Clean sweep book series7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() One small misstep could lead to disaster. She expected danger, but she never anticipated that the only man she'd ever loved could threaten everything. So her plan is simple: get in, solve the murders, prevent the prophecy from being fulfilled, and get out without being recognized. If Aurelia’s true identity is discovered, those closest to her will die. An ancient power is stalking her adopted mother, Kate Daniels, an enemy unlike any other, and a string of horrifying murders is its opening gambit. Now she’s back with a new face, a new magic, and a new name-Aurelia Ryder-drawn by the urgent need to protect the family she left behind. ![]() Now, as waves of magic and technology compete for supremacy, it’s a place caught in a slow apocalypse, where monsters spawn among the crumbling skyscrapers and supernatural factions struggle for power and survival.Įight years ago, Julie Lennart left Atlanta to find out who she was. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This time, he again orders his men to abandon their fort and leads them on a harrowing trek southward, towards Hadrian’s Wall, and safety. During an overwhelming raid at the book’s end, Alexios is faced with the same decision that almost cost him his career. ![]() His tenure with the pack requires a balance, too, between controlling and honoring the tribes that occupy Roman land. In this quick moving historical novel, acclaimed author Rosemary Sutcliff realizes Alexios’s struggles to contain, govern, and ultimately earn the respect of these Frontier Wolves. ![]() Given the circumstances, this exile was humane. Were his uncle not the governor of northern Britain, Alexios would not be calling himself a legionnaire at all. After abandoning a fort in the German province during a barbarian attack, the Centurion lost half his men. Yet Alexios Flavius Aquila knows his assignment to Castellum was not a promotion. During a period of tentative peace in Northern Britain, a young commander is sent to preside over this undisciplined lot at their borderland outpost. ![]() The little protection that Rome has from the Dalriad and Caledone tribes comes from a small post of half wild legionnaires: The Frontier Wolves. The Antonine Wall has fallen and order slowly collapses on the northernmost edge of the empire. ![]() Kokoro soseki7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() It is an international modernist treasure through sharing the aching, regretful sensibility of such works as Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and Ingmar Bergman’s arguably greatest film, Winter Light. Translator McKinney, who makes a completely stylistically modern-verbally and syntactically plain, realistic, personally voiced, intimate in tone-English-language novel of this quietly profound masterpiece, imparts in her introduction all that non-Japanese need to know to appreciate why the book is considered a national treasure. In the book’s second half, narrated by Sensei (i.e., mentor), as the student calls him, we learn why: he feels he betrayed a friend by first pressing his suit for the woman both love. Well-mannered, educated, comfortable, ostensibly happily married though childless, the man, whom the narrator regularly visits once they’re both back in the city, yet exudes sadness. The never-named narrator-hero of the novel’s first half is a provincial student in Tokyo who befriends a man some 20 years older whom he meets on a beach that is a favorite student getaway site. The last its author completed, published in 1914, two years before his death at 48, it voices the spiritual desolation of a society that had deliberately transformed itself from quasi-feudal isolation to determinedly modern player on the world stage in little more than 50 years. ![]() *Starred Review* Kokoro is the great Japanese modern novel. ![]() The waves by virginia woolf7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and modernist, and the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'. Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present, and the meaning of life itself. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, their awareness of unity and isolation. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, The Waves conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. ![]() ![]() A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's The Waves is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in Penguin Modern Classics. ![]() To walk the night william sloane7/7/2023 ![]() When your favorite college professor dies under mysterious circumstances, what’s the first thing you should do? If you answered, ‘let myself be mysteriously seduced by his strange, cryptic widow’, then you win! That’s the relatively straightforward premise of the first of these two short novels. The vintage book covers shown here may not be the most accurate representation of the contents, but I couldn’t resist…I mean, look at them! Containing both 1937’s To Walk the Night and 1939’s The Edge of Running Water, this volume handsomely reintroduces readers to Sloane’s unfairly forgotten genre mash-up novels (before a genre mash-up was a thing). ![]() While it would have been preferable for William Sloane’s only two novels to each have their own separate reprinting, a New York Review Books reissue of the omnibus edition – The Rim of Morning – isn’t too shabby. ![]() ![]() ![]() Andrews points out similarities between the scenarios, borrowings from earlier Italian scripted comedies, analogies with other early modern drama including Shakespeare, and the re-use of these components by later dramatists such as Molière and Goldoni.