![]() ![]() Part adventure, part historical saga, and part coming-of-age love story, West with Giraffes explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals, the kindness of strangers, the passing of time, and a story told before it’s too late. Inspired by true events, the tale weaves real-life figures with fictional ones, including the world’s first female zoo director, a crusty old man with a past, a young female photographer with a secret, and assorted reprobates as spotty as the giraffes. ![]() Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. ![]() But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. West with Giraffes Summary The year was 1938, and a colossal hurricane had struck New York, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Based on true events, Rutledge weaved a charming and intriguing cross-county saga of a kind man, a weary boy, a feisty red-head and two giraffes. Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge (Goodreads Author) Mary s review it was amazing This could be my new favorite book. “Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes…” An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Martyn Rady’s panoramic history narrates how Kanzelin and his descendants made money, territorial gains and enemies: the monks of a monastery they themselves had founded spread the idea that “the earliest Habsburgs were no more than robber barons”. ![]() Otto, who spoke seven languages and whose heart was buried in Hungary while the rest of him reposed in Austria, was among the last of a line that can be traced at least to the 10th century, to the first Habsburg we can speak of with any certainty: Kanzelin (or possibly Lanzelin) of Altenburg, a small-time magnate in what today is Switzerland. A vocal participant in Europe’s postwar politics, he couldn’t forget the legacy he’d been born into: once, on being asked if he planned to watch an Austria-Hungary football match, he is said to have responded “Perhaps – who are we playing?” Born in 1912, he watched as his family’s grasp on political power slipped, and the dynasty that once dominated central Europe and beyond became just another surname that whispered of a greater history. O tto von Habsburg never got to be emperor. ![]() ![]() ![]() I hear this Ace Atkinson guy is good, but I can't bring myself to read a new Spenser now that Parker has died. Promised Land and the other Spenser novels spawned the movie Spenser: For Hire and a string of made-for-TV movies. ![]() Parker's acclaim and his thorough background in classic detective literature helped earn him the somewhat unusual commission of completing a Philip Marlowe novel that the great Raymond Chandler had left unfinished. Best known for his portrayal of the tough but erudite investigator Spenser, Parker wrote over twenty-five novels over the course of his career, which began in 1973. ![]() Parker was one of contemporary fiction's most popular and respected detective writers. The Spenser novels have been cited by critics and bestselling authors such as Robert Crais, Harlan Coben and Dennis Lehane as not only influencing their own work but reviving and changing the detective genre. Parker was 77 when he died of a heart attack at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts discovered at his desk by his wife Joan, he had been working on a novel. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the late 1980s a series of TV movies based on the character were also produced. His most famous works were the novels about the private detective Spenser. Robert Brown Parker was an American crime writer. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database named Robert B. ![]() ![]() ![]() The raid is as perilous as the bloodiest tales of island legend, and Hunter will lose more than one man before he even sets foot on foreign shores, where dense jungle and the firepower of Spanish infantry stand between him and the treasure. With backing from a powerful ally, Hunter assembles a crew of ruffians to infiltrate the enemy outpost and commandeer El Trinidad, along with its fortune in Spanish gold. Heavily fortified, the impregnable harbor is guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself. ![]() Word in port is that the galleon El Trinidad, fresh from New Spain, is awaiting repairs in a nearby harbor. For Captain Charles Hunter, gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking, and the law of the land rests with those ruthless enough to make it. In this steamy climate there's a living to be made, a living that can end swiftly by diseaseor by dagger. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. ![]() A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. From one of the best-loved authors of all time comes an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates in the New World, a classic story of treasure and betrayal. ![]() ![]() speak as much to our times as they did to the nineteenth century." -David Platzer, The New Criterion In these pages, Chateaubriand continues to paint his distinctive self-portrait, in which the whole history of France swirls around the sitter like a mist of dreams. Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800–1815-the second volume in Alex Andriesse’s new and complete translation of this epic French classic-is a chronicle of triumphs and sorrows, narrating not only the author’s life during a tumultuous period in European history but the “parallel life” of Napoleon. He served Napoleon in Rome, then resigned in protest after the Duc d’Enghien’s execution, putting his own life at tremendous risk. He strolled the streets of Jerusalem and mapped the ruins of Carthage. He published Atala, René, and The Genius of Christianity to acclaim and epoch-making scandal. ![]() Over the next fifteen years, his life was utterly changed. He was thirty-one and had been living as a political refugee in England for most of a decade, at times in such extreme poverty that he subsisted on nothing but hot water and two-penny rolls. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1800, François-René de Chateaubriand sailed from the cliffs of Dover to the headlands of Calais. The second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary celebrity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Beagle hat auch Drehbücher verfasst und ist als Singe. April 1939 in Manhattan, New York) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller von Fantasy-Büchern. Sie hat den ganzen naiven Ernst, dessen der Traum vom Einhorn und vom großen Abenteuer bedarf, sie hat jene Ökonomie, die vor Übertreibungen schützt - und auch die zarte Ironie, mit der sich Menschen unserer Tage absichern gegen die Wahrheit des Märchens. Ein kleiner Roman, eine große Geschichte, eine Märchen-Legende - geschrieben, hingeträumt in gelassenem, kultiviertem Volkston. Es gilt, dem Roten Stier zu begegnen, der unter König Haggards verfluchtem Schlosse haust. Das seltsame Trio muß bald erkennen, daß die Erkundungsfahrt nicht ohne Kampf und äußerste Gefahr beendet werden kann. in which a unicorn discovers that the rest of her kind have disappeared from the world. ![]() Auf der abenteuerlichen Expedition wird es begleitet von Schmendrick, einem drittklassigen Zauberer, und von Molly Grue, der ehemaligen Lagergefährtin eines verhinderten Edelräubers. The Last Unicorn became a cult classic as both a novel and an animated film because. Dies ist die phantastische Geschichte einer großen Suche: Das letzte Einhorn, ein Geschöpf von ursprünglicher Anmut, verläßt seinen in ewigem Frühling blühenden Fliederwald, begibt sich auf die Landstraße, dringt in die Zeit, um das Schicksal seiner entschwundenen Artgenossen zu erkunden. But outside her wondrous realm, dark whispers and rumours carried a message she could not ignore: Unicorns are gone from the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stephen had a girlfriend named Libby Tittles, or something unfortunate like that, and Korie had this on-again-off-again thing with her junior high boyfriend.īut anyone who’s ever seen a movie, or watched TV, or just had basic awareness of human interaction saw exactly where Korie and Stephen were heading: Humpville.Įven though Korie swore up and down that she didn’t like him like that, both of their significant others were long gone by Thanksgiving of sophomore year.īy Christmas vacation, Korie wasn’t uttering quite so many likes. I guess technically they were platonic for a while. ![]() Real best friends can generally go more than a couple hours without mentioning each other’s name, but Korie found a way to fit Stephen’s name into every other sentence. My sophomore year of high school, I had a short-lived friendship with this girl named Korie Hamilton.Ī little too much purple eyeliner, a few too many likes sprinkled throughout her constant chatter, but we had every class together our first semester, so we kind of became friends by default.Īnyway, Korie was forever yammering on and on about how her best friend on the entire planet was Stephen Daniels, a boy she’d known for all of four weeks before promoting him to BFF status.Īpparently it was, like, ohmigod, like, the best thing ever to have a guy she could talk to without complicating things with romantic entanglements. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thrillingly balanced between a grim, deliberately retro society and the possibilities of a utopian future, this is an original and gripping thriller.ĭespite its title, Robot by Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg (translated by Tomasz Mirkowicz, Penguin, £8.99) is not about artificial intelligence: rather, it concerns the nature of reality, and how far human beings are capable of understanding our own situation in the universe. An even more shocking discovery is to come. But, as State Security Agent Nikolai South knows, someone within the state is operating a secret contran system and smuggling people out to the free world on a new type of memory chip. The world has been transformed, everywhere except in the Caspian Republic, a deeply repressive society that considers itself the last outpost of humanity, forcing its mortal citizens to resist “the machine”. Along with this great leap forward has come the erasure of any legal distinctions between people born the old-fashioned way and those formerly described as “artificial intelligences” – all are equal. ![]() Playwright Neil Sharpson’s first novel, When the Sparrow Falls (Solaris, £8.99), is set in the 23rd century, after the development of “contran”: a process for the quick and easy transfer of consciousness from one body to another, or from a physical body to a blissfully free existence in a virtual environment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Part engrossing book series, part action role-playing game – discover your spirit animal and join the adventure in Fall 2013. ![]() Now the fate of Erdas has fallen on the shoulders of four young strangers. A dark force has risen from distant and long-forgotten lands, and has begun an onslaught that will ravage the world. ![]() Enter the world of Erdas, where every child who comes of age must discover if they have a spirit animal, a rare bond between human and beast that bestows great powers to both. Suddenly the paths of these children – and the world – have been changed forever. Four flashes of light erupt, and from them emerge the unmistakable shapes of incredible beasts – a wolf, a leopard, a panda, a falcon. Four children separated by vast distances all undergo the same ritual, watched by cloaked strangers. #1 New York Times bestseller Brandon Mull launches Scholastic’s brand-new multiplatform phenomenon. You can read this before Wild Born (Spirit Animals, #1) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Wild Born (Spirit Animals, #1) written by Brandon Mull which was published in. ![]() Brief Summary of Book: Wild Born (Spirit Animals, #1) by Brandon Mull ![]() ![]() ![]() Her ninth and most recent work, the Columbia Guide to American Environmental History, came out last month. Merchant, now one of the world's leading environmental writers, is author of the path-breaking and influential The Death of Nature (it has no relation to that prairie incident), her first book, published in 1980. The next spring, we went out there, and it was just a beautiful carpet of prairie wild flowers." Why on earth? "Well," she recalls, "he wanted to burn the weeds and aspen that were threatening to crowd out the native prairie plants, which are adapted to fire. She calls "a baptism by fire." In Madison, Wisconsin, in 1959, on their first date, the man who would become her husband drove her out to a prairie, took out a book of matches, and set fire to the place. Leading environmental historian Carolyn Merchant had a shocking introduction to ecology. ![]() 96 A Conservation with Carolyn Merchant, Russell Schoch, California Monthly the filmĪ Conservation with Carolyn Merchant by Russell Schoch ![]() |