![]() ![]() As readers everywhere seek out books that offer answers to their burning questions about spirituality, the popularity of this remarkable novel continues to grow at an astounding pace. Ishmael is a creature of immense wisdom and he has a story to tell. "I am the teacher, " the gorilla replies. "you are the teacher?" he asks, incredulously. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils only to find himself alone in an abandonded office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender branch. The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search of truth. Now this irresistible novel of a spiritual adventure is available in trade paperback for the first time ever. By the time the mass market paperback edition of this novel was published last year, word was spreading like wildfire. Winner of the Turner Tomorrow Award - a prize for fiction that offered solutions to global problems - it was an utterly unique story that earned raves from readers and critics alike. When Bantam Books first published "Ishmael," a cult was born. ![]()
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![]() As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another.Įpic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race-and the ways in which love can complicate them all. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna’s twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. Olanna is the professor’s beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. ![]() A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,” Half of a Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed. ![]() ![]() ![]() He attempts to live the life that his parents have planned out for him but a sudden turn of events launches him into a world far away from his protected childhood and provincial home, a world that he could never have even imagined. See Phyllis Harrisons selection of books & audiobooks on Scribd. ![]() Wealthy citizens are in danger, too, as they are often accused of heresy for the purpose of seizing their land to pay for the costly ongoing war.Young Gilles cares nothing about politics or religion, but a glimpse into another world, a world of complete freedom and exotic strangers, leaves him wanting more from his life. The King and Cardinal Richelieu oversee a network of priests who set snares for the Huguenots, those not following closely enough to the official interpretation of Catholicism. Used good paperback Condition Good ISBN 10 0595443494 ISBN 13 9780595443499 Seller. Life in France in the Year of Our Lord 1640 is difficult under any circumstances but especially for those who have fallen from favor with the all-powerful church and the guardians of that power. ![]() Gilles Montroville is like any other bored teenager: He's tired of school, doesn't want to go into the family business, and he's tired of people telling him what to do.Rebellion is not an option. ![]() ![]() His own works primarily concentrate on pseudoarchaeological and pseudoscientific topics such as " UFOs, secret societies, suppressed technology, cryptozoology conspiracy theory." Childress, having no degree, refers to himself as a "rogue archaeologist". After several years in Asia and then Africa, Childress moved in 1983 to Stelle, Illinois, a community founded by New Age writer Richard Kieninger Childress had been given one of Kieninger's books while touring Africa.īiography īorn in France to American parents, and raised in Colorado and Montana, United States, Childress went to University of Montana–Missoula to study archaeology, but left college in 1976 at 19 to begin travelling in pursuit of his archaeological interests. Childress chronicled his explorations in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s in his Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries series of books.Ĭhildress's first book, A Hitchhikers Guide to Africa and Arabia, was published in 1983 by Chicago Review Press. In 1984, Childress moved to Kempton, Illinois, and established a publishing company named Adventures Unlimited Press, which is a sole proprietorship. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even after the COVID-19-shortened 2020 season, neither the Hall of Fame nor Major League Baseball planned any celebration.īouton-who died in 2019 at age 80-wrote Ball Four after his best days as a hard-throwing All-Star pitcher with the New York Yankees were over and he was trying to make a comeback as a knuckleball pitcher. 4 But the baseball establishment ignored the 50th anniversary of this revolutionary book. 3 Time magazine lists Ball Four as one of the 100 greatest non-fiction books of all time. ![]() 2 It was the only sports book to make the New York Public Library’s 1996 list of Books of the Century. ![]() 1 When his baseball career ended, he continued to use his celebrity as a platform against social injustice.