For centuries, Ukraine has been a meeting place of various cultures. Situated between Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Ukraine was shaped by the empires that used it as a strategic gateway between East and West-from the Roman and Ottoman empires to the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. As the award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues in The Gates of Europe, we must examine Ukraine's past in order to understand its present and future. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's territory and its existence as a sovereign nation. Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense fight with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence.
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Soon after he lands on the docks of London, Firedrake rescues Ben, a young orphan boy, from dangerous dockworkers. Firedrake heads to London alongside his friend Sorrell, who is a brownie, which is a kind of spirit, in order to locate Gilbert Graytail, a mapmaking rat. After receiving guidance from the oldest member of his dragon clan, Firedrake decides to set off to find the legendary Rim of Heaven, a fabled haven where all dragons can go. He learns that nearby humans are planning to flood the valley and realizes the dragons are no longer safe there. When the book opens, we meet Firedrake, a young dragon who lives with other dragons in a hidden valley just outside of London. On their journey over distant lands and shining seas, the trio encounters strange new creatures, a merciless villain bent on ending their quest, and a secret destiny they never could have imagined. They are seeking a safe location for Firedrake’s family to live after they discover that humans are going to flood the valley in which he and the other dragons live. Dragon Rider (1997), a children’s novel by Cornelia Funke, follows a silver dragon named Firedrake, a brownie named Sorrel, and a human boy named Ben, who must join together to search for a mythical area in the Himalayan mountain range known as the Rim of Heaven. Soon after, Holmes is asked to help investigate a bizarre death at Lauriston Gardens by Scotland Yard‘s Lestade and Gregson. Watson moves into 221B Baker Street, London with fellow lodger. Watson to Sherlock Holmes who so happen to have found rooms that he likes and can’t afford the place and needs someone to go halves with him.Īfter meeting Sherlock Holmes, Dr. He needs comfortable lodgings at a reasonable price. He meets an old acquaintance by the name of Stamford whilst at the Criteron Bar and tells him of his problem. John Watson, a wounded discharged military surgeon has returned from the war in Afghanistan and is looking for lodgings. The e-book that I read is the fully illustrated Sherlock Holmes novel, 1893 edition, unabridged, 159 pages by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.ĭr. A Study in Scarlet is the first in the series of the infamous Sherlock Holmes novels. This is my first e-book and I am glad that I started with this amazing detective novel that first introduced Sherlock Holmes and Dr. The third book, Iron Kissed, was a number one New York Times bestseller and subsequent novels have continued to perform similarly in sales. The second book in the series, Blood Bound, hit The New York Times Best Seller list. Briggs wrote Moon Called, which was published in 2006 and made it to the USA Today bestseller lists. She wrote primarily in the fantasy genre until her editor asked her to write an urban fantasy, since the genre was showing promising growth. Briggs began writing in 1990 and published her first novel Masques in 1993. Patricia Briggs (born 1965) is an American writer of fantasy since 1993, and author of the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series. The fae have started a cold war with humanity that's about to heat up-and Charles and Anna are in the crossfire. Or at least their visit starts out that way.Ĭharles and Anna soon discover that a dangerous fae being is on the loose, replacing human children with simulacrums. This time, their trip to Arizona is purely personal. For once, mated werewolves Charles and Anna are not traveling because of Charles’s role as his father’s enforcer. PRAISE FOR THE ALPHA AND OMEGA NOVELS 'Briggs has created such a detailed and well thought out world that I am helpless to resist.'-Fiction Vixen 'Briggs spins tales of werewolves, coyote shifters and magic and, my, does she do it wellâ¦If you like action, violence, romance and, of course, werewolves, then I urge you to pick up this series. This review has been sitting in my draft folder since March (!!) waiting for me to finish it. What if Luce is really meant to be with someone else? The second novel in the addictive FALLEN series. What if Daniel’s version of the past isn’t actually true? He’s hiding something – something dangerous. Yet the more Luce learns, the more she suspects that Daniel hasn’t told her everything. Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the rocky California coast with unusually gifted students -Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans.Īt Shoreline, Luce learns what the Shadows are, and how she can use them as windows to her previous lives. Just long enough to hunt down the Outcasts – immortals who want to kill Luce. It took them an eternity to find one another, but now he has told her he must go away. That’s what it’s like for Luce to be apart from her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel. The most famous, influential, and enduring of all muckraking novels, The Jungle was an exposé of conditions in the Chicago stockyards. The Jungle, novel by Upton Sinclair, published serially in 1905 and as a single-volume book in 1906. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century. 100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.
Jerome said many notable things on several subjects. Through his books, novels, essays and other writings, Jerome K. Jerome’s works are still read by people all over the world. Some of his other notable works include ‘Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow’, ‘Paul Kelver’, ‘Three Men on the Bummel’, ‘All Roads Lead to Calvary’, ‘The Philosopher’s Joke’ and ‘Novel Notes’ among others. The comic essay collection titled ‘Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow’ was published on ‘Home Chimes’ and later on his most famous work, ‘Three Men in a Boat’ was also serialized in the same magazine. He contributed to the ‘Home Chimes’ magazine and many of his well-known essays and stories were published there. After working in several jobs including that of an actor, Jerome started writing on comic prose and finally found a degree of recognition in 1885 for his book ‘On the Stage-And Off’ that depicted the life of stage actors. Jerome grew up in financial hardship since his family fell into hard times and after the death of his parents, he had to seek employment while still a teenager. Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English author and essayist who is renowned in the English speaking world for his famous comic book ‘Three Men in a Boat’. Of course, in knowing that the redwoods feature in Powers’ undeniable brilliant novel, I foresaw only one small portion of this book’s masterpiece. I knew enough about Powers’ novel to think it a fitting book to pair with the trip. I began the journey through The Overstory (for a journey it most certainly is) last fall as my family set off on a camping road trip which would take us through California’s Giant Sequoias and Coastal Redwoods. With its beautiful writing and many story lines, Richard Powers’ The Overstory (2018), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019, definitely belongs to the latter category. Some books are slow because it takes page and pages of reading before a reader fully connects with the story, but the most delicious books are simply too rich of prose and complex crafting to read quickly. Some books beg for fast reading as characters, dialog, and even setting quickly compel the reader into the plot others long to be savored over time. Her 2010 TEDxHouston talk about the latter has been viewed over thirty-one million times. It’s very pleasant and we have an interesting discussion about education but all the time I’m wanting to scream ‘Can’t you see I have the just published Brené Brown book in my hands?!’Ī self-declared researcher and storyteller, Brown is a professor of social work who has spent her career exploring shame and vulnerability. This summer I was sitting in the coffee shop where I often work and one of the other regulars begins chatting to me. Originally published in 1982 in the collection Different Seasons (alongside “The Body,” “Apt Pupil,” and “The Breathing Method”), it was made into the film The Shawshank Redemption in 1994. Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, this iconic King novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, is about a fiercely compelling convict named Andy Dufresne who is seeking his ultimate revenge. #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s beloved novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption-the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award–nominee The Shawshank Redemption-about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks a strangely satisfying revenge, is now available for the first time as a standalone book.Ī mesmerizing tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen King’s most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers would return to over and over again. |