![]() ![]() One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. ![]() The Trial (original German title: Der Process, later Der Proce, Der Proze and Der Prozess) is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 19 and published posthumously in 1925. The novella has been widely discussed among literary critics, with differing interpretations being offered. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German ungeheures Ungeziefer, literally "monstrous vermin"), subsequently struggling to adjust to this new condition. The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Though the verse's rhythm and rhyme are sometimes strained, the story's genuine sentiment shines through brightly. Kaulitzki (Badger's Perfect Garden) crafts breezy, luminous mixed-media illustrations that capture the sisters' mutual affection and playful flights of imagination. As the story opens, a lonely girl eagerly awaits the birth of a sibling: "My wishing paid off / it was written in the stars / A new baby sister would/ soon be ours." Reality sets in, though, once the infant arrives: "You cried and you ate, but not much more./ (My new baby sister was a bit of a snore)." As the baby matures, the two become inseparable, yet, in keeping with the authors' message about the expansive nature of sisterhood, they also spend time cavorting with a diverse cluster of other girls. "As we've grown older, our definition of sisters' has expanded to friends and colleagues women who lift us up and help us believe that we are enough," they write in an introductory note. Overview A joyful celebration of growing families by former first daughters and 1 New York Times bestselling authors Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush. Hager and Bush follow up their 2017 memoir, Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life, with this heartfelt picture book tribute to sisterhood both literal and figurative. ![]() ![]() ![]() Less Than Zero has done more than simply define a genre: it continues to be a landmark in the lives of successive generations of readers across the globe. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeitgeist.įilled with relentless drinking in seamy bars and glamorous nightclubs, wild, drug-fuelled parties, and dispassionate sexual encounters, Less Than Zero – narrated by Clay, an eighteen-year-old student returning home to Los Angeles for Christmas – is a fierce coming-of-age story, justifiably celebrated for its unflinching depiction of hedonistic youth, its brutal portrayal of the inexorable consequences of such moral depravity, and its author’s refusal to condone or chastise such behaviour. ![]() ![]() In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. With an introduction by Otessa Moshfegh, author of Lapvona. ![]() ![]() Roughneck is a substantial work, an oversized hardcover with almost 300 pages, and Lemire uses the space to take his time in laying out Derek’s moods and the encounters he struggles through. The two of them wind up in a friend’s fur trapping shack out in the woods. Then his runaway sister Beth comes back to town, fleeing an abusive boyfriend. ![]() ![]() But he washed out a decade ago after a particularly violent encounter, and since then, returning to his small hometown, he’s filling the role of town drunk. ![]() (His latest books for Image, Plutona, and Dark Horse, Black Hammer, have combined both superhero genre conventions and his focus on small character moments in a hybrid of his past efforts.) With Roughneck, though, he’s returned to the closely observed tales of Canadian country life that first brought him to attention.ĭerek Ouelette was a star hockey player, a bully in a field where his uncontained temper was seen as a sign of strength. After making his name with the award-winning Essex County, cartoonist Jeff Lemire moved in the last decade to superhero work for corporate publishers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). After marrying his cousin, Isabel, Wells began to supplement his teaching salary with short stories and freelance articles, then books, including The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Dr. Wells earned his bachelor of science and doctor of science degrees at the University of London. Wells earned a government scholarship in 1884, to study biology under Thomas Henry Huxley at the Normal School of Science. The headmaster of Midhurst Grammar School, where he had spent a year, arranged for him to return as an "usher," or student teacher. ![]() Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's apprentice as a teenager. Herbert George Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. ![]() ![]() ![]() Too still, it seems, due to the fact that his coffee contained a significant amount of poison. … and when the lights come up, the formula is still missing and Sir Claud is sitting very still in his chair. ![]() The lights are turned out so that the thief can do the right thing… The household had been gathered in the library, Sir Claud giving the thief one last chance to return the formula. When Poirot (and Captain Hastings) arrive, they face the immediate aftermath of a tragedy. Believing that someone is trying to steal the formula, for either treasonous purposes or monetary gain, he summons Hercule Poirot to the house. Sir Claud Amory has invented an explosive that could change the world, its formula being kept under lock and key in his house. ![]() ![]() It’s going to take a brand-new family, a persistent suitor, and the combined effects of ice cream and trivia to make her turn her own fresh page. It’s time for Nina to come out of her comfortable shell, but she isn’t convinced real life could ever live up to fiction. Hide in a corner of her apartment and rock back and forth.Completely change her name and appearance. ![]() Doesn’t he realize what a terrible idea that is? It’s a disaster! And as if that wasn’t enough, Tom, her trivia nemesis, has turned out to be cute, funny, and deeply interested in getting to know her. ![]() They all live close by! They’re all-or mostly all-excited to meet her! She’ll have to Speak. When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book. The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. ![]() I really enjoy the occasional “girly” read (as long as it has some substance to it), and The Bookish Life of Nina Hill ended up being just the right pick for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This caused Roddy to go to the inn to get even more drunk, where he was eventually assaulted by Lachlan. ![]() At the yearly village Gathering, Roddy drunkenly admitted these feelings to Flora, and Roddy learned that the feelings were not mutual. Eventually, Roddy became friends with Lachlan’s daughter, Flora, causing Roddy to fall in love with her. He brushed this encounter off and continued on. One day, on the way home from mandatory work put upon Roddy by Lachlan, he found Lachlan having sex with Jetta. For example, Lachlan reduced the size of the family’s croft and limited their access to the fertilizer, sea-ware. This allowed Lachlan to further his vendetta against the Macraes. Eventually, the Mackenzie patriarch, Lachlan Mackenzie became the village’s constable. Roddy tells of a long-lasting feud between the Mackenzie and Macrae families that is only elongated by Roddy’s killing a sheep that fell into the mud and suffered a broken leg. ![]() The Macraes are crofters as are the majority of the citizens in their village known as Culduie. Roddy’s account begins by explaining he lives with his father, John “Black Macrae” and Roddy’s sister Jetta. Much of the book consists of Roddy’s personal account of the events leading up to the crime as well as the crime itself. His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet is a pseudo-historical crime novel that analyzes the crimes of a seventeen-year-old Scottish crofter’s son named Roderick Macrae, Roddy. This guide was created using the following version of this text: Burnet, Macrae Graeme. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her novels for middle grade readers include The Spindlers, Liesl & Po, and the Curiosity House series, co-written with H. ![]() The film rights to both Replica and Lauren's bestselling first novel, Before I Fall, were acquired by AwesomenessTV Before I Fall has been made into a major motion picture. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of the YA novels Replica, Vanishing Girls, Panic, and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages. ![]() Lauren Oliver is the cofounder of media and content development company Glasstown Entertainment, where she serves as the president of production. Young adult author Lauren Oliver left SIGNED COPIES of her books in the store! Titles include: Replica, Vanishing Girls, Panic, Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem, and Before I Fall, and her newest book, Ringer ! (Signed copies are limited and are available while supplies last.) ![]() ![]() A young gay man enters into a clandestine affair in the repressive political climate of communist Poland in the early 1980s.įrom his new home in the Polish community of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Ludwik addresses this narrative to Janusz, the handsome university student he met at an agricultural “work education” camp outside Warsaw in the summer of 1980. ![]() |