Drawing on excerpts from her diaries, journals, letters, and even checks and receipts-as well as reports of others-Rollyson recreates the day-to-day world of a woman who still fascinates us more than fifty years after her death. In addition to restoring what is left out in other narratives about Marilyn’s life, this book also illuminates the gaps and discrepancies that still exist in our knowledge of her. With details of her childhood, her young adult years, her ascent to superstardom, and the hour by hour moments leading to her tragic early death, this volume supplements-and, in some cases, corrects-the accounts of previous biographies. In Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events, Carl Rollyson provides a documentary approach to the life and legend of this singular personality. However, no biography-regardless how authoritative-can contain all of the facts and events of an individual’s life, and Marilyn’s is no exception. Description: From hefty biographies and fact-based novels to photograph collections and memoirs, more books have been written about Marilyn Monroe than any other female over the past century.
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It's all Delaney can do to race to solve this crime before time runs out and she ends up in a victim on the slab herself. During her investigation, Delaney she finds some old scalpels in the bookshop's warehouse-she and discovers that they belonged to a long-dead doctor whose story and ties to the past crimes of Burke and Hare might be connected to the present-day murder. Delaney Nichols takes the leap and moves to Edinburgh, Scotland to start a job at The Cracked Spine. Delaney takes it upon herself to help bring the murderer to justice. Cover Image For The Cracked Spine by Paige Shelton. Her boss, Edwin MacAlister, agrees to buy the multivolume set, perhaps even to keep for his own collection.īut not long after the sale, one of Delaney's new friends is found murdered in the alley behind the Cracked Spine, and she wonders if there is some nefarious connection between the origin of these books and the people whose hands they fell into. When her new friends, also students at the medical school, come to the shop to sell a collection of antique medical books, Delaney knows she's stumbled across a rare and important find indeed. The shop is a place filled with curiosities and surprises tucked into every shelf, and it's Delaney's job to research the rare tomes and obscure artifacts that people come to buy and sell. Is a delightful new mystery by Paige Shelton, featuring bookseller and amateur sleuth Delaney Nichols.ĭelaney Nichols, originally of Kansas but settling happily into her new life as a bookseller in Edinburgh, works at the Cracked Spine in the heart of town. Maybe I should have checked out her blog to see if her writing style would be for me, because there is one thing for sure: her writing and me definitely didn’t get along. I’ve been looking forward to pick up We Are Never Meeting In Real Life despite the mixed reviews and despite the fact I hadn’t heard of the author before. Give me a cat on a cover and I’m immediately intrigued, and give me a promise of a potentially funny memoir and consider me signed up for the challenge. “And if that doesn’t work, I’ll just tell some more stupid jokes. The second, The Confectioner’s Guild by Claire Luana, started out good enough, but things soon fizzled out and the story failed to impress me in the end. Time for another round of Yvo’s Shorties! This time around I was less lucky with my reading choices… The first, We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby, ended up being a DNF for me as we definitely didn’t get along. Meanwhile, he loses himself dancing with his friends in their favorite Hell's Kitchen club, The Echo, to the music of new artists like The Clash, Madonna and Talking Heads. Photo by Sourcebooks Fire / "We Are Lost and Found" by Helene Dunbar His first list, a parody of a teacher's assignment, is: Yet he has dreams and a penchant for list-making. Michael knows that he, too, is gay, but he keeps his head down and his heart to himself, enduring his father's homophobic rages. Cut off from his family and his college fund, Conner is deep into the gay bathhouse and bar scene of the early 1980s. Michael's older brother, Conner, has already been kicked out of their parents' Upper West Side home for coming out in a speech at his high school graduation. In Helene Dunbar's latest young-adult novel, "We Are Lost and Found," Michael, the narrator, and his friends James and Becky struggle to navigate these dangerous waters. In 1983 Ronald Reagan was president, Stonewall was ancient history, and AIDS only a rumor of a strange "gay plague." It was an intoxicating, perilous time to be a teenager in New York, aching for love and freedom. "WE ARE LOST AND FOUND," by Helene Dunbar (Sourcebooks Fire, 304 pages, $18). 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David Ignatius is a Washington Post columnist and the author of “ The Director,” the most recent of his nine spy novels.īy now, the story of British double agent Harold “Kim” Philby may be the most familiar spy yarn ever, fodder for whole libraries of histories, personal memoirs and novels. 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Still on the run from a scorned obsessive capable of heinous acts, she feels the consequences of her past are fast closing in. Can they counter a dangerous menace and rekindle their fiery passion?Atlas Devereaux is intent on removing her loved ones from harm’s way. |