The first complete account of the making of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. reveals little-known facts about the cinema classic: Truman Capote desperately wanted Marilyn Monroe for the leading role director Blake Edwards filmed multiple endings Hepburn herself felt very conflicted about balancing the roles of mother and movie star. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. Prix du Syndicat Français de la Critique: 2012 Meilleur livre étranger sur le cinémaĮntertainment Weekly's Top 25 Pop Culture Tell-Alls of All TimeĪudrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audrey-dainty, immaculate-is anything but true to life. " is as melancholy and glittering as Capote's story of Holly Golightly." - The New Yorker
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She has also published several novels re-working well-known fairy tales set in a mid-19th to early 20th century setting in which magic is real, although hidden from the mundane world. The Bedlam's Bard books describe a young man with the power to work magic through music the SERRAted Edge books are about racecar driving elves and the Diana Tregarde thrillers center on a Wiccan who combats evil. Her other main world is one much like our own, but it includes clandestine populations of elves, mages, vampires, and other mythical beings. Her Valdemar novels include interaction between human and non-human protagonists with many different cultures and social mores. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar. Mercedes Ritchie Lackey (born June 24, 1950) is an American writer of fantasy novels. The last book in the series, Uriel’s Well, is in progress. His adventure continues in Glasruhen Gate, followed by Silver Hill, The Lost Treasure of Annwn, The Oak Lord, and The Wichen Tree. Once you’ve read this book we’re sure you’ll want to read more about Jack Brenin and the magical ‘Otherworld’ he becomes involved in. The Golden Acorn can be read as a stand-alone or as the first book in an on-going seven-book adventure. Your kids will love it, and so will you! This brilliant story deservedly won the Brit Writers’ Awards 2010 for unpublished writers. Full of twists and turns, a greedy grumpy raven, and other memorable characters, ‘The Golden Acorn’ is a hugely entertaining and exciting tale from a very talented new author. Just an ordinary boy, Jack has been chosen for a hugely important task, and enters a world he believed only existed in legend. When Jack Brenin finds a golden acorn lying in the grass, little does he know that it is the beginning of a thrilling and magical adventure. The Golden Acorn is the first book in the bestselling Jack Brenin series. ” Cooking was one of Cary’s joys, but it wasn’t one of his talents. I’m breaking in the new kitchen for dinner.” “If I make it through the day, that’ll be worth celebrating.” “How about tomorrow after work?” I offered as a substitute. No matter his expression, he was a knockout. I fully expected his million-dollar face to appear on billboards and fashion magazines all over the world one day. “Walk fast, work out faster.” Cary’s perfectly executed arched brow made me laugh. “After I time the walk to work, I’m going to hit the gym.” “I don’t know if I’ll make it back in time.” I gestured at my yoga pants and fitted workout tank. We can hit a happy hour and be in by eight.” “I’m not talking about a bender,” he insisted. I might have resented that if he hadn’t been the dearest person on earth to me. Leanly built, dark-haired, and green-eyed, Cary was a man who rarely looked anything less than absolutely gorgeous on any day of his life. We’d been unpacking for days, yet he still looked amazing. “Come on, Eva.” Cary sat on our new living room floor amid a half dozen moving boxes and flashed his winning smile. “I’m sure drinking the night before starting a new job is a bad idea.” I’d always considered it part of his charm. Cary Taylor found excuses to celebrate, no matter how small and inconsequential. I wasn’t surprised by my roommate’s emphatic pronouncement. As he set out to reply to them, he told her: “I can’t imagine doing this when I get older.” And then, more quietly added, “How long do I have to continue doing this?” In her book, Turkle offers the example of a 16-year-old boy, who got 100 text messages during the hour she interviewed him. Are we willing to just be on a treadmill of communication without real connection?” says Turkle - the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Social Studies of Science and Technology in MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society - who is founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. “Most people love the technology, but we’re texting at meals, texting at funerals. Based on 15 years of research and hundreds of interviews with children and adults, the book tells the story of the new disturbing relationships among parents, children, sweethearts, and friends and reveals that beyond our incessant communication lies a deep human need for stillness, solitude, and intimacy. Recently, Turkle published Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. We’re seduced by the possibility that we’re always connected, always wanted, always needed,” says Sherry Turkle, adding that we’re so enmeshed with our connections that we neglect each other. Second is Bill Uhouse, who claims to have spent an entire 38-year career at the