Frustrated by a series of desk jobs, she returned to France with the OSS until the liberation. She had survived longer in the field than any other agent and wanted only to return to duty. In 1943 she escaped to London, via a precipitous passage over the snowbound Pyrenees. Her distinctive appearance (she was known as “la dame qui boite”, or the limping lady) her success in planning spectacular operations such as the escape from prison of 12 arrested agents and the infiltration of her network by double agent Robert Alesch - a priest later tried and executed for collaboration - placed Virginia in mortal danger. Soon after her arrival, a dozen SOE agents were arrested in Lyon, leaving her almost the sole agent in Vichy France. Purnell observes: “Dispatching a one-legged thirty-five-year-old desk clerk on a blind mission into France was, on paper, an almost insane gamble” but Virginia duly travelled there in 1941, claiming to be a journalist for the New York Post. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTĪ chance meeting with an undercover British agent furnished her with the phone number of Nicolas Bodington, a senior officer in the fledgling SOE.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 - Stories, plots, etc. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 - Adaptations PUBLISHER: London: Thomas Hodgkins, At The Juvenile. PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres TITLE: Tales From Shakespeare Designed for the Use of Young Persons. PR: Language and Literatures: English literature The tempest - A midsummer night's dream - The winter's tale - Much ado about nothing - As you like it - The two gentlemen of Verona - The merchant of Venice - Cymbeline - King Lear - Macbeth - All's well that ends well - The taming of the shrew - The comedy of errors - Measure for measure - Twelfth night or, what you will - Timon of Athens - Romeo and Juliet - Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - Othello - Pericles, Prince of Tyre. 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King conveys Luke’s confusion, shock, hopelessness and grief in convincing and heart-wrenching fashion. He soon learns he’s not alone, as other kids, ranging in age from 10 to 16, are also being held prisoner. Once outside his room, Luke finds himself in a strange facility somewhere in Maine. He awakens in a room made to look like his own, though the illusion stops at the door. It’s more than 50 pages later before we meet the novel’s true protagonist, young prodigy Luke Ellis, whose parents are trying to get him into a prestigious school where his unique intellect will be challenged.īut Luke’s world is shattered when he is kidnapped from his Minneapolis home in the middle of the night by a team of highly skilled special operatives. In an unexpected move, King opens The Institute with a Jack Reacher-like drifter named Tim Jamieson, who takes a job as a “night knocker” with the sheriff’s department in rural Dupray, South Carolina. Stephen King’s The Institute is already drawing comparisons to a couple of his older works, Firestarter and It, as well as to the Netflix sensation “Stranger Things.” And with good reason- The Institute includes a ragtag collection of adolescents banding together against a common enemy, a shady organization exploiting children for their unique “gifts.” But whether King is chasing “Stranger Things” or “Stranger Things” is chasing King, the result is the same: shocking suspense and hallmark thrills. Compulsively readable and compelling, this is the kind of story that leaves you pondering how much of the self actually remains when all memory is lost, and what you would do differently if you had a second chance at your own life. By delving deep into the rich emotional tapestry of a character who is experiencing all her firsts all over again, Scott crafts one of her loveliest, most touching romances to date, infusing each scene with her effortless, deadpan sense of humour, and balancing oh-so perfectly angst with steamy love scenes. Kylie Scott delivers an utterly unputdownable, unique rendering of true love and second chances-a tale that centres entirely on a heroine with no memory of the past or the man she once loved-showing how much our past experiences truly shape who we are. I can never resists a well-written second chance romance, but I go all weak-kneed when I come across a fresh take on this much-loved sub-genre, especially one penned by a favourite author of mine. Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow was an instant New York Times bestseller, an IndieBound bestseller and a #1 Indies Introduce Pick, with movie rights sold to Fox. 