![]() Set in 2018, Claire Powell's beautifully observed debut novel follows each member of the Maguire family over a tumultuous year of lunches, dinners and drinks, as old conflicts arise and relationships are re-evaluated. But as the siblings grapple with the pressures of thirtysomething life, their parents struggle to protect the fragile façade of their own relationship, and the secrets they've both been keeping. Hardworking - and hard-drinking - Nicole pursues the ex she unceremoniously dumped six years ago, while people-pleasing Jamie fears he's sleepwalking into a marriage he doesn't actually want. So when Linda and Gerry announce that they've decided to separate, the news sends shockwaves through the siblings' lives, forcing them to confront their own expectations and desires. To Nicole and Jamie Maguire, their parents seem the ideal couple - a suburban double act, happily married for more than thirty years. ![]() 'An assured, exquisitely drawn novel that fans of Sorrow And Bliss will adore' Sarra Manning, Red magazine ![]() ![]() ![]() 'At the Table is a hugely intelligent, emotionally astute novel about family dynamics, and Claire Powell is an incredible new talent' Marian Keyes ![]()
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![]() ![]() And no other teacher ever, ever told the kids they were each good at something. No other teacher ever said Fred's deaf older sister should come to school, too. No other teacher plays opera recordings, talks about "hairy os," and Athabascan kids becoming doctors or scientists. No other teacher throws away old textbooks and reads Greek myths and Robin Hood. Will another teacher come to the small Athabascan village on the Koyukuk River to teach Fred and her friends in the one-room schoolhouse? Will she stay, or will she hate the smell of fish, too? Fred doesn't know what to make of Miss Agnes Sutterfield. It's 1948 and ten-year-old Fred has just watched her teacher leave - another in a long line of teachers who have left the village because the smell of fish was too strong, the way of life too hard. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But there are also significant Zoroastrian communities to be found elsewhere, such as in the USA, Britain and Canada, where western cultural contexts have shaped the religion in intriguing ways and directions. Beyond Iran, the Zoroastrian diaspora is significant especially in India, where the Gujurati-speaking community of exiles from post-Sasanian Iran call themselves 'Parsis'. In present-day Iran significant communities of Zoroastrians (who take their name from the founder of the faith, the remarkable religious reformer Zoroaster, or-in the old Avestan language-Zarathustra) still practise the rituals and teach the moral precepts that once undergirded the officially state-sanctioned faith of the mighty Sasanian empire. |a "Zoroastrianism is one of the world's great ancient religions. |a Electronic access restricted to Villanova University patrons. |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-290) and index. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book's real achievement is to take readers to an important and neglected period of British and south Asian history, and to make their trip their not just informative but colourful' - Jason Burke, Observer 'Dalrymple has been at the forefront of the new wave of popular history, consistently producing work that engages with a wider audience through writerly craft, an emphasis on characters and their agency, evocative description of place and time, and the inclusion of long-neglected perspectives. Dalrymple shines a forensic light on the knotty historical relationship between commercial and imperial power' - John McAleer, Evening Standard The Anarchy explodes myths that have accreted around the history of the Company like barnacles on the hulls of its ships. 'A tour de force' - Anne de Courcy, Telegraph 'An energetic pageturner that marches from the counting house on to the battlefield, exploding patriotic myths along the way' - Maya Jasanoff, Guardian ![]() ![]() ![]() They face hobos, lost horseshoes, money troubles, weather, and more.Though he plans to leave Helen to her journey, Mifflin never quite gets around to it and is always popping up just in time to help. After that, it’s one scrape after another for the odd couple. The adventures start when Helen’s brother returns from his latest walkabout and starts making trouble, thinking that Helen has been tricked out of her money. Mifflin is an evangelist for the written word. Mifflin accompanies her to help her learn the ropes, though it’s clear early on that both have lived very solitary lives and are lonely. All through the book are Mifflin’s monologues about the magic of literature. She writes out a check for $400 and buys Mifflin out, thinking to sell the bookstore on when she’s done with it. So when Roger Mifflin rolls up in his mobile bookstore, Parnassus on Wheels, it seems like the perfect chance to have a bit of adventure to Helen. ![]() Spinster Helen McGill is fed up to the teeth with her writer brother’s peripatetic ways-and with being treated like his servant. ![]() It’s a perfect book for bibliophiles, especially if they want something that has a happy ending (unlike my beloved The Storied Life of A.J. ![]() Christopher Morley’s Parnassus on Wheels is a delightful novella about two oddballs who fall in love over books and light adventure in the early twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Another (key) issue with the book is that there is not really enough time spent delving into the brilliant careers of David Cronenberg ( Videodrome, Eastern Promises) or George A. ![]() Therein lies its chief strength and its greatest demerit: with a lean style and even hand, Zinoman leads the reader through several interesting ideas and insights (from himself and others), but some of these notions do not get enough detail. Zinoman, a theatre critic for The New York Times, acquits himself nicely in this slender volume, and his knowledge and obvious passion about his topic is on display in each chapter of the book.