![]() ![]() During his childhood and teen years, Jay was alternately homeschooled by his mother or outside tutors. In March 1745, the family moved to Rye, New York, when Jay’s father retired from business to care for two of the family’s children who had been blinded by smallpox. ![]() Jay’s father, Peter Jay, prospered as a commodities trader, and he and Mary Jay (née Van Cortlandt) had seven surviving children together.
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![]() ![]() ĭelta Green: Through a Glass, Darkly (Arc Dream Publishing, 2011), novel by Dennis Detwiller. Set during World War 2, it follows a and operation to take down the Nazis and the. The first novel in the Delta Green universe. It introduces the major parties parties involved in the Majestic-12/Delta Green conflict that will culminate in the events described in Through a Glass, Darkly.ĭelta Green: Denied to the Enemy (Tynes Cowan Corp, distributed by Impressions, 2003), novel by Dennis Detwiller.
![]() ![]() ![]() Whatever the cause of his death, it left Mawson in a hideous predicament. But for 31 days he endured them alone under conditions that few could have survived. Battered by winds of 60 miles per hour or more, buried in drifts of blowing snow, threatened at every turn by invisible cracks in the ice, he endured all the standard torments of Antarctic exploration. “Alone on the Ice” is the story of Mawson’s unfathomable solo trek across 100 miles of Antarctic ice. He returned alone, emaciated, his hair and beard coming out in clumps, the skin on his hands and feet peeling off in sheets, his countenance so ravaged that the men who greeted him were not entirely sure which one he was. He had left the camp three months earlier, accompanied by Belgrave Ninnis, a 25-year-old lieutenant in the British Royal Fusiliers, and Xavier Mertz, a 29-year-old lawyer from Switzerland. 8, 1913, Douglas Mawson arrived back at the hut known as Winter Quarters, the main base camp of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Edgeworth David/Courtesy of the National Library of Australia On earlier expedition, Douglas Mawson (right to left) with T.W. ![]() ![]() Urie has fun in these backroom bar scenes, especially when Arnold is taken in hand by person or persons unknown. Lucky for him, he meets a sweetheart of a guy named Ed (a wonderfully honest performance from Ward Horton) at a gay bar notorious for its luridly lighted (by David Lander) backroom. ![]() A success as a drag performer (handsomely costumed by Clint Ramos) known as Virginia Ham, but shy and awkward at matters of the heart, Arnold is desperate for true love and all its trappings - marriage, kids, hot sex - but doesn’t know how to find it. Even more grating is Urie’s strained attempt to imitate the writer’s distinctive voice, which sounds something like a frog being scrambled in an eggbeater.Īrnold’s story is as sweet as ever. It seems strange, for instance, that both playwright and the director should retain certain references that are pure Harvey Fierstein, like the chubby jokes and the broad stage gestures that defined his quirky charm, but hardly apply to the trim new star. At more than an hour less than its original four-hour run time, the trimmed-down show has kept its basic storyline but lost some of its grace notes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Francine, her husband John, and her brother Michael worked together writing the book to the Broadway musical George M!, which ran at the Palace Theatre from 1968 - 1970. John died of cancer in 1981, at 49 years old.įrancine's brother was the prolific Broadway playwright and librettist Michael Stewart, who wrote the books to such Broadway musical hits as Bye Bye Birdie, Hello, Dolly!, and 42nd Street. Francine often credited John as her writing mentor, and they collaborated on several projects, including writing scripts for the ABC soap opera The Young Marrieds, which aired from 1964 - 1966. It was there that she first met author and journalist John Pascal and, in 1965, they were married (the second marriage for each). There were also several spin-offs, including The Unicorn Club, Sweet Valley University, and Sweet Valley Sorority.įrancine Rubin graduated from New York University in 1958. Sweet Valley High was the backbone of the collection, and was made into a popular television series. Francine Pascal, a native New Yorker, is an author best known for creating the Sweet Valley series of young adult novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Grover shows up, but he has the lower body of a goat and says that “he” is after them. The vacation starts out normal-they talk about Percy’s father, who left when Mom was pregnant-but a hurricane rolls in. ![]() Mom announces that she and Percy are going to Montauk for the weekend without Gabe. Percy ditches Grover, evades Smelly Gabe ( Mom’s horrendous husband), and waits for Mom. This freaks Grover out, so he asks to walk Percy to his apartment. Percy and Grover see a roadside fruit stand where three old ladies are knitting and cutting thread. Percy’s grades slip, and he gets expelled at the end of the year.