When Gaunt's family asks him to enlist to forestall the anti-German sentiment they face, Gaunt does so immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings for Ellwood. Gaunt, half German, is busy fighting his own private battle-an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the glamorous, charming Ellwood-without a clue that Ellwood is pining for him in return. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes the war more exciting. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. It’s 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. “A devastating love story…Gaunt and Ellwood will live in your mind long after you’ve closed the final pages.” -Maggie O’Farrell, best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait “In Memoriam is the story of a great tragedy, but it is also a moving portrait of young love, and there is often a lightness to the book.”- The New York Times “Dazzling and wrenching, witty and wildly romantic, with echoes of Brideshead Revisited and Atonement.” -Lev Grossman, best-selling author of The Magicians.A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I.
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His friends wanted to be him, and women wanted to tame him, but after a tragic accident turned his world upside down, Trenton leaves campus to come to grips with the crushing guilt.Įighteen months later, Trenton is living at home with his widower father, and works full-time at a local tattoo parlor to help with the bills. Trenton Maddox was the king of Eastern State University, dating co-eds before he even graduated high school. Now tending bar at The Red Door, Cami doesn’t have time for much else besides work and classes, until a trip to see her boyfriend is cancelled, leaving her with a first weekend off in almost a year. She has held down a job since before she could drive, and moved into her own apartment after her freshman year of college. Summary: Fiercely independent Camille "Cami" Camlin gladly moved on from her childhood before it was over. Byrnes worked cases methodically, interviewing witnesses, analyzing crime scenes, and developing theories that helped close the books on previously unsolvable crimes. Mug shots and daily lineups helped witnesses point out culprits the famed rogues' gallery allowed police to track repeat offenders and the third-degree interrogation method induced recalcitrant crooks to confess. But in the early 1870s, an Irish cop by the name of Thomas Byrnes developed new ways to catch criminals. A thief or murderer not caught in the act nearly always got away. For centuries, New York had been a haven of crime. Rogues' Gallery is a sweeping, epic tale of two revolutions, one feeding off the other, that played out on the streets of New York City during an era known as the Gilded Age. From the beginnings of big-city police work to the rise of the Mafia, Rogues' Gallery is a colorful and captivating history of crime and punishment in the bustling streets of Old New York. I asked him if he'd like me to read it to him. His hand is on the Bible, but he never opens it. I took an apple that was crisp and good and sliced it, thin as paper, and carried it into that dim room where he sits, still and silent. And those of us who are left walk around as if we're half asleep. There are so few people to do the picking. I had words with the carter over it, but he told me we were lucky to get as good as we got, and I suppose it's true enough. Late pickings, of course: I saw brown spots on more than a few. They brought the apples yesterday, a cartload for the rectory cellar. This year, the hay stooks are few and the woodpile scant, and neither matters much to me. Thick, sweet scents of rotting apple and wet wood. I used to love to walk in the apple orchard at this time of the year, to feel the soft give underfoot when I trod on a fallen fruit. Smells and sights and sounds that said this year it would be all right: there'd be food and warmth for the babies by the time the snows came. The rumble of the apples tumbling into the cellar bins. The hay made, all golden in the low afternoon light. The wood stacked by the door, the tang of its sap still speaking of forest. En términos de musculatura económica, «nosotros» nos estamos convirtiendo en el 20 por ciento, y no en el 80 por ciento. Las personas de Norteamérica y Europa tienen que entender que la mayoría de la población mundial vive en Asia. Sí, creo que el dominio occidental de la economía mundial pronto habrá terminado. En 2040, el 60 por ciento de los consumidores del nivel 4 vivirán fuera de occidente. En 2027, si los ingresos siguen aumentando en todo el mundo como en la actualidad, esa cifra se habrá reducido un 50 por ciento. Actualmente, las personas que viven en países ricos alrededor del Atlántico Norte, que representan el 11 por ciento de la población, constituyen el 60 por ciento del mercado de consumo del nivel 4. “Si las previsiones del crecimiento de la población de la ONU son correctas y si los ingresos de Asia y África continúan aumentando como hasta ahora, el centro de gravedad del mercado mundial se desplazará durante los próximos 20 años del Océano Atlántico al Índico. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort-a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. We very nearly did, didn't we?" Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. "Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" -Margaret Atwood, via Twitter "A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." - Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times "Awad is a stone-cold genius." -Ann Bauer, The Washington Post The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl "We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. Cinder being a cyborg, mechanic gave this book a unique spin that no other fairytale retelling has of Cinderella. Her whit, sass, and spunk made my love for her grow. This book is so good! Oh my word, where has this series been my whole life? I was hooked by the first page and the book refused to let go of my until the very last. Blaming Cinder for her daughter’s illness, Cinder’s stepmother volunteers her body for plague research, an “honor” that no one has survived.īut it doesn’t take long for the scientists to discover something unusual about their new guinea pig. He jokingly calls it “a matter of national security,” but Cinder suspects it’s more serious than he’s letting on.Īlthough eager to impress the prince, Cinder’s intentions are derailed when her younger stepsister, and only human friend, is infected with the fatal plague that’s been devastating Earth for a decade. This reputation brings Prince Kai himself to her weekly market booth, needing her to repair a broken android before the annual ball. Being cyborg does have its benefits, though: Cinder’s brain interference has given her an uncanny ability to fix things (robots, hovers, her own malfunctioning parts), making her the best mechanic in New Beijing. Sixteen-year-old Cinder is considered a technological mistake by most of society and a burden by her stepmother. Where You Can Buy It: Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, and anywhere else books are sold Genres: YA, Fairytale Retelling, Romance, Dystopian, Science Fiction Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Plumptre, includes an introduction by John Williams White, and is printed on premium acid-free paper. This edition follows the translation of E. "Oedipus Rex," along with its Theban counterparts, "Oedipus at Colonus," and "Antigone," established Sophocles as one of the most renowned dramatists of his era. Still believing that Polybus is his father he flees Corinth thus initiating a series of events that would fulfill that which the oracle has prophesied. When Oedipus hears a rumor that he is not the biological son of Polybus, he seeks the counsel of the Oracle of Delphi who relates to him the prophecy of patricide. A passing shepherd rescues the baby and names it Oedipus, or "swollen feet," taking it with him to Corinth where it is raised by the childless King Polybus as if it were his own. Unable to kill her own child, Jocasta entrusts a servant with the task instead, who takes the baby to a mountaintop to die of exposure. After Laius, King of Thebes, learns from an oracle that he is doomed to perish by the hand of his own son, he binds the feet of his newborn child and orders his wife Jocasta to kill the infant. The second Theban play written by Sophocles, "Oedipus Rex," or "Oedipus the King," is the drama which chronologically begins the Oedipus cycle. More importantly, though, it taught me a few things about Les Miserables – mainly, that for many people, the abridged version is all they’ll ever read. And then, I found out I had to teach it this year, which has a way of motivating you to read things. Whatever the case, it was a book I knew I should read, but never did. Maybe it was the forbidding length maybe it was pushback against the gushing fanbase of the recent film (despite the fact that I actually like the musical pretty well) maybe it was just laziness. Les Miserables is one of those books I’ve always wanted to read, but just couldn’t ever get around to. Both Saylor and Davis have excellent knowledge of ancient Roman history, and she is especially notable for the minutiae of everyday life in Rome that give her story a fine feeling of place. However, although I think fans of Janet Evanovich might appreciate the humor in Davis, it is not so much slapstick as picaresque. He mixes his fiction with more of a real-life background, while Davis takes a lighter approach. Saylor writes a more serious novel, no cutesies, double entendres, or puns, and he's very good (see my review of ARMS OF NEMESIS). Davis writes about the early Empire, specifically the time of the Emperor Vespasian, who showed endurance as the fourth in the Year of the Four Emperors who followed Nero in rapid succession (69 AD the other three were the late Galba, the late Otho, and the late Vitellius). Saylor writes of the last decades of the Roman Republic, just before Julius Caesar (who died in 44 BC) effectively started the Roman Empire. I read Lindsey Davis's SHADOWS IN BRONZE around the same time I read Steven Saylor's ARMS OF NEMESIS, two mystery novels that have the similarity of being set in ancient Rome. |