When she got a bit older, she learned how to dress and walk so that her 39-inch bust wouldn't attract attention. Janet learned early, for instance, not to listen to the weirdos who might try to lure her into their cars (she remembers one such incident when she was seven and another - with somebody pretending to be a cop - when she was 11). You may also have gotten the correct impression that Hoboken - despite the fact that the funky neighborhood bars are being replaced by high-rises - is a pretty tough town. When the picture was shot there, she lived just a few blocks away and one of her girlfriends lived in the building used for the rooftop scenes. But if you've seen "On the Waterfront" - and who hasn't? - then you've seen Janet Lupo's home town. Chances are that most of you haven't been to Hoboken, New Jersey.
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Exile is the second book in the Dark Elf Trilogy and the Legend of Drizzt series.Ībout the Author R.A. They begin their own search of the Underdark tunnels with murder on their minds, forcing Drizzt to watch his back at every turn. My enemy was solitude, the interminable, incessant silence of hushed corridors.īut loneliness is not the only thing that preys on Drizzt: His drow enemies, including his own siblings, would like nothing more than to see him dead. It followed me wherever I went-indeed, the farther I ran, the more it closed in around me. It did not take me long, however, to discover one nemesis that I could neither defeat nor flee. I could defeat almost anything that wandered into my chosen domain. I gained in the physical skills and experience necessary to live on. As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. Exiled from Menzoberranzan, the city of his childhood and the hub of drow society, Drizzt now wanders the subterranean maze of the Underdark in search of a new home. Original.īook Synopsis Dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden fights for his survival in the labyrinthine tunnels of the Underdark Ten years have passed since we last saw Drizzt Do'Urden and his magical feline companion, Guenhwyvar-and much has changed. About the Book One of fantasy's most beloved characters returns in this new entry of the "New York Times" bestselling series, featuring new cover art by award-winning fantasy illustrator Todd Lockwood. Luce plays clandestine concerts for tiny audiences while Rosemary, whose job is to find illegal musicians like Luce and build them into virtual reality stars, struggles to steer the monolithic StageHolo entertainment corporation toward more humane activity. Rosemary Laws has grown up in impersonal, shallow isolation, but music awakens her, and she strains against the restrictions that are supposed to be keeping her safe. Band leader Luce Cannon is devoted to writing rock music and performing it live, even though threats of terrorism and disease have led Americans to retreat into solitude, connected only virtually. This excellent debut novel by Nebula winner Pinsker (after the collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea) establishes her as an astonishingly impressive writer of day-after-tomorrow SF. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search the world for each other, a last mission that could change their lives forever. 8th Air Force would later classify what happened between them as “top secret.” It was an act that Franz could never mention for fear of facing a firing squad. What happened next would defy imagination and later be called “the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.” The pilot is German ace Franz Stigler-and he can destroy the young American crew with the squeeze of a trigger. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls up on the bomber’s tail. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. It is often said that war is hell - and it is - however, this story reveals how the human spirit can shine in the darkest. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War IIĭecember, 1943: A badly damaged American B-17 bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. On the other hand, Levant, who typically played piano on the “Tonight” show, where he was one of Paar’s semi-regulars, had never been more honest with the public, nor had he ever been funnier. Levant make it or wouldn’t he?” In Gould’s view, Paar “was inviting the viewing audience to dabble in cliff-hanging psychiatry” and had been disturbingly willing to “capitalize on an individual’s personal disturbances” and to “condone jokes on the subject of people who are confined or must be accompanied by attendants upon going into the outside world.” Paar did,” wrote Jack Gould back then in the New York Times, “was play a public game of cat-and-mouse on the general subject of emotional instability. New York - In November 1958, the brilliant composer, concert pianist and outré humorist Oscar Levant, then under medical supervision, appeared live on NBC’s “Tonight” show with Jack Paar in front of millions of Americans.