![]() They barely know how to be adults themselves, much less adults together. Effie and Henry are on their honeymoon, and they are so young, fresh out of high school and already married. ![]() I know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but it seems you should extend this to the praise by others printed upon said cover as well. The empty beach town becomes their playground, and as they sneak into abandoned summer homes, go sailing, walk naked under the stars, make love, and drink a great deal of gin, Henry and Effie slip from innocence into betrayal, with irrevocable consequences that reverberate through the rest of their lives… Just as they get ready to cut the trip short, a decadent and glamorous set suddenly sweep them up into their drama – Clara, a beautiful socialite who feels her youth slipping away Max, a wealthy playboy and Clara’s lover and Alma, Max’s aloof and mysterious half-sister. As they tentatively discover each other, they begin to realize that everyday married life might be disappointingly different from their happily-ever-after fantasy. It’s the end of the season and the town is deserted. Henry and Effie, young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There are modern mysteries buried in despoiled ancient places, and Navajo Tribal Policemen Leaphorn and Chee must plunge into the past to unearth an astonishing truth and a cold-hearted killer. ![]() Amid stolen goods and desecrated bones, two corpses are discovered, shot by bullets fitting the gun of the missing scientist. "All of Tony Hillerman's Navajo tribal police novels have been brilliant, but A Thief of Time is flat-out marvelous."-USA Todayįrom New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, A Thief of Time is the eighth novel featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee as they find themselves in hot pursuit of a depraved killer.Īt a moonlit Indian ruin where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground in the name of profit, a noted anthropologist vanishes while on the verge of making a startling, history-altering discovery. Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfolding across decades-from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century-and across continents-from Germany to Africa and the Arctic, from the Baltic Sea to the German south-west-Olga is an epic romance, and a wrenching tale of a woman’s devotion to a restless man in an age of constant change. Her love for Herbert goes against all odds and encounters many obstacles, but even when they are separated, it endures While Herbert indulges his thirst for exploration and adventure, Olga is limited by her gender and circumstance. When Olga falls in love with her neighbor, Herbert, the son of a local aristocrat, her life is irremediably changed. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against ingrained chauvinism to find her place in a world run by lesser men. “A brilliant novel about history and the nature of memory.”- Evening StandardĪ sweeping novel of love and passion from author of the international bestseller The Reader about a woman out of step with her time, whose life is witness to some of the most tumultuous events of modern age.Ībandoned by her parents, young Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village in the early years of the twentieth century. “Two world wars and the passage of more than a century do not overshadow story of lovers who never fully belong to each other, just as they never fully belonged to the world.”- Booklist ![]() ![]() ![]() A decade later we would discover a version of this adventurer Horace Holly, its protagonist, in the form of an archaeologist called Indiana Jones. I can still remember ripping the tape off the first box and discovering She by H Rider Haggard - an adventure story, apparently for boys. Growing up in a new neighbourhood lyrically called Pantai Hills, carved between the new popular township of Petaling Jaya and the heart of the city of Kuala Lumpur, life was the vast outdoors - overgrown, craggy, snake-infested, with tadpole-catching in the now submerged Damansara stream down the road as a sport - or the deep interiors of my single room, proverbially buried in books. As shipments of that illuminating series - Oxford World’s Classics - arrived every few months, he would carefully set aside a box to bring them to me, a scrawny child with a touch of the inner wild but always tentative when among people. They came in ordinary brown freight boxes, held together by brown masking tape - just ordinary boxes really but which hid within them, literally, the world’s treasures.Ī close friend of my father’s - Thor Ghim Lock (Uncle Ghim Lock to me) - bald, straight-backed, deep-voiced and always with a cigarette, worked at the Oxford University Press offices in Kuala Lumpur. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The work was to be titled All Honorable Men. It was a great pity that his study of Louisiana politician Huey Long, New York planning official Robert Moses, anti-Mafia senator Estes Kefauver and Mayor Richard J Daley of Chicago was never published. ![]() Hugh also understood the importance of second-order politicians who wielded such local power in the federal system. ![]() In a sympathetic, but not uncritical, study, he captured an essential truth of Kennedy’s learning on the job as president: no intellectual but “a quick study”. Kennedy (1996) was his underappreciated later biography of the president of the time, John F Kennedy, for the Longman’s Profiles in Power series. Hugh Brogan completed his greatest research task, Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution (2006), only once he had retired. Portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville by Theodore Chasseriau. