![]() ![]() The actor John Carradine knew Blaine during his Hollywood career, as did Tina Modotti. Despite labels like these, Mahlon Blaine, 1920s book illustrator and pen-and-ink maestro, campaigned for “freedom of art” against “dysenteric hypocrites” who proclaimed “beauty is obscene.” He mixed his commercial success with an underground vocation of creating “playful drawings – sly dancing thoughts that would delight all men blest with the godly gift of laughter.” This bohemian Rabelaisian, with 2000 published illustrations ranging from children’s books to erotica, fought “for the beautiful and imaginative – conceptions beyond all limits of time and morality.”John Steinbeck was one of his best friends, and Blaine illustrated two of his early novels. Exploring his friendships with the famous and infamous from bohemian San Francisco to Hollywood to New York City, this (self)portrait paints the struggles and triumphs of an artist truly committed to his unique singular vision.Included are over 120 Blaine illustrations and photographs (most previously unpublished, unearthed from the vaults of collectors and friends).Ribald, risqué, bawdy, naughty, salacious – take your pick. Dealing with nudes and demons while in pursuit of the perfect model – who had killed herself.This historical novel takes a rollicking ride through one-eyed Mahlon Blaine's adventures and experiences as an early 20th-Century illustrator. A glass-eyed Jazz Age artist bounces between pre-talkies Hollywood and sinful New York City. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() While the intelligence and law enforcement agencies scramble to untangle these events and find the people responsible, the mysterious figure of Alexander Fortuna an agent embedded into the highest levels of American society and business sets into play the second stage of these long planned attacks. Dewey, former Army Ranger and Delta, survives the attack, rescuing as many of his men as possible. But there was one factor that the terrorists didn t take into account when they struck the Capitana platform off the coast of Colombia slaughtering much of the crew and blowing up the platform and that was the Capitana crew chief Dewey Andreas. Introducing a major new thriller writer in the vein of Vince Flynn and Brad Thor and an electrifying character, Dewey Andreas A major North American hydroelectric dam is blown up and the largest off shore oil field in this hemisphere is destroyed in a brutal, coordinated terrorist attack. ![]() ![]() The present sections take place the night of the wedding and are told in the third person. The book is split between first and third person narrative, as well as past and present. Jules, Will and the small wedding party will stay on the island while the rest of the guests will arrive and depart by boat the day of the festivities. Jules and Will are getting married on the remote Irish island of Inis an Amplóra. ![]() The book is set during the weekend of her wedding to Will Slater, a survivalist and reality TV star of the show Survive the Night. Jules Keegan is a successful, driven woman who started and runs an online lifestyle magazine called The Download. ![]() ![]() It’s fast-paced with lots of carefully timed reveals, and it’s told from multiple viewpoints. The Guest List has the atmosphere of a Gothic, but reads like a thriller. I just want to shove it in people’s hands and say, “read this right now!” It’s feminist. ![]() The Guest List is one of those books it’s a thriller that is so superbly plotted that I’m afraid to say anything about it because I want other readers to enjoy every reveal as much as I did. It’s difficult to review a book that is so, so good, but you don’t want to reveal too much for fear of ruining it for others. CW: Self-harm, suicidal ideation, abortion ![]() ![]() With Reamde, this visionary author whose mind-stretching fiction has been enthusiastically compared to the work of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut, and David Foster Wallace-not to mention William Gibson and Michael Crichton-once again blazes new ground with a high-stakes thriller that will enthrall his loyal audience, science and science fiction, and espionage fiction fans equally. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations-whether he’s reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future ( Snow Crash), or both ( Cryptonomicon). “Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrilling.” ![]() ![]() The stories and novels that followed-including The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles-expanded the duo’s practice at 221B Baker Street, thrilling readers with the impeccable powers of deduction that inevitably guide Holmes toward any mystery’s solution.Ī Study in Scarlet, a tale of Mormons and murder, is a drama of long-simmering revenge that plays out on the gaslit streets of London but has its dark roots in the pioneer settlements of Utah. Watson and Holmes would go on to become two of the most widely admired characters in all of literature. In 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s mystery novel A Study in Scarlet unleashed for the first time the unflappable Sherlock Holmes and his partner, Dr. ![]() ![]() Three of the enthralling novels that brought us the world’s greatest fictional detective are gathered here in one volume. ![]() ![]() ![]() Someone (it might have even been me) jokingly said we should go get tattoos. ![]() They’d come so far, and the signing lasted less than an hour, and we wanted to hang out a little longer to make the trip worthwhile for them. Well, after that Dallas signing (which was only my 2nd or 3rd signing EVER if I remember correctly), we got to talking. You’ll even find them mentioned in the acknowledgments of SEEKING HER because they will forever and always hold a place in my heart and my memory. ![]() I’ve since seen these awesome ladies at several signings (all of which were outside Oklahoma, but they made the trip anyway). So, of course, all those college students we’d been hoping to find were long gone.