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English
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Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife is a gripping, intimate, and ultimately life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art-and finding the strength to stand up again.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
For the first time ever, this thrilling literary detective story, doubling as a celebration of words, language, people and one of mankind’s greatest achievements, unravels the mystery of the contributors from around the world who, for over 70 years, helped to codify the way we read, write and speak.
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Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
My First Brain Quest: Opposites introduces the concept of opposites, a foundational observation skill, through ten visually engaging scenes depicting common opposite pairs-up and down, hot and cold, awake and asleep, wet and dry. Smart, colorful, grounded in educational principles and defined by Brain Quest's signature question-and-answer format, each spread features two illustrations that present the opposite pairs in context while encouraging conversation...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"A terrifically engaging and original biography of one of England's greatest novelists, Evelyn Waugh, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched, and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, Brideshead Revisited." -- Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
With Muse of Fire, Michael Korda takes a novel approach to World War I by telling its history through the lives of the soldier-poets whose verses memorialize the war's unimaginable horrors. He begins with Rupert Brooke and the halcyon days before violence engulfed his generation--destroying the self-contented world of Edwardian England--and ends with the tragic death of Wilfred Owen, killed only days before the armistice brought an end to a war that...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Only a thriller writer for his last twelve years, Ian Fleming's dramatic personal life and impressive career in Naval Intelligence put him at the heart of critical moments in world history, while also providing rich inspiration for his fiction. Exceptionally well connected, and widely travelled, from the United States and Soviet Russia to his beloved Jamaica, Ian had access to the most powerful political figures at a time of profound change. Biographer...
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