![]() ![]() ![]() Edmund Wylie’s remarriage constituted, in Philip’s eyes, the ultimate betrayal of his mother’s memory. While he held up his late mother as an ideal against whom no living woman could compete, he never enjoyed a warm bond with his father, a stern moralist who subjected Philip to acts he considered deliberate cruelty, such as getting his son circumcised at 18 months without the benefit of anesthetic. Her death, the result of medical malpractice, became a pivotal experience that defined his views on women and his adult relationships with them. ![]() The best-selling midcentury author was born in 1902 to Presbyterian minister Edmund Wylie and novelist Edna Edwards Wylie, who died giving birth to a sibling when Philip was five. IN 1943, PHILIP WYLIE, then best known for his cosmic disaster novel When Worlds Collide (1933) and its sequel, After Worlds Collide (1934), dropped a literary bombshell into the laps of readers with Generation of Vipers (1943), a blistering critique of American society whose impact has yet to be equaled. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The summer they graduated is a time they will always remember, and one they could never forget. Jude thought she’d never have to worry about her son, that he’d always sail through life easily achieving whatever he, and his family, wanted and expected – but then he fell in love. Mia’s beloved and incredibly good-looking twin brother Zach finds life much less complicated than his sister. Something which, at first, worries Mia’s mother, Jude. Different in so many ways – Lexi is an orphan and lives with her aunt on a trailer park, while Mia is a golden girl blessed with a loving family and a beautiful home, Yet they recognise something in each other which sets them apart from the crowd, and Mia comes to rely heavily on Lexi’s steadfast friendship. Lexi and Mia are inseparable from the moment they start high school. They think a few columns in a newspaper give them the facts they need. They sit on bar stools and in porch swings and spout opinions, half-truths, making judgements that aren’t theirs to make. People on the island still talk about what happened in the summer of ’04. ![]() An exquisite, heartbreaking story that speaks to women everywhere about the things that matter most. ![]() ![]() ![]() Allie Brosh has a talent for mixing humour and heartache, and it makes things relatable. ![]() My favourite thing about this book is how it was both laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreaking. I adore Allie Brosh’s artwork, and reading a book with more than 1600 more drawings in it was delightful. She doesn’t use it anymore, but it will give you a sense of her style of art and sense of humour. If you aren’t familiar with Allie Brosh and Hyperbole and a Half, I recommend scrolling through her blog. ![]() I adored the Hyperbole and a Half book, and I waited seven years for Solutions and Other Problems to be released, and it was worth the wait. Review: I’ve been a fan of Allie Brosh and Hyperbole and a Half since I discovered the alot in high school. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features all-new material with more than 1,600 pieces of art.” Solutions and Other Problems includes humorous stories from Allie Brosh’s childhood the adventures of her very bad animals merciless dissection of her own character flaws incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and powerlessness as well as reflections on the absurdity of modern life. Summary: From Goodreads: “For the first time in seven years, Allie Brosh-beloved author and artist of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller Hyperbole and a Half-returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays. ![]() ![]() ![]() Daniel challenges her to participate with him in a love experiment he read about in The New York Times. During lunch, Natasha insists that love must be determined scientifically. When he rescues Natasha from getting hit by a speeding car, she agrees to have lunch with him, in a show of gratitude. While Daniel pursues Natasha romantically at first, Natasha’s pragmaticism conflicts with Daniel’s free-spirited ideals about life. Through a series of random events, Daniel encounters Natasha while she is on her way across town to an appointment with another immigration lawyer, Jeremy Fitzgerald. ![]() However, he has little interest in this career path, as his true passion lies in writing poetry. Meanwhile, Daniel is about to head to an interview with a Yale alum to fulfill his parents’ wishes for him to become a premedical student and eventual doctor. While her family has resigned themselves to their fate, Natasha makes her way to an appointment with their immigration lawyer in the hope of reversing their deportation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Busting myths along the way, Jandial helps readers get wired for success at work and school, perform better when the pressure is on, boost memory, control stress and emotions, minimize pain, stick