![]() When an agent confronts Cristian with evidence of treason-a single dollar bill tucked inside his notebook-and also offers medicine for Bunu, his sick grandfather, Cristian agrees to spy on the American diplomat family whose son he’s become friendly with. Wild dogs attack children in the streets, and secret agents are everywhere. Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu has been in power for 24 years, and most Romanians live in poverty, exporting what they produce to unknowingly fund Ceaușescu’s obscenely extravagant lifestyle. ![]() ![]() Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu, with his spiky hair, love of poetry and English, and crush on Liliana Pavel, is as much of a rebel as it’s possible to be in Bucharest, Romania, in 1989. A rare look at the youth-led rebellion that toppled Romania’s Ceaușescu. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This plotline, though interesting, is more successful as history than mystery. The 1950s plot, which centers around nuclear testing and the mysterious Project 57, thickens when the ingenuous Freddie is introduced to Georgiy, a Russian whose malevolence will be instantly apparent to everyone but him. More deaths add urgency to the investigation. Borgos’ debut is solidly anchored in the lively banter between Beck and Locke, who soon give in to their sexual chemistry. ![]() The more elaborate third-person prose of these chapters plays nicely against Beck’s more direct first-person narrative. Through a family friend, Kitty helps Freddie get a job at the nearby atomic testing site. Interspersed flashbacks take the story to 1955, when destined lovers Freddie Meyer and Kitty Ellison meet at the newly opened Dunes Hotel and Casino, where they both work. Beck and his team have barely begun their investigation when the FBI storms in, in the person of stylish, no-nonsense Special Agent Sana Locke. ![]() Retired FBI agent Ralph Atterbury has been bound to the recliner in his home and systematically tortured. Sheriff Porter Beck, whose jurisdiction is sparsely populated Lincoln County, north of Las Vegas, is called to the scene of a singularly savage crime. An unspeakably brutal contemporary murder has roots in the 1950s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Upon his realization, he decides to write an abridged version of the author’s work with only the good parts that contain all the ideals of true love that he used to believe in in the past. When William locks himself in the library to read the book, he is surprised to discover that his father only read the good parts of the story and that the story is the author’s boring satire of his home country. William is upset to find that his son did not read the book and his wife exclaims that it was too difficult for the child to read. Jason claims he enjoyed reading the book, but when William begins to ask him specific questions about the book, he is unable to answer. After he finally finds a copy, he gives it to his son and later asks him about the book. When William’s son Jason turns ten, his father becomes adamant to gift him a copy of “The Princess Bride”. As he grows up we learn that William is now married to Helen a psychiatrist and has a little boy. That being said, William never read the book himself. ![]() Morgenstern and from then on his love for books starts. During his illness his father reads to him “The Princess Bride” by S. ![]() William Goldman the narrator is a little boy who isn’t into sports and is somewhat of an introvert up until he develops pneumonia. The novel begins as Goldman re-imagines himself and introduces himself as the narrator. Literature Guides The Princess Bride Summary Summary ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve written many articles growing up as a Muslim American, like how people should stop asking me where I’m from, sarcastic pieces like phrases to avoid while flying and why accents rock. Thus, this simple, yet beautiful lesson the teacher came up with was the main inspiration for my debut. My teacher then asked the students to copy their names on their own piece of paper and decorate it. My mom helped me that night writing their names and I proudly presented each student with their name in Arabic. ![]() She asked me to write my classmate’s names in Arabic. I don’t remember being teased about my dark brown, curly hair, but until today, remember how my teacher made me feel loved and included. I was in third grade and remember trying hard to fit in. My brother and I stood out from our classmates, who were mostly white Christians. I spent three years in tiny town called Minot, North Dakota. We lived in several different states, but a memory that happened over twenty years ago gave me the inspiration to write THE ARABIC QUILT. I immigrated to the United States when I was one year old with my older brother and parents. My debut picture book, THE ARABIC QUILT, is based on true events growing up. Some of my best ideas came from my own life experiences-good and bad-especially as a writer of color. As a freelance journalist, blogger, and now debut picture book author, I am always looking for writing ideas. ![]() ![]() ![]() A story set in the past, 1929 is full of romance, drama, and humor. Emotional and financial destruction nip at their heels, until finally, with a lucky twist of fate, they escape city life and begin anew in their hometown of Rockport, Massachusetts. ![]() Despite everything, Jonathan and his friends are fixated on surviving. ![]() From petty tricks to outright violence, Victor's nefarious mind will stop at nothing to beat