![]() ![]() Does the clue to breaking it lie in a famous poem? And what will happen to Sophie Hatter when she enters Howl's castle?Īll fans of classic fantasy books deserve the pleasure of reading those by Diana Wynne Jones, whose acclaim included the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. Destinies are intertwined, identities exchanged, lovers confused. In this giant jigsaw puzzle of a fantasy, people and things are never quite what they seem. Along the way, she discovers that there's far more to Howl-and herself-than first meets the eye. To untangle the enchantment, Sophie must handle the heartless Howl, strike a bargain with a fire demon, and meet the Witch of the Waste head-on. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl's castle. ![]() But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. An international bestseller, this much-loved book is the source for the Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature. ![]() This entrancing classic fantasy novel is filled with surprises at every turn. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. ![]() What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls “an extremely convincing plea for truth in education.” In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship and was heralded on the front page of the New York Times in the summer of 2006.įor this new edition, Loewen has added a new preface that shows how inadequate history courses in high school help produce adult Americans who think Donald Trump can solve their problems, and calls out academic historians for abandoning the concept of truth in a misguided effort to be “objective.” Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important-and successful-history books of our time. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself.”Ī new edition of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, with a new preface by the author ![]() “Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After inglorious stints as a school teacher (he was dismissed for trying to seduce a school matron and/or inebriation), an apprentice cabinet maker and journalist, he wrote and had published his first novel, “Decline and Fall” in 1928. In 1924 Waugh left Oxford without taking his degree. When asked if he took up any sports there he quipped, “I drank for Hertford.” He said of his time there, “…the whole of English education when I was brought up was to produce prose writers it was all we were taught, really.” He went on to Hertford College, Oxford, where he read History. In fact, his book “The Loom of Youth” (1917) a novel about his old boarding school Sherborne caused Evelyn to be expelled from there and placed at Lancing College. His only sibling Alec also became a writer of note. Evelyn Waugh's father Arthur was a noted editor and publisher. ![]() ![]() ![]() Philip becomes obsessed with Rachel, spending money on the estate to impress her, arranging for her to be paid a monthly allowance, and attempting to gift her a valuable family necklace at Christmas. His initial hostility melts away when he meets Rachel, a beautiful, intelligent and witty woman about ten years his senior. He returns to England, taking charge of the estate and is persuaded to receive Rachel as a guest. ![]() After receiving a letter from Ambrose describing Rachel as “my torment”, Philip travels to Italy, to discover Ambrose had died and Rachel has departed. When Philip is 24, Ambrose travels to Florence to improve his health, meeting and marrying his cousin Rachel, the recently widowed Contessa Sangalletti. Philip Ashley has been raised since childhood by his elder cousin Ambrose, the owner of a country estate in Cornwall. What it’s about: Cornwall, England, the 1830s. ![]() In which I review My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier’s 1951 thriller about a young Victorian aristocrat who becomes obsessed with his cousin Rachel, a widow who may have poisoned her husband. ![]() ![]() Readers Digest Condensed Book selection Literary Guild alternate. Her first novel was Who's the Lady in the President's Bed (1972). As the coincidence-laden plot twists towards its predictable ending, its myriad stereotyped characters utter dialogue embarrassing enough to make Robert E. Alexandra Ripley ( ne Braid Janu January 10, 2004) was an American writer best known as the author of Scarlett (1991), written as a sequel to Gone with the Wind. ![]() ![]() Ripley (Charleston includes potentially interesting historical detail, but it is all but obscured by the sorely abused conventions of the historical romance genre that dominate her story. Mary perseveres through poverty, drudgery, a sham marriage and subsequent rape, voodoo and a yellow fever epidemic, the mesmerizing Saint-Brevin toying with her heart all the while. As Mary wanders the strange city, her path crosses that of her Aunt Celeste who, hoping to retain the inheritance left by Mary's mother, hides her identity from her niece. Mary escapes the brothel, virtue intact, but not before she is seen there by Valmont Saint-Brevin, a handsome Creole aristocrat. ![]() The naive girl soon falls into the clutches of New Orleans' most infamous madam. When Mary's father dies, leaving his fortune to his unscrupulous second wife, 16-year-old Mary sets out for New Orleans to find her real mother's family. Set in antebellum Louisiana, this historical romance follows the fortunes of Mary McAlister, raised in a convent in Pennsylvania. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vega Jane and the Secrets of Sorcery was previously published as The Finisher and has been edited for younger readers and re-illustrated throughout. And the truth may cost Vega her life.