![]() ![]() ![]() With her trademark historical fiction exploration into the shadows of the past, acclaimed author Marie Benedict brings us into the world of Agatha Christie, imagining why such a brilliant woman would find herself at the center of such murky historical mysteries. The puzzle of those missing eleven days has persisted. Eleven days later, she reappears, just as mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming amnesia and providing no explanations for her time away. Her World War I veteran husband and her daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car-strange for a frigid night. In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room returns with a thrilling reconstruction of one of the most notorious events in literary history: Agatha Christie's mysterious 11-day disappearance in 1926. ![]() The ending is ingenious, and it's possible that Benedict has brought to life the most plausible explanation for why Christie disappeared for 11 days in 1926."- The Washington Post THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER! ![]()
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I daydreamed about becoming an orphan, and being taken away to live with a real family." (p. When they were home, I spent most of my time locked in my room, hiding, talking to imaginary and stuffed friends. "Already I was wishing myself out of being raised by my parents. ![]() Of her early childhood memories Shenandoah Chefalo recounts, ![]() ![]() I recently finished reading a memoir sadly yet appropriately titled Garbage Bag Suitcase written by a woman who suffered a childhood of neglect and abuse because of her parent's drug addiction and alcoholism. ![]() ![]() ![]() The country’s massive network of highways hadn’t been built. ![]() This was the 1930s, when regional differences were stark and pride for one’s culinary traditions ran deep. Greg Morago is the Chronicle’s food editor. Kurlansky sifted through these lost WPA files to create a book that looks at a seemingly lost time in American eating. If there ever was a time we need a recipe for Depression Cake, it’s now. The Food of a Younger Land comes at a time when America is interested in seasonal, locally grown produce and, once again, faces a sagging economy. While you don’t need an essay on the Automat to tell you times have changed, the book’s piece on the famous coin-operated food-dispensing restaurant is like stepping into a culinary time warp. But the pieces also speak volumes on the way we ate before the Food Network: squirrel stew, oyster roasts, pulled candy, lutefisk suppers, vinegar pie, beaver tails and poke sallit. ![]() A remarkable portrait of American food before World War. Kurlansky, author of fascinating histories of foodstuffs such as cod, salt and oysters, supplies context and background to these essays and recipes from writers forgotten and writers celebrated (Eudora Welty and Zora Neale Hurston were on the America Eats project). Read 419 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The book is a delectable slice of culinary anthropology. Food writer Mark Kurlansky unearthed that treasure trove of culinary Americana - everything from Arkansas ash cakes and Arizona menudo patties to Vermont sugaring and Wisconsin sourdough pancakes - represented in The Food of a Younger Land. ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:beautifulasyeste0000wufa:epub:68f7362f-fd3c-4d00-8c33-96722a7819b2 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier beautifulasyeste0000wufa Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t53g4qs3w Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780330513548Ġ330447750 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9572 Ocr_module_version 0.0.10 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000172 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:00:45 Boxid IA40032302 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Two of the other English guests – a Mr Emerson and his son, George – hear them complaining and immediately offer to exchange rooms, but instead of accepting their generous offer, the rules of Edwardian society mean that Charlotte is shocked and offended by what she considers their inappropriate behaviour. 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He's also gentle, kind, charming-unlike any man she's ever known. With time running out, she accepts his help, but there's more to this man than he's admitting. He's looking for work and will serve on the farm until her husband arrives. Then a man appears: Carl Richards, from their home country of Germany and a former schoolteacher-or so he says. ![]() So her father sends a letter to his brother in the Old Country, asking him to find Annalisa a groom. A marriage for love.that's something she's given up on. Her husband failed her in every way and now his death has left her with few options to save the family farm. 2014 Carol Award Winner for Historical RomanceĪnnalisa Werner's hope for a fairy tale love is over. ![]() ![]() I fell even more in love with Rebecca and Nate, and I loved seeing them grow, seeing their relationship develop, and how they dealt with their feelings. Also, it has a few chapters told in the third person, but they take place in the past, and they’re the cutest thing ever. Well, it’s here, and it’s epic!īy now we’ve established that I love anything that Sarina Bowen writes, right?! But this book, contrary to the other books in this series, is told in the first person, and that made me love it even more. ![]() I’ve loved these two since book 1, and I’ve been patiently ( or not so patiently) waiting for them to get their turn. Oh, we’ve waiting so long for this book, and I’m beyond happy that Sarina was able to give us the story that Becca and Nate deserved. So why can’t we keep our hands off each other? She says we’re too different, and it can never happen again. But what friends don’t do is rip off each others’ clothes for a single, wild night together. When Rebecca gets hurt, I step in to help. ![]() All I know is that one whiff of her perfume ruins my concentration. I don’t know when I started waking in the night, craving her. She manages both my hockey team and my sanity. ![]() You’d be wrong.įor seven years Rebecca has brightened my office with her wit and her smile. ![]() You’d think a billion dollars, a professional hockey team and a six-bedroom mansion on the Promenade would satisfy a guy. ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Carrollton March", copyrighted July 1, 1828, was composed by Arthur Clifton to commemorate the groundbreaking of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The earliest known train songs date to two years before the first public railway began operating in the United States. ![]() While the prominence of railroads in the United States has faded in recent decades, the train endures as a common image in popular song. Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in all major musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde. Sheet music for the first-known train song Ĭommemoration of the groundbreaking for the Baltimore & Ohio RailroadĪ train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a habit left over from the days when Starbucks charged for Internet access. ![]() ![]() I love writing at Starbucks - not coffee shops in general, but Starbucks. TQ: What would you say is your most interesting writing quirk?Ĭassandra: Well, I’m not sure any of my writer quirks are all that interesting, per se. I think I started because I liked it! I love to read and watch movies (two modes of storytelling), so it was probably inevitable that I’d start storytelling myself. I also started submitting short stories around that time, too.Īs for why I started writing - I’m not sure, honestly. Grad school helped me finish my first novel, which, although now permanently trunked, taught me enough that I was able to complete my second novel, The Mad Scientist’s Daughter. I started writing with the goal of publication after I completed graduate school. ![]() I used to craft ten-page epics in response to my fifth grade teacher’s assignment to write a story using our spelling words (he only required one page), and I remember making illustrated pop-up books that told scary stories about monsters and ghosts and so forth. Cassandra: I’ve written since I was a little girl. ![]() |