![]() ![]() ![]() I have authored, co-authored, edited, or ghostwritten nearly 50 books. My articles on the art of ghostwriting have been published in the bible of the publishing industry, Publishers Weekly. ![]() In and around the greater New York City area (the Mecca of American publishing) I have held the position of Head Writer, General Manager, Development Consultant, and Senior Writer at various publishing concerns, overseeing and editing books by other writers and acting as mentor and teacher to talents young and old. In the literary world, I have worked invisibly behind the scenes for years, ghostwriting numerous books in a wide variety of genres. "The Fourth House" had previously been named a finalist for the prestigious James Jones Award, annually given to the best first novel by an American author. My debut novel, the family drama, "The Fourth House," was a Featured Selection of the Book of the Month Club©, the Doubleday Book Club©, and the Literary Guild©, divisions of Random House/Doubleday Entertainment, where it sold out its first two printings. ![]()
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![]() You will just have to see for yourself, dear reader. Raw, mysterious, delicate, beautiful, revolting, engrossing…many adjectives could describe House of Hollow and yet, none would do it enough justice. We already knew that Krystal Sutherland is an artist when it comes to mixing reality and fantasy to a perfect, whimsical equilibrium, but this time, she has hands down outdone herself. Dark, surreal, and visceral, House of Hollow will not leave anyone who reads it indifferent. ![]() And then there are the others who go missing because they fall through a gap somewhere and can’t claw their way back.”įrom the fascinating mind of Krystal Sutherland-author of Our Chemical Hearts and A Semi-Definite List of Worst Nightmares-comes a brand-new novel that will creep on into your heart like the weeds in a garden. ![]() “Some people go missing because they want to some go missing because they’re taken. ![]() ![]() Prince Richard spent the first two years of his life in Australia before the family moved back to their home at Barnwell Manor in Northamptonshire, with its 2,500 acres of farmland. Both Prince Henry and Princess Alice set a high standard of commitment to the Royal Family.ĭuring the war, Henry served in the British Army and then became governor-general of Australia from 1945 until 1947, while Alice was head of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). ![]() Richard's mother, Princess Alice, was the daughter of the Duke of Buccleuch, Scotland's largest landowner.ĭuty ran in the family. Now 78, Prince Richard was born on August 26, 1944, less than a year before the end of the Second World War.Ī first cousin of the late Queen, hi s father, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, was a younger brother of King Edward VIII and King George VI. Then, two years later, he inherited the family dukedom on the death of his father in 1974.Īs a full-time working royal, he has represented both the Queen and now King Charles at hundreds of engagements both at home and overseas and is associated with 150 charities and organisations. ![]() ![]() ![]() We know that Picasso painted quickly and intensely, albeit with difficulty. This curious calculation is likely an exaggeration. In the rich mythology surrounding this illustrious collaboration, Gertrude noted that she posed for eighty or ninety sittings. He shook his head, said no, and carried on. So impressed with the first sketch, they urged Picasso to leave the image as it was. On the day Picasso began the portrait, Gertrude's brother Leo appeared at the studio with several family members. During intervals of calm, the beautiful Fernande Olivier (Picasso's muse of the moment) read aloud the poems of Jean de La Fontaine. The studio was lively-visitors came and went while Gertrude chatted away with her newfound friend. She wore a brown corduroy suit and sat in a large broken armchair. Over a period of three months, in the dead of winter, he stoked his cast-iron stove and welcomed her into his humble atelier. Picasso was taken by Gertrude and asked to do her portrait even though he was not working from observation at the time. The young Picasso had just met Stein, the expatriate American collector, who had recently discovered the artist's new paintings at a gallery in Paris. This evocative description introduces us to Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, his cold, spartan studio in Montmartre, and one of the most celebrated portraits of early modernism. Picasso sat very tight in his chair and very close to his canvas and on a very small palette, which was of uniform brown-grey colour, mixed some more brown grey and the painting began. ![]() ![]() ![]() If she could have fled she would be able to tell all she knew about British Intelligence agents and their Double Cross operation, and maybe Germans would understand that they had been deceived all the time. ![]() The story ends with depiction of the night Catherina tries to escape from Britain. ![]() Then she sends the content of those papers through other spies to Germany, and so German Spy agencies are being deceived without having the least idea of it. The basic idea of it is that after uncovering the German spy Catherina Blake, instead of capturing and imprisoning her, the British Intelligence provides her with false documents which she accepts as information she seeks. ![]() So he devises and carries out his plan of Double Cross. The German spy Catherina Blake, whose real name is Anna Steiner, actually is close to learning the secret, but some little failures help Alfred Vicary to reveal her true identity. He is assigned the job of protecting Operation Mulberry in the lead up to the invasion of Normandy in 1944. Set during World War II, the book follows Alfred Vicary, a historian and friend of Winston Churchill, who joins the British intelligence service. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps that is why some Estonians made their own claim for the Center of Europe. It can also put a place quite literally on the map. Being at the Center of Europe conveys a certain amount of prestige that is otherwise lacking in such places as Lithuania and Belarus. They do not discriminate, any nation that was once behind the Iron Curtain, still is in many people’s mind. Such stereotypes are harsh and unforgiving. My suspicion is that both designation and defense of the claims are a sign of deep rooted insecurities.Īll the claims are made by nations located in what is classified from a geopolitical standpoint as Eastern Europe, which connotes a certain level of authoritarian government, endemic corruption, and economic backwardness. It also says a great deal about the countries and empires that made these claims. The designation is both trivial and prestigious. Those nations and empires that have claimed the Center of Europe is located on their territory, all wanted to be at the center of Europe in some way, shape or form. Some of this makes sense and none of it makes sense. ![]() When it comes to the Center of Europe national self-interest trumps the scientific in all but one case and that was in Lithuania by way of France. A Pole put it in Poland, a couple of Belarusians in Belarus, Hungarians in Hungary, Austro-Hungarians in Austria-Hungary not once, but twice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you:Īvailable in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. Yasmina Khadra is the pen-name of Mohammed Moulessehoul, a former officer in the Algerian army who retired to France to pursue an award-winning literary career.įind out everything you need to know about The Swallows of Kabul in a fraction of the time! As they are beset by illness, oppression, loss and terror, their lives gradually become intertwined, and a glimmer of hope filters through the darkness even as despair threatens to consume them all. ![]() This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra, a haunting tale of two couples living under the yoke of the Taliban in Kabul. Unlock the more straightforward side of The Swallows of Kabul with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! ![]() ![]() ![]() Writer Ben Queen (Disney/Pixar’s Cars 2 and Cars 3) draws inspiration from real life stories of how memory can influence how we recall our own surroundings, and artist Joe Todd-Stanton (A Mouse Called Julian) lovingly renders an unforgettable story of one dog’s grand adventure from the wooded countryside to the heart of Manhattan where he encounters new friends and discovers his true calling. Out of both necessity and survival, he learns to tap into his other senses and begins to see the world from a new perspective that is at times more rich and colorful than the world he’s always known. But when Bear suddenly loses his vision, he worries he’s lost his purpose in life-protecting Patrick! Following the misguided advice from some self-serving raccoons, Bear embarks on a transformative journey to regain his eyesight. Pixars Cars 2 and NBCs Powerless writer Ben Queen with artist Joe Todd-Stanton have an early advance solicit for their graphic novel Bear, out in August, in Booms June 2020 solicitations, while. ![]() Overview: Bear is a guide dog who would do anything for his owner Patrick – and embarks on an epic quest from the forest to the city to regain his sight so he can protect his best friend.īear is a service dog who would do anything for his owner and best friend Patrick who is blind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This masterful history is the second volume of John C. A sprawling yet page-turning narrative, the story spans the battles for Saipan and Guam, the appalling carnage of Peleliu, General MacArthur’s dramatic return to the Philippines, and the grinding jungle combat to capture the island of Leyte. Now, they had to prove they could win a war.īrilliantly researched and written, Island Infernos moves seamlessly from the highest generals to the lowest foot soldiers and in between, capturing the true essence of this horrible conflict. Yet the Army had proven they could fight. ![]() The challenges ahead were enormous: supplying a vast number of troops over thousands of miles of ocean surviving in jungles ripe with dysentery, malaria, and other tropical diseases fighting an enemy prone to ever-more desperate and dangerous assaults. Now, in Island Infernos, he explores the Army’s dogged pursuit of Japanese forces, island by island, throughout 1944, a year that would bring America ever closer to victory or defeat.Īfter some two years at war, the Army in the Pacific held ground across nearly a third of the globe, from Alaska’s Aleutians to Burma and New Guinea. McManus presented a riveting account of the US Army’s fledgling fight in the Pacific following Pearl Harbor. In Fire and Fortitude-winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History-John C. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He completed his Bachelor of Arts at Brown University with double majors in English and American literature and in history (1995). Appel and Alice Appel and raised in Scarsdale, New York, and Branford, Connecticut. Appel is the subject of the 2019 documentary film Jacob by director Jon Stahl.Īppel was born in the Bronx to Gerald B. He is the director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry and an associate professor of psychiatry and medical education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and he practices emergency psychiatry at the adjoining Mount Sinai Health System. Appel's novel The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up won the Dundee International Book Prize in 2012. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics, and euthanasia. Appel (born February 21, 1973) is an American author, poet, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic. ![]() City University of New York, Queens (MFA) ![]() |