![]() ![]() ![]() Add the beaten eggs and mix them in with a fork. Cut in the softened butter with a couple of forks until the mixture looks like coarse cornmeal. Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt in the smaller bowl you used earlier.Take it out of the oven and set it on a heat-proof surface, but DON'T TURN OFF THE OVEN! Bake the peach mixture at 350☏ for 40 minutes.Then cover the cake pan tightly with foil. Sprinkle any dry mixture left in the bowl on top of the peaches in the pan. (This works best if you use your impeccably clean hands.) Once most of the dry mixture is clinging to the peaches, dump them into the cake pan you've prepared. Pour the dry mixture over the peaches and toss them. ![]() Mix them together with a fork until they're evenly combined. In another smaller bowl combine white sugar, salt, flour, and cinnamon.Then sprinkle them with lemon juice and toss. Let them sit on the counter and thaw for 10 minutes. Measure the peaches and put them in a large mixing bowl.Preheat oven to 350☏, rack in the middle position.2 beaten eggs (just stir them up in a glass with a fork).1/2 stick softened butter (¼ cup, ⅛ pound).1/3 cup melted butter (1 stick, ¼ pound).10 cups frozen sliced peaches (approximately 2½ pounds, sliced) Do Not Thaw.Preheat oven to 350☏, rack in the middle position. Note: Do Not thaw the peaches before you make this-leave, them frozen. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Hank’s had a thing for Olive for as long as he could remember. But when Hank finds out about her secret career, how could she turn down the offer for a hands-on research partner for her books? Now Olive has to deal with the guy that’s teased her their entire life. Then her best friend and roommate announced she’s moving out, and her older brother was moving in. ![]() She’s worked hard to achieve a zero-human interaction life and wants to keep it that way. Olive’s content living her anti-social existence, letting the characters she writes about fulfill her wild side. From USA Today bestselling author Molly O’Hare comes an enemies-to-lovers, older brother’s best friend, romantic comedy with a curvy, anti-social, supernatural-obsessed, all-year-round holiday-loving, secret romance author, and a hunky firefighter who is more than willing to be her new research partner. ![]() ![]() Then, in a jungle in Bolivia, I died.”) who’s been hiding out in New York, and his final confrontation with the Girl from Nowhere, Amy Bellafonte, and the most bad-ass heroine in recent memory: Alicia Donadio.Ĭronin is in Chicago this week for Book Expo America (BEA) 2016, and will be signing books and speaking on a panel called “ Unwritten: Stories You Haven’t Read (Yet)” at BookCon on Saturday. And now, the third and final novel, The City of Mirrors, will finally reveal the source of the vampire virus, the man known as Zero (“In life I was a scientist called Fanning. The second book in the trilogy, The Twelve, deepened the series’s mythology and moved the action to Texas and Iowa. ![]() ![]() Easily the best thing to come out of our 21st-century obsession with vampires, Justin Cronin’s 2010 breakout novel The Passagetook a high-concept premise-a biological vampire virus that reduces human civilization to a single (as far as we know), well-armed outpost in California-and grounded it in literary prose and a vivid sense of place. ![]() ![]() One of the tropes of the realist novel is the clash between illusions and reality – the individual who must adjust their ideals in order to live in the real world. ![]() Broken times they may be, but as India, America and Britain lurch to the right, their fates appear conjoined in a globalised world.ĭon Quixote is often credited as the first realist novel in western literature. Rushdie argues that such broken migrant families are the “best mirrors of our times, shining shards that reflect the truth”. The Author is tormented by his estrangement from his son and his lawyer sister, “Jack”, who is dying of cancer in London. Sometimes, it reads like the work of a man trying to have the final word on everything before the world endsīut their quest is soon revealed as a story within a story, written by an Indian-born spy novelist as a late-in-life attempt at experimental fiction. ![]() On their travels, Quichotte and Sancho duly encounter racists, opioids, humans who turn into mastodons, crickets who speak Italian and guns that talk. But even the most unlikely romance seems possible in the “Age-of-Anything-Can-Happen”. ![]() Just as Cervantes’s hidalgo lost his mind after reading too many romances, so Quichotte has had his brain addled by trash TV. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. ![]() If you are ordering goods for delivery outside of the UK, please note that your consignment may be subject to import duties and taxes, which are levied once the goods reach the country of destination.Īny such charges levied in relation to customs clearance must be paid by you. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. Ongoing Covid restrictions, reduced air and freight capacity, high volumes and winter weather conditions are all impacting transportation and local delivery across the globe.
