The vanishing half author5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() In doing so, it belongs to a long tradition of literature about racial passing. “The Vanishing Half” (Riverhead), the second novel by Brit Bennett, tells the story of the Vignes sisters’ diverging paths. Stella could only be her when Desiree was not around.” One day, Stella disappears, leaving her sister a note: “Sorry honey, but I’ve got to go my own way.” But gradually the gap between them widens: “Desiree could never meet Miss Vignes. Only a person who knew her real identity would appreciate her acting, and nobody at work could ever know.” For a while, the twins are brought together by the joint pleasure of pulling off the performance. It’s “a performance where there could be no audience. Every morning, on the ride to the office, she transforms into her double, Miss Vignes-“White Stella,” as Desiree calls her-and every night she undergoes the process in reverse. She’s apprehensive-has she done something wrong?-but her sister is adamant: why should the two of them starve “when Stella, perfectly capable of typing, became unfit as soon as anyone learned that she was colored?” Stella gets the job. She doesn’t mention she’s black, and no one asks. ![]() They scrape by for a while, and eventually Stella applies for a position as a secretary at a fancy department store, a job only white girls get. Desiree and Stella Vignes are sixteen and headed to New Orleans. In 1954, a pair of identical twins-creamy skin, hazel eyes, wavy hair-flee a small town in Louisiana and the narrow future it affords: nothing but more of the same. ![]()
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Scandalous desires by elizabeth hoyt5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() "Pay heed: the artichoke is a shy vegetable. ![]() She was the one thing he could use to ensnare the virtuous widow. He knew what he was doing when he left his daughter Mary with Silence. For you see, he'd searched for that perfect woman and Silence Hollingbrook was it. The most skillful of predators will wait patiently for the right moment to spring the perfect trap to ensnare their victims and that is just what the notorious pirate had done. His victim? Silence Hollingbrook. Patience, however, is not only a device of the virtuous. They say patience is a virtue, but no one would ever accuse "Charming" Mickey O'Connor of being virtuous. Mary Darling, who you took from the foundling home where we both live. Mary Darling, who knows only me as her mother. "You know very well who! Mary Darling, that sweet little baby girl I've taken care of for over a year. Oh this was too much! Silence felt her face heat as she shook off Harry's restraining arm and marched right up to the foot of the small dais on which the ridiculous throne stood. ![]() The pirate's eyes opened lazily as he swallowed his sweetmeat. Killer pancake by diane mott davidson5/30/2023 ![]() And for lagniappe, each book features up to a dozen recipes, all original and all created by the former dud-in-the-kitchen. Davidson is the author of five culinary whodunits with names like "The Cereal Murders," "Dying for Chocolate" and "Killer Pancake." Sales of each book have surpassed the last, according to Bantam Books, her publisher, and there are now almost a million copies of them in print. Naturally, she became a writer - and what else but a writer who uses a caterer as her central character. Nor did she make it into the university's creative writing course. DIANE MOTT DAVIDSON didn't know a creme brulee from creme fraiche when she was a student at Stanford University. ![]() The berlin project by gregory benford5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() But he uses the story of Karl to tell both the story of the Manhattan Project as well as a commentary on what it was like as America got involved in World War II. Cohen was a chemist involved with the engineering problem of finding the best way of separating out uranium isotopes (U-235 from U-238) so that you could achieve enough of the former to have a fissionable amount. The main protagonist is Benford’s actual father-in-law, Karl Cohen. He starts with a novel that-for about the first half of the book-is just a historical novel about the Manhattan Project and not really a science fiction novel at all. ![]() Gregory Benford, in his new novel THE BERLIN PROJECT, has been writing science fiction novels for almost fifty years and has done something really different this time. ![]() Suspicion by Alexandra Monir5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Struggling with her new role, Imogen starts to unravel secrets about her family and herself. ![]() Now she’s a duchess and expected to move to Rockford Manor. She’s a typical teenager thinking about graduation and her future, but all her plans collapse when she is informed about the death of the last two members of her family. Just what has Imogen walked into?Combining a fresh twist on the classic REBECCA with a spine-tingling mystery and powerful romance, SUSPICION is an action-packed thrill ride.”