His second great love is a Dark Lady, also mentioned in his sonnets, who was probably from Indian descent from the details we glean in this highly fictionalized story. The story follows his career path from his first scratchings until his demise from syphilis, with his first sonnets devoted to what was reportedly one of the greatest loves of his life, a young teenage lord of great beauty, here presented as being Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. Until he got caught into marriage by the brothers of one Anne Hathaway, one of the women which he managed to impregnate, though not at all his first or last choice as a wife. This story purports to be a biography of Shakespeare and introduces him to us from his late teens, when he was presumably occupied chasing women and bedding every one of those who accepted his advances. Nothing Like the Sun has made me a Burgess fan, since I was never going to read A Clockwork Orange ever since I read the fist two pages back in my late teens and got thoroughly turned off. Utterly Believable, Completely Entertaining
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In 1934 he married Florence Mackenzie, daughter of Canadian missionaries. In 1925 Liddell returned to China with the LMS and taught at the Anglo-Chinese Christian College in Tientsin. The victory of “The Flying Scotsman” in Olympic-record time has ranked him for all time among the most memorable of Olympic heroes. Instead, he competed in the 400-meter race, for which he was not as well prepared. The 1981 Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire powerfully depicts his decision not to enter the 100-meter race because the preliminary heats were scheduled on Sunday. He excelled in rugby and track and in 1924 was chosen to represent Britain in the 100-meter dash at the Olympic games in Paris. His schooling was at the LMS School for Sons of Missionaries at Blackheath and Eltham College in England, and at the University of Edinburgh (B.Sc., 1924). Liddell was born in Tientsin (Tianjin), China, of missionary parents serving with the London Missionary Society (LMS). He has written and illustrated over 100 books, and he has won the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor for his books 'Hi Fly Guy' (2006), 'I Spy Fly Guy' (2010), and 'Noodleheads See the Future' (2018). Urn:lcp:hiflyguytheodors00tedd_0:epub:37f81f70-70a1-4b81-8640-4dfcd707c3cd Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier hiflyguytheodors00tedd_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0002s299 Invoice 11 Isbn 0439639034ġ451729529 Lccn 2004020553 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL7515921M Openlibrary_edition Tedd Arnold (born Januin Elmira, New York, United States) is a children's book writer and illustrator. Tedd Arnolds knack for humorous visuals and writing is superb. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:23:53 Boxid IA1117509 Boxid_2 CH129817 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition Ed. Hi, Fly Guyis a nice story, and pound for pound one of the funniest easy readers youll encounter. She came to give Achilles and his "family" a basic education while testing Achilles for the Battle School program, and in the process also discovered Bean's incredible intellect. Soon, the new system of older street children taking care of "families" of younger street children came to the attention of Sister Carlotta, who was searching among these lost children for any that might be intelligent enough to go to Battle School. Since Bean originally came up with the plan to waylay him, and Poke was essentially responsible for having carried out this plan, he resolved to kill them both, though he bided his time until he could find an opportunity to do so without being identified as the murderer. However, he was also a sociopath, and could not bear to allow anyone who had seen him in a helpless condition to remain alive. In his new role as the "papa" of Poke's crew, Achilles proved remarkably adept. Bean told Poke to kill Achilles, but Poke refused. He lived from day to day by eating at soup kitchens and stealing food from smaller children until Poke's Crew took him down as part of Bean's plan: acquiring Achilles' protection in order to get them past the lines of brutal bullies and into the soup kitchens. Achilles was the physically malformed child of Belgian parents who somehow ended up homeless and alone on the streets of Rotterdam. Hilarious and big-hearted, Thirsty Mermaids is “a bright, bold shot of fun with a chaser of feels” ( Kirkus Reviews). Kat Leyhs Snapdragon is a magical realist graphic novel about a young girl who befriends her town’s witch and discovers the strange magic within herself. Which means everything from: enlisting the aid of their I-know-we-just-met-can-we-crash-with-you bartender friend, struggling to make sense of the world around them, to even trying to get a job with no skill set…all while attempting to somehow return to the sea and making the most of their current situation with tenacity and camaraderie (especially if someone else is buying). But the good times abruptly end the next morning as, through the haze of killer hangovers, the trio realizes they never actually learned how to break the spell and are now stuck on land for the foreseeable future. Kat Leyhs Snapdragon is a magical realist graphic novel about a young girl who befriends her town’s witch and discovers the strange magic within herself. The Eisner and Lambda Literary Award nominated graphic novel about a group of mermaids trapped on dry land-from prolific comic artist and writer Kat Leyh, creator of the acclaimed Snapdragon and coauthor of the bestselling Lumberjanes series!