![]() “Lavinia” is a book of passion and war, generous and austerely beautiful, from a writer working at the height of her powers. And so she tells us what Virgil did not: the story of her life, and of the love of her life. When a fleet of Trojan ships sails up the Tiber, Lavinia decides to take her destiny into her own hands. ![]() Her mother wants her to marry handsome, ambitious Turnus. Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is. Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come. I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. But omens and prophecies spoken by the sacred springs say she must marry a foreigner-that she will be the cause of a bitter war-and that her husband will not live long. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills. Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills. ![]() In the Aeneid, Virgil’s hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Le Guin’s 2008 speculative/historical novel “Lavinia.” ![]() ![]() For October’s Center Book Discussion Group, we will read and discuss Ursula K. ![]()
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An unpublished book by Robert A Heinlein, which provides a completely new ending to the author’s controversial novel The Number of the Beast, has been reconstructed from notes and typed manuscript pages left behind by the Hugo award-winning author. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Through her gloriously witty and shrewd diaries, she chronicles the trials of family life, the impact on their prospects of the arrival of a glamorous American family, and the agonies of falling in love for the first time. Rose needs a husband, Thomas an education but Cassandra lives for her writing. Mortmain is crippled by writer's block, while his beautiful second wife Topaz struggles to be a dutiful stepmother to Rose, Cassandra and Thomas. The eccentric Mortmain family have been rattling around in a vast, decrepit castle for years, gradually slipping into financial ruin. This edition is illustrated by Ruth Steed, and features an afterword by publisher Anna South. humor about two sisters who live in a derelict, tumble-down, ramshackle castle. ![]() These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. A wonderfully quirky coming-of-age story, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, author of The Hundred and One Dalmatians is an affectionately drawn portrait of one of the funniest families in literature. 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Moving Pictures, the tenth Discworld unique made up by Terry Pratchett, has the improvement of being the very first with which I have actually been rather annoyed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The wound eventually killed the servant who considered his own death a martyrdom. ![]() Lee was forced to shoot the Skraeling in the leg to defend himself. "The story gallops with ferocious momentum. A servant of the Holy Church, a Skraeling, heard Lees inquiries and, deeming them heretical, set off to kill him after he left the observatory. A literary rollercoaster ride you won't want to miss.". The mysteries deepen and the wonders grow even more extravagant.". "Just as quick-moving and unputdownable as Read 35 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Summary Books that dont cost the earth The Subtle Knife Summary More books in the His Dark Materials Series Additional information Customer Reviews - The. 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Caroline, Diana and Elizabeth Copeland, eager to escape their new guardian’s unacceptable marriage plans, decide to leave the comfort and safety of their home in Hampshire for the first time and embark on exciting, and separate, adventures in London. “I am afraid I am of an age and experience, my dear Caro, when I doubt everything I am told until proven otherwise.” ![]() That tightness in Caro’s chest increased. “Ah, if only the saying of something made it true,” he mused. Butler, then you must already know that my name is Caro Morton.” ![]() Her cheeks burned at the intended rebuke. “I believe it is the usual custom at this point for the introduction to be reciprocated.” “If that is meant to impress me, my lord, then I am afraid it has failed utterly.” “I am Dominic Vaughn, Earl of Blackstone.”Ĭaro felt a tightness in her chest as she realized this man was a member of the ton, a man no doubt as arrogant as her recently acquired guardian. ![]() To take their futures-including potential husbands. To one of them! But these three sisters aren’t afraid to discard Flouting convention, flirting with danger…Ĭaroline, Diana and Elizabeth Copeland are faced with aĬhallenge…a new guardian who is determined on marriage. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though the memoir has this dark undertone, Nabokov had quite a happy childhood. He reflects, quite darkly, that the crib his parents filmed looks like a coffin as if they, too, recognize the flash of life that each person gets and the deeply impermanent nature of human existence. He is disturbed at first by how they had lived just fine without him – it made him feel meager, unimportant, and temporary. ![]() Nabokov begins his memoir writing about his experiences watching home movies of his parents before he was born. ![]() In it, Nabokov writes about his recognition of his own meager existence on this vast and complicated planet, also reflecting on his unique experiences as a child with synesthesia and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Speak, Memory radically revises this first autobiography, covering the first forty years of Nabokov's life, moving from Russia to the south of France to Yalta to England, and finally to America. Acclaimed novelist Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited is an adaptation of his first, partial autobiography Conclusive Evidence, which was published as a column in The New Yorker. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture-and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks-Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. ![]() Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The plot line in this series is hands down one of the most creative and original works that I’ve ever encountered. 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With all the build up in the previous three books, I was expecting the conclusion of this series to go out with a bang! Unfortunately, The Raven King fell flat for me… The Raven King is the final installment in The Raven Cycle, a wonderful YA fantasy series. ![]() |