![]() "The story is a force of nature-and seemed to move through me like an incredible breath of life from someplace else." "I've been a writer of all forms of stories since I was around seventeen and the potential success of one of my TV pilots took me further from Eve's story, but what I didn't realize was that I was always amassing inspiration for what would one day become The Oldest Soul.Įverything in my world somehow always circled back to Eve." In the spring and summer of 2015, in a matter of months, she breathed life into ANIMUS, or rather, it breathed life into her. Eve first sprang into her mind-like a bucket of cold water in the face-while on a walk in 2011, she promptly went home and wrote the first 4 pages (which have remained unchanged since).īut she filed Eve's one-of-a-kind journey away in her mind when work on other projects beckoned. ![]() Tiffany has said that the story of The Oldest Soul had been "making its presence known" for several years. ![]()
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Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city’s engineers. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While the author admits there is no evidence the girls actually knew the accused murder, Emile Abadie, Antoinette’s involvement, and at times obsession, with him makes for a riveting addition to this historical novel. Woven into the story is also an account of a string of murders and a trial which occurred in the city during the same time period. Antoinette, unable to make the cut with the ballet and unwilling to work at the laundry, one of the few occupations available to her, finds it easier to associate with men of questionable morles and a lead a life of sexual promiscuity. Marie, the real life inspiration for the Degas sculpture Little Dancer of Fourteen Years, works as a model while training for the ballet. With the sudden death of their father and their mother sinking into absinthe addiction, the two oldest the Van Goethem sisters are forced to find work or face eviction from their apartment. ![]() ![]() Narrated by Cassandra Campbell, Julia Whelan, Danny CambellĪudio Listening Level: Easy – Intermediateīased on the real life story of the Van Goethem sisters, Antoinette, Marie and Charlotte, The Painted Girls is a poignant account of life in the underclass in late 19th century Paris. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After three days of battle, Lee retreated towards Virginia on the night of July 4. Casualties were high on both sides: Out of roughly 170,000 Union and Confederate soldiers, there were 23,000 Union casualties (more than one-quarter of the army’s effective forces) and 28,000 Confederates killed, wounded or missing (more than a third of Lee’s army) in the Battle of Gettysburg. Meade) in Gettysburg, some 35 miles southwest of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Lee’s Confederate Army clashed with the Army of the Potomac (under its newly appointed leader, General George G. From July 1 to July 3, 1863, the invading forces of General Robert E. ![]() ![]() ![]() Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. ![]() ![]() Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization - culminating in a stunning medical mystery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gurba likes the feel of radioactive substances on her bare hands." - The New York Times " Mean calls for a fat, fluorescent trigger warning start to finish-and I say this admiringly. ![]() Sisterhood is powerful, but being a bitch is more exhilarating. Being rude to men who deserve it is a holy mission. Being mean to boys is fun and a second-wave feminist duty. ![]() We act mean to defend our clubs and institutions. We act mean to defend ourselves from boredom and from those who would chop off our breasts. This is a confident, intoxicating, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Gurba takes on sexual violence, small towns, and race, turning what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba's coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. a powerful, vital book about damage and the ghostly afterlives of abuse." - Los Angeles Review of Books ![]() ![]() ![]() a complex and rewarding debut." ANITA SHREVE RIVETING. STRONG CHARACTERS AND A PLOT LONG ON TENSION AND SURPRISES' Time 'A strong sense of portent and unusually vivid characters distinguish this mesmerizing first novel about horrifying family secrets. Read more the night of the drowning' FRANCINE PROSE, US Weekly 'DEFT AND ASSURED. The narrative gradually and tantalizingly reveals the dark family secrets and the unsettling discoveries that lead to the truth of what actually happened. ![]() ![]() The shock of her death dramatically changes the lives of her daughter, troubled sister, and husband. In the winter of 1919, a young mother named Mathilda Neumann drowns beneath the ice of a rural Wisconsin lake. CHILLING, PRECOCIOUSLY GOOD START TO A BRIGHT NEW NOVELIST'S CAREER' New York Times ' gripping psychological thriller. Chilling' New York Times Num Pages: 288 pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() She used to help him with food, clothes and they soon became inseparable. A homeless, neglected biy, living behind her house secretly. Those journals also contained her first love, Atlas Corrigan. She used to address her entries to Ellen DeGeneres as she loved her show. Entries of how her father used to abuse her mother, how her mother used to tolerate it. ![]() Lily’s past is shown through her journal. Ryle admits he wants a relationship with her. They go back and forth with this until one day it comes to a head. Ryle wants her but she is scared for her heart. Due to an accident, Lily finds out Ryle is Allysa’s brother. She makes Lily hire her and they get on working. That’s when she meets Allysa, a rich girl obsessed with Pinterest and decorating. She buys a store to open her florist business. Lily is looking for her one love whereas Ryle isn’t and is satisfied with one-night stands.Īfter the talk, Lily is determined to follow her dreams. They both have different approaches in life. ![]() The guy, Ryle, a neurosurgeon in residency, tells her that he wants to sleep with her. They both fall into easy stranger conversation telling Naked Truths. Lily Bloom is just sitting on a rooftop in Boston when some guy comes up there thrashing patio chairs. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the Forbes skull, as the earlier Gibraltarian find is now known, had to wait until 1863 for her turn in the limelight. ![]() The first recognised Neanderthal was a different skull-top, blasted from the Feldhofer cave in Germany in 1856, just two years before Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin presented their theory of evolution by natural selection. While monarchies fell and serfs breathed the sweet air of freedom that year, it would take another decade for human origins as a science to begin its own overthrow of the old world order. Calcite mantling her skull meant that, at first, she seemed more a hunk of stone than a once warm-blooded being, and obscured her decidedly odd anatomy – massive eyes, heavy brow ridges and a low, long cranium. As the social and liberal revolutions of 1848 began convulsing Europe, quarry workers’ rough hands pulled her from the great Rock of Gibraltar. The first Neanderthal face to emerge from time’s sarcophagus was a woman’s. ![]() |