![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. It is the crucial period of World War I that interrupts his work process repeatedly and that leaves tracesnot only in the author’s changing political point of view but also in the text itself. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. The Magic Mountain ( Der Zauberberg) was first published in 1924, yet Thomas Mann (18751955) already began his work on the novel in 1913. Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. ![]()
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Many of the local families experience poverty and domestic violence.Įsperanza focuses on finding a best friend of her own, as she’s unsatisfied with her little sister, Nenny. ![]() Their house is crowded up against apartment buildings, and the residents of the neighborhood are loud and bustling. The family shares one bedroom, and there is no yard like Esperanza hoped. When the family finally moves into a house (instead of an apartment), it is nothing like what any of them hoped or dreamed. She uses writing to help her process her feelings and experiences. She navigates the shame of being poor at her Catholic school, feeling suffocated by sharing a tiny space with her parents and siblings, and the difficulties of developing sexual awareness and losing the innocence of childhood. ![]() She is growing up in a small house in urban Chicago, surrounded by other children of mostly Mexican American families. In this collection of vignettes, Esperanza charts her transition from child to young woman. ![]() ![]() What can I say? I love a story about an evil or bad child that addresses how the mother copes with it. Then I explained what they were about, and they looked at me with surprised eyes that said, “ that’s what your favorite book is about?” and then quickly changed the subject. My mind always wandered to these when people asked me what my favorite book was, or what book I recommended. Two excellent books that scared the living daylights out of me and stayed with me years later. nurture” theme began in high school, when I read The Fifth Child by Dorris Lessing for my IB English class, and then We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver in college. These novels explore the questions: Why do people do bad things? Specifically, why do small children do bad things? Are they taught these bad things or inherently born with them? nurture books are probably some of my favorites, but also the most terrifying. I’ll be honest, I was skeptical about the rave reviews, because not all thrillers or horror novels on this subject are done well. The book became a Good Morning America book club pick and all I knew was that it was about motherhood. ![]() I saw it everywhere in bookstores and online, the cover an eerie Rorschach test that looks like a woman’s silhouette. ![]() The Push by Ashley Audrain has been on my radar since it was first published in early 2021. Barnes & Noble’s “Buy 1, Get 1 Half Off” deal finally convinced me to buy this thriller. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fort, Charles, 1874-1932: The book of the damned (Ace Books, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust).Fort, Charles, 1874-1932: The book of the damned.Help with reading books - Report a bad link - Suggest a new listingĪdditional books from the extended shelves: Fort, Charles, 1874-1932: Wild Talents (from the 1941 Thayer 1-volume edition originally published 1933) (HTML with commentary at ).Fort, Charles, 1874-1932: Wild Talents (HTML with commentary at ).Fort, Charles, 1874-1932: Selected works and commentary (HTML at ).Fort, Charles, 1874-1932: The Outcast Manufacturers (magazine and book versions) (HTML at ).Fort, Charles, 1874-1932: New Lands (from the 1941 Thayer 1-volume edition originally published 1923) (HTML with commentary at ).by Booth Tarkington (HTML with commentary at ) Fort, Charles, 1874-1932: New Lands, contrib.Fort, Charles, 1874-1932: Lo! 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Charles Fort (Fort, Charles, 1874-1932) | The Online Books Page The Online Books Page ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South.īased on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history.Ĭlaudette Colvin is the National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature, a Newbery Honor Book, A YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist, and a Robert F. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. ![]() Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her classmates and dismissed by community leaders. On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.'" - Claudette Colvin "When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. Newbery Honor and National Book Award Winner Phillip Hooses book, 'Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice' opens with a brief history of Jim Crow laws and segregation in the South, specifically in Montgomery, Alabama. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus, for over 80 years, the story of Peter Pan and his battle against arch-enemy Captain Hook has enchanted children and adults alike, and continues to benefit the seriously ill children who come to GOSH for life-saving treatment every day. This amendment gives the hospital the right to a royalty from Peter Pan in perpetuity. In recognition of JM Barrie’s unprecedented generosity, and the exceptional work of the Hospital itself, the House of Lords sprinkled more fairy dust over GOSH in 1988, by voting overwhelmingly for a special clause in the UK’s Copyright Designs & Patents Act. Barrie requested that the amount raised for the hospital from Peter Pan never be revealed, and GOSH has always honoured his wishes. Peter Pan works on indisputable magic on readers of all ages, making it a true classic of imaginative literature. Through this gift, Peter Pan’s magic made an unprecedented leap from the realm of fiction into reality and the hospital began to receive royalties every time a production of the play was on, as well as from the sale of Peter Pan books and other products. ![]() ![]() Martin’s Press publishing house in the year 2011. The first novel of the Clifton Chronicles series written by author Jeffrey Archer was published under the title ‘Only Time Will Tell’. Each of the novels of the series show the struggles that Harry Clifton had to face right from his childhood and up to the time of attaining his adulthood. Author Jeffrey Archer has set the time frame of the series during the early 20th century and has depicted the life story of the central character named Harry Clifton throughout the series. All the novels of the series are based on the mystery and thriller genres. There is a total of 6 books in the series published between the years 20. ![]() ![]() The Clifton Chronicles series is an international bestselling series written by one of the well known British authors named Jeffrey Archer. ![]() ![]() ![]() She can only understand it as a cautionary miracle, but it sparks a raft of other explanations from scientists, religious leaders, and the media. As she hikes up a mountain road behind her house to a secret tryst, she encounters a shocking sight: a silent, forested valley filled with what looks like a lake of fire. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she has settled for permanent disappointment but seeks momentary escape through an obsessive flirtation with a younger man. Characters and reader alike are quickly carried beyond familiar territory here, into the unsettled ground of science, faith, and everyday truces between reason and conviction.ĭellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. In the lyrical language of her native Appalachia, Barbara Kingsolver bares the rich, tarnished humanity of her novel's inhabitants and unearths the modern complexities of rural existence. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world.įlight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman's narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire. Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. ![]() ![]() ![]() The teens have their various reasons for entering the lottery, but they generally fall under the heading of escapism, rather than, oh, actually wanting to go to the moon. In the novel, a lottery is held to send a trio of teenagers to the moon as a way of rekindling interest in the NASA programme and therefore securing further funding (which will in turn result in some moustache-twirling evilness, were told by evil Dr Blank at the beginning of the book). But, of course, none of which can be benign. Its this sort of scepticism that 172 Hours on the Moon'exploits, positing that the various space programmes around the world have fallen by the wayside for reasons that we, the public, have never been told. ![]() The Armstrong interview was newsworthy in that he has been famously tight-lipped about his experience on the moon, helping to fuel conspiracy theories about whether weve been told the truth about the circumstances surrounding the moon landingor whether the moon landing ever happened in the first place. ![]() Oddly enough, the day I began reading 172 Hours on the Moon'I also read that Neil Armstrong had agreed to give a rare interview, a coup wrangled by an accountant, of all people. ![]() |