Books by Janette (and her pen names CJ Hill and Sierra St. But since this is the internet and you can’t actually check to see if anything on this site is true, let’s just say she enjoys dancing, scuba diving, horseback riding, and long talks with Chris Hemsworth. Since Janette has five children and deadlines to write books, she doesn’t have much time left over for hobbies. Every single one of the felines showed up on its own and refuses to leave. (This is how she gets most of her exercise.) She has two dogs and enough cats to classify her as “an eccentric cat lady.” She did not do this on purpose. Masquerade eBook : Rallison, Janette: : Kindle Store. Janette Rallison lives in Arizona with her husband and divides her time between her children, grandchildren, writing, and wandering around the house looking for items she has misplaced.
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His father died without ever tracing Shade William, still reeling from his loss, is determined to drag the thief out of the shadows. William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of a brutal detective, when he descends into the underworld of Victorian London in pursuit of a new lead. In a city of fog and darkness, the notorious thief Edward Shade exists only as a ghost, a fabled con, a thief of other men's futures - a man of smoke. A magnificent literary historical-suspense novel in the tradition of Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries, Patrick DeWitt's The Sisters Brothers, and Michael Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White, By Gaslightis destined to be one of the most acclaimed and talked-about books of the year. She takes pride in her Iranian heritage, but at the same time, mocks her dad's fascination with "freebies" at Costco and television shows like Bowling for Dollars. Kazem, her father, dominates many of her stories throughout her memoir Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America. She attended the University of California, Berkeley where she lived at International House Berkeley and majored in art history. She began to write and submit essays to obtain money to go toward college. However, she once again immigrated to the United States first to Whittier, then to Newport Beach, California. She later moved back to Iran and lived in Tehran and Ahvaz. She is the author of the memoirs Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America (2003) and Laughing without an Accent: Adventures of a Global Citizen (2008), and the semi-autobiographical novel It Ain't so Awful, Falafel (2016).Īt the age of seven, Dumas and her family moved to Whittier, California. Firoozeh Dumas ( Persian: فیروزه دوما) (born June 26, 1965, in Abadan, Iran) is an Iranian-American writer who writes in English. 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The sequel to Dread Nation is a journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America.Īfter the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother.īut nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road to a protected village called Nicodermus has Jane questioning everything she thought she knew about surviving in 1880's America. |