonian Magazine, Nina Simon has built her career around advocating for participatory museum experiences. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To me, The Uncoupling, at least its first part, invites even more literary connections. The local high school, named Eleanor Roosevelt High after yet another lady who supposedly had better things to do than fool around with her male partner, is putting on Lysistrata as its winter play, and the mystical spell that befalls Wolitzer’s women gets all mixed up with the conscious political action of the women in Aristophanes’ work. Wolitzer connects what’s happening to the Stellar Plains women to the plot of the ancient greek play Lysistrata, in which women go on a sex strike to try to convince the men to end the Peloponnesian war. The men freak out in various ways (sullenness, drunkenness, belligerent spray-painting), and all the relationships in the town are, for the time being, ruined. They all turn away from their male partners for reasons very mysterious and mystical and altogether unclear to everyone (articulated in the novel as “a cold wind”), and though most of them sure did like getting it on up to this point, they suddenly begin to feel that sex with men is generally not such a desirable thing. Meg Wolitzer’s new novel, The Uncoupling, has an intriguing premise, in a Joanna Russ-meets- Kelly Link kind of way: a spell is cast over the women of Stellar Plains, New Jersey, that makes them stop wanting sex. ![]() ![]() ![]() Luckily, there has been a fairly recent re-release of the brothers’ Arkady and Boris Strugatsky most famous work Roadside Picnic. Gimme some of those Strugatsky brothers that everyone is going on about. What an idiot I had been! A recent trip to Moscow sparked my interest in Russian culture, so I thought, what the heck. After that I hardly touched any book that came from beyond the Iron Curtain, with few exceptions. Blame my immature literary taste buds, but to me, they seemed overly intellectual, a bit cumbersome, boring. Suffice to say, that I was not impressed. I read one of them and browsed a few others. As a kid, I got a box of books from the German Democratic Republic with Soviet and other Eastern Bloc Science Fiction stories (Utopian Novels they were called to avoid the Anglicism). ![]() Of course, it would be easy to blame the Anglo-American dominance in the genre for this, but another reason might have been the ill-timing of my first touchpoints with SF from what was then still (even though barely) the Soviet Union. By Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Translated by Olena Bormashenko Read by Robert ForsterĮastern European Science Fiction has not been on my RADAR for decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From the seaport to Wall Street, from society mansions to gutters glimmering with blood spilled by a deviant, Matthew’s quest will tauntingly reveal the answers he seeks and the chilling truths he cannot escape. In the strangest twist of all, the key to unmasking the Masker may await in an asylum where The Queen of Bedlam reigns and only a man of Matthew’s reason and empathy can unlock her secrets. Who snuffed out the good man’s life with the slash of a blade on a midnight street? The local printmaster has labeled the fiend ‘the Masker,’ adding fuel to a volatile mystery…Īnd when the Masker claims a new victim, hardworking young law clerk Matthew Corbett is lured into a maze of forensic clues and heart pounding investigation that will both test his natural penchant for detection and inflame his hunger for justice. The unsolved murder of a respected doctor has sent ripples of fear throughout a city teeming with life and noise and commerce. ![]() ![]() Told with matchless insight into the human soul.’ Now, Robert McCammon brings the hero of that spellbinding novel, Matthew Corbett, to eighteenth century New York, where a killer wields a bloody and terrifying power over a bustling city carving out its identity and over Matthew’s own uncertain destiny. His epic masterwork Speaks the Nightbird, a tour de force of witch hunt terror in a colonial town, was hailed by Sandra Brown as ‘deeply satisfying… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For some cities, the changes have been for the better. ![]() Years after the revolution ends and Tally Youngblood vanishes, society has re-built. Rating: 4/5 A New Exciting Look at What Happens After the Revolution Ends It’s the first time in quite a while that I’ve gone to a bookstore to get a book as soon as it came out. When I heard that he was returning to the Uglies world with a new book, I was ecstatic. To this day I regularly recommend his Uglies book series for fans of dystopian novels. I first started reading Scott Westerfeld’s YA novels years ago. With Impostors, master storyteller Scott Westerfeld returns with a new series set in the world of his mega-bestselling Uglies-a world full of twist and turns, rebellion and intrigue, where any wrong step could be Frey’s last.” and if she can risk becoming her own person. As the deal starts to crumble, Frey must decide if she can trust him with the truth. But Col, the son of a rival leader, is getting close enough to spot the killer inside her. When her father sends Frey in Rafi’s place as collateral in a precarious deal, she becomes the perfect impostor-as poised and charming as her sister. Her only purpose is to protect her sister, to sacrifice herself for Rafi if she must. So while Rafi was raised to be the perfect daughter, Frey has been taught to kill. Their powerful father has many enemies, and the world has grown dangerous as the old order falls apart. Frey is Rafi’s twin sister-and her body double. ![]() ![]() ![]() Warning: This title contains m/m snark and sex. The risks they'll both have to take could leave them with nothing but more scars, or the best souvenir of all. An unexpected adventure leaves them changed in ways that make it impossible to go back to their old lives. The close quarters on the ship generate more heat than either expects, but a vacation fling is all that's in the plans. ![]() The job isn't without its perks, though, and as soon as he figures a way to keep that hot but arrogant ass of a doctor from tossing his cookies over the side of the boat, he plans to flirt the control freak out of his brittle shell. But with the big three-oh looming, asking his parents to bail him out again isn't an option. Shane McCormack's tendency to drift away from complicated situations has landed him a job as a dive master in Belize, which isn't as glamorous as it sounds. He didn't plan on seasickness, or a dive master who is sex-on-the-beach personified. Looking for a way to hit the reset button, he takes a scuba vacation. Trauma surgeon Jae Sun Kim has just lost the job he wanted more than anything else in his life. ![]() ![]() ![]() The conversation now was on the subject of a much talked of case which had finished that day at the Old Bailey. Whenever his thin precise little voice was raised there was always a respectful silence. ![]() Though he had long retired from active practice, there was no man in England whose opinion was so respected by the members of his own fraternity. He was a member of a famous firm of solicitors, and the most famous member of that firm, he was said to know more of backstairs history than any man in England and he was a specialist on criminology. ![]() ![]() Treves was close on eighty, a very ripe and experienced eighty. Justice Cleaver, Lewis of Lewis and Trench and old Mr. There was Martin-dale the solicitor, Rufus Lord, KC, young Daniels who had made a name for himself in the Carstairs case, a sprinkling of other barristers, Mr. The group round the fireplace was nearly all composed of lawyers or those who had an interest in the law. This is a story for your pleasure and not a candidate for Mr. All I ask is that you should sternly restrain your critical faculties (doubtless sharpened by your recent excesses in that line!) when reading it. Since you are kind enough to say you like my stories, I venture to dedicate this book to you. ![]() |