![]() ![]() ![]() That historic crime with clues lost to the past and possible faulty memories – not to mention the mental weight of keeping secrets for four years – makes this feel harder to solve, the first book where it’s felt like there was an uncertainty as to whether it would be worked out. NOTHING MORE TO TELL is the latest thriller from Karen M. But the further she dives into the past, the more secrets she finds.įour years ago someone got away with murder. When Brynn gets an internship working on a popular true-crime show, she decides to investigate what really happened that day in the woods. Larkin’s body know more than they’re telling, especially her ex-best friend Tripp Talbot. ![]() The case was never solved, but she’s sure that the three kids who found Mr. Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favourite teacher. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Many of the contemporary couples share their stories on how they met and fell in love, as well as photos from when they married or of the families they have started together.ĭays of Love is also a great source of LGBT trivia and stories that have all-too-often been written out of history.įor example, did you know that Sir Isaac Newton, who laid the foundation for modern physics, may have had a relationship with a Swiss mathematician, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier? ![]() Packed full of beautiful photos and illustrations it lovingly features the personal stories of LGBT couples from the dawn of history to the present day. ![]() A new book chronicling 2,000 years of same-sex love stories, from Alexander the Great to the latest Literary Award winner, makes the perfect Valentine's Day gift.ĭays of Love, created and Edited by Elisa Rolle, makes inspiring reading and lays to rest the myth that LGBT couples are not capable of sustaining life-long relationships. ![]() ![]() ★ “ patient, intelligent courting of the animals and her resourcefulness in keeping herself alive are meticulously observed.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ★ “Jean George has captured the subtle nuances of Eskimo life, animal habits, the pain of growing up, and combines these elements into a thrilling adventure which is, at the same time, a poignant love story.” - School Library Journal (starred review) ![]() Is she the Miyax of her human village-or Julie of the wolves?ĭon't miss any of the books in Jean Craighead George's groundbreaking series: Julie of the Wolves, Julie, and Julie's Wolf Pack. Life in the wilderness is a struggle, but when she finds her way back to civilization, Miyax is torn between her old and new lives. Miyax tries to survive by copying the ways of a pack of wolves and soon grows to love her new wolf family. When her life in the village becomes dangerous, Miyax runs away, only to find herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness. To her small village, she is known as Miyax to her friend in San Francisco, she is Julie. ![]() ![]() The survival theme makes it a good pick for readers of wilderness adventures such as My Side of the Mountain, Hatchet, or Island of the Blue Dolphins. ![]() Julie of the Wolves is a staple in the canon of children’s literature and the first in the Julie trilogy. The thrilling Newbery Medal–winning classic about a girl lost on the Alaskan tundra and how she survives with the help of a wolf pack. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet the novel's exuberant atmosphere of romance, adventure and freedom is overshadowed by Dickens' awareness of social ills and financial and class insecurity. ![]() Nicholas Nichleby's loose, haphazard progress harks back to the picaresque novels of the 18th century - particularly those of Smollett and Fielding. Read by Michael Siberry.Īround the central story of Nicholas Nickleby and the misfortunes of his family, Dickens created some of his most wonderful characters: the muddle-headed Mrs Nickleby, the gloriously theatrical Crummles, their protege Miss Petowker, the pretentious Mantalinis and the mindlessly cruel Squeers and his wife. Con avidez semejante pero sin íncómodas interrupciones podrá ahora disfrutar el lector contemporáneo de las aventuras y desventuras de Nicholas. An extract from the downloadable audiobook edition of Charles Dickens' comic classic, Nicholas Nickleby. Esta observación se ajusta estupendamente a NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, una de esas largas novelas por entregas que los lectores de Dickens esperaban con tanta avidez. ![]() ![]() ![]() Le sfide dell’etica, Feltrinelli, Milano 1996.ĭentro la globalizzazione. Modernità e Olocausto, Il Mulino, Bologna 1992. Tra le sue pubblicazioni in lingua italiana:Ĭultura come prassi, Il Mulino, Bologna 1976. ![]() Acquistano un ruolo centrale le doti di flessibilità e adattabilità. Si impone un continuo mutamento di parametri e atteggiamenti. ![]() Le certezze debbono essere abbandonate, i criteri, validi fino ad oggi vengono messi in discussione. Ha definito «modernità liquida» come la nuova condizione nella quale l’individuo si trova oggi a vivere e ad agire. Ha acquistato notorietà per le sue analisi sui legami tra modernità e olocausto e sul consumismo postmoderno. Dal 1969 al 1971 ha insegnato presso l’Università di Tel Aviv per poi accettare la cattedra di Sociologia all’Università di Leeds. Docente presso l’Università di Varsavia, nel marzo del 1968 fu espulso per le idee politiche invise al regime comunista. Zygmunt Baumanīiografia Zygmunt BaumanNato a Poznan il 19 novembre 1925, è un sociologo e filosofo britannico di origini ebraico-polacche. ![]() ![]() ![]() “One of the most engaging and gifted new voices in the genre. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() Black Water Rising was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an Edgar® Award, and an NAACP Image Award, and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the U.K. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience.”-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, New York Times bestselling author of WenchĪfter her breathtaking debut novel, Black Water Rising, won acclaim from major publications and respected crime fiction masters like James Ellroy and George Pelecanos, Locke returns with The Cutting Season, a second novel easily as gripping and powerful as her first-a heart-pounding thriller that interweaves two murder mysteries, one on Belle Vie, a historic landmark in the middle of Lousiana’s Sugar Cane country, and one involving a slave gone missing more than one hundred years earlier. “ The Cutting Season is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s Empire: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was warned by Porochista Khakpour in her preface to The Blind Owl. ![]() A female figure in a black cloak and a meeting of eyes, shinny, alluring, sensuous eyes – the anima? Another turn and there's an ancient old man with white hair and long white beard with the index finger of his left hand pressed against his lips – the wisdom archetype? And yet another turn and I was walking in a fantastic landscape of trees and hills of geometrical shapes: cylinders, perfect cones, truncated cones – a dream or hallucination? And there are the eyes again and the ancient old man with his index finger pressed against his lips – a dream or hallucination or a reading of The Blind Owl? I put the book down and walk outside and the landscape is fantastic: all the trees and hills are cylinders, perfect cones and truncated cones, and I see up ahead a female figure in a cloak. So what was my Blind Owl experience? With every page I felt as if I was spiraling down through my subconscious and unconscious until I plunged into the collective unconscious. A friend once told me Sadegh Hedayat wanted the book itself to be the experience and not a book about an experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2018, Wendell Berry posed a question to Nick, a query that planted the seed of this book, sending Nick on two memorable journeys with pals-a hiking trip to Glacier National Park with his friends Jeff Tweedy and George Saunders, as well as an extended visit to his friend James Rebanks, the author of The Shepherd's Life and English Pastoral. In his new book, Nick takes a humorous, inspiring, and elucidating trip to America's trails, farms, and frontier to examine the people who inhabit the land, what that has meant to them and us, and to the land itself, both historically and currently. Nick Offerman has always felt a particular affection for the Land of the Free-not just for the people and their purported ideals but to the actual land itself: the bedrock, the topsoil, and everything in between that generates the health of your local watershed. A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three journeys undertaken by actor, humorist, and New York Times bestselling author Nick Offerman ![]() ![]() Mats: These books are like a melting pot of everything we both love! Most of all, I think we inspired each other. ![]() What inspired you to write the series? And where do you draw your inspiration from in general? ![]() In The Key, the fans can expect answers to all the big, and many of the little, questions. Sara: Meanwhile, they have do deal with the problems of their everyday lives: parents, partners, friends, bullies and homework. Mats: The trilogy is about six very different girls, who find out that they are witches, and have to work together to stop the apocalypse. How would you introduce the series to a potential reader, and what can fans of the first two novels expect here? The third novel in your Engelsfors trilogy, The Key, will be published in the UK by Hammer in January 2015. I never finish books that I don’t like after 100 pages. I am horrible at remembering people’s names and it’s very embarrassing. I grew up in a small town with some similarities to Engelsfors, minus the apocalypse. ![]() I like people who are empathetic and sarcastic. What We Do in the Shadows made me laugh and I saw it twice in the cinema. I tend to rant about stuff I love, and stuff that annoys me. Sara: I was born in 1980 in Stockholm, Sweden and I still live here. Let’s start with an introduction: Who are Sara B. ![]() ![]() ![]() This nuanced and brilliantly crafted portrait restores Bryan to an esteemed place in American history. In 1896, 1900, and 1908, Bryan was nominated for president, and though he fell short each time, his legacy?a subject of great debate after his death?remains monumental. A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan. Bryan did more than anyone to transform the Democratic Party from a bulwark of laissez-faire to the citadel of liberalism we identify with Franklin D. A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan on. Kazin vividly re-creates Bryan?s tremendous appeal, showing how he won a passionate following among both rural and urban Americans, who saw in him not only the practical vision of a reform politician but also the righteousness of a pastor. In this acclaimed biography?the first major reconsideration of Bryan?s life in forty years?award-winning historian Michael Kazin illuminates his astonishing career and the richly diverse and volatile landscape of religion and politics in which he rose to fame. ![]() LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. Politician, evangelist, and reformer William Jennings Bryan was the most popular public speaker of his time. ![]() ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, LOS ANGELES TIMES, ST. ![]() |