The Guns of August is not only the most famous book written about World War I, it is one of the most famous history books on any topic whatsoever. After the first thirty days of war in 1914, there was a premonition that little glory lay ahead…”įirst, there is nothing left to be said about Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August. It did not shout ‘Forward!’ or summon men to glory. In the present circumstances no failure will be tolerated.’ That was all the time for splendor was past. A unit which finds it impossible to advance must, regardless of cost, hold its ground and be killed on the spot rather than fall back. Every effort must be made to attack and throw back the enemy. Ordinarily the French language, especially in public pronouncements, requires an effort if it is not to sound splendid, but this time the words were flat, almost tired the message hard and uncompromising: ‘Now, as the battle is joined on which the safety of the country depends, everyone must be reminded that this is no longer the time for looking back. “ signed the order that would be read to the troops when the bugles blew next morning.
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She used to sit second from the front, next to Rhiannon, but after they broke friends, she moved next to Susan, and the girls had to move their desk next to Mrs Horsefield's.įloss is a young girl with very curly whitish-blonde hair, fair skin and blue eyes. She also has an unrelated "Auntie" called Rose, who runs a candyfloss stall at the local fair. On weekends, and for the main part of the book, she lives with her dad, Charlie, above his Cafe, Harlie's Cafe (the C fell off). She lives (on weekdays) with her mum, her stepdad Steve, and her toddler half-brother Tim (mainly known as Tiger). Her mum and Steve had a baby, Tiger.Īt some point, The Apple Café became Charlie's Café.įlora, known as Floss is 11 years old, and is the main character in Candyfloss. However, her mum later met a man called Steve, and divorced her dad. Floss lived in a flat above The Apple Café, the café that her dad owned, alongside her mum. Escobar’s literary-themed silhouettes, reminiscent of Arthur Rackham’s, add whimsical flourishes, although the few full-page illustrations do little. Inquisitive and intelligent, Tilly is exceptional among bookwanderers: Some of the rules don’t apply to her, but why? Tilly’s literary adventures thrill, and Anne’s characterization in particular is pleasingly congruent with the original character. Visits to Avonlea and the famously wacky Wonderland tea party lead Tilly to the truth: She comes from a family of bookwanderers, people who use the “natural magic of books” to travel inside works of literature and bring characters into the real world. The school holidays stretch out before her, and Tilly wants some excitement, but, as she laments, “No one has proper adventures in real life.” Tilly gets the adventure of a lifetime when Anne Shirley and Alice, her favorite book characters, appear in the shop. The 11-year-old bibliophile has been raised by her maternal grandparents, proprietors of Pages & Co., a cozy north London bookshop. Matilda Pages’ mother disappeared without a trace when she was a baby, and her father died before she was born. This debut is the first in a new series about an English girl with a special ability. In the Wake of the Bounty (Chauvel) (as Fletcher Christian) 1935 1934-given contract by Warners, moved to Hollywood 1935-became star for Warners in Captain Blood 1951-produced The Bargain 1952-broke Warners contract 1954-formed Errol Flynn Enterprises production company 1956-TV debut in Playhouse 90 1957–58-host of TV series The Errol Flynn Theater ( Goodyear Theater) 1958-in play The Master of Thornfield in Detroit and Cincinnati. Erben's New Guinea Expedition) 1930-bought schooner Sirocco, wrote articles for Sydney Bulletin 1933-first film role in Australian semi-documentary In the Wake of the Bounty studied acting in England, joined Northampton Repertory Co. Career: 1926-clerk for Sydney shipping company 1927-government cadet in New Guinea worked on copra plantation gold miner in New Guinea, and guide for documentary filmmakers in New Guinea (film released 1932 as Dr. Family: Married 1) the actress Lili Damita, 1935 (divorced 1942) 2) Nora Eddington, 1943 (divorced 1949) 3) the actress Patrice Wymore, 1950 (separated 1957), children: Sean, Deirdre, Rory, and Annella Roma. Education: Attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School Northshire School, Sydney South London College at Barnes (expelled). Born: Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 20 June 1909 became U.S. In 2011, Lahiri moved to Rome, Italy and has since then published two books of essays, and in 2018, published her first novel in Italian called Dove mi trovo and also compiled, edited and translated the Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories which consists of 40 Italian short stories written by 40 different Italian writers. On January 22, 2015, Lahiri won the US$50,000 DSC Prize for Literature for The Lowland In these works, Lahiri explored the Indian-immigrant experience in America. Unaccustomed Earth (2008) won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, while her second novel, The Lowland (2013), was a finalist for both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction. The Namesake was a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and was made into a major motion picture. Her debut collection of short-stories Interpreter of Maladies (1999) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name. Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri (born July 11, 1967) is an American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and more recently, in Italian. 2021 Dottorato Ad Honorem, University of Bologna. In that same year, he wrote and published his autobiography, the Narrative of William W. For the next nine years, Brown worked aboard a Lake Erie steamboat while concurrently acting as an Underground Railroad conductor in Buffalo, New York.