Glamour, excitement, red carpets popping up EVERY WHERE! It's the annual biggest party for movies and every one is talking about film! So why not change the subject just a bit and talk about some of the books that either inspired the films or are reading to continue to keep you in the mood? We've got everything from a suspense set in New Orleans after Katrina to the story of Mrs. Lincoln's dressmaker, to the real life adventures of Tony Mendez and a little something in between.
A psychological thriller in the vein of Kate Atkinson and
Tana French that introduces Nola C�spedes, an intense and
spellbinding protagonist
Nola C�spedes, an ambitious young reporter at the
Times-Picayune, catches a break: An assignment to
write her first full-length feature. While researching her
story, she also becomes fixated on the search for a missing
tourist in New Orleans. As Nola's work leads her into darker
corners of the city, a singular narrative voice emerges, and
an even more compelling question surfaces: Who is Nola
C�spedes? Vividly rendered in razor sharp prose, this novel
is a riveting journey of trust betrayed—and the courageous
struggle toward recovery.
A heartrending novel set in belle �poque Paris, inspired by the real-life model for Edgar Degas's Little Dancer Aged Fourteen and a notorious criminal trial of the era.
Paris. 1878. Following their father's sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, fourteen-year-old Marie is dispatched to the Paris Op�ra, where for the scant salary of seventy francs a month she will be trained to enter the famous Ballet. Her older sister, Antoinette, finds work as an extra in a stage adaptation of �mile Zola's Naturalist masterpiece L'Assommoir.
Marie throws herself into dance and is soon modelling in the studio of Edgar Degas, where her image will forever be immortalized as Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. Antoinette, meanwhile, descends lower and lower in society, and must make the choice between a life of honest labor and the more profitable avenues open to a young woman of the Parisian demimonde—that is, unless her love affair derails her completely.
Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural and societal change, The Painted Girls is a tale of two remarkable sisters rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of "civilized society."
New York Times bestselling author Jennifer
Chiaverini illuminates the extraordinary friendship between
Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a former
slave who won her freedom by the skill of her needle, and
the friendship of the First Lady by her devotion.
In Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, novelist Jennifer
Chiaverini presents a stunning account of the friendship
that blossomed between Mary Todd Lincoln and her seamstress,
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Keckley, a former slave who gained her
professional reputation in Washington, D.C. by outfitting
the city's elite. Keckley made history by sewing for First
Lady Mary Todd Lincoln within the White House, a trusted
witness to many private moments between the President and
his wife, two of the most compelling figures in American
history.
In March 1861, Mrs. Lincoln chose
Keckley from among a number of applicants to be her personal
"modiste," responsible not only for creating the First
Lady's gowns, but also for dressing Mrs. Lincoln in the
beautiful attire Keckley had fashioned. The relationship
between the two women quickly evolved, as Keckley was drawn
into the intimate life of the Lincoln family, supporting
Mary Todd Lincoln in the loss of first her son, and then her
husband to the assassination that stunned the nation and the
world.
Keckley saved scraps from the dozens of gowns
she made for Mrs. Lincoln, eventually piecing together a
tribute known as the Mary Todd Lincoln Quilt. She also saved
memories, which she fashioned into a book, Behind the
Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White
House. Upon its publication, Keckley's memoir created a
scandal that compelled Mary Todd Lincoln to sever all ties
with her, but in the decades since, Keckley's story has
languished in the archives. In this impeccably researched,
engrossing novel, Chiaverini brings history to life in rich,
moving style.
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
February 2013
On Sale: February 5, 2013
384 pages ISBN: 1442431555 EAN: 9781442431553 Kindle: B0088P0JD2 Hardcover / e-Book
What happens when everything you've got to give isn't
enough to save someone you love?
It's Maine. It's
winter. And it's FREEZING STINKIN' COLD! Dinah is wildly
worried about her best friend, Skint. He won't wear a coat.
Refuses to wear a coat. It's twelve degrees out, and he
won't wear a coat. So Dinah's going to figure out how to
help. That's what Dinah does—she helps. But she's too busy
trying to help to notice that sometimes, she's doing more
harm than good. Seeing the trees instead of the forest?
That's Dinah.
And Skint isn't going to be the
one to tell her. He's got his own problems. He's worried
about a little boy whose dad won't let him visit his mom.
He's worried about an elderly couple in a too-cold house
down the street.
But the wedge between what
drives Dinah and what concerns Skint is wide enough for a
big old slab of ice. Because Skint's own father is in
trouble. Because Skint's mother refuses to ask for help even
though she's at her breaking point. And because Dinah might
just decide to...help. She thinks she's cracking through a
sheet of ice, but what's actually there is an entire
iceberg.
Carla Swafford's erotic Circle series comes to an
exhilarating finale as the team of sexy spies and assassins
goes undercover—under the covers.
After disappearing days before her wedding to fellow Circle
agent Rex Drago, Abby Rodriguez discovered that trying to
reclaim a life—and a love—lost is a whole lot harder than
she thought. When her family's safety is threatened by an
arms dealer, Abby must go undercover with the one man who
sees right through her as they play the scariest roles yet:
husband and wife.
Mission or no mission, Rex Drago wants answers from his
ex-fiancee. Forced to play along as a rival arms dealer and
the husband he once wanted to be, Rex is finding it hard to
stay professional—especially since Abby is just as hot as
ever. And when they find themselves in a very
intimate position, Abby and Rex must act the part—or
risk blowing their cover entirely.
How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
The true, declassified account of CIA operative Tony
Mendez's daring rescue of American hostages from Iran that
inspired the critically-acclaimed film directed by and
starring Ben Affleck, and co-starring John Goodman, Alan
Arkin, and Bryan Cranston.
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American
embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages,
sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics
still reverberating today. But there is a little-known drama
connected to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a
top-level CIA officer named Antonio Mendez devised an
ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them before
they were detected.
Disguising himself as a Hollywood producer, and supported by
a cast of expert forgers, deep cover CIA operatives, foreign
agents, and Hollywood special effects artists, Mendez
traveled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for
a fake science fiction film called Argo. While
pretending to find the perfect film backdrops, Mendez and a
colleague succeeded in contacting the escapees, and
smuggling them out of Iran.
Antonio Mendez finally details the extraordinarily complex
and dangerous operation he led more than three decades ago.
A riveting story of secret identities and international
intrigue, Argo is the gripping account of the history-making
collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage.