![]() ![]() Soon enough, the main character finds an even better reason for wanting her cousin dead - she catches Halley kissing her boyfriend Ted.īrenda’s best friends feel differently about the Halley situation. At first Brenda is merely upset over having to give up her bedroom to Halley. And until the adults can sort things out, Halley stays with the Morgans. High-school senior Brenda has been miserable ever since Halley came to live with her and her folks she shows no sympathy even as her cousin is caught up in her parents’ messy and drawn-out divorce. ![]() Stine introduces the potential murderer and her accomplices. Eventually one thing leads to another, and Brenda decides this year’s Halloween will be Halley’s last.īefore anyone can commit a crime in this book, author R.L. Things have been tense since Brenda’s cousin Halley moved in with her family the two teenage girls aren’t getting along, whatsoever. A simple class assignment - plan the perfect murder - inspires Brenda Morgan and her two best friends to kill. What started out as a morbid joke among friends is now dangerously real in the 1993 book Halloween Night. ![]()
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![]() “I am very persnickety about facts,” said MacNeil, who lives in Napa. Many were students studying for professional wine certifications, like the Wine & Spirits Education Trust. ![]() MacNeil, an acclaimed wine writer, educator and Emmy-winning television host, enlisted a team of researchers to help her complete the book’s latest edition. There’s a grape glossary, wine dictionary, food and wine pairing guide, and a plethora of facts, tips, history lessons and engaging essays. Selling more than 800,000 copies since its first release in 2000, The Wine Bible is the bestselling wine book in America and considered required reading for both new and seasoned wine lovers.Īt more than 700 pages, the third edition (Workman Publishing, 2022, $39.99) is filled to the brim information on every major wine region in the world, from the United States, France and Italy, to lesser-known locales like China, Great Britain and Israel. ![]() ![]() ![]() After a meticulous revision that took author Karen MacNeil more than four years, the new edition of The Wine Bible has just arrived on shelves, and it’s clearly the author’s most precise, in-depth version yet. ![]() ![]() Among the books burned, are Ali Amin's poetry collections Layla, therefore, has an immediate emotional response to. The book burning illustrates how the government has overtaken the minds of its people, systematically working to eliminate the identities and words of millions of its citizens. The election of a fascist president leads to a wave of Islamophobia, which infects the spirits of the nation. The book burning the community stages at the start of the novel symbolizes erasure of minority peoples, and dissenting voices. The theft not only keeps her from communicating with David, but illustrates the governmental work to strip Muslim American citizens of their voices, agency, and connection to the world beyond their coming imprisonment in Camp Mobius. ![]() ![]() When the Exclusion Officers storm her home at the start of the novel, they seize her telephone. ![]() Layla's phone symbolizes freedom of speech. Set in a horrifying 15 minutes in the future United States, the book follows 17-year-old Layla Amin as she is forced into an internment camp for Muslim. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The main character is Yarvi, initially presented as a crippled, intellectual man forced to exist in a society where valour with a sword or axe is praised above everything else. There isn't much swearing and no sex at all, but beyond that the only way you'd know this was a YA novel is because the author said so on his website. This is still very much a Joe Abercrombie novel, meaning there's an air of both cynicism and humour to proceedings and there's a fair amount of violence. Those hoping for a radical change in direction or prose style will be disappointed, though conversely those hoping he'd stick doing at what he does best will be overjoyed. It's a change of gears for the British author, and there's a fair bit riding on how he manages to pull it off. It's also his first novel for a new publisher and the first set outside his signature First Law world, not to mention his first Young Adult novel. Half a King is the first novel in a new trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. ![]() Thrust onto the throne, Yarvi must instead take up the sword to avenge his dead kin and defeat his kingdom's enemies, from within and without. It's not something he ever wanted: born with only half a hand, he's spent his life training to become a Minister, a man of learning and science. ![]() The abrupt death of his father and elder brother puts Prince Yarvi on the throne of Gettland. ![]() ![]() As Tom Wolfe would soon declare of surfer culture in “The Pump-House Gang,” a signature piece of New Journalism, “practically everybody comes from a good family.” ![]() These were the 1961 Beach Boys, mind you-they of the short hair, the Hawaiian shirts, and the frat-rats-in-training voices that had yet to ascend to choirboy eloquence-so the surfing fad would be pegged initially as the province of bland, spoiled sons of Leave It to Beaver parents living in the suburbs. The seven-page article, “The Mad, Happy Surfers: A Way of Life on the Wavetops,” published that September in an issue with Jackie Kennedy welcoming readers to the newly redecorated White House on the cover, would loft surfing into the national consciousness just before the first Beach Boys song, “Surfin’,” broke into the pop charts. That would start to change that day, though, when a Life-magazine photographer would sight the boys riding the waves at Malibu and make them stars of a photo spread. ![]() ![]() The sport that was their lifeline-surfing-had been lifted from obscurity two years earlier by a Sandra Dee movie called Gidget, but it still wasn’t something young America was dying to do, the way dancing to rock ‘n’ roll and twirling Hula Hoops had been. One summer day in 1961, three 16-year-old Beverly Hills boys-Mike Nader, Duane King, and Larry Shaw-got up at dawn in their separate homes and eagerly pulled on their swim trunks. ![]() |