![]() ![]() ![]() A new feature film will be released in the coming year. The Snow Goose has inspired a number of musical scores and albums, has been made into two feature films and moved generations of readers. It won the prestigious O Henry prize that same year and has been continually in print ever since. Originally published in 1940 in the Saturday Evening Post, it was brought out in book form the following year by Knopf, Michael Joseph and M&S simultaneously. The Snow Goose is set in the years running up to the evacuation of Dunkirk in the Second World War. And every summer, when it flies away, Thayader is left alone once more. ![]() Over the following months and years, Fritha visits the lighthouse when The Snow Goose is there. Fritha is frightened of Rhayader, but he is gentler than his appearance suggests and nurses the goose back to health. She carries in her arms a wounded snow goose that has been storm tossed across the Atlantic from Canada. On the desolate Essex marshes, a young girl, Fritha, comes to seek help from Philip Rhayader, a recluse who lives in an abandoned lighthouse. A stunning new edition of a beloved children’s classic. ![]()
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![]() Tokarczuk has described her fictions, which combine stories with non-fiction, essayistic meditations, maps and diagrams, as “constellation” novels. To English-speaking readers she is perhaps best known for her sixth novel, Flights, which was awarded the 2018 International Man Booker Prize. ![]() In her native Poland, Tokarczuk is a controversial celebrity: the recipient of numerous literary awards and, after the publication of her prizewinning 2014 novel, The Books of Jacob, the subject of violent criticism, accusations of treason and death threats by Polish nationalists. Aspects of dark fantasy permeate Olga Tokarczuk’s grimly comic tale of death and vengeance, set in a remote forested plateau on the border between two realms, with a cast of intelligent animals, ghostly apparitions, celestial influence and humans who resemble trolls, witches, giants and goblins. ![]() If this sounds like the beginning of a Grimm fairy tale, the resemblance is apt. In a house on the edge of a forest, there lived an old woman. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, the United States remains the oldest surviving republic in history.Īfter proposing America's history in this way, Ellis asks the reader to consider the American Revolution from myriad perspectives. ![]() No other colony at that time in history had ever successfully won its independence to form a lasting republic. ![]() Yet these men acted as though there was an air of providence and predestination, and a fortunate combination of luck, intellect, and perseverance served to shape the foundation of the United States. Had certain circumstances favored the British in the war, these forefathers might as easily have been hung for treason as celebrated for victory. Ellis considers the founding members of the revolutionary generation as actors on the stage of history, securing their legacies through battle and later though legislation.Įllis reminds the reader that though Americans take the fact of their independence for granted, their forefathers were not so certain of revolutionary success. Revolutionaries of the revolutionary time period, such as Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine, suggested that colonial independence from sovereign England was not only plausible but fated. “No event in American history which was so improbable at the time has seemed so inevitable in retrospect as the American Revolution” (3). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was all done by Omega, who specializes in nighttime recovery missions like this one.Īfter he is rescued, North can’t stop thinking about the woman who saved him. She frees him outside in the care of emergency personnel and disappears without a trace. Although he thought of himself as tough and ruthless in business before this torture began, it threatens to break him completely.Ī woman with a sexy, breathy voice breaks into the room and rescues North from his chains. He has been beaten and chained up by his captors, who are demanding an exorbitant ransom that is not being met. The story begins in a dark holding cell, where wealthy businessman James Northam awaits his death. Although they are attracted to one another, the agent has spent her entire life hiding her true identity from everyone around her. In the novel a businessman and his undercover agent rescuer are each other’s best hope for mending the psychic scars of what they have been through. The fourth book in romance writer Carolyn Wren’s series, The Protectors, is called Emotions in Chains. 1-Page Summary of The Host Overall Summary ![]() ![]() When the Dresden files began with “Storm Front,” Harry was a private detective and the only openly working professional wizard in Chicago. Especially Harry.ĭresden's always been tricky, but he's going to have to up his backstabbing game to survive this mess - assuming his own allies don’t end up killing him before his enemies get the chance.… And he's dead certain that Nicodemus has no intention of allowing any of his crew to survive the experience. Worse, Dresden suspects that there is another game afoot that no one is talking about. It's a smash-and-grab job to recover the literal Holy Grail from the vaults of the greatest treasure hoard in the supernatural world - which belongs to the one and only Hades, Lord of the freaking Underworld and generally unpleasant character. And now he must help a group of supernatural villains - led by one of Harry's most dreaded and despised enemies, Nicodemus Archleone - to break into the highest-security vault in town, so that they can then access the highest-security vault in the Nevernever. Mab has just traded Harry's skills to pay off one of her debts. ![]() ![]() Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day.