![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With collaborator Cynthia Millman, Manning traces the evolution of swing dancing from its early days in Harlem through the post-World War II period, until it was eclipsed by rock 'n' roll and then disco. His memories of the many headliners and film stars, as well as uncelebrated dancers with whom he shared the stage, create a unique portrait of an era in which African American performers enjoyed the spotlight if not a star's prerogatives and salary. Manning brings the Swing Era vividly back to life with his recollections of the crowded ballrooms, and of Lindy hoppers trying to outdo each other in spectacular performances. In this fascinating autobiography, the choreographer and Tony Award winner (Black and Blue) Frankie Manning recalls how his first years of dancing as a teenager at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom led to his becoming chief choreographer and a lead dancer for "Whitey's Lindy Hoppers," a group that appeared on Broadway, in Hollywood musicals, and on stages around the globe. In the early days of swing dancing, Frankie Manning stood out for his moves and his innovative routines he created the "air step" in the Lindy hop, a dance that took the U.S. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As he did forStalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, he has unearthed an unprecedented range of evidence tracked down an astonishing range of witnesses. He successfully captures 'the sheer weird singularity of the man' and the lethal instincts that propelled him to the summit of power." William Grimes,The New York Times "The portrait of Stalin that emerges from these pages is more complete, more colorful, more chilling, and far more convincing than any we have had before. ![]() ![]() Montefiore has worked his way with a fine-toothed comb through previously unread archival material in Russia and in Georgia. No one, henceforth, need ever wonder how it was that Stalin found his way into Lenin's inner circle, or took his place in the ruling troika that assumed power after the storming of the Winter Palace. Montefiore offers a detailed picture of Stalin's childhood and youth, his shadowy career as a revolutionary in Georgia and his critical role during the October Revolution. " meticulously researched, authoritative biography of Stalin's early years. ![]() ![]() Louis handed the palace to the Queen Mother, Anne of Austria, and then Henrietta Maria and her daughter Henrietta Anne Stuart, who had escaped from the English civil war, took up residence. It was originally known as the Palais Cardinal, but became a royal palace after the cardinal bequeathed the building to Louis XIII. The palace was originally designed by Jacques Lemercier and construction started 1628 for the infamous Cardinal Richelieu. Lady Chance, the follow-up book to Lady Scandal, comes out this August it’s set in Paris of 1814, and since gambling and cards are in the book, that meant I could use the Palais Royal. I love to dig into history in particular, I love to look for just the right setting to help a scene come alive. ![]() ![]() One of the fun things about writing-for me, at least-is the research. ![]() ![]() ![]() We wanted to take the book and bring it back into the family and revise it in a respectful and measured way.” “We felt the last two editions (1997, 2006) were both very big jumps. “They didn’t change the spirit of the book every time they did it. “Overall, we just wanted to update the book in a way that was responsible, in the way that Marion and Irma revised the book,” Scott said. Becker, 40, and Scott, 31, have worked tirelessly to keep it that way and make this version even better. “Joy” has taught generations of new cooks everything from how to make a meringue to ways to cook pheasant, and it’s served as a must-have kitchen reference for folks of all skill levels. Rombauer, John’s great-grandmother, who self-published the first “Joy” in 1931 as a new widow. When readers pick up a copy of this hefty volume of what is considered the most popular cookbook in America, they’ll see the work of four generations, starting with Irma S. ![]() ![]() Now John and his wife, Megan Scott, are about to see their nine years of work - which included testing 1,500 recipes - reach a new audience when the 9th edition of “Joy of Cooking” is published by Scribner on Nov. ![]() ![]() ![]() Julia is the author of The Bear Who Ate the Stars (Split Lip Press, 2014) and her recent poems appear in Best New Poets, Poetry Northwest, and Nashville Review, among others. She has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf and TENT Conferences, as well as the Auschwitz Jewish Center. candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania where her research focuses on contemporary American poetry about the Holocaust. ![]() She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Oregon and is a Ph.D. Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach emigrated from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine as a Jewish refugee when she was six years old. These poems smell of stars and campfires, a deeper sense of story, a mythological thread running, river-like, all the way back to the dawn of time." These poems feel meticulously crafted, despite a certain primal, sometimes sensual quality often falsely seen as antithetical to intellectual poetry. ![]() Contest Judge Michael Meyerhofer says: "There's a wonderful range to Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach's poems, rendered all the more remarkable by their consistent depth and polish. The Bear Who Ate the Stars by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach is the winner of the 2014 Split Lip Uppercut Chapbook Awards. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Lorenzo Reading Series acknowledges the support of The League of Canadian Poets, UNB Saint John, UNB Saint John Bookstore, and its private reading sponsors. ![]() It was also longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her debut novel, Under This Unbroken Sky, won the 2010 Commonwealth Regional Prize for First Book (Canada/Caribbean), the Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Award, the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, and the 2012 Kobzar Literary Award. Shandi Mitchell is an author and filmmaker. UNDER THIS UNBROKEN SKY is her first novel. Each is deeply devoted to what they do, but they are all beginning to crack under the immense pressures of their work. Mitchell spent her childhood on a military base on the prairies and now makes her home in Nova Scotia on the east coast of Canada, with her husband, Alan, and their dog, Annie. In the novel, when tragedy erupts on a stifling summer night, three ordinary people, with the extraordinary jobs of rescuing strangers, are connected to one another in ways both explicit and invisible. ![]() This reading is in memory of Susan Kathleen Leyden, longtime supporter of the Lorenzo Society. at the Kennebecasis Valley Public Library. The story of an immigrant family trying to build a life in an unforgiving new world, Under This Unbroken Sky is a mesmerizing and absorbing first novel of love and greed, pride and desperation. in the Marco Polo Room at Parkland (Shannex), 40 Vitality Way, and again at 7 p.m. UNB Saint John’s Lorenzo Reading Series will kick off its 2019-2020 season with author and filmmaker Shandi Mitchell reading from The Waiting Hours on Tuesday, Sept. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, his path is riddled with difficulties. Victory rests on the shoulders of Vaelin Al Sorna, now named Battle Lord of the Realm. She must align herself with forces she once found repugnant-those who possess the strange and varied gifts of the Dark-and take the war to her enemy's doorstep. Except, to accomplish her goals, she must do more than rally her loyal supporters. Sorting truth from myth is often a fruitless task." After fighting back from the brink of death, Queen Lyrna is determined to repel the invading Volarian army and regain the independence of the Unified Realm. "The Ally is there, but only ever as a shadow, unexplained catastrophe or murder committed at the behest of a dark and vengeful spirit. Only his enemy has a dangerous new collaborator, one with powers darker than Vaelin has ever encountered. ![]() "In the thrilling conclusion to the "deftly and originally executed"* New York Times bestselling Raven's Shadow trilogy, Vaelin Al Sorna must help his queen reclaim her Realm. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kelly’s Austen is a “radical” who resents aristocracy, despises the corruption of the Church of England and assails Burkean conservatism.Īnyone interested in Austen will begin to see some problems. These lead us into chapter-by-chapter treatment of each of the novels, revealing the importance of money in Sense and Sensibility, or the activities of the militia in Pride and Prejudice, or the possible effect of enclosures in Emma. Her confidence that she has a special knowledge of these intentions is signalled in the opening section of each of her chapters, where she provides novelistic episodes in which “Jane” (always called so in this book) ponders the lowly status of women or the effects of rural poverty or the evils of slavery. ![]() She will teach us to “read Jane’s novels … as she intended”. She will show us that, far from giving us “demure dramas in drawing rooms”, Austen used her novels to “examine the great issues of her day”. But Kelly will pierce the “haze of preconceptions” obscuring Austen’s fiction. To many they have apparently offered “a blissful, almost drugged-up break from reality”. They have been accepted as safe, escapist, conservative. ![]() She sets out to show us how Austen’s novels have been “so thoroughly, so almost universally, misunderstood”. H ave we been getting Jane Austen wrong for all these years? Helena Kelly thinks so. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() am I the only one that thinks that sounds dodgy? One last thing, their home, Woodcock Pocket. Of course, I feel huge affinity with the semi-agoraphobic Puddle, I tend to be wet, piggy and pool myself around the house and don't like to go out much at all. The illustrations are highly enjoyable and the story funny and entertaining. It's a delightful book for younger children, not too young, 4-7 perhaps - or 36 year old men. The book is then a fun mixture of Toot's postcards home on his wild adventures and Puddle's ministrations to the normality making up the wheel of the year. Toot sets off on a round-the-world trip, Puddle goes to Stopathome. Alas, such divergence in a relationship can be a sign of the end, but Toot & Puddle are independent souls and they do what they want. One piggy, Toot, he wants to see the world, travel, be an adventurous pig of action the other piggy, Puddle, wants to be a coach potato and enjoy the luxurious comforts of home. This book is about two piggies, the eponymous Toot & Puddle. A little while ago, my friend Roya read me this book, a favourite of hers from her childhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Andy and Effie’s daughter Mila spends her days exploring the lonely wilds of the planet Sampson and trying to stay out of the clutches of the all-powerful vampire witch known only as “Mother.” But like her parents, Mila doesn’t like to play by the rules, and when a certain robot pal of her dad’s shows up, nothing will ever be the same! LEMIRE & NGUYEN reunite to take readers on an unforgettable fantasy quest with all the scope and heart of the sci-fi classic DESCENDER! Collects ASCENDER #1-18ĭescription: The complete Eisner Award-winning space fantasy epic from writer JEFFLEMIRE (GIDEON FALLS, Sweet Tooth) and artist DUSTIN NGUYEN (DESCENDER, LITTLEMONSTERS) collected in a deluxe edition hardcover! Ten years after theconclusion of DESCENDER, magic has taken the place of machinery and the rules ofthe universe are very different. ![]() Description: The complete Eisner Award-winning space fantasy epic from writer JEFF LEMIRE (GIDEON FALLS, Sweet Tooth) and artist DUSTIN NGUYEN (DESCENDER, LITTLE MONSTERS) collected in a deluxe edition hardcover! Ten years after the conclusion of DESCENDER, magic has taken the place of machinery and the rules of the universe are very different. ![]() |