Edith pearlman books6/12/2023 "The Golden Swan" transports the reader to a cruise ship with lavish buffets-and a surprise stowaway-while the lead story, "Tenderfoot," follows a widowed pedicurist searching for love with a new customer anguishing over his own buried trauma. The title story involves an affair, an illegitimate pregnancy, anorexia, and adolescent drug use, but the true excitement comes from the evocation of the interior lives of young Emily Knapp, who wishes she were a bug, and her inner circle. Pearlman writes with warmth about the predicaments of being human. Her latest work, gathered in this stunning collection of twenty new stories, is an occasion for celebration. Her incomparable vision, consummate skill, and bighearted spirit have earned her consistent comparisons to Anton Chekhov, John Updike, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, and Frank O'Connor. Over the past several decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the all-time great practitioners of the short story. Longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award - and a nationwide bestseller. TOP TITLES FOR GIFT GIVING: "Chicago Tribune" "BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: "Wall Street Journal, " NPR, "Kirkus, " "Fresh Air" (Maureen Corrigan), " San Francisco Chronicle" NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR: "New York Times, Washington Post"TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR: " Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor
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Stephen colbert i am america6/12/2023 I Am America (And So Can You!) showcases Stephen Colbert at his most eloquent and impassioned. You may not agree with everything Stephen says, but at the very least, you'll understand that your differing opinion is wrong. I Am America (And So Can You!) contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast.ĭictated directly into a microcassette recorder over a three-day weekend, this book contains Stephen's most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form.Īlways controversial and outspoken, Stephen addresses why Hollywood is destroying America by inches, why evolution is a fraud, and why the elderly should be harnessed to millstones. Congratulations-just by looking at this webpage, you became 25% more patriotic.įrom Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23¿ hours of your day. All the works of shakespeare6/12/2023 The Complete Works (especially in older editions) are often sought after by book collectors, and a number of binderies and publishing houses have produced leather bound and gilded releases for luxury book collecting.īoth mainstream and academic publishing companies have released multiple editions and versions of their own collections of Shakespeare's work, often updated periodically. The various editions of the Complete Works include a number of university press releases, as well as versions released from larger publishing companies. Some editions include several works that were not completely of Shakespeare's authorship (collaborative writings), such as The Two Noble Kinsmen, which was a collaboration with John Fletcher Pericles, Prince of Tyre, the first two acts of which were likely written by George Wilkins or Edward III, whose authorship is disputed. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is the standard name given to any volume containing all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. Eligible curtis6/12/2023 Wonderfully tender and hilariously funny, Eligible both honors and updates Austen's beloved tale. At a Fourth of July barbecue, Chip takes an immediate interest in Jane, but Chip's friend, neurosurgeon Fitzwilliam Darcy, reveals himself to Liz to be much less charming.Īnd yet, first impressions can be deceiving. Bennet has one thing on her mind: how to marry off her daughters, especially as Jane's 40th birthday fast approaches.Įnter Chip Bingley, a handsome new-in-town doctor who recently appeared on the juggernaut reality TV dating show Eligible. Mary, the middle sister, is earning her third online master's degree and barely leaves her room except for those mysterious Tuesday-night outings she won't discuss. Youngest sisters Kitty and Lydia are too busy with their CrossFit workouts and paleo diets to get jobs. When their father has a health scare, they return to their childhood home in Cincinnati to help - and discover that the sprawling Tudor they grew up in is crumbling, and the family is in disarray. Darcy - is one that you have and haven't met before: Liz is a magazine writer in her late 30s who, like her yoga instructor older sister, Jane, lives in New York City. This version of the Bennet family - and Mr. Equal parts homage to Jane Austen and bold literary experiment, Eligible is a brilliant, playful, and delicious saga for the 21st century. From the "wickedly entertaining" ( USA Today) Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times best-selling author of Prep and American Wife, comes a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice. Hellblazer, Vol. 1 by Jamie Delano6/11/2023 An interest in magic, demons and ghosts helps too. I recommend Hellblazer to anyone who likes their stories in shades of grey and who doesn’t need a definitive hero as their lead. His story spans over 300 issues and as DC comics has acquired the rights to him there will hopefully be many more. John brings out the empathy in the reader he’s human enough that his crimes are forgivable and his punishments tragic. John is not a nice man (he will sacrifice his friends lives if it’s the easiest solution) but he has been written so that you are hard-pressed to condemn him for his actions, he makes them seem so logical. However this is far from a tale of superheroes, it’s much darker and heavily involved in the seedy sides of London magic. Hellblazer takes place on the fringes of the DC/Vertigo crossover universe so every now and then John will butt heads with Batman or Wonder Woman. He routinely battles evil but don’t be fooled into thinking he’s one of the good guys, an acquaintance with Constantine will almost always end in a death. He’s also one of the smartest and most powerful mages operating in London. Help