![]() ![]() The story has had con-siderable influence on popular culture. " sympathy is large, and his humor is as genuine-and as perfectly unaffected-as his art" (Joseph Conrad). Set during the French and Indian War, the book has been regarded as the first Great American Novel. “The Last of the Mohicans is the most famous of the Leatherstocking Tales, and the first in which the scout Natty Bumppo was made the symbol of all that was wise, heroic and romantic in the lives and characters of the white men who made the American wilderness their home… The novel glorified for many generations of readers, in England, France, Russia, and at home, some aspects of American life that were unique to our cultural history” (Grolier American 100 34). These volumes were purchased from a California family who had owned them since the 1870s. In very good condition with some rubbing to the boards, the text is remarkably clean. ![]() Item Number: 7392įirst edition, first issue with page 89 misnumbered 93, Chapter XVI numbered XIV in Volume I (page 243), and page vii correctly numbered. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in contemporary half calf over boards. The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757.ĬOOPER, James Fenimore. ![]()
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Ian Fraser Murray: Jamie's nephew, who has moved with Jamie and Claire to America.Roger MacKenzie: Brianna's Scottish husband, a historian.She was forced to return to the 20th century due to her daughter's heart condition. Brianna MacKenzie: Daughter of Claire and Jamie, who was raised in 20th-century Boston, but has later lived with her parents and her husband Roger in the 18th century for seven years.Jamie is a high-ranking officer in the Continental army. James "Jamie" Fraser: Former heir to the Lallybroch estate in Scotland, and proprietor of the Fraser's Ridge estate in North Carolina.During the American Revolutionary War, Claire works as surgeon for the Continental army. ![]() After living for twenty years apart, they were reunited in 1766 and have settled in North Carolina. ![]() ![]() In 2001, Herrndorf joined the art and writing collective Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur, eventually contributing to their blog, Riesenmaschine (Giant Machine). ![]() After graduating, he moved to Berlin, where he worked as a magazine illustrator and posted frequently on the Internet forum Wir höflichen Paparazzi (We Polite Paparazzi). In early 2010, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor his novel Tschick (Why We Took th Wolfgang Herrndorf studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg. This was followed by a collection of short stories, Diesseits des Van-Allen-Gürtels (This Side of the Van Allen Belt, 2007), which received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize Audience Award. He published his first novel, In Plüschgewittern (Storm of Plush), in 2002. Wolfgang Herrndorf studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg. ![]() ![]() The mountains surrounding the school - usually sparkling with glaciers and lakes, alive with Faeries, and sheltering a quaint town with really great bakeries - are now crowded with Shadow Mages, casting a noticeable pall, and clearly - to Esther - signifying something very dark and threatening. Then things go from unfortunate to outright dangerous. Pollock is rumored to be an ogre - and maybe she IS one. And it's bad luck that her new teacher makes Esther the butt of all kinds of jokes. Why didn't they tell her they wouldn't be coming back? Why were they silent all summer? But stuff like that happens. Still, she's content to go back to school, do her best, hang out with her friends, and let others take care of things.īut her best friends aren't AT school when she gets there. Her mother doesn't show the slightest bit of interest, no matter what Esther does. ![]() ![]() Esther is a middle child, in her own mind a pale reflection of siblings who are bright, shining stars. ![]() ![]() After being sucked into the dark, twisted world of the Lords, I embraced my new role and allowed Ryat to parade me around like the trophy I was to him. A way that the Lords manipulate you into doing what they want. He made me believe that anyway, but it was just another lie. He offered me what no one else ever had-freedom. I never got the chance to do what I wanted until Ryat Alexander Archer came along and gave me an option for a better life. My entire life has been planned out for me. People think growing up with money is freeing, but I promise you, it’s not. And during their senior year, they are offered a chosen one. ![]() ![]() ![]() They devote their lives to violence in exchange for power. They are above all-the most powerful men in the world. Barrington University is home of the Lords, a secret society that