![]() ![]() In 1989, news of this discovery set off a scramble among the local authorities, Moscow, and competing groups of forensic analysts in the West to study the remains of the Romanovs. ![]() In 1979, Avdonin and Moscow television producer Geli Ryabov used an account of the execution given them by the son of the executioner to find the grave site and exhumed the bodies. Beginning with the assassination in the basement of the house in which the royal family had been imprisoned in Ekaterinburg, Massie traces the early, covert efforts, mainly by geologist Alexander Avdonin, to find the bodies. ![]() Pulitzer Prize-winning author Massie, whose 1967 Nicholas and Alexandra received high praise, has used new documents on the assassination of the Romanovs to write a sequel that is almost as much thriller as historical account. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Hwang became a frequent collaborator with Philip Glass and a number of composers over the years, including Chinese-born Bright Sheng on The Silver River (1997), a one-act opera based on an ancient Chinese folktale Argentine Osvaldo Golijov on Ainadamar (2003), an opera inspired by Spanish writer Federico García Lorca and Korean-born Unsuk Chin on the opera Alice in Wonderland (2007 based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice books). He attended Yale for one year during which time he penned two short plays- The Dance and the Railroad (1981, Drama Desk Award nominee), about two Chinese immigrant railroad workers and their expectations, and The House of Sleeping Beauties (1983), adapted from a short story by Japanese writer Kawabata Yasunari. It won an Obie Award in 1980 for Best New American Play. ![]() Hwang was born on August 11, 1957, in Los Angeles to Henry Yuan Hwang, the founder of Far East National Bank, and Dorothy Hwang, a piano teacher. The oldest of three children, he received a Bachelor’s degree in English from Stanford University where his first play, FOB (1979) premiered. It explores the contrasts and conflicts between established Asian Americans and "Fresh Off the Boat" new immigrants. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His story is a decades-long journey to exoneration and freedom. Served with an assortment of vegetables and toasted pita breadĪnthony Ray Hinton survived for 30 years on Alabama's death row. Served with dijon mustard, mayonnaise, and slider rollsĮverything bagel seasoning tofu slider (pre-made grab-and-go) Mixed Green Salad with grape tomatoes, cucumbers, feta cheese, pears, and Italian/Ranch dressingĪsian Green Bean salad with sesame dressing Gourmet Mac and cheese with Cellentani pasta topped with: All service staff will wear masks and gloves to comply with food safety guidelines. ![]() Guests will enjoy food individually plated by Tallulah's Catering staff. Instead, your entry fee will be considered a donation benefiting student scholarships at The Neighborhood Academy. Therefore, no refunds for ticket purchases for the 2023 Nancy & Paul O'Neill Speaker Series are permitted. This event raises invaluable scholarship dollars for students who would otherwise not receive the college-preparatory education we provide. ![]() ![]() ![]() At least when the wedding’s over she’ll never have to see him again.īut, back in New York, Sarah finds the more she tries to forget Declan, the more she can’t shake the thought of that infuriatingly charming smile and the way he wears a tux… Is there anything more mortifying than bumping into a one-night stand halfway across the world? Especially as Declan seems determined to embarrass Sarah at every turn. Then there’s Great Aunt Eileen, who doesn’t talk at all (she’s too busy replacing the hotel cutlery with her own set). There’s the chinless Uncle Trevor, whose idea of small talk is to claim climate change is a conspiracy. Goodbye New York, hello rolling green hills and men with beautiful accents and twinkling eyes.īut Sarah should have known that not all guests are fairy-tale princes… She’s going to her best friend’s wedding. Sarah Anderson has never been more excited about anything in her life. You’re not supposed to see each other again, especially not when you’re the maid of honor, and he’s the groom’s brother… There’s a reason one-night stands are one-night stands. Who could have predicted this? Being at the same wedding. ![]() ![]() Like many people, I followed along with the Gypsy Rose Blanchard story in the headlines with a sort of horrified attention, appalled that a mother could mistreat their own child so terribly. When I originally heard that this book was coming out, I knew I had to have it. You know better than anyone that no matter how awful they are, we still find it in our hearts to love them.” “The bond between a mother and daughter is sacred. Unfortunately for Patty, Rose Gold is no longer her weak little darling…Īnd she’s waited such a long time for her mother to come home. She says she’s forgiven Rose Gold for turning her in and testifying against her. Patty insists all she wants is to reconcile their differences. The entire community is shocked when Rose Gold says yes. Turns out her mom, Patty Watts, was just a really good liar.Īfter serving five years in prison, Patty gets out with nowhere to go and begs her daughter to take her in. ![]() Neighbors did all they could, holding fundraisers and offering shoulders to cry on, but no matter how many doctors, tests, or surgeries, no one could figure out what was wrong with Rose Gold. She was allergic to everything, used a wheelchair and practically lived at the hospital. For the first eighteen years of her life, Rose Gold Watts believed she was seriously ill. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The centerpiece of this collection is the original novel itself. Borne offers a portrait of a broken, toxic future dominated by three elements: the immense flying bear known as Mord, an elusive figure called simply the Magician, and the remnants of a once powerful organization called The Company. ![]() In The Complete Borne, VanderMeer expands that novel’s original vision through supplementary narratives that enlarge our understanding of his astonishing fictional world. In 2017, he followed his groundbreaking Southern Reach Trilogy with the powerful dystopian fantasy, Borne. Le Guin, and he keeps getting better, book after book. His best work bears comparison to such established masters as John Crowley and Ursula K. In the course of a career that has spanned more than three decades, Jeff VanderMeer has emerged as one of the most elegant, intelligent literary fantasists of the modern era. Dust jacket illustration by Vasily Polovtsev. ![]() ![]() ![]() His highly detailed drawings are often quite large, and may remind some of the works of Ernst Fuchs in their intricate, and nearly obsessive rendering.īeksinski eventually threw himself into painting with a passion, and worked constantly, always to the strains of classical music. In 1958, Beksinski began to gain critical praise for his photography, and later went on to drawing. ![]() He would soon throw himself into the arts. Subsequent to this education he spent several years as a construction site supervisor, a job he hated, fought with pressures and countless boring details. After a childhood was spent during the Second World War, Beksinski went on to university where he studied architecture in Krakow. Zdzislaw Beksinski was born in Poland in the town of Sanok near the Carpathians Mountains in 1929. ![]() ![]() Then Owen gets trapped in a dark, dystopian reality five years in the future, where nothing is needed more desperately than the power to imagine.įictional Bethany is thrilled to be training with her father as his new sidekick, Twilight Girl-until she realizes that the fictional reality will fade away completely without the nonfictional world to hold it together. ![]() Owen-and every other nonfictional person-have lost their imaginations, so they can’t picture their lives any differently. Bethany has been split in two, with her fictional and nonfictional selves living in the separate realms.īut weirdly, no one seems to mind. The villain they have come to know as Nobody has ripped asunder the fictional and nonfictional worlds, destroying their connection. Owen and Bethany try to find their way back to each other after the fictional and nonfictional worlds are torn apart in this fifth and final book in the New York Times bestselling series, Story Thieves-which was called a “fast-paced, action-packed tale” by School Library Journal-from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.īethany and Owen have failed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Michael bolted the firm and took a top-secret file with him. The fast track derailed the ladder collapsed. Then Michael dug a little deeper, and found a dirty secret, and the secret involved Drake & Sweeney. Who was this man? Michael did some digging, and learned that he was a mentally ill veteran who'd been in and out of shelters for many years. But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. He was a rising star with no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers. The money was good and getting better a partnership was three years away. ![]() He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. The homeless man is killed by a police sharpshooter and the lawyer is rescued, but the experience changes his life. It happens after Michael Brock is abducted by a homeless man and held hostage. A corporate lawyer in Washington goes to war against his own company to defend the homeless. ![]() ![]() Winner of numerous writing awards, including two RITAs, three Romantic Times Career Achievement awards, and the Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award from Romance Writers of America, she has had numerous books listed among Library Journal's and Booklist's top romances of the year. Mary Jo Putneys biography, bibliography, list of books, with the current titles, summaries, covers, excerpts, author notes. Given a second chance to properly woo Meriel, can Adrian learn tenderness? Will the two of them claim lasting happiness-or will they lose all to a brutal sworn enemy?Ī New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USAToday bestselling author, Mary Jo Putney's novels are known for psychological depth and intensity. ![]() Her passionate need for freedom clashes disastrously with his obsession with his enchanting captive. Still less does she expect such a great lord to want her as his mistress. Fierce discipline masters his darker nature-until he finds a winsome slip of a girl lost in his forest, an illegal falcon on her wrist.Įncountering the ice-blond warrior Earl of Shropshire, Meriel de Vere knows his dangerous reputation-and hides her identity to protect her brother's estate from the enemy earl. ![]() Wrenched from a monastery before taking final vows, Adrian de Lancey's fighting skill wins him an earldom. ![]() |