![]() ![]() ![]() Who is the other woman? And if a candidate is having an affair-should the reporter make that public? And just yesterday it got a starred review from Booklist (!) calling it “a perfect pre-election thriller.” It’s a fast-paced page-turner about a Boston reporter on the trail of a Senate candidate’s secret mistress. I’ve called it The Good Wife meets Law & Order. Hank: Well, Julia, you nailed it (as usual) when you called it The Candidate meets Basic Instinct. ![]() Julia: I know what happens in The Other Woman because I’ve already read (and loved) it, but give the rest of us a thumbnail sketch. We sat down to talk about life, writing, and her upcoming book, The Other Woman. Really, if she wasn’t so kind and funny, we’d all hate her. She glamorous, has a great husband and as a writer? She’s won the Agatha, the Anthony and the Macavity awards. She’s won 28 EMMYs (which I’ve seen on her bookshelf, and let me tell you, they make a VERY impressive sight.) She’s been a radio reporter, a political campaign staffer, a legislative aide in the United States Senate and an editorial assistant at Rolling Stone Magazine working with Hunter S. Hank’s real life is like something out of a good novel – her work for “Help Me, Hank” has resulted in new laws, people sent to prison, homes removed from foreclosure, and millions of dollars in restitution. Hank is the on-the-air investigative reporter for Boston’s WHDH TV7. Julia Spencer-Fleming: My friend Hank Phillippi Ryan is just fifty miles shy of being a Maine crime writer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “Sadly, a number of US companies continue to either actively or tacitly allow the normalisation of, or apologism for, these crimes. “These crimes are committed systemically and at a scale which may warrant a distinction of genocide,” the US senators wrote to Netflix. Concerted attacks on the Muslim Uighur minority have been catalogued by human rights groups and western governments, even as earlier this summer China’s ambassador to the UK insisted the Uighur people live in “peaceful and harmonious coexistence with other ethnic groups”. ![]() An Australian thinktank found this week that China has built nearly 400 internment camps in the Xinjiang region. The senators, led by Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, said that the Chinese Communist party was “committing atrocities” in Xinjiang, “including mass imprisonment, forced labour, thought transformation in order to denounce religion and culture, involuntary medical testing, and forced sterilisation and abortion”. ![]() ![]() ![]() Roosevelt, wife of the New York governor and president-elect. This weekend is the present of the story, the through line to which the many memories and flashbacks are attached. In 1932, Lorena, who worked for the Associated Press, interviewed Mrs. Lorena (“Hick” to her friends) is, at Eleanor’s invitation, preparing Eleanor’s New York apartment for a weekend together. The novel opens on April 27th 1945, two weeks after the death of U.S. Sadder but wiser, she reflects: “ It’s not true that if you can imagine it, you can have it.” First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt became romantically involved in 1932, they dreamed of a life together a cottage on the Roosevelt estate, where “ the kids would come to see how happy I made their mother… our love would create its own world,” as Lorena puts it. The salty yet poetic narrator of White Houses makes this historical romance, in memoir form, engaging and moving. Subject matter and style combine to make Amy Bloom’s latest novel outstanding. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Be prepared to laugh, cry, and gasp.” ―Mary E. I fell in love with Ziva, her sister, and their very “interesting” companions. ![]() Loaded with action, betrayal, slow-burn romance―honestly, that is the best first kiss scene ever―I couldn’t put it down. “ Blade of Secrets was an addictive page-turner. You can also visit The World of Tricia Levenseller for more content!įoreign Editions UK Germany Russia Slovakiaĭon’t live in the US? My local independent bookstore ships worldwide! Send an email to to ask about pricing and getting signatures on the books you want. Read the first 3 chapters here or listen to the first chapter audio here while you put together a puzzle of the cover! Joined by a distractingly handsome mercenary and a young scholar with extensive knowledge of the world’s known magics, Ziva and her sister set out on a quest to keep the sword safe until they can find a worthy wielder or a way to destroy it entirely. Weapon to enslave all the world under her rule, she takes her sister and flees. When Ziva learns of the warlord’s intentions to use the Sword that can cut far deeper than the length of its blade. Warlord, and the result is a sword capable of stealing its victims secrets. Then Ziva receives a commission from a powerful She spends her days tucked away in her forge, safe from society and the anxiety it causes her, using her magical gift to craft unique weapons imbued with power. ![]() BLADE OF SECRETS is book 1 in the Bladesmith Duology.Įighteen-year-old Ziva prefers metal to people. ![]() ![]() ![]() The tale then leaps among the hunted (Moss), an escaped killer (Anton Chigurh), whose crimes include double-crossing the drug cartel from which the money was taken, the Army Special Forces freelancer (Carson Wells) hired by druglords and-in dogged pursuit of all the horrors spawned by their several interactions-the intrepid, however flawed and guilty, stoical Sheriff Bell: perhaps the most fully human and sympathetic character McCarthy has ever created. Then the focus trains itself on Vietnam vet Llewellyn Moss, a hunter who stumbles upon several dead bodies, a stash of Mexican heroin and more than $2 million in cash that he absconds with. Here, the story’s set in 1980 in southern Texas near the Mexican border, where aging Sheriff Bell, a decorated WWII veteran, broods heroically over the territory he’s sworn to protect, while-in a superb, sorrowful monologue-acknowledging the omnipresence of ineradicable evil all around him. ![]() ![]() It’s a bleak chronicle of murder, revenge and implacable fate pocked with numerous echoes of McCarthy’s great Blood Meridian (1985). Almost as frustrating as it is commanding, McCarthy’s ninth (and first since the completion of his Border Trilogy: Cities of the Plain, 1998, etc.) is a formidable display of stunningly written scenes that don’t quite cohere into a fully satisfying narrative. ![]() ![]() ![]() Temperance, on the other hand, is a well meaning philanthropist, who also believes she has unnatural desires. Lazarus is a jaded rake and there are lots of suggestions about his perverted sexual preferences. While they continue their detective work, they get to know one another. They follow up some leads, more people continue to die, and there is a bit of action when they are attacked in the street. The couple are acting as detectives to solve the murder of Lord Clare’s mistress. The plot meanders along for the first half of the book and includes an unnecessary scene where he visits his mother, but nothing that happens actually moves the plot along. ![]() In return, she must help him find a killer in the slums of St Giles. In order to find financial support for her foundling home, widow Temperance Dews, makes a deal with Lazarus Huntington, Lord Clare. ![]() ![]() Frenchman’s Creek (1944)ĭavid O Selznick loaned Joan Fontaine to Paramount for this lavish Technicolor adaptation of Du Maurier’s 1941 historical novel, directed by Mitchell Leisen, and by all accounts she was not happy about it. It was a troubled production (Guinness had to help out with the directing when Hamer’s alcoholism kicked in) and the story founders on too many fudged plot points – such as the implausibility of an Englishman passing for a native French speaker without the man’s wife or mistress immediately spotting the deception. ![]() Alec Guinness plays dual roles in Gore Vidal’s adaptation of Du Maurier’s 1957 novel, directed by Robert Hamer, in whose Kind Hearts and Coronets Guinness had played eight different characters. On holiday in France, a British teacher meets his exact double: a French aristocrat who tricks him into swapping lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() After her rise and fall from early childhood stardom, barely eking her way through high school, a brief stint as a Hooters waitress, going through thick and thin with her mom/manager, and resurrecting her acting career as Santana Lopez on Glee, Naya emerged from these experiences with some key life lessons: Sorry: - All those times I scrawled "I HATE MY MOM" in my journal. Whether it's with love and dating, career and ambition, friends, or gossip, Naya inspires us to follow our own destiny and step over-or plod through-all the crap along the way. ![]() ![]() Navigating through youth and young adulthood isn't easy, and in Sorry Not Sorry, Naya Rivera shows us that we're not alone in the highs, lows, and in-betweens. Funny and deeply personal, Sorry Not Sorry recounts Glee star Naya Rivera's successes and missteps, urging young women to pursue their dreams and to refuse to let past mistakes define them. ![]() ![]() Solomon handles Ari’s mental health and Russell’s body image issues with skill and sensitivity. When Russell suggests he and Ari get their bosses back together to improve their dispositions, she thinks it’s worth a try and is glad to have made a friend who listens to her. It’s particularly hard for Ari, who masks her clinical depression with relentless cheeriness at work-until one evening when she finally opens up and vents to the cute, chubby sports anchor, Russell Barringer. But recently, the nonstop hostility between Torrance and her ex-husband, the station’s news director, has made the workplace stressful. ![]() ![]() ![]() KSEA 6 morning weather reporter Ari Abrams loves her job and has always looked up to Torrance Hale, the reigning queen of all things meteorological at KSEA 6. Solomon’s wildly appealing sophomore rom-com (after The Ex Talk) takes readers behind the scenes of a drama-filled TV news station. ![]() |