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![]() ![]() Ten years before the present time, on Amanda and Leo’s first birthday, both the Ellerbys and Fitpatricks are astonished to find themselves together again by pure chance. Even though they had promised, both the Ellerbys and the Fitzpatricks walked away believing they would never see each other again. ![]() She predicts that they will be the best of friends and makes them promise they will celebrate this day together every year before rushing off again. While an “uneasy feeling, like they were remembering something out of a storybook someone read to them when they were children”(Mass 3), runs through them, Angelina takes this moment to tell them that “being born on the same day is very special”(Mass 3). The Ellerbys exclaim that they are naming their daughter after her great-grandmother, Amanda Ellerby. Both parents to the babies appear next to her and they exchange stories about each one and they tell the Ellerbys that they are naming their son Leonard Fitzpatrick, after his great-grandfather. She spots the two little babies she ultimately came to see she has waited a long time for this day to arrive. ![]() ![]() The novel begins 11 years before the present time Angelina D’Angelo rushes through the halls of the Birthing Center stopping right in front of the nursery window to look at the newborn babies in the room. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Married to his childhood sweetheart in 1886, he became the country squire of Sagamore Hill on Long Island, a flamboyant civil service reformer in Washington, D.C., and a night-stalking police commissioner in New York City. He chased thieves across the Badlands of North Dakota with a copy of Anna Karenina in one hand and a Winchester rifle in the other. Fresh out of Harvard, he simultaneously published a distinguished work of naval history and became the fist-swinging leader of a Republican insurgency in the New York State Assembly. ![]() During the years 1858-1901, Theodore Roosevelt transformed himself from a frail, asthmatic boy into a full-blooded man. The rest of this book tells the story of TR's irresistible rise to power. One visitor remarked afterward, "You go to the White House, you shake hands with Roosevelt and hear him talk-and then you go home to wring the personality out of your clothes." That was on New Year's Day, 1907, when TR, who had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, threw open the doors of the White House to the American people and shook 8,150 hands. ![]() The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins at the apex of his international prestige. This classic biography is the story of seven men-a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a ranchman, a soldier, and a politician-who merged at age forty-two to become the youngest President in history. Description WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - One of Modern Library 's 100 best nonfiction books of all time - One of Esquire's 50 best biographies of all time ![]() ![]() ![]() The book divides the Roman Way into 17 sections, all of which have suggested access points for shorter distances, information about public transport, a list of tea shops, pubs and accommodation.Įach day's walk is accompanied by the relevant sections of the Ordnance Survey map and is vividly illustrated throughout giving archaeological, historical, botanical and local anecdotal detail. From this Roman settlement, the route goes directly north beside Oxford and across Otmoor, the marsh where the Romans built a bridge to reach the fort at Alchester. ![]() The way continues through the heathlands and pine forest north to Dorchester on Thames. The route follows Akeman Street as it crosses the limestone heights of the Cotswold Hills to Cirencester, then south-east following the Ermin Way across the Wiltshire Downs, through the village of Speen in Berkshire, descending to cross the River Kennet as the Romans did. It follows a triangle formed by three Roman roads from Chesterton, near Bicester in Oxfordshire, to Cirencester in Gloucestershire, and on to the Roman walled town of Silchester in Hampshire, returning to the Roman military fort at Alchester near the starting point. ![]() ![]() "The Roman Way" is a 174-mile walk, on the theme of Roman roads, using public rights of way. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A lone white minivan had been left beside a meager gate at the mouth of the road. A little to the left, an unpaved access road wove around the base of the mountain. Across a small clearing at the front of the lighthouse, the northern mountain loomed. Yuko moved to her right around the lantern deck. The sea reflected the overcast sky in a muted indigo upon which white waves wove an intricate fabric. ![]() This high up, the wind was stronger than she’d expected and smelled strongly of the sea. Yuko desperately opened the door and went outside. To her left, a low door led to the outside catwalk. The storm panes offered a view of the cloudy sky. The lantern room had just enough space to walk around the Cyclopean eye of the Fresnel lens in the center. Yuko Sakaki raced up the stairs and was out of breath as she emerged at the top of the tower. ![]() ![]() At the University of Colorado’s School of Journalism, she helped created a Black Studies program and taught in the program for two years. After graduating from the University of Toledo, she served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia for two years and then spent the next year traveling throughout the United States, working and recruiting for the Peace Corps. ![]() Mildred Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and grew up in Toledo, Ohio. ![]() Taylor was named the First Laureate of the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature. Times Book Prize and the PEN Award for Children’s Literature. Taylor is the author of nine novels including The Road to Memphis, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Land, and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Her books have won numerous awards, among them a Newbery Medal (for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry), four Coretta Scott King Awards, and a Boston GlobeHorn Book Award. ![]() ![]() It's got suspense, action and dramatic plot turns that will appeal to great directors, and rich dialogue that will attract great actors,” David Winkler said.īaker, a contributing editor to Conde Nast Traveler who is making his debut as a novelist, said, "When I was writing The Empty Glass, I very much had Goodfellas in mind structurally, so the fact that Winkler Films has optioned the book makes it feel like it's come full-circle.” “The Empty Glass reads like a Billy Wilder screenplay. Baker’s novel The Empty Glass, a thriller about a young coroner who investigates the truth behind Marilyn’s much rumored death. ![]() ![]() Marilyn Monroe died from an apparent accidental suicide 50 years ago, now Winkler Films has optioned the rights to J.I. Baker's thriller "The Empty Glass" focuses on a young coroner investigating the actress' death ![]() ![]() Thurman finds that each individual person has a need to be with others to overcome loneliness and to realize potential. The critical part of the book is the opening chapter "Concerning the Search" in which Thurman sets forth the goal of the book in broad, philosophical terms. ![]() The book consists of six short chapters together with a Preface. It is valuable to hear Thurman expound this position in this short, eloquent, and difficult book. Many people do not share Thurman's mysticism and sense of the continuity of all being. This quest makes Thurman a philosophical monist and with his strongly experiential, religious orientation it makes him a mystic. ![]() He discusses life as the quest by the lonely, finite individual to find meaning through understanding his relationship to other persons and, more broadly, to the whole of reality. ![]() In this short, spare book, Thurman described his quest to find unity and wholeness in life and the sources of that quest. However, Thurman described this 1971 book, "The Search for Common Ground" as "constituting my lifelong working paper". Thurman is best-known for his 1949 book, "Jesus and the Disinherited" which influenced Martin Luther King. Dorrien's book kindled my interest in Thurman. ![]() The African American religious thinker Howard Thurman (1899 - 1981) has been receiving attention of late with the release of a PBS documentary, "Backs against the Wall" devoted to Thurman's life together with news articles and books, including Gary Dorrien's study "Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King, Jr. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the investigation dovetails into that of an apparently-impossible theft, the detectives consider the possibility that the two transgressions are related. As he and the Inspector interview the colorful cast of suspects among the psychiatrist’s patients and household, they uncover no shortage of dark secrets―or motives for murder. ![]() Spector has a knack for explaining the inexplicable, but even he finds that there is more to this mystery than meets the eye. For who better to make sense of the impossible than one who traffics in illusions? Stumped by the confounding scene, the Scotland Yard detective on the case calls on retired stage magician-turned-part-time sleuth Joseph Spector. ![]() There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. In 1930s London, celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees is discovered dead in his locked study, and there seems to be no way that a killer could have escaped unseen. A magician-turned-sleuth in pre-war London solves three impossible crimes. ![]() |