"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. One of NPR's Top 5 Young Adult Novels of 2011. Kendare Blake's Anna Dressed in Blood is a 2011 Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year title. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.
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I blogged the press-conference even before I'd sent out the invitations to the press. From the start, Chapters raised the bar on what a big corporate bookstore could be, extending its hours, adding a friendly cafe and lots of seating, installing in-store self-service terminals and stocking the most amazing variety of titles. I was working at Bakka, the independent science fiction bookstore, when Chapters opened its first store in Toronto and I knew that something big was going on right away, because two of our smartest, best-informed customers stopped in to tell me that they'd been hired to run the science fiction section. This chapter is dedicated to Chapters/Indigo, the national Canadian megachain. Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers’ quarrel gone bad. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she’s getting close to the breaking point. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. 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The setting is 1640s France by way of an empty wooden box the costumes are straight out of Fort Greene circa 2022 (Soutra Gilmour, Lloyd's longtime design collaborator, did both, further enhancing the ultra-minimalist aesthetic they displayed on Broadway in Betrayal). Using a new translation by Martin Crimp that faithfully transforms Rostand's romantic verses into slam poetry (complete with beatboxer), this erotically charged Cyrano de Bergerac is a titillating thrill from start to finish, and my favorite of all the Cyrano's I've seen, by much more than just a nose. James McAvoy is the latest performer to go without the false proboscis, and with good reason: Why distract the audience from the hottest Cyrano they'll ever see? It's one of many deconstructions in Jamie Lloyd's electrifying new take of the classic, now running a victory lap at Brooklyn Academy of Music after two hit engagements in London's West End. His élan is always more important than his schnoz - and I've always been sidetracked by the mechanics of the prosthetics, anyway. What matters most (for this play, anyway) is the actor's ability to rip the hearts out of our chests and show them to us through his sheer command of language. As Peter Dinklage showed us just a few years ago (and more recently on screen), one needs not don the long, protuberant, fake nose to convincingly portray Edmund Rostand's beloved tragic hero Cyrano de Bergerac. Just about all the emotions are the same. You’re not unlike the hundreds of millions of your fellow citizens of America and the world who are trying to come to grips with the same thing. The United States of America is under attack. The charred gash in the northwest face of the Pentagon, just minutes up the George Washington Parkway from where you and your colleagues are still coming to grips with what had happened, is smoldering. The wreckage of United Airlines Flight 93 has turned a peaceful field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, into a horrifying disaster site. Rescue crews are dealing with the unthinkable amid the massive heap of acrid rubble at Ground Zero in New York, where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center stood that morning. Imagine that it’s the late afternoon of September 11, 2001. Her sisters begin to attend magical balls, hoping to find suitors that know nothing of their curse, but Annaleigh has her own suspicions about these balls. She meets a beautiful stranger with secrets of his own. She tries to get help from her family, but they all believe she’s going mad, and Annaleigh begins to question her own sanity.Īs Annaleigh tries to solve this mystery, things become more, not less, mysterious. After seeing the drawings, Annaleigh starts to see her sisters’ ghosts herself. The rest of the family dismisses this, but when Annaleigh sees the horrific drawings in her sister’s sketchbook, she knows her sister could not be making this up. The youngest sister, six-year-old Verity, claims to be haunted by the ghosts of her dead sisters. But the murders are not the only strange things happening. Annaleigh, however, is determined to find out who killed her sisters before they can claim another. Most people accept without question that Eulalie’s death was an accident, that she simply fell. Those living in the surrounding area believe that the Thaumases are cursed, unlucky, and accident prone, but Annaleigh, the sixth sister, thinks differently. Now only eight sisters remain, and the guests whisper quietly behind their backs: “Which one will be next?” The Thaumas family is burying their fourth daughter, Eulalie – the fourth oldest, and also the fourth to die mysteriously. House of Salt and Sorrows open on a funeral. 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