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IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages Bring on Nevermoor (3) Hollowpox : The Hunt for Morrigan Crow. OverDrive Product Record readingOrder 2 images As Mom's wedding day draws near and her ex begs for a second chance, she's forced to acknowledge some uncomfortable truths about why her marriage failed, and decide if she'll let pride stand in the way of her own happily-ever-after. Rachel thought love would last forever.right up until her divorce. : Daughters of the Bride (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series) (9781410491831) by Mallery, Susan and a great selection of similar New. Should she say "I do" even if she's not sure she does? She already has two broken engagements under her belt. When Sienna's boyfriend proposes-in front of her mom and sisters, for crying out loud-he takes her by surprise. Planning Mom's wedding exposes her startling hidden life, changing her family's view of her-and how she views herself-forever. Their Mothers Courtney The Misfit As the awkward one, Courtney Watson may not be as together as her sisters, but she excels at one thing-keeping secrets, including her white-hot affair with a sexy music producer. Their Mother'sĪs the awkward one, Courtney Watson may not be as together as her sisters, but she excels at one thing-keeping secrets, including her white-hot affair with a sexy music producer. With Joy, Love and a Little Trepidation, Courtney, Sienna and Rachel Invite You to the Most Emotional Wedding of the Year. Las hijas de la novia Susan Mallery 4.00 6,228 ratings776 reviews Con alegría, afecto y alguna turbación, Courtney, Sienna y Rachel tienen el placer de invitarlos a la boda más emotiva del año: la de su madre. With Joy, Love and a Little Trepidation, Courtney, Sienna and Rachel Invite You to the Most Emotional Wedding of the Year. Yet his commitment to environmental subjects much of interest today and his wonderful eye surely make him a candidate for a revival. It suits a certain number of people to overlook him, notably in the fine print market. Porter continues even now to be a photographer overlooked by fashion. And then there’s László Moholy-Nagy, of course, who was committed to working in colour after his arrival in the US in the late 1930s.Įliot Porter showed colour photographs at MoMA, by the way, in 1943. And whether one considers such luminaries as Louise Dahl-Wolfe or Paul Outerbridge as ‘artists’ is a question for another place, but both certainly made work of high artistic intent to be distributed through commercial channels. Edward Steichen worked in colour too, often brilliantly. Alfred Stieglitz had of course made colour photographs by the Autochrome process and shown them at his 291 gallery as early as 1909. It has become standard to read that William Eggleston was the first person to use colour as an ‘artistic choice’ and that his show at the MoMA in 1976 was the first show of colour at the museum. Saul Leiter Retrospective Essay by Francis Hodgson (Everything you need to know about the science is at this link). Said plant pathologist, aka Graham, was working on a British government funded project to eradicate a maize-gobbling beetle known as LGB, the larger grain borer. Mombasa highway, looking north from Kiboko The place I ran (or rather flew) to was Nairobi, Kenya and so to a nine month stint of roaming up and down the Mombasa highway, accompanying a plant pathologist who worked both at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) in the city and at the Kiboko field station, a KARI outpost, a hundred miles south in Ukambani, homeland of the Akamba people. I decide this line of thinking is a distraction, although it has me looking back through thirty years. There’s an odd sense of ‘full circle’ and a musing of: should I be worried about this unexpected retracing of steps is there a reason I’m back here some unfinished business to be dealt with now that I’m ‘older and wiser’? Etc. The place I ran from is very near the town of Broseley where we have recently come to live. There were times when I felt I could eat it. The hue of life and death then no wonder traditional peoples make so much use of this pigment. It strikes the eye, fires every neuron in the cerebral cortex, then jabs you in the solar plexus. There’s the land too: the visceral, eviscerating redness of the earth. I must have noticed light before, but I do not remember this kind of rapture. In another life-time I ran away to Africa and fell in love with light. Both were multilayered character studies set within the colorful tapestry of the times and brought Mr. Kaplan published only two more full-length biographies: “Lincoln Steffens: A Biography” (1974), about the muckraking journalist of the early 20th century, and “Walt Whitman: A Life” (1980), about the 19th-century poet. His biography so thoroughly captured the rambunctious and iconoclastic author of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” that it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. He had complications from Parkinson’s disease, his daughter Susanna Donahue said.Īfter working as an editor at New York publishing houses, Mr. Justin Kaplan, who brought a fresh literary elan to the art of biography, with his prize-winning books on writers Mark Twain, Lincoln Steffens and Walt Whitman, and who injected the voice of popular culture to an updated version of the venerable reference work Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, died March 2 in Cambridge, Mass. |