down Jonathan's last glimmer of hope. With the help of their former, outspoken, Irish maid, Maura, and a new, equally Irish friend, Shannon, the wives become even closer than before.The couples' rocky path leads to more turmoil, however, when a business rival, Victor Drayton, creates one disaster after another. As the three men toil in their laborious jobs, their wives, Ava, Arianna, and Claire, slowly adapt to life in a shabby, rundown apartment, learning to sew, cook, and clean. When Jonathan Garrett's brokerage firm collapses on the day of the Stock Market Crash, he unites with his closest friends (and former business partners), Aryl and Caleb, to relocate, track down a low-paying job, and cultivate a new life. ![]() As Black Tuesday triggers financial despondency, three young couples in New York City must trade their lives of luxury for poverty, tragedy, and setbacks. ![]() ![]() It involved a spell in Bern, Switzerland, learning German, where he took his first steps in British intelligence, doing odd-jobs across the border in Austria.įrom Switzerland, he returned to Britain to study at Oxford University, then went on to teach at the elite Eton school before joining MI5, the country's domestic intelligence agency, in the late 1950s. ![]() ![]() Le Carre's life could have been the stuff of fiction and he once said he owed his career in the shadows and later literary success to an "impulsive adolescent decision" to flee an unhappy home life. Read also: Spy master Le Carre slams 'pig-ignorant' Johnson in 25th novel I have lost a friend, a mentor and an inspiration." "We have lost a great figure of English literature, a man of great wit, kindness, humor and intelligence. Jonny Geller, le Carre's literary agent, said: "His like will never be seen again, and his loss will be felt by every book lover, everyone interested in the human condition. Stephen King, the best-selling US author, called le Carre "a literary giant and a humanitarian spirit". It was a brilliant, psychological portrait of spying and of betrayal and of the decline of British power." "It's an incredibly engrossing tale and very deep, and it transformed the writing of spy fiction. ![]() Harris told Sky News television The Spy Who Came In From The Cold was a "masterpiece". ![]() ![]() Stolen from their families because of their special abilities, they are cruelly forced into obeying the caretakers or the consequences are dire. There is a facility in the middle of nowhere. I am going to have to go through all of his books from the last decade. The last thing I read was 11/22/63 and that was a good few years ago. ![]() It has been a LOOOONG time since I read anything by Stephen King, one of the go-to authors of my teenage years. ![]() But no one has ever escaped from the Institute. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. ![]() In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents-telekinesis and telepathy-who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. ![]() The operation takes less than two minutes. In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. ![]() ![]() PROQUEST AND ITS LICENSORS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES FOR AVAILABILITY, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, COMPLETENESS, NON-INFRINGMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The translations are automatically generated "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" and are not retained in our systems. Neither ProQuest nor its licensors make any representations or warranties with respect to the translations. ![]() This functionality is provided solely for your convenience and is in no way intended to replace human translation. ![]() You have requested "on-the-fly" machine translation of selected content from our databases. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first in a series of complementary storylines, this is an honest, heartfelt book about friendship, videogames, and learning to love yourself. and his buds have to band together to save their teacher's job-and their own academic future. But when the administration finds about this unorthodox method of teaching, Ben B. J: every minute they spend reading aloud equals one minute they get to play Sandbox in class. J with their passion for Sandbox, a Minecraft-type game. Celebrates different types of intelligence - A heartwarming, laugh-out-loud novel-in-verse Soon, the kids win over Ms. Each chapter is told through the perspective of one of the four students, who each write in a different style (art, verse, stream of consciousness). J tells them: they simply approach things in a different way than traditional school demands. But these kids aren't dumb-they're divergent thinkers, as Ms. ![]() From the author of Rhyme Schemer, House Arrest, and Knockout The Kids Under the Stairs: BenBee and the Teacher Griefer is a funny, clever novel-in-verse series about Ben Bellows-who failed the Language Arts section of the Florida State test-and three classmates who get stuck in a summer school class. ![]() ![]() ![]() But that's easier said than done when one stumbling incident after another leads Lola closer to an alluring pack of captivating men. Armed with her dream job and her less than dreamy apartment, Lola is ready to start a new chapter of her life without alphas. No more hiding in her cousin's apartment licking wounds that won't heal. No more chasing alphas who abuse and toss away betas like her. Lola Barnes only wants one thing, to get her life under control. These alphas are everything Lola dreamed of, but they already have. ![]() ![]() |