![]() ![]() In Grene's remarkable translation and commentary, we see the historian as a storyteller, combining through his own narration the skeletal "historical" facts and the imaginative reality toward which his story reaches. In his History, the war between the Greeks and Persians, the origins of their enmity, and all the more general features of the civilizations of the world of his day are seen as a unity and expressed as the vision of one man who as a child lived through the last of the great acts in this universal drama. Here is the historian, investigating and judging what he has seen, heard, and read, and seeking out the true causes and consequences of the great deeds of the past. ![]() David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history. ![]()
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![]() Fablehaven has rules, and breaking any of them could jeopardize Kendra and Seth’s lives-and even the safety of the world. But as the plucky pair puzzles out the path to Fablehaven, they find that all is not sparkles and fairy dust. Kendra and her little brother Seth are about to discover that their grandfather is the caretaker of this mythical realm. ![]() In Brandon Mull’s Fablehaven, magical creatures reside in a single secluded sanctuary, watched over by a caretaker who ensures that the enchanted beings remain within its confines. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, wizards, witches, and fantastic beasts roam the Earth, unobserved by ordinary, non-magical Muggles. Popularity: With the release of book 5, the series reached 4th place on the New York Times best selling children’s series list.Īwards: Book 2 ( Rise of the Evening Star) won the Whitney Award for Best Y/A Children’s Novel in 2007. ![]() ![]() Goodreads score: 4.08 out of 5 (109,941 ratings)Īmazon score: 4.7 out of 5 (1,189 reviews) What to Read After You’ve Read Harry Potter Entry 1: Fablehaven by Brandon Mull ![]() ![]() ![]() The whittling down of racism to sheet-wearing goons allowed a cloud of racial innocence to cover many whites who, although 'resentful of black progress' and determined to ensure that racial inequality remained untouched, could see and project themselves as the 'kind of upstanding white citizen(s)' who were 'positively outraged at the tactics of the Ku Klux Klan". ![]() First and foremost, it was conscience soothing. This simple but wickedly brilliant conceptual and linguistic shift served multiple purposes. Confronted with civil rights headlines depicting unflattering portrayals of KKK rallies and jackbooted sheriffs, white authority transformed those damning images of white supremacy into the sole definition of racism. ![]() “The second key maneuver, which flowed naturally from the first, was to redefine racism itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() But from his first encounter with the mystery patient, things spiral out of control, and, facing a possibility beyond his wildest imaginings, Parker is forced to question everything he thought he knew. Parker, brilliant and overconfident, takes it upon himself to discover what ails this mystery patient and finally cure him. Desperate and fearful, the hospital's directors keep him strictly confined and allow minimal contact with staff for their own safety, convinced that releasing him would unleash catastrophe on the outside world. Every person who has attempted to treat him has been driven to madness or suicide. We learn, as Parker did on his first day at the hospital, of the facility's most difficult, profoundly dangerous case-a forty-year-old man who was originally admitted to the hospital at age six. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient. ![]() In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, chronicles the harrowing account of his time working at a dreary mental hospital in New England. ![]() ![]() The Silent Patient by way of Stephen King: Parker, a young, overconfident psychiatrist new to his job at a mental asylum, miscalculates catastrophically when he undertakes curing a mysterious and profoundly dangerous patient. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is not just the story behind a classic queer book, but of a queer artist who was deeply flawed. However, one of those very affairs and a chance encounter in a department store give Pat the idea for her soon-to-be beloved tale of homosexual love that was the first of its kind-it gave the lesbian protagonists a happy ending. Her brain churns with images of the great novel she could and should be writing-what will eventually be Strangers on a Train- which would later be adapted into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951.Īt the same time, Pat, a lesbian consumed with self-loathing, is in and out of conversion therapy, leaving a trail of sexual conquests and broken hearts in her wake. A drinker, a smoker, and a hater of life, Pat knows she can do better. Flung Out of Space opens with Pat begrudgingly writing low-brow comics. Veteran comics creators Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer have teamed up to tell this story through Highsmith's eyes-reimagining the events that inspired her to write the story that would become a foundational piece of queer literature. ![]() A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Saltįlung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. ![]() ![]() Her heart is torn between worry for her brother and a growing attraction to her companion, and her nights are haunted by a shadowy specter seeking to bring her mission to an untimely end. With each step of her journey she battles foes from the ancient myths of Greece alongside her guide, the enigmatic and flirtatious god Apollo, who has a secret agenda of his own. ![]() In return for her brother’s life, Daphne must find and return mysterious objects stolen from Mount Olympus. Seventeen-year-old Daphne has spent her entire life honing her body into a weapon, her heart and mind into stone, to be accepted by the unyielding people of ancient Sparta. When the goddess Artemis holds Daphne’s brother for ransom, she must leave behind her family, friends and Sparta to travel across the dangerous and unforgiving world of ancient Greece. ![]() I’m including my query letter below (which might be embarrassing someday) because it was, ultimately, successful. First things first, the place to start – once you’ve finished writing and revising your novel, of course – is to start drafting that query letter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Returning home to England from Van Diemens Land, the Bristol Maid is shipwrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs Roxburgh is tak. Urn:oclc:873215234 Republisher_date 20180106110726 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 619 Scandate 20180105144116 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Tts_version v1. Set in Australia in the 1840s, A Fringe of Leaves combines dramatic action with a finely distilled moral vision. Patrick Whites 'A Fringe of Leaves' is exactly that, a historical romance set in Australia in the 1830s, when much of the country was as yet unconquered by its English and Irish settlers, a good number of whom were convicts. ![]() ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:40:54 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1163410 City London Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 14. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Subscribers will also receive access to exclusive giveaways. Sign up for Nicholas's spam-free newsletter to learn more about future releases, how to claim a book patch, special offers, and bonus content. He is an Ironman triathlete and lives in Iowa with his wife, their dogs, and a house full of books. When he isn't writing or daydreaming about the apocalypse, he enjoys running, biking, spending time with his family, and traveling the world. He worked for Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management in disaster planning and mitigation before switching careers to focus on his one true passion-writing. His other work includes the Extinction Cycle series, the Trackers series, and the Orbs series. Nicholas Sansbury Smith is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Hell Divers series. ![]() ![]() Released in early March, the video has already been viewed 8.6 million times. As was the case with Principles, Dalio has produced an animated video that explains key ideas in the book. A history of the rise and fall of empires over the last 500 years, the book uses the past to contemplate the future, particularly the fate of the United States and China. ![]() Finally, he has just published his latest bestseller, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World: Why Nations Succeed and Fail. Next came Big Debt Crises, a study of financial crises and how nations navigate them. It became a bestseller, selling well over one million copies. The first book, Principles: Life and Work, shared the unconventional principles that have guided his life and career. ![]() Over the past five years, Ray Dalio, one of America’s most successful investors, has published a series of books, each meant to impart wisdom to a younger generation. ![]() ![]() ![]() And then consider this, from Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley: Consider Hemingway’s famous ballscratching machismo, as refracted through his obsession with fly-fishing. ![]() ![]() Steinbeck was a better novelist, a better pet owner, and a nicer man. Lots of people seem to like Hemingway, and I expect they have their reasons, but I refuse to entertain them. Like I said, this is based on nothing other than a hunch. My current favourite is this: just as you are either a cat person or a dog person, United or City, Italian or French food: you are either a Hemingway person or a Steinbeck person. It must be a hangover of studying English at university and being forced to provide evidence for all my reckless assertions - now I treat myself to the occasional assertion, the more reckless the better. I like forming theories about literature - particularly theories based on zero evidence. ![]() |