![]() The first steps in Mayo to fill the highest-profile football vacancy at present will take place next Monday when the situation that saw player discontent force the resignation of joint-managers Pat Holmes and Noel Connelly will be discussed by the county board. Fitzmaurice has also added former Kerry All-Ireland winning captain Liam Hassett as a selector.įrom Laune Rangers in Killorglin, Hassett captained the Kerry team that bridged the gap between Mick O’Dwyer’s last All-Ireland in 1986 and Páidí Ó Sé’s first in 1997. He had been part of the Kerry backroom team since 2012, working closely with the management as strength and conditioning coach. Kerry manager Éamonn Fitzmaurice has announced that Pádraig Corcoran will be the team’s new trainer-selector.įrom Dingle, Corcoran also trained the Kerry minor team in 20 as a member of Pat O’Driscoll’s management team. Neighbours and Munster champions Kerry have acted swiftly to replace former trainer Cian O’Neill, who last week was ratified as manager of his home county Kildare. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In 1860 with inherited money he built a house in Teddington just outside of London and established a market garden for the cultivation of fruit. And the following year, 1854, his literary career began with a collection of Poems and for the next 15 years he would write in the winters and garden in the summers. ![]() In November 1853 he married his wife Lucy. With much of his childhood spent in the lush and pastoral "Doone Country" of Exmoor, and along the Badgworthy Water, Blackmore came to love the very countryside he immortalised in Lorna Doone. His father married again in 1831, whereupon Richard returned to live with them. His elder brother Richard (by a year), however, was taken by his aunt to live near Oxford. With this loss the family moved to Bushey, Hertfordshire, then on to their native Devon. His mother died a few months after his birth the victim of an outbreak of typhus. Richard Doddridge Blackmore was born on 7 June 1825 at Longworth in Berkshire (now part of Oxfordshire), where his father, John Blackmore, was Curate-in-charge of the parish. In this volume we examine some of the short stories of RD Blackmore. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. ![]() The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. ![]() ![]() But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realises there never was a memoir. He was led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. Be it ancient Rome or modern-day America, you’re either a citizen or a slave.Ī biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game.īorn in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens on the outskirts of Los Angeles and raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. A slow saunter past The White House, Phoenix House, Blair House and the local crack house for the message to become abundantly clear. ![]() All it takes is a daytrip past Georgetown and Chinatown. ![]() ![]() He has won awards for his true crime writing and also for his work as a playwright. He has also written novels under the pseudonym Jess Foley, as well as several works of nonfiction. Grant has hailed as one of the finest ghost stories ever written. ![]() He has published ten novels under his own name, including THE GODSEND (1976), which was adapted for a major film, and SWEETHEART, SWEETHEART (1977), which Charles L. If you enjoyed Bernard Taylors PaperbacksFromHell title, THE REAPING, you wont want to miss this new audiobook of his collected short stories, THIS IS. ![]() ‘Draws the reader into a web that grows gradually tighter with each turn of the page!’ – Booklistīernard Taylor was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, and now lives in London. ‘Move over, Stephen King!’ – New York Daily News For the seeds of evil have been sown, and the time to reap their wicked harvest is nigh! Soon he is drawn into an impenetrable maze of horror, and by the time he discovers the role he is intended to play in a diabolical design, it will already be too late. But from the moment of his arrival at the secluded country mansion strange and inexplicable events begin to transpire. ![]() When Tom Rigby is commissioned to paint a young woman’s portrait at Woolvercombe House, the offer is too lucrative to refuse. ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Noah and his friends follow a trail of mysterious clues to uncover a secret behind the walls of the Clarksville City Zoo-a secret that must be protected at all costs. ![]() But once inside, will they discover there' s much more to the Clarksville City Zoo than they could ever have guessed? The first book in a new series. Noah and his friends thought they had seen it. ![]() Their only choice is to follow a series of clues and sneak into the zoo. Book Synopsis Book two in this fast-paced and exciting series for middle grade fantasy, mystery, and animal buffs. One day Megan disappears, and her brother and their friends realize it' s up to them to find her. Megan is the first to notice the puzzling behavior of some of the animals. ![]() Late at night, monkeys are scaling the walls and searching the neighborhood- but what are they looking for? Noah, his sister Megan, and their best friends, Richie and Ella, live next door to the zoo. Something strange is happening at