Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Although she writes under the pen name J.K.
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Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime. A highly inventive, “thoughtful, engrossing” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) graphic memoir, Belonging “packs the power of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and David Small’s Stitches” (NPR.org). Nora Krug investigates the hidden truths of her familys wartime history in Nazi Germany. Nostalgia for home is common in expatriates, and Krug is no different. Born in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1977, well after the war, Krug now lives and teaches in New York City. In this extraordinary quest, “Krug erases the boundaries between comics, scrapbooking, and collage as she endeavors to make sense of 20th-century history, the Holocaust, her German heritage, and her family’s place in it all” (The Boston Globe). It is just this impossibility that Nora Krug takes on in Belonging, her difficult, provocative, and ultimately moving graphic memoir. Returning to Germany, she visits archives, conducts research, and interviews family members, uncovering in the process the stories of her maternal grandfather, a driving teacher in Karlsruhe during the war, and her father’s brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier. Yet she knew little about her own family’s involvement though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it.Īfter twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn’t dare to as a child. Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of WoolĪndy Weir's terrific 'lost in space' novel is an absolute page turner from first to last. Smart, funny, and white-knuckle intense, The Martian is everything you want from a novel. This story will take your breath away faster than a hull breech. Clear your schedule before you crack the seal. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him? Read more Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit, he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Damaged machinery, the unforgiving environment, or plain old "human error" are much more likely to kill him first.īut Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.Īfter a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive – and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.Ĭhances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. In the Young Readers Edition of The Martian: A Young Readers Edition of the Number 1 Sunday Times bestselling phenomenon. So he has a good reason for hiding his alter-ego from his neighbor and everyone in Scallop Shores. Years ago, as lead singer for the boy band Five of Hearts, Dean learned that women only wanted him for his money and fame. But her new neighbor was hiding something, and she was intrigued. Looking more delicious than any man had a right to, Shannon wanted to ignore him. So she may have been a tad excited to learn someone had bought the house next door. Sure it got lonely being out here on the bluff, away from the rest of Scallop Shores. Her mother raised her alone and after her ex-husband deserted her upon learning they weren’t having one baby but three at once, she was doing the single mom routine with her own triplets. A gorgeous redheaded caretaker and her three mischievous heathens. Unfortunately for him, that summer rental next door came with a year-round caretaker. The only other house on the road is a summer cottage and was sure to be empty except for a few weeks during the summer. His new house, on a rocky bluff overlooking the Atlantic, seems ideal. Dean was looking for a quiet place to put down new roots and leave the craziness of his old celebrity life behind him. Obsidian: Awakening (Book one of Obsidian Series) eBook
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