Following the murder of his father and brothers, Ezio Auditore di Firenze is entrusted with an ancient Codex, the key to a conspiracy that goes back to the centuries - old conflict between the shadowy Templar Knights and the elite Order of Assassins. Bitter blood-feuds rage between the warring political families of Italy. The Year of Our Lord 1476 - the Renaissance: culture and art flourish alongside the bloodiest corruption and violence. 'I will seek Vengeance upon those who betrayed my family. Following the murder of his father and brothers, Ezio Auditore di Firenze is entrusted with an ancient Codex, the key to a conspiracy that goes back to the centuries.Īssassin's Creed: Renaissance is the thrilling novelisation by Oliver Bowden based on the game series. The Year of Our Lord 1476 - the Renaissance: culture and art flourish the bloodiest corruption and violence.
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While staying at her mother’s home, Elizabeth is informed there’s a codicil to her mother’s will and also finds letters from her father that he wrote to her mother almost 40 years ago. She’s a single mother raising her 17 year old son and dealing with the fall out of her marriage still. Elizabeth hates being back in her hometown and feels like a failure. “A Keeper” follows Elizabeth Keane as she returns back home to settle her deceased mother’s (Patricia) estate. Maybe if Norton actually spent time building up any of these characters I would have cared more. The plot with Elizabeth’s son came out of nowhere and just made zero sense. The author throwing Patrica’s POV in did nothing to help things. Instead we don’t really find out about it, we hear bits and pieces via other inconsequential secondary characters. I thought I was sitting down to read a solid mystery about a woman returning (Elizabeth) to her hometown in Ireland and finding out about her mother’s (Patricia) past. I don’t like to do that with NetGalley reads though, so I may have to rethink on that in the future. I maybe at one point while reading this ARC said are you serious and then started muttering to myself about just DNFing it. I tend to wait at least a day after finishing a book to post a review, but I am highly annoyed right now and just want to put this book behind me. This book will be released on August 13, 2019. Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. The rather unconventional title was explained as a Swedish concept that encourages people to face their mortality and sort through their belongings, so that others don't have to after they're gone. Now Duncan has the chance to make her own mark on pop culture as the showrunner of Peacock's The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, based on the New York Times bestselling book by Margareta Magnusson.ĭuncan had just finished overseeing postproduction on the nineteenth season of Project Runway, when Scout Productions reached out to share that - alongside Paper Kite, a production company founded by Amy Poehler ( Saturday Night Live, Parks and Recreation) - they had acquired rights to the book. It became clear to her how much of an impact an unscripted show could have on the zeitgeist. After working in casting ( Survivor, The Amazing Race), she quickly landed a job as an associate show producer on The Amazing Race. When she moved to Los Angeles, she soon realized telling stories could take many shapes. I thought I was gonna be a screenwriter - the female John Hughes." Duncan recalls, "I was writing the kids' Thanksgiving plays. She and her family actively assisted in the Underground Railroad and strongly believed in abolition. In 1862 – the year she volunteered as a nurse – Louisa May Alcott was thirty years of age. She would never marry, and, by the standards of that era, was already considered an “old maid.” Louisa spent much of her youth in Concord, Massachusetts, where she and her family associated with some of the famous “thinkers” of the early 19th Century Transcendentalist and Universalist movements. Let’s learn a little more about this remarkable writer and nurse and her role during the American Civil War. Let’s try again – Who volunteered as a nurse at a Union hospital in Washington D.C., worked hard and cheerfully, but became deathly ill and had to go home…and later wrote about her experiences in Hospital Sketches? Wait, I wasn’t finished with the question! (Don’t be so impatient, now.) Who volunteered as a nurse at a Union hospital in Washington D.C. Who wrote the classic novel Little Women? If you said “Louisa May Alcott” – you’re correct! (This article was shared from in its original format and with full permission from the author.) You might notice some similarities between this real hospital nurse and the fictional character – Mary Phinney – in Mercy Street. and volunteered as a nurse in a Union hospital. We hope you enjoy this blog about a real woman who travelled to Washington D.C. With the new PBS series Mercy Streetstarting last weekend, there is a new heightened interest in Civil War medicine and nurses. It was published in 1978 under the pen name Lisa Gregory. Camp finished her first novel, Bonds of Love while in law school. At the same time, she began reading romance novels and decided to write one of her own. After moving to North Carolina, she took a job in the trust department of a bank.