![]() Eden soon finds himself drawn so far into Ross City's dark side, even his legendary brother can't save him. All that matters to him now is keeping Eden safe-even if that also means giving up June, the great love of Daniel's life.Īs the two brothers struggle to accept who they've each become since their time in the Republic, a new danger creeps into the distance that's grown between them. These days he'd rather hide out from the world and leave his past behind. Tahereh Mafi, bestselling author of the Shatter Me series Respect the Legend. Entertainment Weekly A masterful feat written by a powerhouse author. ![]() But Day is no longer the same young man who was once a national hero. Rebel A Legend Novel Marie Lu Download the eBook for 2.99 An epic, romantic saga. Even though he's a top student at his academy in Ross City, Antarctica, and a brilliant inventor, most people know him only as Daniel Wing's little brother.Ī decade ago, Daniel was known as Day, the boy from the streets who led a revolution that saved the Republic of America. With unmatched suspense and her signature cinematic storytelling, #1 New York Times–bestselling author Marie Lu plunges readers back into the unforgettable world of Legend for a truly grand finale.Įden Wing has been living in his brother's shadow for years. "The plot is fast paced, the narrators are engaging, and the story is an excellent addition to Lu's popular dystopian works." - AudioFile Magazine ![]()
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![]() Pufahl does what great stylists do: she snatches back experience from the general world, making it sing in all its particularity. There’s a boldness of diction and imagery, a stateliness of voice and rhythm, that resembles less the product of an MFA workshop than the cadences of the King James Bible. On Swift Horses is a debut of astonishing power: a story of love and luck, of two people trying to find their place in a country that is coming apart even as it promises them everything.Ī dramatic story set in a dramatic period of national history. ![]() When Henry is eventually discovered and run out of town, Julius takes off to search for him in the plazas and dives of Tijuana, trading one city of dangerous illusions for another. Meanwhile, Julius is testing his fate in Las Vegas, working at a local casino where tourists watch atomic tests from the roof, and falling in love with Henry, a young card cheat. And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar racetrack to bet and eavesdrop, learning the language of horses and risk. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking mother, dead before Muriel's nineteenth birthday, and her sly, itinerant brother-in-law, Julius, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined. Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() but ultimately this is a tale of friendship and belonging. Doors are left open for a sequel, and readers will be eager to see where they lead." - Booklist, This updated take on The Prince and the Pauper is enhanced by the lightest touch of magical realism. An engaging boarding school story." - School Library Journal "This updated take on The Prince and the Pauper is enhanced by the lightest touch of magical realism. ![]() ![]() Cinderella meets Mean Girls while at Hogwarts." - Kirkus Reviews "With a message of kindness, YouTube star Glynn's middle grade debut, a series opener, is a story of devoted friendship and fierce loyalty that is sure to win readers over." - Publishers Weekly "This first in a series is a quick read with hints of light romance. Cinderella meets Mean Girls while at Hogwarts.", Praise for Undercover Princess: "YouTube personality Glynn takes this wish-fulfillment premise and spins it with all the subtlety of cotton candy. Praise for Undercover Princess: "YouTube personality Glynn takes this wish-fulfillment premise and spins it with all the subtlety of cotton candy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yourcenar first thought of the idea for the book between 19. This intrigued her for what she saw as parallels to her own post-war European world. ![]() Yourcenar noted in her postscript "Carnet de note" to the original edition, quoting Flaubert, that she had chosen Hadrian as the subject of the novel in part because he had lived at a time when the Roman gods were no longer believed in, but Christianity was not yet established. The emperor meditates on military triumphs, love of poetry and music, philosophy, and his passion for his lover Antinous, all in a manner similar to Gustave Flaubert's "melancholy of the antique world." ![]() The book takes the form of a letter to Hadrian's adoptive grandson and eventual successor "Mark" ( Marcus Aurelius). Although the historical Hadrian wrote an autobiography, it has been lost. First published in France in French in 1951 as Mémoires d'Hadrien, the book was an immediate success, meeting with enormous critical acclaim. Memoirs of Hadrian (French: Mémoires d'Hadrien) is a novel by the Belgian-born French writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. ![]() ![]() And I am legendary tennis player John McEnroe.” Beat. “She’s a 15-year-old Indian-American girl from Sherman Oaks, California, and it’s her first day of sophomore year. “This is Devi Vishwakumar,” McEnroe blares in the pilot, which he has submitted for the Emmys for Best Narrator. SEE 2020 Emmy nominations ballot: 767 programs vie for your consideration (that is 35 more than last year) The 61-year-old ran into Kaling at a Vanity Fair Oscar party, where she pitched him the show. Deeds” (2002), Andy Samberg‘s tennis mockumentary “7 Days in Hell,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” and has made numerous visits to “30 Rock,” on which he headlined Kabletown shows “Gold Case,” “America’s Kidz Got Singing” and “Celebrity Homonym.” Those mostly amount to cameos this is different. McEnroe, who works as a commentator for ESPN and the BBC, is no stranger to pop culture in his post-tennis life. ![]() ![]() It ends with the battle for democracy on the city's streets and the ultimate victory of the Chinese Communist Party. The story sweeps the reader from the earliest days of trade through the Opium Wars of the 19th century to the age of globalisation and the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China. The rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule are told with unique insight in this new history by Michael Sheridan, drawing on eyewitness reporting over three decades, interviews with key figures and documents from archives in China and the West. 