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Twenty years later alexandre dumas5/9/2023 ![]() Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are becoming extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. His novels have been translated into nearly a hundred different languages, and have inspired over 200 motion pictures. Despite making a great deal of money from his writing, Dumas was almost perpetually penniless thanks to his lavish lifestyle. He is best remembered for his exciting romantic sagas, including “Chicot the Jester” and “The Count of Monte Cristo”. ![]() Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was a famous French writer. ![]() The aging musketeers are coaxed out of retirement when a dastardly threat to the monarchy presents itself, but will they be able to succeed this time? Packed with intrigue and daring-do, “Twenty Years After” will not disappoint fans of Duma’s work. The sequel to “The Three Musketeers”, it is set twenty years after the first episode. ![]() This antiquarian book contains Alexandre Dumas’s historical novel, “Twenty Years After”. ![]()
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Bede eliot5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She translated Das Leben Jesu, a monumental task, without signing her name to the 1846 work.Īfter her father's death in 1849, Mary Ann traveled, then accepted an unpaid position with The Westminster Review. Her intellectual views did not, however, change. Her father shunned her, sending the broken-hearted young dependent to live with a sister until she promised to reexamine her feelings. Unable to believe, she conscientiously gave up religion and stopped attending church. Through a family friend, she was exposed to Charles Hennell's "An Inquiry into the Origins of Christianity". Her first published work was a religious poem. Influenced by a favorite governess, she became a religious evangelical as an adolescent. Mary Ann, the youngest child and a favorite of her father's, received a good education for a young woman of her day. She was born in 1819 at a farmstead in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, where her father was estate manager. Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The mainstream culture was more politically incorrect-but you'll never hear that from a liberal pundit or read it in a politically correct textbook. Did you know: * The civil rights movement did little to improve the lives of average African Americans? * Most Americans actively supported the Vietnam War and the draft? * My Fair Lady was one of the most popular albums during the 1960s? The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties proves the anti-Vietnam War sentiment and free love slogans that supposedly "defined" the decade were just a small part of the leftist counter culture. In this blast from the past, Leaf exposes the lies and busts the myths propagated by the liberal establishment. Life was more "square" than "groovy" and Dean Martin was topping the Billboard charts-not Jimmy Hendrix. ![]() Get ready to break on through to the other side as critically-acclaimed playwright and journalist Jonathan Leaf reveals the politically incorrect truth about one of the most controversial decades in history-the 1960s. One of Regnerys publishing lines is the Politically Incorrect Guide (P.I.G.) series of books, introduced in 2004 to present conservative views of historical or current events, such as the American Civil War, the British Empire, the Roman Catholic Church, Islam, immigration, and climate change. ![]()
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Fluffy fluffy cinnamoroll vol 15/9/2023 ![]() ![]() (It turns out that flying works differently for him than for the cloud kids: rather than just float, Cinnamoroll must flap his long ears.) Overjoyed, he decides to go investigate the world below – specifically, Café Cinnamon, a sweet shop that is the hangout of all the neighborhood puppies. As he falls, the puppy makes a frantic attempt to fly – and finally does. He’s left to wonder why he’s so different – and what life would be like in the world below, where he sees lots of people (well, puppies) who look just like him.Ĭinnamoroll gets a chance to find out when a spat between his siblings knocks him out of the sky. Stuck on his tiny floating cloud seat, Cinnamoroll can’t go with his siblings on their airborne adventures. More importantly, he can’t seem to fly like them, which makes things tough given that he lives in the sky. ![]() ![]() His mother is the sky, his father is the sun, and all of his brothers and sisters are clouds – chatty, mischievous clouds who can’t understand why Cinnamoroll doesn’t look like them. Cinnamoroll is a cute, good-natured puppy with a very unusual background. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Many have an idea that South Africa is home to 10 UNESCO World Heritage Sites and that Apartheid in South Africa started in 1948 and ended in 1994. Most people are also familiar with or have read Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk To Freedom. ![]() However, much that we know about South Africa is surface-level or what we’ve read from Trevor Noah’s Born A Crime, which is both hilarious and authentic. ![]() We cannot wait to see giraffes and elephants in the wild and drink South African wine. Here at The Uncorked Librarian, South Africa is high up on our travel bucket list. Travel around the world with must-read books about South Africa. These complex South African books are sure to give you new perspectives too. ![]()