Ĭamp then began law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Camp began writing down her own stories when she was 10, and often wrote when she needed to relax.Ĭamp attended the University of Texas at Austin and West Texas State University before becoming a teacher in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Writing came naturally to her - her mother had been a newspaper reporter, and her father was the business manager of the Amarillo, Texas newspaper. Camp is the youngest of three children born to Grady and Lula Mae (Irons) Camp. He received his undergraduate degree in Ancient History and Archaeology, his Masters (Hons) degree in Archaeology and his Masters (Hons) degree in Creative Writing from the University of Auckland. His publishers include Macmillan, Penguin, Pearson, Cengage, Raintree and Oxford University Press. Simpson is the author of many novels, chapter books and other stories for children. His first young adult novel, Rapture (Rapture Trilogy #1), was shortlisted for the Sir Julius Phillip W. Before embarking on his writing career, he joined the army as an officer cadet, owned a comic shop and worked in recruitment in both the UK and Australia. He is currently working towards his Doctorate in Education, focusing on teaching children's creative writing. Drunk woman pulls a pill from her sock (eww) and tells her (Mindy) to take it (ew). Tries to get another to leave - a drunk women (Lucia). Mindy is at a party she doesn't want to be at (because of Lucia). Lucia - both described as being really smart and gorgeous. Mindy - becomes hysterical and almost kills herself and her passenger because she thinks she might have hit a dog. (like how I appear to be an outlier and everyone else loved the book (4.21 average rating for the 28 friends who read the book 3.99 rating overall - and then there's me, who wanted to see if I had the ability to physically rip the book apart with my bare hands), but I mean. First of all, I received this ARC of Ex-wives of Dracula" free in exchange for a fair review. The two couples, William and his wife, Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Harry and Meghan, were barely even on speaking terms by this March, according to the authors. Relations between the two brothers’ households hit a new low after the announcement The authors say the couple grew to trust only a handful of people. “There’s just something about her I don’t trust,” a senior courtier is reported to have said, while an unnamed staffer is quoted as having referred to her as the palace’s “squeaky third wheel”. The couple were also reportedly unhappy with the way Meghan was treated by Buckingham Palace staff. One senior royal is said to have referred to Meghan as “Harry’s showgirl”, while another allegedly said: “She comes with a lot of baggage.” Courtiers were also quite open in their dislike of Meghan One of the authors has said the fact Meghan is a mixed-race American was “going to ruffle some feathers” within Buckingham Palace. According to the book, one of the main drivers behind the couple’s decision was the way they felt Meghan was treated by members of the royal family. She lives in St Mary Mead, a small English village with a local pub, a handful of shops, the vicarage as well as the Gossington Hall estate.ĩ. Miss Marple’s hobbies include gardening, knitting and, of course, gossiping.Ĩ. She has an unusual background for a sleuth, with no background in criminology or the police force.ħ. Although now a spinster, Miss Marple does hint at beaux from her past in the books.Ħ. Jane Marple is described as an attractive, thin, old lady, with a twinkle in her blue eyes.ĥ. Miss Marple features in 12 novels, and 20 short stories written by Agatha Christie.Ĥ. The first full-length novel, written and published in 1930, is called The Murder at the Vicarage.ģ. Miss Marple first appeared in six short stories, written in 1927-1928. The character was, in part, based on Agatha Christie’s own grandmother, and her grandmother’s friends.Ģ. We've chosen some of our favourite facts about Agatha Christie's character, Miss Jane Marple.ġ. The major stumbling block for everyone who has tried hasn’t been a matter of how to bring it to the screen, but how much of its almost 500 pages (not including the appendixes) they can and should include. Many of its most iconic scenes-Paul Atreides’ shield practice, his visions of a mysterious woman he feels he knows, the Reverend Mother’s test, Lady Jessica using the voice, the appearance of Baron Harkonnen-have successfully made the leap from the page multiple times now, with each variation offering its own effective mix of faithfulness to the text and artistic license.ĭune isn’t so much unfilmable as it is uncontainable. Its landscapes, its technology, its people and its fantastical creatures, from the sandworms to the guild navigator, are all primed for visual realization. There’s a great deal about Dune that is inherently cinematic, though. |