When Fanny was eighteen months old, she was stricken with polio (infantile paralysis). She had an elder sister, eight years her senior, Elizabeth, known as "Bessie". Early life įrances "Fanny" Rose Shore was born on February 29, 1916, to Russian-Jewish immigrant shopkeepers, Anna ( née Stein) and Solomon Shore, in Winchester, Tennessee. Stylistically, Shore was compared to two singers who followed her in the mid-to-late 1940s and early 1950s, Jo Stafford and Patti Page. TV Guide ranked her at number 16 on their list of the top 50 television stars of all time. She starred in her own music and variety shows from 1951 through 1963 and hosted two talk shows in the 1970s. She had a string of eighty charted popular hits, spanning from 1940 to 1957, and after appearing in a handful of feature films, she went on to a four-decade career in American television. She became the first singer of her era to achieve huge solo success. She achieved even greater success a decade later in television, mainly as the host of a series of variety programs for the Chevrolet automobile company.Īfter failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman, and both Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Shore struck out on her own. She rose to prominence as a recording artist during the Big Band era. Dinah Shore (born Frances 'Fanny' Rose Shore Febru– February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television personality, and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1940s.
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Kat is shown pregnant with Teddy, whom Mia thinks is the reason for her father's departure from his band. After her parents see that Mia is passionate about the cello, they hire a teacher to help her play. The story flashes back to Mia's early life with a rockstar father and an inexperienced mother, when one day they take Mia to a music class where Mia decides that she wants to start playing the cello. Mia's mother, Kat, a travel agent, decides to call in sick and along with her family and Mia's brother Teddy so they can get on the road to visit Mia's grandparents, who live on a farm. Mia's father, Denny, is a teacher and as a result of the snow day does not have to go to work. Mia Hall and her family are getting ready to go on with their normal day activities when it is announced on the radio that school has been canceled. It was released on August 22, 2014, grossing $78.9 million worldwide against a budget of $11 million, and received mixed-to-negative reviews, with the Rotten Tomatoes consensus calling it "manipulative than moving", although Moretz's performance was praised. Cutler and based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Gayle Forman.The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Mireille Enos, Joshua Leonard, and Stacy Keach. If I Stay is a 2014 American teen romantic drama film directed by R. Outdoorsmen will find a great deal to appreciate in this book, as Heller’s background as a journalist for Outside magazine and National Geographic weaves in a true sense of adventure. The prose of the book is terse, but fluid, and mimics the world Hig finds himself in: one that is starkly populated but beautifully wild. It speaks to the human condition on a number of levels, examining survival, hope, love, and friendship with a deftness that is expertly applied. It’s restrained, beautiful, heartfelt, and simply fantastic. When Hig receives a strange transmission over the plane’s radio, it triggers the possibility of hope, ultimately sending Hig on a flight past the point of no return. Hig and Jasper fly the perimeter of camp in a 1956 Cessna, providing Heller with the perfect vessel for describing a world that is both lonely and scenic. The novel follows Hig and his dog Jasper, who have taken refuge in a small airport hanger in the mountains, and Bangley, an army-type survivalist who has set up camp with enough weapons and ammunition to stave off bands of wanderers. The Dog Stars by Peter Heller begins after a super-flu has wiped out nearly all of the world’s population. Guterson keeps his protagonists busy discovering clues to the hotel’s central mystery, a missing book, and the decades-old disappearance of the proprietor’s sister, who apparently dabbled in the black arts. The vast hotel library (run by a Ugandan-born librarian with a bun and a fondness for old-fashioned card catalogs) is full of potential surprises. The hotel’s kindly proprietor, a descendent of the original founder, seems to have his own magical talents. A grim pair of guests, protective of the large trunk they claim is full of books, seem to have Elizabeth in their sights. Guterson provides readers a treat: mean caregivers à la the Dursleys a vast, luxurious hotel where oddities abound a new word-puzzle–loving friend, Freddy Knox (with black hair and dark brown skin from his Mexican mother his father’s heritage goes unmentioned) a shrouded history for Winterhouse and sinister circumstances. When her guardian aunt and uncle depart for a vacation, leaving only a train ticket and three $1 bills duct-taped to the door, Elizabeth embarks on an extraordinary adventure. Young Elizabeth Somers’ predilection for puzzles is put to the test when she spends a Christmas break alone at the enormous Winterhouse Hotel.Įlizabeth, white, an orphan, and a devoted reader, has a recently discovered magical gift of extrasensory awareness and anticipation. Bentley is the author of the Magic Kitten, Magic Puppy, and S Club series and lives in Northamptonshire. She worked in a library after completing her education and began writing for children once her own began school. Sue Bentley was born in Northampton, England. She lives in Cambridge, England with her husband and cats. Dhami has published many retellings of popular Disney stories and wrote the Animal Stars and Babes series, the latter about young British girls of Asian origin. After having taught in primary and secondary schools for several years she began to write full-time. She received a degree in English from Birmingham University in 1980. Narinder Dhami was born in Wolverhampton, England on November 15, 1958. Rainbow Magic features differing groups of fairies as main characters, including the Jewel fairies, Weather fairies, Pet fairies, Petal fairies, and Sporty fairies. Daisy Meadows is the pseudonym used for the four writers of the Rainbow Magic children's series: Narinder Dhami, Sue Bentley, Linda Chapman, and Sue Mongredien. He attended the Xavier High School in NYC, after which he enrolled at the Georgetown University in DC, from where he graduated in 1968 from medical school. Paul Wilson was born in 1946 in New Jersey where he spent most of his years, except during his years away in school. Masque, 1998 (co-authored with Matthew J.Nightkill, 1997 (co-authored with Steven Spruill).
