![]() ![]() In this case, the real story quite literally emerges from the grave, crying out to be told. We can try to run away from it or put a glossy sheen over it, but the real story is always there. ![]() The Cutting Season, Attica Locke’s second novel, uses this crime as a jumping-off point to explore the idea that history never leaves us. Caren’s uneasy tranquility with the life she’s made for her and her daughter, Morgan, is disrupted when the body of a worker from the neighboring sugar cane field is found lying face down near the plantation’s slave quarters. Yet when a brief stint in law school and a not-so-brief relationship didn’t work out, this monument to a long-dead past-or, to be more accurate, to a version of the past made palatable for tourist-called Caren back, and she moved onto the grounds to work as manager. Caren Gray had every opportunity to get away from Belle Vie, the Louisiana plantation where she grew up and where her family has served in one capacity or another for generations. ![]()
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From a number one New York Times best-selling author comes a sizzling, sweepingly romantic story filled with dangerous secrets, evil twins, and powerful magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the key to halting them might very well rely on Cassian and Nesta facing their haunting pasts.Īgainst the sweeping backdrop of a world seared by war and plagued with uncertainty, Nesta and Cassian battle monsters from within and without as they search for acceptance-and healing-in each other’s arms. Meanwhile, the treacherous human queens who returned to the Continent during the last war have forged a dangerous new alliance, threatening the fragile peace that has settled over the realms. The fire between them is undeniable, and only burns hotter as they are forced into close quarters with each other. ![]() But her temper isn’t the only thing Cassian ignites. The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior whose position in Rhysand and Feyre’s Night Court keeps him constantly in Nesta’s orbit. Worse, she can’t seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she’s struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Synopsis: Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. ![]() ![]() Tours in Uzbekistan and Moscow in the 1990s and Ukraine in 2001 solidified her expertise on Russia and its former provinces after the Soviet Union’s collapse, and she rose to the top of her profession as ambassador to Kyrgyzstan in 2005, Armenia in 2008, and Ukraine in 2016. One of her first assignments was Somalia, an impoverished, corrupt, and often dangerous failed state, but she did well. The author writes about the sexism she experienced in the service, noting how “pale, male, and Yale” was a popular profile of its employees. After graduation, a Russian-language program in Moscow cemented her fascination with world affairs, and she joined the Foreign Service in 1986. As hardworking as her parents, Marie excelled in high school and, later, at Princeton. in 1962, and raised a family on the small salary of a boarding school teacher. As immigrants in Canada, they met and married in 1958, moved to the U.S. Her father left the Soviet Union as a child, and her mother survived World War II in Nazi Germany. ![]() ![]() 1958) chronicles her career in the Foreign Service, where she has served in a variety of posts, with an emphasis on the Soviet and post-Soviet world. ![]() A veteran Foreign Service officer tells all. ![]() ![]() ![]() Was he, as his detractors claim, a megalomaniac dictator – the precursor of such 20th-century monsters as Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini? 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