![]() Insanely jealous over Christine’s budding romance with the Compte, the Phantom abducts her and takes her to his underground lair, where the singing lessons continue. He visits her in her dressing room to give her singing lessons, all the while remaining hidden from view. Convinced the Christine from his past has been returned to him, he sets out for her to have the lead female role. Despite his attentions, Christine becomes obsessed with the Daaé letters and her namesake’s mysterious “Angel of Music”-a masked man who lived beneath the Paris Opera House.Seemingly immortal and frozen in time, the Phantom is condemned to life below the opera house and in the shadows.until Christine Delacroix auditions for a minor role in Faust. ![]() Here she meets the handsome Compte Rezso Esterhazy, who immediately sets out to court her. ![]() ![]() Sexual desire and soul-searing need fuel this contemporary erotic sequel that relocates the original character from Gaston Leroux’s classic novel The Phantom of the Opera to present-day Paris.While attending an auction of music memorabilia, young soprano Christine Delacroix bids on some letters written by another young soprano, Christine Daaé, who lived during the 19th century. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Paxton is also finding ways to influence a new generation through such beloved children's songs as "My Dog's Bigger Than Your Dog," "Going to the Zoo," and "The Marvelous Toy." Under his children's label, Pax Records, he has released several acclaimed albums, including Suzy Is a Rocker, winner of the prestigious Parents' Choice Gold Medal. Paxton's songs, inspired by everything from family love to homelessness and recorded by such diverse stars as Willie Nelson and Placido Domingo, have stirred the emotions of three decades of audiences. ![]() No one told them to, or directed them-they just were. Philip Elwood of the San Francisco Examiner noted, "What seemed like the entire audience was singing along. He has created six songbooks, thirty-two albums, and countless memorable concerts. He hosted the acclaimed BBC Radio series "Tom Paxton's America" and was chosen as honorary chairman of the board of the World Folk Music Association. His classic songs, including "Ramblin' Boy," "The Last Thing on My Mind," and "Bottle of Wine," have won him the admiration of fans all over the world. Tom Paxton has been an integral part of the folk music community since the Greenwich Village scene of the early sixties. Tom Paxton, author of The Story of the Tooth Fairy and The Story of Santa Claus, lives in Alexandria, Virginia. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the introduction to this edition of "Lord Jim", Nicholas Monsarrat echoes the general opinion that it is the finest of Conrad's works, but that there are several contenders for that rank, such as "Heart of Darkness." Like most of his novels and tales, "Lord Jim" has as its background the sea and maritime places, yet they are not what are commonly called "sea stories." Rather, they are studies of character as it unfolds in a background which happens to be the sea because it was the physical milieu that Conrad knew most intimately. A Pole by birth, a seaman by profession, Conrad astonished the British and American critics and the reading public with the beauty of his style - a style that was the perfect vehicle for the keenness of his psychological perception, the depth of his human sympathy, and the fascination of his subject matter. ![]() It is the marvel of those who have read about Joseph Conrad, or who have enjoyed and admired his novels and stories - all written in English - that he first learned the language around the age of twenty-one. Lord Jim Joseph Conrad Franklin Library 1977. 9.25", 407 pages, publisher's preface, introduction, illustrations in black and white and color, unattached and unmarked upon Easton Press bookplate For over three decades, Easton Press have been serving the needs of collectors to acquire luxurious volumes. Black leather over boards with gilt decoration on front and back and design and lettering on spine. With an introduction by Nicholas Monsarrat ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tipping the Velvet is a plot-driven lesbian coming-of-age story with graphic sexual content (described in one of the reviews of the novel as "the yummy bits"), including the infamous strap-on leather dildo. Eight months (and ten rejection letters) later, she succeeded. Waters began to seek out a publisher for her debut novel. ![]() She began to write her own historical lesbian novel, using the research she had done on her thesis, including spending hours reading up on 19 th century pornography and Victorian slang and vulgarities.Įighteen months after beginning Tipping the Velvet, she was finished. Waters was working on her PhD thesis on historical lesbian fiction when her annoyance piqued at the failure of authours to exploit the genre's potential. She described it herself as a lesbo-Victorian romp, and it would go on to become a favourite of modern lesbian fiction. Published in 1998 by Virago Publishing in the UK and in 1999 by Riverhead Publishing in the US, Tipping the Velvet was Sarah Waters’s debut novel. "Tipping the velvet" was Victorian-era slang for cunnilingus, and once you know that, you understand the basic theme of the book. ![]() ![]() Harry’s family figures large in their story, mostly because of his extremely close relationship with his mother, the widow of a poor rabbi. Harry’s warm Jewish mother embraced Bess as a daughter. Bess’s rigid Roman Catholic mother rejected them outright. ![]() Additionally, in later life, the Houdinis were contemporaries and acquaintances of a number of celebrities who make appearances in the book, including Jack and Charmain London, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Lady Jean Doyle.