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![]() ![]() ![]() With Federal confidence soaring, Grant ordered assaults on May 19 and 22, but the Confederates handily turned back both attacks. The Union forces had arrived outside Vicksburg on May 18. To reach Vicksburg, the Yankees had executed a brilliant campaign during which they won five battles, seized the Mississippi state capital at Jackson, captured more than 6,000 Rebels, killed and wounded as many more, and ravaged the Mississippi countryside virtually unchecked. ![]() Grant’s Army of the Tennessee was sprawled across the rough ground that ringed the landward side of the city, which was defended by 20,000 Confederates under Lieutenant General John C. In the spring of 1863, however, Major General Ulysses S. Perched on a steep bluff that loomed over the eastern bank of the Mississippi River at a sharp bend in that watercourse, the city of Vicksburg sat high and defiant above the brown water that flowed to the Gulf of Mexico. America's Civil War: Digging to Victory at Vicksburg Close ![]() ![]() Whether it was the Lioness novels about Alanna, a girl who trains to be a knight while disguised as a boy, or the Immortals books, which followed the animal-literate girl Daine and her teacher Numair, all her books were hugely important to me growing up. Pierce is probably the author I have most looked forward to interviewing. I am one of those girls for whom it mattered a great deal. ![]() ![]() “I’ve spent years with girls and their mothers coming up to me and saying ‘thank you so much for including this material’, and it mattered a great deal. Did you ever get an erection in class? Surprisingly, for an author who could be described as fantasy’s Judy Blume, she describes herself as rather reticent. What is it like having a wet dream? she asked. Pierce approached her husband and male friends for insight. ![]() I thought: ‘It’s cheating if I ignore it.’” “I had two choices: I could just ignore it as so many writers do or I could do for Arram what I do for my girls. “I’m rather notorious for talking about that,” Pierce says, down the line from her New York home. ![]() ![]() It is also a compassionate rumination on the distractions of sexual love, and the unbearable strains of a life devoted to art. ![]() In a bid to emancipate herself once and for all from that unwelcome fate, she resolves to have an affair with one of her aristocratic suitors - an escapade that, given her rigid social milieu, has tragic consequences.Īll Things That Deserve to Perish is a novel that penetrates the constrained condition of women in Wilhelmine Germany, as well as the particular social challenges faced by German Jews, who suffered invidious discrimination long before Hitler’s seizure of power. Awakened to sudden improvements in the opportunities open to women, Lisi balks at her mother’s expectation that she will contract a brilliant marriage and settle down to a life as a wife and mother. All Things That Deserve to Perish is a novel that penetrates the constrained condition of women in Wilhelmine Germany, as well as the particular social challenges faced by German Jews, who suffered invidious discrimination long before Hitler's seizure of power. ![]() Though her thoughts are far from matrimony, she is pursued by two noblemen impressed as much by her stunning wealth as by her prodigious intellect and musical talent. ![]() The year is 1896, and Elisabeth (‘Lisi’) von Schwabacher, the gifted daughter of a Jewish banker, returns home to Berlin from three years of piano study in Vienna. ![]() ![]() "The work does a wonderful job in bringing Butler's words to life in a new and interesting way. She helped reshape the genre of science fiction. Through her writing, Butler challenged gender stereotypes in American fiction, white privilege in their narratives, and racism in her profession. Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Butler was a visionary African American author, who imagined an alternate future for herself and our shared world. "Jennings and Duffy are magnificent and this comic is a glorious tribute to Octavia Butler's masterpiece. ![]() Winner of the World Fantasy, Sunburst, and Aurora Awards ![]() Nalo Hopkinson, author of Skin Folk, The New Moon's Arms, and Sister Mine Captures the essence of Octavia Butler's vision even as it demonstrates the superlative skills of Duffy and Jennings." Nate Powell, Eisner–Award winning and New York Times bestselling graphic novelist of March, The Year of the Beasts, and Swallow Me Whole Comics and science fiction exploit their greatest shared strength by illuminating the mundane that surrounds us, allowing any reader to critique and process our world with new vision." ![]() Praise for Kindred Kindred is a perfect candidate for the graphic-novel medium-Damian Duffy's taut adaptation and John Jennings's tense, electric renderings vibrate throughout, pacing and containing, then pushing every ounce of discomfort to the forefront. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not quite the gleefully insane parody Strata (1981) was, but frothy, inventive, and fun.Īre we not men? We are-well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).