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A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986) is a psychological thriller novel by Ruth Rendell, written under the pen name Barbara Vine. The novel won the American Edgar Award . [ 1 ] It was adapted as a television film of the same name in 1994 by the BBC .
Ruth has gained the trust of the neighborhood children by allowing them to come freely into her home, play as rough as they wish, and even drink an occasional beer with her. Her nieces are Meg, a teen girl for whom David develops feelings and Susan, a young girl who was severely injured in a car accident and still experiences complications from it.
Simisola is a 1994 novel by British crime writer Ruth Rendell. It features her recurring detective Inspector Wexford , and is the 17th in the series. [ 1 ] Though a murder mystery , the book also touches on the themes of racism , welfare dependency [ 2 ] and new forms of slavery.
The book opens with Bone relating the details of her birth. Bone's 15-year-old mother, Anney, gives birth after being seriously injured in a car accident. Anney is not married, and is comatose during delivery. Anney's older sister, Ruth, and their mother try to give a false name for Bone's father, and are caught in their deception.
Ira bought six paintings for Ruth which would be the beginning of more than a thousand paintings they would collect focusing on 20th-century American modern art. Artists in the book include Ken Noland , Ray Johnson , Robert Rauschenberg , Elaine de Kooning , Willem de Kooning , Susan Weil , Pat Passlof , Jackson Pollock , Jasper Johns , Andy ...
Baboushka and the Three Kings retells a "Russian folktale about an old woman's endless search for the Christ child". [5] In a retrospective essay about the Caldecott Medal-winning books from 1956 to 1965, Norma R. Fryatt wrote, "Children will find in it something unusual, perhaps too removed from their experience and the Christmas story as they know it, but certainly it is a book to which they ...
Getting a new Kindle or e-reader as a gift is thrilling, especially if you're a book lover who's constantly looking for some of the best books of the year to round out their reading list. But with ...
Elmer and the Dragon is the second in the My Father's Dragon trilogy of children's novels by Ruth Stiles Gannett. It is preceded by My Father's Dragon and followed by The Dragons of Blueland. In this book, Elmer Elevator and his recently liberated dragon friend travel home, but find themselves marooned on another island inhabited by talkative ...