īouton’s baseball memoir, Ball Four-published in 1970-may be the most influential sports book ever written. During his playing days, Bouton spoke out against the Vietnam War, South African apartheid, the exploitation of players by greedy owners, and the casual racism of the teams and his fellow players. Among professional team sports, baseball may be the most conservative and tradition-bound, but throughout its history, rebels and mavericks have emerged to challenge the status quo in baseball and the wider society, none more so than Bouton. Amidst the current upsurge of social activism among professional athletes, it is worth recalling the enormous contribution of Jim Bouton, one of the most politically outspoken sports figures in American history. ![]() ![]() ![]() His task is to burn Irkutsk, destroying oil depots on the Angara River. Now Ogaryov intends to take revenge on the imperial family. Strogoff is sent there to warn about the traitor Ivan Ogaryov, a former colonel who has been demoted and sent into exile. The rebels surround Irkutsk, where the headquarters of the local governor, the king's brother, is located. Tatar Khan Feofar organizes an uprising and separates the Far East from the main continent by damaging the telegraph lines. Mikhail Strogoff, a thirty-year-old resident of Omsk, serves as a courier for Emperor Alexander II. When the Tatar Khan Feofar invades Russia, Strogoff travels to Irkutsk under the alias of Nikolai Korpanov to warn the governor, the tsar's brother, of Ivan Ogaryov's treason. Michael Strogoff is a courier in the service of Emperor Alexander II. French literature summaries - 2021 Short summary - Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar Jules Gabriel Verne ![]() ![]() Clinging to her job as an archivist, Annabelle has let their house overflow with newspaper cuttings: they are metaphorically drowning in grief, garbage and too much news. His mother, Annabelle, has become a hoarder, and in a sense inanimate things (her husband’s shirts, snow globes, a yellow teapot) are also speaking to her. It tells the story of 14-year-old Benny, who starts hearing the voices of everyday objects after his father’s death. Ozeki can surely lay claim to being the first Zen Buddhist priest to take the Women’s prize, which she has won for her fourth novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness. Coolly elegant in black, despite the heatwave, the 66-year-old writer has the sort of glow not often seen in post-award ceremony interviews. ![]() ![]() She was so convinced she wasn’t going to win ( Meg Mason and Elif Shafak were the frontrunners) she had planned “a full schedule” for the day. “A very short one,” she says when we meet at her hotel later. ![]() ![]() T he first thing the Japanese American author Ruth Ozeki did the morning after winning the Women’s prize for fiction was meditate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her books have been ranked on the national bestseller lists of the New York Times, USAToday, and Publishers Weekly. Since then, she has published twenty-nine books (as of January 2007). In 1987 that first novel, The Diabolical Baron, was published. Signet liked the novel so much that it offered Putney a three-book contract immediately. She began work on her first novel, a traditional Regency romance, which sold in one week. She served as the art editor of The New Internationalist magazine in London and worked as a designer in California before settling in Baltimore, Maryland in 1980 to run her own freelance graphic design business.Īfter purchasing her first computer for her business, Putney realized that it would make writing very easy. ![]() She attended Syracuse University, earning degrees in English literature and Industrial design. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lester's final challenge will be at the Tower of Nero, back in New York. Now the former god and his demigod master Meg must follow a prophecy uncovered by Ella the harpy. Lester's demigod friends at Camp Jupiter just helped him survive attacks from bloodthirsty ghouls, an evil Roman king and his army of the undead, and the lethal emperors Caligula and Commodus. ![]() The fifth and final installment of the number one New York Times best-selling Trials of Apollo series has Lester and Meg returning to where it all began: Camp Half-Blood.Īt last, the breathtaking, action-packed finale of the number one best-selling Trials of Apollo series is here! Will the Greek god Apollo, cast down to earth in the pathetic moral form of a teenager named Lester Papadopoulos, finally regain his place on Mount Olympus? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Spielman’s debut charms.” - Kirkus Reviews “A wonderful, touching story that reminds us to live life to its fullest.”- Cecelia Ahern, New York Times bestselling author of P.S., I Love You Sometimes life’s sweetest gifts can be found in the most unexpected places. ![]() As Brett reluctantly embarks on a perplexing journey in search of her adolescent dreams, one thing becomes clear. How can she possibly have a relationship with a father who died seven years ago? Other goals (Be an awesome teacher!) would require her to reinvent her entire future. Grief-stricken, Brett can barely make sense of her mother’s decision-her childhood dreams don’t resemble her ambitions at age thirty-four in the slightest. That is, until her beloved mother passes away, leaving behind a will with one big stipulation: In order to receive her inheritance, Brett must first complete the life list of goals she’d written when she was a naïve girl of fourteen. In this utterly charming debut-perfect for fans of Cecelia Ahern’s P.S., I Love You and Allison Winn Scotch’s Time of My Life-one woman sets out to complete her old list of childhood goals, and finds that her lifelong dreams lead her down a path she never expects.īrett Bohlinger seems to have it all: a plum job, a spacious loft, an irresistibly handsome boyfriend. ![]() |