![]() ![]() As Jingwen and Yanghao bake elaborate cakes, they’ll have to cook up elaborate excuses to keep the cake making a secret from Mama. The only problem is his mother has laid down one major rule: the brothers are not to use the oven while she’s at work. ![]() To distract himself from the loneliness, Jingwen daydreams about making all the cakes on the menu of Pie in the Sky, the bakery his father had planned to open before he unexpectedly passed away. School is torture, making friends is impossible since he doesn’t speak English, and he’s often stuck looking after his (extremely irritating) little brother, Yanghao. When Jingwen moves to a new country, he feels like he’s landed on Mars. A poignant, laugh-out-loud illustrated middle-grade novel about an eleven-year-old boy’s immigration experience, his annoying little brother, and their cake-baking hijinks! Sometimes life isn’t a piece of cake. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This darkly comic take on contemporary publishing may well leave readers asking, “Who is Alexandra Andrews?” Agent: Jennifer Joel, ICM Partners. And with that the game truly is afoot as Florence scrambles to figure out the nature of what will prove to be Helen’s fiendish master plot, barreling full-speed towards a breathtaking series of Highsmith-style twists and a stunning conclusion. ![]() Especially after Florence wakes up in the hospital following a car crash to find no trace of Helen, but instead a gendarme insistent that she is in fact Helen, an understandable error given the name on the car rental paperwork as well as Helen’s soggy ID. But when the pair embark on a research trip to Morocco, things become considerably more complicated. Alexandra Andrews has worked as a journalist, editor and copywriter in New York and Paris. Initially, all goes swimmingly as Florence’s charismatic new boss-real name Helen Wilcox, and at 32 only a few years her senior-seems keen on mentoring Florence. Then fate intervenes-an offer to become the live-in writing assistant to a literary supernova who uses the pseudonym Maud Dixon. When aspiring novelist Florence Darrow, the protagonist of Andrews’s devilishly plotted debut, gets fired from her dogsbody job at a Manhattan publishing house, she faces the prospect that she might not be destined for greatness after all. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I bumped into the head of Perrier,” Makos recalled. During one flight with Warhol, he managed a bit of deal-making for the artist. ‘A lot of people drank better on the Concorde than they did on the ground.’Photographer Christopher Makos frequently traveled via Concorde with pals Calvin Klein and Andy Warhol. Dolly Parton flirted with the pilots and Cindy Crawford has recalled how she once fell asleep before take-off and “ up an hour later to find Mick Jagger sitting next to me.” Masters of the universe Henry Kravis and George Soros seat-hopped. Jet-setters - who included Princess Diana, Henry Kissinger and Steven Spielberg - quaffed from $200 bottles of Dom Perignon and ate blue lobster. ![]() If money had a smell, you could smell it on the Concorde.”įrom 1976 to 2003, it was the world’s most expensive high-tech form of air travel: $1,500 for a round trip the first year and $12,000 by the last. “It was getting in touch with how the super-rich live. “If a really beautiful coat came through, we occasionally slipped it on before placing it on the hanger,” former flight attendant Sally Armstrong, author of “ Vintage Champagne on the Edge of Space,” told The Post. 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Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.Tue at 7pm, Sue Lynn Tan Author of Daughter of the Moon Goddess. ![]() ![]() ![]() From 2005-11, he was an assistant professor of English at the University of Maine. from the University of Maine (1996), and a Ph.D. ![]() ![]() from the University of Michigan (1991), an M.A. He has worked on Alternate Reality Games including The Beast and I Love Bees and is the writer of the Facebook game Marvel: Avengers Alliance. As well as writing about comics he has written a number of comic book series, including one featuring Daimon Hellstrom for the Marvel Comics imprint MAX, Daredevil Noir, and " Iron Man: The Rapture." He released a collection of thirteen short stories called Pictures from an Expedition in 2006. He has also published the Grail Quest novel One King, One Soldier (2004), and the World War II-era historical fantasy The Narrows (2005). Irvine first gained attention with his Locus Award-winning 2002 novel A Scattering of Jades (which also won the Crawford Award in 2003) and the stories that would form the 2003 collection Unintended Consequences. Alexander Christian Irvine (born March 22, 1969) is an American fantasy and sci-fi author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Now, in My Name Is Lucy Barton, this extraordinary writer shows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all - the one between mother and daughter. Her bestselling novels, including Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys, have illuminated our most tender relationships. I thought how when I got out of the hospital I would never again walk down the sidewalk without giving thanks for being one of those people, and for many years I did that - I would remember the view from the hospital window and be glad for the sidewalk I was walking on.Ī new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is cause for celebration. It was May, and then June, and I remember how I would stand and look out the window at the sidewalk below and watch the young women - my age - in their spring clothes, out on their lunch breaks I could see their heads moving in conversation, their blouses rippling in the breeze. ![]() During the day, the building’s beauty receded, and gradually it became simply one more large structure against a blue sky, and all the city’s buildings seemed remote, silent, far away. ![]() This was in New York City, and at night a view of the Chrysler Building, with its geometric brilliance of lights, was directly visible from my bed. ![]() There was a time, and it was many years ago now, when I had to stay in a hospital for almost nine weeks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At the beginning of his career, he followed his father's footsteps and studied as a goldsmith. Vincenzo Danti was born in Perugia in 1530. His sculptures are displayed in all major museums worldwide, but it is Florence and Perugia which hold his masterpieces such as the admirable group of marble statues Honour Triumphs over Falsehood at the Bargello Museum in Florence. Most of his own work thus shows Michelangelo's influence, as demonstrated by the big bronze statue of Pope Julius III (1553-55) which was inspired by Michelangelo's lost prototype of Pope Julius II. Danti studied Michelangelo's style and works very carefully, drawing inspiration from what he considered to be models of perfection. He is commonly known as Michelangelo's apprentice, even though they never worked together. The end of restoration works of the famous bronze group of the Florence Baptistery, The Beheading of St John the Baptist, helped to rediscover the celebrated sculptor and architect of the Renaissance, Vincenzo Danti.īorn in Perugia, Danti worked for many years in Florence for the Medici family alongside Giambologna. ![]() ![]() She clings to her dear friends, but they too are changing. Her parents' grief and depression, and her father's affair with another woman, finished the marriage, and Jes still cannot accept this loss. The death of Jes's baby sister when Jes was eight years old was the beginning of the end. Jes spends a lot of time with her sad father, especially at the lake cottage where they share so many memories of happy times before their family disintegrated. So she is not enthusiastic at all when her mother plans to remarry. She wanted to believe in "happily ever after," and "forever," but the breakup of her parents' marriage has soured her belief in commitment. 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R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We aim to review trading updates & results of the day and offer our opinions on them as possible candidates for further research if they interest you. Mello Chiswick - I'm looking forward to attending next week, I'll be there both days, in the afternoon/evenings, and look forward to seeing old friends, and new - do come and say hello if you're there, I love meeting Stockopedia subscribers in person!Ī quick reminder that we don’t recommend any stocks. I'm looking forward to the Q&A with Sosandar (LON:SOS) management (I hold). Tonight - Mello Monday investor show online, is free! More details here. I'm told my podcasts are popular with dog walkers, and gym members! It's great taking stock each weekend, as the blizzard of company news stops for two days. ![]() Gave me a good chance to have a moan about a couple of little things that have been irritating me (!), and to run through the usual recap of small companies news. Podcasts - from Paul, went up on Saturday morning as usual. ![]() Took me a lot longer than anticipated, sorry about that! So I'll type it up now, and put it into tomorrow report first thing. Update at 16:39 - I've just finished reviewing CNIC, but it's too late for today's report. Update at 13:18 - I'm still working on CNIC, so will carry on until that's finished. Good morning, it's Paul & Roland here today! Many thanks to Roland for joining me today, as Graham needed some time for another project. ![]() |