![]() ![]() ![]() The frontrunners of the inclusive society, Britain and America, are showing worrying signs of lapsing into extractivism. Over all recent books proclaiming the virtues of the Western Way hangs the question: why does it appear to be going wrong? You will find no mention here of the Monroe Doctrine whereby the US claimed the right to regulate life in South America, or the Bay of Pigs invasion, or the Nicaraguan Contras, or the CIA and Pinochet, or exploitative US corporations. The legacy of the plundering conquistadores is repeatedly cited as the cause of South America's failure to develop fully inclusive societies. ![]() The one weakness in an otherwise even-handed account is a blind spot with regard to the US treatment of South America. ![]() ![]() Payne Visiting Professor of Liberal Arts at Williams College, and organized by Professor Porter, includes all of Cather’s major writings in various editions and forms, as well as related manuscript and promotional materials. ![]() The Chapin Library exhibition, drawn largely from the Willa Cather collection of David H. Cather continued to write novels, essays, and other works until her death in 1947, with some books appearing posthumously. Her first novel, “Alexander’s Bridge,” published in 1912, was followed in 1913 by “O Pioneers!” set on the Nebraska prairies, in 1915 by “The Song of the Lark,” and in 1918 by “My Ántonia.” Her 1922 novel, “One of Ours,” won the Pulitzer Prize. This was followed by a volume of short stories, “The Troll Garden,” in 1905. She published her first book of poetry, “April Twilights,” in 1903. 10, 2005 - The notable and popular 20th-century American author Willa Cather is the subject of the winter exhibition at the Chapin Library of Rare Books, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.īorn in Virginia, Cather moved with her family to the Midwest, where she attended the University of Nebraska and was an outspoken drama critic. ![]() Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant tele: (413) 597-4277 email: ![]() ![]() ![]() "It would be ridiculous (and largely meaningless) to claim that this is the 'improved' version of Jesuss life. Pullman has done the story a service by reminding us of its extraordinary power to provoke and disturb." - The Telegraph (UK) "I cannot imagine the ironical Jesus taking umbrage at anything in this account of His life. Like Schweitzer, he thinks Jesus was an immeasurably great man who died to bring in a better world, the difference being that Schweitzer believed Jesus died trying to force God's hand, whereas for Pullman Jesus realised in the garden of Gethsemane that there was probably no God, so any bettering of the human condition is now up to us." - The Guardian (UK) "Though he wears his scholarship lightly as befits a master storyteller, there is no doubt in my mind that Pullman has a complete grasp of the intricacies of the quest for the historical Jesus. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: ‘Something has gone wrong,’ and ‘How soon can you get here?’ As real life and its stakes collide with the increasing absurdity of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary.Irreverent and sincere, poignant and delightfully profane, No One Is Talking About This is at once a love letter to the infinite scroll and a meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the most original voices of our time. Are we in hell? the people of the portal ask themselves. Sally Rooney Patricia Lockwood is a poet and the author of the memoir Priestdaddy, an extraordinarily funny account of growing up the daughter of the most singular Catholic priest in America. ![]() Patricia Lockwood is a completely singular talent and this is her best, funniest, weirdest, most affecting work yet’ Sally Rooney, author of Normal People ‘A literary star … Captures better than anything I’ve ever read what it’s like to be online’ Hadley Freeman, Guardian ‘A furiously original novel, alive and unstable’ Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror A Guardian, Times, Daily Mail, Esquire, Irish Independent, Irish Times, Elle, Independent and Stylist Highlight for 2021A woman known for her viral social media posts travels the world speaking to her adoring fans, her entire existence overwhelmed by the internet – or what she terms ‘the portal’. THE FIRST NOVEL FROM PATRICIA LOCKWOOD ‘I really admire and love this book. ![]() ![]() Most of all, Lydia has yet to learn that when you’re a witch, promises have power. Darcy was uptight about dancing etiquette, wait till you see how he reacts to witchcraft. Bennet, and all five daughters suffer from an estate that is entailed only to male heirs.īut Lydia also suffers from entirely different concerns: her best-loved sister Kitty is really a barn cat, and Wickham is every bit as wicked as the world believes him to be, but what else would you expect from a demon? And if you think Mr. In this exuberant reimagining of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Lydia Bennet puts pen to paper to relate the real events and aftermath of the classic story from her own perspective. Miss Lydia Bennet may be the youngest, but what she lacks in maturity and responsibility, she more than makes up for in energy, fun – and magic. ![]() |