very heart of an Unacknowledged Special Access Project and made some unofficial public disclosures relating mostly to advanced technology and the goal of perfecting functional flying discs. The first, Melinda Leslie, presents compelling evidence that the military itself is involved with the abductions of important contactees with the express purpose of gaining information from them about alien technology. Interviews two key researchers that have had access to those at deeper security levels, or have operated at this level themselves. This book delves into these deeper levels and reveals exactly how and why this secrecy has been maintained. government has involved itself in the deepest levels of secrecy involving an alien presence on the Earth. According to the author, from the 1940's to the present time the U.S. Marie resents her mother for that, even though, in 1992, she is about to do the same thing herself. Her mother abandons her family and goes back to Martinique. Marie and her sister grew up thinking of Communism as the enemy, and this plays an important role as we see how Marie’s views change over the years. This is the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when people were terrified of nuclear war. She hero-worships her older sister Helene, who wants to be a spy. There are flashbacks to Marie’s childhood in New York in the 1960s, which form the book’s second story line. The other two timelines relate the events that led to the intruder’s being in her house, and the reader gradually finds out why Marie’s life is in danger, and why she has to leave her sons in the care of her mother in Martinique. The book is told in the form of a journal that Marie keeps for her sons, which she means them to read when they’re older. It begins with the one that is chronologically the latest, in Martinique in 1992, where Marie has to flee with her twin sons after she shoots an intruder in her house. Both her parents’ backgrounds play important roles in the story. Marie’s father is a black policeman from New York, and her mother is a French-speaking Catholic from Martinique, who passed as white when she was growing up. Marie Mitchell is a brilliant FBI agent, but she is constantly being turned down for high-profile assignments because of her race and gender. American Spy is author Lauren Wilkinson’s stunning debut novel: a Cold War thriller with a black woman as the protagonist. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. What happens to them-and to the men they love-becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity, and passion. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. “A great narrative about personal strength and really captures how books bring communities together.” -Reese Witherspoonįrom the author of the forthcoming Someone Else’s Shoes, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond in Depression-era AmericaĪlice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve, hoping to escape her stifling life in England. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK And as our new neighbourhood appeared to be as quiet as the boulevard on to which we had hitherto looked had been noisy, the song (distinct at a distance, when it was still quite faint, like an orchestral motif) of a passer-by brought tears to the eyes of a Françoise in exile. Now she faced even silence with a strained attention. Certainly the servants had made no less noise in the attics of our old home but she knew them, she had made of their comings and goings familiar events. Every word uttered by the maids upstairs made her jump disturbed by all their running about, she kept asking herself what they could be doing. The twittering of the birds at daybreak sounded insipid to Françoise. Part 1 Chapter 1 The Duchess de Guermantes Shield thee from injury, and enforce the law! YOUTH greets the guests to-night and fills the glass. NATURE, to outdo him, wrought of human clayĪ fairy blossom, which we acclaim to-day.Įv'n so, untouched by years that envious pass Visit his website, Facebook page, and follow him on Twitter at /JefferyDeaver. Jeffery Deaver lives in North Carolina and California. To stop him, the authorities free imprisoned former hacker Wyatt. His code name is Phate - a sadistic computer hacker who infiltrates people's computers, invades their lives, and with chilling precision lures them to their deaths. He won the WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award in 2001 and in 2004 won the Crime Writers' Association Steel Dagger for Best Thriller with Garden of Beasts, and their Short Story Dagger for The Weekender from Twisted. Jeffery Deaver (Goodreads Author) 3.98 Rating details 10,905 ratings 698 reviews. The first Kathryn Dance novel, The Sleeping Doll, was published in 2007 to enormous acclaim.Ī three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the year, he has been nominated for an Anthony Award and six Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. He is best known for his Lincoln Rhyme thrillers, which include the number one bestsellers The Vanished Man, The Twelfth Card and The Cold Moon, as well as The Bone Collector which was made into a feature film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. Jeffery Deaver is the award-winning author of two collections of short stories and 29 internationally bestselling novels, including the latest James Bond novel Carte Blanche. |