![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:inheritwind00lawr_2:epub:7b2be292-546d-475d-9553-166178f689f6 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier inheritwind00lawr_2 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t87h6vt92 Invoice 1133 Isbn 0553254359 Level Secondary Level_subject Secondary English Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 86.92 Pages 132 Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 500 Republisher_date 20170403172103 Republisher_operator Scandate 20170331153052 Scanner. Bookplateleaf 0010 Call number 592975 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II Cat_key 592975 External-identifier ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book Inherit the Wind written by Jerome Lawrence which was published in 1955. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:53:33 Approval_date Approval:1964-1971 Approval_statement Play status: other English Litrerature 11 level: Gr. Brief Summary of Book: Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence. ![]()
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It’s the first in the These Violent Delights series. True to her expectations, she has been entertained since then and has been known to mysteriously appear through singing Romeo and Juliet in one of Shakespeare’s famous plays. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied English and international relations.Īfter exhausting the whole YA part of her library, she began writing her books at 13 to stay entertained. ![]() New York bestselling writer of ‘These Violent Delights’ and the sequel Our Violent Ends, Chloe Gong, is a fantasy and historical fiction author born in Shanghai and grew up in Auckland, New Zealand. ![]() ![]() ![]() K is, seemingly, a man of contradictions: tattooed, battle scarred, and weathered by farm work, he is a lion of a man, feral and bulletproof. With the same fiercely beautiful prose that won her acclaim for Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Fuller here recounts her friendship with K. ![]() ![]() When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger." Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him he told Bo: "Curiosity scribbled the cat." Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendship with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian war. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks to Kottke for the tip on this short. I adore this kind of simple, life-affirming poetic filmmaking. It's a really beautiful poem made transcendent by really beautiful animation - an old book (and its words) are brought to life. ![]() Filmmaker Andrea Dorfman reunites with poet Tanya Davis to craft tender and profound animation on the theme of isolation, providing a wise and soaringly lyrical sequel to their viral hit How to Be Alone." This time Tanya's poem wonders about how to find home, how to be at home (alone), how to find connection in the loneliness, how to feel warmth again, and how to dance to find joy. ![]() Made for Canada's National Film Board (The NFB): "Lean into loneliness - and know you're not alone in it. How to Be at Home is a new animated short film x poem collaboration. "Society is afraid of change and no one wants to die not now, from a tiny virus not later from the world on fire…" Something wholesome to soothe the nerves. ![]() ![]() Where they took that first sentence was completely up to them. The Bookworm Box is proud to present ONE MORE STEP, an exciting and unique reading experience.Įach of the twenty-six authors featured in this anthology were given the same first sentence. ![]() Have you ever been curious how a writer's mind works? Colleen Hoover Ebook Boxed Set Hopeless Series: Hopeless, Losing Hope, Finding Cinderella, and Finding Perfect (2022).Colleen Hoover Ebook Boxed Set Maybe Someday Series: Maybe Someday, Maybe Not, Maybe Now (2022).Colleen Hoover Ebook Boxed Set Slammed Series: Slammed, Point of Retreat, This Girl (2022).It Ends with Us, It Starts with Us Ebook Collection (2022). ![]() ![]() Never Never (Co-authored with Tarryn Fisher) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Besides, Jack is straight as a ruler, and a widower, and Ethan has always avoided falling for straight men. There are rules against a Secret Service agent and one of their protectees developing a friendship-big rules. He’s expecting another stuffed suit and an arrogant DC politician, but Jack shocks him with his humor and humanity. With Jack’s election, he’s been promoted, and now he’s running the presidential detail, which puts him side by side with Jack daily. Between terrorism attacks ripping apart Europe, Russia’s constant posturing and aggression, and the quagmire of the Middle East, Jack is struggling to keep his campaign promise-to work toward a better, safer world.įor Special Agent Ethan Reichenbach, Jack is just another president, the third in twelve years. Newly elected President Jack Spiers’s presidency is rocked from the very beginning, and he’s working furiously to keep the world from falling apart. Blurb: A rogue Black Ops unit with the president in their crosshairs.Ī Secret Service agent who will break every rule.Ī president falling for the one person he shouldn’t-a man. ![]() ![]() But fear continues to reside in his heart forcing him to deny Lily, his daughter, the answers she seeks. The book spans nearly 70 years starting from Meilin’s journey for survival, to Renshu leaving the place he has come to know, for a country on the other side of the world. As they travel through China, to Taiwan, they leave the war behind for a better life. Meilin’s struggles begin during the Sino-Japanese War and carry through the Chinese Civil War. Even so, it was no indication of how utterly absorbing this novel was going to be. ![]() I confess the key factor in applying for this ARC was the title and cover (more on that later). ![]() I can’t remember when I last read historical fiction as beautiful as Peach Blossom Spring. How can he keep his family safe in this new land when the weight of his history threatens to drag them down? His daughter is desperate to understand her heritage, but he refuses to talk about his childhood. Years later, Renshu has settled in America as Henry Dao. Its ancient fables offer solace and wisdom as they travel through their ravaged country, seeking refuge. For comfort, they turn to their most treasured possession – a beautifully illustrated hand scroll. ![]() A young mother, Meilin, is forced to flee her burning city with her four-year-old son, Renshu, and embark on an epic journey across China. It is 1938 in China, and the Japanese are advancing. ![]() “Within every misfortune there is a blessing, and within every blessing, the seeds of misfortune. ![]() ![]() My husband gave this to me when we were dating - a surprise package sent in the mail through a secondhand bookstore. ![]() ![]() But he said in his 1992 memoirs that the circumstances of his birth remained cloudy and he did not know just when he was born or who his parents were. Michener's entry in Who's Who in America says he was born on Feb. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, best known for its permanent collection of Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings and a room containing Michener's own typewriter, books, and various memorabilia. Toward the end of his life, he created the Journey Prize, awarded annually for the year's best short story published by an emerging Canadian writer founded an MFA program now, named the Michener Center for Writers, at the University of Texas at Austin and made substantial contributions to the James A. His first novel, Tales of the South Pacific, which inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. ![]() James Albert Michener is best known for his sweeping multi-generation historical fiction sagas, usually focusing on and titled after a particular geographical region. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1–6).Ĭhateaubriand was born in Saint-Malo on 4 September 1768, the youngest son of René Auguste de Chateaubriand, Count of Combourg, Brittany, and Pauline Suzanne de Bédée. His statement reflects accurately his own plight and that of his generation: "I found myself between two centuries like at the meeting of two rivers I dived in their troubled waters getting away with regrets from the old shore on which I was born and swimming with hope toward the unknown shore where the new generations were landing." ("Preface testamentaire," Mémoires d'outre-tombe, p. The incidents of his life are all interwoven with politics and the tremendous changes brought about by the French Revolution and the First Empire. Soldier, diplomat, statesman, one of the foremost authors of nineteenth-century French literature, initiator of the nineteenth-century genre of travel literature to the Middle East, memorializer and translator of Milton's Paradise Lost, François-René Chateaubriand was intimately associated with an age of great upheaval and transformation and may be considered as representative of the currents of thoughts and sentiments of his time. CHATEAUBRIAND, FRANÇOIS-RENÉ (1768–1848), French statesman and writer ![]() |