![]() ![]() In 1898 she started her literary career by publishing Elizabeth and Her German Garden, a semi-autobiographical novel about a rural idyll published anonymously and, as it turned out to be highly successful, reprinted 21 times within the first year. The children's tutors at Nassenheide included E. The couple had five children, four daughters and a son. They married in London but lived in Berlin and eventually moved to the countryside where, in Nassenheide, Pomerania, the von Arnims had their family estate. She had met von Arnim during an Italian tour with her father. Elizabeth, Countess Russell, was a British novelist and, through marriage, a member of the German nobility, known as Mary Annette Gräfin von Arnim.īorn Mary Annette Beauchamp in Sydney, Australia, she was raised in England and in 1891 married Count Henning August von Arnim, a Prussian aristocrat, and the great-great-great-grandson of King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia. ![]()
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Remember those shelves and shelves of Disney classics you used to have on VHS – the spines of their spongy plastic cases promising adventures with foxes and cats, lions and bears, princesses and puppets? They’re all on Disney+. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs turns 85! Plus, Lilo & Stitch celebrates its 20th anniversary, and Bambi turns 80! All Disney Animated Theatrical Movies Ranked by Tomatometer ![]() ![]() A wicked demon returns, stronger than ever and determined to spread chaos. The Grand Prince is in a rage, choosing allies that will lead him on a path to war and ruin. Vasya finds herself alone, beset on all sides. Its people are searching for answers-and for someone to blame. Her gifts and her courage have drawn the attention of Morozko, the winter-king, but it is too soon to know if this connection will prove a blessing or a curse. Reviewers called Katherine Arden’s novels The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower “lyrical,” “emotionally stirring,” and “utterly bewitching.” The Winternight Trilogy introduced an unforgettable heroine, Vasilisa Petrovna, a girl determined to forge her own path in a world that would rather lock her away. Title: The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Ardenįollowing their adventures in The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower, Vasya and Morozko return in this stunning conclusion to the bestselling Winternight Trilogy, battling enemies mortal and magical to save both Russias, the seen and the unseen. ![]() ![]() The two women meet when Jen leases the cottage attached to the vicarage and suddenly Alice feels that her position is under threat. “ What a mercy it was that Alice was only his sister, and not his wife for so at least, though he had to listen to her during the day, he hadn’t got to during the night.” ![]() ![]() James was the vicar in a country village and Alice was sovereign over their home, keeping a tight rein over anything to do with her brother and thus keeping her position secure. Jen’s father dominated her and Alice had absolute control over her younger brother, James’ life. With a small inheritance from her mother she plans to live frugally and pursue her own interests.įather by Elizabeth Von Arnim was published in 1931 at a time when there was a shortage of eligible men and many women who remained single were left dependent upon their relatives.įather explores the difficulties this presented in the lives of two very different women, Jen and Alice, whose circumstances brought them into contact with each other. While her father and his new wife are on their honeymoon, she leases a cottage in the country and moves in. Jen seizes the opportunity to leave home and live a life of her own. Twelve years later, after a life of dutiful drudgery to her aloof and unapproachable parent, her father announces his marriage to a woman more than ten years younger than his daughter. Jennifer Dodge made a promise to her dying mother that she wouldn’t leave home but would stay and take care of her father. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lazlo dreams of someday crossing the massive desert that supposedly separates Zosma from the city of Weep, leaving his life behind. ![]() Specifically, since he was 5 years old, he has been enraptured with the mythical city of Weep: a place of unimaginable happiness and opportunity. Growing up an orphan, his dreams and imagination have been his only safe haven, and ones he feeds and nourishes from the myths and fairytale section of the Great Library of Zosma he now works for. Summary: Lazlo Strange loves books and stories. South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Young Adult 2020.Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction 2017.Topics/Themes: Personal Identity, The Power of Stories, Imagination, and Dreams Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (March 28, 2017) ![]() Title: Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer series #1) ![]() ![]() She writes fast-paced books that go hard against traditional standards. She writes alpha-hole males and the alpha women who knock them on their arse, hard. She is an admitted coffee addict who drinks magical potions of caffeine and turns them into magical worlds. Listening order for those who are following the storyline and want the full experience.Īmelia Hutchins is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author of the Monsters, The Fae Chronicles, and Nine Realm series. This is the third book in the award winning Playing with Monsters series. Heaven has fallen, Hell has risen and the walls that once protected man from monsters are down.įoes become friends, enemies become lovers, and this world is thrown into chaos unlike anything it's ever seen before. I'm more, darker, deadlier, and I'm pissed. Make those who hurt me wish the Gods had never created them?Īre you ready to play? I'm coming back. Come back as something the world hasn't seen since the dawn of mankind? ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve been living with the dream of this book and the mysteries of these places for a really long time. ![]() I’m always the kid who is going to be finding out if there is a cemetery or an abandoned amusement park that I can go visit as opposed to the beach, so it wasn’t too much of a stretch to get me to the world of Ninth House. How do you get into the right mindset to sit down and write such dark material? In Ninth House, there are gruesome depictions of violence, its aftermath and dead bodies. The more I peeled back the layers, the more I discovered, and so it wasn’t really a difficulty so much as it was a different kind of exploration than what I had done in writing secondary world fantasy. ![]() It has this extraordinary history full of strange stories and mysteries. However, I was very lucky, because as it turns out New Haven is a city that rewards the people who get to know it. There were certainly inconveniences of distance and understanding the map of New Haven that came into play. It is a challenge to write in the real world once you’ve had the advantage of being able to create your own world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors-until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.Įver the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. “ Remarkably Bright Creatures is a beautiful examination of how loneliness can be transformed, cracked open, with the slightest touch from another living thing.” - Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Hereįor fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopusĪfter Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. 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