![]() ![]() Most doctors of the era advised Marie and her husband to place Karen in an institution and forget they ever had a daughter with that name. The book was not a new publication when I first read it. That’s what my brothers and I did with Tricia! They even had a dog who assigned himself the duty of Karen’s guardian. ![]() Karen’s siblings helped teach her to walk and eat and play like other children. While she had a delightful personality, Karen was no angel, and she paid the consequences just as her brother and sisters did. Karen’s parents treated her like all of their other children. Except the hardships were laced with such joyful episodes of the Killilea family loving and supporting each other, how could I feel sorry for them for long? I identified with them. A true story, Marie Killilea wrote about the hardships of raising a daughter (Karen) with CP. So when I was twelve and Tricia was two, my mom handed me a book. One of her challenges was cerebral palsy (CP). For her first two years, she was in and out of hospitals as doctors became detectives in discovering what was wrong and what, if anything, medicine could do to help. ![]() A victim of the German Measles epidemic in the mid-1960’s, Tricia entered this world with several congenital defects. One of those difficult seasons arrived early in life when my sister was born. In my own seasons of calamity I have learned to be content, and I hope I will honestly be able to say at the end of my earthly life when all seasons come to a close, “I know both how to be abased and how to abound.” ![]()
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![]() ![]() Webster & Co., tell the story of his later military career while revealing the qualities as military commander which so endeared him to Lincoln. Grant’s personal memoirs, published in 1885 by Mark Twain and his publishing company, Charles L. Grant, Lincoln finally found his general, one “who would fight.” The list of prior commanders whose reticence and caution so vexed Lincoln numbers four, beginning with George McClellan and moving rapidly through Burnside, Hooker, and Meade. The appointment by President Abraham Lincoln of Grant as Commanding General of the entire Union Army in March of 1864 signaled the end of the president’s White House horrors with previous commanding generals who refused to carry the battlefield fight to Robert E. In stark contrast to his record as president, Grant’s accomplishments as Lieutenant General and leader of the Army of the Potomac in the U.S. His two presidential terms (1869-1877) were marred by widespread charges of corruption within his administrations. ![]() ![]() Like George Washington, Grant led the people of this land both in time of war and, subsequently, as president of the country. Few people have left so indelible a mark on the United States of America as did Ulysses S. ![]() ![]() ![]() I grew up with her in Lizzie Maguire, and even rocked the Lizzie hairstyle for a while. It will be filled with spoilers and un-ladylike language, so people of delicate sensibilities take heed. This is more of a rant than a cohesive, intelligent review. Duff and her mother were listed as producers for the movie Material Girls, As of April 2008, her upcoming films include the action thriller War, Inc., animated comedy Foodfight!, and independent films Greta and Safety Glass. ![]() She has also launched a clothing line, "Stuff by Hilary Duff", and two exclusive perfume collections with Elizabeth Arden. Duff's last studio album, Dignity, was released in April 2007 and was certified Gold in August 2007. Her first studio album, Metamorphosis (2003), was certified triple platinum and she followed it up with two more platinum albums, Hilary Duff (2004) and Most Wanted (2005). After gaining fame for playing the title role in the television show Lizzie McGuire, Duff went on to have a film career her most commercially successful movies include Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003), and A Cinderella Story (2004).ĭuff has expanded her repertoire into pop music, with four RIAA certified Platinum albums and over thirteen million albums sold worldwide. Hilary Erhard Duff is an American actress, pop singer-songwriter and entrepreneur. ![]() ![]() It wasn’t the most pleasant thing I’ve ever seen.Īll the carvings were like that. ![]() Its lower lip was pulled down to reveal broad, flat teeth that went most of the way to the ears. It had bulging eyes and an almost nonexistent nose. It is here that Mouse finds an array of large stones carved into weird images: Then, while exploring the surrounding countryside, she reaches a bizarre place that seems to have no geographic connection with the rest of the area. One of the strangest objects that Mouse comes across is a journal kept by Cotgrave, filled with arcane statements, one of which is repeated over and over again: “I made faces like the faces on the rocks, and I twisted myself about like the twisted ones, and I lay down flat on the ground like the dead ones.” From here, Mouse learns that her kindly old step-grandfather had problems that went beyond his choice of wife. Mouse’s grandmother was a dedicated hoarder, and so the house is filled with oddities and curiosities that range from dolls resembling dead babies to enigmatic old books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once Mouse temporarily moves into the woodland cottage, her main companions are her dog Bongo and her memories of her grandparents: warm recollections of Cotgrave, and altogether more bitter memories of her grandmother. Melissa (Mouse to her friends) is tasked with clearing out the North Carolina cottage that once belonged to her grandmother, a woman known for her cruelty to all those around her – including her husband Cotgrave, Mouse’s “step-grandfather”. ![]() ![]() He wished to go into politics or be a man of letters, but the death of his father when he was thirteen, and that of his mother two years later, forced him to quit his studies and find work to support himself. The young Jerome attended St Marylebone Grammar School. ![]() The family moved to London and lived in Poplar, where his father set up as an ironmonger. Owing to bad investments in the local mining industry, the family suffered poverty, and debt collectors often visited, an experience Jerome described vividly in his autobiography My Life and Times (1926). His middle name was derived from George Klapka, an Hungarian exile, and friend of the family. His father, Jerome Clapp Jerome was a qualified architect, and his mother, Marguerite Jones, was the daughter of a Swansea solicitor. ![]() Novelist, essayist, humourist and playwright, Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Walsall, Staffordshire in 1859. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stargate meets His Dark Materials in a new non-stop sci-fi action blockbuster! Those ingredients are unusual enough that I need to know more! (Plus the covers look like “Die,” which makes me smile). That seems pretty high! This is a comic taking place in that remote land, but the solicit also invokes His Dark Materials, which as we all know is Harry Potter for pretentious kids and intellectuals. There’s a whole continent down there that we hardly ever talk about! Sure it’s mostly white and featureless, and yeah, there can’t be more than… wow Google is telling me that at any given time, there are between 1,000-4,000 humans living on the southernmost continent. ![]() BIG GAME pulls together KICK-ASS, KINGSMAN, NEMESIS, THE MAGIC ORDER, and ALL the Millarworld franchises in one special event. Just trust us when we say that this is going to be the comic book event of 2023-and it’s NOT what you’re expecting.ĭoes the crossover really go that wide? Yes, it does. Okay, this is so top secret we can’t even show you the main cover because it spoils something MASSIVE. If Millar is a flavor you like, you must be pretty lucky. He’s got a new series called “Big Game.” But in July Image is also publishing a “Nemesis” hardcover, and a 20th anniversary reprint of “Wanted” #1. But this summer, Image is celebrating the guy’s work, so this seems as good a time as any to rep the misanthrope. ![]() I’ve occasionally pointed to a new Millar title in this column. “Superman: Red Son” may be a stone cold masterpiece. ![]() ![]() ![]() She tweets at Advance Praise for Sing Your Sadness Deep "Laura Mauro's SING YOUR SADNESS DEEP is a beautiful foray into the strange and uncanny. She loves Finnish folklore, Japanese wrestling and Russian space-dogs. Her short story "Sun Dogs" was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist, and "Looking for Laika" won the 2018 British Fantasy Award in Short Fiction. Her debut novella Naming the Bones was published in 2017. Born in London, England, her stories have appeared in Black Static, Interzone, Shadows & Tall Trees, The Dark, and a variety of anthologies. Laura Mauro started writing short fiction in 2012 and hasn't stopped since. A major new talent! Featuring "Looking for Laika," winner of the British Fantasy Award, and "Sun Dogs," a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award. ![]() Human and humane tales of beauty, strangeness, and transformation told in prose as precise and sparing as a surgeon's knife. British Fantasy Award-winning author, and Shirley Jackson Award finalist Laura Mauro, a leading voice in contemporary dark fiction, delivers a remarkable debut collection of startling short fiction. ![]() ![]() In Love and War, the Main and Hazard families clash on and off the Civil War's battlefields as they grapple with the violent realities of a divided nation. ![]() In John Jakes's unmatched style, North and South launches a trilogy that captures the fierce passions of a country at the precipice of disaster. ![]() As the first rounds are fired at Fort Sumter, Orry and George find themselves on different sides of the coming struggle. Together they fight in the Mexican-American War, but their closeness is tested as their regional politics diverge. Orry Main from South Carolina and George Hazard from Pennsylvania forge a lasting bond while training at the United States Military Academy at West Point. In the years leading up to the Civil War, one enduring friendship embodies the tensions of a nation. In North and South, the first volume of John Jakes's acclaimed and sweeping saga, a friendship is threatened by the divisions of the Civil War. ![]() Two families are unitedand torn apartby the Civil War in these three dramatic novels by the #1 New York Timesbestselling master of the historical epic. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1967's Casino Royale was an unholy mess of a spoof, with no less than eight Bonds (nine including Sean Connery, who does not appear but receives a Shout-Out) and invoked almost as many directors.In turn Leiter was changed from American to British. It starred Barry Nelson as "Jimmy" Bond and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre. While it has the honor of being the first James Bond production outside a book, it Americanized everything including Bond himself, as well as greatly simplifying the story. 1954's Casino Royale was an episode made for the American Climax! TV series produced by CBS.The three different adaptations are as follows: The idea behind it is to cripple the Russian spy organization SMERSH, whom Le Chiffre is working for.įleming sold the rights to the novel separately from the rest of the main film series, which is the reason that it took so long for a proper adaptation of it. The plot follows Bond, as he is tasked to bankrupt a man named Le Chiffre in a card game at the eponymous casino. Ian Fleming's very first James Bond novel, published in 1953. ![]() ![]() When Maya and Skye are invited to star on the reality dating show Second-Chance Romance, they’re whisked away to a beautiful mansion-along with four more of Jordy’s exes- to compete for his affections while the whole world watches. Now his face is all over the media and Skye is still wondering why he stopped calling. ![]() Skye Kaplan was always cautious with her heart until Jordy said all the right things and earned her trust. If the world only knew the real Jordy, the manipulative liar who broke Maya’s heart. It’s been two years since Maya's ex-boyfriend cheated on her, and she still can’t escape him: his sister married the crown prince of a minor European country and he captured hearts as her charming younger brother. ![]() When their now famous ex-boyfriend asks them to participate in a teen reality show, two eighteen year old girls-one bent on revenge, the other open to rekindling romance-get tangled up in an unexpected twist when they fall for each other instead in Never Ever Getting Back Together by nationally and internationally-bestselling and Indie Next Pick author Sophie Gonzales. ![]() |