![]() ![]() This work by Goethe is undoubtedly the beginning of what some would jokingly call EMO. However, its story and character are powerful enough that it provides fuel for works across the ages with a rage of titles anywhere from Romeo and Juliet to Catcher in the Rye. He would rather die than live in a world with out his love. His deep unfailing love for someone who he could not have drove Werther to suicide. Unable and unwilling to murder, he decides it is himself that must die and in a memorable and dramatic act, shoots himself in the head, leaving behind a farewell letter. Eventually his love for Charlotte and inability to be with her brings so much anguish that he decides one of the three, himself, Charlotte, or her fiancé, must die. Werther does his best to be friends with Charlotte and her fiancé but is so pained by her presence and circumstance that he decides to leave. The letters recount Werthers infatuation and love for a girl his age named Charlotte who is engaged to a much older man. ![]()
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![]() ![]() They cling to the hope that a new national government is finally emerging. After suffering starvation, war, and countless deaths, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to piece back together the technologies they had once taken for granted: electricity, radio communications, and medications. ![]() The story picks up a year after One Second After ends, two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees. One Year After is the thrilling follow-up to that smash hit. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. Forstchen's One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel is a tour de force of suspense and action, with Crichton's meticulous attention to detail and scientific accuracy lending the story a sense of realism that is both thrilling and terrifying. 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This two-book collection set is a must-have for any fan of science fiction and adventure. ![]() ![]() Jurassic Park and The Lost World are two bestselling novels by the renowned author, Michael Crichton, that have captivated readers around the world with their thrilling storylines and vividly imagined worlds. ![]() ![]() Otto Preminger directed the movie, released in 1947, with Linda Darnell and Cornel Wilde in the leading roles. Twentieth Century Fox purchased the screen rights within a month of the book’s publication. ![]() “Forever Amber” sold 100,000 copies its first week in bookstores. The Hays Office, the morality board for the movie business, condemned the book, hoping to block a Hollywood rendition.Ĭriticism only encouraged sales. “Forever Amber” was banned in 14 states, starting with Massachusetts, where the attorney general counted 70 references to sexual intercourse, 39 illegitimate pregnancies and 10 abortions and recommended an adding machine for anyone who hoped to keep track of Amber’s many suitors. It also made her the center of controversy. She earned a $50,000 advance from her publisher, Macmillan Co., and received $200,000 for the movie rights. ![]() “One of them was that I was going to write a bestseller.”īorn in Olivia, Minn., in 1919 and raised in Berkeley, she attended UC Berkeley and married Herwig, a star of the football team, while they were students. “When I was 18, I wrote a list of things I was going to do with my life,” she said in an interview with P.M., a New York City-based newspaper published during the 1940s. ![]() She was 25 when the book was published and later said she had big plans for it from the start. Winsor wrote six drafts before she was satisfied with the results. ![]() ![]() ![]() mainly because it's a hot mess, but they think he's keeping money from them. She's managed to navigate social media really well, and even has collaborated with friends, who are angry with Marcus because he is not including them on his channel. 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At first I considered these little letters, frank and earnest though they were, in the light of pretty compliments but the letters continued to come during succeeding months, and even years. ![]() After the publication of "The Wonderful Wizard of OZ" I began to receive letters from children, telling me of their pleasure in reading the story and asking me to "write something more" about the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman. ![]() ![]() ![]() The oppressive political system within Romania effects not. Growing up under the communist regime limits Cristian’s ability to experiment with his identity, building independence, and practice autonomy, standard rites of passage when coming-of-age. ![]() Conversely, the narrator is timid and afraid to express his emotions or thoughts in public. He his arms, casually looking about, speaking louder than most Romanians would” (105). Ruta Sepetys focuses on a lost chapter in history her newest book, I Must Betray You, pulls back the curtain. As they walk through Rosetti Square together, Cristian notes Dan’s “general ease in all things. Philomel, 18.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-9848-3603-8. Set in 1989, in a Romania ruled by autocrat Nicolae Ceauescu, the story introduces Cristian Florescu, an aspiring. While Dan and Cristian are both on the cusp of turning eighteen, the teenagers interact with others and themselves in divergent manners. I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys delivers a more harrowing tale. Toward the outset of the narrative, the author illustrates the dichotomy between Cristian and Dan Van Dorn’s social interactions to highlight the effects of political culture on coming-of-age. I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys 4.7 (41) Hardcover 17.99 19.99 Save 10 Hardcover 17.99 Paperback 12.99 eBook 8.99 Audiobook 0.00 Large Print 24. Throughout her novel, I Must Betray You, Sepetys thematically examines coming-of-age through her character Cristian. ![]() ![]() Award-winning historian Justo Gonzalez bring to life the people, dramatic events, and theological debates that have shaped Protestantism, Catholicism, and Orthodoxy. Beginning with the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century, this fully revised and updated second volume of The Story of Christianity continues the marvelous history of the world's largest religion. ![]() From the monk Martin Luther, who dared to stand up to a corrupt pope, to the surprising spread and growing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She knew that she would always be a part of that warm, loving circle."Ībsolutely LOVED this book! Sadako written by Eleanor Coerr is about a young Japanese girl who was a baby when the atomic bombs hit. She looked around at their faces and smiled. ![]() ![]() "When she opened her eyes again, Sadako saw her family there beside the bed. He has shed that tired, sick body, and his spirit is free." My daughter and I enjoyed looking at pictures of kimonos, cranes, and Kokeshi dolls on the internet after we read the book. ![]() a valuable gift for someone who was about to die ( I couldn't help but think of the woman who spent money on precious oils for Christ before he died). It resonated well with my personal beliefs that death is not the end and that we will eventually be reunited with our families and loved ones. I loved that even though it was sad, it left me with a hopeful and happy feeling. I'm so happy I didn't have to be someone making those very hard decisions in wartime. My heart aches for the suffering of the people of Japan in that time. it's a wonderful, poignant book which deals with triumph, hope, illness, and death, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, and Peace Day (I learned a few new things). so I was taken off guard by it and shed a few tears. I didn't know what it was about when I picked it up to read to my daughter. this book makes many of the children's books I have rated pale even though I gave them 5 stars. WOW! WONDERFUL BOOK! I have gotten to be less inclined to give 5 stars. ![]() ![]() 'And do you know what your chicken slippers are doing? They are waiting, just waiting, for nobody's feet but yours.' 'That's happy,' replies Willa. She reports that her chicken slippers are there. There is a lovely picture connected to Willa's 'thinking process' of her lying on her pillow with her long ears crossed over her face (the two children are rabbits!) So Willoughby begins by asking Willa to look under her bed to see what is there. She tries, she really does, but can't come up with anything. Willoughby and Willa share bunk beds, Willoughby on the top and Willa underneath, and one night Willa can't get to sleep because she is 'afraid that I might have a bad dream.' Older Willoughby is very understanding and says why doesn't she try thinking of something happy. ![]() ![]() ![]() This gentle, loving story about siblings is the perfect antidote to night-time worries. ![]() |