Įmbarking on a career as a lecturing agent for the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society in 1843, Brown eventually moved to Boston in 1847, where he began his impressive literary career. Aided in his flight from Ohio into Canada by the Quaker Wells Brown, William adopted the man's names out of gratitude and admiration. After at least two failed attempts, Brown did escape slavery on New Year's Day, 1834. William worked as a house servant and field slave and was hired out as an assistant to a tavern keeper, a printer, and the slave trader James Walker, who voyaged extensively, traveling to and from the New Orleans slave market on the Mississippi River. Louis, Missouri until the age of twenty, Brown was exposed to and experienced slavery amid remarkably wide-ranging conditions. Born on a plantation near Lexington, Kentucky, in 1814, William Wells Brown was the son of a white man and an enslaved woman. Gina Detwiler is a mom of three and the author of the Forlorn series, novels about spiritual warfare for teens and young adults. And that is what first drove Priscilla to dream up this fictional story about the very un-fictional topic of spiritual warfare-to help raise up a new generation of Prince Warriors under her roof. Because who has time to check such things while raising three rapidly growing sons? When she and Jerry, her husband of twenty-two years, are not busy leading Going Beyond Ministries, they spend most of their time cleaning up after and trying to satisfy the appetites of these guys. Priscilla Shirer is a homemade cinnamon-roll baker, Bible teacher, and bestselling author who didn’t know her books ( The Resolution for Women and Fervent) were on The New York Times Best Seller list until somebody else told her. Special care has been taken with the language and content of The Final Warning. In the spirit of the most enduring hit movies and books, James Patterson has written this story for readers from ten to a hundred and ten. THE FINAL WARNING is an unrelenting new adventure from the writer Time magazine has called "The Man Who Can't Miss." f Maximum Ride 4 - The Final Warning f Maximum Ride 4 - The Final Warning Maximum Ride 4 - The Final Warning By Patterson, James To the reader: THE IDEA FOR the Maximum Ride series comes from earlier books of mine called When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which also feature a character named Max who escapes from a quite despicable School. Maximum Ride is James Patterson's greatest character, a heroine who manages to be human and fearless at once. For whoever controls her powers could also control the world. The expedition seems like a perfect combination of adventure, activism-and escaping government forces who watch the Flock like a hawk.īut even in Antarctica, trapped in the harshest weather on our planet, Maximum Ride is an irresistible target in constant danger. Max and the other members of the Flock-six kids who share her remarkable ability-have been asked to aid a group of environmental scientists studying the causes of global warming. Maximum Ride is a perfectly normal teenager who just happens to be able to fly, the result of an out-of-control government experiment. In this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just to capture her-and maybe save the planet while she's at it. Who the hell proposed marriage because they were being sensible? And he’d made it sound as if the primary motivation had been the approval of his mother and his kid sister? She was by no means a hopeless romantic, but wasn’t that taking filial duty a bit too far? And not just because Carter’s description of the engagement was in sharp contrast to the wildly romantic whirlwind of love and devotion Marnie had described. My mother and Marnie needed stability and they were both in favour of the match.’ And it was the right thing to do after my father died. When had she ever been that romantic? That naïve? To believe that anyone was worth that much of a commitment? Ouldn’t help feeling a little sick to her stomach. And why ever not? You were the same age as Marnie is now and yet you were mature enough to decide you were going to love your childhood sweetheart for the rest of your life.’ She said the words with conviction, but c ‘It’s not the same thing,’ he said, seeing the trap too late. ‘And how old were you when you got engaged?’ she asked, although she already knew the answer, because Marnie had talked about her big brother’s insanely romantic engagement to her best friend, Missy, incessantly when she’d first arrived at the house. The frown deepened, as if he were looking for the trap. Condition of book and jacket consistent with being new and not read. Dust jacket is now in protective mylar cover. Jacket is also in "As New" condition and nearly pristine: it is perfectly clean no tears, folds or fading no bumps on corners or edges very slight creases at head and heel of spine slightly raised letters of author's name and title on front panel and spine are evident (they have not been crushed) publisher's original price of "$27.99 U.S." listed on the upper right corner of front flap. No distortion of the book from reading or improper shelving pages are tight and clean with no marks. Paper is very lightly toned and is very flexible. The interior is completely free of writing, stray marks, stains of any sort and page damage of any type. The book is in "As New" condition and nearly pristine: the exterior is square, spotlessly clean, corners and edges free of bumps and dings, head and heel of spine lightly pushed in hinges are very tight and not damaged in any fashion. 9-1/4" tall, 336 numbered pages followed by an unnumbered page of` "Acknowledgements" plain gray boards with black quarter binding, silver lettering on spine, front board is plain plain ivory end pages fore edge is trimmed. Stated "First Scout Press hardcover edition August 2019", first printing with a full number line starting at "1". Scout Press / Simon & Schuster, 2019, New York. |