It looks a bit like a comic book, but it’s anything but a lighthearted story.
A new graphic novel being put out by the National Center for State Courts is intended to help the public learn about the court system in a way that’s a far cry from a simple brochure anyone can pick up at [...]
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Book Review:This slight and lyrical novel is based on the life of pioneer Sarah Royce, pioneer, memoirist, and mother. Strong-willed, fiercely intelligent and conventionally religious – but with a deep mystical streak – Sarah Royce took to the California trail in the Gold Rush year of 1849. She did not wish to be separated from [...]
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One day, while living with her husband in London, Elisabeth Payne Rosen spilled her groceries in front of the Duke of York’s Barracks on King’s Road and in a flash of inspiration, decided that she wanted to know everything about the American Civil War. Rosen’s ensuing research is presented in her first novel “Hallam’s Warâ€â€”the [...]
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‘Retreating with disgust is not the same as apathy’. So says one of the peripheral characters in Richard Linklater’s 1991 film, Slacker. This statement rings true for several of the artists involved in Take The Bassa With Sababa, an exhibition of Israeli comics and graphic novels, and for me as a curator it certainly hits [...]
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May
A dramatic increase in people being admitted to hospital with severe reactions to party pills has experts calling for urgent action.
Four to five patients are being admitted to Wellington Hospital on a typical Saturday night after taking the new- generation pills, emergency doctor Paul Quigley says.
Patients were scared, jittery and anxious. “We’re getting semi-hysterical type [...]
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May
Supported Cycling Means Fluffy Towels, Memorable Meals
Posted by admin Published in Tour, nabokov novelOn a supported bike tour, you don’t have to worry about smelling like road kill after days upon days of cycling. There will be opportunities to shower along the way.
You needn’t schlep all your gear on your bike. A van will deliver your street clothes, your IPod, your Tom Clancy novel and the rest of [...]
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May
I always get a kick out of the asparagus grower along Quebec Highway 323 who, at this time of year, uses his mower to write the word “Asperges” in large, flowing letters in the grass on a hillside across from his farm.
It’s a cheap and novel way of advertising — and visible evidence of the [...]
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May
Nam Le Launching World Tour For ‘the Boat’ May 16 In Exeter
Posted by admin Published in Romance NovelStories are meant to engulf you and transport you to another time, another place –– give you a window into someone else’s soul almost deeper than if it were your own. Such is the writing of award-winning author Nam Le in his new release, “The Boat.â€
“Truly, to read these stories is to travel the world,†[...]
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Chris Wiegand talks to the creators of two very dissimilar detectives, both at work in Istanbul’s meanest streets.
Crime fiction aficionados know Istanbul as the beat of Cetin Ikmen, the shabby, middle-aged Turkish cop created by English novelist Barbara Nadel. A former actress who lives in the Pennines and was raised in London’s East End, her [...]
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