![]() MICHAEL GLENNY (1927-1990) was at one point a British army officer, an intelligence agent in Wester Berlin, and a traveling salesman for Wedgwood china, which first took him to the Soviet Union. ![]() His masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, would not be published until twenty-six years after his death. He died at the age of forty-nine from a kidney disorder. Though Bulgakov’s work was often censored, Stalin showed his personal favor by protecting him from imprisonment and finding a job for him at the Moscow Art Theatre, where the writer would work as a director and playwright for many years. He went on to write some of the greatest novels in twentieth-century Russian literature, including White Guard and Black Snow. ![]() Schooled as a doctor, he gave up the practice of medicine in 1920 to devote himself to writing. MIKHAIL BULGAKOV (1891-1940) was born in Kiev. ![]()
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![]() The first ten novels in the series were adapted for five seasons of the television series The Last Kingdom, starring Alexander Dreymon. Uhtred, despite his inclinations otherwise, repeatedly fights and schemes to bring about Alfred's dream over the course of a long life. Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, rallies his forces and begins the long struggle to fulfill his ambition of uniting all English speakers in one realm. The story begins with the conquest of all but one of the major Saxon kingdoms by the Danes, with Wessex, the last kingdom, nearly overrun. The name of the fictional protagonist comes from the historical Uhtred the Bold Cornwell is a descendant of this family. ![]() He is captured as a child and raised by a Danish warlord. The protagonist of the series is Uhtred of Bebbanburg, born to a Saxon lord in Northumbria. The Saxon Stories (also known as Saxon Tales/ Saxon Chronicles in the US and The Warrior Chronicles and most recently as The Last Kingdom series) is a historical novel series written by Bernard Cornwell about the birth of England in the ninth and tenth centuries. ![]() ![]() ![]() They even interview a WWII veteran to piece together the puzzle Jack has left behind. They also call upon the expertise of various community members ranging from the pastor of the church to the vendor who sells roasted nuts on the street. Bodhi use the Internet to research and Theo, the public library where she checks out thick art books related to her mystery. Now she has Bodhi, whose parents are famous movie stars, and she lives just down the street. ![]() Up until now, Jack has been her only companion. Along the way she makes a new friend and develops relationships with many of the people she meets, all of which is rather new for her. What Theo finds leads her into a mystery dating back to World War II. Jack's last words to Theo were to find a treasure "under the egg" in his studio. When Jack suddenly dies, Theo is left as a 13-year-old in charge of the household and her mother withdraws even more into her number theorems. So Theo and Jack take care of the errands, chores and repairs. Her mother, who is a bit eccentric, has been working on her dissertation for her degree in mathematics for the last 15 years and rarely even comes downstairs. ![]() Her grandfather is an artist, (painter) and also works as a security guard at the Metropolitan Art Museum. Theodora "Theo" Tenpenny lives with her mother (Angelika) and grandfather(Jack) in their family home, which s 200 years old and in need of many repairs. If you enjoy reading mystery, history, and art will love this book. ![]() ![]() The most terrifying events in history are brought vividly to life in this New York Times-bestselling series Reading Level: 3.9 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 1.0 Review Citations: Hornbook Guide to Children - Below Average, With Minor Flaw Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.2" W x 7.4" (0.15 lbs) 112 pagesįeatures: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian ![]() Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century Juvenile Fiction | Transportation - Boats, Ships, & Underwater Craft Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - Survival Stories WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĬlick for more in this series: I Survived I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (I Survived #1): Volume 1Ĭontributor(s): Tarshis, Lauren (Author), Dawson, Scott (Illustrator) ![]() ![]() It is not simply a question of the broad outlines being well-worn, but of the numerous tropes deployed: the mad scientist releasing the virus the millenarian cults and cannibal gangs the survivors subsisting, ironically, on throwaway consumer items the tech-noir and cyber-punk stylings flooded cities the vine-wrapped skyscrapers. All this will seem troublingly unoriginal not just to hardened SF fans, but to anyone with an average movie-going habit. ![]() The dystopian world that existed before the pandemic is seen in flashback: a nightmare of all-controlling corporations, out-of-control scientific innovations, ecological catastrophe and social breakdown which is equally familiar, from the likes of Blade Runner, Minority Report, The Hunger Games and countless others. I use Survivors – itself a remake of a 1970s series – as an example, but the post-apocalyptic sections of Atwood's books have many precursors, from Mad Max to The Omega Man and 28 Days Later. A mad scientist working for an evil corporation releases a virus that wipes out most of humanity the survivors must scrape a living from the ruins of industrial civilisation, fighting against feral gangs and sometimes each other. It is a peculiarity – a series of books written by a wonderful and justly venerated novelist, with a generic SF plot that closely recalls, say, the unloved recent BBC1 series Survivors. ![]() ![]() Banks's thoughts came back to me while I was reading Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy, which concludes with this novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() I stayed up all night reading this book! By far the best on your list last Friday!! I can’t get the characters out of my head. Heidi: WOW! Must read Fallen Crest High! I haven’t had a book stay with me like this book since The Sea of Tranquility or The Bronze Horseman. And I want more from this author but I can’t handle a cliffhanger! I might die,… The description on the amazon page doesn’t even come close to describing it, so don’t be turned off, LOL! AND it’s cheap!!! It’s YA but very adult. 