the Clarksville City Zoo. ![]() ![]() But none of them murdered Gina the opening chapter shows lovelorn exterminator David Birkmann, who’s been carrying a torch for her since their school days, killing her when she indicates in the most direct way possible that she doesn’t return his interest. Since Gina holds the power of the purse over virtually everyone in Trippton-she inherited the town’s bank on her father’s death-and the bruises on her body suggest habitual S&M play, there are lots of suspects, from Lucy and Elroy Cheever, whose business loan application she was about to deny, to heavy-equipment operator Corbel Cain, her sometime lover, to Fred Fitzgerald, who recently purchased a whip from Bernie’s Books, Candles 'n More. The night before Gina Hemming is fished from a frozen river, someone bashes her in the head with a champagne bottle shortly after a meeting of the committee to organize her 25th high school reunion. ![]() ![]() ![]() Virgil Flowers, of Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, works an altogether unremarkable murder and a surprisingly inventive case on the side. ![]() ![]() Lecture Southern Methodist University Willis M. Asante directed and produced The Black Candle (2012), a documentary about Kwanzaa, co-written and narrated by Maya Angelou.Īsante has delivered numerous lectures, including the Yale University Master's Tea Vanderbilt University Walter R. ![]() Asante wrote and produced the 2005 documentary 500 Years Later, a documentary about slavery which received the Breaking the Chains Award from UNESCO. Poet Maya Angelou, who mentored Asante, described Buck as "a story of surviving and thriving with passion, compassion, wit, and style." Films Īsante is a Sundance Institute Feature Film Fellow for the movie adaptation of his memoir Buck. It was also included on the In the Margins Book List in 2014. ![]() Buck was selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick and made the Washington Post bestseller list in 20. ![]() Cover of Buck: A Memoir ( Random House) by MK AsanteĪsante is the author of four books, most notably Buck (2013), a memoir about his troubled youth in Philadelphia. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this timely collection, Dubrow offers the hope that if we can break apart our preconceptions and stereotypes, we can find what connects all of us. Navigating the rough seas of marriage alongside questions about how civilians and those in the military can learn to communicate with one another, Dubrow argues for compassion and empathy on both sides. Dubrow catalogs the domestic life of a military spouse, illustrating what it is like to live in a tightly constructed world of rules and regulations, ceremony and tradition, where “every sacrifice already / knows its place.” Looking to Sappho and Emily Dickinson, the poet considers how the act of writing allows her autonomy and agency rarely granted to military spouses, even in the twenty-first century. But, while Stateside looked to masculine stories of war, Dots & Dashes incorporates the views and voices of female poets who have written about combat. ![]() ![]() Frequently employing rhyme, meter, and traditional forms, these poems examine what it means to be both a military spouse and an academic, straddling two communities that speak in very different and often conflicting terms.Īs in the poet’s earlier collection, Stateside, the poems in Dots & Dashes are explicitly feminist, exploring the experiences of women whose husbands are deployed. Moving between the languages of love and war, Jehanne Dubrow’s latest book offers valuable testimony to the experiences of military wives. ![]() ![]() ![]() How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonize these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools conquer the largest ocean in the world? This conundrum, which came to be known as the Problem of Polynesian Origins, emerged in the 18th century as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind.įor Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: Her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these ancient navigators. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history. Until the arrival of European explorers, they were the only people to have ever lived there. ![]() A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling, intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.įor more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. ![]() ![]() ![]() But none of her monsters would be complete without a comical balancing sense of responsibility. The quality of being (or not quite being) monstrous proves central to most of the short stories in this, Karen Russell's second collection. ![]() Member of a transitional generation – not quite a monster, not quite a human being – he can be neither what he was nor what he aspires to be.Ĭlyde is only a case in point. He no longer needs to bite, but he's forgotten how to fly. "Instead of stalking prostitutes," he records, stunned by his own daring, "I went on long bicycle rides." But he still describes his early years "on the blood" like a junkie: someone always in recovery. He takes to sucking lemons instead of people. With the help of his lover, Clyde the vampire discovers himself to be a pure social construct, trapped in a culturally transmitted behaviour pattern. ![]() |