Magicats II
More
fun-filled feline fantasies!
These
graceful creatures have long been admired . . . and feared. Their eyes seem
full of a knowledge beyond that of man; their steps, stealthy and silent, bring
them to unknown places. Now Dann and Dozois present the mysterious world of the
cat with stories by Isaac Asimov, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others.
“Kreativity
for Kats” by Fritz Leiber
“Life
Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats” by Michael Bishop
“Bright
Burning Tiger” by Tanith Lee
“I Love
Little Pussy” by Isaac Asimov
“The Boy
Who Spoke Cat” by Ward Moore
“The
Jaguar Hunter” by Lucius Shepard
“he Sin
of Madame Phloi” by Lilian Jackson Braun
“The
Mountain Cage” by Pamela Sargent
“May’s
Lion” by Ursula K. Le Guin
“The
Color of Grass, the Color of Blood” by R. V. Barnham
“A Word
to the Wise” by John Collier
“Duke
Pasquale’s Ring” by Avram Davidson
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Warning - This book is intended for a mature reading audience and isn't suitable for younger readers. 18+ only! Brooke has spent the last four years dreaming of visiting Iceland. When everything in her life seems to fall apart, she takes it as a sign that now is the perfect time to go. She leaves everything behind and heads to the land where the sun doesn’t set in the summer, the mountains are fierce, and the hot pools are divine. Ari is the handsome Viking in Iceland that Brooke has fallen for over the years through the internet. The first time Brooke and Ari finally meet in person, sparks fly. Neither of them are prepared for the heat between them. The only problem is that Ari isn’t available. He’s involved with another woman whose jealousy brings nothing but torment between Brooke and Ari. Lines are crossed, mistakes are made and confusion reigns. Will Ari choose Brooke? Or will she be forced to leave all of her dreams behind in the land of ice and snow? Views: 23
Stevie, Lisa, and Carole form a club to share their love of horses. Only two rules govern the club. Members must always be horse crazy and members must always help each other. Together the three girls embark on many horse-centric adventures. Views: 23
For baseball superstar Garrett Donovan, his contract with the New York Empire baseball team meant he’d finally have the means to secure a future for his family. He should focus on that…not on the sassy, beautiful Jessa Montgomery — or what she looks like naked. Getting involved with the daughter of the Empire’s owner would be career suicide. Jessa is a distraction he can’t afford.
Her father had warned her never to get involved with his athletes, so his request that she keep an eye on his new star player came straight out of left field. The last thing Jessa needs is another spoiled, egotistical ball player to deal with. But Garrett is none of those things. His no-nonsense attitude and smooth Southern charm make her blood burn and her knees weak. Giving into temptation, she is consumed by the pleasure she finds in Garrett’s arms.
Jessa wants to protect his career. Garrett won’t let anything get in the way of their passion.
A passion that could cost him everything. Views: 23
From Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow Wil Haygood comes a mesmerizing inquiry into the life of Eugene Allen, the butler who ignited a nation's imagination and inspired a major motion picture: Lee Daniels' The Butler, the highly anticipated film that stars six Oscar winners, including Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey (honorary and nominee), Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Redgrave, and Robin Williams; as well as Oscar nominee Terrence Howard, Mariah Carey, John Cusack, Lenny Kravitz, James Marsden, David Oyelowo, Alex Pettyfer, Alan Rickman, and Liev Schreiber.With a foreword by the Academy Award nominated director Lee Daniels, The Butler not only explores Allen's life and service to eight American Presidents, from Truman to Reagan, but also includes an essay, in the vein of James Baldwin’s jewel The Devil Finds Work, that explores the history of black images on celluloid and in Hollywood, and fifty-seven pictures of Eugene Allen, his family, the presidents he served, and the remarkable cast of the movie.About the AuthorA Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow and a writer for the Washington Post, Wil Haygood has been described as a cultural historian. He is the author of a trio of iconic biographies. His King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., told the story of the enigmatic New York congressman and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. That was followed—after publication of a family memoir—by In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr., which was awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Music Biography Award, the Zora Neale Hurston-Richard Wright Legacy Award, and the Nonfiction Book of the Year Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. In 2009, he wrote Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson, which told the story of the famed New York pugilist known as much for his prowess in the ring as his elegant style outside of it. Haygood is an associate producer of Lee Daniels’ The Butler. