Now and again she inhabits her characters, yet she maintains throughout the authority of an omniscient narrator who is firmly in charge." The various parts of the narrative unfold in apparently seamless succession. Schiff's skills as a writer extend to such formal matters as structure, pacing, and point of view. Her recreation of courtroom scenes is especially convincing one feels, almost palpably, their pulsating mix of words, actions, and-above all-emotion. Indeed, readers may experience her narrative as a virtual tour of the time and place. This enables her to provide deep, richly textured background for specific moments and situations. Moreover, she has mastered the entire history of early New England. "Her research is impeccable no previous writer has scoured the documentary record to such great depth. " beautiful retelling of one of our ugliest tales." Schiff is at her best, infusing a historical event with as much life, mystery, and tragedy of any novelist." Every page of The Witches is almost scandalously pleasurable." (4 Stars) It's unsettling, gripping stuff, rendered in the burnished sentences of a master prose stylist. A Time Magazine "Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2015" pickĪ Boston Globe "Best Nonfiction Books of 2015" pickĪ Washington Post "Notable Nonfiction of 2015" pickĪ San Francisco Chronicle " Best Books of 2015" pickĪn O, The Oprah Magazine " 16 Books To Start 2016 Right" pickĪ Chicago Tribune "The Best Books of 2015" pickĪ Houston Chronicle "15 Notable Books of 2015" pickĪ Bustle "11 Nonfiction Books By Women Every Book Club Should Read" pick
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We would have to shut the windows in the night against the rain and the cold wind would strip the leaves from the trees in the Place Contrescarpe. It would come in one day when the fall was over. Widely celebrated and debated by critics and readers everywhere, the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Maddox Ford, and insightful recollections of Hemingway’s own early experiments with his craft. Also included are irreverent portraits of literary luminaries, such as F. Now, this special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published.įeaturing a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest’s sole surviving son, and an introduction by grandson of the author, Seán Hemingway, editor of this edition, the book also includes a number of unfinished, never-before-published Paris sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son, Jack, and his first wife Hadley. Since Hemingway’s personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes made to the text before publication. Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches. The Bald John Donne: A Life from the 1970s remains the standard scholarly biography: dusty? yes dry? yes but all the detail we need for studying Donne is here and meticulously referenced. Maybe the very complexity of Donne and his various metamorphoses is too much for a biographer to capture because this is the fourth biography I've read and none of them feel complete. Rundell's vast enthusiasm is almost there in his place, a kind of simulacrum for the man. Rundell's writing is the star of this show: it's sparky and textured, original and alive - if she wrote a novel I'd read it like a shot - but, somehow, Donne the man sort of slips between the floorboards of this biography and never really emerges as a fully-fleshed (ha!) person. Increasing the digestibility of the text in this new approach, the reader is brought to a question, then the math is used to show how it can be answered and progress made. Now in its eleventh edition, the text has been enhanced with additional learning features and maths support to demonstrate the absolute centrality of mathematics to physical chemistry. Re-organised into discrete 'topics', the text is more flexible to teach from and more readable for students. The exceptional quality of previous editions has been built upon to make this new edition of Atkins' Physical Chemistry even more closely suited to the needs of both lecturers and students. Based on the hugely popular Atkins' Physical Chemistry, this volume approaches molecular thermodynamics with the assumption that students will have studied quantum mechanics in their first semester. Atkins' Physical Chemistry: Molecular Thermodynamics and Kinetics is designed for use on the second semester of a quantum-first physical chemistry course. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Patrick and Trudy are once again coping with good and evil among a different kind of bottom dweller. They are thrust into the investigation and discover another subterranean culture: The Mole People of underground Manhattan, denizens of the abandoned subway and train tunnels. When they are visiting the Cloisters Museum, a curator is found murdered. Patrick and Trudy, with the help of Patricks cousin, bottom dweller Duncan Dylan, confront the evil tree. However, mutant tree people mess with her plans. Bottom Dwellers is a supernatural thriller with a beautiful love story interwoven in its pages. After battling the Bottom Dwellers of Lake Lanier, Trudy hopes for a more peaceful job in the forest. Krenzischek, Destiny: Messages For The SoulBetty. Thinking that they have left subterranean life in the deep waters of the lake, Patrick and Trudy get married and head to New York City for their honeymoon. Her husband, Patrick, begins his retirement as an adventurer. Shane Etter, Perianesthesia Nursing Care: A Bedside Guide for Safe RecoveryDina A. Patrick battles with the bad and is surprised by the good. Just as with all people, there are good and bad among the bottom dwellers of Lake Lanier. While diving, Patrick also meets beautiful Park Ranger Trudy Price who soon becomes his fiancée. He encounters green skinned mutant people with gills who have been living there for more than fifty years, since the lake was created. After suffering a stroke, forty-eight year old, karate black belt Patrick Dylan is scuba diving in Lake Lanier for exercise and therapy. As I read about her financially privileged birth, I wondered how I could like such a “spoiled brat.” However, Katharine Graham’s life illustrates that monetary security does not guarantee happiness, security, love, health, or an easy life. Such a statement, however, cannot even begin to encapsulate the spoiled upbringing this woman enjoyed. Katharine Graham was born to great privilege. I loved her story, and I loved her approach to her own life. After reading Katharine Graham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography, Personal History, I am impressed once again with how powerful a great biography can be. In a sense, her life was a life of contrasts and similarities. However, her life extended far beyond the walls of the Washington Post city room. Katharine Graham was most well-known to me for being publisher of The Washington Post during the newspaper’s reporting of Watergate. I may receive compensation for any purchased items. Posts written from review copies are labeled. Note: I occasionally accept review copies from the publisher. It will just hurt for a few minutes, it will be teeth-gnashing, gut-twisting agony, but then the heat will shrivel off my nerve endings and I’ll feel nothing, or better yet I’ll pass out from carbon monoxide poisoning. This is my last chance, and I know, but don’t want to think about, what happens if I fail-that I have to start preparing myself for the pain. The enemy is cornering me, daring me, Go ahead, Emmy, go for the window, Emmy. Still a chance to jump off the bed to the left and run for the window, the only part of the bedroom still available. The orange flames rippling across the ceiling above me, dancing around my bed, almost in rhythm, a taunting staccato, popping and crackling, like it’s not a fire but a collection of flames working together collectively, they want me to know, as they bob up and down and spit and cackle, as they slowly advance, This time it’s too late, Emmy. The putrid black smoke that singes my nostril hairs and pollutes my lungs. The searing oven-blast heat within the four corners of my bedroom. I don’t know how long it’s been going off, but it’s too late for me now. The house alarm is screaming out, not the early-warning beep but the piercing you’re-totally-screwed-if-you-don’t-move-now squeal. This time, it’s too bright, there’s too much smoke. THIS TIME I know it, I know it with a certainty that chokes my throat with panic, that grips and twists my heart until it’s ripped from its mooring. Urn:oclc:800525111 Republisher_date 20180824122334 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 446 Scandate 20180818210454 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Tts_version v1. THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS THE EPIC STORY OF AMERICAS GREAT MIGRATION. 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Social scientists work to get dads more involved because research indicates that fathers’ involvement in their child’s early education is correlated not only with academic success but also with improved overall well-being. As with most US children, my mother was more involved in my educational development than my father. As with most US children who attend public schools, the majority of my instructors were female. The scene sticks with me, I think, because so many of my earliest memories involve women teaching me to read and men assigning me things to read. When I was ten, he handed me a paperback copy of Edith Hamilton’s Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes (1942) and said, “All educated people know mythology.” I took the book and ran upstairs, where I immediately wrote my name and the date in ballpoint pen on the inside cover, as if the ink was an incantatory potion that would launch me to the ranks of the educated. He was a deeply kind person who saw in our Erskine Caldwell clan something worth salvaging from the fate otherwise predicted by demographics. Growing up, my family had a patron: an artist who gave us his used Dodge Dart when my mom’s job took her off a bus line and who sometimes handed me five-dollar bills at the end of his visits to our house. Please read on to learn a little more about this sensitive, stunning, unforgettable novel and to enter to win one of five available copies!Īuthor Links: Website (Thanks, Nina!) As readers who also follow me on Twitter are already no doubt aware, I’ve spoken often about We Are Okay since reading it back in December 2016 and would now list it among my favourite books I’ve read in four years as a book blogger. In truth, I was only meant to ask Nina one question, but I was so inspired by her latest work I ended up asking three and she was gracious enough to answer them all for me. Hi everyone! Today is a very special day on Pop! Goes The Reader as I’m thrilled to have been given an opportunity to speak with the phenomenally talented Nina LaCour as I host the latest stop on the blog tour for LaCour’s recent Februrelease, We Are Okay. So, sit back, relax, and enjoy as we read between the lines. Between The Lines is a sporadic feature on Pop! Goes The Reader in which authors and other industry professionals provide further insight into the writing and publishing process in the form of interviews, guest posts, etc. |