Īudiences had no idea whether they watching the most daring, dramatic and hilarious talk-show appearance they ever had seen, or an appalling exploitation by Paar of an emotionally disturbed and profoundly ill man. Praise for prequel Moon Beam "Taylor and Nye offer up a tense escapade with engaging characters and a fast-paced plot, but their true focus is on scientific detail, plausibility, and ingenuity. The young scientist find themselves not only racing for victory, but to save their beloved mentor. On the thinly settled Moon only the Bright Sparks may be close enough help him. On the far side of the Moon, in the airless, frozen depths beneath the lunar surface, disaster strikes. Bright himself is part of a groundbreaking project to seek out rare minerals underneath a crater. While the Sparks compete in the race, Dr. They form close friendships with racers from all over Earth, but also have to deal with former Spark, Pam, a mysterious and threatening figure whose departure from the Sparks program is shrouded in mystery. The Sparks, and twenty-five other teams, have to count on one another as they face thousands of kilometers of unknown dangers, where even a simple accident can have fatal consequences. They are competing in the first ever race to completely circle the Moon. Keegan Bright's team of young scientists, find themselves facing a challenge that will test all of their scientific skills and personal courage. Barbara Winton and the rest of the Bright Sparks, Dr. A teenage girl and her fellow Bright Sparks must do what it takes to stay alive and achieve success in this sequel to Moon Beam. Sometimes taking academia seriously, the stories are set on academic grounds with a more than suspicious aura surrounding the students as they navigate their world. As this dark academia novel blew up on BookTok, fans have been hungering for more such dangerous and mysterious stories.ĭark academia is a thrilling young adult genre with a modern take on gothic novels. It ends with Oliver in jail and the detective who rooted for him wondering what really went down in that academy. With a bright future, each of the students know what they want and in what archetype they fit except for Oliver who feels like an understudy, an outsider.īut when for their next project the casting is mixed up and hidden talents shine in the most unexpected places, jealousy and rage bubble up in the group. If We Were Villains follows seven theatre students obsessed with Shakespeare who believe that they are untouchable and the creme de la creme of their elite arts academy. Friday makes an implacable enemy of Bella Jackson, a vicious woman whose power seems undiminished by her arrest and transportation, while Harriet is taken under the wing of an idealistic doctor, James Downey. there, she meets three other girls: intelligent and opportunistic thief, Sarah Morgan, naive young Rachel Winter, and reliable and capable seamstress, Harriet Clarke.On the voyage to New South Wales their friendship becomes an unbreakable bond - but there are others on board who will change their lives forever. Irreverent and streetwise prostitute Friday Woolfe is in London's notorious Newgate gaol, awaiting transportation. Four women on a perilous journey to a new world, can rely only on their wits to survive. When their plane encounters mechanical problems, what should have been a quick stop in Belize suddenly becomes a weekend layover. Unfortunately, she's working her last trip with Jack Stone - the absurdly gorgeous, ridiculously cocky man she's held a secret grudge against for years. Perfect for fans of The Unhoneymooners, Shipped and The Hating Game!Īfter ten years as a flight attendant, Ava Greene is poised to hang up her wings and finally put down roots. 'Delicious, slow-burning romance, sizzling banter and crackling chemistry? Swoon' Angie Hockman, author of ShippedĪn unexpected tropical layover with her nemesis turns a flight attendant's life upside down in this witty, breezy debut romantic comedy about life - and love - 30,000 feet above the ground. Perfect for fans of Christina Lauren's The Unhoneymooners and Angie Hockman's Shipped. An unexpected tropical layover with her nemesis turns a flight attendant's life upside down in this witty, breezy debut romantic comedy about life - and love - 30,000 feet above the ground. Valerie Hansen, an award-winning historian, argues that the year 1000 was the world's first point of major cultural exchange and exploration. But how, then, to explain the presence of blonde-haired people in Maya temple murals at Chichén Itzá, Mexico? Could it be possible that the Vikings had found their way to the Americas during the height of the Maya empire? People often believe that the years immediately prior to AD 1000 were, with just a few exceptions, lacking in any major cultural developments or geopolitical encounters, that the Europeans hadn't yet reached North America, and that the farthest feat of sea travel was the Vikings' invasion of Britain. From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking work of history showing that bold explorations and daring trade missions connected all of the world's great societies for the first time at the end of the first millennium. |