![]() James and Ruth Rendell, masters of language and character who demonstrated again and again that mysteries and thrillers are not limited to plot-driven potboilers. Redemption Road is conclusive evidence that Hart’s name belongs in the same breath as P.D. "John Hart is as near to perfect as any writer currently working. "Edgar Award winning John Hart cements his status as one of America’s premier novelists, as well as mystery writers, in "Redemption Road," a beautifully rendered, heart wrenching tale that’s the perfect combination of brains and brawn.haunting in its base simplicity and riveting in its emotional angst, this is an extraordinary novel in which the human heart proves the most confounding mystery of all." - The Providence Journal There are moments when Hart’s writing soars off the page with a lyricism that probably only James Lee Burke can match. "One of today’s finest thriller writers - certainly in the same league as David Baldacci, John Grisham, Frederick Forsyth and Lee Child. ![]() JOHN HART IS A MASTER STORYTELLER." - Harlan Coben ![]() "Big, bold, and impossible to put down, Redemption Road had me from page one. And then go back and read all of his others. THE PROLOGUE IS HEART-WRENCHING and the chapters thereafter pull you in like matter to a black hole. ![]() ![]() With Redemption Road Hart has taken it to another level. His prose conjures comparisons with James Lee Burke in its sultry, melodious alchemy. "People in publishing have always known that John Hart can flat-out write. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() MCA: Welcome to the Spotlight, Amber! Would you share with us where your drive for writing Just Because came from?Īmber: When I was teaching elementary school, I was always trying to find different ways to teach abstract concepts to my students. Please welcome Amber to the Spotlight! Helping Children Understand Empathy Her first book in the Flip Side Stories® series, Just Because: Where Seeing Another Point of View Makes A Better You, has been met with a tremendous positive response, and here to share more about her experience is Amber herself. Before too long, she had a collection of stories of everything, from writing letters to soldiers to being kind to animals. In the classroom, she was wanted to help her young pupils understand ambitious concepts such as empathy.Ī mom of three kids herself, Amber’s idea of sharing the “flip side” of things grew. How do you teach children compassion so that they will consider others’ feelings before they act on a whim? How do you get kids to think about the consequences of their actions, or to reflect on other people’s situations?Īmber Housey taught elementary and preschool for many years. ![]() Children (and sometimes adults too!) can have a little difficulty with learning that, while they are adored and loved, the world does not always revolve around them. ![]() ![]() ![]() The videos in his series Rodney Versus Daewon are among the most popular skateboard videos ever produced. With the help of mentor Mike Ternansky, Rodney used his freestyle background to usher in a whole new era of street skating. So Rodney picked up his board and started from scratch. ![]() But by the time he finally broke free from his suffocating and abusive home life, the popularity of freestyle had waned and given way to vert and street styles. After years of stress and conflict, Rodney gave in and promised his father he'd quit for good. ![]() But through it all, his father looked down on his son's love for skating and pressured him to walk away from the sport and leave behind his fans and status as the most famous skateboarder of his era. He won 35 world titles in less than five years. The world–champion freestyle skateboarder and the man who brought the ollie – the trick that revolutionised the sport by taking it from the ground to the air – to street skating shares the history of skateboarding, as he tells the dramatic story of his life.Īt the age of 13, Rodney took the freestyle skating world by storm. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has recently joined the faculty at the University of St. She is currently working on plays, screenplays, and her upcoming publications include The Waiting Place, a nonfiction children’s book about refugee camp, Who Gets Believed, a creative nonfiction book, and Sitting Bird, a novel. In autumn 2021, she was a Fellow at the American Library in Paris. ![]() She is a graduate of Princeton, Harvard, and the Iowa Writers Workshop. Her short dramas have been produced by the English Touring Theatre and The Old Vic in London. Her work has been published in 20+ countries and in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Granta, and many other publications. Henry Prize, and Best American Short Stories, among other honors. ![]() A 2019-2020 Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, and winner of the 2018 UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize, Dina has won a National Endowment for the Arts literature grant, the O. Dina Nayeri is the author of two novels and two books of creative nonfiction, Who Gets Believed? (2023) and The Ungrateful Refugee (2019), winner of the Geschwister Scholl Preis and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Kirkus Prize, and Elle Grand Prix des Lectrices, and called by The Guardian “a work of astonishing, insistent importance.” Her essay of the same name was one of The Guardian’s most widely read long reads in 2017, and is taught in schools and anthologized around the world. ![]() ![]() “Brooksmith” is a moving portrait of a house servant and “Sir Edmund Orme” is an enthralling ghost story. “The Lesson of the Master” is an intricate study of ambition, disappointment, and the demands of a life devoted to art. “The Pupil” is a densely suggestive account of the moral perplexities underlying the relationship between an impoverished tutor and a young invalid. “The Aspern Papers” is a stunning novella about emotional ruthlessness in the service of literary scholarship. This Library of America volume (the third of five volumes devoted to his short fiction) includes among its seventeen stories some of James’s greatest masterpieces. ![]() Sometimes overshadowed by his work as a novelist, Henry James’s short fiction is an astonishing achievement, a triumph of inventiveness and restless curiosity. ![]() |