In the collection, humorist Dave Barry writes about Robert Benchley’s Inside Benchley actress Catherine Oxenberg writes about Bryce Courtenay’s The Power of One craigslist’s Craig Newmark writes about The Cluetrain Manifesto activist Doris “Granny D” Haddock writes about Peace Pilgrim musician Kenny Loggins writes about Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha congresswoman Lois Capps writes about Jeffrey Sachs’s The End of Povery. I was pleased to learn recently that Vagabonding is included among the influential books mentioned in the newly released You’ve GOT to Read This Book!: 55 People Tell the Story of the Book That Changed Their Life.Įdited by Chicken Soup for the Soul guru Jack Canfield, You’ve Got to Read This Book! explores the potential books have to change people’s lives.
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Can Atalanta carve out her own legendary place in a world of men, while staying true to her heart?įull of joy, passion, and adventure, Atalanta is the story of a woman who refuses to be contained. As she is swept into a passionate affair, in defiance of Artemis's warning, she begins to question the goddess's true intentions. The Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece is filled with impossible challenges, but Atalanta proves herself equal to the men she fights alongside. When Artemis offers her the chance to fight in her name alongside the Argonauts, the fiercest band of warriors the world has ever seen, Atalanta seizes it. Raised by a mother bear under the protective eye of the goddess Artemis, Atalanta grows up wild and free, with just one condition: if she marries, Artemis warns, it will be her undoing.Īlthough she loves her beautiful forest home, Atalanta yearns for adventure. When Princess Atalanta is born, a daughter rather than the son her parents hoped for, she is left on a mountainside to die. From the beloved, bestselling author of Elektra and Ariadne, a reimagining of the myth of Atalanta, a fierce huntress raised by bears and the only woman in the world’s most famous band of heroes, the Argonauts One of the two guests was a 49-year-old spinster, Frances Garnett-Orme. Anyone consuming the crystallised grains of strychnine without shaking the contents ran the risk of instant cyanosis and asphyxiation. The convulsions were of a violence terrible to behold … A final lifted her from the bed, until she appeared to rest upon her head and her heels, with her body arched in an extraordinary manner.ĭuring her nursing-tenure at the Torquay War Hospital, at the time of the Great War, Christie had learned a great deal about chemicals, and conceived fabled prescription that led to Inglethorp’s death.Īccordingly, a mixture of potassium bromide added to strychnine sulfate left a precipitate of the free alkali to crystallise at the bottom of the container. Inglethorp’s death was not so different from any of Cream’s victims. Allegedly, his last words were, “I am Jack the…” Cream was executed in 1892 for the serial-strychnine-murders of women in Canada and Britain. Strychnine acquired early celebrity in the hands of Dr Thomas Neill Cream. Jack the Ripper suspect Dr Thomas Neill Cream. Īn enhanced ebook edition was released by Open Road Media in 2011, adding embedded video and hyperlinked notes. The book covers chaos theory under the lens of four themes: sensitive dependence on initial conditions, self-similarity, universality, and nonlinearity. The book approaches the history of chaos theory chronologically, starting with Edward Norton Lorenz and the butterfly effect, through Mitchell Feigenbaum, and ending with more modern applications. The text remains in print and is widely used as an introduction to the topic for the mathematical layperson. It portrays the efforts of dozens of scientists whose separate work contributed to the developing field. It describes the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets, and Lorenz attractors without using complicated mathematics. The book was published on Octoby Viking Books.Ĭhaos: Making a New Science was the first popular book about chaos theory. It was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, and was shortlisted for the Science Book Prize in 1989. Chaos: Making a New Science is a debut non-fiction book by James Gleick that initially introduced the principles and early development of the chaos theory to the public. And, we get hints that she's not entirely happy as her hometown's sheriff. We know she is fiercely protective of her two best friends, women more like sisters. We know she's a woman haunted by her father's death, ruled accidental, which Jo is convinced was murder. I've been waiting for Jo's story since she walked onto the page in the first book of the trilogy, Doing it Over and Bybee did not disappoint. With heart-tugging romance, chemistry off the charts, fully fleshed characters, and a mystery filled with twists and turns that kept me guessing until the very end, this book is a worthy conclusion to Bybee's wonderful Most Likely To series. Making it Right is another stand-out novel from an author who has become one of my contemporary favorites. But can Jo loosen her grip on the past enough to let love in and reach As Jo and Gill work together, it’s clear they make a great The brilliant thief Eugenides has visited the Queen of Attolia's palace one too many times, leaving small tokens and then departing unseen. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Marie Lu, Patrick Rothfuss, and George R. Megan Whalen Turner's Queen's Thief novels are rich with political machinations and intrigue, battles lost and won, dangerous journeys, divine intervention, power, passion, revenge, and deception. New York Times -bestselling author Megan Whalen Turner's entrancing and award-winning Queen's Thief novels bring to life the world of the epics and feature one of the most charismatic and incorrigible characters of fiction, Eugenides the thief. The epic novels set in the world of the Queen's Thief can be read in any order. Discover and rediscover the world of the Queen's Thief, from the acclaimed novel The Thief to the thrilling, twenty-years-in-the-making conclusion, The Return of the Thief. Avallone created an often loopy fiction that transcended the niceties of grammar, logic, realism, or common sense. He crowned himself “The Fastest Typewriter in the East,” a sobriquet that unfortunately brought to mind the old punch line, “That’s not writing, that’s typing.” High-speed key pounding and concomitant facile imagination were both Avallone’s great asset and his handicap. (1924-1999) Also wrote as: Nick Carter, Troy Conway, Priscilla Dalton, Dorothea Nile, Edwina Noone, Vance Stanton, Sidney StuartĪvallone published hundreds of paperback originals in his long and bumpy career, everything from a hard-boiled detective series to assorted gothics, spy stories, nurse novels, erotica, juveniles, horror stories, science fiction, a driving manual for teenagers, movie trivia quiz topics, and novelizations of such movies as Shock Corridor and A Bullet for Pretty Boy and such television shows as The Man from U.N.C.L.E, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Hawaii Five-O, Mannix, and The Felony Squad-all of it turned out at white-hot speed, in some cases in less than a week. To defeat an occult foe, Petra must release the power she’s been concealing for so long, or risk damning a war-torn world to ashes. Not before she discovers her husband’s fate and the myriad ways her magic is manifesting. So are the secrets among her fellow witches. Photographing the escalating horrors is beyond anything Petra imagined. Petra’s unique abilities will be needed against the most dangerous enemies of all-those ever present, undead, and unseen.ĭeep in the cursed Carpathian Mountains, the ragtag team meets with an emissary of an ancient organization founded to maintain balance between worlds. He’s recruiting a team of sorcerers to infiltrate the front lines, where the bloodshed of combat has resurrected foul creatures. Her supernatural skills don’t go unnoticed by the enigmatic Josef Svoboda. A born witch, she’s discovered that she can capture the souls of the dead on film. In Victorian England a witch and a detective are on the hunt for a serial killer in an enthralling novel of magic and murder by the Amazon Charts and. But as their secret is slowly unveiled, a dangerous mystery emerges on the darkened streets of London. With her husband off fighting at World War I’s eastern front, Petra Kurková embraces her fleeting freedom, roaming the city at night with her camera. McGahern ( The Dark The Pornographer ) has crafted a wise and tender novel whose brooding hero seems emblematic of an Ireland that drives away its sons and daughters. Moran also claims a renegade son in London who is ``turning himself into a sort of Englishman,'' and another son driven away by Moran's threats of beatings. Moran's second wife, Rose, much younger than he, displays saintly patience in her attempts to heal this splintering family. Yearning for approval but fearing his flare-ups, they periodically beat a path back to the farmhouse from London and Dublin, then take flight again, both proud and dependent. 9.99 Quantity: 1 Add to Basket Join Faber Members for 10 off your first order. Amongst Women (1998) MUBI Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema. Gruff, blustering Michael Moran, former guerrilla hero in the Irish War of Independence, is a man ``in permanent opposition.'' Now a farmer, he vents his compulsion to dominate, his cold fury and sense of betrayal on his three teenage daughters. Amongst Women (Faber Modern Classics Edition) John McGahern A reissue of John McGahern’s novel as part of the Faber Modern Classics list. A lyric lament for Ireland, McGahern's lovingly observed family drama is dominated by an almost pathetic paterfamilias. Amongst Women by John McGahern In this, McGahern’s finest novel, Michael Moran (perhaps partially based on the author’s father) an ageing, grudge-bearing IRA vet, is a devout Catholic and well. The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney fueled the economy of Southern cotton plantations and increased the need for slave labor. It developed into an economic necessity for an economy based on plantation crops. Slavery began in the United States in the 1600s and quickly became widespread, especially in the South. Taylor herself heard stories from parents and relatives about the former-slaves in her family and used those stories as inspiration for her novel. Her grandmother, Big Ma, tells stories about Cassie's grandfather, Paul Edward, who was born a slave two years before the Civil War. Mildred Taylor's own ancestors were slaves in the state of Mississippi, as were the ancestors of the novel's protagonist, ten-year-old Cassie Logan. Mildred Taylor wrote Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry in the 1970s, at the height of the Black Power movement and at the beginning of an increasing presence of African-American history in education. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry represents a South in which racist sentiments had tangible effects in the form of segregation, lynch mobs, and unfair distribution of resources. The book itself takes place in 1933, during the Great Depression. The injustices portrayed in the book have their roots in the era of slavery which lasted until the Civil War and which, shamefully, continues to influence racial conduct in America in the 1930s and today. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a product of three different eras of black history. |