![]() ![]() The attraction vehicles were not actual submarines, but instead boats in which the guests sat below water level. Upon delivery at Walt Disney World in August 1971, the vehicles weighed some forty tons, and were installed into a concrete guide (track), mounted on top of a mechanism that limited "bumping" accidents. Another veteran Imagineer, Bob Gurr, oversaw the project. The basic hulls were constructed by Morgan Yachts in Clearwater, Florida, with the final building work being transferred to Tampa Ship midway through. One of the signature pieces of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea was the fleet of passenger vehicles, adapted for theme park use from Harper Goff's Nautilus design for the 1954 Disney live-action version by Disney Imagineer George McGinnis. ![]() "Submarines" of the 20,000 Leagues ride, in 1979. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Once at home, Queenie tells her mother and uncle what happened, Jones and Queenie depart for England. ![]() When she realizes that he has lied to her, she storms out of the mansion, but not before he falls over a balcony and falls to his death. Queenie visits with Sir Burton to plead for her uncle's job back, but he does so under the condition Queenie sleeps with him. When their affair is discovered by Sir Burton Rumsey, he fires Jones from his musician position at the cricket club. One of Prunella's mother's lovers, however, is Queenie's uncle, Morgan Jones. Growing up in Calcutta, however, Queenie is made all too aware of her "chee-chee" (mixed) background by her enemies, specifically wealthy Prunella Rumsey. ![]() Queenie Kelley (Oberon had been known earlier in life as "Queenie O'Brien" and "Queenie Thompson") is an extremely beautiful girl of Indian and Irish descent, fair enough to pass for white. In May 1987, Queenie aired in two parts on ABC. In April 1985 Korda published Queenie, a roman à clef about his aunt, actress Merle Oberon, who had married his uncle Alexander Korda. Winston Beard (a pseudonym for James Goldman) and April Smith adapted the novel for television, with Larry Peerce directing. Queenie is a 1987 ABC miniseries based on the eponymous 1985 novel by writer and producer Michael Korda. ![]() ![]() ![]() Naturally, the violence was blamed on the workers. The textile makers, organizing under the banner of radical labor unions such as the Industrial Workers of the World (which, Watson writes, “seemed to show up whenever labor unrest began to smolder”), complained about wages and working conditions, eliciting the response of another institution: when the workers went on strike in the winter of 1912, the mill owners prevailed upon the state to send in the militia, as if to lend credence to Jay Gould’s observation, “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.” Violence ensued, and workers died, including one Italian woman whom Watson nominates for residence in a Tomb of the Unknown Immigrant. will not be assimilated have no sympathy with our institutions.” Apparently, journalist Watson records, one of those institutions was poor pay. Lawrence, Mass., was a major center of textile manufacture in the early 1900s, and most of the work was done by immigrants-Italians, Portuguese, Greeks and others whom a nativist magazine called “the off-scourings of Southern Europe. A vivid work of labor history, recounting a famed textile workers’ strike of 1912. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now she’s an edgier, more laid back (because she’s actually lived through worse than whatever minor inconvenience is happening at any given time) version of her old self. She could no longer be the pastel-colors-loving, high-strung, high-maintenance girl she was before the attack. She had to figure out everything-likes, dislikes, feelings, past skills-through this new lens of a survivor. The way she thought about herself as a “before” and “after” person (she was one person before the attack, she’s a completely different person after the attack) was fascinating to me, and it felt realistic. She might not remember the attack that robbed her of her memory, but it changed her nonetheless. I was sure she’d pull it off, and she did.įirst of all, I love Clem. I didn’t hesitate to buy it, even knowing that I hate the amnesia trope. But because Kylie Scott is magic, apparently, I loved this book. ![]() I think my days of watching soap operas back in the 80s and 90s ran that one into the ground for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families-the Trasks and the Hamiltons-whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America's most enduring authors, in a deluxe Centennial edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden the first book, and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nancy quickly learns that all of Eleanor West’s students wish, on some level, to return “home.” Tragedy strikes as a fellow student is murdered, and Nancy spirals into the darkness of her new world as she and her new cohorts struggle to stay alive while simultaneously trying to solve the murder. Lands of sugar and sweets, worlds where children can run across rainbows, goblin kingdoms, fairy worlds, frolicking skeletons, and many others are counted among the places her peers have visited–and left. The Home for Wayward Children hosts a few dozen students who found portals to other worlds. ![]() There, Nancy