![]() A graphic designer specializing in the publishing industry, she was commended as an illustrator by Writer's Digest, named Artist of the Month by the Society of Children's Writers and Artists, and was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer (Da Vinci Eye) Award for superior cover design. Her literary agent is Jill Marsal at the Marsal Lyon Agency.Ĭarrie is a freelance copywriter for and an on-call creative technician at Hallmark Cards. Her second novel, Deviled Egg, is in progress. Her essays appear in For Keeps and He Said What? (Seal Press), Exit Laughing (North Atlantic Books), Faith (Simon and Schuster), and Dumped (She Writes). Carrie Kabak is the author of an Independent Booksellers' Pick, Cover the Butter, a novel and audiobook published by Penguin Putnam, Little Brown, Archipel, Random House, and Gruner & Jahr. ![]()
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This time, her manager, Bert, is calculating a possible bid for a mass zombie raising in Branson, Missouri. Like the previous novels, the novel opens with Anita considering a possible job. In this case, the restaurant itself is named after a character in the novel, Rawhead and Bloody Bones, making the title somewhat eponymous.īloody Bones begins on Saint Patrick's Day, shortly after the events of the previous Anita Blake novel, The Lunatic Cafe. Hamilton employed the practice of naming each novel after a fictional location within the story for most of the Anita Blake series. Within the book, "Bloody Bones" is the name of a restaurant that is operated by two of the principal characters in the novel, Magnus and Dorcas Bouvier. As with its predecessors, Bloody Bones blends elements of supernatural, hardboiled and police procedural fiction. ![]() ![]() This time, Anita travels to Branson, Missouri and is quickly enmeshed in a series of supernatural murders and disappearances that she and her vampire would-be lover, Jean-Claude must resolve. ![]() ![]() Hamilton, the fifth book in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series.īloody Bones continues the adventures of Anita Blake. Bloody Bones is a horror/mystery novel by American writer Laurell K. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel also focuses on Frederica, Susan’s timid 16-year old daughter, who is terrorized by her mother, as Susan tries to marry her off to the wealthy, yet fatuous Sir James Martin against her wishes. Apparently, this move is initiated after Susan is sent packing from the previous residence where she had been residing, due to the exposure of her flagrant affair with a married man. Exploring issues including morals, manners, self-indulgence, malevolence, and social machinations, the relatively short novel is sure to fascinate with its atypical form.Ĭomprised of forty-one letters, the novel introduces Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful recent widow in her thirties, who is allowed to stay with her brother-in -law Charles Vernon and his wife Catherine in their family home. Disregarding anything but her own selfish goals, Susan employs her charms to lure men and draw them into her web of deceit, no matter their age or status. The short novel focuses on the self-serving eponymous anti-heroine, as she cunningly maneuvers her way through society in search of a wealthy husband for both her daughter and herself. An epistolary novel, Lady Susan is an early work by Austen that was posthumously published in 1871. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Heavy is a "gorgeous, gutting.generous" ( The New York Times ) memoir that combines personal stories with piercing intellect to reflect both on the strife of American society and on Laymon's experiences with abuse. From his early experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to time in New York as a college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother, grandmother, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing, and ultimately gambling. In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. *Named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics * In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoir-winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and finalist for the Kirkus Prize-genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon "provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man, and in turn crafts an essential polemic against American moral rot" ( Entertainment Weekly ). ![]() |