![]() ![]() War Lord concerns the build up to the Battle of Brunanburh in 937AD, and of course the battle itself. Cornwell kept a few secrets up his sleeve. Cornwell’s strength as an author is building a world so realistic, and characters so real, that even armed with the knowledge we have, the suspense never really goes away.Īnd there are surprises in this last book too – a reconciliation and a tragedy in quick succession, swift and cruel and completely necessary. So in a very real way, we readers are like Uhtred’s men we know what is coming, but we are transfixed anyway. Since the very first novel, we have known that he would live to the close he is an old man from that first moment, narrating the story of his life. War Lord is the final triumphant book in the series and it isn’t a spoiler to say that Uhtred ends it sitting victorious in his beloved castle of Bebbanburg. But he could be talking about his own story too, a sly nod to the readers who have stuck with him for 13 volumes of The Last Kingdom series. ![]() The narrator of Bernard Cornwell’s War Lord, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, is talking here about his soldiers sitting around listening to a retelling of the Beowulf story, and still enjoying the tale despite knowing full well what the end will be. ![]() My men knew the story, yet they sat transfixed by its long telling, and there were tears when the end came. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As Elias demonstrates, their reckless treatment of the sea prefigured attitudes that caused the environmental crises that the oceans and reefs now face. ![]() Using the labor and knowledge of indigenous peoples while exoticizing and racializing them as inferior Others, Williamson and Hurley sustained colonial fantasies about people of color and the environment as endless resources to be plundered. In Coral Empire Ann Elias traces the visual and social history of Williamson and Hurley and how their modern media spectacles yoked the tropics and coral reefs to colonialism, racism, and the human domination of nature. In the 1920s John Ernest Williamson in the Bahamas and Frank Hurley in Australia produced mass-circulated and often highly staged photographs and films that cast corals as industrious, colonizing creatures, and the undersea as a virgin, unexplored, and fantastical territory. From vividly colored underwater photographs of Australia's Great Barrier Reef to life-size dioramas re-creating coral reefs and the bounty of life they sustained, the work of early twentieth-century explorers and photographers fed the public's fascination with reefs. ![]() ![]() ![]() As close to new as you can get!Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Bonus: order 2 or more titles in this series & take 10% + only $1.00 extra shipping for each book after the first!. "This Book Belongs To." box is clean & ready for your child's name other pages also unmarked. ![]() Pages off-white, with a whisper of tanning, commensurate with age & paper quality. Softcover book is in Fine condition (our highest grade): nearly as bright & clean as when first issued! Binding straight & strong-feels never opened. ![]() The majority of characters listed here unless noted otherwise have appeared in multiple. This is a list of characters in the original Oz books by American author L. There she meets Tiktok, a wind up mechanical man, a talking chicken, Billina, and Ozma, the girl ruler of Oz who is leading a quest to. Some of the major characters from Baum's first book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) from left to right Tin Woodman, Toto, Dorothy Gale, Cowardly Lion, and Scarecrow. In this book Dorothy is shipwrecked and lands on the shores of a fairy country that adjoins Oz, the land of Ev. published in 1907, this is a trade paperback version from 1980 of one of the "white cover" reprints first issued in the late 1950s-1960s, which retains the original cover art & internal illustrations in pen-and-ink throughout the 258 pages. Frank Baum (1856 - 1919) Ozma of Oz was the third title in the Oz series by L. From a single little girl's collection from long ago, this is the 3rd book in the original Oz series written by Baum & illustrated by John Neill. ![]() ![]() ![]() Johanna Spyri’s classic story of a Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city. Johanna Spyri was a Swiss author of childrens stories, best known for Heidi. ![]() Heidi Gains in Some Respects and Loses in Others ![]() She was born in Switzerland in 1829, came of a literary family, and devoted all her talent to the writing of books for and about children. The Master of the House Hears of Strange Doings As to the author, Johanna Spyri, she has so entirely lost herself in her creation that we may pass over her career rather rapidly. Es gilt als umfassendste Sammlung der Zürcher Autorin und enthält abgesehen von ihrem literarischen Werk mehr als 1000 handschriftliche Dokumente sowie persönliche Erinnerungsgegenstände, Fotos, Originalillustrationen und eine umfangreiche Sammlung. Miss Rottenmeier Has an Uncomfortable Day Das Johanna Spyri-Archiv wurde von der Johanna Spyri-Stiftung seit 1968 aufgebaut. #46409 (Illustrations in B & W and color) Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook: ![]() ![]() For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. However, over time, I grew increasingly worried about how things were behind the scenes and how people, including myself, were being treated,” he said. “I genuinely loved and valued working there. In his statement on Sunday, Singh, who worked on This Morning for 10 years, said he became “increasingly worried” about working conditions. ![]() “This is a happy place to work, I enjoy coming in here and have done since I began coming in. The former Conservative MP Gyles Brandreth, who was on the show reviewing the day’s news stories, said he was “very happy to be here”. Hammond added: “We really do, and that’s exactly what we are going to do, we are going to continue to do that.” He said: “We all know we happen to be in the news at the moment and of course we appreciate that but just from both of us, the whole team here, the crew, the guys downstairs, we love making this show for all of you.” ![]() Dermot O’Leary, who has been presenting the show with Alison Hammond since Schofield stepped down on 20 May, acknowledged the fallout. ![]() ![]() Rumored to be the heir, Grey has been on the run since he destroyed Lilith. Although Rhen has Harper by his side, his guardsman Grey is missing, leaving more questions than answers. Rumors circulate that he is not the true heir and that forbidden magic has been unleashed in Emberfall. The curse is finally broken, but Prince Rhen of Emberfall faces darker troubles still. ![]() ![]() Synopsis: In the sequel to New York Times bestselling A Curse So Dark and Lonely, Brigid Kemmerer returns to the world of Emberfall in a lush fantasy where friends become foes and love blooms in the darkest of places. ![]() Title: A Heart So Fierce and Broken (Cursebreakers #2), Author: Brigid Kemmerer, Publisher: Bloomsbury YA, Publish Date: JanuGenres + Tags: Young Adult, YA, Fantasy, Fairy Tale, Retellings, Romance, Beauty and the Beast, A Curse So Dark and Lonely ![]() ![]() ![]() A related film, Alex Haley's Queen, is based on the life of Queen Jackson Haley, who was Alex Haley's paternal grandmother. ![]() Ī sequel, Roots: The Next Generations, first aired in 1979, and a second sequel, Roots: The Gift, a Christmas television film, starring LeVar Burton and Louis Gossett Jr., first aired in 1988. It was produced on a budget of $6.6 million. It received unprecedented Nielsen ratings for the finale, which holds the record as the third-highest-rated episode for any type of television series, and the second-most-watched overall series finale in U.S. It also won a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award. Roots received 37 Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won nine. The series first aired on ABC in January 1977. Roots is an American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, set during and after the era of slavery in the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() This was the height of Marvin’s worst behavior. Scowler is told in alternating time lines, beginning in those couple of days in 1981 and then flashing back to 19. Marvin was the picture of an abusive husband and abusive father. Marvin didn’t want anyone thinking that he wasn’t being a good enough farmer that he had to employ his wife in another job to make ends meet. Ry’s mother Jo Beth was one subject of Marvin’s need for power: she wasn’t allowed to sew or mend clothing, despite having a talent for it. He watched over all of them, in fact, with the kind of eyes and hands a man dying for control and power did. ![]() When Ry’s father was there, he made sure the place was thriving. Nineteen-year-old Ry’s little sister lost one of her teeth and neither of them can find it lying anywhere on their dead family farm.īut the farm wasn’t always dead. Oh, also there’s the possibility of large meteorites falling to the earth ( does this sound eerie or what?). The kind of scenes that involved putting the book down mid-scene so I could collect myself before soldiering on. This book is brutal and depicts some of the most horrific scenes I’ve ever read. It is not, and I repeat myself here, it is not for the weak stomached or weak of heart. If you’re a fan of horror - the kind of horror that doesn’t come from specters or werewolves or other creatures outside the world as we know it - then you will want to pick this book up. So Scowler was my first Daniel Kraus book. ![]() ![]() ![]() The bulk of the texts are model letters, organized by theme and supplemented with guides to grammar, spelling, pronunciation, and style, as well as how to write cards of compliment or address the President of the United States (“His Excellency the President of the United States,” if you’re curious). Universal letter-writers were guidebooks meant to teach young men and women the art of writing and speaking fluently on a variety of subjects. But if these doomed affairs don’t quite inspire you to set pen to page, perhaps you should try another source-our universal letter-writers. The words of famous besotted correspondents fill our shelves-the Rare Book Division alone holds printed copies of love letters from Henry VIII, John Keats, and Mary, Queen of Scots (assuming those casket letters weren’t forged). At its heart-pun intended-Valentine’s Day is about letting loved ones know you care about them. ![]() ![]() ![]() The heart is an organ of fire and oftentimes the fire persists in its burning, even when the torchbearer left what seems like lifetimes ago. ![]() With a strength equal to works such as The English Patient and Love in the Time of Cholera, The History of Love depicts the pain and beauty that comes with loving someone who is no longer yours to love. I don't remember the last time a novel compelled me to read it as fiercely as Krauss' lovely gem of a book. ![]() More realistic, but still a little bit forced I thought.Ī very good book that I wish I read with a book club. The literary equivalent of "Lost" to some degree. I am all for having the reader do some work and for assuming.g the reader is smart, but oddly I didn't feel quite smart enough! Maybe bringing this one to the beach wasn't my best idea. I didn't feel as clear on some of the plot points at the end as I wanted to be frankly. It created suspense (good), but really makes you work. ![]() The plot, for me, was just a little too convoluted. her telling details are original and fresh, and I found myself engaged by each one. I love how Krause draws the various characters. The History of Love is the complex tale of the manuscript's impact on the lives of Leo, his former love, his son, and the namesake of his leading character. An older immigrant man, Leo, writes a book in his youth, on the cusp of WWII, that is an ode to his love for Alma. ![]() |