![]() ![]() ![]() Several stories of peddlers, choices, crossroads, and arcane clockwork devices point to the mystery, and maps, keys, and music figure prominently. The stories celebrate patterns, numbers, marvelous inventions, puzzles, and possibilities. ![]() Milford’s rich, complex language hints of magic and connection, of interwoven fates and tragedies. Each guest is matched with an activity: dancing, building with cards, whittling, offering cigars, binding papers into books. The stories, part morality tales and part facets of a drawing-room mystery, suggest a hidden conversation among the assembly: supplicating, surmising, interpreting, warning. Twelve guests plus innkeeper, maid, and neighbor Phineas Amalgam (compiler of these tales, according to the title page) make up the company of 15, including one child, Maisie, who is traveling alone. Rain pours down and waters rise as a group of travelers, trapped by the weather in an inn above the river Skidwrack, tell stories. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Visiting Professor at Buckingham University, he lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children. Just as he did in Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, his lurid, grisly chronicle of Stalin in power, Mr. ![]() He has presented BBC television series on the Holy Cities of Jerusalem, Rome and Istanbul. ![]() Dr Montefiore's next major history book will be THE ROMANOVS: RISE AND FALL, 1613-1917. He is also the author of two acclaimed novels, SASHENKA and ONE NIGHT IN WINTER. JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY won the JEWISH BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE (USA). YOUNG STALIN won the COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD (UK), the LA TIME BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY (USA), LE GRAND PRIX DE LA BIOGRAPHIE POLITIQUE (France) and the KREISKY PRIZE FOR POLITICAL LITERATURE (Austria). STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR won the HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE, BRITISH BOOK AWARDS. During the height of the Stalinist terror, when even those closest to the dictator were in grave. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore 10,865 ratings, 4. CATHERINE THE GREAT AND POTEMKIN was shortlisted for the SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE. ![]() His books are published in over 40 languages. Simon Sebag Montefiore read history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he received his Doctorate of Philosophy. ![]() ![]() ![]() He went fi rst to Paris, then to Pola (Croatia) and finally to Trieste. ![]() Frustrated for personal reasons and disappointed by the social and political situation of his country, Joyce left Ireland (committing himself to a life of self-imposed exile). Then, he studied modern languages at University College Dublin (UCD), where he graduated. Regarding Joyce’s education: he attended two Jesuits schools. After Parnell’s death (1891), Joyce’s father retired from politics and social life. This event symbolised the failure of his country’s hopes and displayed the incapacity of Ireland to get free from Britain’s domination. Parnell convinced Prime Minister Gladstone to present the Irish Home Rule Bill in the Houses of Parliament (1886), but it was twice rejected. His father was an ardent supporter of Charles Parnell, who was the leader of the Irish Home Rule movement: a movement that fought to gain Irish independence and autonomy. ![]() ![]() Scarica James Joyce: Biography and Summary of "Dubliners"+"Ulysses" e più Temi in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! JAMES JOYCE James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882 into a middle-class Catholic family whose social status and financial resources gradually diminished during his childhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. ![]() Now her boyfriend doesn't recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he's in terrible danger. Apparently she's his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they're all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for "bad kids." What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea-except that everything seems very wrong. He doesn't remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. ![]() Perfect for middle grade listeners but can be enjoyed by older listeners, too Memorable characters, witty dialogue, and non-stop action have made this series popular across the globe Told from the points of view of a diverse cast of demigods "Riordan extends the franchise in a logical direction while maximizing the elements that made the first series so popular: irreverent heroes, plenty of tension-filled moments fighting monsters, and authentic classical mythology mixed in with modern life."-Horn BookĪ spin-off of the blockbuster Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, but stands on its own Rick Riordan, the best-selling author of the Percy Jackson series, pumps up the action and suspense in The Lost Hero, the first book in The Heroes of Olympus series. ![]() ![]() Anna and Omeir’s loss of a home and family triggers a journey towards each other. The legacy of legends and what, through story and translation, can become legend itself.