![]() White Hot by Sandra Brown (Labor Dispute)īig Boned by Meg Cabot (Graduate Student Union)ĭouble Indemnity by James M. The Knife Behind You by James Benet (Department Store Union Organizer)įor the Love of Mike by Rhys Bowen (Garment Workers Union) Please let me know any books that are missing from this list. This is an UPDATED Crime Fiction list involving Labor Unions with links to two great articles. Labor Unions, on the other hand, are rife with settings and situations for crime fiction. There are a few other "Summer Mysteries" that include Labor Day, but not as the main subject. Lawton in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. There's also the short story "Labor Day" by R.T. I'm only aware of a few mysteries set during the Labor Day Holiday, and I've updated my list accordingly: Lee Harris's Labor Day Murder, Sharyn McCrumb's Highland Laddie Gone, Sandra Balzo's Running on Empty Meg Macy's Bearly Departed, Tonya Kappas' Forests, Fishing, & Forgery, Nancy Coco's Forever Fudge, and Mary Jane Maffini's The Devil's in the Details (Labour Day Weekend-Canada). ![]()
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![]() ![]() She gave birth to her son in Dublin, Ireland. Here, she finished her second novel, Truck (1971), and became pregnant. Together, they traveled to Mexico, Boston, Newfoundland, and Seville, where she finished Attic, then to Karpathos. During a Christmas break trip to Ashbury Heights in 1967 she met a man she would spend the next ten years with. Later life and career ĭunn began her first novel Attic (1970) while studying at Reed College. In college she majored in philosophy and then psychology. Poverty was an important element in her novels as well. She suffered a difficult childhood due to poverty and a violent mother. She went to high school in Tigard, Oregon, and later attended Reed College in Portland on a full scholarship, but never graduated. The family moved often during her childhood. Her mother, Velma Golly, an artist from North Dakota, married a mechanic or/and fisherman from the Pacific Northwest. She was the second-youngest of five siblings her father left before she was two. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was also a prolific writer on boxing.ĭunn was born in Garden City, Kansas, in 1945. She is best known for her novel Geek Love (1989). Katherine Karen Dunn (Octo– May 11, 2016) was an American novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon. ![]() ![]() ![]() He needs the lucrative job the Rajes offer, but he values his pride too much to indulge Trisha’s arrogance. Up-and-coming chef DJ Caine has known people like Trisha before, people who judge him by his rough beginnings and place pedigree above character. So long as she doesn’t repeat old mistakes. But now, she has a chance to redeem herself. Trisha is guilty of breaking all three rules. Never do anything to jeopardize your brother’s political aspirations.But that’s not enough for the Rajes, her influential immigrant family who’s achieved power by making its own nonnegotiable rules: Trisha Raje is San Francisco’s most acclaimed neurosurgeon. It is a truth universally acknowledged that only in an overachieving Indian American family can a genius daughter be considered a black sheep.ĭr. Award-winning author Sonali Dev launches a new series about the Rajes, an immigrant Indian family descended from royalty, who have built their lives in San Francisco. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story’s two protagonists are Billy Prior, a working-class officer who feels driven to return to the field of battle despite mutiple medical deferrals, and William Rivers, a real-life psychoanalyst and ethnographer. But at its heart, The Ghost Road feels more like a book about an era than an event, a sensation reinforced by the book’s regular jaunts outside of war-torn France and Belgium to other locales entirely. ![]() Certainly the Great War features prominently, both in the action presented and in the minds of the novel’s two protagonists, who see the conflagration through very different lenses. I approached The Ghost Road assuming it was a novel about the First World War, and indeed it is commonly billed that way, but I can’t help but feel that the descriptor is inapt, or at least incomplete. ![]() ![]() ![]() What struck me while reading it was it read like a very good pastiche of H.P. It is written in the epistolary style as a series of letters and diary entries during the month of October, 1850. He wrote it while still in college, but it wasn’t published until 1978. ![]() “Jerusalem’s Lot” – The opening story of the collection acts as a (kind of) prequel to King’s 1975 vampire novel Salem’s Lot. Rare PS Publishing edition, illustrated by Dave McKean Which leads us to Night Shift, King’s first collection of short stories. I realize that I’m waffling a bit myself, but I just wanted to say how much I’ve come to prefer King’s shorter works. How about omitting needless pages and pages of backstory, Stephen? No? Well, who am I to argue with one of THE bestselling authors of the last 50 years. ![]() ![]() In it, King refers to the classic American writing guide, The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr., and highlights the guideline to “omit needless words.” Of course, it’s all subjective but just imagine if King had applied it more forcibly to his own writing. I have always thought one of the pieces of advice in his excellent memoir On Writing was ironic. In my review of IT back in May 2020, I complained about King’s penchant for ‘overlong’ writing in some of his doorstoppers. I’ve written about Stephen King before on this blog. “The house was built in unhappiness, has been lived in with unhappiness, there has been blood spilt on its floors, there has been disappearance and accident.” -JERUSALEM’S LOT by Stephen King ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The film was shot completely in black and white, matching the illustrations done by Aubrey Beardsley in the printed edition of Wilde's play. All the sets were constructed indoors to be able to have complete control over the lighting. The highly stylized costumes, exaggerated acting (even for the period), minimal sets, and absence of all but the most necessary props make for a screen image much more focused on atmosphere and on conveying a sense of the characters' individual heightened desires than on conventional plot development.ĭespite the film being only a little over an hour in length and having no real action to speak of, it cost over $350,000 to make. Salomé is often called one of the first art films to be made in the U.S. Salomé (1923), a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name. More interestingly, this uses a single set based on Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations for the published play. ![]() This is not the opera of course, but the 1923 Silent movie of Wild's play. Not Wagner of course, but would there have been this opera without Wagner? Whatever the answer, Salome, is perhaps one of Strauss' greatest works - if not the greatest opera of the 20th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mozart wrote more than 600 musical works, all of the very highest quality. He died in Vienna after a brief but unknown illness. He married Constance Weber and fathered two sons. ![]() He relocated to Vienna where he met with some success. He was restless, aware of his genius, and thought Salzburg too small for his talent. He returned to Salzburg where he was briefly employed in the court of the Archbishop of Salzburg. He toured Europe with his parents and older sister "Nannerl" for several years performing for royalty and the aristocratic elite.Īs a young man, Mozart tried but failed to establish himself as a composer in Paris. From a very early age, the young Mozart showed great musical talent. He was born in Salzburg, Austria, the youngest child of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart. His full baptised name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophillus Mozart. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Janu– Decempronounced MOHT-sart) was an Austrian composer (music writer), instrumentalist, and music teacher. ![]() ![]() ![]() Until Scarpetta comes face to face with shocking evidence that implicates her techno genius niece, Lucy, her very own flesh and blood. The victims appear to have had nothing in common, and there is no pattern to indicate where the killer will strike next. ![]() The shots seem impossible to achieve, yet they are so perfect that they cause death in an instant. In this 22nd Scarpetta novel, the master forensic sleuth finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper. A high school music teacher has been shot with uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his car. Is this a kids' game? And if so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there's been a homicide five minutes away. She's about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their home. It's a sunny morning in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also Dr. #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the next enthralling thriller in her high-stakes series starring Kay Scarpetta-a complex tale involving a serial sniper who strikes chillingly close to the forensic sleuth herself. ![]() Print Flesh and Blood (Kay Scarpetta #22) ![]() ![]() Outgoing and ambitious, Jules Ambrose is a former party girl who’s focused on one thing: passing the attorney’s bar exam. ![]() When their animosity explodes into one unforgettable night, he proposes a solution that’ll get her out of his system once and for all: an enemies with benefits arrangement with simple rules. The beautiful redhead has been a thorn in his side since they met, but she also consumes his thoughts in a way no woman ever has. Gorgeous, cocky, and fast on his way to becoming a hotshot doctor, Josh Chen has never met a woman he couldn’t charm-except for Jules f**king Ambrose. ![]() ![]() He hates her.almost as much as he wants her. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wines and spirits are sold by KSSWINE LLC, d/b/a Parcelle Wines, License #1302013, 509-511 W38TH ST, NY, NY 10018.Your credit card will be charged separately for wine and liquor under "Parecell Wines LLC".Parcelle Wines LLC, and Baldor Transportation LLC are separate companies.Restocking charges of 15% of your order may also apply. ![]()
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