![]() ![]() The pleasure he must have felt in creating D'Artagnan's troubles and triumphs flashes out of these pages. To one who made D'Artagnan all shall be forgiven."e Clifton Fadiman agreed: "e Dumas enjoyed writing his stories. Few, if any, characters in fiction inspire one with such belief in their individual existences. "e His greatest creation is undoubtedly D'Artagnan, type at once of the fighting adventurer and of the trusty servant, whose wily blade is ever at the back of those whose hearts have neither his magnanimity nor his courage. He soon finds himself fighting alongside three heroic comrades-Athos, Porthos, and Aramis-who seek to uphold the honor of the king by foiling the wicked plots of Cardinal Richelieu and the beautiful spy "e Milady."e "e Dumas will be read a hundred, nay, three hundred years on,"e wrote John Galsworthy. ![]() It is all impossible and it is all magnificent."e First published in 1844, Alexandre Dumas's swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of D'Artagnan, a gallant young nobleman who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to join the ranks of musketeers guarding Louis XIII. ![]() ![]() "e In these violent pages all is action, intrigue, suspense, surprise-an almost endless chain of duels, murders, love affairs, unmaskings, ambushes, hairbreadth escapes, wild rides. "e We read The Three Musketeers to experience a sense of romance and for the sheer excitement of the story,"e reflected Clifton Fadiman. ![]()
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Santiago, a young shepherd living in the hills of Andalucia, feels that there is more to life than his humble home and his flock. ![]() This is such a book – a beautiful parable about learning to listen to your heart, read the omens strewn along life’s path and, above all, follow your dreams. Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. ![]() Now this magical fable is beautifully repackaged in an edition that lovers of Paulo Coelho will want to treasure forever. A global phenomenon, The Alchemist has been read and loved by over 62 million readers, topping bestseller lists in 74 countries worldwide. ![]() Mind magic poppy dennison5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() (It’s very sad – just a warning!) Fortunately, Simon’s actions inadvertently lead them all to the final piece of the puzzle – the thing they need to defeat the evil being. But… not before he attempts to steal the children again and forces Simon to do something so horrible the entire pack wonders whether or not Simon should be allowed to stay. ![]() It turns out he knows Cormac and that gives them a clue as to how to stop him. However, the bulk of this plot is the story-line regarding the evil being who keeps causing trouble to Simon and his pack. Then, we see their mutual attraction and need for each other. First, we see Liam merely trying to keep Cormac from hurting himself, Simon and others. ![]() ![]() We see the development of Cormac and Liam as a couple. In the final installment of the Triad (yes, there is a book four but it is unrelated to the original series), we finally get to find out who the bad guy is and what he wants and how to stop him. ![]() Murder With Peacocks by Donna Andrews5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() This is a classic traditional mystery story with tons of wacky characters, lots of fun and a bit of romance thrown in to spice things up. While this may sound like a confusing romp, the simple, straight-forward manner in which the story is written is one of its biggest selling points. To top it all off, her armchair detective father has roped her into investigating the death, putting both of their lives at risk. Somewhere in the middle of this crazy cast of characters and hectic wedding planning, Meg also has to contend with the disappearance (and later found dead) nasty former-sister-in-law of her mother's future husband. Andrew's main character is a frantic Meg Langslow who has somehow managed to get roped into spending her summer fulfilling the duties of maid of honor in not one, not two but THREE weddings: her best friend's, her brother's and her mother's. Martin's Press / Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Contest, you will be pleased to find just that. ![]() I'd been seeing it listed on so many of the "Best Read of 1999" lists that I just had to know what was so great about this book. With the tons of books sitting on my bookshelf waiting to be read and reviewed, I was mildly guilt-ridden when I picked up Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews from my local library. ![]() Scattershot by Richard Goodwin5/11/2023 ![]() I knocked, the door was opened by a distinguished looking, elegantly dressed, gentleman. KeywordsĪs Goodwin told me during a personal conversation in September 1977 at my home in Svanshall, Sweden: ‘I was walking down the corridor of the Physics Department when I saw the name “Ph. In this chapter, these elements are made to tell the story of Goodwin’s wonderful contributions to economics. His important discovery of a one-sided oscillator which does not depend on the cubic characteristic was made in the context of reviewing Hicks’s theory of the trade cycle. His non-linear mathematics owed a great deal to Philip Le Corbeiller’s personal teaching and the development of classical theory of non-linear differential equations. He worked on synthesizing the imaginative insights of Schumpeter on innovations, Keynes on the multiplier, Harrod on the accelerator, Leontief on an applicable model of Walrasian interdependence, and Sraffa on capital theory. ![]() ![]() His theoretical and policy frameworks spanned optimal growth planning, stabilization policy, iterative dynamics, coupled dynamics, capital theory, and, above all, innovative teaching. Richard Goodwin was the pioneering endogenous, non-linear theorist of macrodynamic fluctuations, once referred to as trade cycle theory but now known as business cycle theory. ![]() Rebound