![]() Ever the performer, Jacques is well-known for applying his acting and entertainment background to his lively presentations to legions of young fans at schools across the United States and England.īrian Jacques was born in Liverpool, England on June 15th, 1939. ![]() I hope they give their elders a chance to share the delights."Ī well-known radio personality in his native Liverpool-as well as an actor, stand-up comic, and playwright-Brian Jacques is the host of "Jakestown" on BBC Radio Merseyside. Newbery Award winner Lloyd Alexander called it "a fine work, literate, witty, filled with the excitement of genuine storytelling. With the publication of his first children's book in 1987, the award-winning Redwall, Jacques' fresh talent has received exceptional praise from reviewers in the United States and England. ![]() "I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc., to find success writing children's novels," says Brian Jacques (pronounced "Jakes"). ![]()
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![]() Ultimately, this combination of countermeasures increasingly weakened the "Green Movement", eventually crippling it entirely.Įvery four years, the Islamic Republic calls on its people to elect a president and a parliament. ![]() From the very outset, these coalition partners were against the mass of the protesting population that wanted substantial political reforms. This coalition attempted to divert the "Green Movement" from its actual goal – the annulment of the elections – and strived to exclude secular opposition groups from the movement. This coalition pursued the dual aim of maintaining the order and structure of the Islamic Republic while reducing the movement to a means of exerting pressure, so as to increase its own share of power within the system. In addition, it was steered by a coalition comprising representatives of different wings within the Iranian government. ![]() Two of the main reasons for the failure of the "Green Movement" are the violent suppression of the uprisings and the fact that a significant section of its followers distanced themselves from the movement. ![]() ![]() What kept me reading were the other characters in the book. While she was no Beyonce, the protagonist in Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark, overcomes her own struggles to reach her musical ambitions, sometimes at the expense of the relationships that. I never really liked the main character, she seemed aloof and superior. This is perhaps what some, but not most vocal artists experience I think. ![]() There are some beautiful passages in this book, but I was told (and so expecting) a good explanation of the vocal artist. If this book were a movie would you go see it? Have you listened to any of Pam Ward and Ken Burns (introduction) ’s other performances before? How does this one compare? Would you recommend The Song of the Lark to your friends? Why or why not? ![]() In this case the person is an artist and in some ways the book describes an artists soul and the circumstances that help lead one person to public success in art and another to not realize his/her full potential. The Song of the Lark is the story of an artist’s growth and development from childhood to maturity. The story is just like hearing about any person's life. Is there anything you would change about this book? ![]() ![]() ![]() ``99'' is a classic innocents-abroad tale, in which an American anthropologist traveling in England discovers, to his delight, an ancient Druidic cult in a remote village. ![]() He's content to let things go on in this fashion indefinitely, and they probably would, but for his wife's preternaturally devious cat: Ever since he brought his mistress into the house, it seems, the cat has harbored some plan of revenge in her feline mind, and she succeeds in finally exposing him to his wife as the fraud that he is. Married to a tenure-track wife who commutes four days a week to her job in Chicago, he putters about haplessly in the sticks, writing a study of popular culture-``My (M)other the Car: Difference and Memory in Matriarchal Narrative''- and sleeping with one of his graduate students. ![]() The hero of ``Queen of the Jungle,'' a middle-aged professor in Iowa whose contract is about to run out, is a good example. ![]() Things go disastrously wrong for the very matter-of-fact academics who inhabit Hynes's world. Three original, droll, startling tales of horror in academia, by the author of the novel The Wild Colonial Boy (1990). ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Should I read …?’, ‘What’s that book?’ posts, sales links, piracy, plagiarism, low quality book lists, unmarked spoilers (instructions for spoiler tags are in the sidebar), sensationalist headlines, novelty accounts, low effort content. Promotional posts, comments & flairs, media-only posts, personalized recommendation requests incl. 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Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.New Release: The Lock-Up by John Banville. ![]() ![]() ![]() The airplane was a red and white Caudron C.630 Simoun, c/n 7042.20. ![]() Any airplane type could be entered in the race as long as it had an official airworthiness certificate and a flight crew of two, or a single pilot with an autopilot.Īntoine de Saint Exupéry was accompanied by André Prévot as the navigator and flight engineer. The distance was estimated at 13,800 miles (22,209 kilometers). The race was sponsored by the Aéro-Club de France, which had offered a prize of ₣1,200,000 ( franc français), approximately £16,000 or $70,000, to the winner, providing the finishing time was less than 90 hours. (Succession de Saint-Exupéry d’Agay via Le Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace)Ģ9 December 1935: Early in the morning, Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger comte de Saint Exupéry took off from Aéroport de Paris–Le Bourget enroute to Saïgon, Cochin-China, as a participant in the long distance Paris-to-Saïgon “raid,” or air race. Antoine de Saint Exupéry with André Prévot and their Caudron C.630 Simoun, F-ANRY, Aéroport de Paris – Le Bourget 29 December 1935. ![]() ![]() First one expedition sets off to succor the inhabitants of the Lesser Redoubt, whose own Earth Current has been exhausted, only to meet with disaster. As the story commences, the narrator establishes mind contact with an inhabitant of another, forgotten Lesser Redoubt. To leave the protection of the Circle means almost certain death, or worse an ultimate destruction of the soul. ![]() Other living things have been seen in the darkness beyond, some of unknown origins, and others that may once have been human. It is thought they are waiting for the inevitable time when the Circle's power finally weakens and dies. ![]() For millennia, vast living shapes-the Watchers-have waited in the darkness near the pyramid. These are held back by a Circle of Energy, known as the "air clog", powered from a subterranean energy source called the "Earth Current". The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, nearly eight miles high – the Last Redoubt, under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark. The Sun has gone out and the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. LibriVox recording of The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only chance is to treat, not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life. Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. They will not bear a scrutinizing examination. Once make them so, and they are immediately felt to be insufficient. The enjoyments of life (such was now my theory) are sufficient to make it a pleasant thing, when they are taken en passant, without being made a principal object. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way. ![]() “Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is accused of shooting his sisterâs fiancé, Denis Cathcart, in a fit of rage after discovering that Cathcart was a man who made a living by cheating at cards. ![]() In this book Wimseyâs skills have an immediate and personal interest when his brother Gerald, the Duke of Denver, is arrested on a charge of murder. Sayers in 1926, is the second of her novels starring Lord Peter Wimsey, a wealthy aristocrat who enjoys detective work as a hobby. Will you support our efforts with a donation?Ĭlouds of Witness, published by Dorothy L. We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Standard EbooksĨ5,818 words (5 hours 13 minutes) with a reading ease of 74.79 (fairly easy) ![]() Sayers - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. ![]() ![]() The heightened role of corporate private industry in spaceflight is to be viewed with suspicion, especially from a company headed by the increasingly erratic tycoon Elon Musk. The Dragon spacecraft itself, a partnership between NASA and privately owned SpaceX, generates mixed feelings. ![]() Amid all the darkness, however, many of us turned at least some of our attention in a more hopeful direction in May: up to the skies, where for the first time in nine years a next generation spacecraft launched astronauts from American soil into space. ![]() ![]() Our attention is torn myriad ways: the Covid-19 pandemic the epidemic of police violence and racist murders of Black and Indigenous people the global chaos being sown by US President Donald Trump and his administration. ![]() |