![]() ![]() With this bedrock plot locked in place, the novel follows the fates of several families over the course of French history. The boy’s mission is clear: He must grow up to kill the aristocratic heir Roland. One of the revolutionary Communards who briefly took over the French government in 1871, he was executed by a firing squad led by a typical aristocrat, the Vicomte de Cygne. ![]() ![]() A gaunt-faced, God-hating, radical shrew tells her own young child, Jacques Le Sourd, about the death of his father. Meanwhile, the Devil is making plans of his own. The year is 1875, and we’re soon introduced to a young aristocrat, a “fair-haired, blue-eyed” 3-year-old who likes to sing - what else? - “Frere Jacques.” This is Roland de Cygne, whose name dates back to the horn-blowing hero of the great epic poem “Song of Roland.” According to the priest charged with tutoring the lad, God has great things in store for this noble toddler. The Reign of Boredom starts on the first page. Edward Rutherfurd’s new historical novel, his eighth multi-generational blockbuster, is an epic snooze: a family chronicle whose one-dimensional characters and banal historic episodes fail to sustain any dramatic momentum despite seven centuries of history at the author’s disposal. ![]()
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![]() ![]() On the surface, the narrative tumbles from one crazed moment to the next as Gantos pieces together the story of his restless final year of high school, his short-lived career as a criminal, and his time in prison.īut running just beneath the action is the story of how Gantos―once he was locked up in a small, yellow-walled cell―moved from wanting to be a writer to writing, and how dedicating himself more fully to the thing he most wanted to do helped him endure and ultimately overcome the worst experience of his life. ![]() In Hole in My Life, this prizewinning author of over thirty books for young people confronts the period of struggle and confinement that marked the end of his own youth. For his part in the conspiracy, Gantos was sentenced to serve up to six years in prison. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with a ton of hashish from the Virgin Islands to New York City, where he and his partners sold the drug until federal agents caught up with them. ![]() ![]() In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. From the Newbery Award–winning author of Dead End in Norvelt, this is a memoir about becoming a writer the hard way. ![]() ![]() How do you get people to listen to you so that you can get your message across? The very word cancer evokes an uncomfortable fear in the hearts of everyone. I spoke with Fran Drescher (for the second time), regarding her mission and once again found her to be a complete visionary… While freezing outside in 7-degree weather, and traveling to a meeting, on one of her busiest days, she filled me in on the spirit of Cancer- Schmancer…. 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There's something off about his presence, especially because when she checks at the end of the tour.he's gone.Ĭlaire tries to brush it off, she must be imagining things, letting her dad's ghost stories get the best of her. She thinks she's made it through when she sees a boy with a sad face and dark eyes at the back of the bus. ![]() ![]() She's a scientist, which is why she can't think of anything worse than having to help out her dad on one of his ghost-themed Chicago bus tours. Stine, author of the Goosebumps seriesįor fans of Small Spaces and the Goosebumps series by R.L Stine comes a chilling ghost story based on real Chicago history about a malevolent spirit, an unlucky girl, and a haunting mystery that will tie the two together.Ĭlaire has absolutely no interest in the paranormal. 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Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. ![]() Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. ![]() ![]() ![]() It has won praise and awards for its engrossing story and for Dave Gibbons’ exceptional artwork. It is both a love letter to and a parody of the superhero concept as well as the arrogant and overbearing aspects of American Exceptionalism. It is where superheroes are real, McCarthyism never ended, and Nixon is serving his third term. 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