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Also by Wil Haygood Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. Two on the River (photographs by Stan Grossfeld) The Haygoods of Columbus: A Love Story A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Copyright © 2013 by Wil Haygood Foreword copyright © 2013 by Lee Daniels All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information, address Atria Books Subsidiary Rights Department, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. First 37 Ink/Atria Books hardcover edition July 2013 / and colophons are trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-866-506-1949 or [email protected]. The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event. For more information or to book an event, contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-866-248-3049 or visit our website at www.simonspeakers.com. Designed by Kyoko Watanabe Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for. ISBN 978-1-4767-5299-0 ISBN 978-1-4767-5327-0 (ebook) ContentsForeword: Lee Daniels*xi*The Butler’s Journey*1*Moving Image*45*Five Presidents in the Struggle*81*Acknowledgments*95** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *the *ButlerThe Butler’sJourneyHe was out there somewhere. By now he’d be an old man. He had worked “decades” in the White House. Maybe he had passed away virtually alone, and there had been only a wisp of an obituary notice. But no one could confirm if that were so. Maybe I was looking for a ghost. Actually, I was looking for a butler. I couldn’t stop looking. Yes, a butler. It is such an old-fashioned and anachronistic term: the butler. Someone who serves people, who sees but doesn’t see; someone who can read the moods of the people he serves. The figure in the shadows. Movie lovers fell in love with the butler as a cinematic figure in the 1936 film My Man Godfrey, which starred William Powell as the butler of a chaotic household. More recently, the butler figure and other backstage players have been popularized in the beloved television series Downton Abbey. My butler was a gentleman by the name of Eugene Allen. For thirty-four years, he had been a butler at the house located in Washington, DC, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, which the world knows as the White House. Finally, after talking to many, many people, on both coasts of the country, and making dozens and dozens of phone calls, I found him. He was very much alive. He was living with his wife, Helene, on a quiet street in Northwest Washington. Eugene Allen had worked—as a butler—in eight presidential administrations, from Harry Truman’s to Ronald Reagan’s. He was both a witness to history and unknown to it. “Come right in,” he said, opening the door to his home on that cold November day in 2008. He had already taken his morning medications. He had already served his wife breakfast. He was eighty-nine years old, and he was about to crack history open for me in a whole new way. This is how the story of a White House butler—who would land in newsprint the world over after a story I had written appeared on the front page of the Washington Post three days after the historic election on November 4, 2008, of Barack Obama—actually unspooled. It all began in summery darkness in 2008, down in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Midnight had come and gone, and the speech was being summed up and analyzed and written about. Yet another Democratic presidential hopeful had been pleading with a throng of students and voters about why they should vote for him. The rafters of what is known as the Dean Dome on the campus of the University of North Carolina were packed. The candidate, who possessed a smooth and confident disposition, was on his way. The audience was multiracial, young and old. The instantly recognizable guttural voice of Stevie Wonder was jumping from the loudspeakers. Some of the old in attendance were veterans of the movement, as in civil rights movement: the sixties, segregation, those brave souls gunned down and buried all across the South. Now the candidate was before them, shirtsleeves rolled up, holding the microphone. “I’m running because of what Dr. King called the fierce urgency of now, because I believe in such a thing as being too late, and that hour, North Carolina, is upon us.” The words had a churchy, movement feel to them, and then–senator Barack Obama was effortlessly lifting the throng up out of their seats. The noise and clapping pointed to believers. But still, it was the South, he was a black man, the White House seemed a bit of a fantastical dream. History and demons were everywhere, though the candidate seemed impervious to all that. I was one of the writers covering the Obama campaign that night for the Washington Post, flying in and out of a slew of states over a seven- day period. Following the Chapel Hill rally and speech—and after I’d interviewed a few folks inside—it was time to move outside and head for the bus, which would take us journalists back to the hotel. The night air was sweet and rather lovely. Suddenly, I heard the oddest thing: cries, and coming from nearby. I turned my head and squinted through the dark. Just over there, on a bench, sat three young ladies—college students. I stepped toward them and asked if anything was wrong, if there was anything I could do. “Our fathers won’t speak to us,” one of them said through her sobs, “because we support that man in there.” They had all been inside the Dome. The speaker’s cohorts nodded through reddened eyes. She went on: “Our fathers don’t want us supporting a black man, but they can’t stop us.” Their words stilled me. I sat talking with them for a