Įven beyond their different religious backgrounds, the couple’s families could not have been more dissimilar. Thus begins the story of the Houdinis’ journey-told in chapters that hopscotch between the 1890s to 1944-from poverty and obscurity on the entertainment road in America and Europe, to celebrity, high living, and debt in their New York and Hollywood homes. After a quick introduction to Bess Rahner, the German Catholic vaudeville singer, and Harry Houdini, the Hungarian Jewish vaudeville magician, the book tells quickly of their whirlwind engagement and marriage. Houdini is an engaging addition to the tradition of books that seek to put flesh onto historical, but often obscure, women attached to famous men. By Caroline LeBlanc (poet, Army veteran-and-wife) ![]() ![]() ![]() Baker and Gail Carson Levine to this magical fantasy series-just in time for Book 2: Ghost of a Chance. And Darling is about to have an adventure that calls for a disguise or two.or a hundred.The paperback is sure to draw more fans of Liesl Shurtliff, Jessica Day George, E. ![]() She transforms into the castle's Head Scrubber! It turns out that each dress can disguise her as someone else. When she tries on Dress Number Eleven, something unbelievable happens. Certainly not the princess! Dresses like those need a good trying-on and Darling Dimple, the newest servant in the pressing room, is just the girl to do it. Inside an enchanted castle, there's a closet-a closet with one hundred dresses that nobody ever wears. Overview of If the Magic Fits (100 Dresses) Book ![]() ![]() Tom's search for the answer takes him across countries, continents, and timelines in a quest to figure out, finally, who he really is and what his future-our future-is supposed to be.Īll Our Wrong Todays is about the versions of ourselves that we shed and grow into over time. Does he fix the flow of history, bringing his utopian universe back into existence, or does he try to forge a new life in our messy, unpredictable reality? In a time-travel mishap, Tom finds himself stranded in our 2016, what we think of as the real world.įor Tom, our normal reality seems like a dystopian wasteland.īut when he discovers wonderfully unexpected versions of his family, his career, and-maybe, just maybe-his soul mate, Tom has a decision to make. Utterly blindsided by an accident of fate, Tom makes a rash decision that drastically changes not only his own life but the very fabric of the universe itself. ![]() ![]() In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed.because it wasn't necessary.Įxcept Tom just can't seem to find his place in this dazzling, idealistic world, and that's before his life gets turned upside down. You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. ![]() ![]() ![]() I actually went into business administration. MW: As I became older, I didn’t aim to become an author or an illustrator. PC: Why did you become a children’s book author? But, as I got older, I tried to make my own versions of these stories and draw my own pictures. One of my favourite things was to have my parents read me a story and have that family time. Mélanie Watt: As a child, I was a visual kid so I was really interested in picture books. ParentsCanada: As a child, how did you get interested in reading? ![]() Mélanie speaks to ParentsCanada about the lessons kids can learn from her books and how she became a children’s book author and illustrator. Since its creation in 2004, the foundation has donated $13 million and one million books to schools in need. Recently, Mélanie partnered with the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation, a program that contributes to needy school libraries in Canada. She created her first book 12 years ago, while she was still a design student, and since then, she has written and drawn over 16 children’s books, including the Scaredy Squirrel series. Award-winning author and illustrator Mélanie Watt believes books can empower kids. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In all the books below – whether they’re set in the past or in an entirely invented world – the writers have mastered that particular alchemy that allows a world to leap off the page and into the imaginations of readers. ![]() For the setting of a book to be truly compelling, I think it has to belong at least in part to the imagination – to the place the author has recreated from memories or built up from dreams. But I was careful not to ground anything I was creating too closely in reality. I read fairy tales and medieval encyclopaedias and history books, and then filled half a notebook writing the history of Zehaira and how the city was constructed. A lot went into creating the world of The Kingdom Over the Sea. In The Kingdom Over the Sea we travel first to the city of Zehaira, then to a settlement of sorcerers in a mountain valley, and later to the frozen north of the Russlands. Most readers I’ve met agree that a map at the beginning of a book is the first sign of a good story – there is nothing better than to know, right at the start, that you’re about to be taken on an adventure. There’s something magical in that moment when the world falls away around you, until you’re walking unfamiliar paths and seeing unfamiliar sights. I’ve always loved books that transport their reader to another world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The truth behind Kitty's ascent to stardom from her beginnings in the segregated South threatens to expose a web of unexpected family ties, debts owed, and debatable crimes that could, with one pull, unravel the all-American fabric of the St. But what she discovers in one of Kitty’s journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could-and between a cheating fiancé and the fallout from a controversial social media post, there are plenty. John would rather focus on sorting out Kitty’s affairs than deal with the press. Lots of questions.Ī celebrity in her own right, Elise St. ![]() John sisters, three young, wealthy Black women, it prompts questions. When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St. ![]() When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon o A multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of modern-day showbiz. Enter for a chance to win a hardcover of DID YOU HEAR ABOUT KITTY KARR? by Crystal Smith Paul.Ī multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of modern-day showbiz. ![]() |