Dolores Stewart Riccio is an American author that writes cookbooks, poems, and novels in the mystery and thriller genres. Born in Boston and brought in New England most of the settings of her Circle of Five series of noels are set in Pembroke, Massachusetts where she grew up. She was married to Ottone Riccio an author, teacher, and poet best known for the Intimate Art of Writing Poetry. From that first marriage she had two children son, Charles Sundance Anderson and daughter Lucy-Marie Sanel both of whom deem themselves among the Penobscots of Maine. Dolores is Scotch-Irish though she held a traditional Penobscot funeral on Indian Island on Old Town, Maine for her son when she died in 2007. For her cookbooks, she has always preferred to use her married name Dolores Riccio as she credits her Native American husband who was insistent that she try many experimental dishes. Conversely, she uses her maiden name of Dolores Stewart when she is writing her poetry. Not one to abandon either of her heritage or past life she decided to use both of her names when she pivoted to the writing of fiction novels. She has recently moved back to Pinehills in Plymouth the small town that she had always adored growing up as a child in nearby Pembroke. She lives at the Avalon Apartments a pleasant and peaceful apartment complex in town, where …show more content…
she has all the time to write her thrillers and mysteries. Her first love was poetry and over the years, she published her very best verse in some of the most renowned journals such as Poetry, Denver Quarterly, The Chicago Review, and American Scholar among others. Bellowing Ark Press published The Nature of Things and Doors to the Universe that are two of her best collections of poems. The two collections are also available at Swan Cottage Books, the authors own bookstore. After attaining much success with her poetry she decided to convert her love and talent for the making of exotic recipes into a money making venture through converting them into healthy recipe cookbooks. One of the cookbooks, entitled Superfoods: 300 Recipes for Foods that Heal Body & Mind was so successful and sold over 100, 000 copies in print. It was also featured in the Better Homes & Gardens Book Club and the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club. The success of the cookbook was what she need as soon after she quit her job and became a freelance writer and greeting card editorial director. In addition to her poetry and the cookbooks, she has co-authored two paranormal volumes of stories about some of the most known haunted houses of the US. According to the author who is a big fan of the paranormal, researching and writing the volumes of works was some of the most fun she had ever had as a writer. In recent years, Dolores has moved towards the writing of fiction thrillers. The Cass Shipton Adventures, together with two other freestanding novels that are set in Plymouth Massachusetts are some of her most popular works. Dolores Stewart Riccio has always had a huge interest in the paranormal and read and still reads a lot of Wicca, which serves as inspiration for her series of novels. Some of her favorite books on Wicca that she draws some of the history and ritualistic practices of her work from include Marion Weinstein’s Positive Magic: Ancient Metaphysical Techniques for Modern Lives, Ann Moura’s Witchcraft: An Alternative Path, Sister Moon’s A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Modern Witch, by Sister Moon, and Starhawk’s The Spiral Dance. The Cass Shipton novels are about a group of Women that practice Wicca and solve crimes. Many of their activities such as poetry, pets, herbs, and food and long life long interests involve the metaphysical. The novels are absolutely adorable and good and fun reads. It has many intricate plots and many interesting stories about the motivations and lives of ordinary women that have a charm of their own. The Cass Shipton novels follow the lives of five women with very different lives and motivations that are best friends. These women get in trouble with vent with and rock boats with each other in these books. None of their lives are the same and each of the character brings something different to the table which makes for enthralling, humorous, and brightly colored narratives. The Circle of Five is the first novel of the Cass Shipton series and is set in Plymouth Massachusetts. The lead characters are five women with not much in common but their love for pagan holiday celebrations and Wicca. Diedre, Phillipa, Heather, Fiona, and Cassandra all have their own interests that include lotions, herbs, tarot reading, which they practice in close, knit support groups. Cassandra, who has a penchant for seeing visions, tells her friends that she has run into a stranger at the local grocery store that she believes could be a danger particularly, as he seems like a child predator. Taking up the investigation rather than take it ot the police, the women put their lives in danger particularly when the killer becomes more violent once he notices that they are on his trail. He vows to destroy the group of five women and all they love if they do not back off. Charmed Circle is the second novel of the Cass Shipton series of novels.
