And she just might be angry enough to take everyone down with her. Velveteen can't help herself when it comes to breaking rules. A risk she's willing to take-except fate has just given her reason to stick around: an unreasonably hot and completely off-limits coworker. Velveteen's obsessive haunting could actually crack the foundation of her new world, not to mention jeopardize her very soul. But crossing the divide between the living and the dead has devastating consequences. She'll haunt him for the rest of his days. Velveteen aches to deliver the bloody punishment he deserves. Which doesn't leave Velveteen much time to do anything about what's really on her mind. It's gray, ashen, and crumbling more and more by the day, and everyone has a job to do. And while it's not a fiery inferno, it's certainly no heaven either. The problem is she landed in the City of the Dead. At sixteen, she was kidnapped and murdered by a madman named Bonesaw. Readers of Carrie Ryan and Richelle Mead will love this dark revenge fantasy.
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But finally, the publisher decided that because the previous book had been called Her Perfect Life, Her New Best Friend sounded like a sequel: first “Her” perfect life, then “Her” new best friend. And months’-worth of manuscripts had that title. So what could be a better title than Her New Best Friend? Perfect. Because the bereft and baffled and vulnerable Alyssa Macallen really needs a friend… and then she gets one. I thought I had the perfect title from moment one.
But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.īoth men work hard, marry, and have kids because that’s what cowboys do. A stand alone edition of Annie Proulx’s beloved story “Brokeback Mountain” (in the collection Close Range)-the basis for the major motion picture directed by Ang Lee, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, screenplay by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.Īnnie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, “Brokeback Mountain” is her masterpiece.Įnnis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they’re working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. Rhys’s novel, published in 1939, when she was forty-eight, rounded out a burst of genius and industry that had produced the novels “ Quartet” (1928), “ After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie” (1931), and “ Voyage in the Dark” (1934). It’s the opening of “ Good Morning, Midnight,” the fourth novel by the Dominica-born British writer Jean Rhys (1890-1979), the subject of Miranda Seymour’s enthralling new biography, “ I Used to Live Here Once” (Norton). The narrator, as yet ungendered, seems almost obsessive about fixing a routine, in order that this “little life” won’t burst into anarchy fixing a drink-better still, having it fixed for you-is evidently central to this containment. There’s the fraught psychological intensity. Which old times? Why “madame” and “monsieur”? Why does madame get a bigger bed? The writing has a strictness-modern, minimalist-that feels at odds with its theatrical expressionism: a world in which rooms, gloomily alive, talk back to you, and where an impasse seems more than just topographical. Who wouldn’t want to keep reading? The spiked enigma of the details is unsettling and enticing. He later became the owner/publisher of Lancer Books, which resurrected the works of Robert E. This led to jobs at McFadden Publishing, Popular Library, and Ace News, where he invented what many SF and Western fans know as the Ace Double. Army from 1942 to 1945, Zacharius went to New York University on the GI Bill and took classes aimed at helping him achieve his goal of becoming a New York publisher. The story of Zebra Books as a company is really the story of World War II vet Walter Zacharius. I wasn’t able to find out exactly how many Zebra horror titles were published monthly during the height of the horror boom, but their output rivaled some of the largest publishers of their time. Zebra Books stepped into the horror publishing arena in the late 1970s, then really leaned into it in the 1980s. It’s difficult to comprehend that quite so many years have gone by since those halcyon days of horror. Fact of the matter is, I’ve gotten older. It’s strange to call Zebra paperbacks “vintage,” but I guess that’s what they are by the 25-year rule. Every vintage paperback horror fan knows Zebra Books. He lived in Cuba for almost 20 years and became an important figure, well-known through Havana. It was the 1940s and he spent a great deal of time on the water, fishing off his boat The Pilar. During the period of time in which Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea, he was living in Cuba. His direct style of writing is suited perfectly to the life and death situation that Santiago finds himself in. The story is moving, endearing, and emotional.
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