![]() His hugely controversial account, “Germany’s Aims in the First World War,” published in English in 1967, accused Germany of intentionally starting the war. Where Tuchman influenced President Kennedy and the popular imagination, Fritz Fischer, a year earlier, had become the touchstone for historians. “I am not,” the president told his brother Bobby, “going to follow a course which will allow anyone to write a comparable book about this time: ‘The Missiles of October.’ ” It was still on his mind as he confronted the Cuban missile crisis. The book inspired Kennedy to install a tape system in the White House, including the Oval Office, to ensure an accurate record of decision-making. The anecdote about World War I came from Barbara Tuchman’s best-selling history “The Guns of August,” in which Tuchman explored the immediate origins and first weeks of the war. ![]() Kennedy once remarked that “in 1914, with most of the world already plunged in war, Prince Bulow, the former German chancellor, said to the then-chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg: ‘How did it all happen?’ And Bethmann-Hollweg replied: ‘Ah, if only one knew.’ If this planet is ever ravaged by nuclear war,” Kennedy went on, “if the survivors of that devastation can then endure the fire, poison, chaos and catastrophe, I do not want one of those survivors to ask another, ‘How did it all happen?’ and to receive the incredible reply, ‘Ah, if only one knew.’ ” ![]()
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5/20/2023 0 Comments Star wars aftermath trilogy![]() What she doesn't know is just how close the enemy is-or how decisive and dangerous her new mission will be.ĭetermined to preserve the Empire's power, the surviving Imperial elite are converging on Akiva for a top-secret emergency summit-to consolidate their forces and rally for a counterstrike. ![]() But when Norra intercepts Wedge Antilles's urgent distress call, she realizes her time as a freedom fighter is not yet over. ![]() Meanwhile, on the planet's surface, former Rebel fighter Norra Wexley has returned to her native world-war weary, ready to reunite with her estranged son, and eager to build a new life in some distant place. Out on a lone reconnaissance mission, pilot Wedge Antilles watches Imperial Star Destroyers gather like birds of prey circling for a kill, but is taken captive before he can report back to the New Republic leaders. But above the remote planet Akiva, an ominous show of the enemy's strength is unfolding. But the battle for freedom is far from over.Īs the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance-now a fledgling New Republic-presses its advantage by hunting down the enemy's scattered forces before they can regroup and retaliate. ![]() The second Death Star has been destroyed, the Emperor killed, and Darth Vader struck down-devastating blows against the Empire, with major victories for the Rebel Alliance. Trapped on an isolated world, a desperate group of rebels is all that stands between the galaxy's freedom and the Empire's fury. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Bring up the bodies author![]() ![]() ![]() "Yann Martel's Life of Pi, which won in 2002, made just under £10m. The BBC reports that the Man Booker Prize has a significant impact on the sales of the winning novel. Receiving the 50,000 pound award (approximately $80,000) in London, Mantel said, "You wait 20 years for a Booker Prize and two come along at once." There is the last volume of her trilogy still to come so her Man Booker tale may yet have a further chapter." "Her resuscitation of Thomas Crowell – and with him the historical novel – is one of the great achievements of modern literature. Here's what the folks over at the Booker prize said about the two novels: "Hilary Mantel has rewritten the rules for historical fiction." "This double accolade is uniquely deserved," said Sir Peter Stothard, chairman of the judges. The third book, The Mirror and the Light, will continue the story until Cromwell's execution in 1540. ![]() The two novels are part of a planned trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, an adviser to King Henry VIII. She also becomes the first author to win with a sequel. The British writer thus becomes only the third author to win the award twice, joining J.M. On Tuesday, judges awarded the prestigious literary award to Hilary Mantel for her historical novel Bring up the Bodies. "The whittling has finished," declared the website of the Man Booker Prize. ![]() ![]() ![]() Brother Wind (1994) According to WorldCat, the book is held in 1538 libraries.My Sister the Moon (1992) According to WorldCat, the book is held in 1974 libraries Alsdo translated into Spanish as Mi hermana la luna and into French as Ma soeur la Lune.Mother Earth Father Sky (1990) According to WorldCat, the book is held in 2943 libraries Also translated into Spanish as Madre tierra, padre cielom into French as Ma mère la terre, mon père le ciel and into German as Vater Himmel, Mutter Erde. ![]() The Los Angeles Times wrote a mixed review for Mother Earth Father Sky, stating that "the beginning of civilization is still a great story" but criticized the work for being too overly detailed to the point where it interrupted the book's flow. It was chosen among the Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association in 1991 and was a Main Selection of the Literary Guild Book Club. In this novel, Chagak's tribe is attacked by a warlike tribe, including Man-Who-Kills, who rapes her and is subsequently killed, but becomes the father of her child, Samiq, who becomes an important character in the subsequent novels. Mother Earth Father Sky is the first novel in the trilogy. The first book, Mother Earth Father Sky, was published in 1990 and was followed up with My Sister the Moon (1992) and Brother Wind (1994). The Ivory Carver Trilogy is a trilogy by Sue Harrison that focuses on prehistoric Aleut tribes. Books focusing on prehistoric Aleut tribes written by Sue Harrison Ivory Carver Trilogy Mother Earth Father Sky ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Quentins by Maeve Binchy![]() ![]() Everybody has a colorful way with words, and if the prose is sometimes careless, this is still Irish storytelling at its contemporary best small flaws are easily overlooked in a book that is itself so generous. ![]() While Nan seizes opportunities, friendships and romances are kindled and damped ugly duckling Benny becomes a swan, and true love almost conquers all. ![]() When they go to university in Dublin together, their loyalty is tested by the addition of others to their circle, most notably the beautiful, mysterious Nan, an ambitious young woman determined to rise above her working-class origins. Ella Brady wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s to the present day. Benny, plain daughter of a merchant, and Eve, a proud orphan raised by nuns, are close friends growing up in the Irish village of Knockglen in the 1950s. 1 New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy tells the story of a generation and a city through the history of a Dublin restaurant in this warm-hearted (Boston Herald) enthralling novel. In this lengthy story of a friendship and love and loss, there are no lapses or lulls. The charm of Binchy's novels ( Silver Wedding Light a Penny Candle ) lies in a seductive readability that draws one through hundreds of pages as surely as a mackerel at the end of a hooked line-contrived plot thickeners and stock characters notwithstanding. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments The lost symbol summary![]() Solomon has also asked him to bring a small, sealed package which he had entrusted to Langdon years earlier. Renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is invited to give a lecture at the United States Capitol, at the invitation apparently from his mentor, a 33rd degree Mason named Peter Solomon, who is the head of the Smithsonian Institution. ![]() As of January 2013, there were 30 million copies in print worldwide. It was number one on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction for the first six weeks of its release, and remained on the list for 29 weeks. On its first day the book sold one million in hardcover and e-book versions in the U.S., the UK and Canada, making it the fastest selling adult novel in history. ![]() It had a first printing of 6.5 million (5 million in North America, 1.5 million in the UK), the largest in Doubleday history. Released on September 15, 2009, it is the third Brown novel to involve the character of Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon, following 2000's Angels & Demons and 2003's The Da Vinci Code. ![]() It is a thriller set in Washington, D.C., after the events of The Da Vinci Code, and relies on Freemasonry for both its recurring theme and its major characters. The Lost Symbol is a 2009 novel written by American writer Dan Brown. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Starblood by Carmilla Voiez![]() ![]() ![]() I have to admit to a certain level of bias with this my first Goodreads recommendation. Starblood was also nominated for the Commonwealth Book Prize (2012). The Starblood Trilogy was voted best horror release of 2014 by The Three Bookateers.Ĭarmilla Voiez won HFA's Horror Author of the Year 2013 for this book. ![]() Prizes - Starblood was nominated for the Commonwealth Book Prize in 2013 Carmilla won the Horror Author of the Year (2013) (Horror Fans Asylum) and FearVenture Author of the Year 2014 As Jef Withonef of Houston Press once said - "You do not read her books, you survive them." Her books are both extraordinarily personal and universally challenging. Fascinated by the Goth aesthetic and enchanted by threnodies of eighties Goth and post-punk music she evolved into the creature of darkness we find today. Her earliest influences as a teenage reader were Graham Masterton, Brian Lumley and Clive Barker mixed with the romance of Hammer Horror and the visceral violence of the first wave of video nasties. Carmilla grew up on a varied diet of horror. When not writing, she gets paid to hang out in a stately home and entertain tourists. She is passionate about horror, the alt scene, intersectional feminism, art, nature and animals. A life long Goth, living with two kids, two cats and a poet by the sea. ![]() Carmilla Voiez is a proudly bisexual and mildly autistic introvert who finds writing much easier than verbal communication. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Codex alera furies![]() 9/3/19: Jim’s 2009 tie-in novel Spider-Man: Darkest Hours was released in audiobook format.10/8/19: Parallel Worlds, an anthology containing a new Dresdenverse short story from a very unconventional POV.12/25/19: “ Christmas Eve” illustrated edition – revisits last year’s spectacular short story with art by Adam Mathison-Sward and direction by Priscilla Spencer.5/4/20: Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game added to Switch.7/14/20: Dresden Files #16: Peace Talks. ![]()
5/20/2023 0 Comments The last heir to blackwood library![]() ![]() Rumors swirl in the village about the abbey’s previous owners, about ghosts and curses, and an enigmatic manuscript at the center of it all. ![]() And she senses something else in the library too, a presence that seems to have a will of its own. Despite cryptic warnings from the staff, Ivy feels irresistibly drawn to its dusty shelves, where familiar works mingle with strange, esoteric texts. ![]() But there is a treasure waiting behind locked doors: a magnificent library. The abbey is foreboding, the servants reserved and suspicious. With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great War, she warily makes her way to her new home. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she’s descended. With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. In post–World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets… "Weaves a spell of darkness that’s mysterious and magical, and binds it with a knot of deathless love." -New York Times bestselling author Susanna Kearsley on A Lullaby for Witches ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Richer than sin trilogy![]() ![]() They say a Riscoff and a Gable can never live happily ever after.but I'm not done with Whitney Gable.I'll never be done with her. I objected on her wedding day.Now she's home, with those same long legs and man-eater stare, but there's no ring on her finger. We burned like a flash fire until she married another man. ![]() Like any Riscoff worth the family name, I went after what I wanted. ![]() Our family feud is the stuff of legends.Ten years ago, Whitney Gable caught me off guard with her long legs and grab-you-by-the-balls blue eyes. Visita la página de Sin Trilogy de Amazon y compra todos los libros de Sin Trilogy. Download Or Read PDF Richer Than Sin (The Sin Trilogy, Book 1) Free Full Pages Online With Audiobook.įrom New York Times best-selling author Meghan March comes a brand new saga of forbidden love and second chances.A Riscoff and a Gable can never live happily ever after. ![]() |