And then I said, ‘I want to write my first contemporary,’ and that was kind of the needle-scratch-on-the-record moment. I said, ‘I want them to be killers,’ and they loved that idea. “I came back a week later and said, ‘I would want the characters to be 60s,’ and the company loved that idea. Her editor suggested that Raybourn get on the case. “They had apparently been sitting around chatting in the office one day saying, ‘Why don’t we have more books about older women doing kick-ass things?’” she said in a phone interview. Raybourn, who made a name for herself writing historical mysteries, said the idea of writing about, shall we say, seasoned characters originally came from her publisher, Berkley. “We have never actually killed and do not wish to, but oh, the vicarious satisfaction in following these four Valkyries as they battle arthritis and hot flashes to once again don their super-assassin personas and act.” “We spend our lives nurturing precious life - our children, our grandchildren,” wrote one reader. A quick tour of Amazon reviews shows an overwhelmingly positive (even grateful) response. Why should young people hog all the heart-pounding adventure, not to mention the shelf space reserved for world-class assassins?ĭeanna Raybourn’s best-selling thriller, “ Killers of a Certain Age,” flips the script we’ve memorized from “La Femme Nikita” and “Ocean’s 8,” introducing women who are veteran killers in their 60s, equipped with all the perspective and perspicacity that comes with life experience.
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Master storyteller Ruta Sepetys is back with a historical thriller that examines the little-known history of a nation defined by silence, pain, and the unwavering conviction of the human spirit. He eagerly joins the revolution to fight for change when the time arrives. He’s left with only two choices: betray everyone and everything he loves-or use his position to creatively undermine the most notoriously evil dictator in Eastern Europe.Ĭristian risks everything to unmask the truth behind the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream they are bound by rules and force.Īmidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. A #1 New York Times and National Bestseller!Ī gut-wrenching, startling historical thriller about communist Romania and the citizen spy network that devastated a nation, from the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray. Based on the above, this paper sets off to offer an analysis of the narratives that the Italian feminist network Non una di meno shares with the public via its official Twitter account In this paper, I argue that Non una di meno operates as an organizationally enabled network that frames its message through a combination of centralized decision-making and social media crowdsourcing. However, it is fair to say that social movements had to re-adjust their framing strategies in order to convey their messages to a public that seems to be relatively unwilling to engage in social mobilization, increasingly exposed to globalized news, and particularly eager to communicate via commercial social media platforms. 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These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. Simpson was preceded in death by her brothers, Joe Harrell, Austin Harrell (Wanda), Frankie Harrell, and Charles Harrell her sister, Katherine Harrison (Herman) her sister-in-law, Lillian Harrell and brother-in-law, David Whiteley. Simpson (Sarah) of Oakland, California her great-grandchildren, Page Morehead and McCall "Mac" Morehead of Spartanburg, and Clive Simpson of Oakland, California her brothers, Walker Harrell of Sardis, AR, Leo Harrell (Jamie) of Sherwood, AR, David Harrell (Shirley) of North Little Rock, AR, and Bobby Harrell (Janet) of Sherwood, AR her sisters, Eva Harrell and Martha Whiteley of Mena, AR, sisters-in-law, Ruth Harrell of Jacksonville, AR, Janice Harrell of Mayflower, AR and Christa Harrell of Worms, Germany and numerous nieces, nephews, great nieces, great nephews, great, great nieces and great, great nephews. Melissa Morehead (McCall) of Spartanburg, and Bradley D. Simpson (Bonnie) of Spartanburg her grandchildren, J. The oldest of twelve children, she enjoyed square dancing and loved her family. She was a member of Park Hill Baptist Church and the Order of the Eastern Star. She attended Sylvan Hills High School, and worked as a bookkeeper associated with Cameron Feed Mills and Twin City Printing Company for over 50 years. Simpson and a daughter of the late Horace and Ethel McPike Harrell. Born Apin Cato, Arkansas, she was the wife of the late Henry A. Freeda Mae Harrell Simpson, 90, of North Little Rock, Arkansas, passed away on Saturday, April 2, 2016. OL19704914W Page_number_confidence 93.73 Pages 486 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200909112045 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 454 Scandate 20200904084151 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780141394817 Tts_version 4. Urn:lcp:autobiography0000morr:epub:f96e2ca8-5136-4cee-83f4-c75fe5bdc7f8 Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier autobiography0000morr Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t55f81m6m Invoice 2089 Isbn 0141394811ĩ780141394817 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.5 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19200 Openlibrary_edition The final scene is set at Chicago's Congress Theater on New Year's Eve, 2011. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:01:07 Boxid IA1925810 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Morrissey's autobiography includes memories of his childhood and his time with the band The Smiths. Shortly thereafter he began receiving private instruction toward passing the entrance exams for Prague’s Charles-Ferdinand University. He immediately returned to Prague, only to find that his parents had divorced in his absence. At age eleven Rilke began his formal schooling at a military boarding academy in 1891 he was discharged due to health problems that would plague him throughout his life. For him Art was what mattered most in life.” The only child of a German-speaking family in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Rilke was the son of a retired officer in the Austrian army who worked as a railroad official his mother was a socially ambitious and possessive woman. Bowra observed in Rainer Maria Rilke: Aspects of His Mind and Poetry, “Where others have found a unifying principle for themselves in religion or morality or the search for truth, Rilke found his in the search for impressions and the hope these could be turned into poetry. Widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets, Rainer Maria Rilke was unique in his efforts to expand the realm of poetry through new uses of syntax and imagery and in an aesthetic philosophy that rejected Christian precepts and strove to reconcile beauty and suffering, life and death. How do you keep your sanity in our run, run, run world? Most of my historicals have a touch of mystery. I’ve ended up combining all of those in my historical stories. I love reading mysteries, suspense novels, as well as historical romances. Tell us the range of the kinds of books you enjoy reading. That’s when I started believing I really was a writer. At the ACFW conference in 2003, I had an editor, a copy editor, and a published author tell me I had a great story. I tried to start writing novels the beginning of 2001. When did you first discover that you were a writer? Not to mention the fact that I thoroughly enjoyed my skydiving adventure. I guess jumping out of an airplane could qualify as being quirky. What is the quirkiest thing you have ever done? Just little things like that go into each story. I’ve written that in some of my characters. I’m a bit of a tomboy and that’s in a couple of my characters. I think there’s a little bit of me in each of my heroines. Tell us how much of yourself you write into your characters. Now I'm featuring Janelle Mowery with a solo book. Hold Still includes almost a dozen attempts to get it right. OL20000682W Page_number_confidence 93.85 Pages 506 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211019170014 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 401 Scandate 20211015065554 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780316247764 Tts_version 4. Over the summer, Mann began photographing her son in the water. 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