![]() ![]() Here is the savagery of the camp commandant, the deep compassion of a nearby planter and his gentle daughter, the merging of valor and viciousness within the stockade itself, and the day-to-day fight for survival among the cowards, cutthroats, innocents, and idealists thrown together by the brutal struggle between North and South. ![]() Based on the author's extensive research and nearly twenty-five years in the making, MacKinlay Kantor's bestselling masterwork tells the heartbreaking story of the notorious Georgia prison where 50,000 Northern soldiers suffered - and 14,000 died - and of the people whose lives were changed by the grim camp where the best and the worst of the Civil War came together. Acclaimed as the greatest novel ever written about the War Between the States, this searing Pulitzer Prize-winning book captures all the glory and shame of America's most tragic conflict in the vivid, crowded world of Andersonville, and the people who lived outside its barricades. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Washington Independent Review also named Gortner one of the top historical novelists. The novels have become international bestsellers across Europe and in the United States where they were Marin Independent Journal, The Last Queen, American Booksellers Association, and USA Today bestsellers. Gortner’s novels have been translated into more than twenty languages and been critically acclaimed across the globe. Going to college, he studied history and even mastered in it as an extension of his love for the subject. ![]() ![]() Historical characters and people were thus very real in his childhood given that he was surrounded by history. Gortner was born and grew up in Malaga in Southern Spain, in a small village that overlooked the ruined castle that was once the home of Isabella of Castile. Gortner is an American historical fiction and spymaster thriller writer best known for “The Spymaster Chronicles” and a series of freestanding novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() White shows us Lincoln as a man who would leave a trail of thoughts in his wake, jotting ideas on scraps of paper and filing them in his top hat or the bottom drawer of his desk a country lawyer who asked questions in order to figure out his own thinking on an issue, as much as to argue the case a hands-on commander in chief who, as soldiers and sailors watched in amazement, commandeered a boat and ordered an attack on Confederate shore batteries at the tip of the Virginia peninsula a man who struggled with the immorality of slavery and as president acted publicly and privately to outlaw it forever and finally, a president involved in a religious odyssey who wrote, for his own eyes only, a profound meditation on “the will of God” in the Civil War that would become the basis of his finest address. Through meticulous research of the newly completed Lincoln Legal Papers, as well as of recently discovered letters and photographs, White provides a portrait of Lincoln’s personal, political, and moral evolution. White, Jr., offers a fresh and compelling definition of Lincoln as a man of integrity–what today’s commentators would call “authenticity”–whose moral compass holds the key to understanding his life. Lincoln.” In his lifetime and ever since, friend and foe have taken it upon themselves to characterize Lincoln according to their own label or libel. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYĮveryone wants to define the man who signed his name “A. “If you read one book about Lincoln, make it A. St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series). ![]() ![]() His arrogance leads to his loved ones’ deaths and his own and the monster’s misery. OL450125W Page_number_confidence 76.13 Pages 342 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0192822837 Published in 1818, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a Gothic novel that explores the disaster that ensues after Victor Frankenstein, a natural philosophy student, unlocks creation’s secrets and arrogantly brings to life a monstrous creature. At age 18 Shelley ran off with Percy Bysshe Shelley, a leading British Romantic poet, who she married in 1816. ![]() Shelley's mother died in childbirth and she was raised by her father. ![]() Urn:lcp:frankenstein00mary_6:epub:b7a8e00e-660e-4f1f-b02e-e713e812f7c2 Extramarc MIT Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier frankenstein00mary_6 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3mw52523 Invoice 11 Isbn 0192833669ĩ780192833662 Lccn 98203488 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL14448179M Openlibrary_edition Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was the daughter of the philosopher William Godwin and the writer Mary Wollstonecraft, who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792). ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 01:56:44.831396 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA199801 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Oxford Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Addison is a founding member of the writer’s group Circles in the Hair (CITH), and a member of HWA, SFWA and SFPA. Catch her latest work in The Place of Broken Things, written with Alessandro Manzetti (Crystal Lake Publishing) and anthologies Cosmic Underground (Cedar Grove Publishing), and Scary Out There (Simon Schuster). She has published over 350 poems, stories and articles and is one of the editors of Sycorax’s Daughters (Cedar Grove Publishing), an anthology of horror fiction/poetry by African-American women (HWA Bram Stoker finalist). ![]() In 2016 Addison received the HWA Mentor of the Year Award and in 2018 she received the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award. Addison is the first African-American winner of the HWA Bram Stoker Award®, which she won four times for her collections Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes (2001) and Being Full of Light, Insubstantial (2007) and How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend (2011) and Four Elements (2014). Addison born in Philadelphia, PA is an American poet and writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. ![]() ![]() It is super-rare that I name an historical romance novel as a best book recommendation for book club reading selections. Plus, you are reading correctly when you see I have also placed Remember Love on my T.I.M.E. Favorite Book To Read and Best Books by Genre | Historical Romance. ![]() So just try to keep me from gushing in this review! Feeding your heart, your soul and your mind.Īnd I am so thrilled to now have the opportunity to “get in on the ground level” with her new series, A Ravenswood Novel, with Book 1 entitled Remember Love. But raises the ante by infusing her story with a standout strong female character lead and story elements that explore societal issues as well. ![]() Mary Balogh stole my heart with her previous book, Someone Perfect, and forever placed her future books on my "auto-buy" list as an historical romance author that is never satisfied with just writing a fabulous romance story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Penelope then asks her son if he got started on the list of chores she gave him. Lydia then says it's unfair he's been imprisoned in the house since all he wanted to do was spend time with some girl named Mary Jane.Īlex says it's fine and he needs to learn his lesson. Penelope then pointedly corrects her saying he's grounded. Lydia then protests on Alex's behalf saying it's been "torture" for him since he has been imprisoned in the house. In unison, both Alex and Lydia declare they are fine with that. Penelope then scolds Lydia, saying Alex will never learn to do anything for himself if she does everything for him. In the Alvarez family living room, Lydia is feeding Alex slices of an orange. Schneider makes a big decision in order to please his visiting father-at the expense of Penelope's family. ![]() ![]() ![]() Together they face increasing danger from creatures who will stop at nothing to end Diana and Matthew’s forbidden relationship and learn Diana’s secrets. As Diana learns to accept her birthright and embrace her magic, she and Matthew fall in love. The handsome vampire Matthew Clairmont and the malevolent wizard Peter Knox are among the many creatures who covet the book. ![]() ![]() Diana Bishop, a spellbound witch and scholar of 17th century chemistry, whose life changes when she calls a long-lost, enchanted manuscript from the Bodleian Library. Rocketing to popularity when first published in 2011, the novel receiving a starred review from Library Journal and became a New York Times Best Seller. A Discovery of Witches is a romantic fantasy by American historian, professor, and author, Deborah Harkness. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a realist work with allusions to Rapunzel’s witch and tower. Carol Lefevre expands her feminist and ageist concerns in the Christina Stead Prize-shortlisted Murmurations to The Tower, a book of linked short stories. ![]() Limberlost is the tale of a boy who finds a discarded boat on a Tasmanian property that promises freedom and perhaps a way back to the whale. A mythologised whale anchors Limberlost by Robbie Arnott, the trail-blazing author of surrealist eco-fables Flames and The Rain Heron. Gods seem to materialise from the sky in The Sun Walks Down, a chronicle of a lost child in the Flinders Ranges in 1883 by Fiona McFarlane, awarded author of The Night Guest and The High Places. At the heart of each of these timely Australian literary works is a potent symbol from myth or fairy tale. ![]() ![]() ![]() For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.Īleksander Fredro (20 June 1793 – 15 July 1876) was a Polish poet, playwright and author active during Polish Romanticism in the period of partitions by neighboring empires.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Polish Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. ![]() If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. ![]()
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