Ī zombie apocalypse is one thing. And what follows is madcap travelogue, involving: the disk's zany, often magical inhabitants the Gods (atheists are liable to get their windows broken) a watery being who splashed down in the ocean, having fallen off a different Earth-disk and Death with his scythe (whose timing is so poor that Rincewind keeps evading him). The innocent Twoflower sells some fire insurance to a shifty innkeeper, who proceeds to burn down his inn and the entire city of Ankh-Morpork. and snaps its lid at anyone it doesn't like. (And only Pratchett's characters would think of lowering themselves over the edge of the disk-in order to determine the sex of the turtle!) This time failed wizard Rincewind runs into problems when he encounters rich, bumbling circum-disk tourist Twoflower-whose luggage consists of a sapient pearwood box that trots around after him on hundreds of tiny legs. Pratchett borrows from Babylonian cosmology for his second, wacky flat-Earth yarn-set on an Earth.disk that rests on the backs of four elephants, who themselves stand on the shell of an enormous turtle. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Waystone Inn lay in silence and it was a silence of three parts. It was still night in the middle of Newarre. Anyway, here’s the full transcript of the prologue: It turns out Rothfuss is a pretty great narrator. ![]() The Doors of Stone prologue, “A Silence of Three Parts” The stream where Rothfuss read the prologue had a staggering 10,000 concurrent live viewers. Just like the other prologue, it flows like poetry. I particularly found it interesting how it seems to focus more on the town of Newarre rather than Kvothe himself. Many of the phrases remain the same, with new creative descriptions and metaphors. It shares the same title, “A Silence of Three Parts,” and once again finds Kote at the Waystone Inn preparing to tell his tale. ![]() The prologue itself is similar to the ones from first two books, The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear. A meager morsel for those whose hearts are hungry for a story.” But when fans have been waiting for this book for a decade, a bite is plenty. As Rothfuss himself wrote on his blog, “What is that, really? Just a taste. They came through, and that’s exactly what he did! Kingkiller Chronicle author Patrick Rothfuss promised to read the prologue to his much-anticipated upcoming novel The Doors of Stone if his fans raised a certain amount of money for his WorldBuilders charity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While I knew some of what went on in Romania during the tyrannical twenty four year rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu, I wasn't aware of the details that we get from this story. But what is the cost of freedom?Ī gut-wrenching, startling window into communist Romania and the citizen spy network that devastated a nation, from the number one New York Times best-selling, award-winning author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray. ![]() He eagerly joins the revolution to fight for change when the time arrives. He’s left with only two choices: betray everyone and everything he loves-or use his position to creatively undermine the most notoriously evil dictator in Eastern Europe.Ĭristian risks everything to unmask the truth behind the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream they are bound by rules and force.Īmidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her husband, William Lamb, would later become Lord Melbourne, one of Queen’s Victoria’s favourite prime ministers. ![]() Caroline counted Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire as her aunt and Lord Byron as her lover. No surprise, then, that Antonia Fraser’s sparkling biography, Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit, is a zig-zagging Shakespearean drama, played out in the highest echelons of fashionable Georgian society. The episode encapsulates the life of this fiery, free-spirited novelist, whose hallmark was the “defiance of conventions”. A note was left for her family: “Forget my existence all of you”. She hid in a chemist’s shop, jumped on a Hackney coach and headed for Portsmouth, selling her rings to fund the trip. A 26-year-old woman, flustered and wide-eyed, sprinted the length of Pall Mall. ![]() At midday on August 12 1812, Londoners were greeted with a peculiar spectacle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Featuring new Top Ten Lists and reviews of the years' finest films through 2012, this edition allows both fans and film buffs to bask in the best of an extraordinary lifetime's work. From Ebert's Pulitzer Prize to his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, from his astonishing output of daily reviews to his pioneering work on television with Gene Siskel, his was a career in cinema criticism without peer.Īrriving fifty years after Ebert published his first film review in 1967, this second edition of Awake in the Dark collects Ebert's essential writings into a single, irresistible volume. For nearly half a century, Roger Ebert's wide knowledge, keen judgment, prodigious energy, and sharp sense of humor made him America's most renowned and beloved film critic. ![]() |