Īn extensive introduction sets the parameters for the commentaries, giving a description of commedia dell'arte as a phenomenon, explaining the categories of masked characters, and describing the nature and structure of the genre. ![]() Taking into consideration previous translations of the work, Richard Andrews's English translation and lengthy analytic commentary of the scenarios provide an overview of the commedia dell'arte style, describing how actors fleshed out scenes by inserting existing material from their repertoire into a plot framework and demonstrating a constant interchange of plot, characterization, and scene structure that moved between scripted and improvised comedy. Thirty of Scala's 50 scenarios are included, complete with a detailed scene-by-scene analysis that demonstrates the methodology of Italian improvised theatre in the early modern period for the purposes of study as well as re-creation. The Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala presents a translation and commentary of selected scenarios composed or collected by the actor-manager Flaminio Scala that were first published in 1611. ![]() Summary of the miniaturist7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() It is to be furnished by an elusive miniaturist, whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in unexpected ways. Only later does Johannes appear and present her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt, but instead she is met by his sharp-tongued sister, Marin. On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. Winner of the Specsavers National Book Award and Waterstones Book of the Year.īeautiful, intoxicating and filled with heart-pounding suspense, Jessie Burton's historical novel set in Amsterdam, The Miniaturist, is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution, appearance and truth. ![]() The phenomenal number one bestseller and a major BBC TV series. ![]() Novel last of the mohicans7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() The book depicts a key moment in American history, as told from the perspective of an American less than 70 years after the story takes place. It is no wonder that The Last of the Mohicans is often considered the first Great American Novel.Ĭooper’s literary classic is a staple of many high school literature courses, and rightfully so. Brutal 18th-century combat is beautifully mixed with romance and the awe-inspiring backdrop of the Adirondack Mountains. Hawkeye’s journey provides a glimpse into the North American front of the Seven Years’ War, also known as the French and Indian War. Tasked with escorting the daughters of a British officer between remote outposts of the empire, Hawkeye finds himself immersed in a war between British, French, Huron, Mohican, and American forces. The novel, set in 1757, follows Natty Bumppo, also known as Hawkeye or “ The Long Rifle,” as he navigates the dangers of a war-torn New York frontier. It’s been 195 years since James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans was published in 1826. ![]() “History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.” - The Last of the Mohicans ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Merely note that the arguments I am defending differ in several ways from the Note that atheists who raise a certain sort of objection against first causeĪrguments would complain if a parallel objection were raised against evolution In the first place, I merely note that theĪrguments I am defending are in several ways different from Paley’s designĬite Paley in a long list of philosophers who have defending theisticĭesign theory in exactly two places in the book, at p. 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Suppose the reader is then presented with various objections to theĪrgument, such as the suggestion that it is the world itself rather than God That appeals to the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) but makes no reference Suppose that some reader is initially convinced by an argument from contingency ![]() ![]() ![]() This reading group guide for The Perks of Being A Wallflower includes an introduction, discussion questions, and ideas for enhancing your book club. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie must learn to navigate those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up.Ī #1 New York Times bestseller for more than a year, an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults (2000) and Best Book for Reluctant Readers (2000), and with millions of copies in print, this novel for teen readers (or “wallflowers” of more-advanced age) will make you laugh, cry, and perhaps feel nostalgic for those moments when you, too, tiptoed onto the dance floor of life. ![]() ![]() Devastating loss, young love, and life on the fringes. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. First dates, family drama, and new friends. The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky follows observant “wallflower” Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. Also a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a funny, touching, and haunting modern classic. Now in a special edition to mark the twentieth anniversary of a beloved cult classic! Read the #1 New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. ![]() |