![]() ![]() Her work is emotional, powerful, and will shake a person's foundations. Hellnotes What Snyder accomplishes in less than eighty pages is an emotional scoring that few can approach.This is (real life), given breath and teeth, stood out in front of the world in all its beautiful grime. ![]() There is not one poem in Chimeric Machines that doesn't fit in place like a delicately carved piece of a complex and consuming puzzle.There is no other writer working today quite like Lucy A. Snyder's Stoker-winning poetry collection Chimeric Machines: (This) may be the best collection of poetry I've read in years. Exposed Nerves vibrates with energy and rewards with clarity of vision.-Mary Turzillo, Stoker-nominated and Elgin Award-winning poet Praise for Lucy A. By turns challenging, wryly amusing and gut-wrenching, Snyder's work plumbs bittersweet catharsis and maps a survivor's path through dangerous worlds, both the real and the horrifically imagined. Snyder, pairing the author's sly wordplay and imagery with grim introspection. "item_description" : "Exposed Nerves continues the explorations into dark poetry by Stoker Award winner and Shirley Jackson Award nominee Lucy A. ![]()
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The response was so immediate, delivered with such deadpan frankness - as if the answer should have been obvious - that I burst out laughing. It's about bored, tired people having sex," he said. Several years ago, I asked a Pakistani writer of my acquaintance a question: What, in his opinion, makes contemporary Western literature distinctive? "Simple. ![]() ![]() Monsters by Claire Dederer (Knopf: $28) The author explores the dilemma of art created by those with major legal, ethical or moral issues.ħ. Atomic Habits by James Clear (Avery: $27) The self-help expert’s guide to building good habits and breaking bad ones via tiny changes in behavior.Ħ. Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams (Crown: $29) A memoir from the singer-songwriter.ĥ. ![]() ![]() Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond (Crown: $28) The author of “Evicted” looks at poverty from a fresh perspective.Ĥ. 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The renowned historian and biographer Lady Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, investigates the lot of women in seventeenth-century England. Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce? What rights had the unmarried? What expectations the widows? An expert on the period, Antonia Fraser brings to life the many and various women she has encountered in her considerable research: governesses, milkmaids, fishwives, nuns, defe. ![]() ![]() Hutton, a renowned expert on ancient, medieval, and modern paganism and witchcraft beliefs, combines Anglo-American and continental scholarly approaches to examine attitudes on witchcraft and the treatment of suspected witches across the world, including in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Australia, and North and South America, and from ancient pagan times to current interpretations. This book sets the notorious European witch trials in the widest and deepest possible perspective and traces the major historiographical developments of witchcraft. ![]() In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient world to the early-modern stake. 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She made that Depression-era tale so vivid to contemporary readers that the horse and his handlers felt once again like tabloid heroes. ![]() Laura Hillenbrand’s gifts for tempo, atmosphere, and empathy shaped Seabiscuit: An American Legend into a best-selling phenomenon. A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption ![]() ![]() ![]() My thank-you to all of you who've helped with feedback, typo detection, character and plot development, editing, formatting, cover creation, and the biggie…spreading the word…so that countless readers can now enjoy these stories of love's second chance. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the author except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Names, characters, businesses, places, brands, media, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner.Īny resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. ![]() ![]() Oppressed & Empowered −The Viscount’s Capable Wife Chapter Twelve – The Long Reach of the PastĬhapter Twenty – Revelations in the BridalĬhapter Twenty-Four – To be Deemed WorthyĬhapter Twenty-Eight – In the Service of AnotherĬhapter Thirty-Four – A Glass of ChampagneĬhapter Forty – An Unforeseen Development ![]() |