![]() So alongside the Cuban Missile Crisis, there are descriptions of crippling back pain relieved mostly by a series of painkilling injections by doctors with questionable credentials. For all the romance of “Camelot” or “The New Frontier,” underneath it all was a man, who was elected at at the age of 43 (the youngest ever elected), who was beset by numerous serious health problems and was treated by physicians in such a way that most of us would rather just take our chances with the local HMO. It’s a unique combination of detailed policy analysis with generous helpings of tawdry (yet, true) details of Kennedy’s life.ĭallek was given unprecedented access to Kennedy’s medical history and what he uncovered there turned out to be what this book will be most remembered for. Robert Dallek, who also has written biographies of Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson, produced a scholarly biography of a man who was at times heroic, at times hesitant, often sick, and almost always on the prowl for another sexual conquest. ![]() ![]() ![]() President #35, C-SPAN Historians ranking #6įor a man who had a shorter term in office than all but six other presidents (Barack Obama not included), John Kennedy might be studied and written about more than any other 20th Century president. ![]()
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![]() Born to a wealthy family, Fleming attended Eton College and later studied at Sandhurst Military Academy. Ian Fleming’s Life and Careerīefore delving into his literary works, it’s important to understand the life and career of Ian Fleming. It was with this unassuming name that Fleming began his journey creating the world’s most famous spy. He also drew on names from the author of the birdwatching book on his shelf. When it came to naming his character, Fleming chose the most unassuming name possible: James Bond. As a young boy, Fleming was fascinated by the world of espionage and adventure stories, and after a stint in military intelligence during World War II, he was inspired to create a character that embodied the ideals of a British hero. It was the latter that cemented his place in literary history. Born in 1908, Ian Fleming was a journalist, naval intelligence officer, and author. To truly understand the impact of Ian Fleming’s work, it’s important to know the story behind the iconic character of James Bond. ![]() ![]() The Origins of James Bond: Ian Fleming’s Inspiration ![]() ![]() ![]() OL20125768W Page_number_confidence 93.81 Pages 422 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220412050245 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 782 Scandate 20220407214343 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9789381626344 Tts_version 4. Urn:lcp:secretofnagasboo0000amis:epub:496f3cdb-ac41-43c6-9068-912abdbf2aaa Foldoutcount 0 Identifier secretofnagasboo0000amis Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2tnj4h921g Invoice 1652 Isbn 9789381626344ĩ381626340 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1300294 Openlibrary_edition The Secret of the Nagas (The Shiva Trilogy, 2) ISBN 13: 9781623656584 The Secret of the Nagas (The Shiva Trilogy, 2) Tripathi, Amish 4. The evidence of the malevolent rise of evil is everywhere. ![]() His vengeance and the path to evil will lead him to the door of the Nagas, the serpent people. Amish lives in Mumbai with his wife Preeti and son Neel. Urn:lcp:secretofnagasboo0000amis:lcpdf:924af6c6-4a2c-49da-af00-405c52fadb5b Shiva, the Tibetan immigrant who is the prophesied destroyer of evil, will not rest till he finds his demonic adversary. The Secret of the Nagas is the second book of the Shiva Trilogy. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 02:16:19 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA40431713 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chapter 18: Chapter 7: The War of the Strata.Chapter 13: Chapter 2: Words on the Mountaintop. ![]() Chapter 12: Chapter 1: Where There’s a Mountain.Chapter 10: Chapter 4: The Wandering Era.Chapter 8: Chapter 2: The Deserting Era.With a melancholic and keen understanding of human nature, Liu's stories show humanity's attempts to reason, navigate and, above all, survive in a desolate cosmos. Liu's writing takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger fates than we could have ever imagined. This collection's title story, The Wandering Earth, is the biggest SF movie ever to come out of China – taking the world's #1 box office ranking in February 2019. Here is the first collection of his short fiction: ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners. A bestseller in China, his novel, The Three-Body Problem, was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award. But rather than abandon their planet, humanity builds 12,000 mountainous fusion engines to propel the Earth out of orbit and onto a centuries-long voyage to Proxima Centaurai.