'Gripping and richly researched' Rana MitterĪ superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. ![]() ![]() 'An authoritative history' Financial Times ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Īlexandre Dumas was born July 24, 1802, at Villiers-Cotterets, France, the son of Napoleon's famous mulatto general, Dumas. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Together they strive heroically to defend the honor of their queen against the powerful Cardinal Richelieu and the seductive spy Milady.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Before long he finds treachery and court intrigue-and also three boon companions: the daring swordsmen Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Now in a bracing new translation, this swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of d'Artagnan, a brash young man from the countryside who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to become a musketeer and guard to King Louis XIII. The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas's historical novels and one of the most popular adventure stories ever written. ![]() A major new translation of one of the most enduring works of literature, from the award- winning, bestselling co-translator of Anna Karenina-with a spectacular, specially illustrated cover ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘The Yellow Wallpaper is a feminist text, but by writing it in the form of almost a horror story Gilman brings to light how horrifying male oppression can be and the devastating effect it can cause and serves as a reminder for this. ![]() In a work of fiction, the main character, or heroine, personifies the social struggle against the patriarchy. For a text to be a feminist text it must be written by a woman, and it will point out deficiencies in society regarding equal opportunity, and the reader will typically be aware of this motive in the text. Early readers read the story as a shocking horror and it wasn’t until the rediscovery of ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ in the early 1970s that it was appreciated as an indictment of Victorian patriarchy. It follows a woman’s deterioration at the hands of her husband’s prescription of the ‘rest cure’ which is ultimately detrimental to her recovery. The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story published by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892 and has since been described as ‘An American Feminist classic’ (Lanser). ![]() ![]() ![]() Their foolish destruction of the island’s resources will resonate with contemporary readers, but she refuses to reduce these characters to symbols of modern exigencies…The effect is transporting, sometimes unsettling and eventually shocking.” - Ron Charles, The Washington Post What is Divine Grace? Purity of soul? Virtue? Not what they think.” - creates an eerie, meditative atmosphere that should resonate with anyone willing to think deeply about the blessings and costs of devoting one’s life to a transcendent cause…Donoghue works subtly in the margins, letting these three men evolve into their distinct roles. ![]() ![]() ![]() #EmmaDonoghue (ROOM) combines pressure-cooker intensity + radical isolation, to stunning effect. In 7th C, #Ireland, three men set sail to a bird-thick island to find God. Haven is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best."- Maggie O’Farrell, author of Hamnet It is everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. "This book kept me up half the night-I was unable to put it down, and read it in one spellbound gulp. ![]() ![]() In 1956, Sendak published his first “solo” book, Kerry’s Window. Singer‘s collection Zlateh the Goat, a retelling of Eastern European Jewish folktales. Sendak drew pictures for children’s books for most of the 1950s, notably illustrating I.B. Following a 1951 meeting with an editor at Harper, he illustrated his first picture book, and soon became a popular and in-demand illustrator of other people’s books–most famously the Little Bear series. Sendak’s first professional commissions, in the late 1940s, included contributing illustrations to a textbook, Atomics for the Millions, and creating window displays for the toy store F.A.O. It is most frequently seen in his costumes and scenery, and in his nonlinear storytelling with Yiddish-specked sentences. He later drew on these childhood stories for his source material, and in much of his work there is a shadow of old Eastern European shtetl life. ![]() Listening to these stories, his father’s “old country” became, for young Maurice, a mythical place, both adored and feared. Early in life, he developed health problems and was forced to remain in bed for much of his youth, accompanied only by books, his own imagination, and his father’s stories. ![]() ![]() The child of Polish, Jewish immigrants, Sendak was born in Brooklyn in 1928. ![]() Photo courtesy of Spike55151 Brooklyn Born ![]() |