![]() ![]() Silvera: Yelllowjackets is my new obsession. They write a little older than YA, but I love One Last Stop, obviously Red Royal and Blue, and their YA coming out next year. They're a really awesome queer songwriter and they're behind a lot of big pop hits.Īlbertalli: I'm the shameless Casey McQuiston fan. For a minute you're not quite sure how it's gonna play out and I feel like more than anything for this book that was the dynamic we were going for. ![]() ![]() Jim and Pam are the OTP and I absolutely would like to hate Karen very much, but then you fall in love with her a little bit even though you're still rooting for Jim and Pam. I love watching story unfold on The Office and I was really excited to capture a magic that reflected that with Arthur and Ben.īecky Albertalli: Jim and Pam, but specifically Jim, Pam and the subplot with Karen. Rom-coms that inspired Here's to UsĪdam Silvera: Jim and Pam's love story. We spoke to the Here's To Us authors about the stories they love and the ones that inspire them. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Meanwhile, attorney Ellie Hathaway has just won the biggest case of her life. After being treated at the hospital, Katie is arrested for murder. When Katie, the teenage daughter of the farmer, is found to be suffering from the aftereffects of birth, the detective suspects murder. At first, it seems to be an accidental death, but the detective quickly finds inconsistencies in the statements from the family living on the farm. ![]() A baby boy is found dead in the barn of an Amish dairy farm. It was adapted into a 2004 Lifetime television movie starring Mariska Hargitay as Ellie and Alison Pill as Katie. Serving as an in-depth exploration of the Amish culture and its interaction with the American justice system, and exploring themes of devotion, religious conflict, and motherhood, Plain Truth received mixed, but overall positive, reviews from critics, including being named Book of the Week from People magazine. The bail conditions require Ellie to remain on the farm with Katie for the duration of the trial, forcing Ellie to return to the Amish society that she left behind long ago. ![]() As Katie’s trial is set, her distant relative Ellie Hathaway steps in as her defense attorney. It is about an eighteen-year-old Amish girl, Katie Fisher, who is charged with the murder of her newborn son. American author Jodi Picoult’s novel Plain Truth (2001) takes place in the Amish community. ![]() ![]() ![]() I smiled a little goofily and leaned back against the wall, my body all pliant just thinking about him. ‘Remind me to be a nice guy more often if this is the benefit.’ ‘Yes, but tonight I’ll do anything you want.’ So obviously he doesn’t want to talk about it with us.’ ‘You know, it might be good if you swing by the house and pick up Cole.’ Cam and I will just hang out for a bit, then.’ ‘Hey, yourself.’ His low, warm voice soothed me. ‘I have to take this.’ I ducked out of the living room and wandered toward the empty kitchen as I answered, ‘Hey, baby.’ ![]() ‘Just let him be.’īefore Jo could reply, my cell rang and seeing Nate’s face on my screen lightened my mood. ![]() ‘What do you think?’ And at that he stormed out of the room, ignoring Jo’s shouts to him to apologize for his rudeness. He lifted his head and his green eyes blazed into mine angrily. Without looking at me he muttered, ‘She had to leave.’ I shared a look with his sister before plucking up the courage to ask, ‘What happened to the girl? The redhead.’Ĭole jerked as though I’d shot him. ![]() He grunted at her and moved toward a box. Twenty minutes later, Cole strode in, a dark scowl marring his handsome face. We shook our heads at her and continued to unpack. Now I finally have something to torture him with.’ ‘Why? He’s always taking the piss out of me. And by the looks of things, I’d expect a girl to be coming around the apartment from now on, if I were you.’ ‘He’s flirting his ass off with a pretty redhead. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vasya listens as “swirling colors trill…like an orchestra tuning up.” Rosenstock explains the mixing of Vasya’s senses-synesthesia, in contemporary terms-through the shapes he paints: “Crunching crimson squares,” “hispering charcoal lines” and “a powerful navy rectangle that vibrated deeply like the lowest cello strings.” Using acrylic paint and paper collage, Grandpré emphasizes the blending of two arts by showing Vasya’s paintbrush-holding arms aloft as if he were conducting and by letting Vasya’s colors waft upward from his palette, making curlicues in the air, with music staffs and notes interwoven. “Whisper” is set in a faux handwriting type “HISS” is also set in a different type from the primary text. As Vasya mixes one hue with another, he hears the colors making sounds. Then his aunt gives him a paint box, and everything changes. This impressive biography of Vasily Kandinsky highlights the unusual connection between his art and the music that inspired it.Īs a young boy in Russia, Vasily-nicknamed Vasya-glumly studies “bookfuls of math, science, and history.” His heavy eyelids droop he sits “stiff and straight” while adults drone on. ![]() ![]() 'I'm lost, I don't know who I am, I try to remember who I was once but I find only disguises, masks, projections, the confused images of a woman I can't recognize. ![]()
