![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. And, when the inevitable time of first contact finally arrives, she will find her life changed yet again-in ways she could never have imagined. ![]() But when a reconnaissance ship returns to her idyllic domain, and its crew is mysteriously slaughtered, Ofelia realizes she is not the sole inhabitant of her paradise after all. With everything she needs to sustain her, and her independent spirit to buoy her, Ofelia actually does start life over-for the first time on her own terms- free of the demands, the judgments, and the petty tyrannies of others. ![]() but closing out her life in blissful solitude, in the place she has no intention of leaving. ![]() Not starting over in the hurly-burly of a new community. But while her fellow colonists grudgingly anticipate a difficult readjustment on some distant world, Ofelia savors the promise of a golden opportunity. And it is here that she fully expects to finish out her days-until the shifting corporate fortunes of the Sims Bancorp Company dictates that Colony 3245.12 is to be disbanded, its residents shipped off, deep in cryo-sleep, to somewhere new and strange and not of their choosing. On this planet far away in space and time from the world of her youth, she has lived and loved, weathered the death of her husband, raised her one surviving child, lovingly tended her garden, and grown placidly old. For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia's home. ![]()
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![]() And this one is between 15-20 years' difference, which is well above my comfort zone. Anna has a few missteps early on, but through talent and a whole lot of charm, she just may be the dancer Victoria needs to accomplish everything she imagines for the Company but also for ballet in general.ġ. ![]() Victoria's dancing career is over (she's "pushing forty"), so she's now the artistic director at the Metropolitan, where she runs a tight ship and is generally not very nice. ![]() And she knows her rank and knows she'll have to work and put in her time to be promoted, but she's living her dream, while being taught by her all-time favorite ballerina, Victoria Ford. ![]() So the premise is this: Anna Gale, an old-for-a-rookie-ballerina-but-still-young 21 year-old, arrives at the Met Ballet and is just happy to be there-to be doing ballet professionally. There are aspects I really liked and some that didn't quite work for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Chetan Bhagat too is Punjabi and his wife is a South Indian.) The only catch is, Krish and Ananya don’t want to elope or be estranged to their families, therefore, they choose to convince their parents for the marriage.īoth Ananya and Krish take turns to win over each other’s families and then they try to make both the families like each other. Krish is north Indian Punjabi boy in love with Tamilian Brahmin girl Ananya. The book is all about an IIMA couple’s struggle to marry over the cultural differences. Not to mention, every Boolywood movie harps on same theme. Its hard to, considering every second couple in this country undergoes similar experiences. ![]() He admits that book is inspired by his own experiences and yet he requests the book be treated as fiction. Chetan Bhagat magnanimously dedicates this book to his in-laws. ![]() ![]() ![]() He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. ![]() ![]() King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The familiarity of Fu’s prose is a testament to her ability to drop her readers fluidly and quickly into a fictional mind. There is something achingly and electrically familiar about the way that Fu characterizes the many dangers of modern life. Well-paced, clear, and confident, the narration navigates both the familiar and the absurd with deftness and wit. Fu’s prose is unembellished but often sparsely beautiful and, true to its title, is deeply resonant for a modern audience. Though surprised when we initially find ourselves presented with the unfamiliar or the absurd, we soon find ourselves wondering why a Time Cube is any more difficult to believe than, say, an Apple Watch or a 3D Printer. Despite these alterations, the twists are so seamlessly woven into the fabric of our known world that we quickly come to accept them as just another aspect of reality. ![]() Ordinary life is teased apart and then slightly altered: a technology is added, a natural process is exaggerated, a standard element of life inexplicably disappears. in each story, Fu is determined to take reality and twist it. Fu’s writing has often been highlighted for its precision and freshness, and her latest publication does not disappoint, offering us a novel, sharp, and insightful perspective on the concept of normalcy. a short story collection containing twelve narratives that, though disparate in plot and subject, come together in a thematic and emotional symphony. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is never narrated from Lincoln’s perspective. In the series, Vidal offers works of historical fiction that reinterpret American history starting from the American Revolution and spanning past World War II. The novel is part of Gore Vidal’s ‘Narratives of Empire’ series and joins his other works Burr (1973), 1876 (1976) and Washington D.C. He draws from contemporary diaries, memoirs, letters, newspaper accounts, the biographical writings of John Hay and John Nicolay (Lincoln's secretaries), and the work of modern historians. Though Lincoln is the focus, the book is never narrated from his point of view (with the exception of several paragraphs describing a dream Lincoln had shortly before his death) Vidal instead writes from the perspective of key historical figures. Rather than focus on the Civil War itself, the novel is centred on Lincoln's political and personal struggles. The novel describes the presidency of Abraham Lincoln and extends from the start of the American Civil War until his assassination. Lincoln: A Novel is a 1984 historical novel, part of the Narratives of Empire series by Gore Vidal. ![]() ![]() And most importantly, Minnick explores the mystery of who most likely created the sweet corn liquor we now know as bourbon. ![]() He also lays out in expert detail the critical role this spirit has played throughout the cultural and even political history of the nation-from Congress passing whiskey-protection laws to consumers standing in long lines just for a glimpse of a rare bottle of Pappy Van Winkle-complemented by more than 100 illustrations and photos. In Bourbon: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an American Whiskey, award-winning spirits author Fred Minnick traces bourbon's entire history, from the 1700s with Irish, Scottish, and French settlers setting up stills and making distilled spirits in the New World through today's booming resurgence. From the early days of raw corn liquor to the myriad distilleries that have proliferated around the country today, bourbon has come to symbolize America. ![]() ![]() Once and for all, America learns the likely inventor of its beloved bourbon.īourbon is not just alcohol-this amber-colored drink is deeply ingrained in American culture and tangled in American history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, Daphne Polk is someone else’s wife, and her daughter Lena is someone else’s child. ![]() Maxine Terrell lurches into adulthood madly in love with a woman and her child. When a stranger races out of the wilderness with her father’s belongings eight years after his plane went down, Jessica hopes the woman will have the answers she’s looking for.īetween Lily’s sheltered life and Jessica’s reservations about letting anyone close, both are ill-equipped for a relationship, but can they deny their true feelings? Read more The only way she can get closure is to find out what really happened when his plane went down. Jessica Velasquez has never recovered from the death of her father. ![]() When a simple mistake forces her to make a life-altering decision, she is ripped from her mountain paradise and thrust into civilization once more. With the help of a gruff mountain man and his dog, along with Lily’s intense grit and determination, she thrives in her private oasis. Tragedy strikes midflight when the plane goes down deep in the wild Ozarks, and Lily must survive in the unforgiving forest. Lily Andrews is only eleven years old when she boards a small aircraft with her mother, destined for the beautiful gulf coast of Texas. ![]() ![]() Review Citations: Kirkus Review - Children pg. Nevada Young Readers' Award, Nominee, Picture Book, 2004 Golden Sower Award, Honor Book, Grades K-3, 2003 Physical Information: 0.6" H x 8.8" W x 10.6" (1.00 lbs) 40 pagesįeatures: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on ProductĪwards: North Carolina Children's Book Award, Nominee, Picture Book, 2002 Lexile Measure: 550 AD (Adult Directed Text) Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship ![]() Accompanied by full-color illustrations, this story serves up a lesson in the difficulties and ultimate rewards of making new friends. WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: Hoping that the enemy pie which his father makes will help him get rid of his enemy, a little boy finds that instead it helps make a new friend. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each tale is followed by a commentary, together with associated poems, and each volume contains extensive information on names and vocabulary of the earliest Elvish languages. The first contains the Tales of Valinor and this second past includes Beren and Luthien, Turin and the Dragon, and the only full narratives of the Necklace of the Dwarves and the Fall of Gondolin. The Book of Lost Tales is published in two volumes. The Tales include the earliest accounts of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs, and Orcs of the Silmarils and the Two Trees of Valinor of Nargothrond and Gondolin of the geography and cosmography of their invented world. His destination is Tol Eressea, the Lonely Isle where Elves dwell from them he learns their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. Embedded in English legend and association, they are set in the narrative frame of the great westward voyage of a mariner named Eriel (or AElfwine). It stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor, for the Lost Tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion. Tolkien, begun in 1916, when he was twenty-five years old, and left incomplete several years later. "The Book of Lost Tales was the first major work of imagination by J.R.R. Please see the images for more details.īlurb: The Book of Lost Tales 2 (The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. ![]() |