![]() The earliest known version of the story is found in the narrative Perceforest, composed between 13 and first printed in 1528. ![]() ![]() This in turn was based on Sun, Moon, and Talia by Italian poet Giambattista Basile (published posthumously in 1634), which was in turn based on one or more folk tales. The version collected by the Brothers Grimm was an orally transmitted version of the originally literary tale published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697. "Sleeping Beauty" (French: La Belle au bois dormant "The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood") by Charles Perrault, or "Little Briar Rose" (German: Dornröschen) by the Brothers Grimm, is a classic fairy tale which involves a beautiful princess, a sleeping enchantment, and a handsome prince. ![]() Sleeping Beauty: a Little Golden Book = La Belle au bois dormant (Disney Princess), Michael Teitelbaum, Walt Disney Company ![]()
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![]() ![]() Hank isn’t your typical innocent man thrust into peril. The elements may be relatively routine, but the characters aren’t. It’s standard-issue crime novel stuff, but Huston plays this game with astonishing skill. Men in cowboy hats and boots visit the absent Russ’s apartment in the middle of the night. ![]() Suddenly, scary Russians in tracksuits beat him up, destroying one of his kidneys. But after his shady neighbor Russ asks Hank to watch Russ’s cat while he’s away, poor Hank’s life is thrown into upheaval. ![]() He’s working as a bartender in New York as the story starts – an unremarkable man, but a nice, trustworthy one. The tragic death of a friend shortly after compounded his anguish, and Hank never really recovered. But it’s the kind of happy you might feel if you thought someone were about to kill you, and they just maimed you instead.Ĭaught Stealing is about a sad sack named Hank Thompson, whose promising baseball career was derailed by an injury in his youth. Oh sure, the book has a happy conclusion of sorts. Charlie Huston’s Caught Stealing is the kind of novel that makes you realize that happy endings are overrated. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Ghost has been running for the wrong reasons-it all started with running away from his father, who, when Ghost was a very little boy, chased him and his mother through their apartment, then down the street, with a loaded gun, aiming to kill. That's all Ghost (real name Castle Cranshaw) has ever known. ![]() They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team-a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of the acclaimed Track series from Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award–winning author Jason Reynolds. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read A National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature ![]() ![]() ![]() The Dragonbone Chair is my favorite fantasy series for the same reason - I love his ability to really build a world and make it seem effortless. Williams is clearly setting up a quest narrative and spends 1000 pages maneuvering everyone together, but he’s such a good writer that I enjoyed the whole thing immensely. This is a long and complex book with a lot of characters, and it’s the setup for the next three books in the series. !Xabbu helps Renie try to rescue her little brother from a misadventure in a VR club, but her brother ends up in a coma and Renie becomes determined to try to figure out why he’s not waking up and what the mysterious golden city she saw has to do with it. He is basically the last remaining Bushman and serves as a way for Williams to explain the history and theory of VR to the reader without just narrating straight at us. Renie is a teacher at a university in South Africa when she meets !Xabbu, a Bushman who has come to the city to learn. With a long train commute and a sudden urge to read Tad Williams, the stars aligned.Ĭity of Golden Shadow is set in a near-future world dominated by virtual reality. ![]() At this pace, I should be done in about 39 more years, so there’s hope! I think this really is a case of a book needing to be read at the right time. ![]() After carrying this book around from apartment to apartment for thirteen years, I finally made it beyond the first hundred pages and have finished the first book in the quartet. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book includes essays by Steven Johnson, Nicholas Carr, Don Tapscott, Douglas Rushkoff, Maggie Jackson, Clay Shirky, Todd Gitlin, and many more. Framing the discussion so that leading voices from across the spectrum, supporters and detractors alike, have the opportunity to weigh in on the profound issues raised by the new media-from questions of reading skills and attention span, to cyber-bullying and the digital playground- Bauerlein's new book takes the debate to a higher ground. But The Digital Divide doesn't take sides. With The Dumbest Generation, Mark Bauerlein emerged as the foremost voice against the development of an overwhelming digital social culture. ![]() But others are deeply concerned by the eroding of civility online, declining reading habits, withering attention spans, and the treacherous effects of 24/7 peer pressure on our young. ![]() Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful and democratic new steps in education, information gathering, and human progress. ![]() Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators, with an all-new introduction by Bauerlein. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throwing off his initial grumpiness, Carruthers settles in to learn the art of sailing under Davies’ expert tutelage. He’s expecting a well-appointed leisure yacht complete with crew, so is taken aback to discover that the Dulcibella is tiny, strictly functional and manned only by his friend, Davies. Released at last for his annual holiday, he finds himself with nowhere in particular to go, so when an old friend writes inviting him to spend some time on his yacht duck-shooting in the Baltic, he decides to take him up on the offer. Our narrator, Carruthers, finds himself having to stay on at his job in the Foreign Office while all his fashionable friends depart for country house parties, apparently managing to cope with his absence with less difficulty than he’d have liked. ![]() Britannia rules the waves? □ □ □ □ □ ![]() ![]() ![]() His mother gave him away as a baby to fifty-one-year-old, Lillian Rembert, Winfred's great aunt, who raised him as her son. One could say that Winfred Rembert was much like the leather, taking a beating, his body holding the imprint of his trauma and in the end, his soul delivering through his art, the pictures of his growing up years in Cuthbert, Georgia. You can carve it up and it will hold your picture." Leather takes a beating, and whatever you do with it, it will hold its shape. "My pictures are carved and painted on leather, using skills I learned in prison. ![]() An amazing story of Rembert's will to survive and make a living for his family. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 2022. Kelly, a philosophy professor at Tufts University. This book was a collaborative effort between Winfred Rembert and Erin I. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the midst of the panic, the two captains managed to lash their vessels together long enough to get the San Rafael's passengers onto the Sausalito, but the career of the captain of the Sausalito was ruined. Three people died as a result of the collision, and an old horse named Dick, who was used to move baggage carts around the ferry, refused to leave and went down with the ship. The elegant side-wheel steamer-which had a pair of gilt eagles atop decorative masts-sank in twenty minutes. Navigating the fog in an era when ferry skippers relied on the sounds of foghorns, bells on buoys, sirens on piers, and echoes of whistles together with compasses and a heavy dose of instinct, the Sausalito never saw the San Rafael before hitting it amidships, the Sausalito's prow slamming into the dining room of the smaller, older San Rafael. On 30 November 1901, an unusually foggy night even by San Francisco standards, the ferry Sausalito collided with the ferry San Rafael in San Francisco Bay in what was the worst ferryboat collision in the history of the bay. ![]() ![]() The end ruined this for me with the unnecessarry drama. ![]() The plot just dragged and the "love triangle" was too drawn out imo. Honestly 500+ pages were too much for this storyline. What in Casi Angeles when mar lost her memories and didn't recognize thiago is this plot? ![]() He tells her to make up her mind and when she does she'll find him.until she gets hit by a car, loses her baby(apparently she was pregnant) and doesn't remember the last few months. She gets angry at him tells him it's over goes back to Noah and tells him the truth. The other guy comes and professes his love saying it was not a mistake, he wants her back and kisses her. Then she meets Noah who was the biggest sweetheart, like literally he was so thoughful, patient, swoonworthy the perfect book bf and the only reason for my 2 star rating□□ they start as friends and then they fall in love. They have sex and then he says it was a mistake and leaves her. She's in love with her brother's best friend. ![]() It's bc the h's first in love with one guy whose name is CHASE and then falls in love with the H whose name is NOAH. I kept reading reviews and wondering why i can't find the H's name and when i got past the first 10 chapters i realized why is that. ![]() Since i haven't read one review mentioning this, let me tell you the premise of the story is in fact a FREAKING LOVE TRIANGLE. ![]() ![]() Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women-a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947-are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption.ġ947. ![]() Reese Witherspoon Book Club Summer Reading Pick!Ī Summer Book Pick from Good Housekeeping, Parade, Library Journal, Goodreads, Liz and Lisa, and BookBub One of Bookbub's Biggest Historical Fiction Books of the Year! #1 GLOBE AND MAIL HISTORICAL FICTION BESTSELLER ![]() ![]() Featuring an exclusive excerpt from Kate Quinn's next incredible historical novel, THE HUNTRESS ![]() |