Ĭontinue the adventure series with Vega Jane and the Maze of Monsters. Trapped by secrets and lies, they want freedom and truth.īut she will have to fight for freedom. ![]() Her friend Delph and her dog, Harry Two, are the only ones Vega trusts. The map makes her question everything she has ever been told about the place she calls home. Frequently bought together 1 2 4 Total price: 10.80 Add all 3 to Cart Add all 3 to list This item: The Finisher (Vega Jane, Book 1): Volume 1 2.99 Deliver Us From Evil 2. Vega Jane is fourteen when she is secretly given a map that reveals a mysterious world and dangerous creatures beyond the walls of Wormwood, a place no one has ever left – or wanted to. Master storyteller David Baldacci introduces an unforgettable heroine who must think fast, hit hard, and defy all odds to uncover the truth. Illustrated throughout by Tomislav Tomic. Full of monsters, magic, danger and mystery, Vega Jane and the Secret s of Sorcery ( previously published as The Finisher) is the first title in the thrilling Vega Jane children's fantasy adventure series by bestselling master storyteller David Baldacci. ![]() ![]() Moffit doesn’t like to look at her blue face-overall, Cussy’s patrons like her. And although she faces some bigotry from her patrons-Mr. Moffit and his wife, Angeline Martha Hanna and “ Devil John” Smith Miss Loretta Adams and Oren Taft-and to the mountain school run by Winnie Parker. Cussy, now in possession of Charlie’s abused mule, Junia, returns to her work as a Pack Horse Librarian.Ĭussy brings books to far-flung homesteaders-including Mr. Charlie mercilessly beats Cussy on their wedding night, then fortunately dies of a heart attack. He finally gets a taker, an old man named Charlie Frazier. The only reason Cussy has any suitors at all is because Pa has offered 10 acres of land for her dowry. She’s also afraid of the kind of man who would want to marry one of the “Kentucky Blue People.” Cussy and several generations of her ancestors have a rare genetic condition that turns their skin blue, and although they are otherwise healthy and normal, they are treated with fear and bigotry. Cussy doesn’t want to get married she has a job with the WPA’s Pack Horse Library project, delivering books to people in remote communities and homesteads in the hinterlands around Troublesome Creek. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cussy’s mother died of influenza and Pa-a Kentucky coal miner-is sick himself with black lung. In January of 1936, 19-year-old Cussy Mary Carter’s father is trying very hard to find a suitable husband for his daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It received mixed to positive reviews from critics and won several awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Sean Connery. ![]() This English-language film was an international co-production between West German, French, and Italian companies and was filmed in Rome and at the former Eberbach Abbey in the Rheingau. Michael Lonsdale, William Hickey, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Valentina Vargas, and Ron Perlman play supporting roles. Murray Abraham his Inquisitor rival, Bernardo Gui. Christian Slater portrays his young apprentice, Adso of Melk, and F. Sean Connery stars as the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval abbey. The Name of the Rose is a 1986 historical mystery film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Umberto Eco. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reed uses every part of herself-the good, the bad, and the beautiful-to get closer to the Billings Girls. Reed vows to do whatever it takes to be accepted into their inner circle. They hold all the power in a world where power is fleeting but means everything. They are the most beautiful, intelligent, and intensely confident girls on campus. She feels like she's on the outside, looking in. Reed realizes that even though she has been accepted to Easton, Easton has not accepted her. But when she arrives on the beautiful, tradition-steeped campus of Easton, everyone is just a bit more sophisticated, a bit more gorgeous, and a lot wealthier than she ever thought possible. Fifteen-year-old Reed Brennan wins a scholarship to Easton Academy-the golden ticket away from her pill-popping mother and run-of-the-mill suburban life. ![]() ![]() Specifically, we revealed that FBP supplementation caused depletion of Pfkl and Aldoa from the nuclear-soluble fraction. To probe for mechanisms underlying glycolytic flux-signaling, we performed subcellular proteome analysis and revealed that cytoPFKFB3 overexpression altered subcellular localization of certain proteins, including glycolytic enzymes, in PSM cells. ![]() Overexpression of cytoPFKFB3 indeed led to increased glycolytic flux/FBP levels and caused an impairment of mesoderm segmentation, paralleled by the downregulation of Wnt-signaling, reminiscent of the effects seen upon FBP-supplementation. To genetically manipulate glycolytic flux and FBP levels, we generated a mouse model enabling the conditional overexpression of dominant active, cytoplasmic PFKFB3 (cytoPFKFB3). We found that medium-supplementation with FBP, but not with other glycolytic metabolites, such as fructose 6-phosphate and 3-phosphoglycerate, impaired mesoderm segmentation. ![]() First, we identified fructose 1,6-bisphosphate (FBP) as an in vivo sentinel metabolite that mirrors glycolytic flux within PSM cells of post-implantation mouse embryos. Here, we investigated how glycolytic flux impacts embryonic development, using presomitic mesoderm (PSM) patterning as the experimental model. ![]() How cellular metabolic state impacts cellular programs is a fundamental, unresolved question. ![]() |