She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.Īgatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance. Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.ĭame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best-selling author of all time.
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This selection, by Edward Mendelson, contains one hundred poems and offers readers a really satisfactory initial survey of Auden's poetry as a whole. It was too short to provide a full introduction to such a large body of work perhaps it was too weighted in favour of the later poetry at the time it was made some famous poems, or portions of poems, were still under an embargo imposed by Auden himself which remained in force until his death. For many years there existed a general feeling that the selection made by Auden himself in 1968 was far from satisfactory. She tugged her arm to free it from his grasp, but he didn’t let go. Like the second Hugh grabbed her arm in a tight grip, and stopped her from walking further. Each Legacy Novel stands alone from any other book, series, or collection.Ĭatherine giggled. This is what love is like when you’re Cross Donati and Catherine Marcello.Īlways is a Legacy Novel, and while it is standalone, it can also act as a prequel for Revere. This is what love is like when you’re a principe and principessa della mafia. Sometimes, love has to fall, crash, and burn. Sometimes, you have to learn to save yourself. Sometimes, you can’t keep saving your heart when it means sacrificing it, too. They’re vicious and precious, dangerous and harmless, innocence and sin. They’re late nights, stolen cars, first times, fist fights, leather jackets, beaches, bloody smiles, and life. Her entire world is a legacy, and she lives it. He’s unapologetic, and he owns it.Ĭatherine Marcello is every bit a good girl … on the outside. He does what he wants because he’s never known anything different. 7/4/2023 0 Comments The secret life of beaversAnd ultimately, it s about how we can learn to co-exist, harmoniously and even beneficially, with our fellow travellers on this planet. It s a powerful story about one of the world's most influential species, how North America was settled, the secret ways in which our landscapes have changed over the centuries and the measures we can take to mitigate drought, flooding, wildfire, biodiversity loss, and the ravages of climate change. Across the Western Hemisphere, a coalition of "beaver believers" – including scientists, government officials, and farmers have begun to recognize that ecosystems with beavers are far healthier, for humans and non-humans alike, than those without them, and to restore these industrious rodents to streams throughout North American and Europe. In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that everything we think we know about what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is inaccurate a historical artefact produced by the removal of beavers from their former haunts. 7/4/2023 0 Comments The deep by rivers solomonYetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one-the historian. Yetu holds the memories for her people-water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners-who live idyllic lives in the deep. The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society-and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group clipping 7/4/2023 0 Comments The peripheral gibsonWhat she sees, though, isn't what Burton told her to expect. He's offering Flynne a good price to take over for him. He's supposed to get in their way, edge them back. What a glorious ride Guardian In the near future in a broken down rural America, Flynne Fisher scrapes a living as a gamer for rich players/5 (1K). The job seems to be simple: work a perimeter around the image of a tower building. The Peripheral by William Gibson is a thrilling new novel about two intertwined futures, from the bestselling author of Neuromancer Wild, richly satisfying big-screen, popcorn-chewing thrills. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there's a job he's supposed to do-a job Flynne didn't know he had. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC's elite Haptic Recon force. Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. "William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010's New York Times-bestselling Zero History. This mechanism for opening an infinite branching universe of possible stubs, after all. Depending on her veteran brother's benefits in a city where jobs outside the drug trade are rare, Flynne assists her brother's latest beta-test tech assignment only to uncover an elaborate murder scheme The Peripheral and Agency, Gibson says, will definitely be joined by a third novel to form a trilogy. 7/3/2023 0 Comments Homeland doctorow novelThe New York Times says, "'Little Brother' isn't shy about its intent to disseminate subversive ideas to a young audience." The novel comes with two afterword essays by cryptographer and computer security specialist Bruce Schneier, and hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang, and has a bibliography of techno-countercultural writings, from Jack Kerouac's On the Road to Schneier's "Applied Cryptography". Little Brother received the Sunburst Award in the young adult category. It also was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Little Brother won the 2009 White Pine Award, the 2009 Prometheus Award. As of July 2, it had spent a total of six weeks on the list, rising to the No. 9 on The New York Times Best Seller list, children's chapter book section, in May 2008. The novel is available for free on the author's website under a Creative Commons license ( CC BY-NC-SA), keeping it accessible and remixable to all. The novel is about four teenagers in San Francisco who, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge and BART system, defend themselves against the Department of Homeland Security's attacks on the Bill of Rights. Little Brother is a novel by Cory Doctorow, published by Tor Books. Terrorism, cryptography, computer hackers, Department of Homeland Security, privacy ( privacy in education), police state 7/3/2023 0 Comments Leave it to wodehouseSpeaking on Times Radio, the former children's laureate said: “What you have to do is tell the same story, but tell it in a way that the children in the 21st century can read. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 30 November 1923 by Herbert Jenkins, London, England, and in the United States on 14 March 1924 by George H. One can usually foresee the outcome of a Wodehouse story. Leave It to Psmith is a comic novel by English author P. If he was, he manfully suppressed it and gave us a library of happy books. I am not even sure that Wodehouse was constitutionally capable of writing a depressing book. I have never read a Wodehouse without joy. The writer has suggested that instead of wholesale rewrites or the purging of language from classic books, modern authors could reimagine the stories of the past in a way that would take account of contemporary sensitivities. With LEAVE IT TO PSMITH, I applied both methods. You just cannot go on rewriting Dickens and rewriting Shakespeare to suit people.” “I think that it's really important for children to read books and have some sense of when the books were written. If you start the nitpicking, you never stop. The author of War Horse said: “We've learnt a lot that's been very good, we've learnt a lot that's rubbish. Morpurgo’s comments were made after The Telegraph revealed that the works of Roald Dahl, Agatha Christie, Ian Fleming, and PG Wodehouse have been edited to avoid causing offence. The author said that you “cannot go on rewriting to suit people” when it comes to potentially dated language in classic texts. Sir Michael Morpurgo has warned publishers against rewriting classic books for modern sensitivities and to stop “nitpicking” over language. 7/3/2023 0 Comments Straight man by richard russoAfter the janitor refuses, Lily cleans up. His assistant informs an irate Hank of his father's coming arrival.Ī student at Lily's school urinates in the corridor. Jackson Kelly as Bartow Williams-StevensĪ storage container, sent from William Sr, arrives at the house, blocking the driveway.Bob Odenkirk as William Henry "Hank" Devereaux, Jr.Starring Bob Odenkirk, the series premiered on March 19, 2023, on AMC.Īn English department chairman at an underfunded Pennsylvania college, Professor Hank Devereaux walks the line between midlife crisis and full-blown meltdown, navigating the offbeat chaos in his personal and professional lives.Ĭast and characters Main Lucky Hank is an American black comedy television series developed by Paul Lieberstein and Aaron Zelman based on the 1997 novel Straight Man by Richard Russo. |