īut luckily, we didn’t have to sit alone in that Barnes and Noble because a few awesome fans came out to see us, including a group of women that had made a long drive from Oklahoma. Molly McAdams and I were doing a signing at a University bookstore in the Dallas area right after the semester had ended. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All remain in print and have been widely translated.Īrthur Ransome died in June 1967 and is buried at Rusland in the Lake District. ![]() Today Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of novels, (1931 - 1947). Settling in the Lake District, he spent the late 1920s as a foreign correspondent and highly-respected angling columnist for the Manchester Guardian, before settling down to write Swallows and Amazons and its successors. Ransome married Evgenia and returned to England in 1924. These contacts led to persistent but unproven accusations that he "spied" for both the Bolsheviks and Britain. He knew many of the leading Bolsheviks, including Lenin, Radek, Trotsky and the latter's secretary, Evgenia Shvelpina. ![]() Petersburg, where he was ideally placed to observe and report on the Russian Revolution. He used this precarious existence to practice writing, producing several minor works before Bohemia in London (1907), a study of London's artistic scene and his first significant book.Īn interest in folklore, together with a desire to escape an unhappy first marriage, led Ransome to St. In 1902, Ransome abandoned a chemistry degree to become a publisher's office boy in London. Arthur Michell Ransome (Janu– June 3, 1967) was an English author and journalist. ![]() ![]() But now, years later, Riordan’s characters have grown. ![]() No one was permanently psychologically damaged. The stakes were high, but nothing was too scary or scarring. When we first met Percy Jackson, he was a sassy middle schooler while his adventures are still incredibly readable and enjoyable for older readers, they were perfect for kids Percy’s age. I mean that Riordan has done a great job of allowing his characters to age, and the stories have developed with them. I don’t mean that they’re better now or that they were amateur then. Rick Riordan’s books have really matured since The Lightning Thief. Is it good that I invested the time for that reread? Yes. Am I too late to post a review that anyone is going to care about? Probably. I was well caught up when I finally got to read the newest book. ![]() Remember that major death in The Burning Maze? I didn’t. Often in situations like this, I’ll jump right into the new book because I’m too excited to wait, but this time I actually did the smart thing and reread the books that came before (well, The Trials of Apollo I didn’t go all the way back to HoO or PJO), which was definitely a good thing because I let some truly massive plot developments slip my mind. Rick Riordan is one of my favorite authors, but I was still taken off-guard when The Tyrant’s Tomb came out a few months ago because I hadn’t known he was due for one. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The odds are against him, but with courage and friendship-and a cheeky sense of humor-he just might triumph in the end.Ī Texas Bluebonnet finalist and winner of the ILA award for middle grade fiction, Rump is perfect for fans of Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted or Adam Gidwitz's A Tale Dark and Grimm. To break the spell, Rump must go on a perilous quest, fighting off pixies, trolls, poison apples, and a wickedly foolish queen. With each thread he spins, he weaves himself deeper into a curse. His best friend, Red Riding Hood, warns him that magic is dangerous, and she’s right. Rump discovers he has a gift for spinning straw into gold. But when he finds an old spinning wheel, his luck seems to change. In a magic kingdom where your name is your destiny, 12-year-old Rump is the butt of everyone's joke. New York Times Bestselling author Liesl Shurtliff "spins words into gold. This funny fractured fairy tale goes behind the scenes of Rumpelstiltskin. ![]() ![]() ![]() During one recruiting visit by Knight where Woodson's high school coach, his mother, and his pastor were all present, Knight got into a heated exchange because Woodson's high school coach was not convinced Woodson would fit into Indiana's system. Woodson elected to play college basketball for Bob Knight and the Indiana University Hoosiers. And Bob Knight is the one who really instilled a lot of the fundamentals and how high school coaches taught their teams." Indiana University ![]() According to Woodson, playing in Indiana meant "you had to be able to pass, and shoot, and dribble, and play without the basketball, you know, the motion offense. It was a place to go learn your craft." He was also able to practice with a large number of talented basketball players in the Indianapolis area, including professionals such as George McGinnis, Roger Brown, and Rick Mount. You had parks in every area of town where you could go get a pickup game. If you didn't have it, you had neighbors two doors down that had it. He said, "Every yard had courts, little basketball hoops in the yard. Growing up in Indiana, Woodson felt the Hoosier Hysteria which permeated the state helped prepare him for a career in basketball. Playing career Early life and prep career Woodson coaching the Hawks in the 2008 NBA playoffs. ![]() |