Īs stated, the book is rather small (less than 280 pages) given the complexity and sprawl of the topic (tracing the roots of modern horror tropes by way of analysis and interviews with genre-cinema stalwarts such as the late, lamented Dan O’Bannon, John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper and several other key figures). Jason Zinoman’s new book attempts to examine the cultural foundation of modern horror films. Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Turns out life was way easier when it was just layout-fulls and beam burns. Just as Caroline starts to see herself as more than her past athletic successes, she picks up something she didn’t bargain for: a big fat crush on Alex. Deal done, Caroline “dates” new sports with Alex for the rest of the summer, which is loads more fun than wallowing in despair. He offers to give Caroline a crash course in all the sports she’s missed, and she has an offer for him in return: For every sport Alex teaches her, she’ll play matchmaker for him. Poor unfortunate soul to formidable foe: ‘Sea Witch’ explores the origin of the ‘Little Mermaid’ villain By Danielle Zimmerman Have you ever wondered how the Sea Witch became the Little Mermaid’s. But when one epic face-plant changes all that and Caroline’s back pain goes from chronic to career-ending, her dreams are shattered and her life is flipped upside down.Įnter Alex Zavala, a three-sport athlete who’s both incredibly cute and incredibly off-limits. While she might never be an Olympian, she has dreams of leveling up to elite, making Nationals, and competing in college. ![]() Gymnast Caroline Kepler has three state balance beam titles, a new trick even most elites can’t do-and chronic, undeniable back pain. A contemporary young adult romance about moving on, finding your place, and recovering after life falls apart. ![]() ![]() ![]() Amy finds a moldy sandwich in Slappy's head and speculates that it's the dummy's brain Mr. Kramer comes home with a gift for Amy: a new ventriloquist dummy named Slappy. Margo asks Amy to perform with Dennis in her father's restaurant to entertain some of the guests. The next morning, Amy's friend, Margo, visits her. ![]() Jed wanted to scare Amy because she didn't defend him after he vandalized Sara's painting. Later, while Amy is in her room, she sees Dennis's head looking at her through the window. Jed admits that he is the culprit, and he is punished. After this, Sara shows her family her new watercolor painting, but she is disgusted to discover that someone has painted a red smiley face on her artwork. Amy's siblings, Sara and Jed, laugh at her, causing Amy to ask her father to buy her a new ventriloquist dummy. Unfortunately, since the dummy is a bit old, during her performance, Dennis's head falls off. Amy is performing with her ventriloquist dummy, Dennis. Something evil.Īmy Kramer is performing a small ventriloquist act as a part of a family talent show. ![]() Because there's something odd about Slappy. Slappy's kind of ugly, but Amy's having fun practicing her new routine. ![]() That's when her dad finds Slappy in a local pawn shop. 9.1 References in other Goosebumps mediaĪmy's ventriloquist dummy, Dennis, keeps losing his head.for real. ![]() ![]() He explains the concept of a memory play. Tom Wingfield is in the fire-escape area outside the Wingfield apartment. The set has an interior living room area and an exterior fire escape. The setting is the Wingfield apartment in a shabby tenement building, in Saint Louis, Missouri, in the year 1937. The play is also almost unique historically, in that it first opened in Chicago, came close to flopping before Chicago newspaper theater critics verbally whipped people into going, and then played successfully for months in Chicago before finally moving to equal success in New York. Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie (1944) was regarded when first produced as highly unusual one of the play’s four characters serves as commentator as well as participant the play itself represents the memories of the commentator years later, and hence, as he says, is not a depiction of actuality its employment of symbolism is unusual and in the very effective ending, a scrim descends in front of mother and daughter, so that by stage convention one can see but not hear them, with the result that both, but especially the mother, become much more moving and even archetypal. ![]() ![]() Analysis of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerieīy NASRULLAH MAMBROL on Octo ![]() ![]() The boy chased after the monster with revenge in his bloodred eyes, leaving Ox behind to pick up the pieces.It's been three years since that fateful day-and the boy is back. ![]() Ox found out later the boy hadn't spoken in almost two years before that day, and that the boy belonged to a family who had moved into the house at the end of the lane.Ox was seventeen when he found out the boy's secret, and it painted the world around him in colors of red and orange and violet, of Alpha and Beta and Omega.Ox was twenty-three when murder came to town and tore a hole in his head and heart. Then he left.Ox was sixteen when he met the boy on the road, the boy who talked and talked and talked. ![]() He said that Ox wasn't worth anything and people would never understand him. ![]() Ox was twelve when his daddy taught him a very valuable lesson. ![]() |