She began college at Texas Woman's University in Denton, but relocated with Stan to California, where the couple put down roots in San Francisco, where Anne attended San Francisco State University and obtained a B.A. Rice attended Richardson High School, and while a student, met Stan Rice, whom she would later marry. Her mother had died three years before of alcoholism. In 1958, when Rice was 16, her family moved to north Texas, taking up residence in Richardson. She later legally changed her name in 1947. She blurted out "Anne" immediately, and her mother, who was with her, let it go without correcting her, knowing how self-conscious her daughter was of her real name. My father's name was Howard, she wanted to name me after Howard, and she thought it was a very interesting thing to do." Rice became "Anne" on her first day of school, when a nun asked for her name. She lived in East Haven, Connecticut, until her death in July 2007.Ībout her unusual given name, Rice said: "My birth name is Howard Allen because apparently my mother thought it was a good idea to name me Howard. She was the second daughter in a Catholic Irish-American family Rice's sister, the late Alice Borchardt, also became a noted genre author. Rice was born and spent most of her early life in New Orleans, Louisiana, which forms the background against which most of her stories take place.
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Pip is sent to reside with Miss Havisham, a vampire who was sired and left on her wedding day by the one she loved. Too afraid to do anything other than obey the stranger’s instruction, Pip helps this convict and sets in motion of chain of events that will forever change the course of his life. One fateful night, visiting his parents’ grave under the full moon, Pip encounters a frightening stranger-another werewolf and a convict no less. In this reimagining of Charles Dickens’s classic, Great Expectations, Pip is an orphaned young werewolf living with his ill-tempered sister and her gentle husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. 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When Lana Lee’s best friend, Megan Riley, asks her to help host a speed dating contest at Ho-Lee Noodle House, she doesn’t see the harm in lending a hand. Trainers gathered in the testing barn and looked at the colt as Ed Sweat washed him off with water, scraped him with a water scrapper, and the trainers laughed when George (Charlie) Davis - the colt’s regular exercise boy who was holding him while Sweat scraped - kissed the colt on his nose. Secretariat had won the Triple Crown - he had won the last leg of the crown in record time, 2-1/5 seconds faster than any other Belmont winner had ever run the distance - so it was still ending, as if it would never end, as Sweat took him through the tunnel, still ending as crowds followed him on both sides, behind him, in the front of him, as he walked with that fine sense of bearing he has toward the barn where he would have a salvia and a urinalysis, routine tests for drugging. “Spectacular, just sensational,” said trainer Elliott Burch as Sweat led Secretariat past him through the paddock and out the paddock gate to the tunnel between the racetrack and the stable area. It also ended when Sweat led Secretariat through the long tunnel from the winner’s circle to the saddling enclosure, the big colt sweating heavily, his eyes darting left and right as the thousands of people lining the enclosure sent up cheer after cheer and shouted his name over and over. 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But young Mary Yellan chose instead to honor her mother’s dying request that she join her frightened Aunt Patience and huge, hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn.įrom her first glimpse on that raw November eve, she could sense the inn’s dark power. The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. |