while. Their sobs faded away, and the looks on their faces soon returned to a kind of resplendent defiance. They were staring down their daddies; they were going to be a part of the movement to get this black man to the White House. Maybe I was half-exhausted, maybe I was in a dreamy state of mind, maybe those tears had touched me deeper than I knew. But then and there, in that southern darkness— as if I had been kicked by a mule—I told myself that Barack Obama was indeed going to get to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, to the White House. Just days after that night in Chapel Hill, I told Steve Reiss, my editor, that Barack Obama was going to win the presidency, and because he was going to win, I needed to find someone from the era of segregation, and find them right now, to write about what this upcoming and momentous event in American history would mean to them. And I wanted the person to have worked in the White House, I told him. My editor’s eyebrows arched. “Hmm.” Reiss sighed. He didn’t believe Obama would win, but he did believe my intentions. He wanted me to finish a couple of other hanging assignments, then I could go in search of this ghostly person. He wondered: how far back would I look for this White House employee? “Are you talking the nineteen sixties?” “Farther back,” I said. I wanted to fi... Views: 23
Praise for Richard Roberts: "One thing Richard Roberts does so very well is create an unforgettable character. In this book, he's created a whole crew. Each is so vivid in my mind that I am able to look at the beautiful artwork of the cover and pick out each character by name." ~Laurie Laliberte About Quite Contrary: The secret of having an adventure is getting lost. Who ever visited an enchanted kingdom or fell into a fairy tale without wandering into the woods first? Well, Mary is lost. Mary is lost in the story of Little Red Riding Hood, and that is a cruel and murderous story. She's put on the red hood and met the Wolf. When she gives in to her Wolf's temptations, she will die. That's how the story goes, after all. Unfortunately for the story and unfortunately for the Wolf, this Little Red Riding Hood is Mary Stuart, and she is the most stubborn and contrary twelve year old the world has ever known. Forget the Wolf's temptations, forget the advice of the talking rat trying to save her - she will kick her way through every myth and fairy tale ever told until she finds a way to get out of this alive. Her own way, and no one else's.Review"Another brilliant part of the novel is the inner monologue that goes through the main characters head. She's not the normal stereotypical heroine that kicks ass but nor is she a meek 'oh please save' me style character either. She's a grumpy, sometimes sullen young girl who is equal part cynical and brave along with moments of massive self doubt. Roberts really has done a superb job of creating a character that is both fully fleshed out as well as feeling realistic, which for a fantasy novel is quite an achievement." - Patrick Challis, 'Curiosity of a Social Misfit' review blog From the AuthorFor more exotic fantasy by Richard Roberts, try: Wild Children, five stories of innocent and not-so-innocent children suffering the same curseSweet Dreams Are Made of Teeth, about love and coming of age when you're a nightmare in the world of dreams Views: 23
Pickles Bartley has always wanted one thing—to have a family of her own. In foster care since the age of three, she's had more than her fair share of bad homes. There's no way she is about to give up her new home with Miranda and David; she is determined to have them adopt her—even if it means following her friend Prudence's advice: "You have to be ready and form a plan if you want them to keep you." So they do. In one of her old foster homes, Prudence blackmailed her foster father when she caught him kissing a pretty woman. Prudence insists that Pickles does the same in a four step operation called "How to Get Dirt." Views: 23
She’s everything he wants and all he knows he shouldn’t have…when danger strikes will he give it all up or is he doomed to live the rest of his life without her?
Valentino Cassano is a man who lives in shadows, lies and secrets. He works for a group that he can’t tell anyone about. When the ugliness from that world affects the woman he’s had a thing with for a few years, he refuses to let her face it alone.
Lexy Camden loves her life as a veterinarian. However when everything gets turned upside down and Valentino inserts himself into routine for more than a few days things get complicated…fast. The feelings she’d been ignoring for so long won’t give her a moment’s peace.
As the danger to her escalates, and part of Valentino’s past comes out, will they have a chance to be a real couple or will it all be shattered with the simple pull of a trigger? Valentino has lost a lot and has no plans to do so again, now if he can just convince Lexy to give him another shot.
Reader Advisory: this book includes scenes of violence and torture as well as references to rape. Views: 23
Stevie Lake has been grounded. No hanging out with the other members of the Saddle Club. Even worse, Stevie's not allowed to ride! It's going to take all her wackiness, and a little help in the scheming department from Carole Hanson and Lisa Atwood, to talk her parents into letting her go to riding camp. Can Stevie clean up her act in time? If she doesn't, summer is going to be a complete bust! Views: 23
