![]() For me, navigating Morrison’s fictional worlds-awash with smells, colors, textures, flowers, and foliage-is much like traveling to a new city or country where my own feeling of foreignness is palpable. My specific attraction to her forewords, I suspect, emanates from the contrast they draw with her novels, which construct imaginative universes so whole and total in their details, signs, and inhabitants that I frequently find them overwhelming. Recently, in preparing to visit an exhibition of Toni Morrison’s process papers, “Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory,” on view at Princeton University Library, I became fascinated with Morrison’s forewords to her novels-succinct yet highly technical exegeses of her creative muses, opening sentences, archival practices, and historical and psychological preoccupations. HOWEVER UNLIKELY a place to begin one’s critical investigations, I have always read the forewords of novels eagerly, with a hope that the writer will let slip crucial details about their sources of inspiration and creative process. ![]()
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In his first bestselling novel, The Notebook, he created a testament to romantic love that touched readers around the world. ![]() Nicholas Sparks exquisitely chronicles the human heart. ![]() What happens to her is unexpected, perhaps miraculous-an encounter that embraces all our hopes for finding someone special, for having a love that is timeless and everlasting…. Inside is a letter of love and longing to “Catherine,” signed simply “Garrett.” Challenged by the mystery and pulled by emotions she doesn’t fully understand, Theresa begins a search for this man that will change her life. ![]() and the journey may change her life forever.Divorced and disillusioned about relationships, Theresa Osborne is jogging when she finds a bottle on the beach. In this New York Times bestseller, a single mother sets out to find the North Carolina man who sent a message meant for someone else. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is one off my favorite trilogy's and I was so sad when it ended especially because I felt like it wasn't complete. ![]() I have to admit that I was extremely excited to find out that Anna Carey wrote an epilogue to her "Eve" trilogy. Will she be able to bring about a new, free world when she's called upon to perform the ultimate act of rebellion-killing her father, the King? Eve plots to destroy the New America, beginning with the capital, the City of Sand. The only thing that keeps her going is Caleb's memory-and the revolution he started. Now, trapped in the palace, as a reluctant bride and unhappy princess, Eve's entire life is a lie. 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Jeff Simpson, president of the small but flourishing film and music distributor Excel, knows the best way to cross over to a broad audience is to first serve - extremely well - a niche audience.Įxcel, which began its foray into film distribution in 2000, found broad audience appeal for its independent films Brigham City and God's Army that were about, and targeted to a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints audience. Distributing Utah-based Films and Music is a No-brainer By: Glen Warchol ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Splash blaster can be used in robot and firetruck modesĬOLLECTIBLE TOYS: Look for other Playskool Heroes Transformers Rescue Bots Academy toys to assemble a rescue team (Other figures each sold separately. RESCUE TOOLS: This Hot Shot converting toy robot features a button-activated splash blaster rescue tool with lights and sounds and a posable ladder, as seen in the Transformers Rescue Bots Academy animated series. 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