with Technology, Devices and Online Resources. Help with English, Resumes, Forms and Applications. Charmed life diana wynne jones review6/11/2023 'Refusal to talk down to children'ĭiana Wynne Jones was prolific, for which I am eternally grateful she wrote dozens of books and tens of dozens of stories. Published in 1977, it almost certainly was one of the inspirations, conscious or otherwise, for Harry Potter, but, much as I love Harry, Charmed Life, for me, is the richer, wittier, stranger book. An evil wizard attempts to take over, and magical chaos unfurls. It’s the story of a young wizard, Cat, who is taken with his sister Gwendolen to live in Chrestomanci castle, which is a both a castle and a kind of Magic HQ, the place from which a devastatingly handsome wizard, clad largely in ornate dressing gowns, runs the magical world. Reading in the car inevitably made me sick, but even after I had vomited semi-neatly out of the car window, I kept reading: it’s a book I’ve always found entirely impossible to set down. I began to read Diana Wynne Jones’s Charmed Life when I was about eight, on a long car journey. Left: from the front cover of Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones right: Katherine Rundell, credit Nina Subin Here's why she thinks this clever, quirky fantasy will stand the test of time. What's the childhood book that made you who you are today?Īuthor Katherine Rundell knew Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones was pretty special, when it kept her entertained as a girl through a bout of car sickness. Andrew motion philip larkin6/11/2023 He was offered, but declined, the position of Poet Laureate in 1984, following the death of Sir John Betjeman.Īfter graduating from Oxford University in 1943 with a first in English Language and Literature, Larkin became a librarian. His many honours include the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He contributed to The Daily Telegraph as its jazz critic from 1961 to 1971, with his articles gathered in All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961–71 (1985), and edited The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (1973). His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947), and he came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second collection of poems, The Less Deceived, followed by The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974). Philip Arthur Larkin CH CBE FRSL (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. The Whitsun Weddings (1964), High Windows (1974) The Fade Out, Act One by Ed Brubaker6/11/2023 The Fade Out is Brubaker and Phillips’ most ambitious project yet!īrowsing the shelves at my library I came across this stunning cover that caught my eye. Nothing is what it seems in the place where only lies are true. A movie stuck in endless reshoots, a writer damaged from the war and lost in the bottle, a dead movie star and the lookalike hired to replace her. The Fade Out, is an epic noir set in the world of noir itself, the backlots and bars of Hollywood at the end of its Golden Era. Pages: 120 Format: Paperback Source: Library Genres: Comics, Mystery, Crime, Noir, Graphic Novel Published by Image Comics on March 10, 2015 The Fade Out, Act One by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Searching for a way to the sea, he makes his way to the only landmark of note, a hill, beyond which he finds a chasm. It is a mire of black mud, lifeless and undulating, reeking from the stench of decaying fish, perhaps thrown up from the sea floor. When his ship is captured by an Imperial German sea-raider, he escapes in a lifeboat, but with little idea of where he is, he drifts aimlessly until he suddenly awakes to find himself on land again, but not land he has ever seen. This is written as the last testament of an ex-sailor driven to drugs by a strange encounter in the Pacific during his service in the Great War. Lovecraft, or rather to one of Lovecraft’s earliest stories, ‘Dagon’. Lovecraft's Dagon for Beginning Readers does is bring both the prose style and the art style of Theodor Seuss Geisel-or Dr. Lovecraft's Dagon for Beginning Readers uses the form of the children’s book to retell a tale of cosmic horror whose conclusion might be a legitimate response to the cosmic horror at its heart, it is a conclusion that is highly unsuitable for younger readers. Unlike the various Call of Cthulhu ABC books to the delightful Where’s My Shoggoth? which have successfully melded the Cosmic Horror of Lovecraft’s fiction with the children’s author of your choice in a format which can be enjoyed by children, H.P. Lovecraft's Dagon for Beginning Readers would suggest that it is a book for children. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu for beginning readers, the cartoon cartoon artwork and simple prose of H.P. The gap of time the winter's tale retold6/10/2023 'Emotionally wrought and profoundly intelligent. 'Pulsates with such authenticity and imaginative generosity that I defy you not to engage with it' 'There are passages here so concisely beautiful they give you goosebumps' Lea reseñas de productos sinceras e imparciales de nuestros usuarios. A supremely clever, compelling and emotionally affecting novel that deserves multiple readings to appreciate its many layers' Vea reseñas y calificaciones de reseñas que otros clientes han escrito de The Gap Of Time: The Winter’s Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) (Vintage Books) en. Jeanette Winterson's cover version of The Winter's Tale vibrates with echoes of Shakespeare's original and tells a story of hearts broken and hearts healed, a story of revenge and forgiveness, a story that shows that whatever is lost shall be found. Seventeen years later, Perdita doesn't know a lot about who she is or where she's come from - but she's about to find out. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. The Gap of Time is a modern-day retelling of Shakespeares 'The Winters Tale' as part of a larger series of authors doing the same for several of his works. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for The Gap of Time: The Winter’s Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) at. A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. |