![]() She speaks at juvenile facilities, junior high schools, halfway houses, and prisons, encouraging her audiences to dream big, develop skills, and to not "waste time. ![]() In addition to her writing career, Clark is a motivational speaker. Davis's upcoming book series "The Pink Panther Clique". So who will be the last man-or woman-standing The reigning O.G. She has gone on to publish a total of 11 novels, and has described her genre as Thug Love fiction, a subgenre of urban fiction. While Clark's early novels were written and published while Clark was in prison, upon her release she launched a publishing company, Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Company LLC. She wrote her first novel by hand on a yellow legal pad, a practice that she has continued to this day. She began her writing career while serving time in prison, and her novels have been listed on the New York Times and Essence best-sellers lists.Ĭlark took a creative writing course while serving a 10-year prison sentence for money laundering, wire fraud, and mail fraud. ![]() Wahida Clark is an African-American author known for her popular Thug series novels. ![]() Thugs and The Women Who Love Them, Payback With Ya Life, The Golden Hustla ![]() ![]() ![]() Looking through the book again, there is zero indication of either dog's gender, which I kind of like. One day, my three-year-old wandered in during the one-year-old's story time and pointed out that the daddy doggy was playing with the baby doggy. The point is, the book has grown on me, and I'm kind of fond of it.Īn aside: During the first few dozen times I read this, I unconsciously assumed the big dog was a mother, and I semi-conciously chose to view the little dog as a boy (since I was reading the book to a boy). Similarly, my one-year-old will now bring the book to me, asking me, in his nonverbal way, to read it. ![]() I no longer try for a tune and I know a cadence that flows. Likewise, my one-year-old would at first shake his head "no" when he saw me reach for this particular book (to be fair, he shakes his head "no" at everything, including food or toys that he is, at that very moment, accepting from me). The first couple times I tried to read this, it felt awkward, because I tried to sing it without any idea for a tune or a rhythm. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this second installment of the trilogy, the hound returns to the woods where she used to live with the bear. ![]() Eventually, with the help from a Prince called George, the hound and Princess returned to their rightful forms. Gharn had transformed the hound into a human Princess and the human Princess, Marit, into a hound. In the first book of this trilogy (The Princess and the Hound) an evil wizard named Dr. He even calls himself "bear" and does not wonder about the idle foolishness of humans anymore. King Richon has been trapped in bear form for centuries and has gotten used to this life as a bear, with nobody but a a hound to keep him company. King Richon, who had been transformed into a bear as punishment for his tyrannical rule, is sent back in time with his companion, a hound, to build peace between humans and animals and in the process defeats a "half-cat, half-man" creature that has plans to destroy animal magic throughout the lands. ![]() ![]() ![]() Garwood lives in Leawood, KS and is currently working on her next novel. Her bestselling novel FOR THE ROSES was adapted for the HALLMARK HALL OF FAME television movie ROSE HILL. Today, her name appears regularly on the bestseller lists of every major publication in the country, and her books are translated into dozens of languages around the world. Since then, she has branched into other genres including contemporary romantic suspense. Her first novel, GENTLE WARRIOR, was published by Pocket Books in 1985. After the publications of two young-adult books, she turned her talents to historical fiction. She began her writing career when the youngest of her three children entered school. Early in life, I learned that self expression had to be forceful, imaginative, and quick," says Ms. Add in the fact that I was the sixth of seven children. "The Irish are great storytellers who relish getting all of the details and nuances of every situation. Garwood attributes much of her success to growing up in a large family of Irish heritage. With more than 35 million books in print and 26 NEW YORK TIMES bestsellers, Julie Garwood has earned a position among America's favorite fiction writers.īorn and raised in Kansas City, MO, Ms. ![]() ![]()
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