![]() Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love-a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands. ![]() Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.īut behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway-a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() You don't need to write a whole story-just the twist ending. Create a surprise ending to an original story.What was your experience in reading this story? Did it evoke fear or physically have an effect on you? Why or why not?Ĭhoose just one of the following creative writing exercises.Were you surprised by the twist? If so, why? If not, what should the author have done to make the ending more surprising and effective?.What techniques does the author use to create a surprise ending?.What is the theme? How do the final lines of the story influence the meaning or theme of the story?. ![]() Which words or descriptions contribute to the emotional setting or mood? What is the mood that results from the author’s use of description? ![]()
![]() The name Gordon does not appear in either her family or her history.Įlizabeth Mackintosh came of age during World War I, attending Anstey Physical Training College in Birmingham, England during the years 1915 - 1918. The district of Daviot, near her home of Inverness in Scotland, was a location her family had vacationed. Mackintosh also wrote plays (both one act and full length), some of which were produced during her lifetime, under the pseudonym Gordon Daviot. ![]() She also used the Daviot by-line for a biography of the 17th century cavalry leader John Graham, which was entitled Claverhouse (1937). ![]() The first of these, The Man in the Queue (1929) was published under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot, whose name also appears on the title page of another of her 1929 novels, Kif An Unvarnished History. As Josephine Tey, she wrote six mystery novels featuring Scotland Yard's Inspector Alan Grant. ![]() Josephine was her mother's first name and Tey the surname of an English Grandmother. Josephine Tey was a pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The only problem is that the instructor and all the students think she's a girl named Kay Nakamura-and Yumi doesn't correct them. One day after class, Yumi stumbles on an opportunity that will change her life: a comedy camp for kids taught by one of her favorite YouTube stars. Instead of spending the summer studying her favorite YouTube comedians, Yumi is enrolled in test-prep tutoring to qualify for a private school scholarship, which will help in a time of hardship at the restaurant. Her notebook is filled with mortifying memories that she's reworked into comedy gold. On the inside, Yumi is ready for her Netflix stand-up special. On the outside, Yumi Chung suffers from #shygirlproblems, a perm-gone-wrong, and kids calling her Yu-MEAT because she smells like her family's Korean barbecue restaurant. ![]() About the Book When eleven-year-old Yumi Chung stumbles into a kids' comedy camp she is mistaken for another student, so she decides to play the part.īook Synopsis One lie snowballs into a full-blown double life in this irresistible story about an aspiring stand-up comedian. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a summer bursting with queer brown dance parties, a sexy fling with a motorcycling librarian, and intense explorations of race and identity, Juliet learns what it means to come out–to the world, to her family, to herself. And she definitely doesn’t have all the answers. Her internship with legendary author Harlowe Brisbane, the ultimate authority on feminism, women’s bodies, and other gay-sounding stuff, is sure to help her figure out this whole “Puerto Rican lesbian” thing. And when Juliet’s coming out crashes and burns, she’s not sure her mom will ever speak to her again.īut Juliet has a plan–sort of. Not after coming out to her family the night before flying to Portland, Oregon, to intern with her favorite feminist writer–what’s sure to be a life-changing experience. ABOUT THE BOOK: Juliet Milagros Palante is a self-proclaimed closeted Puerto Rican baby dyke from the Bronx. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lincoln, in contrast, evolved a clear strategic vision, but he failed for years to make his generals implement it. Stoker shows that Davis, despite a West Point education and experience as Secretary of War, ultimately failed as a strategist by losing control of the political side of the war. Reminding us that strategy is different from tactics (battlefield deployments) and operations (campaigns conducted in pursuit of a strategy), Stoker examines how Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis identified their political goals and worked with their generals to craft the military means to achieve them-or how they often failed to do so. In The Grand Design, Donald Stoker provides for the first time a comprehensive and often surprising account of strategy as it evolved between Fort Sumter and Appomattox. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Healthĭespite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy. ![]() The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]() ![]() (A "tooter," says Aunt Rosie, to keep him from becoming an "ignoramiss.") And it could be a worse fate than David ever imagined, maybe even worse than Rittenhouse: his stern, elderly Aunt Annie volunteers for the job. McKelvie (who, incidentally, calls David "laddie-buck").īut mild exercise turns out to include more than lounging around reading books about pirates, sneaking into theaters to see "the new films that actually talk" (this being right before the Depression), and writing up clever cartoons about the "Sea-Fox," the devilishly devious scourge of the Spanish Main. ![]() David (also known as "Bax," "Skeezix," "Skinamalink," Snicklefritz," and "First Sergeant," depending on which grownup is doing the addressing) decides that he'd be more than happy to wile away his days with some fresh air and "mild exercise," as prescribed by Dr. ![]() ("New Monia," as his Aunt Rosie called it with her heavy British accent, not unlike the "Spanish Influenzo.") But all that bed rest would have been worth it if it meant he could escape Rittenhouse Academy and continue on among the rogues' gallery of eccentric friends and relatives that passes through his family's Philadelphia home. ![]() Eleven-year-old David nearly died of pneumonia. ![]() ![]() Secrets are spilled and relationships rejiggered, and as the stakes for Katie's future get higher, she must question her own assumptions about what makes for a truly meaningful life. London has never seemed so far away-until Demeter unexpectedly turns up as a guest. Shattered but determined to stay positive, Katie retreats to her family's farm in Somerset to help them set up a vacation business. Then, just as she's finding her feet-not to mention a possible new romance-the worst happens. ![]() No wonder Katie takes refuge in not-quite-true Instagram posts, especially as she's desperate to make her dad proud. Katie's life, meanwhile, is a daily struggle-from her dismal rental to her oddball flatmates to the tense office politics she's trying to negotiate. Demeter is brilliant and creative, lives with her perfect family in a posh townhouse, and wears the coolest clothes. New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella has written her most timely novel yet.Įverywhere Katie Brenner looks, someone else is living the life she longs for, particularly her boss, Demeter Farlowe. ![]() ![]() NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Part love story, part workplace drama, this sharply observed novel is a witty critique of the false judgments we make in a social-media-obsessed world. ![]() ![]() ![]() When a crisis develops, C.J.-in a race against time-becomes torn between two centuries. ![]() into her home, introducing her as a poor relation to Georgian society-including the dashing Earl of Darlington and his cousin, Jane Austen! meets the delightfully eccentric Lady Dalrymple, a widowed countess who takes C.J. Just as she wishes she could click her heels together and return to Manhattan, C.J. And Georgian England, with its rigid and unforgiving social structure and limited hygienic facilities, is not quite the picturesque costume drama C.J. ![]() But during her final audition, she is mysteriously transported to Bath, England, in the year 1801. Welles, a die-hard Jane Austen fan, is on the verge of landing her dream role: portraying her idol in a Broadway play. A tale of time travel, true love, and Jane Austen ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This productive year closed with Shakespeare drafting Hamlet, which transformed the monologue by using it to convey the interior workings of a character’s mind. With As You Like It, the Bard moved toward a mature view of love quite unlike his earlier “honey-tongued” romantic poetry. Falstaff was gone from Henry V, a drama poised on the knife’s edge between patriotism and cynicism that reflected contemporary spectators’ mixed feelings about an unpopular Irish war fears of a Catholic plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth fueled the Roman characters’ debates in Julius Caesar. He had already established a strong reputation with successful comedies and histories like A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Henry IV, but Shapiro contends that Shakespeare “was restless, unsatisfied with the profitably formulaic.” The departure from the Chamberlain’s Men of Will Kemp, the great comic who played Falstaff, signaled the playwright’s break with an older form of theater rooted in folk traditions. Shapiro (English/Columbia Univ.) identifies 1599, when Shakespeare and his fellow shareholders built the Globe Theatre, as the pivotal year during which the 35-year-old playwright’s style changed and his ambitions grew as he wrote four new plays. ![]() An intriguing addition to Shakespeare studies, stressing his immersion in the issues of his time. ![]() |