![]() Marthe Simone grew up in the chateau as an orphan and teaches there. On several subsequent trips to France during the war, she starts a love affair with a French soldier, demands a divorce, and converts Chavaniac into a clinic for children at risk from tuberculosis. and starts an aggressive fund-raising effort to support the war. When WWI breaks out, she narrowly escapes back to the U.S. In 1914, Beatrice Astor Chanler, a former actor with a mysterious past, hurries to France to visit her estranged, millionaire husband. But the shifting winds of the French Revolution require sacrifice and bravery from Adrienne, who attempts to find safety in their newly built Château de Chavaniac. ![]() A few years later, he travels to America to join the American Revolution and returns to France a hero. ![]() ![]() In 1774, Gilbert du Motier, a marquis, marries Adrienne. Three women survive various wars in this ambitious, centuries-spanning outing from Dray ( My Dear Hamilton). ![]()
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![]() ![]() Without ignoring or downplaying the ugliness of many of Nietzsche's proclamations, he set them in the context of his work as a whole and of the counterexamples yielded by a responsible reading of his books. Responding to the powerful myths and countermyths that had sprung up around Nietzsche, Kaufmann offered a patient, evenhanded account of his life and works, and of the uses and abuses to which subsequent generations had put his ideas. ![]() Kaufmann rehabilitated Nietzsche nearly single-handedly, presenting his works as one of the great achievements of Western philosophy. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. ![]() ![]() ![]() At Crestwood Publications, he and Simon created the genre of romance comics and later founded their own short-lived comic company, Mainline Publications. During the 1940s, Kirby regularly teamed with Simon, creating numerous characters for that company and for National Comics Publications, later to become DC Comics.Īfter serving in the European Theater in World War II, Kirby produced work for DC Comics, Harvey Comics, Hillman Periodicals and other publishers. In 1940, he and writer-editor Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel Comics. He entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s, drawing various comics features under different pen names, including Jack Curtiss, before ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. He grew up in New York City and learned to draw cartoon figures by tracing characters from comic strips and editorial cartoons. ![]() Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg Aug– February 6, 1994) was an American comic book artist, writer and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this updated edition with fresh images, writer and photographer NK Guy presents 16 years of Burning Man art. It's also the incubator of some of the most remarkable site-specific outdoor art ever made: a mechanized fire-breathing octopus, a towering wooden temple 15 meters tall, and the eponymous Man himself-a skeletal sculpture set ablaze at the event's conclusion. Baked by the sun, and blinded by dust, the gathering acquires different meanings for different people: temporary community, spiritual adventure, performance stage, desert rave, social experiment. This is the surreal and amazing site of Burning Man. Except, that is, for one brief week at the end of each summer, when a temporary city rises out of the barren clay. The region has been an empty and windswept dry lake bed for most of the past 10,000 years. One hundred miles from the gambling town of Reno, in the wilderness of northern Nevada, lies a vast, hostile plain known as the Black Rock Desert. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For each country she gives a brief, basic description of some of the traditions and their backgrounds. In some places the New Year doesn’t even begin on January first - it begins in February or April or even September!Īrlene Erlbach has collected New Year customs from all over the world - twenty countries in all, including Japan, Israel, Greece, Chile and more. Sing “Auld Lang Syne” and watch fireworks with your family?Įat twelve grapes at midnight and count to twelve as fast as you can? Wear a scary mask to frighten away evil spirits and bad luck?Įat vasilopita with a coin hidden inside for good fortune? These are just a few of the many different ways people celebrate the New Year around the world. ![]() How do you celebrate the New Year? Do you. Founded in the year 2000, continues to help readers in choosing good books. Here is the book review written by Wendy Morris from, a website that evaluates not only children’s book but also books for teenagers and adults. She is a member of Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrator and also a reading teacher in Chicago. 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Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to comment or request changes to book records.įor general comments on Goodreads and for requests for changes to site functionality, try Goodreads Help or use the Contact Us link instead.įor tips on being a librarian, check out the Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. ![]() ![]() And I was thinking about that task we’re all going to have to do one day: clean out the house of a dead loved one, and deal with all the things they left behind, from their clothes to their collection of Hummel figurines. The reason I wanted to inflict them on people is that ghost stories and haunted house books are about the things we leave behind when we die, both physical and emotional. GH: To me this is less of a killer puppet book and more of a haunted house book, but I totally get that the second killer puppets appear onstage they pretty much reduce everyone to a gibbering wreck and take over the show. ![]() ![]() LR: You’ve covered everything from vampires to demonic possession to hellgate DIY furniture shops in your novels (and more). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His books include the graphic novel series The Grocery (with Aurélien Ducoudray) and PTSD. 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Guillaume Singelin is a comic book artist and illustrator living in France. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She was born in 1982 and is now 75the same age as the company for which she works, U.S. Robots, and surveys the notes he’s taken from interviewing Dr. ![]() Although the stories can be read separately, they share a theme of the interaction of humans, robots, and morality, and when combined they tell a larger story of Asimov's fictional history of robotics. Analysis The unnamed narrator, a reporter from the Interplanetary Press, has spent three days at U.S. Susan Calvin tells each story to a reporter (who serves as the narrator) in the 21st century. Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3720bd9b Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocrdetectedlang en Ocrdetectedlangconf 1.0000 Ocrdetectedscript Latin Ocrdetectedscriptconf 0.9899 Ocrmoduleversion 0.0.13 Ocrparameters-l eng Pagenumberconfidence 92. The stories are woven together by a framing narrative in which the fictional Dr. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 19 and were then compiled into a book for stand-alone publication by Gnome Press in 1950, in an initial edition of 5,000 copies. I, Robot is a fixup novel of science fiction short stories or essays by American writer Isaac Asimov. ![]() ![]() ![]() HORNBY: I think the first notion is seeing a young couple pushing a stroller around my neighborhood. And she's going to keep the baby.įor Nick Hornby, the story began with a chance encounter. Sam needs a lot of advice when he finds out his girlfriend, Alicia, is pregnant. When he's not skating, he's likely in his room talking to a poster of his idol - skateboard king, Tony Hawk. And if you keep thinking of me messing around on ice, then it's your own stupid thought.īLOCK: Sam is turning 16. We never say skateboarding, usually, so this is the only time I will use the word in this whole story. NICK HORNBY: (Reading) I'm guessing that not all of you are skaters, so I should say something straight away just that there are no terrible misunderstandings. ![]() ![]() On the first page, Sam talks to the reader about his passion for skating. Hornby's narrator is a teenage boy named Sam. The writer Nick Hornby has turned befuddled men into fictional heroes in novels including "High Fidelity" and "About A Boy." Now, he's written his first novel specifically for young adults, it's called "Slam." This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. ![]() |