![]() ![]() Graham Masterton's debut as a horror author began with The Manitou in 1976, a chilling tale of a Native American medicine man reborn in the present day to exact his revenge on the white man. He is a regular contributor to Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Woman, Woman's Own and other mass-market self-improvement magazines. His latest, Wild Sex For New Lovers is published by Penguin Putnam in January, 2001. At this time he started to write a bestselling series of sex 'how-to' books including How To Drive Your Man Wild In Bed which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. ![]() ![]() After training as a newspaper reporter, Graham went on to edit the new British men's magazine Mayfair, where he encouraged William Burroughs to develop a series of scientific and philosophical articles which eventually became Burroughs' novel The Wild Boys.Īt the age of 24, Graham was appointed executive editor of both Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines. His grandfather was Thomas Thorne Baker, the eminent scientist who invented DayGlo and was the first man to transmit news photographs by wireless. ![]() Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh in 1946. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Okay, I am officially a Georgette Heyer reader now. ![]() Heyer remains a popular and much-loved author, known for essentially establishing the historical romance genre and its subgenre Regency romance. While some critics thought her novels were too detailed, others considered the level of detail to be Heyer's greatest asset. Her Georgian and Regencies romances were inspired by Jane Austen. She wrote one novel using the pseudonym Stella Martin. She made no appearances, never gave an interview and only answered fan letters herself if they made an interesting historical point. Heyer was an intensely private person who remained a best selling author all her life without the aid of publicity. Beginning in 1932, Heyer released one romance novel and one thriller each year. ![]() Rougier later became a barrister and he often provided basic plot outlines for her thrillers. In 1925 she married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story for her younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. Georgette Heyer was a prolific historical romance and detective fiction novelist. ![]() ![]() ![]() The chapters went on as a story she’s telling a reporter about her life in the 70s.Īt 15, she made a mistake that cost her freedom. The prologue took place in the year 2000 where Ginny witnessed the “ending of her previous life”. But for me, it was an eternity.įrom there on, I knew it was going to be a bumpy ride. That is when we learned the significance of the title Nine Minutes. This book gripped me and ripped me right from the prologue. Well, let me tell you when people say don’t judge a book by its cover (or timeframe for that matter), it couldn’t be truer for Nine Minutes. Though, I have to admit, I was a bit apprehensive about the timeframe because I prefer contemporary books. I suppose it has the 70s vibe of the book timeframe, but it just doesn’t appeal to me.īut I’ve been seeing buzz around this book so my curiosity piqued and after reading the synopsis, I knew it’s the kind of story that I would like. If I see the cover in a lineup of new/recommended list, I would not pick it up. I’m going to start by being completely honest. ![]() ![]() But one honourable man among a crowd of dandies could give her all she needs to change her fortunes – and set her free…Īmong the ruthless ambitions of England’s powerful, love at first sight is a dangerous game. Her smallest acts of defiance carry a heavy price. Helena Knyvett may be a daughter of the aristocracy, but in truth she is little but a pawn in her brother’s ploys for power. Of course, not every lady hides behind a powdered face… He’s duty-bound to go to court and swear homage to his king anyway, a perfect opportunity – were not court women trussed in stupid fashions and corrupted with false mannerisms. Laird Keir McQuade is a newcomer to his title, and has much work before him to restore the McQuade honour. His men seemed to know exactly what his gesture meant because. Only a pink stain colored the horizon when his hand rose and the horses all stopped. ![]() Online reading In Bed With a Stranger and summary + reviews. ![]() The author of In Bed with a Stranger sweeps readers back to the Elizabethan era once more in this compelling, exquisitely detailed, and deeply passionate historical romance. Read book In Bed With a Stranger online free by author Mary Wine. ![]() ![]() ![]() On their travels, Quichotte and Sancho duly encounter racists, opioids, humans who turn into mastodons, crickets who speak Italian and guns that talk. ![]() But even the most unlikely romance seems possible in the “Age-of-Anything-Can-Happen”. Just as Cervantes’s hidalgo lost his mind after reading too many romances, so Quichotte has had his brain addled by trash TV. He has never met her but he sends love letters under the pen name “Quichotte”, believing “love will find a way” of bringing them together. Ismail hopes to win the heart of a young TV star named Salma, a fellow Indian-American, whose chatshow has made her “Oprah 2.0”. ![]() Our knight errant is a dapper old duffer named Ismail Smile who loses his job as a pharmaceutical salesman and sets off across America with a teenage son he has dreamed up named Sancho. We’re not in La Mancha any more but Trumpland. As one character suggests, “the surreal, or even the absurd, now offer the most accurate descriptors of real life”. Realism, apparently, is no longer up to the job of describing our nutzoid world. It’s Quichotte as in Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes’s 17th-century proto-novel, here reimagined by Salman Rushdie as a 21st-century post-novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The controls for selecting a destination have been identified, but nobody knows where a particular setting will take the ship, how long the trip will last, or even if enough fuel is available to get back. By extremely dangerous trial and error, humans have partially learned how to operate them. Nearly a thousand small, abandoned starships are located at Gateway. The Gateway Corporation administers the asteroid on behalf of the governments of the United States, the Soviet Union, the New People's Asia, the Venusian Confederation, and the United States of Brazil. Humans have had limited success understanding the left-behind bits of Heechee technology found there and elsewhere. Gateway is an asteroid hollowed out by the Heechee, a long-vanished alien race. A short concluding chapter, cut before publication, was later published in the August 1977 issue of Galaxy. Gateway was serialized in Galaxy prior to its hardcover publication. The novel was adapted into a computer game in 1992. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Gateway won the 1978 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1978 Locus Award for Best Novel, the 1977 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1978 John W. It is the opening novel in the Heechee saga, with four sequels that followed (five books overall). Gateway is a 1977 science-fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl. ![]() ![]() Spilling over with the sumptuous flavors and romance of Tuscany, These Tangled Vines takes readers on a breathtaking journey of love, secrets, sacrifice, courage-and most importantly, the true meaning of family. Fiona both fears and embraces her new destiny as she searches for the truth about the fateful summer her mother spent in Italy and the father she never knew. While the mystery of her mother’s affair is slowly unraveled, Fiona must navigate through tricky family relationships and tense sibling rivalries. She is the only person who knows about her late mother’s affair in Tuscany thirty years earlier, and she intends to keep it that way…until a lawyer calls with shocking news: her biological father has died and left her an incredible inheritance-along with two half siblings.įiona travels to Italy, where the family is shocked to learn of her existence and desperate to contest her share of the will. ![]() ![]() If Fiona has learned anything in life, it’s how to keep a secret-even from the father who raised her. From the USA Today bestselling author of A Curve in the Road comes a sweeping and captivating tale of one woman’s journey to the lush vineyards of Tuscany-and into the mysteries of a tragic family secret. ![]() ![]() Hello Select your address All Hello, sign in. ![]() ![]() What happens after a verbal or physical assault? How does the industry culture address this silent epidemic of violence? Where can survivors find support after surviving healthcare workplace violence?Īn RN with over 30 years' experience and survivor of a violent attack by a patient, the author realistically discusses the challenges facing those employed in the trenches of healthcare today. I Could Use a Little Help Here My Story of Healthcare Workplace Violence : Garen, June Zanes: Amazon.sg: Books. ![]() According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), of the nearly 25,000 workplace assaults that occur annually, 75% happen in healthcare settings. Hey I Could Use a Little Help Here My Story of Healthcare Workplace Violence (Paperback). Healthcare workers experience verbal and physical assaults in the workplace daily. ![]() ![]() ![]() She then made a small appearance in NES Open Tournament Golf in 1991 as Luigi's caddie. Mario must traverse the four kingdoms of Sarasaland to track down Tatanga and rescue Daisy. Daisy is the princess of Sarasaland, a world outside of the series' usual setting of the Mushroom Kingdom, and is kidnapped by the tyrannical alien, Tatanga, who intends to marry her to gain control of her realm. Since Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, released in 2003, the character has been primarily voiced by American voice actress Deanna Mustard.Īppearances In video games ĭaisy first appeared in Super Mario Land, released in 1989 for the Game Boy. Yokoi wanted to recreate the feeling of 1985's Super Mario Bros., only set in another world separate from the Mushroom Kingdom. She was created by Shigeru Miyamoto's mentor Gunpei Yokoi, the producer of Super Mario Land. Since her appearance in Mario Tennis, Daisy has been a staple playable character in the Mario spin-off games, often paired with Princess Peach. She debuted in 1989's Super Mario Land as the ruler of Sarasaland, and she has been described as a tomboy. Princess Daisy ( Japanese: デイジー姫, Hepburn: Deijī-hime, pronounced ) is a fictional character in the Mario series of video games. ![]()
![]() The erasure of native agents opens the entrance to a historical fiction where they can be accepted only as a spectral and subaltern figure, as the mourning for their remote and heroic failure, over a narrative that consecrated its extirpation from a national futureīlest Gana Alencar Galván Indian extermination historical fiction. The emptiness left by a native character lost in their final pages, installs the zero degree of a writing that articulates against them the genealogy of a political community. A partir de un análisis crítico y del estudio comparado de la obra ensayística de Virginia Woolf y de Victoria Ocampo se abordan los diez tomos de Testimonios de Victoria Ocampo, sus ensayos principales y aspectos biográficos y autobiográficos. Beyond readings that have underlined the fictional rescue of a native figure, these novels delimitate, organize and naturalize a disappearance. José de Alencar' s O Guarani (1857), Alberto Blest Gana's Mariluán (1864) and Manuel de Jesús Galván's Enriquillo (1882) give form to a narrative of extermination that laid down a cultural consensus over Indian genocide in XIX century Latin America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ALENCAR, BLEST GANA Y GALVÁN: NARRATIVAS DE EXTERMINIO Y SUBALTERNIDAD. ![]() |