![]() ![]() I became obsessed with this smitten kitchen salad and drank a lot of sparkling wine and a great deal of gin. ![]() I read wonderful books and played Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild incessantly. I watched a kitten turn into a small cat with more personality than I thought could fit in such a compact fluffy package. I went through a lot of different versions through the years it took to write but this is the definitive one. The official playlist for The Starless Sea can be found with explanations for each song choice over here via Largehearted Boy. Paul Semel interviewed me recently about The Starless Sea and also Vesper. It has great story structure and also slaughtering Mongols is very therapeutic.) (I have been playing a lot of Ghost of Tsushima lately. There’s a list of some of my favorite story-heavy video games over on Penguin UK. ![]() ![]() (Personalized ones will take awhile but they usually have signed copies in stock.) You can still order signed and personalized books from The Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Massachusetts. You can get The Starless Sea in hardcover or paperback from & help support indie bookstores, or even better: order directly from your local indie or a far-flung indie, many independent bookstores will ship & stores that I went to on tour back when I still wore shoes and left my house may still have signed copies. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In Tarantino-Inspired ‘Agent Elvis,’ the King Battles the Manson Family, Drug Dealers - and Robert Goulet In Norway, every child knows about the Kon-Tiki, the book was huge, and the film shot on board won an Academy Award.” ![]() “And we always always wanted to make a film of the Kon-Tiki, ever since we were making films. “Well, we grew up in a village not far from Thor Heyerdahl’s home, so for us it was a local story as well as a national one,” explains Rønning. They too embarked on a hugely ambitious project that had no guarantee of success or even completion, and encountered myriad unforeseen problems along the way – there’s no doubt the film had to be something of a labor of love for them both. And it’s a temptation we’re going to give in to when we met the co-directors during the Göteborg International Film Festival recently, they had the air of men who had finally come in to port after a long stormy voyage. There’s a great temptation to draw parallels between directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg’s epic journey in making “ Kon-Tiki” ( reviewed here) and the expedition it chronicles. ![]() ![]() ![]() « previous 1 2 next » sort by « previous 1 2 next » Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. ![]() shelved 38,690 times Showing 30 distinct works.You can learn more about Jen Bryant on her website. Books by Jen Bryant (Author of The Right Word) Books by Jen Bryant Jen Bryant Average rating 4.00 Sibert International Book Medal for The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus, the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award, and the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award for A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, and the Schneider Family Book Award for Six Dots: A Story of. When she’s not writing or taming the piles on her desk, Jen enjoys visiting museums, swimming, cycling, listening to music, and cheering wildly for the Phillies. Bryant has won several awards for her work, including the Robert F. ![]() She lives with her family in Chester County, PA. She has taught writing and children’s literature at West Chester University and Bryn Mawr College and gives school and public lectures throughout the year. Jen has a BA from Gettysburg College, an MA from Arcadia University, and an Honorary Doctorate from Gettysburg College. ![]() Jen’s poems appear frequently in anthologies for young readers and adults. Other titles include Pieces of Georgia (IRA Young Adult Choices Pick) The Trial (1935 Lindbergh kidnapping trial, a Borders New Voices Pick) Kaleidoscope Eyes (a 1960’s–era novel, a Junior Library Guild Selection) The Fortune of Carmen Navarro (Paterson Prize for Young People) Georgia’s Bones, celebrating the life of artist Georgia O’Keeffe and Music for the End of Time, based on a true WWII story. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not at all what he was expecting, but somehow comforting and welcome: “In fact, it’s just like he belongs here.” Trouble soon appears, though, when it becomes clear that town resident Aubrey, who everyone thought had run away, was actually murdered. ![]() An outsider himself, he is completely surprised when he winds up in a community full of outsiders, which kind of makes him one of the crowd. Psychic Manfred Bernardo has moved here for a variety of reasons, and isolation is just one of them. There are just a few houses and a few businesses at the crossroads in Midnight, and everyone seems to socialize at the Gas N Go, Home Cookin or Midnight Pawn. ![]() An online psychic settles in Midnight, Texas, an unusual small town where all the residents have shadowy pasts and a lingering mystery brings unwanted attention. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tearing out the middle pages to read at home, for prospective Hovering outside the bookshops, and when the bookseller was inside, In wagons when the carter smiled, in scuffling with apprentice boys, in Adventure was in gazing into pawnbrokers' windows, in riding Offering it to an old gentleman who patted her head and gave her Adventure was in picking up a posy dropped by a lady and The novel has been characterized as the last and mostįamous imitation of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847). Orson Welles's radio adaptation from 1938 also paved way for Du Maurier is best known for Rebecca (1938), filmed by Alfred Hitchcock Playwright, who published romantic suspense novels, mostly set on theĬoast of Cornwall. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Zĭaphne du Maurier (1907-1989) - married name Lady Daphne Browning ![]() |