When I’m writing I just get into a habit where it takes up most weekends. I’ve been a biker all my life and while I’ve never been a member of or associated with any outlaw club, they’ve always been a presence in that world, people I’ve been aware of and spoken to occasionally, and a serious and committed life and culture that I’ve been interested in and followed.īut I was somewhat frustrated as it’s a culture that when it appeared at all in fiction, tended to be used as shorthand for a comedy villain, so I kept asking myself why doesn’t anyone write something set in this world that treats it, the life, and the demands and choices it had to require seriously?Īnd eventually I just decided if no one else was going to do it, I would. Where did you get the inspiration for the book/series? Read on to discover more about this author, his books and have the opportunity to enter the Rafflecopter Giveaway with the chance to win ‘Heavy Duty People’ books, bookmarks and a DILLIGAF hoodie. I am very happy to share with you today the answers that Iain Parke, author of Heavy Duty People, gave to my questions.
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The murderers he must hunt down are the children’s vengeful parents. While investigating a murder he stumbles upon Aktion T4, the secret Nazi programme to ‘cleanse’ the German race of mentally handicapped children. The central character is Inspector Horst Schenke of the Berlin police, a zealous policeman but no Nazi. The attraction of Nazi Germany is, of course, its moral ambivalence: who is the criminal when the state itself disregards the law and all moral standards? Simon Scarrow is not the first police/crime author to choose Nazi Germany, but he has chosen a less-explored moment in its short history, the first winter of the war, with war declared but hostilities yet to begin in earnest. In the search for originality authors have set their police/crime novels in a huge variety of settings. It follows a strict formula: a senior police officer tracking down and confronting violent criminals. No other occupation so fascinates the public as the police or has given rise to such a prolific and popular literary genre as the ‘police procedural’. Dead of Night (A Berlin Wartime Thriller) Squatting there now, she must care for her spirited young daughter and scrape together enough money to leave before winter arrives-or before they are found out. Tuck is slow to understand the circumstances that have driven her family to an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine, the former home of her deceased grandmother where she once spent her childhood summers. Here is storytelling at its best.” -Paul Yoon, author of Snow Hunters and Run Me to Earth Here is a story about the islands we build and carry with us. “ Lungfish is a force of nature-a deeply felt marvel of a book that navigates grief, parenthood, and the mysteries of family with unrelenting power and precision. (Order from your favorite local independent bookstore or here) During 43 months mean follow-up, 67 patients (25%) died and 4 patients (1%) underwent heart transplantation. CSR during wakefulness was associated with advanced age, atrial fibrillation, decreased LV ejection fraction, increased LV end-diastolic diameter, brain natriuretic peptide, New York Heart Failure class, and CSR during sleep. Primary endpoint during follow-up was heart transplant-free survival.įifty of 267 patients (19%) had CSR during wakefulness and 73 of 267 patients (27%) had CSR during sleep. Prevalence and prognostic significance of CSR during wakefulness in CHF, however, are largely unknown.ĬSR during wakefulness with an apnea-hypopnea cut-off ≥5/h and moderate to severe CSR with an apnea-hypopnea cutoff ≥15/h were analyzed using polysomnographic recordings in 267 patients with stable CHF with reduced left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction at our institution. Cheyne-Stokes respiration (CSR) during sleep has been studied extensively in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). At some point, many of the homes on the street where the sisters grew up were demolished.īy signing up, you agree to TheRealDeal Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. While Morrison left the Midwest for Howard University in her teen years, her sister, Lois, continued living in Lorain throughout her life. She was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, a town that would figure into the setting of her breakout debut, The Bluest Eye, published in 1970. Morrison died on August 5, 2019, from complications due to pneumonia at a hospital in the Bronx. At the same time, interest about the places the Nobel laureate lived throughout her life dates back decades – helped along by the strong role that “place” plays in her novels as well as the details of her personal residential history. At the time, she was doing press for her latest book, “Home,” and its title generated countless inquiries into what the word meant to Morrison personally. And I’d hate to lose them,” Toni Morrison told a reporter for The Telegraph in 2012. I admired Miller’s persistence and bravery for not giving up when everything was so hopeless. I cried again for the unwarranted misfortunate. Just when everything seemed to be working out, life threw them an unexpected curve ball which tore them apart. Miller was the ray of light that he needed. I cried for all the unjust and traumatic experiences that he had to endure alone while he was a child. It was a long beautiful and heartbreaking journey. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I was touched by Miller and Ezra’s MM step-brother romance. A lot of the times I just couldn’t feel the characters. It has been sitting there for a long time because as I got older, I tended to steer away from YA/NA romances. It was no surprise that Wrath was on my TBR list. Taboo romance is one of my favorite genres and I deem the dirtier the better. The work that Arend makes is heavily inspired by her desire to be a more creative and inventive writer. More importantly, love always comes to those who put in enough effort into it. Her main philosophy is that love can come from anywhere and that there is never any way how people could predict what can happen. She focuses on stories that are humorous and intriguing while offering a strong sense of emotion all the way around. She has written more than fifty books over the years and has been listed as a best seller by the New York Times and USA Today. The Six Pack Ranch series is her most prominent line of books although she also works on the Granite Lake Wolves series.Īrend offers entertaining books that stand alone from one another although some characters can be seen in multiple books. A native of Canada, Arend focuses heavily on the paranormal romance subgenre although she also writes a number of more traditional romance novels. Vivian Arend is the author of the Six Pack Ranch series of romance novels. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes.īut then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” ( Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask-or not-was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. They must do the impossible: unite the clans to fight together, or risk being slaughtered one by one. She is given no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother’s friend, who sees her as a threat. But when the Riki village is raided by a ruthless clan thought to be a legend, Eelyn is even more desperate to get back to her beloved family. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield-her brother, fighting with the enemy-the brother she watched die five years ago.įaced with her brother's betrayal, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbor is an enemy, every battle scar possibly one she delivered. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient rivalry against the Riki clan. This is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from a master of erotic writing. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Library descriptions No library descriptions found. MediaType eBook shortDescription From influential feminist artist and essayist Anais Nin, Delta of Venus is one of the most important works of modern female erotica and "a joyous display of the erotic imagination" (The New York Times Book Review). Delta of Venus is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of erotic writing. Creating her own language of the senses, Nin explores an area that was previously the domain of male writers and brings. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages |