5/22/2023 0 Comments Cara black three hours in parisThree Hours in Paris isn’t just any old formulaic 'Get out!' tale. *Features an illustrated map of 1940s Paris as full color endpapers.Ī Wall Street Journal Best Mystery of 2020Ī Washington Post Best Thriller and Mystery Book of 2020įinalist for the 2020 Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary ExcellenceĪn Amazon Best of the Month Pick for April 2020Ī Barnes and Noble Monthly Pick for April 2021 New York Times bestselling author Cara Black is at her best as she brings Occupation-era France to vivid life in this masterful, pulse-pounding story about one young woman with the temerity-and drive-to take on Hitler himself. When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, Kate is on the run for her life-all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up. Thrust into the red-hot center of the war, a country girl from rural Oregon finds herself holding the fate of the world in her hands. But other than rushed and rudimentary instruction, she has no formal spy training. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed with a rifle, a vendetta, and a fierce resolve. Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Führer. In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light-abruptly leaving, never to return.
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At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics. Published by The First Edition Library Near Fine Condition. Book has light shelfwear along bottom edge of spine. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. The Grapes Of Wrath First Edition Reprint by John Steinbeck (Hardcover - 1939/1967) Description: Facsimile of the first edition with slipcase. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized-and sometimes outraged-millions of readers.įirst published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads-driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. 5/21/2023 0 Comments The gormenghast trilogy reviewGormenghast is an ancient kingdom that must be located somewhere in Europe, since it is populated with Europeans. In 4 - 1 hour parts, being from the BBC they're really close to a whole hour as opposed to the usual 45 minute network episodes. This BBC mini-series is actually a combination of the books Titus Groan and Gormenghast. The casting is excellent, the special effects are fine and direction by Andy Wilson is assured. It's perhaps best that this ended up as a TV drama: The plot and scale of the original material is far too dense to do justice in a two hour movie. At one point, Sting owned the rights to the books and was planning to star in a movie version - he settled for playing Steerpike in an adaptation from 1984. With an impressive cast including Celia Imrie, John Sessions, Warren Mitchell and Jonathan Rhys Myers, the BBC have ensured that Mervyn Peake's classic tale of murder, seduction and tragic events striking the family of a crumbling castle is a faithful version of a literary classic. Gormenghast spent five years in production and it seems like all the hard work was worth the wait. This looks like being the year of big budget gothic adventure (all featuring Christopher Lee) with Sleepy Hollow packing them in at multiplexes around Britain and The Lord of the Rings trilogy currently shooting in New Zealand - not to mention this lavish mini-series which is one of the biggest fantasy productions ever staged on British TV. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Bone gap by laura ruby summaryPetey is the local beekeeper’s daughter, who people find unattractive and, strangely, bee-like in appearance. Finn begins riding the horse (bareback) every night, eventually finding his way to Petey Willis’s place. Going out to investigate, he finds a beautiful black mare and ten bales of hay. One night, Finn hears something in the barn. Sean, who had fallen in love with Roza before her disappearance, thinks she may have left-Sean and Finn have grown used to people disappearing from their lives. It doesn’t help that Roza’s disappearance is only matched in terms of mystery by her appearance, when she appears one morning in their barn. No one has ever put much stock in Finn, who they call “Moonface (p. On top of all of this, Roza-the beautiful young Polish lady that has been staying with them-was taken by force, and no one believes him. Since Sean had to give up his dream of becoming a doctor to raise his kid brother, he has some resentment issues. His father left the family, then his mother left for an orthodontist she met online, leaving him to be raised by his older brother, Sean. 5/21/2023 0 Comments The wedding party jasmineThey cannot give Alexa the satisfaction of knowing they actually like each other and thus begins Maddie and Theo's secret affair.Īs you are probably aware, this is the third installment in Jasmine Guillory's The Wedding Date series of companion novels. They know they have to keep their relationship a secret. They vow to get through it no matter what.Īs can sometimes happens, however, through their mutual distaste comes a spark that soon grows into a full-blown FLAME! Theo thinks Maddie is a shallow, image-obsessed brat, with zero ambition.Īfter their mutual best friend, Alexa, becomes engaged, she asks them both to be in her wedding party.Ĭhagrined that they will have to spend time together during the whole wedding process, they both agree with good grace to participate. Maddie Forest thinks Theo Stephens is an uptight, hyper-organized, spreadsheet-loving jerk. This is a pattern in Scripture and a template for God’s people in life. In this context, the significance of Psalm 23 following Psalm 22 would be missed by many, but it’s not a coincidence that words of distress, such as “ My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? …I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest” (Psalm 22:1–2), precede promises of comfort and mercy. It’s often to these words of God that people turn when in distress, looking for comfort and encouragement. This Psalm is one of the most widely recognized passages of Scripture and the favorite of millions, from professing believers to rare churchgoers. This was certainly the case during the days and weeks following as funerals are where most people encounter King David’s words about the Divine Shepherd. No doubt, in many of those churches, Psalm 23 was read or referenced. A question was at the front of everyone’s mind: What does it mean? Americans were gathering in shock, fear, dismay, and sorrow about what had happened five days prior on 9/11. It is estimated there was a 40 percent increase in average attendance at Sunday morning services. On September 16th, 2001, churches across the United States were packed. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Tuck everlasting goodreadsAs the reader learns when the Tucks find Winnie’s tombstone, she did go on to have children, so foregoing this to spend eternity with Jesse may have been extremely unpleasant for her. Lastly, if she had chosen to marry Jesse, they would probably have never had children - recall Miles saying that it was unnatural for the children to appear to be older than their parents. If they had married, she would be spending eternity with someone she barely knew. Additionally, a major part of the reason that she was considering drinking the water was to marry Jesse, but she had only known him for a very short time. Tuck explained the cycle of life to her, and she knew that removing herself from the cycle of birth and death could have major consequences. The toad also represents Winnie's fear of humans becoming immortal and by giving the spring water to the toad, she demonstrates that humans are not ready for such responsibilities that may come with becoming immortal.ĭo you think Winnie chose wisely when she decided not to drink the spring water? However, she betrays her friendship with the toad when she uses the vial of magic spring water on the toad, rather than herself. Winnie chooses to confide in the toad when she is feeling lonely as there is no one else to talk to. The toad in Tuck Everlasting symbolizes Winnie's unreadiness to grow up, including her hesitance about becoming immortal. What is the significance of the toad in Tuck Everlasting? 5/21/2023 0 Comments Mary by janis cooke newmanNewman makes a good choice in telling the story through Mary's eyes and drawing readers into her perspective. Not introspective and demonstrative, Mary presents a challenge for any historical novelist. After the 1860 election, the narrative returns to accepted history, dominated by Mary's crushing misery after a son's death in 1862, her husband's assassination and another son's death in 1872, punctuated by lavish shopping expeditions and an occasional psychotic break. , portrays Mary Todd Lincoln (1818– 1882) as a proto-feminist: she seduces poor Illinois lawyer Lincoln kick-starts his career draws his attention to the slavery issue corrects his elocution before the Lincoln-Douglas debates and lobbies behind the scenes (she also has an affair). Newman, author of the memoir The Russian Word for Snow Abraham Lincoln's widow was committed by her son in 1875 kept awake by the bedlam of her fellow inmates, she takes up a pen. 5/21/2023 0 Comments The illiad bookFor he had come to the swift ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, bearing ransom past counting and in his hands he held the wreaths of Apollo who strikes from afar, on a staff of gold and he implored all the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus, the marshallers of the people: Sons of Atreus, and other well-greaved Achaeans, to you may the gods who have homes upon Olympus grant that you sack the city of Priam, and return safe to your homes but my dear child release to me, and accept the ransom out of reverence for the son of Zeus, Apollo who strikes from afar. Who then of the gods was it that brought these two together to contend? The son of Leto and Zeus for he in anger against the king roused throughout the host an evil pestilence, and the people began to perish, because upon the priest Chryses the son of Atreus had wrought dishonour. The wrath sing, goddess, of Peleus' son, Achilles, that destructive wrath which brought countless woes upon the Achaeans, and sent forth to Hades many valiant souls of heroes, and made them themselves spoil for dogs and every bird thus the plan of Zeus came to fulfillment, from the time when first they parted in strife Atreus' son, king of men, and brilliant Achilles. Ransom of Hector THE ILIAD BOOK 1, TRANSLATED BY A. Battlefield: Deaths of Sarpedon & Patroclus 5/20/2023 0 Comments Timothy zahn dark force risingSimilar in structure to the trilogy’s first installment, Dark Force Rising has our heroes, villains and those somewhere in between off on their own storylines. Absolutely no time is wasted in terms of plot, with Dark Force Rising picking up immediately after the events of the first book. Originally published in 1992, Dark Force Rising came on the heels of the massively popular universe expanding Heir to the Empire-offering Star Wars fans the delight of seeing how the New Republic and Empire have fared after the events of Return of the Jedi. This Dad Reads and Tatooine Times have partnered up once again to present my review (also available over at my blog) of the second installment of Timothy Zahn’s Dark Force Rising The Essential Legends Collection paperback edition which was released Septemby Del Rey. |