Will this reunion of old friends, classmates, and family go as smoothly as our bride and groom hope? Or will old secrets and resentments rear their ugly heads? When a storm traps the wedding party on the island, tensions ratchet up until someone winds up dead. The wedding has been planned to perfection the only wild card here is the wedding’s guest list. Set on a remote island off the coast of Ireland, THE GUEST LIST gives readers an exclusive invitation to one of the most buzzed-about parties of the year: the wedding of a powerhouse digital magazine editor and a TV golden boy. This is a “locked room mystery” built for the readers of 2020: a story concerned with secrets-among spouses, partners, and siblings-and their deadly collision. THE GUEST LIST is a delectable blend of Agatha Christie inspiration and modern-day psychological suspense. British author Lucy Foley has made a name for herself with two suspense novels that do exactly that, the newest of which will release in the US this summer. In a world obsessed with finding the next cutting-edge thing, sometimes the smartest way to stand out is to get back to basics. The Verdict: a “popcorn read” meets Agatha Christie-inspiration
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The novel was nominated for a Locus Award. Christine was published in 1983 and was adapted as a film in the same year. Condition: presents in fine condition as shown. The rebind and case were done by Richard Tong, a prize-winning bookbinder and publisher based in the UK. It is lined with black suede so that the leather will only touch a soft surface and will not get damaged. The book is housed in a black buckram solander case displaying tire tracks across the front, back and spince. The title and author are embossed on the spine in gold. The page block edges are gilded as shown. The handmarbled endpapapers are reminiscent of blood splatters fitting the novel s topic of a killer car nicely. The book s design refers directly to Christine, the 1958 Plymouth Fury car featured in the book, specificcaly the side of the car with the central white strip which swirls up towards the tail. Signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title page: For Anie Who owns Christine in real life It s been nice to meet you! Stephen King | 7/17/84 About the book s design: The book is bound in full fine red leather supplied by Harmatan and Oakridge, one of the best leather suppliers in Europe. Stephen King (1983) Christine, UK first edition, first printing, published by Hodder & Stoughton. Lorde’s writing has rarely been more influential - or more misunderstood.Įven more than scandal or a shoddy biographer, a writer’s sheer quotability can guarantee an uneasy afterlife. “The Selected Works of Audre Lorde,” edited and introduced by Roxane Gay, arrives at an especially interesting moment, however. “There is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love,” she once wrote.Īny opportunity to contemplate Lorde would be a cause for celebration. She left riches: poems, essays and two genre-defining memoirs, “Zami” and “The Cancer Journals.” Her work is an estuary, a point of confluence for all identities, all aspects kept so strenuously segregated: poetry and politics, feeling and analysis, analysis and action, sexuality and the intellect. She wanted, as Angela Davis said, to “demystify the assumption that these terms cannot inhabit the same space: Black and lesbian, lesbian and mother, mother and warrior, warrior and poet.” But there was always that garland of identifiers - and not just because she couldn’t be defined by one word. “I am a Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet doing my work, coming to ask you if you’re doing yours,” she’d sometimes say. In her public appearances, Audre Lorde famously introduced herself the same way: “I am a Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” There were occasional variations. He was tricked out of his very soul and has been forced into immortality as a Dark-hunter. Wulf has lived a cursed existence of his own. And, they have just found Cassandra once again and will do anything they can to snuff out her life. But if Apollo’s line ends, so will the sun and moon, the entire world. She is the last descendant of Apollo, the heiress, and it’s believed that if the Daimons kill her, their curse will be lifted. But she may not even make it to her birthday. She doesn’t want anyone to mourn her as she has seen her father mourn her mother and older sisters. This is why she never gets too close to anyone. She has watched other family members perish and she knows her time is quickly approaching. She is half Apollite and her 27 th birthday is just months away. The curse is something that haunts Cassandra every day. The only way to prevent this horrific death is either to take your own life before your birthday or to turn Daimon, and live by stealing human souls. From then on they have had to live in darkness and have been sentenced to die painfully on their 27 th birthday (the same age Apollo’s mistress was when she died) as their bodies decay. After the God Apollo’s mistress was torn to pieces at the Queen’s command, Apollo cursed all of his people. Press Release: (April 4, 2022) Crowdfunding pioneer Spike Trotman and Iron Circus Comics are helming their second-ever independent crowdfunding campaign for LETTERS FOR LUCARDO: THE SILENT LORD, the third installment in the groundbreaking and popular LGBTQ erotica horror series from Otava Heikkilä. The third installment in Otava Heikkilä's Letters for Lucardo graphic novel series, Letters for Lucardo: The Silent Lord is now being crowdfunded by Spike Trotman and Iron Circus Comics, and we've been provided with an exclusive preview from the new graphic novel to share with Daily Dead readers!