In his dying words, Maitland still claims innocence. Maitland is fatally wounded before Ollie is killed by the police. In the chaos, Ollie Peterson, the brother of Frankie Peterson, starts shooting at Maitland, blaming him for his brother's murder and mother's subsequent heart attack. On the day of Maitland's arraignment, a large crowd has gathered around the courthouse. Footage of Maitland at the conference as well as fingerprints are found, casting confusion on the case. Maitland claims innocence, having been at a conference with several other teachers in Cap City at the time, which the other teachers all confirm. Fingerprints and DNA at the crime scene as well as witness accounts all clearly indicate local sports coach Terrence Maitland as the killer, so detective Ralph Anderson orders a public arrest. In Flint City, Oklahoma, the mutilated and raped corpse of Frankie Peterson is found. The Outsider (2018) is a horror novel by the American author Stephen King.
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Winterfly is a comic novel that takes place, a few years back, this century, in Toronto, Boston, and Munich But the combinations (and recombinations) that follow his arrival aren’t necessarily those “almost everybody” was expecting. Will she, almost everybody wonders, stray again? With Hanns, for (handy) instance. Kris, in her late forties, now seems - to herself, certainly - that much younger and is feeling appropriately restless. Phil has just celebrated his seventieth birthday. Larry is the books editor at Bizcotti magazine (motto: “Work with life”). Kris, one of the selection committee members, is a piano teacher at the school and has invited him to meet her husband Phil, a semi-retired psychiatrist, and their two adult children, Larry and Harriet. Newly appointed artist-in-residence at the Conservatory, Hanns arrives in Toronto with but one (sketchy) project in mind, a song cycle entitled “Winterfliege/Winterfly.” How fortunate he is to have found even this temporary position: his career was starting to look a little short and obscure itself. Thus, at least, imagines, sympathetically, the concert pianist Hanns Gellert its short, obscure life. Analytic, polyphonic, germanic “Work with life”Ī winter fly is born out of season and dies between two cold windowpanes or in the greasy corner of a kitchen ceiling. In 1986, he and two other reporters spent several months interviewing survivors of a major airline crash. In Fort Lauderdale he wrote about police and crime during the height of the murder and violence wave that rolled over South Florida during the so-called cocaine wars. Once he decided on this direction he chose a major in journalism and a minor in creative writing - a curriculum in which one of his teachers was novelist Harry Crews.Īfter graduating in 1980, Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, primarily specializing in the crime beat. Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads' database with this name. Based on the science - which you'll find peppered throughout Mini Habits - we've been doing it all wrong. Is there a scientific explanation for this?Īs I sought understanding, I found a plethora of scientific studies that had answers, with nobody to interpret them correctly. Maybe it was my prior strategies that were ineffective, despite being oft-repeated as "the way to change" in countless books and blogs. I had to consider that maybe I wasn't the problem in those 10 years of mediocre results. I was shocked again when my success with this strategy continued for months (and to this day). This "stupid idea" wasn't supposed to work. I initially committed to do one push-up, and it turned into a full workout. One afternoon - after another failed attempt to get motivated to exercise - I (accidentally) started my first mini habit. Feminist undertones can be found in the way Roy describes Rose-Anna's role in the family. The condition of the woman is treated throughout the novel both on the individual level (in the lives of Rose-Anna and her daughter, Florentine) and universally when Rose-Anna identifies with women across the world who are affected by the senselessness of war. She feels completely alone and even Azarius is not there when she calls for him. For Rose-Anna, that is best seen at the end of the novel, when she gives birth practically alone. For Azarius, it is the loss of his vocation and subsequently his identity as a "man".ĭespite being about a family, the novel demonstrates the solitude of the various characters. For Rose-Anna, it is the loss of her children: Eugene to the army, Florentine to marriage, and Daniel to death. The novel details the loss of many things in the lives of several characters. While following the deserted I-70 toward a. Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Jake’s pet bumbler survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, one that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. Unfortunately for the burgeoning hero, his father’s court i been infiltrated by a dark wizard named Marten Broadcloak, the manipulative a-hole soon to be known as the Man in Black. Stephen King, Dave McKean (Illustrator) 4.26. The novel finds Roland picking up his guns for the first time as the youngest Gunslinger in his home country of Gilead. Told as a campfire story spun by Roland himself, Wizard and Glass, the fourth novel in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, takes place decades before the events of the first book, The Gunslinger. The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King The Dark Tower Series 7 primary works 16 total works Stephen Kings novel series comprised of eight books, incorporating themes from multiple genres, including dark fantasy, science fantasy, horror, and western. In the years prior to the Man in Black’s flight across the desert, before Roland the Gunslinger set out in pursuit of him, there was a nefarious court advisor, a king’s son, and a lush world that had yet to move on. In 2018, the TV series Wizard and Glass will explore the these events and act as a prequel to upcoming Dark Tower movie. Before Roland the Gunslinger lost everything and set out on his grim quest for knowledge and revenge in the events of The Gungslinger he was forging the roots of his legend in the distant land of Mejis. Ironically, the novel isn't about sweet idleness and restful recreation, at all, but about hard work and spiritual awakening. The myth of Robinson is a powerful one: Holiday clubs and whole islands are named after him, and there's probably not a single remote getaway location in the world that doesn't feature at least one Robinson bar, restaurant or tourist site. Hearing the name “Robinson Crusoe” you probably think of a bearded man dressed in animal skins, roaming a lonesome island with his only companion Friday, a noble native who speaks like an innocent child. Unfortunately, Hook's Hollywood-ready construction undercuts the “you are there” feeling of Cornwell's otherwise vivid recreation of Henry V's greatest military triumph. The crisply rendered battle scenes are adrenaline rushes of blood, thunder and clashing swords that transport the reader back to the early 15th century. Crispinian whispering to him in times of personal crisis, Hook has his hands full with the French and defending himself from the vengeance-seeking rapist priest and Melisande's father. Bernard Cornwell tackles his most thrilling, rich, and enthralling subject yet-the heroic tale of Agincourt. Back on French soil, he fights and slogs his way to Agincourt, where 6,000 Englishmen confront 30,000 French soldiers. This story about the Battle of Agincourt is set before and on the 25th October AD 1415, St Crispin's Day, and of course its aftermath. With his French prize in tow, he returns to England and signs on with Henry's army as an archer. Read this book in 2008, and this standalone book is a tremendous retelling about the ferocious Battle of Agincourt (french for Azincourt), by the author, Bernard Cornwell. Nicholas Hook, an English forester, is on the run after interfering with a rapist priest and ends up a mercenary defender at Soissons, where he saves a young and beautiful novitiate, Melisande. Civil War, Cornwell returns to the Hundred Years War era in this action-packed if slightly melodramatic epic about King Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. : Agincourt: A Novel (9780061578915) by Cornwell, Bernard and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. A literary veteran of the Napoleonic Wars and the U.S. And on his father's side, the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly two centuries. His maternal grandfather, U Thant, rose from being the schoolmaster of a small town in the Irrawaddy Delta to become the UN secretary-general in the 1960s. In The River of Lost Footsteps, Thant Myint-U tells the story of modern Burma, in part through a telling of his own family's history, in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical, dramatic, and appalling. Drawing both on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience working with the United Nations, Thant Myint-U has written an illuminating account of how Burma's rich past informs its violent present, and of how the world might transform the country's future. It is also the sight of the longest-running conflict in the world. Genre: Autobiography - Biography, History, Travel,ĭescription: Burma is currently ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists and sanctions. “Generally brisk and without a hint of the camp that often accompanies Earnest, the staging gives the abundant epigrams of Oscar Wilde their full due, in no small part thanks to several terrific performances. Things start to go awry when they end up together in the country, and their deceptions are discovered – threatening to spoil their romantic pursuits. Algy Montcrieff decides to take the name ‘Earnest’ when visiting Worthing’s young and beautiful ward, Cecily at the country manor. The sound of a piano is heard in the adjoining room. The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished. Jack Worthing has invented a brother, Earnest, who he uses as an excuse to leave his dull country life behind to visit the ravishing Gwendolen. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde A Trivial Comedy for Serious People Morning-room in Algernon’s flat in Half-Moon Street. Two young gentlemen living in 1890’s England have taken to bending the truth in order to put some excitement into their lives. Algernon Moncrieff is shocked to discover the alter ego of his affluent friend, who needed to escape his country estate where he takes care of his charge. Drama Desk Nom., “Best Actress” – Melissa Errico, The Importance of Being Earnest |