![]() ![]() With two children to take care of, she had to adapt fast and she decided to try her hand at writing. She had a very good run with A&L Goodbody a law firm in Dublin until life changed when the recession hit and she was rendered jobless. ![]() Gaynor got her start working in London for several professional services firms. When she was made redundant form her day job, she decided to become an author and published “The Girl Who Came Home” in 2012. Since 2001, she has been living with her husband in Kildare while she worked for A&L Goodbody. After she was done with college, she spent some time working in professional services before venturing into authorship. Gaynor grew up in Yorkshire in England but spent much of her time in Fraisthorpe, Flamborough and Bridlington near the sea. ![]() In October 2012, she won the Emerging Writers Cecil Day Lewis Award. She is also the author of feature author interviews for the website and has interviewed the likes of Mary Beth Keane, Phillipa Gregory, Daisy Waugh, Sebastian Faulks, and Cheryl Strayed. She is also the author of “Carry on Writing,” a popular guest blog on wrting.ie, a national Irish writing website. Hazel Gaynor is a historical fiction author from Ireland. ![]()
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6/7/2023 0 Comments Vittorio the vampire anne rice![]() ![]() Against a backdrop of the wonders-both sacred and profane-and the beauty and ferocity of Renaissance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionate and tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence. As he sets out in pursuit of vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more enchanted (and confused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures-a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold. With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Relentless book karen lynch![]() And she must learn to trust the one person capable of breaking down the walls around her. Sara has always been fiercely independent but in order to survive now she must open herself to others, to reveal her deepest secrets. Sara's life starts to spin out of control as she is hunted by an obsessed vampire, learns that her friends have secrets of their own and reels from the truth about her own ancestry. On the same fateful night she meets Nikolas, a warrior who turns Sara's world upside down and is determined to protect her even if it's the last thing she wants. ![]() In her quest for answers about her father's death, Sara takes risks that expose her and her friends to danger and puts herself into the sights of a sadistic vampire. She lives a life full of secrets and her family and friends have no idea of the supernatural world she is immersed in or of Sara's own very powerful gift. ![]() Now at seventeen, she is still haunted by memories of that day and driven by the need to understand why it happened. Sara Grey's world shattered ten years ago when her father was brutally murdered. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Chris cleave author![]() Cleave has a sharp cinematic eye, but the plot is undermined by weak motivations and coincidences. Sarah nevertheless determines to help Little Bee get refugee status. Later, however, it’s revealed that Little Bee has been hiding around the O’Rourke place, and that Andrew seeing her set off his suicide. So two years later, when Little Bee shows up at Sarah’s house on the day of the funeral for Andrew, who has killed himself, it seems almost miraculous. Andrew can’t do it, but Sarah does, and the killers drag the girls away. Soon the killers arrive and propose a not-quite-credible deal: they will trade the girls if Andrew and Sarah each cut off a finger. His debut novel, INCENDIARY, won a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award, was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and is now a feature film. ![]() He studied experimental psychology at Balliol College, Oxford. ![]() British couple Andrew O’Rourke and his wife, Sarah, are on vacation when they come across two sisters, Little Bee and Nkiruka, on the run from the killers who have massacred everyone else in their village-in the pay, it turns out, of an oil company seeking the land. Chris Cleave was born in London and spent his early years in Cameroon. A violent incident on a Nigerian beach has tragic echoes in posh London in Cleave’s beautifully staged if haphazardly plotted debut novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unabridged Dover (1996) republication of the text established by John Bigelow (first published by J. Related in an honest, open, unaffected style, this highly readable account offers a wonderfully intimate glimpse of the Founding Father sometimes called "the wisest American." ![]() ![]() Pennsylvania Assembly, this charming self-portrait recalls Franklin's boyhood, his determination to achieve high moral standards, his work as a printer, his experiments with electricity, his political career, his experiences during theįrench and Indian War, and more. Covering his life up to his prewar stay in London as representative of the He also invented bifocals, a stove that is still manufactured, a water-harmonica, and the lightning rod.įranklin's extraordinary range of interests and accomplishments are brilliantly recorded in his Autobiography, considered one of the classics of the genre. Treaty with Britain that ended the Revolutionary War. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later was involved in negotiating the peace Blessed with enormous talents and the energy and ambition to go with them, Franklin was a statesman, author, inventor, printer, and scientist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Will you remember today? We are all unique, but as different as we all are, the things we seek in life are astonishingly similar. What matters is your choice in this moment. In fact, humble origins, false starts, and even outright failure can be your biggest assets. And the best part is, anyone can learn them! It doesn't matter where you come from or what mistakes you've made. So what, exactly, do they know that you don't? Einstein, Edison, Jobs, and all the others are in these pages for one reason: to reveal the crucial lessons that helped them turn their dreams into reality. These billionaires and business gurus sports stars and rock stars philosophers, emperors, inventors, and saints have lived exceptional lives. In The Art of Success, James Melouney invites you to see the world differently-by walking in the shoes of 134 extraordinarily successful people. Want to change your life? Then change your mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Playing fiddle in washed-up tribute groups at the mall, Bailey meets Sam, a handsome and oh-so-persuasive guitarist with his own band. And as Julie’s debut album is set to hit the charts, her parents get fed up with Bailey’s antics and ship her off to granddad’s house in Nashville. The music scouts wanted only Julie, and their parents were content to sit by and let her fulfill her dreams while Bailey’s were hushed away.īailey has tried to numb the pain and disappointment over what could have been. ![]() Never mind that Julie and Bailey were a duet, or that Bailey was their songwriter. That ended when country music execs swooped in and signed Julie to a solo deal. She used to play fiddle and tour the music circuit with her sister, Julie, who sang and played guitar. Bailey wasn’t always a wild child and the black sheep of her family. ![]() ![]() ![]() While she has established herself as an internationally known sleuth, she still continues to publish novels. Seven years after the publication of the debut novel, she moved to New York where she went back to teaching Creative Writing and Criminology. During the intervening period, she published with other houses and did other things including serving in the US House of Representative for Maine. ![]() In the course of publishing, she would soon be drawn into the intrigues of a homicide that led her to quit Coventry House. ![]() She had it published by Coventry House who loved it so much that they published it, marking the start of Jessica’s career as an author. Following the death of her husband Frank, she wrote “The Corpse Danced At Midnight”, which her nephew found and showed to his girlfriend. They have no children of their own but they adopted Grady their nephew, who they raised as their won after his parents perished in an automobile accident. She interned at the Appleton Theater for a while and it was while she was working there that she met Frank Fletcher, a United States Air Force Captain that she went on to marry. After graduation, she decided to take up a job as a substitute English teacher. She went to college at the Harrison College in Green Falls, New Hampshire, from where she graduated with a degree in journalism. ![]() Murder, She Wrote is a series of crime fiction and detective novels by Jessica Fletcher of Cabot Cove. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Marc platt doctor who![]() Spoiler RulesĬheck the posting policies for more detail. ![]() Spoilers must be tagged or omitted as appropriateĪll users must also follow Reddit's rules, which are listed in the user agreement. Be mature and treat everyone with respect.Įnsure quality discussion by making in-depth contributions.Īll content must be directly related to Doctor Who news and/or discussion. List of /r/Gallifrey Episode Discussion Threads Subreddit Rulesĭon't be a dick. Red numbers are estimates until the airtime is confirmed # Visit /r/DoctorWho for everything else Doctor Who Related or check out the other similar subreddits Doctor Who Community DiscordĮpisode Discussion Threads (Updated Hourly) This subreddit is for Discussion and News Only. ![]() ![]() Latest Regular Threads: No Stupid Q&A: Free Talk Friday: Check the FAQ before posting! Read the Subreddit RulesĪ community dedicated to discussions and news for Doctor Who. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a youth, that was a confusing experience it made me feel invalid or inferior, that my cultural garments were not as beautiful as, say, those by high-fashion labels. Growing up, I rarely saw my Indigenous culture being covered in the fashion industry. ![]() What motivated you to write The Power of Style? Written for a YA audience, it is a beautiful read for all ages.Īllaire is a Fashion and Style Writer for Vogue. His book includes chapters on high heels, ribbonwork, cosplay and hijabs, and connects fashion with history, culture, politics and social justice. In his first book, The Power of Style: How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Cultures (external link) he explores how style is more than the clothing we wear: it represents self-expression, representation, and transformation. When he was a fashion-obsessed Ojibwe teen, Christian Allaire (RSJ ‘14) rarely found people who looked like him in movies or fashion magazines. ![]() |