![]() ![]() And then I do a double take when I catch glimpses of myself in Izzy’s oldest cousin Josephine. ![]() So I can’t help but love the way Izzy relates to her cousins, especially Luke. ![]() Authentically, Izzy will delight every book lover.Īnd can we just take a moment to appreciate the cousin relationships in this book? I grew up very close to my eleven cousins, and I still consider them some of my dearest friends today. Basham’s Tolkien references alone would be enough to convince the reader, but the literary mentions don’t stop there. This perfect bookshop book has so many bookish references that it leaves no doubt of the heroine’s-and the author’s-love for books. Because of course, those swoony kisses can only be described by the author herself. Just when you’re completely engrossed in the email banter between the cousins, or you’re anxious to read the next email to Izzy from you-know-who, the author brings you directly into the scene at just the right moment. I fell in love with my husband through six years of old-fashioned correspondence, so I’m partial to anything epistolary, but this book is simply exquisite. A partially epistolary tale, featuring both a library and a bookshop. Another five-star read from Pepper Basham that’s going straight to my top ten list for the year. Authentically, Izzy is absolutely, positively, unequivocally delightful. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Austen, who loved to record people’s opinions of her writing, enthusiastically reported that this first post-publication reviewer “was amused” and “really does seem to admire Elizabeth.” For her own part, Austen could not have been more proud of her heroine. That same day, she and her mother read half of the first volume out loud to a guest - without revealing the identity of the author, which was still pretty much a family secret. The novel was anonymously published on January 28, 1813, and Austen received her copy on the 27th. “I have got my own darling Child from London,” she announced with obvious joy in a letter she wrote to her sister Cassandra at week’s end. ![]() ![]() IN THE FINAL WEEK of January, 200 years ago, the not-yet-famous 37-year-old author Jane Austen was at Chawton Cottage, awaiting the publication of Pride and Prejudice, her second novel to appear in print. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Trapped in the shower by her undead husband, Morgan prays for rescue but quickly realizes she's on her own. Label Last another day Title Last another day Statement of responsibility Baileigh Higgins Creator This is book 1 in the Dangerous Days series and packs a serious apocalyptic punch! For fans of The Walking Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and all things zombie comes your next obsession, a thrilling series that you won't want to end. As the sun sets against the backdrop of the African veldt and living nightmares walk the streets in the shape of their loved one's bodies, humanity's last hope rests in the hands of ordinary men and women called to do extraordinary things. When the infection outruns them, they face the real possibility that everyone they know is already dead. Logan returns to his childhood home and teams up with Max, an army deserter racing against the clock to save his family. With each passing moment, death becomes more certain. She escapes, only to find that the horror has spread and now threatens everything she holds dear. ![]() ![]() ![]() God created angelsĪngels haven’t always existed. These facts will help us learn a lot about the angels in the Bible: what they are, why God created them, how their hierarchy works, and much more. 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For Students Pursue a deeper knowledge of God through self-paced college- and seminary-level online courses in Old and New Testament studies, theology, biblical Greek, and more.īy submitting your email address, you understand that you will receive email communications from HarperCollins Christian Publishing (501 Nelson Place, Nashville, TN 37214 USA) providing information about products and services of HCCP and its affiliates.For Instructors and School Administrators Enhance your school’s traditional and online education programs by easily integrating online courses developed from the scholars and textbooks you trust. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each batch of bombs that is dropped on Afghanistan is matched by a corresponding escalation of mass hysteria in America about anthrax, more hijackings and other terrorist acts. 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Nothing can excuse or justify an act of terrorism, whether it is committed by religious fundamentalists, private militia, people's resistance movements - or whether it's dressed up as a war of retribution by a recognised government. Thus, in an instant, were centuries of jurisprudence carelessly trashed. After conferring, they announced that it didn¹t matter whether or not the "evidence" would stand up in a court of law. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. 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Bukhara's defenders were caught by surprise and, after a failed sortie, the outer city surrendered within three days on 10 February. A Mongol force, estimated to number between 30,000 and 50,000 men, traversed the Kyzylkum Desert, previously considered impassable for large armies. The city of Bukhara was a major centre of trade and culture in the Khwarazmian Empire, but was located far from the border with the Mongol Empire, and so the Shah allocated fewer than 20,000 soldiers to defend it. While the Shah planned to defend his major cities individually, the Mongols laid siege to the border town of Otrar and struck further into Khwarazmia. Genghis Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire, had launched a multi-pronged assault on the Khwarazmian Empire ruled by Shah Muhammad II. The siege of Bukhara took place in February 1220, during the Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire. ![]() ![]() ![]() Libra, Underworld-address their contemporary audience like a shouting desert prophet while laying out for posterity the coldly amused analysis of some long-dead professor emeritus. In an essay written while he was at work on Infinite Jest, Wallace referred to the “oracular foresight” of a writer he idolized, Don DeLillo, whose best novels- White Noise , ![]() Dick would be the greatest novelist of all time.ĭavid Foster Wallace understood the paradox of attempting to write fiction that spoke to posterity and a contemporary audience simultaneously, with equal force. With just a few years’ passage, a novel can thus seem “dated,” or “irrelevant,” or (God help us) “problematic.” When a novel survives this strange process, and gets reissued in a handsome twentieth-anniversary edition, it’s tempting to hold it up and say, “It withstood the test of time.” Most would intend such a statement as praise, but is a twenty-year-old novel successful merely because it seems cleverly predictive or contains scenarios that feel “relevant” to later audiences? If that were the mark of enduring fiction, Philip K. Which is to say that a novel is perishable only by virtue of being stored in such a leaky cask: our heads. We age alongside the novels we’ve read, and only one of us is actively deteriorating. ![]() ![]() Something happens to a novel as it ages, but what? It doesn’t ripen or deepen in the manner of cheese and wine, and it doesn’t fall apart, at least not figuratively. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Successively, the formation of the dynasty, the structure of the territory, and the imagination of the dynasty, the territory. He does this by analyzing the interaction between political processes, state-formation and the shaping of identities. Dynastie, land en identiteit Aart Noordzij describes the development of a political identity in Guelders between 11. According to them, these labels were the essence of the Guelders identity. Some Guelders historians, however, used these negative stereotypes in order to create a positive image of their compatriots: they described the people of Guelders as natural, brave, and as lovers of freedom. These stereotypes had come into existence during the many wars with the Burgundian and Habsburg princes, who wanted to conquer the duchy. They were reputed to be lumpish, barbaric, belligerent, and rebellious. Gelre : dynastie, land en identiteit in de late middeleeuwen Doctoral Thesis In the late middle ages, the inhabitants of the duchy of Guelders had to deal with a number of negative stereotypes. ![]() |