īelow, you can check out exclusive preview pages and details on the crowdfunding campaign for Letters for Lucardo: The Silent Lord, and to learn more about how to support this new graphic novel, visit Iron Circus Comics' official website! In the core narrative present in both texts, the arc of lesbian romance is portrayed in and against parent-child bonds, while the employment of a mother-daughter erotic reinscribes racial and gender norms. My reading illuminates how the textual strategies of metaphorical substitution and narrative replacement used to imagine postwar lesbian romance consequently render lesbian motherhood and queer desire as seemingly incommensurable. This article offers a comparative analysis of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel, The Price of Salt, and Todd Haynes’s 2015 film adaptation, Carol, to bear witness to the often-overlooked history of pre-Stonewall queer parenthood and to imagine a more radical future of queer kinship. She and the narrator get into a love triangle of sorts with Tyler Durden, a mysterious and gleefully destructive young man with whom the narrator starts a fight club, a secret society that offers young professionals the chance to beat one another to a bloody pulp. The unnamed (and extremely unreliable) narrator, who makes his living investigating accidents for a car company in order to assess their liability, is combating insomnia and a general sense of anomie by attending a steady series of support-group meetings for the grievously ill, at one of which (testicular cancer) he meets a young woman named Marla. Featuring soap made from human fat, waiters at high-class restaurants who do unmentionable things to soup and an underground organization dedicated to inflicting a violent anarchy upon the land, Palahniuk's apocalyptic first novel is clearly not for the faint of heart. He's even there for her when the video goes viral and Nik's social media blows up-in a bad way. The hard part is having to face a stadium full of disappointed fans.Īt the game with his sister, Carlos Ibarra comes to Nik's rescue and rushes her away from a camera crew. Saying no isn't the hard part-they've only been dating for five months, and he can't even spell her name correctly. When freelance writer Nikole Paterson goes to a Dodgers game with her actor boyfriend, his man bun, and his bros, the last thing she expects is a scoreboard proposal. When someone asks you to spend your life with him, it shouldn't come as a surprise-or happen in front of 45,000 people. The author of The Wedding Date serves up a novel about what happens when a public proposal doesn't turn into a happy ending, thanks to a woman who knows exactly how to make one on her own. Karbo ( Julia Child Rules: Lessons on Savoring Life, 2013, etc.) sketches the lives of 29 extraordinary women. Being difficult, Karbo reveals, might not make life easier, but it can make it more fulfilling-whatever that means for you. by Karen Karbo illustrated by Kimberly Glyder RELEASE DATE: Feb. Karbo distills these lessons with wit and humor, examining the universal themes that connect us to each of these mesmerizing personalities today: success and style, love and authenticity, daring and courage. Best-selling author Karen Karbo spotlights the spirited rule breakers who charted their way with little regard for expectations: Amelia Earhart, Helen Gurley Brown, Edie Sedgwick, Hillary Clinton, Amy Poehler. Their lives-imperfect, elegant, messy, glorious-provide inspiration and instruction for the new age of feminism we have entered. Smart, sassy, and unapologetically feminine, In Praise of Difficult Women is an ode to the bold and charismatic women of modern history. Bestselling author Karen Karbo spotlights the spirited rule breakers who charted their way with little regard for expectations: Amelia Earhart, Helen Gurley Brown, Edie Sedgwick, Hillary Clinton, Amy Poehler, and Shonda Rhimes, among others. Smart, sassy, and unapologetically feminine, In Praise of Difficult Women is an ode to the bold and charismatic women of modern history. From Frida Kahlo and Elizabeth Taylor to Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and Lena Dunham, this witty narrative explores what we can learn from the imperfect and extraordinary legacies of twenty-nine iconic women who forged their own unique paths in the world. Days of Love is also a great source of LGBT trivia and stories that have all-too-often been written out of history. Many of the contemporary couples share their stories on how they met and fell in love, as well as photos from when they married or of the families they have started together. Packed full of beautiful photos and illustrations it lovingly features the personal stories of 700 LGBT couples from the dawn of history to the present day. Days of Love, created and Edited by Elisa Rolle, makes inspiring reading and lays to rest the myth that LGBT couples are not capable of sustaining life-long relationships. 'DAYS OF LOVE' CELEBRATES LGBT HISTORY ONE LOVE STORY AT A TIME A book chronicling 2,000 years of same-sex love stories, from Alexander the Great to the latest Literary Award winner. Volume 2 is considering those couples where at least 1 partner was born after 1900. |