Īs Percy and Grover ride the Greyhound bus home, the bus breaks down. Dodds was real, but he won’t confirm this. Only Percy’s best friend, Grover, seems aware that Mrs. Everything goes back to normal-but other students believe that someone named Mrs. ![]() Brunner appears and tosses Percy a pen that turns into a sword, and Percy slays Mrs. She takes Percy into the museum alone and transforms into a monstrous creature. He tries hard to be good because he admires his Latin teacher, Mr. Percy has ADHD and dyslexia, and he’s gotten expelled from six schools already. His story begins with a school field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ![]() Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson warns the reader that if they recognize themselves in the story to follow, they should stop reading: being a demigod is rough. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is also about the “genius loci” of Paris, the maternal spirit that offers sanctuary and support to its most unfortunate children, many of them literally orphans (Gringoire, Quasimodo, Esmeralda, the Frollos), be they ugly or beautiful, virtuous or evil, bringing a measure of comfort to their difficult and and often tragic lives. First of all, it is about the great cathedral that dominates and defines the city, the setting for much of the novel's action and most of its crucial events. ![]() It is a shame that this book is so seldom referred to in English by its given name, for it is about more than the history of one hunchback, however moving that history may be. ![]() Best of all, it gives us one of literature's most loving and detailed depictions of a city, rivaled only by Joyce's Dublin in Ulysses. Although it lacks the depth and humanity of Les Miserables, it possesses a grandeur of architectonic structure and an Olympian compassion all its own. I recently read Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris for the first time, and was delighted and moved by the experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() George who saved her from a Talon assassin-and by doing so, signed his own death warrant.įorced to choose between becoming an assassin for the dragon organization Talon and being hunted forever as an outcast, Ember Hill now stands with Riley and his band of rogue dragons. But she can’t forget Garret, the soldier of the dragonslaying Order of St. But a chance meeting with a rogue dragon will soon challenge everything Ember has been taught.Įmber Hill left the dragon organization Talon to take her chances with rebel dragon Cobalt and his crew of rogues. Her delight at the prospect of a summer of “normal” teen experiences is short-lived, however, once she discovers that she’s also expected to train for her destined career in Talon. To take her rightful place in the Talon organization, young dragon Ember Hill must prove she can hide her true nature and blend in with humans. ![]() ![]() Dragons walk among us in human form…but soon the secretive Talon organization will make its move to fly from the shadows and take over the world, in this fiery young adult fantasy series perfect for fans of Marie Liu, Cassandra Clare and Gena Showalter! Immerse yourself within the pages of the gripping Talon Saga by New York Times bestselling author Julie Kagawa. ![]() ![]() ![]() The descriptive prose is lovely and the family’s squabbles are both funny and sadly true to life. But there’s something far more malevolent lurking behind the locked attic door: “a cobwebbed thing, tattered and dusty, so long forgotten, so long forgetting.” This dreaded Endsister seems to be sucking the life out of poor lonely Sibbi and feeding on the unhappiness of the older Outhwaites, especially teenage Else, trying to discover who she is now that she’s abandoned her once-beloved violin, and Olly, their mother, who’s left behind her friends and teaching job and is toiling fruitlessly at her PhD thesis.Īll of the characters are vividly drawn, with the story told mostly from the perspective of Else, Sibbi and their stoic, nature-loving brother, Clancy. ![]() Of course, this house turns out to be haunted, although the two girl ghosts, Almost Annie and Hardly Alice, drift about harmlessly, noticed only by the youngest Outhwaite, four-year-old Sibbi. The Outhwaite family decide to uproot themselves from their comfortable semi-rural Australian life when they inherit a large, dusty house in London. I really enjoyed The Endsister, a thoughtful and beautifully composed ghost story for young readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Weeks before its public release, "Be Obsessed or Be Average" had already become a top Amazon seller in Entrepreneurship, Small Business, Personal Finances, Motivation, and Leadership. In fact, the older I get and the more success I experience the more obsessed I become with the reality I can create.” - Grant Cardone ![]() “Obsession is the fuel that gives you a can’t-quit, won’t-quit, accelerator-to-the-floor monster ambition and it grows as you grow, regardless of your age. According to Cardone, obsession is your only option in life. Cardone’s previous books include "Sell or Be Sold", "The 10X Rule", "If You’re Not First You’re Last", "The Closer’s Survival Guide", and "The Millionaire Booklet".Ĭardone takes readers through the lessons he learned in his own life that propelled him from drug addiction to mega successful entrepreneur. Grant Cardone, international sales expert, and NY Times best-selling author has just released his newest book, "Be Obsessed or Be Average", which has already hit #1, #3 & #6 New Release on Amazon for Small Business and Entrepreneurship for Audible, hardcover, and Kindle respectively. ![]() |