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My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies is a 1973 book compiled by Nancy Friday, who collected women's fantasies through letters and tapes and personal interviews. [1] After including a female sexual fantasy in a novel she submitted for publishing, her editor objected, and Friday shelved the novel.
George William Lamming was born on 8 June 1927 in Carrington Village, Barbados, [5] of mixed Afro-Barbadian and English parentage. After his mother, Loretta Devonish, married his stepfather, Lamming split his time between his birthplace and his stepfather's home in St David's Village.
The Grave Creek Stone is a small sandstone disk inscribed on one side with some twenty-five characters, purportedly discovered in 1838 at Grave Creek Mound in Moundsville, West Virginia. If genuine, it could provide evidence of Pre-Columbian writing, but the discovery that the characters can be found in a 1752 book suggests that it is probably ...
[B] The headstones were a relatively small part of the overall expense; in the 1720s headstones ranged from £2 to over £40. [38] By the mid-18th century, death's head image had become less stern and menacing. The figure was often crowned, the lower jaw eliminated, and serrations of teeth appeared on the upper row.
Grave Mercy is a 2012 young adult fantasy novel by Robin LaFevers. Grave Mercy is the recipient of the Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth of in 2012-2013, [1] and has been well received according to fan reviews. A sequel, Dark Triumph, was published in 2013. It follows another sister from the Convent of St Mortain, Sybella.
Garden of Shadows, a novel by V. C. Andrews, was first published in 1987. V. V. C. Andrews died in 1986, and her estate commissioned ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman to continue writing novels under her name developed from plot outlines originally written by Andrews.
Her second book published, it is the first in her "Wonderland Quartet" followed by Expensive People (1968), them (1969), and Wonderland (1971). It was a finalist for the 1968 annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. [1] A Garden sets out to explore social class in the United States and the inner lives of its youngsters. It follows heroine ...
Small Things like These is a historical fiction novel by Claire Keegan, published on 30 November 2021 by Grove Press. In 2022, the book won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, [ 1 ] and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize [ 2 ] and the Booker Prize . [ 3 ]