His doctoral dissertation was The 28th USCTs: Indiana's African-Americans Go to War, 1863–1865.įortschen has been a resident of Hightstown, New Jersey. He specialized in Military History, the American Civil War, and the History of Technology. He completed his doctorate at Purdue University, studying under the historian Gunther E. He and the other two men have also written three novels about General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War.įorstchen was born and grew up in Millburn, New Jersey. His three alternate novels of the Civil War were co-written with politician Newt Gingrich two also had the participation of writer Albert S. He has published numerous popular novels and non-fiction works about military and alternative history, thrillers, and speculative events. A Professor of History and Faculty Fellow at Montreat College, in Montreat, North Carolina, he received his doctorate from Purdue University. Forstchen (born October 11, 1950) is an American historian and author.
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What results is one teen's self-conscious yet fast-paced journey into the mind of a cold-blooded killer, and the resulting manhunt will keep readers on the edge of their seats. This chilling page-turner is all thrills, and the author cleverly manipulates readers' sense of disbelief by eliminating the possibility of police help or parental understanding. It is a bit remarkable that two teens could track down a potential murderer without police aid, not to mention dangerous, but Acceleration was a well-paced, spine-tingling read that I would recommend to young teen readers. When the police seem disinterested, the teen takes matters into his own hands, and with the aid of his two best friends, tries to track and trap the murderer before he can strike. McNamee introduces his reader to the darkness of the human mind without overwhelming them. Unable to tear himself from the gory descriptions of tortured animals and arson, he discovers that the writer has started to stalk women on the subway. During one of these sessions, he uncovers a strange, leather-bound book that turns out to be the diary of a would-be serial killer. When business is slow, Duncan spends his time rummaging through dusty shelves and boxes of unclaimed items. Its a hot summer and in the depths of the Toronto Transit Authoritys lost and found. This summer he has a job working underground at the Toronto subway lost and found where he uncovers, amid the piles of forgotten junk, an opportunity to exorcise his own guilty demons. Read Acceleration by Graham Mcnamee available from Rakuten Kobo. Seventeen-year-old Duncan is haunted by the fact that he was unable to save a drowning girl a few yards away one fateful afternoon the previous September. Bàn becomes the Druid whose eventual return to the Celts is Boudica's salvation.ĭreaming the Eagle is full of brilliantly realised, luminous scenes as the narrative sweeps effortlessly from the epic - where battle scenes are huge, bloody, and action-packed - to the intimate. Dreaming the Eagle is also the story of the two men Boudica loves most: Caradoc, outstanding warrior and inspirational leader and Bàn, her half-brother, who longs to be a warrior, though he is manifestly a Dreamer, possibly the finest in his tribe's history. She longs to be a Dreamer, a mystical leader who can foretell the future, but having killed the man who has attacked and killed her mother, she has proven herself a warrior. It is 33 AD and eleven-year-old Breaca (later named Boudica), the red-haired daughter of one of the leaders of the Eceni tribe, is on the cusp between girl and womanhood. She is the last defender of the Celtic culture in Britain the only woman openly to lead her warriors into battle and to stand successfully against the might of Imperial Rome - and triumph. Dreaming the Eagle is the first part of the gloriously imagined epic trilogy of the life of Boudica.īoudica means Bringer of Victory (from the early Celtic word "boudeg"). 'A master at the art of deft characterisation and the skilful delivery of hair-raising crescendos' - Irish Independent Brigance returns in SYCAMORE ROW and A TIME FOR MERCY. The original, epoch-defining Jake Brigance novel. It's the kind of case that could make a young lawyer's career.īut it's also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer killed. A national media circus descends on Clanton.Īs tensions mount, Hailey hires the inexperienced Jake Brigance to defend him. When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the violent racists who raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of the small town of Clanton, Mississippi see it as justice done, and call for his acquittal.īut when extremists outside Clanton - including the KKK - hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice. John Grisham's first and most shocking novel, adapted as a film starring Samuel L. AN AMERICAN CLASSIC FROM THE NO.1 BESTSELLING MASTER THRILLER WRITER The world is broken.and it can never be made whole again. The first book in acclaimed epic fantasy author John Gwynne's Faithful and Fallen series, Malice is a tale of blind greed, ambition, and betrayal set in a world where ancient monsters are reawakening - and a war to end all wars is about to begin. MALICE is a dark epic fantasy tale of blind greed, ambition, and betrayal. For if the Black Sun gains ascendancy, mankind's hopes and dreams will fall to dust. Those who can still read the signs see a threat far greater than the ancient wars. The Banished Lands has a violent past where armies of men and giants clashed in battle, but now giants are seen, the stones weep blood and giant wyrms are stirring. Nor does he agree with his father's idea to summon his fellow kings to council. Many of them don't involve his father, the High King Aquilus. He is one of the most skilled swordsman to come out of his homeland, yet he is always under the shadow of his older brother. Veradis is the newest member of the warband for the High Prince, Nathair. And nothing will stop him once he has started on his path. But what he wants - the power to rule - will soon be in his grasp. And the price he pays will be in blood.