![]() ![]() Martin’s Game of Thrones series, Glass Sword is the high-stakes follow up to the #1 New York Times bestselling Red Queen. Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever? But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat. Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors. ![]() Martins Game of Thrones series, Glass Sword is the high-stakes. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince-the friend-who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. The 1 New York Times bestselling series Perfect for fans of George R.R. Mare Barrow's blood is red-the color of common folk-but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The electrifying second installment in the Red Queen series has all the drama, intrigue, and steamy romance that made it a #1 New York Times bestseller. The #1 New York Times bestselling series! ![]()
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![]() Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Summary ![]() And in the end, Willy commits suicide, realizing his so little accomplishments in his life. But, due to a miserable financial status, he couldn’t secure a loan for his son to start his own business. He, as a salesman, is subject to the impulses of the flea market and thinks that it is this job that can only rise him in the world of business. He craves his brother’s prosperity and endeavors for a flawless life, nonetheless, he frequently is unsuccessful to accomplish his dreams. Other than the American Dream, Willy Loman desires nothing. In Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller reconnoiters subjects of money, death and the loss of individuality. ![]() ![]() Initially the play was titled as The inside of His Head, however, later he appears dissatisfied with the title and conferred the second title of the play i.e., Death of a Salesman. We, from the 1 st title, get a deep intuition into the psychosomatic temperament of the central character who is a salesman. Video: Go Inside Opening Night of DEATH OF A SALESMAN on Broadway ![]() ![]() The book includes more than 120 medicinal herbs with important therapeutic properties and a section on their historical uses, The Complete Medicinal Herbal is a must for every home book shelve. TolkienĬomplete Medicinal Herbal is a fully illustrated practical guide to the healing properties of herbs. ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C. ![]() Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give.By TOPIC Award Winning Books African American Children's Books Biography & Autobiography Diversity & Inclusion Foreign Language & Bilingual Books Hispanic & Latino Children's Books Holidays & Celebrations Holocaust Books Juvenile Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers Professional Development Reference Books Test Prep. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Gévigne, an important industrialist vital to France’s mobilisation, is troubled by the odd behaviour of his wife Madeleine. But there had always been between the good things of life and himself a sort of cold, hard obstacle. What did he know about love, he who had never yet loved anybody? Of course he had hankered after it, like a poor wretch gazing into a shop-window he had, so to speak, made passes at it. With his chin in his hands, he looked coldly at himself. Vertigo contains page after page of this: He is one of the more self-absorbed heroes I have encountered. ![]() He is an ex-cop (he left after his crippling fear of heights caused the death of a colleague) and now a lawyer. The Germans have not yet invaded but France is gearing up for war, not that this the central character Flavières is paying much attention. Flavières, to be honest, pays very little attention to anything except himself. The Californian setting of Vertigo the movie is so familiar that it is a little jarring to find the original story was set in 1940s France. As the book opens, the French are still in the early, ‘phoney war’ phase of World War Two. Thompson Books, WymondhamĪs is obvious from the Saul Bass cover of this edition, this is the Vertigo (originally known as The Living and the Dead) which inspired the Alfred Hitchcock movie. ![]() This edition: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd, 1997 First published in France as D’entre les morts, 1954įirst published in the UK as The Living and the Dead, 1958 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Moving chronologically through Obama's two terms, the author clearly describes the president's responses to crises around the world, including those in Egypt, Syria, and Libya, and his own role in shaping Obama's response to a host of critical issues. During that time, he was with Obama almost daily and wrote numerous speeches for the president, including the Nobel Peace Prize speech in which Obama spoke of the gap between “the world as it is” and “the world as it ought to be.” It's the former that takes center stage here, as Rhodes, in brief but information-packed chapters, describes the ways in which idealism-his more than the pragmatic president's-is ground down by the reality of deeply stubborn governments and institutions. Rhodes, whose official title was Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communication, was 29 and working at a Washington, D.C., think tank when he joined Obama's campaign team and then his administration. A member of the Barack Obama administration reviews his eight years with the president with a mixture of pride and regret. ![]() ![]() And there on the table, looking out of place in the glow of three lamps placed side by side sat the most expensive item in the place, the gold-plated fountain pen I remembered from so long ago. ![]() Blank sheets of paper lay strewn like shrouded