![]() ![]() Uhtred, Rorik, and Thyra escape back to Ragnar's hall. Uhtred charges Sven, taking Sven's sword and attacking him with it. ![]() One day, Sven kidnaps Ragnar's daughter, Thyra, and removes part of her clothing in an effort to sexually assault her. Uhtred befriends Ragnar's youngest son, Rorik, and has many clashes with one boy in particular, Sven, son of Kjartan, one of Ragnar's shipmasters. Uhtred's uncle, Ælfric, takes Bebbanburg and usurps the title of ealdorman from Uhtred, the rightful heir. Ragnar, amused by the boy's bravery during the battle, keeps him as a thrall. Ealdorman Uhtred is killed during a disastrous attack on Danish-seized Eoferwic ( York) and his son is captured by Danish Jarl Ragnar the Fearless. Ealdorman Uhtred renames Osbert as Uhtred son of Uhtred. Danes arrive on Bebbanburg's shores, and Ealdorman Uhtred's first son, also called Uhtred, is killed while scouting. Osbert is the second son of Ealdorman (Earl) Uhtred, Lord of Bebbanburg in Northumbria. This story introduces Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a Saxon noble who is kidnapped by Danish Vikings as a young child and is assimilated into their culture, religion and language before a series of events lead him into the service of King Alfred of Wessex and his participation in multiple battles, including the notable Battle of Cynwit before the book's conclusion. ![]() The Last Kingdom is the first historical novel in The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell, published in 2004. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The horrific discovery of a body inside the trunk can mean only one thing: there’s a murderer among them. The eleven forty-five Golden State Limited to Los Angeles is approaching rapidly when the baggage handler, Alfred Brody, notices a stray hound dog sniffing around one of the steamer trunks. This is the second book of the Private Detective Mason Adler MysteriesĪt close to midnight in the Union Station baggage room, the air is hot, still, and thick. Because in this desolate river valley, some secrets are better left undisturbed.īuy it: Bookshop | Amazon | IndieBound Murder at Union Station by David S. Now in her forties, Jane returns to Maud Bottoms to reckon with her past: to do jail time, to face her revenge-bent mother, to make things right.īut though Jane’s homecoming may enlighten some, it could threaten others. Twenty-five years later, the river floods and a body surfaces. So Jane left for Boston-and took her secrets with her. But without a body, the police didn’t charge her with the crime. When Jane confessed to his murder, she should have gone to jail. After all, the river had claimed its share over the years. When Jane Mooney’s violent stepfather, Warren, disappeared, most folks in Maud Bottoms, Arkansas, assumed he got drunk and drowned. Beneath the roiling waters of the Arkansas River lie dead men and buried secrets. ![]() ![]() ![]() This decision altered the aesthetics of the whole space, since the yellow door also transformed the quality of light within the house itself, making the house more joyous. And it wasn’t subtle: they began with a bright yellow front door. ![]() The architects fulfilled their brief by introducing elements of color into the couple’s home. They were sick of living in their monochromatic home, so they hired New York architecture firm Stamberg Aferiat and Associates to redesign their living environment. One couple known to the author, Ingrid Fetell Lee, had just such a color-induced experience. Simply put, joy arises as a vigorous moment of positive emotion. Now, joy is a difficult thing to define, but we all know it when we see it. Specifically speaking, the power of color comes from its ability to make spaces more joyful. It just goes to show that even a little smudge of color can be a powerful thing. ![]() For his efforts in helping to regenerate the city, Rama received the 2004 World Mayor award. This bold project helped encourage the city’s population to take better care of their neighborhoods and also of their own lives. The work was carried out at the order of the city’s mayor, Edi Rama, and it was the first building of many to be painted in bright colors. Painters began painting a nondescript building bright orange. In the fall of 2000, something seemingly odd began to take place in the run-down and crime-ridden city of Tirana, Albania. ![]() ![]() “Have I made myself clear, Szabo?” Pierce pressed. ![]() “I know you are, that’s why I’ll put up with you,” Pierce retorted. He had to take that time to fortify his defenses. And not one fucking bit of it will have one fucking thing to do with you.” And in between times, there will be love that never dies and commitment that will never break. ![]() We will repeat all of this time and again until we’re both dead. We will wonder if we made the right choice. She’ll hurt me, and she’ll hate it, but it’ll happen. I will hurt her, and I’ll hate it, but it’ll happen. “What I’ll make very clear right now is, what I want, what Genny wants, our marriage and the family we’ll create is none of your business, Szabo. ![]() “Are you saying you don’t want her?” he goaded, purposefully misinterpreting what Pierce said. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What she doesn't realize is that her appointed time to die is drawing near and the wickedly beautiful soul she is falling in love with is not a soul at all. Not only does he not go away when she ignores him, but he does something none of the others have ever done. Until she stepped out of her car the first day of school and saw an incredibly sexy guy lounging on a picnic table, watching her with an amused smirk on his face. If she didn't let them know she could see them, then they left her alone. Once she realized the strangers she often saw walking through walls were not visible to anyone else, she started ignoring them. Seventeen year old Pagan Moore has seen souls her entire life. Pagan Moore doesn't cheat Death, but instead, falls in love with him. What happens when you're stalked by Death? You fall in love with him, of course. Published: 13 December 2011 (Wild Child Publishing) ![]() ![]() ![]() Next, the reader meets the equally unhappy Rose, whose movie star mother has remarried, leaving her daughter with her ex-husband across the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey.īoth children run away to Manhattan seeking their absent parents. ![]() Ben has never met his father, but has reason to believe he lives in New York. The narrative unspools like a ping-pong match, beginning with Ben who lives with his aunt and uncle in Gunflint Lake, Minnesota, and is grieving over the loss of his mother, who died in a car accident three months earlier. Rose is about the same age, but it’s 1927 and what readers learn about her, initially, is only what they can infer from black-and-white pencil drawings. Selznick interweaves text and illustrations to actually tell two stories about a pair of hearing-impaired children, growing up half a continent and 50 years apart.īen is 12 in 1977 his story is told mostly in words. ![]() Wonderstruck may be 600-plus pages, but it’s very reader friendly, because far more than half the novel is told in pictures. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold over four million copies in multiple editions and has been translated into seventeen languages. ![]() " ""Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee "is Dee Brown's classic, eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. Now repackaged with a new introduction from bestselling author Hampton Sides to coincide with a major HBO dramatic film of the book, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived. ![]() ![]() But my experience of writing the novel ended up being similar to that of the Count’s experience of house arrest: the hotel kept opening up in front of me to reveal more and more aspects of life. Initially, I imagined that the central challenge posed by the book was that I was trapping myself, my hero, and my readers in a single building for thirty-two years. What was the biggest challenge in writing the book? ![]() For both novels, once I had finished the first draft, I did some applied research in order to fine tune details. Most of the texture of the novel springs from the marriage of my imagination with that interest. Similarly, I chose to write A Gentleman in Moscow because of my longstanding fascination with Russian literature, culture, and history. I used this deep-seated familiarity as the foundation for inventing my version of 1938 New York in Rules of Civility. ![]() Even as young man, I was a fan of the 1920s and 1930s, eagerly reading the novels, watching the movies, and listening to the music of the era. Rather than pursuing research driven projects, I like to write from areas of existing fascination. What sort of research did you do for the book? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() … After spending a year writing the screenplay, and another year trying to raise money for the movie, everything seems to be on hold indefinitely.” 16, 2010, Miller posted on his website the sad news that, “The book that swept the country will not sweep theaters. Once you have an ending, everything comes alive easier and I just thought that was a great scene and would be a great ending.”īut getting to that ending required its own story, one with its share of suspense for everyone wanting to see the movie made. ![]() And if not answered, at least bring some kind of closure and ending to the rest of it. “We worked backwards from the confession booth scene and crafted the story so that scene would answer the questions posed by the rest of the movie. ![]() “There are a lot of great scenes within the book that I thought would translate well, but the confession booth scene was the one where I was like, ‘I gotta make a movie, and I gotta end it with this scene,’” Taylor recalls, as we gather with him, Miller and lead actor Marshall Allman around a table in Austin, Texas, during SXSW, where the film premiered. But the story of how the book became a movie. Not even the story in the new movie by musician-turned-director Steve Taylor. Not the story in the best-selling book by Donald Miller-a quasi-memoir with the subtitle “Non-Religious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality” that Paste named one of the 20 Best Books of the Decade. The story of Blue Like Jazz began in a confessional. ![]() ![]() Great care was taken with the supporting cast in which Michael Cronin stands out as the somewhat shifty looking Albert Ingelthorpe. In late 1926, Agathas husband, Archie, revealed that he was in love with another woman, Nancy Neele, and wanted a divorce. ![]() During her first marriage, Agatha published six novels, a collection of short stories, and a number of short stories in magazines. The period detail of World War One was superbly depicted in this film (just look at those automobiles!) Ross Devenish directed the film with care and style while David Suchet, Hugh Fraser and Philip Jackson offered their usual excellent performances. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, came out in 1920. This film was made to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Christie's birth in 1890 which fell in 1990. ![]() "The Mysterious Affair At Styles" (1920) was Agatha Christie's first novel and it also introduced her most famous creation to the world, the eccentric little Belgian detective with the egg-shaped head and eccentric mannerisms. In the neighbouring village of Styles St Mary, a number of Belgian refugees have taken up residence including Hastings' old friend Hercule Poirot (David Suchet), the eccentric but clever sleuth who is called in to investigate the murder. That night Emily dies a painful death and the subsequent autopsy reveals that she has been poisoned. ![]() Cavendish's mother Emily Ingelthorpe (Gillian Barge) has married Albert Ingelthorpe (Michael Cronin) a man twenty years younger than her, and the family believes that he can only be after one thing - her money. ![]() His old friend John Cavendish (David Rintoul) invites him to stay at the Cavendish country estate, Styles Court, where there's tension in the family. World War One 1917: Lieutenant Hastings (Hugh Fraser) is on sick leave from the army after being wounded in France. ![]() |