įast forward seven years to a 17-year-old Imogen. And at the center of the mystery is Imogen herself–and Sebastian, the childhood friend she has secretly loved for years. But when a letter arrives with the news of her cousin’s untimely death, revealing that Imogen is now the only heir left to run the estate, she returns to England and warily accepts her role as duchess.All is not as it seems at Rockford, and Imogen quickly learns that dark secrets lurk behind the mansion’s aristocratic exterior, hinting that the spate of deaths in her family were no accident. ![]() ![]() Welcome to Rockford Manor. “There’s something hidden in the Maze.” Seventeen-year-old Imogen has never forgotten the last words her father said to her seven years ago, before the blazing fire that consumed him, her mother, and the gardens of her family’s English country manor.Haunted by her parents’ deaths, Imogen moves to New York City with her new guardians. 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And now an injury is threatening to end her dance career for good. Teresa Hamilton is having a rough year-she’s in love with her big brother’s best friend, but he hasn’t spoken to her since they shared a truly amazing, mind-blowing, change-your-life kiss. “…that was a part of me, and I finally fully understood that it would always be there with me, but it didn’t make me who I was today. “Silence, no matter which way you look at it, destroyed lives.” “Sometimes they turn out better than you could’ve ever imagined.”” Things that make you reevaluate everything and even if it doesn’t sound like a good thing in the beginning?” He shrugged as he settled his gaze on Thunder. Things that change everything about your life-about what you thought you wanted, who you thought you were. Things come along you don’t expect all the time, Tess. No matter how irritated I was with him or how badly I wanted to karate kick him between the legs, when he laughed, it was like the sun was shining in my eyes.” God help me, but I loved it when he laughed like that. ![]() “Jase stared at me a moment longer and then he laughed deeply- the sound rich and yummy. ![]() Hippie Boy by Ingrid Ricks5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The fact that her family is Mormon is important for the story, yet Ricks does an exceptional job of keeping Mormonism as the background setting instead of focusing the camera on Mormonism itself. ![]() That’s the world of teenaged Ingrid Ricks in the story Hippie Boy: A Girl’s Story. Unfortunately, since he was often unreliable and occasionally violent, it wasn’t always the good kind of adventure - but it was a great escape from a home run by a crazy (and also occasionally violent) control-freak of a step-dad, who reeked of the meat that made up his entire food pyramid. Hippie Boy is a memoir about a teenage girl who escapes her abusive Mormon stepfather by joining her dad on the road as a tool-selling vagabond - until his arrest forces her to take charge of her life.ĭad was a master salesman who could talk anyone into anything, and life on the road with him was the wildest adventure any kid could possibly imagine. ![]() What would you do if your Mormon stepfather pinned you down and tried to cast Satan out of you? For 13 year old Ingrid, the answer is simple: RUN. ![]() Infinite crisis geoff johns5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That being said, none of this means the creatives have ignored where the character has been since his heyday. How nice it must be for him to have a name he can actually say without lightning striking him. It’s especially notable that Billy Batson’s superhero persona is once again being rebranded, this time with the familiar title of “The Captain”, which turns a fun nod into a new direction. This feeling seems almost directly out of the character’s time at Fawcett Comics and his early days at 1970s DC-even before he was fully integrated into their universe with Crisis on Infinite Earths. Unlike Geoff Johns’ darker New 52 reboot, which the character has pretty much followed for the past decade, Waid and Mora’s debut sets the tone by recapturing the whimsical storytelling and magical wonder that comes with watching a child wield the power of gods. ![]() Sunday Nights at Seven by Jack Benny5/29/2023 ![]() The show would usually open with a song by the orchestra or banter between Benny and Don Wilson. There wasn't really a fourth wall, per se. The program utilized a loose show-within-a-show format, wherein the main characters were playing versions of themselves. The format of the Jack Benny Program never wavered. CBS aired reruns of old radio episodes from 1956 to 1958 as The Best of Benny. There it stayed for the remainder of its radio run, which ended on May 22, 1955. Paley's notorious "raid" of NBC talent in 1948-49. The show returned to CBS on January 2, 1949, as part of CBS president William S. Lucky Strike was the radio sponsor from 1944 to the mid-1950s. But in 1944, the practice of using the sponsor's name as the title faded out, and the show was then known as The Jack Benny Program. He continued with sponsors General Tires, Jell-O and Grape Nuts. With Ted Weems leading the band, Benny stayed on CBS until January 26, 1933.Īrriving at NBC on March 17, Benny did The Chevrolet Program until April 1, 1934. With Canada Dry Ginger Ale as a sponsor, Benny came to radio on The Canada Dry Program, beginning May 2, 1932, on the NBC Blue Network and continuing there for six months until October 26, moving the show to CBS on October 30. The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, was a radio-TV comedy series which ran for more than three decades, 38 seasons, and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century comedy. ![]() A little background about the show, courtesy of our friends at Wikipedia. ![]() |