discovers that her story, though unique in its details, is more common than she thought. Convinced of her “delusions” after what they believe was a kidnapping, Nancy’s parents send her to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. After finding a doorway to the Land of the Dead, Nancy spent months learning to be perfectly still, walking the pomegranate orchards under a dark sky, and dancing with the Lord of the Dead. When protagonist Nancy finds herself ejected from The Land of the Dead back into the “real” world– our world–her parents don’t understand her anymore. ![]() Through expert world-building and a sharp writing style, Every Heart A Doorway provides a heart-wrenching look at belonging, acceptance, and what it means to be stripped of them. Seanan McGuire weaves a poignant tale in Every Heart A Doorway, the first novella in her award-winning Wayward Children series. ![]() ![]() ![]() They, together with the forthcoming The Thorn of Emberlain and its sequels, comprise the Gentleman Bastard Sequence. Lynch's second novel, Red Seas Under Red Skies, was published in 2007, and his third, The Republic of Thieves, was published in 2013. Prior to that he worked at different jobs: dishwasher, busboy, waiter, web designer, office manager, prep cook, and freelance writer. The Lies of Locke Lamora, Lynch's first novel, was bought by Simon Spanton at Orion Books in August, 2004 and published in June, 2006. In 2004, he moved to New Richmond, Wisconsin, and in 2016 he moved to Massachusetts. He spent his early life in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. Lynch was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on April 2, 1978, and was the first of three brothers. Bounds Best Newcomer Award from the British Fantasy Society in 2008. In 20 Lynch was nominated for the John W. ![]() Lynch's debut novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora, was a World Fantasy Award finalist in 2007. The next two novels in the series, Red Seas Under Red Skies and The Republic of Thieves, were published in 20, respectively. His first novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora, was purchased by Orion Books in August 2004 and published in June 2006 under the Gollancz imprint in the United Kingdom and under the Bantam imprint in the United States. Scott Lynch (born April 2, 1978) is an American fantasy author who wrote the Gentleman Bastard Sequence series of novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book follows Ben's dogged pursuit of the truth, and how the apparatus of the state frustrates it, ultimately murderously, and the way this affects Ben's friends and families. Gordon is arrested and also dies in custody, and the police claim that he hanged himself. The caretaker Gordon Ngubene is unable to accept the official explanation, and involves Ben in his investigations. He becomes involved when the first son of his school's caretaker, a boy who has worked for Ben's family, dies while being held by the security police. It is an impassioned and often brutal account of what happens when an ordinary man questions an authoritarian state, in this case the apartheid South Africa of the 70s.īen Du Toit is an ordinary Afrikaner school history teacher. This is probably Brink's most deservedly famous book, and I have been wanting to read since reading Rumours Of Rain last year. ![]() ![]() ![]() Selected for the Winter/Spring 2020 Kids Indies Introduce program under the Independent Booksellers’ Debut Picks of the Season through the American Booksellers Association.The only problem is that the instructor and all the students think she’s a girl named Kay Nakamura–and Yumi doesn’t correct them.Īs this case of mistaken identity unravels, Yumi must decide to stand up and reveal the truth or risk losing her dreams and disappointing everyone she cares about. One day after class, Yumi stumbles on an opportunity that will change her life: a comedy camp for kids taught by one of her favorite YouTube stars. Instead of spending the summer studying her favorite YouTube comedians, Yumi is enrolled in test-prep tutoring to qualify for a private school scholarship, which will help in a time of hardship at the restaurant. ![]() ![]() Her notebook is filled with mortifying memories that she’s reworked into comedy gold. On the inside, Yumi is ready for her Netflix stand-up special. ![]() On the outside, Yumi Chung suffers from #shygirlproblems, a perm-gone-wrong, and kids calling her “Yu-MEAT” because she smells like her family’s Korean barbecue restaurant. One lie snowballs into a full-blown double life in this irresistible story about an aspiring stand-up comedian. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author also acknowledges that events that might seem trivial to an adult may be extremely important to a child. The story is told from Ramona's point of view, with sympathy for the confusion she sometimes experiences when she does not fully understand what she sees and hears. At home, Ramona observes the strain that financial concerns are placing on her family but affirms that they are still a happy family. ![]() ![]() Ramona endures some embarrassing episodes at school and learns to address a misunderstanding she has with her teacher. Ramona Quimby, Age 8, is a story of a young third-grader's experiences as she starts a new school year at a new school and deals with family stresses. ![]() |