![]() ![]() The quietude of Three Pines, a village so small it hardly exits on any map, seems the perfect place in which to achieve the desired calm. It’s a time for reflection and a time for healing after his incendiary confrontation with terrorism and police corruption in the last novel How the Light Gets In. Gamache, newly retired from his post as head of the Sûreté du Québec has moved from Montreal to live in the village of Three Pines with his wife Reine-Marie. This is the latest novel in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series by Canadian best selling author Louise Penny and if the plot of this tenth title seems a little weaker than its predecessors, the psychological perspectives, strong sense of place and memorable characters are undiminished. ![]() ![]() Within just a few pages of The Long Way Home it’s evident that you’re in the hands of an accomplished writer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Everything's going so well that readers will feel as sucker punched as the characters when catastrophe strikes. ![]() The leisurely pace encompasses a subplot in which one of Sam's oldest friends, now an alcoholic and drug addict, begins his healing at the hands of the Garretts as well. The story unfolds slowly, Samantha's present-tense narration smart, funny and mildly astonished at the changes wrought by her new relationship. His family is equally beguiling, a dramatic foil for Samantha's sterile life with her campaigning mother. Fitzpatrick delivers an almost perfect summer romance: The way Jase woos Samantha-gently, with humor, patience and a joint trip to CVS to pick out condoms-will have every girl who reads the novel wishing for a Jase of her own. When gorgeous Jase climbs up to talk to her one night, she begins to loosen her emotional stays for the first time in her life. But Samantha finds herself fascinated, watching the messy, boisterous family from the roof outside her window. The burgeoning family (seven children by the time Samantha turns 17) is white trash as far as she's concerned. Her perfectionist, state-senator mother hasn't forgiven "those Garretts" for moving next door 10 years ago. Good-girl Samantha finds herself when she falls for the boy next door. ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Philip Vellacott's lucid translation is accompanied by an introduction, which discusses the literary background of Classical Athens and examines the distinction between instinctive and civilized behaviour.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Electra portrays a young woman planning to avenge the brutal death of her father at the hands of her mother, while in Heracles the hero seeks vengeance against the evil king who has caused bloodshed in his family. In Medea, a woman rejected by her lover takes hideous revenge by murdering the children they both love, and Hecabe depicts the former queen of Troy, driven mad by the prospect of her daughter's sacrifice to Achilles. ![]() The first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods, Euripides made his characters speak in human terms and face the consequences of their actions. The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society ![]() ![]() ![]() 60 spectacular LGBTQIA+ books to read this Pride Month and every month.May Bookshop Chat - Books With Buzz May 2023.2023 British Book Awards Are Celebrated At Star-Studded Ceremony - We Love The #Nibbies.Put your Feet up and Catch up on Our May Summary of Highlights and Reading Recommendations.We mourn the loss of celebrated British author Martin Amis.Industry Insights May 2023: James Kellow, Ultimo Press.Prepare to Celebrate the Nation's Favourite Genre with National Crime Reading Month.Caffè Nero launches a major new set of book awards - The Nero Book Awards.TikTok launching its own book awards to celebrate titles, authors, content and creators of BookTok.International Booker Prize 2023 Won by Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel with Time Shelter. ![]() England Rugby World Cup Winner Steve Thompson, Beth Mead and Gary Neville all take home gongs at The 21st Sports Book Awards.Jhalak Prizes 2023 Winners Announced celebrating British or British-resident writers of colour. ![]() ![]() The other four tales each tell the story of a different animal, such as the travels of the white seal Kotick the battle between the courageous mongoose Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and the deadly cobra Nag Toomai and the elephant dance and the camp animals of the queen’s guard. The first three tales include some of the most charming and unforgettable characters in literature-the man-cub Mowgli, the black panther Bagheera, the wise brown bear Baloo, the ruthless tiger Shere Khan, and the hypnotic python Kaa. Composed of seven tales, each one accompanied by a poem, The Jungle Book is a coming of age fantasy that introduces a lush, colorful world full of adventure and danger. Since its publication in 1894, Rudyard Kipling’s beloved masterpiece The Jungle Book has been celebrated by generations of readers. T he Jungle Bookfeatures stunning artwork and nine 3-D interactive elements crafted by MinaLima Design, the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise and the illustrated classic Peter Pan. ![]() ![]() 10 Books to thank your favorite teacherįor fans of all ages, legendary British writer Rudyard Kipling’s complete collection of enchanting fables set in India-the basis of the beloved animated Disney film and a modern cinematic retelling from director Jon Favreau-now available in a deluxe four-color illustrated collectible edition.The Jungle Book (Illustrated with Interactive Elements) – BookaliciousMY ![]() ![]() ![]() Every five hundred yards it stopped to take on board another secretary, another customs man, an inspector. That bus had a stale smell of dusty bureaucracies, old offices where a man’s life sinks into the peat. The antiquated bus appeared at last at the street corner, in a fracas of metallic noise, and now it was my right to squeeze onto the bench between a sleepy customs man and a group of clerks. But think of all those who have been through it before you, and just tell youself: “They did it, so it can be done again.”‘ (p.7)Ĥ. ![]() ‘Sometimes the storms and the fog and the snow will get you down. But among these living stars, how many closed windows, how many extinct stars, how many sleeping men… (p.3)ģ. Self-discovery comes when man measures himself against an obstacle. ![]() The earth teaches us more about ourselves than all the books in the world, because it is resistent to us. WIND, SAND AND STARS – ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRYġ. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alma’s father, an uneducated botanist who built his wealth with pharmaceutical plants, is an adventurous man who teaches Alma that there are no limits to life with the right amount of ambition. The Signature of All Things is a novel of self-discovery that takes the main character and the reader on a journey that will leave their lives forever altered.Īlma Whittaker is the only biological child of Henry and Beatrix Whittaker. In time, Alma has an epiphany about the fight for survival seen in all things, from mosses to human beings but, she misses her chance for fame when another scientist publishes the same theories before her. However, after a brief, unsatisfying marriage to a gifted artist, Alma sets out into the world in an attempt to understand her husband. Alma spends most of her life in seclusion on the family estate, unmarried and alone. ![]() ![]() Alma has inherited her father’s love of botany, but lacks his sense of adventure. In this novel, Alma Whittaker is the unattractive daughter of an adventurous botanist who had set out to be better than his father before him. The Signature of All Things is a sweeping generational novel by writer Elizabeth Gilbert. ![]() ![]() ![]() She later served in Europe with the women’s division of Gen. In 1940, after France fell, Eve Curie went to England to work for the Free French. ![]() She was also considered to have been one of the most beautiful women in Paris in the 1920s and ’30s. ![]() Originally trained as a concert pianist, she performed throughout France and Belgium as a young woman and later wrote music criticism for several French periodicals. Her other books include “Journey Among Warriors” (Doubleday, Doran, 1943), a best-selling account of her 40,000-mile trip across a series of wartime fronts: North Africa, Iraq, Iran, Russia, India, Burma and China. After the war, she was a publisher of the French newspaper Paris-Press, and in the early 1950s was a special adviser to the secretary general of NATO. In wide demand as a lecturer after “Madame Curie” was published, Labouisse was also known for her staunch public advocacy of the Free French cause after the Nazis occupied France in 1940. The book quickly became a bestseller and in 1943 was made into a Hollywood film, starring Greer Garson as Marie and Walter Pidgeon as Pierre. Published in 1937, “Madame Curie” chronicled the life of Marie Curie, who earned the Nobel Prize twice, first in physics in 1903 and again in chemistry in 1911. ![]() Ève Curie Labouisse, a journalist and humanitarian, is best known for her biography of her mother, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the lucid, masterful explanations and razor-sharp wit his fans have come to expect, Kean explores the brain's secret passageways and recounts the forgotten tales of the ordinary people whose struggles, resilience, and deep humanity made neuroscience possible. He weaves these narratives together with prose that makes the pages fly by, to create a story of discovery that reaches back to the 1500s and the high-profile jousting accident that inspired this book's title. In The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, Sam Kean travels through time with stories of neurological curiosities: phantom limbs, Siamese twin brains, viruses that eat patients' memories, blind people who see through their tongues. Some people couldn't speak but could still sing. ![]() Pillars of the community became pathological liars. Parents suddenly couldn't recognize their own children. Observers were amazed by the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed, altering victims' personalities. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories.Įarly studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents - and see how victims coped. ![]() ![]() ![]() Max Einstein has to be one of our favourite heroines! She may be a brainbox, but the best thing about her is her imagination and her love of adventure. ![]() But Max hasn’t just caught the attention of the Change Makers’ Institute, the sinister and greedy Corporation are desperate to get to her too… Can Max and her brainy friends outwit the Corporation and use their imagination and intelligence to save the planet? ![]() Max joins the gang of young geniuses from all over the world, working on top secret inventions to solve problems like sustainable power and water shortages. ![]() She is recruited by a mysterious organisation whose mission is to solve the world’s toughest problems using science. Max tries to keep a low profile but can’t help but stand out. Oh, and she’s also a homeless orphan, living above a stables. Who just happens to go to university, play speed chess and talk to Albert Einstein (OK, that part is just in her head). Well, apart from the fact that she is a genius. Max Einstein is just your average 12-year-old girl. ![]() |