![]() ![]() OL1996812W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 87.33 Pages 152 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0140380450 4.01 avg rating 34,811 ratings published 2010 36 editions. One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters, 1) by. Urn:lcp:bluetights00will:epub:a43ad6b4-5cfc-4010-84f9-73e4195e5478 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier bluetights00will Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t86h5h55s Isbn 0525672346 Lccn 87017156 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL2388048M Openlibrary_edition Average rating 4.01 62,820 ratings 9,137 reviews shelved 154,254 times. training to pen an early version of the story that became her first novel, Blue Tights. ![]() Urn:lcp:bluetights00will:lcpdf:8449cf70-f727-449d-965f-5fe232787859 Rita Williams-Garcia developed her reading skills early in life. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 00:29:32 Boxid IA141614 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In the days when I was sitting in his class, he omitted so many needless words, and omitted them so forcibly and with such eagerness and obvious relish, that he often seemed in the position of having shortchanged himselfa man left with nothing more to say yet with time to fill, a radio prophet who had outdistanced the clock. Omit needless words! cries the author on page 23, and into that imperative Will Strunk really put his heart and soul. ![]() The Elements of Style, Revised Edition, by William Strunk Jr.Īnd Edward A. The New Yorker, and was copyrighted in 1957 by The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. The Introduction originally appeared, in slightly different form, in With Revisions, an Introduction, and a Chapter on WritingĬopyright © 1979, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.Įarlier editions © 1959 and © 1972 by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. Q&N: The Elements of Style (Strunk and White) from ![]() ![]() ![]() By turns mischievous and deadly serious, Vidal tells the story of a man caught up in events bigger than he is, a down-on-his-luck American hired to smuggle an ancient relic out of Cairo at a time when revolution is brewing and heads are about to roll. Lost for more than 60 years and overflowing with political and sexual intrigue, Thieves Fall Out provides a delicious glimpse into the mind of Gore Vidal in his formative years. The Edgar Box novels were subsequently republished under his real name. ![]() But in the wake of criticism for the scandalous content of his third novel, The City and the Pillar, Vidal turned to writing crime fiction under pseudonyms: three books as Edgar Box and one as Cameron Kay. In 1953, Vidal had already begun writing the works that would launch him to the top ranks of American authors and intellectuals. The author of twenty-three novels, five plays, three memoirs, numerous screenplays and short stories, and well over two hundred essays, he received the National Book Award in 1993. Gore Vidal was one of America's greatest and most controversial writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was also the first woman to be the Gandalf Grand Master.Īndre Norton was born to Adalbert Freely Norton and Bertha Stem Norton. Andre Norton was the first woman to be SFWA Grand Master and the first to be inducted to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Norton was born in the year 1912 in Cleveland, Ohio and died at the age of 93 in the year 2005. Some of the pen names that she frequently used were Andrew North, Andre Norton and Allen Weston. Her specialty was that she used to write her novel under different pen names. Norton has many accolades to her name which she got through her successful writing career. She used to love writing novels based on romance and adventure genres as well. Her real name was Andre Alice Norton and she was born Alice Mary Norton. Tiger Burning Bright (With: Mercedes Lackey,Marion Zimmer Bradley)įavorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2Īndre Norton was a noteworthy American writer of fantasy and science fiction genre. ![]() ![]() There is only one way to break the curse, and it requires a trip to the notorious Night Witch. The next morning Tor wakes up to discover a new marking on his skin.the symbol of a curse that has shortened his lifeline, giving him only a week before an untimely death. So, on the annual New Year's Eve celebration, where Emblemites throw their wishes into a bonfire in the hopes of having them granted, Tor wishes for a different power. But he hates his mark and is determined to choose a different path for himself. Twelve-year-old Tor Luna was born with a leadership emblem, just like his mother. Their lifelines show the course of their life and an emblem dictates how they will spend it. ![]() On Emblem Island all are born knowing their fate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The main thing I noticed is that Genghis Khan is portrayed in a great light. Weatherford presents a more sophisticated, less blood-thirsty portrayal of Genghis Khan, that is if you weren’t killed by him first. By having access to this new information from the Mongolians and by retracing the footsteps of Genghis Khan, Mr. Weatherford claims a new angle on Genghis Khan by finally having access to “Secret Histories” previously hidden by Mongolians and then the Russian Communists. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford is described as “revisionist” history. How we spent multiple classroom discussions on the European Renaissance and the later Enlightenment and the subsequent benefits to civilization, but little to no time on the benefits from Asia, much less those originating from the Mongols. ![]() I think back to middle school and high school and how much of my history education was built around the Europeans like Alexander and Caesar. “Alexander and Caesar seem petty before him.” He made the most pithy statement possible when he said this about Genghis Khan: During this time, he sought to better understand his history and would write letters to his daughter. Jawaharlal Nehru, the father of Indian independence, was in prison under the British in the 1930s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We do know that Sappho wrote in the Aeolic dialect in a variety of meters and that her work covers a broad range of themes and concerns: romantic love, marriage, fellowship and community, myth and ritual, politics, and philosophical reflections on nobility and goodness.įor years, notions of Sappho as the head of a religious cult or as a teacher in a kind of finishing school for young aristocratic women dominated Sappho scholarship. At the very least, it seems likely that her wedding songs might have been performed by choruses. Unfortunately, there is not enough conclusive evidence to determine the context in which Sappho's songs were sung. But there is considerable disagreement among scholars about whether Sappho's poems were for solo or choral performance. Like other poetry of her day, Sappho's was composed primarily for oral performance. Much of the fascination about Sappho over the centuries has been fueled by the fact that she is a woman addressing many of her love poems to other women, that we know almost nothing about her life, and that, in modern times, her poems survive mostly in fragments. While two hundred fragments have been attributed to Sappho, only two complete poems and approximately forty fragments survive. Ancient sources state that she produced nine volumes of poetry. ![]() Born at the close of the seventh century BCE, Sappho was famously declared the “Tenth Muse” by Plato. Sappho was a Greek lyric poet from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. Detail of Raphael’s Parnassus showing Sappho, 1509.(Wikimedia Commons) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He had a weak point - this Fortunato - although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. ![]() I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation. It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. At length I would be avenged this was a point definitively settled - but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. ![]() ![]() ![]() Barbarian Lover- Ice Planet Barbarians, Book 3 by Ruby Dixon (4) 2377.07 05. Barbarian Lover- Ice Planet Barbarians, Book 3 by Ruby Dixon (3) 2563.77 04. Barbarian Lover- Ice Planet Barbarians, Book 3 by Ruby Dixon (2) 2569.18 03. More worryingly, the aliens who abducted me are back, and thanks to the translator in my ear, they can find me. Barbarian Lover- Ice Planet Barbarians, Book 3 by Ruby Dixon (1) 3761.67 02. I'm convinced that Aehako can never love me if he knows the full truth. It's hard to push away the sexy, flirtatious Aehako when I long to grab him by his horns and insist he take me to his furs.īut I've got a terrible secret-a few of them, actually. Human women are treasured here, and one alien in particular has made it clear that he's interested in me. Barbarian Lover is the third book in the Ice Planet Barbarians series. ![]() But when Aehako comes along, everything changes.Īs one of the humans stranded on the ice planet, I should be happy that I have a new home. Kira plans on remaining single on this alien planet-she doesn't want a mate anyway. The third novel in the Ice Planet Barbarians series, an international publishing phenomenon-now in a special print edition with bonus materials and an exclusive epilogue! ![]() ![]() ![]() Then they retire themselves, embarking on a ferry ride to the island known as the Nursery, where their failing bodies are renewed, their memories are wiped clean, and they are readied to restart life afresh. In this island paradise, Prospera’s lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being, fall below 10 percent. exciting, mysterious, and totally satisfying.”-STEPHEN KINGįrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia-where the truth isn't what it seems.įounded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. ![]() |