![]() seedy, dangerous, and loud, but we don't want to leave., "The strands of mother's and daughter's stories come together during the suspenseful climax.Solid and well-told."- Kirkus Reviews, * "Intricately written, this fast-paced story.will enthrall readers. ![]() seedy, dangerous, and loud, but we don't want to leave., Lindner astutely allows her setting to be as important as it is in the original. ![]() ![]() seedy, dangerous, and loud, but we don't want to leave."- The Boston Globe, Lindner astutely allows her setting to be as important as it is in the original. captures the agony of love gone wrong."- Booklist, " capably streamlines the complex, gothic plot twists of the original as she depicts the passionate but ill-fated love."- Publishers Weekly, "Lindner astutely allows her setting to be as important as it is in the original. ![]() Capably streamlines the complex, gothic plot twists of the original as she depicts the passionate but ill-fated love., "Dramatic events touched by love, loss, and longing have all the juicy elements readers will appreciate. ![]()
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![]() OL151924W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.29 Pages 166 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0061685291 Plot edit Like most of the Henry Huggins books, the incidents in this book follow an ongoing plot line. Henry plays a minor role in the story, however, as the narrative focuses primarily on his dog, Ribsy. ![]() ![]() It is the sixth and final book in the Henry Huggins series. OL9235353M Openlibrary_subject openlibrary_staff_picks Openlibrary_work Ribsy is a children's book by Beverly Cleary. Internetarchivebookdrive Edition 1st Harper Trophy ed. ![]() Huggins announces that its time to take the car in for an oil change, Henry and his dog. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:58:03.956044 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA1152616 City New York Donor Henry Huggins doesnt have much to do during the summer. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this matriarchal culture, the men stay home, cook, and assume primary care for the children. Even though diving is dangerous, the girls are eager to be allowed to join the women of the sea as they learn the trade and follow in the tradition of the other women in the village who are the sole providers for their families. As the girls mature, they begin working in the sea with other women in the village as part of the diving collective ( the haenyo). Although the girls are best friends, they come from very different backgrounds. As the story begins, we are introduced to these two young girls living on the Korean Island of Jeju. In The Island of Sea Women, See imagines the story of Mi-ja and Young-sook. You may have read The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, or Shanghai Girls by popular author Lisa See. *This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Genre/Categories: Historical Fiction, South Korea, Women’s Roles Have you experienced a patriarchal or matriarchal culture? The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See ![]() ![]() ![]() Anyone in love or money was around the corner at Café Society dancing to swing. There were a few couples here and there, but no romance. The spare clientele were almost as downbeat as the band. Boom, boom, boom, he went, at half the pace of a heartbeat. While the bass player, a coffee-and-cream mulatto with a small deferential mustache, was being careful not to hurry him. The saxophonist, a mournful giant with skin as black as motor oil, had apparently lost his way in the labyrinth of one of his long, lonely solos. ![]() At the back of the club, looming over a small empty dance floor, a jazz quartet was playing loved-me-and-left-me standards without a vocalist. There were no hats or streamers no paper trumpets. ![]() With no better plans or prospects, my roommate Eve had dragged me back to The Hotspot, a wishfully named nightclub in Greenwich Village that was four feet underground.įrom a look around the club, you couldn't tell that it was New Year's Eve. ![]() It won't hit bookstores until July 26, 2011, but you can get a sneak peek right here. The editors at O magazine fell in love with this striking debut novel by Amor Towles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Disney musical adaptation was released in 1964. The 1934 publication of Mary Poppins was Travers' first literary success.Five sequels followed, as well as a collection of other novels, poetry collections and works of non-fiction. Later, the mystic Gurdjieff would have a great effect on her, as would also have on several other literary figures. Through Russell, Travers met William Butler Yeats and other Irish poets who fostered her interest in and knowledge of world mythology. In 1925 while in Ireland, Travers met the poet George William Russell who, as editor of The Irish Statesman, accepted some of her poems for publication. ![]() There she dedicated herself to writing under the pen name P. She toured Australia and New Zealand with a Shakespearean touring company before leaving for England in 1924. Travers began to publish her poems while still a teenager and wrote for The Bulletin and Triad while also gaining a reputation as an actress. Her father died when she was seven, and although "epileptic seizure delirium" was given as the cause of death, Travers herself "always believed the underlying cause was sustained, heavy drinking". She was born to bank manager Travers Robert Goff and Margaret Agnes. Pamela Lyndon Travers was an Australian novelist, actress and journalist, popularly remembered for her series of children's novels about mystical nanny Mary Poppins. ![]() ![]() Since her contract is garbage and she doesn’t like what she’s being asked to do, she goes for the devil she doesn’t know that has billions of dollars and gives her mind-blowing orgasms. Creighton, being a controlling Billionaire Dom, puts out a missed connections ad saying he’ll marry the woman he slept with if she meets him on New Years Eve at the same hotel room. Holly thinks, “This dude is smokin’ hot,” they have all the sex in her hotel room, and she ghosts him in the morning. Just as she’s getting hit on by a sleazeball who doesn’t seem to understand “no,” Creighton approaches from behind and pretends to be her husband, like they’re role-playing at the bar for fun. She has to pretend to be this guy’s girlfriend in order to fulfill her contract with the label, and it’s terrible, so on Christmas Eve, after her concert, she gets cozy in the hotel bar in search of a hookup. Holly won a singing contest and signed a contract that put her in a totally ridiculous position as a fake girlfriend of a washed up country star. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Etta is 83, she is starting to lose her memories and she decides that she has never seen the ocean and decides to walk from Manitoba to Halifax. The writing style of the novel is very curt and direct and mimics the simplicity of the characters themselves. The story flashes back from the present when Etta, Otto, and Russell are in their eighties to the younger years of the Vogel farm when Otto and Russell are children, to Otto’s experiences in World War II and to Etta’s life with her family before she meets Otto and Russell. Russell, who lives next door, becomes just as good friends with Etta as he has been with Otto. Through their letters they fall in love and when Otto gets back to Canada they marry and have a long and happy life together. Otto keeps up a correspondence with the teacher at the local school whose name is Etta. Otto, against the wishes of his mother, joins the army and is shipped to Europe when World War II breaks out. ![]() Russell plays with the Vogel children, eats with the family and does a fair share of chores on their farm and thus becomes the honorary 16th member of the Vogel family. ![]() Russell, when he is nine years old, is sent to live with his aunt and uncle who are neighbors of the Vogel family. Otto Vogel comes from a family of fifteen children that live on a farm in rural Saskatchewan. I received and advanced review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley ![]() ![]() With a clear-eyed understanding of the Bible, and meaningful instruction on how to have a successful marriage, The Meaning of Marriage is essential reading for anyone who wants to know God and love more deeply in this life. It is a glorious relationship that is also the most misunderstood and mysterious. Using the Bible as his guide, coupled with insightful commentary from his wife of thirty-six years, Kathy, Timothy Keller shows that God created marriage to bring us closer to him and to bring us more joy in our lives. All those modern-day assumptions are, in a word, wrong. ![]() ![]() Modern culture would make you believe that everyone has a soul-mate that romance is the most important part of a successful marriage that your spouse is there to help you realize your potential that marriage does not mean forever, but merely for now that starting over after a divorce is the best solution to seemingly intractable marriage issues. Based on the acclaimed sermon series by New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller, this book shows everyone - Christians, skeptics, singles, long-time married couples, and those about to be engaged - the vision of what marriage should be according to the Bible. THE MEANING OF MARRIAGE - Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God by Timothy Keller is a treasure trove Didnt know of him til I heard about the book & quickly got it on Kindle. Summary: There has never been a marriage book like The Meaning of Marriage. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Golem, though rarely seen, is central to the novel as a representative of the ghetto's own spirit and consciousness, brought to life by the suffering and misery that its inhabitants have endured over the centuries. While the novel is generally focused on Pernath's own musings and adventures, it also chronicles the lives, the characters, and the interactions of his friends and neighbors. This dream was perhaps induced because he inadvertently swapped his hat with the real (old) Pernath's. But his story is experienced by an anonymous narrator, who, during a visionary dream, assumes Pernath's identity thirty years before. The novel centers on the life of Athanasius Pernath, a jeweler and art restorer who lives in the ghetto of Prague. It was first translated into English in 1928. It became his most popular and successful literary work, and is generally described as the most "accessible" of his full-length novels. First published in serial form from December 1913 to August 1914 in the periodical Die Weißen Blätter, The Golem was published in book form in 1915 by Kurt Wolff, Leipzig. The Golem (original German title: Der Golem) is a novel written by Gustav Meyrink between 19. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Luckily, none of these run-ins lasted more than twenty-four hours, nor did they approach such media-milled headline fodder as say, the Larry Davis stand-off or the Abner Louima debacle. Since moving to New York City in 1981, I've had a few encounters with the forces of law and order myself. This resonant tagline became a motto for Eisenhower America's crime docudrama faithful, a genre rife with predictable twists and flimsy subplots that reverberate up to the present day on shows like Law and Order and The Wire. Thus ended each episode of the ancient ABC-TV series, its "gritty" slice of life tales emulating the location-based 1948 Mark Hellinger production of HUAC-blacklisted film noir auteur Jules Dassin's Hollywood hit of the same name. ![]() Narrator Mark Hellinger from The Naked City postscript "There are eight million stories in the naked city. Not only over the seas but also on land did they kindle the lovely torch of freedom." ![]() "To you, O Sun, the people of Dorian Rhodes set up this bronze statue reaching to Olympus when they had pacified the waves of war and crowned their city with the spoils taken from the enemy. The Colossus of New York: A City In Thirteen PartsĪ Division of Random House, Inc., 2003, New York. ![]() |