![]() They enjoy leisure time, material wealth, and physical pleasures. People all around the world are part of a totalitarian state, free from war, hatred, poverty, disease, and pain. The story is set in a London six hundred years in the future. The novel is best appreciated as an ironic commentary on contemporary values. Because Brave New World is a novel of ideas, the characters and plot are secondary, even simplistic. ![]() Though he was already a best-selling author, Huxley achieved international acclaim with this now-classic novel. In it, the author questions the values of 1931 London, using satire and irony to portray a futuristic world in which many of the contemporary trends in British and American society have been taken to extremes. Written in 1931 and published the following year, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a dystopian-or antiutopian-novel. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He imagined that the eagle had been torn off its staff and hidden in the wooden ceiling of the building, where it remained while the forum basilica was burnt to the ground. Joyce believed that the eagle was the imperial standard of a Roman legion and that during a desperate last stand. Joyce during his excavations of Calleva Atrebatum. The eagle was found in the forum basilica, between two layers of burnt material. The eagle was discovered on 0ctober 9 1866 by the Reverend J.G. However, fiction and archaeology tell very different stories of the eagle’s history. The story ends with the eagle being safely returned to Calleva. Twenty years later Marcus Aquila, son af Flavius, sets out to clear his father’s name and discover what happened to the legion and the eagle. In the story, the eponymous eagle is the imperial standard of the fearsome Ninth Legion of the Roman army, led by Flavius Aquila. The legion journey north to Caledonia (Scotland) to tame the northern tribes, but never return and the eagle is lost. The film was based in a children’s story, ‘The Eagle of the Ninth’written by Rosemary Sutcliff in 1954. Most recently, the eagle has served as the inspiration for a major Hollywood film, ‘The Eagle’. ![]() Silchester’s most famous find, the eagle, has been sparking imaginations since its discovery as archaeologists, scholars and authors try to get to the bottom of where the eagle came from and what it was for. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Once he has accomplished that, he hears someone else in trouble. ![]() Ragweed is reluctant to help him, but he does decide to help him get back to his mother. Lotar, the baby raccoon, wants his mother, as he had wandered off while she was sleeping in search of food. Ragweed is on a train when a baby raccoon joins. RAGWEED AND POPPY is an interesting middle grade novel that follows Ragweed, a mouse who is on a journey. As for that annoying raccoon, he keeps getting in the way.įans of animal stories and especially of the beloved previous books in the Poppy series will love Ragweed and Poppy! ![]() The way Ragweed comes to Poppy's aid, and how Poppy comes to his, is how their rousing and fateful friendship begins. When he asks the mouse’s name, she replies, “Poppy.” Following the sound of the voice, he finds a cage with a deer mouse trapped inside. Ragweed is now ready to strike off on his own, but it’s not long before he hears a cry for help. Though Ragweed doesn’t really want to help the raccoon, by doing so he winds up in Dimwood Forest. On his journey he meets Lotar, a young, annoying, and lost raccoon who’s desperate to reunite with his mother. How did Ragweed and Poppy meet and become friends? This book tells their hilarious story! Adventurous golden mouse Ragweed is on a freight train leaving the city of Amperville. The first new book about Poppy in more than ten years, from Newbery Medal-winning author Avi with illustrations throughout by Caldecott Medal-winning artist Brian Floca. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() Soon to be a major TV mini-seriesAn epic story that has been beloved for generations, Watership Down has. Their adventure is brought to life in this stunning gift picture storybook, which will be treasured by fans of the original novel, as well as new readers introduced to this epic tale by the television mini series. A Puffin book - stories that last a lifetime. ![]() Set in the English countryside, Watership Down tells the tale of a ragtag band of rabbits fleeing the destruction of their warren in search of safety and a new home. ![]() Illustrated with a combination of stills from the TV and soft line artwork, this is a wonderful introduction to Richard Adams' original award-winning story, first published over 45 years ago and regarded as a modern classic. This is a really special family-friendly edition of Watership Down. Adapted from the scripts of the TV mini series by the BBC and Netflix, this edition will introduce a classic story to a new generation, while reigniting the heartfelt place of the story for older readers. ![]() A beautiful, fully illustrated picture storybook, with text by award winning author Frank Cottrell-Boyce. A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for over forty years, Richard Adams spellbinding classic Watership Down is one of the best-loved novels of all time. Follow the journey of some very special rabbits in this gorgeous gift storybook edition of the TV mini series of Watership Down. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Decker must contend with a series of unsettling changes, including a new partner-Special Agent Frederica “Freddie” White-and a devastating event that brings Decker’s own tragic past back to the present. Who was the real target in this vicious attack? ![]() What at first seems cut and dry is anything but: Not only did the judge have more enemies than Decker can count-from violent gang members, drug dealers, and smugglers to a resentful ex-husband-but the bodyguard presents additional conundrums that muddy the waters even further. When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears straightforward: A federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge’s face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out, a clear sign that she’d made one too many enemies over her years on the bench. ![]() ![]() ![]() The lingering friction between them increases the danger for everyone around them. Once a Padawan to Obi-Wan, Anakin now finds himself on equal-but uncertain-footing with the man who raised him. Despite the mandate that Obi-Wan travel alone-and his former master's insistence that he listen this time-Anakin's headstrong determination means nothing can stop him from crashing the party, and bringing along a promising but conflicted youngling. ![]() As Obi-Wan investigates with the help of a heroic Neimoidian guard, he finds himself working against the Separatists who hope to draw the planet into their conspiracy-and senses the sinister hand of Asajj Ventress in the mists that cloak the planet.Īmid the brewing chaos, Anakin Skywalker rises to the rank of Jedi Knight. The Jedi dispatch Obi-Wan Kenobi, one of the Order's most gifted diplomatic minds, to investigate the crime and maintain the balance that has begun to dangerously shift. ![]() With every world that joins the Separatists, the peace guarded by the Jedi Order is slipping through their fingers.Īfter an explosion devastates Cato Neimoidia, the jewel of the Trade Federation, the Republic is blamed and the fragile neutrality of the planet is threatened. Battle lines are being drawn throughout the galaxy. Popular Crime & Action Series Expand submenu. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Just as they started to cross Peachtree Street, near 13th Street, a speeding taxi crested the hill. In 1937 Margaret Mitchell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.On August 11, 1949, Mitchell and her husband decided to go to a movie, A Canterbury Tale, at the Peachtree Art Theatre. Selznick for $50,000, the highest amount ever paid for a manuscript up to that time. Shortly after the book's publication the movie rights were sold to David O. Approximately 250,000 copies are still sold each year. It has been translated into twenty-seven languages. More than 30 million copies of this Civil War-era masterpiece have been sold worldwide in thirty-eight countries. The novel was published in 1936 and sold more than a million copies in the first six months, a phenomenal feat considering it was the Great Depression era. "Margaret Mitchell was the author of Gone With the Wind, one of the most popular books of all time. (176 document boxes, 3 flat boxes, 6 oversized boxes, 2 oversized volumes, 29 oversized folders A) ![]() ![]() She’s especially interested in the Bryant Mountain House, and not just for their secret recipe for the yummy, gooey, can’t-get-enough-of Hot Cross Buns….Īrchie Bryant, the man with the Buns, is fifth generation and one-day-owner of the charming yet run-down Bryant Mountain House in Bailey Falls, New York. ![]() Growing up in foster care, she’s never been able to establish traditions of her own, which may be why she’s fascinated by the rituals that generations-old family resorts are known for. But the career she loves and the endurance races that keep her adrenaline pumping have kept her too busy to put down any roots. The third in the hilarious yet sizzling hot Hudson Valley series from New York Time and USA TODAY bestselling author Alice Clayton.Ĭlara Morgan is living the dream, if you can call rebranding hotels that are desperate for a new life and running any kind of marathon a dream. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hers is a life of adventure in Detroit, the hub of the motorcar boom and the fastest growing city in America. Melanie wonders what more there is to learn from Violet's past. Its secret compartment holds Violet's weathered journal-within it an intriguing message: Take from this story what you will, Melanie, and you can bury the rest. Until she makes a discovery while cleaning her Jordan MX car, a scarlet-red symbol of the Jazz Age's independent women that she inherited from her great-great-great-aunt Violet. ![]() With an ex-fiance and a pending promotion at a Kentucky bourbon distillery, Melanie has figured out that love and career don't mix. Melanie Barnett thinks she has it all together. A cherished heirloom opens up a century of secrets in a bittersweet novel about family, hard truths, and self-discovery by the author of Millicent Glenn's Last Wish. ![]() |