Ĭixin Liu is one of the most important voices in world Science Fiction. Earth will perish too, consumed by the star in its final death throes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ruth's father died in late 1921, requiring Ruth to drop out of school. ![]() She was considered a gifted but undisciplined musician by her teachers. After the camp, she spent some time studying violin in the Peabody Institute of Music's preparatory program. Her next stop was a girls camp, Camp Walden in Maine, where she discovered her love for writing the camp yearbook for 1919 contains her first published piece of writing. The school's focus on applied arts did not suit her and she left after about a year. ![]() She enrolled in the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts (now known as the Maryland Institute College of Art). Ruth went to a local high school but left in 1917 after her sophomore year to focus on the study of art. She began writing and illustrating her own stories while still a child, hand sewing her pages into books. ![]() As a child, Ruth had numerous health problems, including the rare autoimmune disorder pemphigus. Ruth Krauss was born July 25, 1901, in Baltimore, Maryland to Julius Leopold and Blanche Krauss. Ruth Ida Krauss (J– July 10, 1993) was an American writer of children's books, including The Carrot Seed, and of theatrical poems for adult readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() The resurrected can’t become vampires, so Jill plans to use her sister’s more vital body for that purpose. Jack has obsessive-compulsive disorder, which manifests in a pathological fear of being dirty, physically and mentally, and can’t be comfortable in Jill’s mass-murdering body, and 2. ![]() This state of affairs is distressing for two main reasons: 1. ![]() Meanwhile, Jill's mind inhabits Jack's still-living flesh, thanks to a coerced body-swap instigated by Jill's vampire master. Jack isn’t quite who she was when she first left she’s presently stuck in the resurrected body of Jill, whom Jack had previously killed in order to put an end to Jill’s targeted slaughter campaign at the school. Through a door etched by lightning, Jack reappears at Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children, a refuge for those children who found a portal to one of many magical worlds but couldn’t cope when they wound up back on Earth again. ![]() The ghoulishly dysfunctional Wolcott twins-mad scientist Jack and her sister, Jill, who aspires to be a vampire-return for the fifth Wayward Children novel ( In an Absent Dream, 2019, etc.). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Right after she goes to visit Shakespeare's grave. ![]() And I haven't even gotten to Katherine's mother (one of my favorite characters) and the archival implications of her lifelong project of organizing the papers of her famous literary father and turning them into a definitive biography. Plus Cassandra! There is a lot going on here, but Woolf keeps all the threads moving and gives us a slow-starting but effective meditation on what love is exactly, on family, on class, on literature, and on friendship. To top things off, Mary Datchet, who works for the suffrage movement and hosts rollicking salons in her flat, realizes that she has fallen in love with her friend, Ralph. And, although she isn't aware of it, Ralph Denham, the striving, intense, and awkward young lawyer who has stopped by her parents' house for tea is out of control in love with the idea of her. She is engaged to Willam Rodney, a self-conscious but passionate lover of literature with one of the best introduction scenes in all of noveldom. Katherine Hilbery is wealthy, beautiful, secretly mathematical, and addicted to loneliness. Described as Woolf's attempt at a classic British romance, this story of a five-way love triangle in pre-War London is a lot weirder and more Woolfy than it initially seems after you dip down under the surface. ![]() ![]() Good battles Evil, magic and power both heal and corrupt, seemingly simple characters discover amazing abilities, and nature and the land are characters in and of themselves. ![]() THE NAMING incorporates all the themes that make the fantasy genre wonderful. Cadvan helps Maerad escape the land where she has been enslaved, and their flight and subsequent adventures are the beginning of a four-book series that promises to become one of my favorites. The book’s central character, Maerad, is a sixteen-year-old slave, and she has resigned herself to that fate-until she’s found by Cadvan, a Bard who discovers (much to his surprise) bardic talent in her. ![]() Alison Croggon’s THE NAMING: BOOK ONE OF PELLINOR is a high fantasy tale that draws from and rivals some of the classics in the genre. ![]() ![]() He says that his book about a girl and an orphaned bonobo trying to survive in a warring country (Endangered) was far outside his interior space of life that he discovered that it was much more easy to be able to write in a convincing manner. He says that when his protagonists are essentially different versions of himself, they are unknowable and amorphous and he’s too deep in the story to be able to figure out which details a reader needs to understand. The second one is called The New Kid and it is for adults as well.Įliot says that the two things that have come recently in his career have been an increased sense of confidence in his ability to craft a plot and the realization that he is able to write better stories when he puts characters down on the page that are not based on himself. The first was titled Glamorous Disasters. ![]() ![]() Schrefer first became a published author with the release of his books for adults. He has written books for adults and for young adults too, the result of a lunch with David Levithan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and have been transformed into three major motion pictures.Ĭlive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) fue uno de los intelectuales más importantes del siglo veinte y podría decirse que fue el escritor cristiano más influyente de su tiempo. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. ![]() |