Anyways, thus confined, Rostov passes the decades making a whole world out of a hotel and the people in it - a precocious 9-year-old, a moody chef, the French maître d', and so on. "The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n," Milton's charismatic Satan tells us - although the finest hotel in Moscow, with its restaurants and barber and elegant clientele, is a bit of a stretch for the fiery pits of damnation (or the snowdrifts of Siberia, for that matter). How?Ĭount Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is a "Former Person." Russia's new Soviet masters have sentenced him, improbably enough, to house arrest in Moscow's luxurious Metropol hotel, where he lives out his days decorating the dining room with his bon mots and dashing around like Eloise, if Eloise were set in a twee version of Stalinist Russia. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title A Gentleman in Moscow Author Amor Towles
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I live in London where I work full-time as a corporate litigation lawyer. You follow characters like Dr Amanda Maclean, a Glaswegian A and E consultant, who treats Patient Zero and is desperate to keep her two sons safe Elizabeth Cooper, a young American scientist who helps to create a vaccine in London and Catherine Lawrence, an anthropologist who wants to record and commemorate what’s happening in the world. The End of Men explores the question: what would the world look like without men? It follows characters as they try and keep their families safe, recover and rebuild the world after a deadly virus to which women are immune kills 90% of the male population. My debut novel, The End of Men, will be released on 29 April 2021 and is to be published in 15 languages. The book has a lot of hope and is, ultimately, about human resilience and our ability to cope with the extraordinary. I’ve been told by some early readers though, that The End of Men has made them feel better about the world we live in today. I wrote The End of Men in 20 before Corona virus and could never have expected the parallels between the real world and my fiction that would ensue. Thank you for visiting my Amazon author page! New Adult is officially the genre written for (and by) middle aged woman who want to relive guilty pleasures as young adults. Hot cover, generic but promising blurb, Abbi Glines!īut I forgot to note, that this was New Adult. He is jaded and has secrets Blaire knows she may never uncover but even knowing all of that… She knows he is anything but good for her and that he’ll never be faithful to anyone. Then there is her sexy stepbrother who her father leaves her with for the summer while he runs off to Paris with his wife. She isn’t prepared for the lifestyle change and she knows she’ll never fit into this world. 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In this engrossing addition to the Royal Diaries series ( Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile), Kathryn Lasky invents a diary of the young Marie Antoinette in 1769-the year she is to be married off to Dauphin Louis Auguste, eldest grandson of the French king Louis XV. So writes the headstrong 13-year-old Maria Antonia-future Queen of France-in her diary on October 23, 1769. I have become what Mama set out for me to be. "I look up now into the oval mirror and see barely a trace of the mud-splattered girl tearing through the woodland on her horse, or the barefoot girl wading at Schonbrunn. Moonstones is part love story and part Family Feud, but not terribly engaging in either case.Ĭopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. But who cares? This dysfunctional, but not-quite-ready-for-the-Jerry-Springer-show family is just too annoying and clueless for readers to tolerate very long. 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As The Last Full Measure opens, Gettysburg is past and the war advances to its third brutal year. Now, Jeff Shaara brings this legendary father-son trilogy to its stunning conclusion in a novel that brings to life the final two years of the Civil War. In the bestselling Gods and Generals, Shaara's son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father's vision, telling the epic story of the events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg. In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time. If you try to stay on top of all your responsibilities, you’ll likely burn out or suffer an anxiety attack sooner rather than later. You will soon forget about your plans to discover the party scene, visit your parents every other weekend, or find your soulmate on campus. Not only is it your first attempt at independent life free from parents’ oversight, but it’s also a completely new level of academic requirements and independent study many aren’t ready for.Īnd if you’re an overachiever or a perfectionist, keeping up with all the classes, assignments, extracurriculars, and side gigs will keep you up most nights. After all, college is an eye-opening experience for most students. If you’re suddenly wondering, “Can someone do my paper for me?”, there’s likely a very good reason for that. This witty and heartwarming collection, based on the author’s own experiences, became an international success, winning over animal lovers everywhere. In these pages, Herriot trains under his eccentric boss in a rustic English village, courts the woman that becomes his wife, and meets the people he would come to write about for a lifetime. From night visits to drafty barns during freezing Northern England winters to the beautiful vitality of rural life in the summertime to the colorful menagerie of animals-and their owners-that pass through his office, Herriot experiences new challenges and joys every day. A stranger in an unfamiliar land, James Herriot must quickly learn the odd dialect and humorous ways of the locals, master outdated equipment, and do his best to mend, treat, and heal pets and livestock alike.Īll Things Bright and Beautiful: After his first day on the job, Herriot’s mentor warns him that the life of a country veterinarian is full of small triumphs and big disasters, but that he’d never be bored. The first two memoirs in the New York Times–bestselling series from an English veterinarian-and the basis for the Masterpiece series on PBS.Īll Creatures Great and Small: In the rolling dales of Yorkshire-a simple, rural region of Northern England-a young veterinarian from Sunderland joins a new practice. |