"Chester the Chesapeake continues to inspire, entertain, and enlighten children while his new brother, Buck, has a few surprises. "Chester the Chesapeake Book Four: My Brother Buck continues this excellent picturebook series from the point of view of Chester, a devoted therapy dog and family pet.Īlso highly recommended are the previous books in the series, “Chester the Chesapeake (Book One), “Chester the Chesapeake: Summertime (Book Two),” and “Chester the Chesapeake: Wintertime (Book Three)." The Midwest Book Review They are available as paperbacks and ebooks and also free with KindleUnlimited.Ĭheck out his books under the "Chester's Books" tab and learn more about him and his events on "Chester's page." Here are some reviews: His children's book series warms children and adult dog lovers alike. And all five books have real pictures of Chester and his brothers along with the storyline. See the complete Chester the Chesapeake series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. Chester the Chesapeake is not only a philanthropic therapy dog but he has also written five children's books - from his point of view. Chester the Chesapeake: Summertime (The Chester the Chesapeake Series) Ebel MD, Barbara on . The Chester the Chesapeake book series by Barbara Ebel includes books Chester the Chesapeake, Summertime, and Wintertime. Derek Strange is his family's straight arrow, but his older brother Dennis has always had a harder time. in 1968, when riots followed the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. No wonder some observers have pointed to Pelecanos as the kind of thriller writer who should be nominated for a National Book Award." - Publishers Weeklyĭennis Lehane has called George Pelecanos "one of the best crime novelists alive." Hard Revolution is a rich, dramatic, totally engrossing story of two brothers, one a rookie police officer, one a recently returned Vietnam veteran, caught up in the chaos that engulfed D. "Written in rich, observant prose, the novel is a brilliant study of a society tearing apart as racial tensions escalate after the King killing. "This is a superior crime novel from one of the genre's outstanding writers." - Library Journal HARD REVOLUTION by George Pelecanos - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK See all titles by George Pelecanos. But does life change? Does the things worth remembering pile up and those worth forgetting, diminish? Come an unusually besotted patron one day and she switches her address in his favour. Wallowing silently in the memory of her departed lover, she wilfully insulates herself from her present state and instead falls back on books for sweet mental chaos. The prima donna of a famed whore house, Dimple regales her customers with her melancholic eyes and business-like primness and efficiency. In the war of remembering and forgetting, what side do we choose? Or do we choose at all? Isn’t life that, which happens when we are busy planning it? In the seductively opiated heavens of narrow-alleyed Bombay, a membrane-like life of a eunuch is stretched between her dreams and reality. Forgetfulness was a gift, a talent to be nurtured. This essay examines the presence of women’s bodies in their private writing during the physically and psychologically traumatizing atmosphere of the Second World War, focusing on the diaries of Marie Vassiltchikov and Marguerite Duras. During the first half of the twentieth-century, many women writers tried to present themselves as neutral, and therefore desexualized, subjects, which involved turning away from the body and focusing on the gender neutral mind.1 Women’s diaries from this period, however, evidence a different trend. Excised from intellectual spheres for centuries for purportedly being incapable of rising above their reproductive function to form an objective opinion, women writers often avoided writing about their bodies when they finally gained their precarious admittance into the intellectual sphere. Women in general and women writers in particular have a problematic history with embodiment. Often what is repressed in literature is the story of the body. As a private versus a public form of discourse, diaries often illuminate aspects of life experience that society endeavours to silence and suppress. |