In this fast-paced novel, Cass Shipton and her circle of friends are called in to find a local family that has mysteriously gone missing. Desperate to find the missing family, they find the trail points to a vicious killer with a violent past. Between Cassandra’s circle of devoted friends, her booming herbalist venture and the wants of Scruffy her eccentric mutt, she finds her hands quite full. Things become worse when she has to take in a troublesome teenager. Winifred “Freddie” McGinty comes into Cassandras life bringing along a whole lot of chaos to complicate her
life.
The book I choose for the book talk is “Dead and gone” written by Norah McClintock, this book talks about a murder mystery of Tricey Howard. The main character of the story is Mike, an orphan whose parents got killed in a car crash. He lives with his foster father named John Riel, who was once a police officer. During a swim meet, Mike see Mr.Henderson is staring at a girl name Emily without stopping. Then he informs Emily about what happened in the community center. However, as return Emily blackmails Mike to investigate Mr. Henderson. During the investigation, Mike finds nothing suspicious, but realize Emily is the daughter of Tricey Howard. Tricey Howard was murdered years ago, but the police still haven’t find the real killer. At the meantime,
The plot of this book begins with the fact that Canadian girl named Laura finds out that her father is a humble pensioner, a former teacher, committed suicide from the bridge, during
The diverse alternation of point of views also provides the story an effective way to reach out to readers and be felt. The characterisation is effectively done and applied as Sam, Grace, and the other supporting characters play individual, crucial roles in the course of the story. All the elements of a typical young adult novel, consisting of a gap-filled relationship between children and parents, emotion-driven teenagers, and a unique conflict that makes the book distinct from fellow novels, combined with the dangerous consequences of the challenges the couple encounter, make the book different from all other of the same genre. The plot unfolds slowly giving readers enough time to adjust and anticipate the heavy conflict when it arises. It has gotten us so hooked but the only thing we could possibly dislike about it was the slow pace of plot. The anticipation was too much to handle and we were practically buzzing and bouncing to know how the story turns out as we read. It builds the anticipation, excitement, thrill, sadness, grief, loss, and longing in such an effective way to entice and hook readers further into the world of Sam and
Margaret Peterson sets her cliffhanger mystery book, Haddix: The Missing Found, in a modest neighborhood in Ohio. This book is in first person point of view, being told by the main character, Jonah Skidmore. The tone is fearful because Jonah voices his fears to his friend, Chip, multiples times throughout the story and usually has a fearful attitude when trying to overcome obstacles. Haddix: The Missing Found, is about a group of famous children from history who were stolen by futuristic time travelers and sent back to the 21st century as babies. These babies were soon adopted by random families around the world, and had a normal life. However, when they got to be around 13 years old, they start to get threatening letters sent to them telling them that they are, “one of the missing” (Peterson 20). These kids proceed to venture on a journey to find the person who is sending these creepy letters, and go through many obstacle along the way. Overall, I thought that Haddix: The Missing Found was a great read because it was very mysterious and kept me guessing the whole time I was reading, and I found that the characters were really relatable.
The human form transcends throughout time persistently present in art. Dating all the way back to Paleolithic human beings our renderings of idealized forms have served many purposes. Though the Neolithic and Paleolithic purpose of these renderings is widely speculative the range of reason for these depictions ranges from idolization and worship to assertion of aristocratic and economic status even to simply serving as statements of self-expression. Amongst ruins and artifacts, sculptures of ancient cultures demonstrate the ways in which humans perceptions of what is aesthetically desirable have progressed. Two idealized sculptures the Woman from Willendorf and the Khafre statue with approximately 21,500 years separating their individual gestations this demonstrate the stylistic progression of idealized imagery through time.
In her article “But What Do You Mean” Deborah Tannen, claims that there is a huge difference in the style of communicating between men and women. Tannen breaks these down into seven different categories; apologies, criticism, thank-yous, fighting, praise, complaints, and jokes. With each of these she compares men to women by explaining the common misconceptions that each of the genders do. The different style of communication can cause some problems at the workplace and even affect the environment. The different styles of communication has been around forever and almost becomes a “ritual”(299). Tannen is effective with mainly women and not men. She is primarily successful with women due to the fact that her tone targets women, also the organization
In her book, Lisa Cahill, a theologian bioethicist does not object the necessity and a patient 's right to self-determination, or autonomy. Echoing the voices of Beauchamp and Childress, who both stress the necessity of informed consent, as an integral part of autonomy, Cahill views it as necessary in the prevention of abuse and unethical practices. She also views the principle of autonomy a means of recognizing the dignity of a human being that is reflected in Christian teachings. Cahill, however, does not want this principle to be the only one valued.