34% in and wow… I really, really hope she doesn’t drop the ball halfway through the book, because if it keeps going this well it could be right up there with the greats, ladies. Joanna: Someone else shared this one earlier, so I picked it up. Could’ve been cliche but has a dark undertone & just ♥ the kade brothers. This book was fecking awesome! Dark Adult Mature YA read (sex, booze & deception run rapids). Lori: I reluctantly read this with a friend’s pressure □ What a great read, I see what all the buzz is about! I’m not into high school romance, but this is much more gritty… ![]() I’ve been hearing about this one for about a year now (I think it was one of the “Fictionpress” books that everyone was raving about), and our fellow readers are still discovering and loving it. MARYSE’S SURPRISE FROM HER FAVORITE BOOK BOYFRIEND’SīREAKING NEWS UPDATE!!! LOOK WHAT’S LIVE RIGHT NOW!!! ➜ Fallen Crest Home (Fallen Crest Series Book 6) ➜ ➜ ➜.ALL MY REVIEWS (ALPHABETICAL BY AUTHOR). ![]() ![]() ![]() Alexandra asks her neighbor and friend Carl Linstrum to retrieve the kitten. On a windy January day in Hanover, Nebraska, Alexandra Bergson is with her five-year-old brother Emil, whose little kitten has climbed a telegraph pole and is afraid to come down. The book is divided into five parts, each of which has numerous chapters. The novel is also concerned with two romantic relationships, one between Alexandra and family friend Carl Linstrum and the other between Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata. ![]() ![]() The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies, and she devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a time when many other immigrant families are giving up and leaving the prairie. O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish-American immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. "There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating. ![]() ![]() Erdos never tried to dilute his obsessive passion for numbers with ordinary emotional interactions, thus avoiding hurting the people around him, as Nash did. But Erdos's brand of madness was joyful, unlike Nash's despairing schizophrenia. Hoffman's book, like Sylvia Nasar's biography of John Nash, A Beautiful Mind, reveals a genius's life that transcended the merely quirky. Like a traveling salesman offering his thoughts as wares, Erdos would show up on the doorstep of one mathematician or another and announce, "My brain is open." After working through a problem, he'd move on to the next place, the next solution. ![]() He published almost 1500 scholarly papers before his death in 1996, and he probably thought more about math problems than anyone in history. ![]() ![]() Paul Erdos was an amazing and prolific mathematician whose life as a world-wandering numerical nomad was legendary. ![]() ![]() ![]() Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.Success comes to those who become success conscious.When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said, “No.”.Failure takes great delight in tripping on when success is almost within reach.One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.You don’t need anything more than to know what you want and the determination to stand by that desire until you realize it.Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity. Opportunity has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance. ![]() ![]() “Thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and burning desire.But I pick and choose ideas to include at my discretion. The following book summary is a collection of my notes and highlights taken straight from the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s a narrative on the album that gets progressively darker as it goes on – it begins with a lot of levity and humour, but the turning point comes with ‘Aberdeen’, the spoken-word story. After that, it became clear that the concept would be to try and recreate the experience of being in Kurt’s apartment while he’s sitting there creating over the course of a long summer day in the late ’80s. You had access to hundreds of hours of tapes, much of it never before heard – how did you begin the process of piecing it all together for the album?īrett Morgen: “There was a decision early on that the album would only feature Kurt – no band rehearsals. ![]() Ahead of the record’s release this week (November 13), we spoke with the film’s director Brett Morgen about the songs, the morality of releasing them and the fact that Buzz Osborne – a member of Washington sluggers the Melvins and a close friend to Kurt – labelled the film “90 per cent bullshit”. ‘Montage Of Heck: The Home Recordings’ is officially billed as the film’s soundtrack, but to some, a posthumous collection of unreleased tracks constitutes the closest we’ll ever get to hearing a Kurt solo album. Home video recordings of the singer at home with his wife Courtney Love and their daughter Frances Bean were spliced with animated versions of his paintings, all backed by a cacophonous soundtrack. ![]() ![]() Back in May, Kurt Cobain documentary Montage Of Heck splashed previously unexplored areas of the Nirvana frontman’s life across cinema screens. ![]() |