to a healthy eating plan, unleash creativity, raise smarter kids, and stay sharp as they age. ![]() ![]() Jandial’s broad-spectrum expertise and brings together the best of various fields-surgery, science, brain structure, the conscious mind-all to explain the bigger picture of brain health and rejuvenation. It is a journey into his operating room, around the world on his surgical missions, inside his laboratory, and to the outer edges of neuroscience to reveal the latest brain breakthroughs that are turning science fiction into reality, translating their implications for everyday life. Rahul Jandial is on the cutting edge of the latest advancements in neuroscience. ![]() With engrossing stories from the OR and the lab, a leading neurosurgeon and neuroscientist explores the cutting-edge science that can be applied to everyday life for peak performance, improved memory, enhanced creativity, and much more.įrom the operating room, where he performs some of the riskiest surgeries around, to the lab, where he works on leading clinical trials, Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this book, the respected translator has written three texts for the book. The translator’s opinions and statements about The unbearable lightness of being The original name of the book was “Unbearable Style of Existence”, which was chosen by the translator as “the burden of existence” for the title of the book. Thomas later meets Teresa and marries her after a while, but… Thomas, a well-known surgeon, has been widely criticized by the Czech Communists, which has led him to lose his job. Set in Prague in 1968 during the so-called Prague Spring, the book deals with many philosophical concepts. The Book of The unbearable lightness of being is written by Milan Kundera and is a philosophical novel. ![]() Chemical engineering and related technologies.History and Geography and Related Sciences.Computer Science, Information and Reference. ![]() ![]() He struggles to navigate his Jewish identity in his new environs and to temper the tedium and twists of his first job with his aspirations for his new career. He is thrust into a world of “unassailable privilege,” as Prose describes it, a world with antisemitic undertones that seems designed to keep him at its periphery. ![]() Several months after the execution, Simon lands a job as a junior assistant editor at the prestigious literary agency Landry, Landry and Bartlett. REGISTER NOW: One Book, One Hadassah Presents: The Vixen Resentful of his Jewish-immigrant origins and middle-class upbringing and thrown from the predictability of academia into the uncertainty of post-college life, Simon has one eye on the immediate world around him-his mother’s illness, his father’s unreliability-and the other on his failed dreams of going to graduate school to study Old Norse literature. As Francine Prose’s new novel begins, Simon, a recent Harvard graduate, is staying with his family in their home in Brooklyn’s Coney Island. ![]() Simon Putnam and his parents are gathered around the television set, grimly watching news reports on the day that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are scheduled to be executed for spying for the Soviet Union. ![]() ![]() The Vixen: A Novel By Francine Prose (Harper) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And Aunt Jane tells her that the best stories have to make people cry. Her father thinks the best stories are the funniest. Her brother Tim says the best stories have lots of action. The library is having a contest for the best story, and the quirky narrator of this book just has to win that rollercoaster ride with her favorite author! But what makes a story the best? Full color.īook Synopsis The best story is one that comes from the heart. But what makes a story the best? Spinelli and Wilsdorf deliver a heartfelt tale about creativity and finding one's voice. ![]() About the Book The library is having a contest for the best story, and the quirky narrator of this story just has to win that roller coaster ride with her favorite author. ![]() ![]() Milne's father explained that Rosemary was the intended name of their first born child, if it was a girl. Milne called her Nou, and stated "Apart from her fortnight's holiday every September, we had not been out of each other's sight for more than a few hours at a time", and "we lived together in a large nursery on the top floor." : 19, 21, 55, 97, 104 Milne speculated that he was an only child because "he had been a long time coming." From an early age, Milne was cared for by his nanny Olive "Nou" Rand Brockwell, until May 1930, when he entered boarding school. As a child, he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh stories and in two books of poems.Ĭhristopher Robin Milne was born at 11 Mallord Street, Chelsea, London, on 21 August 1920, to author Alan Alexander Milne and Daphne ( née de Sélincourt) Milne. Christopher Robin Milne (21 August 1920 – 20 April 1996) was an English author and bookseller and the only child of author A. ![]() |