Įach character in the novel has a story studded with loss. Through their stories, Doerr explores the power and potential of legacy. ![]() In his novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr weaves together a story across time and space, all the while asking the question, “What happens when stories get lost in translation?” And so, across the 622 lyrical pages of Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr writes the stories of orphaned Anna, village boy Omeir born with a harelip, interstellar Konstance, veteran and octogenarian Zeno Nenis, and troubled Seymour. We find ourselves lost in translation trying to express what we love and we are lost in translation when we don’t have the words to say what we wish. ![]() “Lost in translation” is a modern way of saying we’ve miscommunicated, often unwittingly. This is a story about getting lost in translation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite her devastating diagnosis, she led the Vols to win their sixteenth SEC championship in March 2012. Pat’s life took a shocking turn in 2011, when she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, an irreversible brain condition that affects 5 million Americans. She is a role model for the many women she’s coached 74 of her players have become coaches. Motherhood taught her to balance that rigidity with communication and kindness. She learned to be tough from her strict, demanding father. She owes her coaching success to her personal struggles and triumphs. ![]() She has coached an undefeated season, co-captained the first women’s Olympic team, was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, and has been named Sports Illustrated ‘Sportswoman of the Year’. ![]() For 38 years, she has broken records, winning more games than any NCAA team in basketball history. Goodreads Summary: Pat Summitt was only 21 when she became head coach of the Tennessee Vols women’s basketball team. ![]() ![]() We are treated to vintage films of Leibovitz in action in the 1960s and '70s, and of the Rolling Stone staff in its San Francisco offices, long ago. She draws no distinction between the pictures she is paid to take and those she takes of her loved ones. More, in that it follows Leibovitz's life, from a peripatetic childhood (her father was an Air Force officer, so the family moved a lot) to her blossoming interest in photography, to her work with magazines (there's a detour into a drug problem), to renown, and finally to motherhood and the death of her lover, intellectual Susan Sontag, and of her father. Like Hillary Rodham Clinton: Leibovitz "has really been a major chronicler of our country, what we care about, what we think about," says the former first lady, current senator and probable future candidate for president. ![]() There's Whoopi Goldberg and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mick Jagger and Mikhail Baryshnikov and some extra-special surprise celebrities. More, in that the 90-minute documentary offers many, many celebrities who are happy to heap accolades on Leibovitz. It's all there to see in the PBS "American Masters" presentation, "Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens," airing at 9 p.m., Wednesday. ![]() The tall, bespectacled photographer, clicking away, wooing her subjects with patter: "Beautiful". For decades, Rolling Stone and then Vanity Fair have offered amazing pictures of the famed and fabulous - Annie Leibovitz's photographic map of the stars.Įver wonder what was on the other side of the lens? ![]() ![]() ![]() the unnamed second character from the book, voiced by Michael Douglas) as they journey to the city of Meepville to return a rare Chickeraffe to its natural habitat before it's sold to wealthy animal collector Snerz (voiced by Eddie Izzard). The series follows friendly, optimistic Sam-I-Am (voiced by Adam Devine) and dour failed inventor Guy-Am-I (a.k.a. Seuss adapted characters and settings from his entire body of work for new stories, while The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! stars the characters from The Cat in the Hat, but isn't an adaptation of the book itself. Seuss's work and the first to be based solely on a particular book. ![]() Animation and produced by Ellen DeGeneres. It was created by Jared Stern for Warner Bros. Green Eggs and Ham is an animated series for Netflix loosely based on the Dr. Guy-Am-I: Well, I've never eaten walvark droppings, but I'm pretty certain I wouldn't enjoy those, either. Sam-I-Am: Weeeelllll, how can you be so sure you don't like 'em if you've never actually eaten them? (clicks tongue thoughtfully) Have you ever tried them before? ![]() Guy-Am-I: No, I do not like them, Sam-I-Am! I do not like green eggs and ham. Sam-I-Am: You don't like green eggs and ham? ![]() ![]() ![]() Night Games Sex, Power and Sport by Anna Krien. Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at a rape trial of an Australian Rules footballer, just into his twenties and follows the case as it goes to court. 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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 06:15:37 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40377521 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() But then after I finished it, I realized that what she’s done is given me her goals and enough details to get an idea of how she applied her goals in her classroom so that I wouldn’t be copying her. I wanted it to be very detailed and specific and that’s one complaint I had against the book, at first. ![]() This organization method has made it easier for teachers who, like me, want to replicate her method in our classrooms. Then she explains what actions she takes in her classroom that helps scaffold and teach students to become independent in that behavior. In her follow-up book, Reading in the Wild, she begins by outlining what behaviors readers exhibit outside of a school setting that help them succeed in reading. She’s made the book very helpful to teachers like me, who were left with questions like, how does this work? How do I track the students? What specific goals/behaviors do you have? Thankfully, Donalyn Miller followed up her work in The Book Whisperer with a book that breaks down the facets of what she does in her classroom and gives in-depth descriptions for her process, procedures, and activities in her classroom. Instead of teaching books to students, I want to teach the students through books. As I mentioned in my post about The Book Whisperer, I want to incorporate more reading in my classroom and make the assignments and assessments more authentic. With only a week to go until school starts, I’ve been frantically trying to prepare myself for the changes I want to make in my classroom. ![]() |