![]() This study guide refers to the Penguin Random House hardcover first edition.Īlice Wright moves from England to Baileyville, Kentucky, with dreams of getting married and starting a fruitful life. Themes of friendship, the effects of misogyny, corporate greed, inequality, and rebirth fill the pages of this novel. The women face the adversity of a town hellbent on determining what women can and can’t do, both in their public and private lives. The real-life WPA Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky program, part of the New Deal and a project spotlighted by Eleanor Roosevelt as beneficial to women and children, lasted from 1935-1943, delivering books via horseback to rural inhabitants of Kentucky. Set in Depression-era America, the novel chronicles the lives of female librarians in Baileyville, a town in Kentucky’s Appalachian Mountains. ![]()
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![]() As she struggles to sow the seeds of her freedom, love for the God of the Dead grows - a love that is both captivating and forbidden. The bet does more than expose Persephone's failure as a goddess, however. Series: Hades X Persephone, Book 1 Format: PaperBack Category: Paranormal Romance Subjects: Fantasy romance, Fiction / Romance / Fantasy Publication Date. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Clair (Goodreads Author) (shelved 9 times as a-touch-of-darkness-series) avg rating 3.98 56,858 ratings published 2021. But nothing has ever intrigued him as much as the goddess offering him a bargain he can't resist.Īfter her encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead, and his terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever. A Touch of Malice (Hades & Persephone, 3) by. Hades, God of the Underworld, is known for his inflexible rule, luxurious night clubs, and impossible. Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favourite bets are rumoured to be impossible. This book is A Touch of Darkness told from Hades POV. ![]() ![]() All of that changes when she sits down in a forbidden nightclub to play a hand of cards with a hypnotic and mysterious stranger. After moving to New Athens, she hoped to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. Since she was a little girl, flowers have only shrivelled at her touch. Persephone is the Goddess of Spring in title only. ![]() Clair comes a dark and enthralling reimagining of the Hades and Persephone Greek myth. ![]() ![]() ![]() My husband and his parents left for Chicago in 1988 when he was 28. She and her mother escaped for Philadelphia in 1974 when von Bremzen was 11. Von Bremzen left the Soviet Union much earlier than The Russian did. ![]() If von Bremzen’s writing style is any indication, they also share a similar dark sense of humor. They nonetheless shared many similar experiences, from being members of secular Jewish families to waiting on the ubiquitous Soviet era food lines. Acclaimed food writer von Bremzen and The Russian are rough contemporaries, born four years apart, although she hails from Moscow and he from its rival city, the former Leningrad. Instead, it morphed into one of those gifts that was more for me than him, part of my ongoing attempt to understand his complicated love/mostly hate relationship with his former homeland. I bought Anya von Bremzen’s Mastering The Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing about a year ago as a birthday present for my husband, The Russian, but never gave it to him. ![]() ![]() Holborn handles Low’s narration with skill, creating an immersive world. After witnessing a spaceship crash, she rescues teenaged general Gabriella Ortiz from the wreckage… They strike a deal and set off to find a ship, evading bandits, military assassins, and other dangers along the way. Haunted by a dark secret from her past, the last thing Low wants is to draw the attention of the authorities. In the aftermath of interstellar war, veteran medic and ex-con Ten Low works as a rough-and-ready doctor on Factus, a remote planet of desert and scrub. Holborn ( Triggernometry) delivers a crisply written space western brimming with hard living, villainy, and the search for redemption. Perhaps the most interesting was Stark Holborn’s latest Ten Low, which The Book Beard calls “stunning… gritty, intriguing sci-fi/ Western brilliance.” Here’s a snippet from Publisher’s Weekly‘s warm review. As I wandered through the well-stocked science fiction section of Barnes & Noble last Saturday I found no less than four new releases that insisted on coming home with me. ![]() ![]() But you know what? Nothing beats a trip to the bookstore. I spend a lot of time browsing new releases online. ![]() Ten Low by Stark Holborn (Titan Books, June 2021). ![]() |