corpses across the table top, waiting there for someone to gather them. The curtains were drawn and the thick odour of stale tobacco and alcohol added to the impression that the windows hadn’t been opened for a very long time. Hundreds of empty booze bottles carpeted the parquet floor from wall to wall. ![]() I noticed that it was bolted to the floor just as they are in seedy bars where inevitable fights break out and everything is a weapon. In the centre of the room was a walnut dining table that looked as if it had been bought in a junk shop. The walls of the lounge were plastered with posters and photographs. ![]() Just as I had thought, there was hardly any furniture inside. We entered the apartment with 17 on the door. The lift came to a halt at the fourth floor. ![]() ![]() Yet this novel fills the gap missing in Twain’s Jim, the thorny scenes that shape such a wise and strong individual. She marries Jim, who maintains his ambitions and manages to become a plantation overseer. Possessing the gift of healing, she is unable to prevent earthquakes, beatings, hangings, separation from one’s children, starvation, and unspeakable cruelties riddling the slave communities of southern America in pre-Civil war time. In reality the story’s main focus is about Nana, whose goal is to survive the horrendous experiences of slavery, and who is frightened almost to paralysis about Jim’s unfolding plans to escape his slavery. The story is addressed to Marianne, who is trying to decide whether or not to marry Chas Freeman, a freeman who wants to fight with the Ninth Cavalry at Fort Robinson in Nebraska and forge his own free destiny. ![]() But this version speaks more about the desperation of slaves desperately yearning for freedom, hoping against hope, and determined to accomplish his goal or die in the process. The novel is ostensibly a retelling of Jim, the character who transforms Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. “Only folks really own theyselves the ones know what they worth.” Here Marianne’s Nana sadly but wisely begins to share her history with Marianne, a history of slavery that shaped the African-American experience. ![]() ![]() One memorable document runs to 53 handwritten pages that Lincoln himself laboriously writes out by hand. After all, there were no secretaries, there were no copying machines, there were no fax machines - everything done by hand. And the amount of work that Lincoln went through is just almost unbelievable. ![]() We can, for the first time, see the whole pattern of that career. They've collected not merely what Lincoln has to say, but what his opposing lawyers had to say, what the judges' rulings were, what the jury decisions were, what the fees. They searched the county courthouses all over Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, other places as well. They've collected papers on every case in which Abraham Lincoln was ever involved. ![]() The Lincoln legal papers have been under way in Springfield now for about seven years, something like that. We, for the first time, are able really to document and show this. ![]() ![]() ![]() My interest in fantasy fiction began quite late in my teens. How did you become interested in fantasy fiction? Have you always enjoyed reading fantasy stories? I have been writing for about 10 years now and love everything about it – apart from editing! I live in Norfolk in the UK and although I have travelled extensively (over 55 countries so far), I really wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. I finished teaching 2012 so that I could spend more time on my writing, although I do spend a lot of time promoting books at the moment. ![]() I am a former primary school teacher, mostly teaching pupils of 10-11 years. Could you tell us something about yourself in your own words? Debra feels this has paid off well and is now training to be a dragon slayer for her next novel. For this latest book, Marvin’s Curse, she worked under cover as a ghost whisperer in order to bring that something extra to her central character. Marvin’s Curse is her fourth novel although the first for YA readers. A trilogy about stroppy teenage tooth fairies Aggie Lichen Pilp Collector, the sequel, Aggie Lichen Pilp Collector - Arty's Revenge with Hero Required, the third book in the series. She lives in a rambling Victorian house with husband and pyscho staffy, Buster.ĭebra currently has four books published. ![]() ![]() Edwards is a full time writer living in Norfolk. Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Debra J. ![]() ![]() The third is her grandmother, who was married off as a concubine to a warlord as a girl and lived to see her family suffer for this unfortunate connection again and again. ![]() ![]() The second is her mother, an earnest Communist who raised a large family at a time which was extremely bad for family life. One is the author herself, now a naturalised British citizen. I'm going to do this book justice, because damn it, it deserves it.įor those of you who missed the hype back in the early 1990s, Wild Swans is the true history of three generations of women living through the horrible nightmare that is modern Chinese history. I could sum the book up by saying it's the greatest ode to courage and resilience ever written, or that it's one of those rare books which make you despair of humanity and then go a long way towards restoring your faith in it, but no, I'm not going to leave it at that. Don't let that keep you from giving it a try, though, for by some strange mechanism, it also ranks among the most uplifting books I've read, chronicling as it does a courage, resilience and will to survive which are nothing short of riveting. ![]() Wild Swans may well be the most depressing book I've ever read. ![]() |