![]() ![]() The Gallery sold half a million copies upon publication, but never again would Burns receive that kind of critical or popular attention.ĭreadful follows Burns, from his education at the best schools to his final years of drinking and depression in Italy. His first novel, The Gallery(1947), based on his wartime experiences, is a critically acclaimed novel and one of the first to unflinchingly depict gay life in the military. During World War II, he was stationed in Africa and Italy, and worked mainly in military intelligence. Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school for boys in Windsor, Connecticut. Burns, a once renowned author whose popularity has been obscured by time, is given a full-throttled re-examination in Margolick’s thoughtful book.Īmerican author John Horne Burns (1916–1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. New Month! New books! June is here and with it a plethora of new LGBT titles-ranging from high adventure to romance.Īuthor David Margolick resurrects the life of gay cult writer John Horne Burns in the biography, Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns. New in June: Steve Berman, Kate Worsley, Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, and David Margolick ![]()
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![]() ![]() Redeemed: A House of Night Novel (House of Night Novels #12) (Hardcover):īloodlust and dark forces are at work at the House of Night…įledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird's adventures at the school are about to take a mysterious turn. 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Imagine a story about a library apprentice, a sorcerer prince, and an unbreakable bond. ![]() ![]() ![]() Merely glancing through it, you’ll be surprised by the sheer number of things you don’t know about yourself – let alone by the fact that cleanliness was not exactly next to godliness! ![]() “I Contain Multitudes” is a book about the microbes which live inside your body, which means that it’s basically a book about you. Of course it’s a book about microbes! Who Should Read “I Contain Multitudes”? And Why? Well, Ed Yong borrows it to talk about something much more literal. “ I Contain Multitudes” is a verse written by Walt Whitman, used, obviously, in a strictly metaphorical sense. ![]() 6 min read ⌚ The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life ![]() ![]() ![]() Wishing you all long life & no more sorrows. May his memory be forever a blessing, & may the beautiful memories you shared together, give you comfort & strength in the days ahead. ![]() Rendered in beautiful detail and an extraordinary color palette, Always Human is a sweet love story told in a gentle sci-fi setting by a queer woman cartoonist, Ari North. All we can do is cherish the fun times & wonderful memories we shared together through the years. Together, they will learn and grow in a story that reminds us no matter how technology evolves, we will remain. ![]() We also got a huge laugh out of Bobby's aggressive budgie bird, Skippy, who referred to himself as, "pretty Skippy." Whenever we entered their kitchen, which was almost all the time, Skippy welcomed us with, "shut up Bobby," always giving my Aunt Mary & my mother a huge belly laugh. One of my fond memories was me, my brother Edward, Bobby & Susan (Sara), running through the sprinkler in my aunt & uncle's backyard on a hot summer day. I have so many wonderful memories of our childhood, growing up in Hamilton. He was the eternal optimist & a blessing to all who knew him. Dear Jan, Ari & Tina, Leslie & Victor, Sara & grandchildren - Bobby was a true mensch - a gutte neshuma. ![]() ![]() A tour-de-force of historical fiction, rich in detail yet eminently readable, Tai-Pan will stay with you long after the final page.ĬONDITION: Flat cover, flat spine, tight bookcase. Ambition, political intrigue, and love and lust weave their way throughout the novel the New York Times called, “grand entertainment…packed with action…with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder.” East and West come together in an opulent and intricately plotted narrative. Struan must fight to save his company and his family, or risk seeing everything he has created destroyed at the hands of his sworn enemy. Over the years, their two families will cross paths, threatening to rip both apart, with reverberations that will echo across the generations. Struan and Brock come to control much of England’s trade with China yet neither can control their desires or their hatred of each other. ![]() War between England and China might be over, but the hostilities remain. ![]() But it is not only silks and spices that drive their mutual companies’ wealth-the opium trade is still booming. ![]() Tyler Brock, Struan’s rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struan’s. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. He is now the Tai-Pan-Supreme Leader-of all Tai-Pans in China. Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world’s largest Far East trading company. ![]() ![]() Knoll is also the author of Life on a Young Planet, for which he received the. This program is part of Princeton Public Library's participation in Resilient Communities: Libraries Respond to Climate Change, a pilot program of the American Library Association. Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters, Buch (Gebunden), Knoll, Andrew H. His research areas include Earth history and paleoclimate. Maloof is an associate professor in the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. He is also the author of "Life on a Young Planet," for which he received the Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science. Knoll is the Fisher Professor of Natural History at Harvard University. ![]() Placing twenty first-century climate change in deep context, " A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters" is an indispensable look at where we’ve been and where we’re going. ![]() Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. This Earth Day event is presented in partnership with High Meadows Environmental Institute.ĭrawing on his decades of field research and the latest science, Andrew H. ![]() ![]() ![]() But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. The Capitol keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. A perfect gift for fans of the books or movies.In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. ![]() Now available, a paperback box set of the Hunger Games! This box set features the original cover artwork from the ground-breaking, bestselling trilogy. ![]() Suzanne Collins's worldwide-bestselling Hunger Games trilogy is now available in a paperback box set! This edition features the books with the classic cover art in a striking new package. ![]() ![]() And how about the audacious structure? Each manuscript is interrupted after too few exquisite pages, obliging "You" to hunt for its continuation through a landscape of bookshops, rarefied campuses, shifty publishers, refined censors, reading rooms and literary guerrillas.Įach time "You" (and you) get your hands on the continuation of the last interrupted story, it turns out, agonisingly, to be a brand-new one: but each one, after a line or two, becomes as enticing and addictive as its predecessor. ![]() Then there was the novel's giddying (what I soon learned to call) intertextuality, where the protagonist "You" comes across 12 manuscripts written in the style of a Bogart movie, Borges, Chekhov, a spaghetti western, Mishima, and so on. A second-person protagonist? Unthinkable as two George Bushes. A novel that referred to its own existence? As offworldly an idea as the non-existence of the Soviet Union. It was everything that A-level A Passage to India and As You Like It hadn't been. ![]() ![]() Let the world around you fade." From the opening line of this eccentric book, which I first encountered as an undergraduate 16 years ago, I was magnetised. "Y ou are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveller. ![]() ![]() Towards the end of 1890s Proust began to withdraw more and more from society, and although he was never entirely reclusive, as is sometimes made out, he lapsed more completely into his lifelong tendency to sleep during the day and work at night. However, his position there was also one of an outsider, due to his Jewishness and homosexuality. ![]() He was active in Parisian high society during the 80s and 90s, welcomed in the most fashionable and exclusive salons of his day. ![]() ![]() Marcel Proust was a French novelist, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu ( Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), a pseudo-autobiographical novel told mostly in a stream-of-consciousness style.īorn in the first year of the Third Republic, the young Marcel, like his narrator, was a delicate child from a bourgeois family. ![]() |