![]() In the wake of a long history of police abuse in Baltimore, this killing felt like the final straw-it led to a week of protests, then five days described alternately as a riot or an uprising that set the entire city on edge and caught the nation's attention. By the end of his trip in the police van, Gray was in a coma from which he would never recover. When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an “illegal knife” in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated “roughly” as police loaded him into a vehicle. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNALįrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore and governor-elect of Maryland, a kaleidoscopic account of five days in the life of a city on the edge, told through eight characters on the front lines of the uprising that overtook Baltimore and riveted the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers will be enthralled by this propulsive account.”- Publishers WeeklyįINALIST FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD “An illuminating portrait of Baltimore in the aftermath of the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray. ![]()
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![]() Fortunately, Jane is well versed in sleuthing and won’t rest until she gives the killer a taste of poetic justice. When a second body is discovered, also holding a page from a poetry book, a recurring MO emerges. But the Tennyson Trail leads to a grim surprise: a woman’s corpse drifting in a rowboat on a lake, a crumpled copy of “The Lady of Shallot” in her lifeless fist. ![]() They’re everywhere, scrawling verses on cocktail napkins in the reading rooms or seeking inspiration strolling the Poet’s Walk, a series of trails named after famous authors. ![]() Īs Jane eagerly anticipates the wedding of her best friend Eloise Alcott, Storyton Hall is overrun with poets in town to compete for a coveted greeting card contract. When corpses clutching poems begin turning up around Storyton Hall, resort manager Jane Steward is on the trail of someone exercising poetic license to kill. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Girls Are Always Hungry when All the Men Are Bite-Size” and “The Only Thing I Can’t Tell You Is Why.” The titles can be like mini-tales in their own right, e.g. Others are in unusual formats like footnotes, a questionnaire, bullet-pointed lists, or a couple’s contrasting notes on house viewings. Some stories are divided into multiple parts by headings or point-of-view changes. I also recognized some of the same sorts of Celtic sea legends that infuse Logan’s debut novel, The Gracekeepers. ![]() ![]() Ghosts and corpses are frequent presences. Body parts are offered as tokens of love or left behind as the sole evidence of an abduction. Many of these 20 stories twist fairy tale imagery into nightmarish scenarios, enumerating fears of bodies and pregnancies going wrong. ![]() It’s an honour to be kicking off the official Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize 2020* blog tour with a post introducing and giving an excerpt from one of this year’s longlisted titles, the short story collection Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() To save the Duc's life, they'll have to cross the country, manage to keep from strangling each other, and defeat an enemy too damaged for even a Bard's song to reach. ![]() Now, she's on the run from the Royal Guards with the Duc of Ohrid, the father of her unborn child, both of them guilty of treason – one of them unjustly accused. Ten years later, Annice has become the Princess Bard and her real life is about to become the exact opposite of the overwrought ballad her fellow students at the Bardic Hall wrote about her. She walks away from political responsibilities, royal privilege and her family. ![]() To his surprise, Annice accepts his conditions, renouncing her royal blood and swearing to remain childless so as not to jeopardize the line of succession. They give their people, from peasant to king, a song in common.Īnnice is a rare talent, able to Sing all four quarters, but her brother, the newly enthroned King Theron, sees her request to study at the Bardic Hall as a betrayal. They, and the elemental spirits they Sing – earth, air, fire, and water - bring the news of the sea to the mountains, news of the mountains to the plains. The Bards of Shkoder hold the country together. Tanya Huff lives in rural Ontario with her wife Fiona Patton, five cats, and an increasing number of fish. A unique and creative fantasy world by prolific Canadian author Tanya Huff! 5,443 Ratings 182 Reviews published 1994 7 editions To call the kigh was the height of bard's magic. The Quartered Sea (Quarters) Tanya Huff (31) 7.19 Product description About the Author Tanya Huff may have left Nova Scotia at three, and has lived most of her life since in Ontario, but she still considers herself a Maritimer. ![]() |