Chicago Illinois on December 20th of 1954 was the birthplace of Sandra Cisneros. Her father is Alfredo Cisneros, a Mexican immigrant in the United States from Mexico City and her mother is a Mexican-American from ILLIONOIS. The couple had seven children and Sandra Cisneros is the only daughter in between six brothers, reason why she grew up as a lonely child but developing in her inner self the contribution to be a writer (Herrera-Sobek 2011, 9). In the fifties and sixties, the working-class Cisneros family moved many times because Alfred Cisneros had a deep relationship with his mother in Mexico, Sandra Cisneros’s grandmother (Herrera-Sobek 2011, 9). These events made Cisneros feel in a limbo between the American culture and the Mexican culture.
In the first section of the book it starts off with a little girl named Tasha. Tasha is in the Fifth grade, and doesn’t really have many friends. It describes her dilemma with trying to fit in with all the other girls, and being “popular”, and trying to deal with a “Kid Snatcher”. The summer before school started she practiced at all the games the kid’s play, so she could be good, and be able to get them to like her. The girls at school are not very nice to her at all. Her struggle with being popular meets her up with Jashante, a held back Fifth ...
Jane Eyre has been acclaimed as one of the best gothic novels in the Victorian Era. With Bronte’s ability to make the pages come alive with mystery, tension, excitement, and a variety of other emotions. Readers are left with rich insight into the life of a strong female lead, Jane, who is obedient, impatient, and passionate as a child, but because of the emotional and physical abuse she endures, becomes brave, patient, and forgiving as an adult. She is a complex character overall but it is only because of the emotional and physical abuse she went through as a child that allowed her to become a dynamic character.
This painting, La Primavera by Botticelli, depicts many mythological figures. The feature of the painting is Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty, with Cupid floating above her head. On the far left is Mercury, another Roman god. There are a few other people who can also be found in Roman mythology. While it depicts Roman mythology, this painting was created between 1477 and 1482, during the Renaissance (Ufizzi Gallery Museum: La Primavera). The humanism movement during the Renaissance brought about the creation of many paintings of Roman and Greek ideas. Humanism in the Renaissance, as described by Strayer, was the preservation of Greek and Roman education and culture. The people of the Renaissance revived the might and classicism that
Dual Aspects of Good and Evil in Rappaccini’s Daughter “Hawthorne shows in the tale that the inner world of human experience is a complex and ambiguous mixture of good and evil (Stallman 2).” Hawthorne portrays that the existence of good and evil is part of life and that a person can make a decision on which way to go. From the story, Hawthorne presents to the reader the character of Doctor Rappaccini, a scientist who experiments with poisonous plants and later on injects poison into his daughter Beatrice to transform her into achieving superhuman qualities. The transformation of Beatrice as well as her lover, Giovanni, into a poisonous being raises the question whether they are good or evil. In the novel “Rappaccini’s Daughter”, Nathaniel Hawthorne incorporates figurative language, descriptive details, and allusions to portray the dual aspects of good and evil in each character to convey to the audience that humans embody both goodness and evil.
Since Ma’s kidnapping, seven years prior, she has survived in the shed of her capturer’s backyard. This novel contains literary elements that are not only crucial to the story, but give significance as well. The point-of-view brings a powerful perspective for the audience, while the setting and atmosphere not only affect the characters but evokes emotion and gives the reader a mental picture of their lives, and the impacting theme along-side conflict, both internal and external, are shown throughout the novel. The author chooses to write the novel through the eyes of the main character and narrator, Jack. Jack’s perception of the world is confined to an eleven foot square room.
One thing that might stand out to a reader of Cassandra’s books is that they are unlike any other. The plot itself in her books may not be original, but the world she created is. Most young adult books are about vampires, werewolves, zombies or another mythical creature. All of those subjects have been seen before in literature. What is unique about Cassandra’s books is that they are about a race of beings called Shadowhunters, mythical beings Cassandra created on her own.
The story of Barbara Frietchie taught the reader many things in many aspects. Some of these aspects will be gone over in the next few segments. Some of these few things are that you should stand up for what you believe, you should respect everyone you meet when and where you meet them, and you should try to avoid fighting anyone as much as possible.