…īecause as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. ![]() ![]() ![]() I always knew who was talking and what their feelings were. You could hear the anger, sorrow, sadness, fear, excitement, smiles, laughter in her voice. She brings true emotion to the story as she spins a tale of revenge, anger, deceit, lies giving it true feeling. Her character voices are great from her dashing males to her very sassy ladies. I loved this narrators accent she really adds to the audio making it believable. There is a lot of misunderstanding along with a little confusion, some suspense and a few thrills that makes the story interesting. There are a few surprises along the way along with a few major twists that makes some look like fools. ![]() The author plays off one man against another one wanting her money and the other wanting revenge for a wrong he feels has been done to his family. ![]() It takes a little while to understand what the curse is and why she feels she is cursed. The author gives you a unique story of revenge, a curse and those who draw it out along for the fun of it, with those who want her hand for their own reasons. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Frog and Toad are 'of the same sex, and they love each other'," and that the series "really was the beginning of him coming out". Lobel himself wrote, "Frog and Toad are really two aspects of myself." In The New Yorker, his daughter Adrianne Lobel suggested "that there’s another dimension to the series’s sustained popularity. His books about animal friends, such as Frog and Toad, were drawn from these experiences. He used his animal drawings as a way of coping with the social insecurity of his return and to make friends. When Lobel was sick and out of school for much of second grade, he kept himself busy by drawing. Some of their adventures include attempting to fly a kite, cleaning Toad's dirty house, and finding out different reasons for isolation.įrog is taller with a green shade, and is more cheery and relaxed than Toad Toad is shorter and stout with a brown shade, and while just as caring and friendly as Frog, is also the more serious and uptight of the duo. ![]() The situations in which they find themselves are a cross between the human and animal worlds. ![]() Frog and Toad is a series of easy-reader children's books, written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel.Įach book contains five simple, often humorous, sometimes poignant, short stories chronicling the exploits of an anthropomorphic frog and toad, named Frog and Toad respectively. ![]() ![]() Nomadland tells a revelatory tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy―one which foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. ![]() These invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in RVs and modified vans, forming a growing community of nomads. ![]() “People who thought the 2008 financial collapse was over a long time ago need to meet the people Jessica Bruder got to know in this scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly funny) book.” ―Rebecca Solnitįrom the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older adults. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Niven's work has been an intriguing and consistent universe, and this book is the keystone of the arch. But who will sit on the Ringworld Throne? Now it looks as if the Ringworld itself needs a Protector. And the Ghouls have their own agenda-if anyone dares approach them to learn.Įach race on the Ringworld has always had its own Protector. Incoming spacecraft are being destroyed before they can reach the Ringworld. ![]() Something is going on with the Protectors. legendary beings brought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld. The human, Louis Wu the puppeteer known as the Hindmost Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee. A place of untold technological wonders, home to a myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever written! the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though many of the hijinks recounted in Ball Four now seem rather tame, Bouton's book flouted the clubhouse omerta so egregiously that baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn and numerous players, managers and even baseball writers felt compelled to publicly condemn the book at the time-many without even bothering to read it. Read More: Sex, Drugs, Nails: Talking To Lenny Dykstra About His Wild, Reckless Ride Through Life The book is a classic, in large part because of how rudely it dealt with baseball's sentimentality about itself. The series was based upon the controversial (and bestselling) 1970 memoir by Yankees/Pilots/Astros pitcher Jim Bouton, which caused a massive stir with its true and expletive-enhanced tales of its skirt-chasing, amphetamine-popping ballplayers, and soul-crushing contract negotiations-accounts that gave the public new (and not necessarily welcome) insight into the lives of their diamond heroes. ![]() Perhaps the most instructive example of the difficulty of adequately translating baseball into a TV series is Ball Four, which first hit the small screen on September 22, 1976, four decades to the day before Pitch's debut. ![]() |
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