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Law's sportswriter husband suggested writing a book herself, so she did. ![]() "I had a spell of ill health in my mid-20s, and wound up reading a lot of mysteries," she said.īy the time Law got better, she "was into the not-so-good mystery authors, and beginning to complain," she said. Law said that she always planned to be a reader, not a writer, and her first love is painting, which she still does regularly. ![]() She has also taught at the middle school and high school levels, and has done some adult education. Then, after getting her doctorate, Law taught for roughly 20 years at UConn's main campus. Working on a new project in her Connecticut home often begins or ends before dawn. ![]() Law calls Dove "a story about a crime and its complicated aftermath."Įarly on, Law taught for several semesters at the University of Hartford, and at the UConn West Hartford campus. Kathryn Orzech writes mystery, suspense, and thrillers set in New England 'and other exotic locations' with women lead characters who confront heart-pounding situations, flirt with romance, and brush with the supernatural. Homeward Dove is a contemporary novel, with strong mystery elements, set in the Quiet Corner of Connecticut. KATHRYN ORZECH, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF ASYLUM: A DArk SUSpenSe SAgA Chuck Miceli's new novel is an insightful look at the wounds life inflicts on us all. Janice Law Trecker calls Homeward Dove, "a novel close to my heart has finally seen print." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A perfect title for encouraging healthy eating habits and for celebrating the harvest season. Pea pods, please.” Back matter provides further information on how a vegetable is defined (yes, a tomato really is a fruit!) and encourages readers to experiment with how to cook and eat vegetables new to them. Shout it out!” Readers will encounter vegetables both familiar and exotic while enjoying the clever language play – Sayre’s use of alliteration is particularly inspired. Instead, you’ll find yourself tapping your toes and looking for a read aloud audience as you take a trip through the stands at a farmer’s market, vividly depicted in oversize photographs set on backgrounds of alternating bold colors. Get ready to clap your hands, stomp your feet, and shout out a rousing cheer for, of all things - vegetables! The latest work by author and poet April Pulley Sayre is a rowdy and glorious tribute to vegetables of all colors, shapes, and varieties. ![]() ![]() ![]() The rest of the book follows her four sisters, ages 14-17, as they navigate high school. The novel begins with the suicide of the youngest daughter, 13-year-old Cecelia, who impales herself on a fence post after jumping out of her bedroom window. “The Virgin Suicides,” written by Jeffrey Eugenides in 1993, is one such novel, managing to keep tension through every page while constantly alluding to the tragic deaths of its main characters.Īs the title suggests, “TVS” tackles the lives (and more importantly, deaths) of the Lisbon sisters, who live in 1970s suburban Michigan. It may seem unlikely for a book like that to maintain suspense throughout 250 pages, and even more unlikely that it would be a landmark of contemporary literature. One might be put off by a novel with a plot that meanders toward an inevitable conclusion with narration coming from years after the events of the novel. ![]() ![]() When reading a mystery, one might not expect to learn the fate of every main character in the first line of the first chapter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Blue becomes enmeshed with Hannah and the Bluebloods, the novel becomes a murder mystery so intricately plotted that, after absorbing the late-chapter revelations, readers will be tempted to start again at the beginning in order to watch the tiny clues fall into place. This doesn't bode well for Blue's social life, but when the Van Meers settle in Stockton, N.C., for the entirety of Blue's senior year, she befriends sort of a group of eccentric geniuses (referred to by their classmates as the Bluebloods) and their ringleader, film studies teacher Hannah Schneider. Following the mysterious death of her butterfly-obsessed mother, Blue and her father, Gareth, embark, in another nod to Nabokov, on a tour of picturesque college towns, never staying anyplace longer than a semester. ![]() It comes as no surprise, then, that teen narrator Blue Van Meer, the daughter of an itinerant academic, has an impressive vocabulary and a knack for esoteric citation that makes Salinger's Seymour Glass look like a dunce. Pessl's stunning debut is an elaborate construction modeled after the syllabus of a college literature course 36 chapters are named after everything from Othello to Paradise Lost to The Big Sleep that culminates with a final exam. ![]() ![]() ![]() brave, dark and unforgettable.” Read the shocking conclusion of Will and Pellinore’s tortured tale. The Shocking Conclusion to The Monstrumologistīooklist calls The Monstrumologist series a “landmark of YA fiction. Perfect Ten Title, Voice of Youth Advocates ![]() Notable Children’s Books, The New York Timesīest Books for Young Adults, The Washington Postīest Books, YA books for adults, The Library JournalĢ014 Quick Picks For Reluctant Young Readers, YALSAĢ014 Children's Choice Book Award-Teen Book Of The Year Nominee Red House Children’s Book Award Winner (U.K.) Winner of the 2014 Red House Children's Book AwardĢ014 Children's Choice Book Awards Finalist for Teen Book of the YearĪ YALSA 2014 Best Fiction for Young AdultĪ YALSA 2014 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young ReadersĪ Booklist 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults The 5th Wave is one of the most honored books of the year! IT'S OFFICIAL: Chloe Grace Moretz will be starring as Cassie in The 5th Wave movie! The 5th Wave landed at Book Expo America at the Javits Center in New York City! Rick sat down with The Wall Street Journal to discuss The 5th Wave series! Click the blog link below for the interview and an exclusive excerpt from The Infinite Sea! NY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR RICK YANCEY Author of The 5th Wave, the Monstrumologist series and the Alfred Kropp adventuresĬlick here to watch the book trailer for The Infinite Sea! ![]() ![]() ![]() as the search for a cure proceeds, crisply if obviously-with Herbert's usual array of solid, intelligent characters. ![]() And, meanwhile, polymath researcher Fintan Doheny is tracking down mad-scientist O'Neill (who has a new identity). In Ireland, Libya, and England, the plague is horrifyingly successful-but it spreads: governments collapse and civil wars explode as military barriers, fire, and radioactive dusts are used to destroy the infected areas. The result: a sickness, benign in men, swiftly and invariably fatal in women. Irish-American molecular biologist John Roe O'Neill, a helpless witness to the murder of his wife and children in an IRA car bombing in Dublin, is shocked into a mode of insane genius he returns to the US and disappears into a secret laboratory thirsting for revenge, where he constructs an artificial gene-specific virus. Herbert has done some of his finest work in present-day settings-The Santaroga Barrier, Soul Catcher-but this ponderous thriller is only intermittently absorbing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Salt is used in religious ceremonies and has other cultural and traditional significance. The scarcity and universal need for salt have led nations to go to war over it and use it to raise tax revenues. ![]() Salt became an important article of trade and was transported by boat across the Mediterranean Sea, along specially built salt roads, and across the Sahara on camel caravans. Salt was also prized by the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Hittites, Egyptians, and Indians. 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Loading sea salt at an evaporation pond in Walvis Bay, Namibia halophile organisms give it a red colour. ![]() ![]() With warehouses on three continents, worldwide sales representation, and a robust digital publishing program, the Books Division connects Hopkins authors to scholars, experts, and educational and research institutions around the world. With critically acclaimed titles in history, science, higher education, consumer health, humanities, classics, and public health, the Books Division publishes 150 new books each year and maintains a backlist in excess of 3,000 titles. The division also manages membership services for more than 50 scholarly and professional associations and societies. The Journals Division publishes 85 journals in the arts and humanities, technology and medicine, higher education, history, political science, and library science. The Press is home to the largest journal publication program of any U.S.-based university press. 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