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shot in black and white, it gives the viewer a picture of life in a bleak factory town, portrayed very realistically by director Karl Reisz. These themes aren't shocking anymore, but one reason for that is the introduction of them in films like this. This film was considered quite shocking at the time of its release because of its frank sexual situations and the freely-discussed topic of abortion. Then Brenda becomes pregnant with his child. One day, he meets the beautiful Doreen (Shirly Anne Field) and starts to court her. Roberts is married to one of his co-workers. ![]() His life revolves around his weekends, when he drinks himself into oblivion and sees his married girlfriend Brenda (Roberts). He plays a factory worker who hates his job and lives with his family. ![]() It's impossible to believe that Albert Finney was ever that young, but he was - 24 in this film - robust and handsome. Albert Finney is Arthur, a working-class Brit who lives for "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" in this 1960 film also starring Rachel Roberts, Hylda Baker and Shirley Anne Field. ![]() ![]() ![]() Essentially by the end of the story, she came to understand her place in life as a very different person. But her dissatisfaction and vanity lead to her downfall, causing her to lose everything she has, including her youth, beauty, and modest way of life, but at the same time, causing her to grow, accept, and respect herself. In fact, because of her looks, she believes Fate has made a mistake, that she was destined for more. As a young, married woman, Madame Loisel is pretty and charming, but her vanity makes her feel entitled to more than what she has. Mathilde and her husband go deeply into debt to purchase a new necklace for Madame Forestier and spend years working the debt off at a great cost to themselves, only to find out once the debt has. Madame Mathilde Loisel, is a round and dynamic character. ![]() ![]() During that time period, life was hard for the majority of people, who lived primarily in working-class households. Story takes place in France, during the 1800s, and focuses on the lives of the Loisel family. The present paper mainly discusses the characterization of Mathilde Loisel in Albert Guy de Maupassant’s “the Necklace” or "The Diamond Necklace”, a short story originally published on Februwith an original title: "La Parure". ![]() ![]() ![]() It includes such favourites as 'The Collar', 'The Pearl' and 'Love', with its beautiful opening lines: 'Love bade me welcome yet my soul drew back, / Guilty of dust and sin'. The Temple is an astounding collection of verse poems- an extended meditation on mans relationship to God that is characterised by Herberts clarity and directness of style. ![]() The Temple is an astounding collection of verse poems: an extended meditation on man's relationship to God that is characterised by Herbert's clarity and directness of style. Herbert died in 1633 and the collection was published the same year to great acclaim, subsequently becoming one of the best-loved collections in the English language. Herbert died in 1633 and the collection was published the same year to great acclaim, subsequently becoming one of the best-loved collections in the English language. On his deathbed George Herbert entrusted the manuscript of The Temple to his friend Nicholas Ferrar, asking him to publish it if he thought it was worthy. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers. A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. ![]() ![]() ![]() In parallel, Lewis also writes about the quiet revolution in football strategy, catalyzed by the rise of linebacker Lawrence Taylor. The book gives particular weight to Michael's relationship with Leigh Anne Tuohy, who treated him with fierce love and protectiveness. As they became increasingly involved in helping him improve his performance on the football field and in the classroom, they also grew very close to him, learning the details of his difficult upbringing and eventually adopting him as legal guardians. ![]() In doing so, it recounts how Michael was taken in by the Tuohy family. It chronicles Michael's journey from an impoverished neighborhood in East Memphis to his astounding feats as a left tackle at Briarcrest Christian School and the University of Mississippi. Michael Lewis's The Blind Side is a nonfiction book about the life and early sports career of Michael Oher, as well as the evolution of the game of football. ![]() ![]() It introduced me to gelato, a very succulent human invention, and quite a swoon-worthy Italian – Ren. Two years ago, I read a wonderful story titled Love & Gelato. That is if they don’t get completely lost along the way. As the trio journeys over breathtaking green hills, past countless castles, and through a number of fairy-tale forests, Addie hopes her guidebook will heal not only her broken heart, but also her shattered relationship with her brother. ![]() ![]() Suddenly Addie finds herself on a whirlwind tour of the Emerald Isle, trapped in the world’s smallest vehicle with Ian and his admittedly cute, Irish-accented friend Rowan. So when Addie discovers an unusual guidebook, Ireland for the Heartbroken, hidden in the dusty shelves of the hotel library, she’s able to finally escape her anxious mind and Ian’s criticism. Miserable, Addie can’t wait to visit her friend in Italy and leave her brother-and her problems-behind. But her brother, Ian, isn’t about to let her forget, and his constant needling leads to arguments and even a fistfight between the two once inseparable siblings. ![]() Genres & Themes: Young Adult, Family, Siblings, Contemporary, Summer, TravelingĪddie is visiting Ireland for her aunt’s over-the-top destination wedding, and hoping she can stop thinking about the one horrible thing she did that left her miserable and heartbroken-and threatens her future. ![]() |