Set in twelfth-century England, this epic of kings and peasants juxtaposes the building of a magnificent church with the violence and treachery that often characterized the Middle Ages.
Author: Ken Follett
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: PSU:000064184616
Category: Fiction
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Set in twelfth-century England, this epic of kings and peasants juxtaposes the building of a magnificent church with the violence and treachery that often characterized the Middle Ages.The Pillars of the Earth (Deluxe Edition, Oprah's Book Club). New York: NAL/Penguin, 2007. Print. France, Louise. “Most popular woman writer in Britain,” The Guardian, April 15, 2007. Last accessed September 27, 2014: guardian.co.uk ...
Author: Cecilia Konchar Farr
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781137542779
Category: Literary Criticism
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Popular fiction follows literature professors wherever they go. At coffee shops or out for drinks, after faculty meetings or classes, even at family reunions – they are persistently pressed to talk about bestselling novels. Questions immediately follow: What do I mean when I say a book is "good"? Why do contemporary novels like these, conversations like these, matter to professors of literature? Shouldn't they be spending their time re-reading The Great Gatsby? The Ulysses Delusion confronts these questions and answers their call for more engaged conversations about books. Through topics like the Oprah's Book Club, Harry Potter, and Chick Lit, Cecilia Konchar Farr explores the lively, democratic, and gendered history of novels in the US as a context for understanding how avid readers and literary professionals have come to assess them so differently.Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion.
Author: Ken Follett
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780698196902
Category: Fiction
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Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion. In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they made their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements, and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution—and rock and roll. East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she’s been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. . . . George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department and finds himself in the middle of not only the seminal events of the civil rights battle but a much more personal battle of his own. . . . Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he'd imagined. . . . Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes an agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tanya, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw—and into history.... Songs in the U.S. PROGRAM NETWORK RATING VIEWERS ARTIST ALBUM CHRIS BROWN EXCLUSIVE 1 AMERICAN IDOL WEDNESDAY FOX ... Book Titles * TOTAL STREAMS UNIQUE VISITORS TITLE AUTHOR SALES ( UNITS ) 1 YOUTUBE 2,570,182 66,167 1 A NEW EARTH ...
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Recently, the erstwhile designer switched to photography, snapping album covers, Sinead O'Connor for Interview, ... with Gore Vidal's 1948 book The City and the Pillar, is one of the first mainstream novels to explore gay themes openly.
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The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.With three other world-class golf courses on-site, in addition to tennis courts, horseback riding along the shoreline, ... Built in 1907. the posh playground is still working the From Here to Eternity version of Hawaiian romance: ...
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Los Angeles magazine is a regional magazine of national stature. Our combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design covers the people, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, and news that define Southern California. Started in the spring of 1961, Los Angeles magazine has been addressing the needs and interests of our region for 48 years. The magazine continues to be the definitive resource for an affluent population that is intensely interested in a lifestyle that is uniquely Southern Californian.An infamous photo of a Marion, Indiana lynching Serves as the basis for a new book On race in the Heartland. ... This piece is entitled “White Lion” available in limited edition prints and hand embellished geclee prints.
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Indianapolis Monthly is the Circle City’s essential chronicle and guide, an indispensable authority on what’s new and what’s news. Through coverage of politics, crime, dining, style, business, sports, and arts and entertainment, each issue offers compelling narrative stories and lively, urbane coverage of Indy’s cultural landscape.Elderly amusement park maintenance worker Eddie dies while trying to save a young girl who gets in the way of a falling cart.
Author: Mitch Albom
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 0751536822
Category: Fiction
Page: 240
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Elderly amusement park maintenance worker Eddie dies while trying to save a young girl who gets in the way of a falling cart. In Heaven he meets five people who were unexpectedly instrumental in his life, discovering with each what he was supposed to have learned and what his purpose on Earth was.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: UVA:X004910690
Category: Reference
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This new dictionary packs an extraordinary amount of information into a handy book that is practical, dependable, affordable, and easy to read.Based on the groundbreaking flagship dictionary of Oxford's US Dictionaries program, the New Oxford American Dictionary, this concise edition includes more than 180,000 entries and definitions, complete with pronunciations, parts of speech, syllabification, inflected forms, and derivatives.All Oxford American dictionaries use an easy-to-use respelling system to show how entries are pronounced. It uses simple, familiar markings to represent common American English sounds.The Concise Oxford American Dictionary is a convenient and complete dictionary for school, work, and home. The dictionary includes Usage Notes that give helpful information on correct English; hundreds of Word Histories that provide fascinating background on the lives of words; more than 300 carefully chosen illustrations; and a handy Ready Reference section with information about weights and measures, chemical elements, U.S. states and presidents, punctuation, frequently misspelled words, and much more.