![]() English student Lloyd Williams discovers in the crucible of the Spanish Civil War that he must fight Communism just as hard as Fascism. ![]() American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar, each with a secret, take separate paths to momentous events, one in Washington, the other in the bloody jungles of the Pacific. Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World War II, and into the beginning of the long Cold War.Ĭarla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed by the Nazi tide until daring to commit a deed of great courage and heartbreak. ![]() ![]() The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() A powerful literary work, Douglass' final autobiography shares the stories of his 'several lives in one.' Beginning with his war against 'the hell-black system of human bondage,' Douglass bears witness to his personal experiences of mind-body-and soul-destroying tragedies. Securing his self-liberation at twenty years of age in 1838, he went on to become the most renowned antislavery activist, social justiceĬampaigner, author, orator, philosopher, essayist, historian, intellectual, statesman, and liberator in U.S. 'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery thirdly, the life of comparative freedom fourthly, the life of conflict and battle and, fifthly, the life of victory, if not complete, at least assured.'First published in 1892, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Written By Himself is the final autobiography written byįrederick Douglass (1818-1895), a man who was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. 'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery thirdly, the life of comparative freedom fourthly, the life of conflict and battle and, fifthly, the life of victory, if not complete, at least assured.'First published in 1892, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Written By Himself is the final autobiography written byįrederick Douglass (1818-1895), a man who was born into sl. ![]() ![]() A stark reminder that, sometimes, one moment is all it takes, it also reminds us that somehow, and despite everything, life can and does go on. Telling the story of the week following that fateful train journey, "One Moment, One Morning" is a stunning novel about love and loss, about family and - above all - friendship. And Karen? Karen's husband is the man who dies. Anna and Lou share a cab when they realise the train is going nowhere fast. For at least three passengers on the 07:44 on that particular morning. For at least three passengers on the 07:44 on that particular morning, life will never be the same again. One Moment, One Morning by Sarah Rayner Half Price Books India Books inspire. Then, abruptly, everything changes: a man has a heart attack, and can't be resuscitated the train is stopped, an ambulance called. Further along, a woman flicks through a glossy magazine. ![]() A husband and wife share an affectionate gesture. Telling the story of the week following that fateful train journey, One Moment, One Morning is a stunning novel about love and loss, about family and - above all - friendship. Another occupies her time observing the people around her. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pick the book up here: My Maril: Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, Hollywood, and Me: Karger, Terry, Margolis, Jay, Reagan, Michael: 9781637583265: : BooksĪbout Terry Karger: Terry Karger graduated from the University of Southern California in 1963, one year after Marilyn Monroe’s death. In the book, Terry also recalls her interactions and personal relationships with other members of the Hollywood Hierarchy like Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman and many more. ![]() Monroe, who she really was when not pretending to be the “dizzy blonde” stereotype, how Marilyn was an influence in Terry’s own life and career, her loves and relationships away from the paparazzi and tabloids as well as both Jay’s and Terry’s thoughts on the mysterious circumstances surrounding the acclaimed actress’ death. On Book Spectrum’s Season 3 finale, we will bring you a look the Hollywood legend as you never knew her, far from the spotlight.īiographer Jay Margolis, author of ‘My Maril, Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, Hollywood and Me.” tells Marilyn’s personal story through the eyes of Terry Karger, whose family were close friends of the sliver screen legend dating back to when she was known as “Norma Jeane” and the young narrator’s babysitter. ![]() Many know Marilyn Monroe as the iconic movie star through her on-screen persona. ![]() ![]() ![]() This magnificent novel is a story of passion and politics, infidelity and ideas, and encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, illuminating all aspects of human existence. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine. A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful loverthese are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. ![]() In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of two couples, a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing, and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. full of telling details, truths large and small, to which just about every reader will respond.” - People (2009) A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful. ![]() It is a meditation on life, on the erotic, on the nature of men and women and love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I felt the character of Jack was hardest to get invested in. Shurtliff is great at setting up endearing characters and readable stories. I was also delighted by just how many stories Shurtliff combined to create Jack, and how creatively and seamlessly it came together. It borrows from “Tom Thumb” and “Thumbelina,” and maybe I'm reading into it but I even recognized a touch of “Thumbling the Giant” with the Tom Thumb character being kidnapped by a giant. Another interesting element was how we see the point of view swap of Rumpelstiltskin – first in Rump from the title character in Rump, then in Jack from the queen who bargained with him, who is rather foolish but also manages to be sympathetic. My personal favorites were Red – particularly the friendship between Red and Goldilocks - and Grump, with its worldbuilding of a dwarf society. ![]() So for instance, Red Riding Hood’s grandmother is Rose Red from the less-retold tale of “Snow White and Rose Red.” All four books take place in the same fantasy world, with interconnected characters. However, they bring in elements of multiple other fairytales. The books retell, in order, Rumpelstiltskin ( Rump), Jack and the Beanstalk ( Jack), Red Riding Hood (Red), and Snow White (Grump). I recently read Liesl Shurtliff’s series of fairytale retellings for children. ![]() ![]() ![]() He also met his future wife Jill Thompson, a comic book artist who was working for DC Comics's imprint Vertigo. In 1989, after several years of working various blue-collar jobs, Azzarello moved to Chicago, where he became interested in the work of Black Lizard Press, a small publishing house which reprinted hardboiled detective and noir fiction. ![]() He attended the Cleveland Institute of Art, studying painting and printmaking. As a child, he read monster and war comic books, but avoided the superhero genre. Azzarello is best known for his numerous collaborations with artists Eduardo Risso ( 100 Bullets, Batman: Broken City, Spaceman, Moonshine) and Lee Bermejo ( Batman/Deathblow, Luthor, Joker, Batman: Damned), his contributions to the Watchmen prequel project Before Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns sequel series DK III: The Master Race, as well as for his stints on the long-running Vertigo series Hellblazer and The New 52 relaunch of the Wonder Woman title.Īzzarello grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, where his mother managed a restaurant and his father was a salesman. ![]() Brian Azzarello (born Augin Cleveland, Ohio) is an American comic book writer and screenwriter who first came to prominence with the hardboiled crime series 100 Bullets, published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of the 13 feature films Kubrick directed were ahead of their time, but none were quite so far ahead as 2001, a wildly ambitious adventure that posited that a benign extraterrestrial intelligence had guided the evolution of the human animal over some four million years-and would eventually lead us to outgrow even our corporeal bodies. ![]() 2 and 3 earners of 1968, respectively) is to understate its artistic achievement. ![]() But simply to point out that it took in more money than Funny Girl or The Love Bug (the No. Just wait.”ĭespite initially damning reviews, 2001 became the year’s highest-grossing movie. Lockwood, annoyed at the man’s inability to appreciate what he’d seen, replied. “No one liked it.” Later that night, an executive with MGM Studios, the company that had bankrolled the ballooning production with growing alarm, asked Lockwood what had gone so wrong. “It was a disaster,” he recalls in Michael Benson’s new book Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. ![]() Gary Lockwood, the actor who played doomed astronaut Frank Poole in the film, remembers attendees heckling the slow-paced movie and “streaming out” of the theater at intermission. Four years in the making, the film had been shown for members of the press three days earlier at Washington DC’s Uptown Theatre, a 1,120-seat single-screen cinema opened in 1936 that remains in operation today. Fifty years ago today, Stanley Kubrick’s landmark science fiction epic 2001: A Space Odyssey was released. ![]() ![]() ![]() As her mythic – and even mystical – view of life seems mainly to derive from her experience of Africa and its natives, in whom she rediscovered the truly spiritual dimensions of the soul now lost to the European, she could have said as well: ″Africa made me″. ″Africa received me and made me her own″, wrote Dinesen later (1959). Out of Africa records her years in Kenya (1914-1932) as a shamanic initiation into her authorship an interpretation supported by certain archetypal motifs and symbols, which keep recurring throughout the book. It was in Africa that her personal life reached its climax – and also closed, in a personal tragedy, but even the misfortunes she suffered there were all part of a greater scheme, recognizable only in retrospect, and prepared her for her new life as an author. A sort of spiritual autobiography, it immediately follows her first collection of tales (Seven Gothic Tales, 1934) as a commentary on her new career, as well as a tribute to Africa, which had made it possible. She also acts as doctor, teacher, judge, and friend to those who work for her and live on her land. ![]() ![]() Out of Africa (1937) occupies a very special place in Isak Dinesen's work. Isak Dinesen Out of Africa is Dinesen's autobiography of her life in Kenya, where she owns and operates a coffee plantation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mallory on June 8, 1924, on the final, doomed push from Camp 6 to the summit. Here we meet Andrew “Sandy” Irvine, the youngest member of the climbing team and a mechanical genius, who accompanies Mr. George Mallory’s life on Everest is the strongest part of the book. Rideout describes a marriage full of desire and intimacy, although she also drops hints about George’s youthful infatuation with Lytton Strachey’s brother, James. Home The Sea Between Two Shores Books About the Author Resources Contact Open Menu Close Menu. Ruth and George fell in love on a trip to Italy, and Ms. In 1924, he died there.Ībove All Things is an elegant and well-researched novel about George Mallory and his wife, Ruth, during the months leading up to Mr. In 1921, he searched Everest for months, looking for a path to the summit. Mallory, who climbed with serpentine grace. In an author’s note at the end of Above All Things, Tanis Rideout admits to falling in love with George Mallory, one of the first explorers of Mount Everest. ![]() |