Įvnis has sacrificed - too much it seems. Corban wants nothing more than to be a warrior under King Brenin's rule - to protect and serve. Those two things together and people always think I’m younger than I am. His eyebrows pull together and worry etches his face. Never thought to ask someone’s age before I moved them. You’re eighteen, right? Paul looks me up and down. What’s in that box, air? Paul laughs from beside me. I almost nailed the guy right in the face. It tips over and one of the movers grabs it before it hits him in the head. I can help, I try again but catch my foot on one of the boxes. It doesn’t help matters that my parents are downsizing and let me have my pick of a lot of stuff before they move. I don’t need a lot of space, but somehow I have a lot of things. It can work as both a bed and sofa since the one bedroom I have is going to be my office. He points to my daybed that’s set up in the living room. Thank me by parking yourself in a chair until we’re done here. He lets go of my shirt when he sees I’ve got my feet back under me. His name tag reads Paul and tells me he’s the owner. Thanks, I tell the older man, who looks like my great uncle John on my dad’s side. Jesus, kid, the guy says as he gives my shirt a good yank and puts me back on my feet. One of the movers grabs me by my shirt right before I face plant onto the ground for the second time this afternoon. My phone slips out of my hand and goes flying into the air. "C an you put that on there?" I point to where I want the next batch of boxes to go before I trip right into one and almost fall over it. For the remainder of my walk I began to plot. The first was: What if someone made a list of the best fictional murders? And then my immediate second thought: What if someone else used that last to commit actual murders?Īnd there was the book. As I was going over fictional murders in my mind, trying to remember some of the best ones, I had two thoughts in a row. As usual, when I’m searching for inspiration, I don’t think about real life. On the day that I conjured up Eight Perfect Murders, I had just begun my walk and I was trying to come up with a clever idea for a murder in a short story that I was writing. It’s beautiful, but it also has the added advantage that if I get hot walking, there’s a lovely pond for swimming. I try and walk every afternoon, and in the summer times I do much of my walking at Walden Pond. I was taking my usual loop around Walden Pond in Concord, a locale made famous by another writer, one with higher aspirations than thinking up perfect murders. I was out walking, so I supposed the idea didn’t drop into my lap, per se. But with my newest book, Eight Perfect Murders, the idea dropped in my lap as close to fully formed as a book idea can be. It can take a year, sometimes more than a year. More often than not, these imagined novels wither on the vine. A premise will occur to me, then stick in my brain for a couple of months before another idea joins that first one. Most of the ideas for my books come in dribs and drabs. The book is organized by decade, beginning with the Russian Revolution in the 1910s and the memories of Anya's grandparents. Rich in real family histories, idiosyncrasies, and stories, Von Bremzen uses her sometimes fraught family life as a lens to examine the Soviet Union more closely than she had as a child.Īt its heart, this book is a paradoxical confession - while Anya and Larisa both hate the violence and conformity of the USSR (or CCCP, in Russian), they also long for the nostalgic tastes of their homeland, like black sourdough bread, Kazakh apples, crispy kotleta, highly processed kolbasa, and other difficult-to-procure tastes of Rodina ("Homeland" with a capital H). Von Bremzen and her mother Larisa chronicle their love-hate relationship with the Soviet Union and ultimate escape when Anya was ten years old. This book is first and foremost a memoir, not a cookbook, despite the cookbooky title. Ever since I took a semester of Russian on a whim my senior year in college (which helped me properly pronounce the Russian words liberally sprinkled throughout the text), I've been intensely interested in Russian culture and especially food. As part of my new annual jolabokaflod, I ordered Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food & Longingby cookbook author and Soviet/Russian ex-pat Anya von Bremzen. Now it’s a race against time as Kit searches for the truth behind the legend and learns to face her own fears-before the summer of her lifetime becomes the last summer of her life. and to fear that her own mind is conjuring the killer. After Kit hears the story, her teammates vanish, one by one, and Kit begins to suspect that the stories about Daphne are real. They also say that Daphne is still out there, obsessed with revenge, and will appear to kill again anytime someone thinks about her. And some say that Daphne is a murderer herself. Some say she was murdered, others that she died by her own hand. But the night before the big game, one of the players tells a ghost story about Daphne, a girl who went to their school many years ago and died under mysterious circumstances. The last summer with her high school basketball team, and with Dana, her best friend. “A superb serial killer novel and a great coming-of-age story.”-Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You Home ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Paste It’s the last summer for Kit Lamb: The last summer before college. A brutal, enigmatic woman stalks a high school basketball team in a reimagining of the slasher genre by the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box. Colorful dime novels, featuring light action stories, became of particular interest to children in the late 19th century. Marcus discussed how the roots of censorship of children’s literature runs roughly parallel to the time when “stories about children as they are took their place beside stories about children as they ought to be,” for example, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, which featured rebellious and free-thinking characters. Marcus, who moderated the first panel, began with an introduction to the history of censorship in America. Authors, educators, and children’s literature experts gathered at Bank Street College in New York City on April 16 for a half-day of panel talks on censorship, called “Who Are You to Say? Children’s Literature and the Censorship Conversation.”Ĭhildren’s book scholar Leonard S. It’s a topic of discussion that has increasingly been at the forefront of the publishing industry and beyond. 2023 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremonyīy: Matia Burnett Source: Publisher's Weekly. |