kwame alexander5/11/2023 ![]() Parents should be prepared to discuss coping with loss and feelings, as well as choosing the right people to allow in your life. It deals with the death of a parent and grief along with normal teen-growth drama. A novel in verse with all the impact and rhythm readers have come to expect from Kwame Alexander, Rebound goes back in time to visit the childhood of Chuck Da Man Bell during one pivotal summer when he is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers basketball and learns more about his family’s past. ![]() This powerful novel in verse is set in the late 1980s and focuses on the childhood experiences of Chuck, who will grow up to become the beloved dad of The Crossover's Jordan and Josh. Charlie says he hates doctors because they couldn’t save his dad. He no longer makes jokes and he and his mom fight all the time. After his dad dies, Charlie is different. Parents need to know that New York Times best-seller Rebound is a stand-alone prequel to Kwame Alexander's Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Honor Book The Crossover. In the fiction novel Rebound, by Kwame Alexander, a boy named Charlie Chuck Bell struggles to rebound from a tragedy he experienced during the summer of 1988. ![]() ![]() A boy looks forward to trying beer with his parent and hates it.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Two teens are caught with marijuana on them and get arrested. ![]() The same teen and his friends are seen drinking from bottles in brown paper bags, most likely alcohol. A teen is described as changing personalities when he started smoking weed. ![]() Lights Out by R.L. Stine5/11/2023 ![]() However, there’s still plenty of good in this frozen monster lock-in. Don’t get me wrong - it’s a travesty that producers scrapped Amalgamated Dynamics’ practical effects for worse post-production digital effects.
Battle royale de koushun takami5/11/2023 ![]() I kept noticing the poor writing and it constantly threw me out of the story. ![]() It’s readable, but there is something very juvenile about the sentence structure. The problems started right at the beginning. I didn’t find it to be particularly shocking, although it did read very quickly for a 600 page book. It’s a thriller and apparently both very popular and shocking in Japan. Battle Royale* is set in a dystopia based in Japan, but both essentially involve isolated kids killing each other after being given random weapons. My most immediate basis for comparison is The Hunger Games. I have a lot of conflicted feelings on this book. Shuya’s worst nightmare is about to come true as he tries to protect the girl his best friend loved as his classmates set about playing the game. ![]() They are told that they are about to kill one another on an isolated island, and to Shuya’s horror, the seriousness of this proposition is proven when his best friend is killed before his eyes. Before he can think too much, he’s asleep, and doesn’t wake up until he’s in a strange classroom, and he and all his friends have cold metal collars around their necks. But on the bus he notices something strange everyone is falling asleep, and that new tough kid Shogo is trying to break the window. Shuya is so optimistic that he’s even brought along alcohol. ![]() Shuya Nanahara and his junior high class of fifteen-year-olds are going on a field trip. ![]() Tao te ching and chuang tzu5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Equally influential in the social sphere, Confucius' Analects is the source of social wisdom in China. Perhaps the most broadly influential spiritual text in human history, Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is the source of Taoist philosophy, which eventually developed into Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism. Breathing new life into these originary classics, Hinton's new translations will stand as the definitive texts for our era. But these new versions are not only inviting and immensely readable, they also apply much-needed consistency to key philosophical terms in these texts, lending structural links and philosophical rigor heretofore unavailable in English. Hinton's award-winning experience translating a wide range of ancient Chinese poets makes these books sing in English as never before. The books collected in this volume represent the first time since the mid-nineteenth century that the four seminal masterworks of ancient Chinese thought have been translated as a unified series by a single translator. ![]() Jason rekulak hidden pictures5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Knowing just how crazy it all sounds, Mallory nevertheless sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy before it's too late. Mallory begins to wonder if these are glimpses of a long-unsolved murder, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force. Then, Teddy's artwork becomes increasingly sinister, and his stick figures quickly evolve into lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Stephen King From Edgar Award-finalist Jason Rekulak comes a wildly inventive. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - OPTIONED FOR NETFLIX BY A PRODUCER OF THE BATMAN I loved it. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman's lifeless body. Buy a cheap copy of Hidden Pictures book by Jason Rekulak. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. OPTIONED FOR NETFLIX BY A PRODUCER OF THE BATMAN GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER 'I loved it.She has her own living space, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy. ![]() Mallory Quinn is fresh out of rehab when she takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. ![]() NATIONAL BESTSELLER - OPTIONED FOR NETFLIX BY A PRODUCER OF THE BATMANįrom Edgar Award-finalist Jason Rekulak comes a wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, for fans of Stranger Things and Riley Sager, about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets. ![]() |