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Christy of cutter gap series5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() She shopped at the Bon Marché department store. *Christy attended the historic downtown First Presbyterian Church. *Christy, the eldest of two children, was born circa 1892 to upper middle class parents in Asheville, North Carolina, and lived on Montford Avenue. Shy and reserved, she likely felt underdressed and out of place in the hustle and bustle of Pack Square. En route to El Pano, she wondered why her parents hadn’t told her “that such awful conditions existed within a day’s train ride from Asheville, right in our mountains.” Leonora made infrequent trips to Asheville. She honored her parents’ service at Ebenezer Mission, and, from their stories, created the timeless characters we readers know and love.īut important differences exist between the fictional character, Christy Rudd Huddleston, and her real-life counterpart, Leonora Haseltine Whitaker.Īlthough both women were born and raised in Buncombe County, North Carolina, sheltered Christy knew little of rural life. In writing Christy, Catherine Marshall wove elements of fact and fiction, mystery and humor, grief and joy. ![]()
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Norwegian forest murakami5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Still, for some mysterious reason, the creative flair of the two legends and the title of their works have inspired wanderlust for the beautiful country in the Scandinavian Peninsula. Oslo NorwayĪs we all know, neither the book nor the song was set in Norway, the country of fjords and the Vikings. ![]() ![]() The book has gained popularity abroad, and the film adaptation was critically acclaimed and screened in theaters across the globe. The book was adapted into a film in 2010, starring Kenichi Matsuyama as Watanabe. The story begins with the protagonist Watanabe recalling his school days on a plane for Hamburg Airport, Germany, as he listens to The Beatles playing in the background. Haruki Murakami wrote Norwegian Wood 22 years later, in 1987. When I first became obsessed with The Beatles, I used to listen to this melancholic song on repeat and sing its lyrics. The Beatles’ masterpiece “Norwegian Wood” was sent out into the world in 1965 by the sweet voice of John Lennon and the tune of his acoustic guitar. I’ve always wanted to visit Norway - a fond dream inspired by the works of John Lennon and Haruki Murakami. ![]()
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Brave new world revisited difference5/8/2023 ![]() However, what she is actually observing is not men acting in a refined or civilized manner, but rather representatives of the worst of humanity, who betrayed or tried to betray their brothers or leaders to get ahead. When she sees other people for the first time, she is overcome with excitement, and utters, among other praise, the famous line above. This line itself is ironic Miranda was raised for most of her life on an isolated island, and the only people she ever knew were her father and his servants, an enslaved savage, and spirits, notably Ariel. ![]() William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, ll. In 2003, Robert McCrum writing for The Observer included Brave New World chronologically at number 53 in "the top 100 greatest novels of all time", and the novel was listed at number 87 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. ![]() In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Huxley answered this book with a reassessment in an essay, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with Island (1962), his final novel. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F.-"After Ford"-in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that combine profoundly to change society. Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. ![]()
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The shadows between us series order5/8/2023 ![]() There is a lot of potential for The Shadows Between Us to explore her–and the king’s–awfulness and the reader’s relationship with it. So my real problem is that Alessandra’s terribleness isn’t really nuanced. Admittedly, I hated her as much as any other reader might, but I thought writing a protagonist who is objectively a horrible person was a bold move for YA at least, it’s different and not like 50 other YA books I’ve read before. ![]() She’s manipulative and mean (and literally willing to kill to get what she wants) but presents these characteristics as confidence and empowerment. Protagonist Alessandra may be the toughest sell of the novel for many readers. With an okay but not particularly riveting plot (which leans heavily towards romance, not the political intrigue that the official summary implies) and messages about love and feminism that were are contradictory, The Shadows Between Us does not live up to the caliber of Levenseller’s previous work. Unfortunately, this is about as far as the novelty of the book goes for me. ![]() The Shadows Between Us, with its unapologetically cruel and ambitious protagonist, initially seems set up to provide something unique and exciting to the YA market–a main character who is deeply unlikeable and simply does not care. ![]()
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The disappearing spoon book5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() It also looked briefly into things like structure and how it might vary at different temperatures by explaining the significance to real life people’s experiences. There are also interesting stories where unexpected things had occurred, the primary example being the “disappearing spoon” in the book’s title. This book has a variety of stories concerning how the periodic table had affected people as its different elements were discovered. Looking through these books became tedious quite quickly as they provided me with little information that I hadn’t already been given in science lessons at school. As much as the periodic table’s elements are an interesting and essential part of chemistry, I found that these books were not what I was looking for. ![]() When I went looking for books on the subject of chemistry, all the books I found initially were all based on the periodic table with the pages listing the elements and their properties. ![]() |