įresh out of shipwreck wine, three tipsy mermaids decide to magically masquerade as humans and sneak onto land to indulge in much more drinking and a whole lot of fun in the heart of a local seaside tourist trap. Snapdragon - Libby Library Ebook Snapdragon Kat Leyh’s Snapdragon is a magical realist graphic novel about a young girl who befriends her town’s witch and discovers the strange magic within herself. The runcible buffers on Samarkand have been mysteriously sabotaged, killing many thousands and destroying a terraforming project. Widescreen, action-packed science-fiction drama by a notable talent.In outer space you can never feel sure that your adversary is altogether human. Caught between the byzantine wiles of the Dragon and the lethal fury of Pelter, Cormac needs to skip very nimbly indeed to rescue the Samarkand project and protect his own life.Gridlinked is the first sci-fi thriller in Neal Asher's compelling Agent Cormac series. Despite the sub-zero temperature of Samarkand, Cormac discovers signs of life: they are two 'dracomen', alien beasts contrived by an extra-galactic entity calling itself 'Dragon', which is a huge creature consisting of four conjoined spheres of flesh each a kilometre in diameter. But Cormac has incurred the wrath of a vicious psychopath called Pelter, who is prepared to follow him across the galaxy with a terrifying android in tow. Agent Cormac must reach it by ship to begin an investigation. Though intelligent and well read, Perowne feels he has little influence over political events. The main character, though outwardly successful, still struggles to understand meaning in his life, exploring personal satisfaction in the post-modern, developed world. The novel explores one's engagement with the modern world and the meaning of existence in it. To understand his character's world-view, McEwan spent time with a neurosurgeon. As he goes about his day, he ponders the meaning of the protest and the problems that inspired it however, the day is disrupted by an encounter with a violent, troubled man. The protagonist, Henry Perowne, a 48-year-old neurosurgeon, has planned a series of errands and pleasures, culminating in a family dinner in the evening. It is set in Fitzrovia, central London, on Saturday, 15 February 2003, as a large demonstration is taking place against the United States' 2003 invasion of Iraq. Saturday (2005) is a novel by Ian McEwan. I don’t know what my thing with teeth is, but it became contagious in the writers’ room. I have teeth things in several of my books. It really did become a fixation for all of us. That episode where RiRi loses her teeth, over and over again, thoroughly ruined the dentist for me. It’s only gotten darker and darker and more criminal. And this ultimately seemed so true to the move toward noir as the season’s gone on. We tried to fuse them somehow, but it didn’t work. Originally, in the shorter, more sedate one, the surprise was that he’d known all along about the affair.Įveryone liked both endings, weirdly. It’s when she’s looking for the bracelet and he reveals he knows that that’s the affair, but we don’t know that he knows everything, and, perhaps, was a part of everything. What happened in the alternate ending? Do we not get to see that Colette French and her husband are in cahoots? We did shoot two endings, and one just puts it a little further, which is the one you saw. What the ending does is finally get in there and see what was making them tick and who was leading the charge. We so wanted to get inside that marriage. What became increasingly interesting to us as the scenes developed was the chemistry between those two actors, Willa and Rob, and the weirdness of their marriage, which felt both very common and yet also somewhat twisted. That twist! What you can tell us about the Frenches and their scheme, now that we know they’re in on it together? I am very curious to know where you see things going. He decides to try to leave the twoleg homeland, but will Millie join him and will either survive journey? When Millie convinces Graystripe to teach her how to live and hunt in the wild, Graystripe finds himself yearning even more to return home. Graystripe meets a kittypet named Millie, and they strike up a friendship. Living in a sprawling suburban area, he has no idea which direction is home, and every time, he ventures from his yard, he becomes disoriented or ends up fighting a bruiser of a domesticated cat in a nearby yard. Taking place between the second and third series of Warriors novels, The Lost Warrior manga finds Graystripe all but domesticated, having just about given up finding his way back to the forest. This manga series chronicles the untold story of Graystripe, a warrior of the ThunderClan who finds himself trapped in a life as a kittypet of a human ( twoleg) family. This juvenile fantasy series takes place in a world of anthropomorphized cats where wild (or feral) cats live in four “Clans.” The prose series began with a kittypet (domesticated cat) entering the world of the wild cats, joining the ThunderClan, and learning to be a “real cat.” Warriors: The Lost Warrior is the manga adaptation of the bestselling Warriors novels by Erin Hunter (the pen name of the writing team of Kate Cary and Cherith Baldry). Manga Warriors: The Lost Warrior: Volume 1 The Sea Witch asks for the sisters’ hair in return for legs for Runa. Runa, Alia’s sister, refuses to accept Alia’s decision and makes a different bargain with the Sea Witch, with the support of her grandmother and her other sisters. She has a certain amount of time to make the prince kiss her with true love’s kiss or she will turn to foam on the sea. She falls in love with a human prince, stares at a statue of him, and makes a bargain with the Sea Witch to trade her voice for legs. It takes place fifty years after the first book and concerns twin mermaids named Runa and Alia. This book will be confusing unless you first read Sea Witch. It’s about mermaid witches and an octopus witch and some human witches fighting the Germans and also patriarchy above and below the sea during WWI. There is romance in the story but the book is not a romance. Like Sea Witch, Rising is a hot mess, and, yet, also like Sea Witch, I just gotta have it. Sea Witch Rising is the sequel to Sea Witch, which was a very loose retelling of The Little Mermaid with an impressive twist. Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult |