![]() ![]() Her historical fantasy novels, THE FOREST HOUSE and LADY OF AVALON are prequels to MISTS OF AVALON. Over the years she turned more to fantasy THE HOUSE BETWEEN THE WORLDS was "fantasy undiluted." She wrote a best-selling novel of the women in the Arthurian legends-Morgan Le Fay, the Lady of the Lake, and others-entitled MISTS OF AVALON, and she also wrote THE FIREBRAND, a novel about the women of the Trojan War. She also edited an annual anthology called SWORD AND SORCERESS for DAW Books. ![]() Bradley edited many magazines, amateur and professional, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's FANTASY Magazine, which she started in 1988. ![]() She wrote everything from science fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels. She was a science fiction/fantasy fan from her middle teens, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to VORTEX SCIENCE FICTION. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67. Marion Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Don't miss the captivating audio version (Listen & Live audio), read by Katherine Kellgren. ![]() ![]() Meyer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and finds herself battling pirates on the high seas. In a similar vein, for readers aged 12-up, orphaned Mary "Jacky" Faber passes for the titular ship's boy in Bloody Jack by L.A. Lest you think girls have no place among pirates, the heroine of the charming early chapter book Kylie Jean, Pirate Queen by Marci Peschke, illustrated by Tuesday Mourning (Capstone), sets out to prove otherwise. In How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long, illustrated by David Shannon (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), young Jeremy Jacobs can't resist a pirate crew's invitation to join up, but discovers he's a landlubber at heart (there's no place like home). Here are some books to help you and yours brush up on your lingo and avoid walking the plank. Next Thursday, September 19, is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. ![]() ![]() ![]() During the First World War, she worked at a hospital as a nurse later working at a hospital pharmacy, a job that influenced her work, as many of the murders in her books are carried out with poison. ![]() The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880–1929), called Monty, ten years older than Agatha.īefore marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.Īgatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. ![]() Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance. Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.ĭame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best-selling author of all time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Picking Dandelions is a candid and personal account of outgrowing laissez-faire Christianity, moving into mature faith, and realizing that a God-following person is a changing person. In the end, Cunningham succeeds in sifting through the dysfunctions and flaws of human life and discovering pockets of God's original Eden goodness for both herself and for you. ![]() Whether recounting living next to a cemetery, teaching at-risk high schoolers, or listening to her grandmother's stories about being a British 'war bride,' the author weaves faith into down-to-earth metaphors of growth and renewal, planting and reaping, greenery and weeds. In this warm and witty memoir, she describes finding and keeping a personal faith in the quirky settings of her ultra-Christian childhood. Sarah Cunningham is the author of Picking Dandelions (3.60 avg rating, 100 ratings, 17 reviews, published 2010), Dear Church (3.50 avg rating, 90 ratings. Sarah Cunningham, a moderate middle-class white girl who grew up in the Michigan countryside, speaks about God with humor and honesty more characteristic of liberal west-coast writers in this unabridged audio download of Picking Dandelions. ![]() ![]() The alliance has been both a blessing and a curse. ![]() New families are coming to settle in Bingtown, who have no understanding of, or respect for, the ancient pact with the land, and who unwittingly threaten the delicate diplomacy with the Rain Wild Traders that keeps Bingtown going. They have governed the town well over the years, protecting their traditions and preserving their links with their reclusive fellow settlers, the Rain Wild Traders. The two trilogies aren’t completely separate, of course, but that’s something that doesn’t become obvious until a little later on, so I’m going to hold off until the next book.Īt the heart of Bingtown are its Trader families, descended from those who originally came to settle on these shores. ![]() Here, rather than the medievalism of The Farseer trilogy, we have trade and shipping and merchants’ colonies, with a distinctly seventeenth-century feel. The Six Duchies are mentioned occasionally, but mainly as a bitterly cold backwater (both in location and civilisation) that no one particularly wants to visit. These books are set in the same world as The Farseer, a long way further south, where the trading community of Bingtown lies between Chalced and Jamaillia. Bingtown could belong to an entirely different age than the Six Duchies. ![]() I’m now onto the first book of her second trilogy, The Liveship Traders. ![]() |