requires their blood in payment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Earthy Cassie, with her wry sense of humor and her lust for life, has a powerful appeal that extends beyond bridge-playing mystery readers. Cassie gets to know Detective Sergeant Walsh when the police question her about Lady Portia's death, but it isn't until one of her bridge nights at the prison that she is pointed toward Lady Portia's killer and the reason she was killed. After stumbling along the rain-soaked road back to Aubrey's, she calls a friend for a ride home, learning only the next day that she had tripped over the murdered body of Lady Portia, Sir Peter's wife. Return to the secret garden by Moody, Susan Publication date 1998 Topics Large type books, Large type books Publisher Thorndike, Me. ![]() They lose the last high-stakes rubber, and on the way home Chilcott turns suddenly vindictive and forces Cassie from his car. In all, she has published 34 novels, most of them crime and suspense. Cassie, who teaches a weekly bridge class at a local prison, is hired by wealthy, social-climbing Londoner Royston Chilcott as his partner for a game at the home of Sir Peter Aubrey. It was published in the US as Return to the Secret Garden. Return to the Secret Garden Susan Moody 2. ![]() Moody plays a near perfect hand in the second adventure of bridge professional Cassandra Swann, introduced in Death Takes a Hand. ![]() ![]() It’s an appealing image, one in which femininity and feminism don’t need to be in conflict. “Beautiful and presented well on the outside… fierce and very strong on the inside.” The book’s title comes from a Dorothea maxim: “Southern women are like whiskey in a teacup,” she would say. (Never has a more impassioned defense of monograms appeared in print.) ![]() Witherspoon’s view of Southern traditions is nostalgic–a bit old-fashioned even–though she makes a fair case that true traditions are timeless. ![]() Growing up very close to her grandparents as well as her own mother and father, Whiskey in a Teacup is in large part a tribute to her grandmother, Dorothea, whose influence is evident on every page. And one of her three dogs is named Nashville.īorn in New Orleans and raised in Nashville, Witherspoon is as Southern as her June Carter Cash accent would have you believe. ![]() Here’s the first thing you need to know about Reese Witherspoon’s devotion to the South, even before reading Whiskey in a Teacup: Her youngest son is named Tennessee. ![]() ![]() “Boy Willie sees selling the piano as a way of converting the pain of the past into a vehicle of wealth-making that can form the bedrock of an independent and self-sustaining future.” ![]() (In the original 1987 production, Jackson himself played Boy Willie.) There is quite the opposite of A-list-Hollywood-star-on-Broadway grandstanding from Jackson, but rather a sensitive portrait of a father not only trying to keep his niece and nephew from all-out war, but also making sense of his family’s past and present, and trying to have a quiet few minutes with his newspaper. Brooks’ Berniece has a regal watchfulness, a perfect scene partner to his quiet warmth and generosity. ![]() Boy Willie wants to sell the piano, while Berniece fiercely wants it to stay where it is, even if she cannot bear to play it.īrooks’ fierce strength is contrasted with Jackson’s gravelly, kind paterfamilias. ![]() And there, stage left, is a piano carved in great detail with the outlines of faces and bodies-the cause, in both past and present, of the fractured rafters. Doaker’s niece Berniece ( Danielle Brooks) lives in the house with her uncle and her 11-year-old daughter Maretha (Jurnee Swan), their peace shattered by the arrival of her brother Boy Willie (John David Washington) and his friend Lymon (the excellent Ray Fisher), who are in town to sell watermelons. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Honestly, his narration was pretty much the only reason I even finished it. I must have at least a little romance in my books or I start to go a little nuts! However, I quickly changed my mind when I found out that Steve West narrates these books because I’m basically in love with him. I’ve been hearing great things about Megan Whalen Turner’s Queen’s Thief series for years, but wasn’t ever really interested in The Thief because there’s no romance in it. Their journey toward the treasure is both dangerous and difficult, lightened only imperceptibly by the tales they tell of the old gods and goddesses. What Gen is interested in is anyone's guess. ![]() The magus is interested only in the thief's abilities. To attain it for his king, he needs a skillful thief, and he selects Gen from the king's prison. The king's scholar, the magus, believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure. Published by Greenwillow Books on December 27, 2005 ![]() |