![]() ![]() ![]() Pirate Latitudes is Michael Crichton at his best: a rollicking adventure tale pulsing with relentless action, crackling atmosphere, and heart-pounding suspense. The raid is as perilous as the bloodiest tales of island legend, and Hunter will lose more than one man before he even sets foot on foreign shores, where dense jungle and the firepower of Spanish infantry stand between him and the treasure. With backing from a powerful ally, Hunter assembles a crew of ruffians to infiltrate the enemy outpost and commandeer El Trinidad, along with its fortune in Spanish gold. Heavily fortified, the impregnable harbor is guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself. Crichton draws on every pirate clich in the book, refreshing and reanimating them with heady atmosphere, crackling dialogue, and an endearing hero all of which are brought to life by John Bedford Lloyd. ![]() Word in port is that the galleon El Trinidad, fresh from New Spain, is awaiting repairs in a nearby harbor. In this steamy climate, there's a living to be made, a living that can end swiftly by disease - or by dagger.įor Captain Charles Hunter, gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking, and the law of the land rests with those ruthless enough to make it. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. ![]() A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. From one of the best-loved authors of all time comes an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates in the New World, a classic story of treasure and betrayal. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Insight and tenderness in a dark time in history We are left with questions about the nature of love and just what makes people good or bad, both in the most personal of senses and as a group. Changes of time, place and character form a complex pattern, but one that makes sense. ![]() Although there are many characters and a number of points of view, Flanagan succeeds in developing a structure which rewards the reader more as the book proceeds. This is a book of enormous scope and yet highly focused, with personal stories entwined with historical events, and universal human values muddied by culture and human frailty. Indeed, Flanagan shows us this character in full flight, a man of both high restraint and strong passion. ![]() But, amazingly, life goes on after the affair and the war, and Dorrigo is for the rest of his life considered a hero by the nation, although he never understands why as he knows himself to be a very flawed character. Before he goes to war he is involved in a love affair of life changing proportions. Dorrigo Evans is an Australian doctor - a surgeon - who finds himself leading a group of 700 prisoners of war working on the Burma Thai Railway during World War Two. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Villanelles historically were pastoral songs however, Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night differs, as Hochman explains “the poem does not preach calm…but rage, rage against death, that event often equated with Nature as an ultimate physical force. In a villanelle, every first and third line of the tercet rhymes with the first, third, and fourth lines of the quatrain in the case of Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night, this is occurs in the final stanza (Hochman 7). This type of poem originates from the Italian word villan, which means peasant (Hochman 7). The Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night follows a rare poetic form known as the villanelle. The poem was written for his father, who was suffering from old age and illness. ![]() This essay will demonstrate how the poets Dylan Thomas, Theodore Roethke and Langston Hughes use the imagery in Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, My Papa’s Waltz, and The Negro Speaks of Rivers to express deep-rooted themes of death, family and evolution respectively.ĭylan Thomas published Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night in 1951. ![]() ![]() ![]() SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century. ![]() 100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() ![]() A poetic interpretation like no other, Widow Basquiat is an expression of the unrelenting power of addiction, obsession and love. In emotionally resonant prose, award-winning author Jennifer Clement tells the story of the passion that swept Suzanne and Jean-Michel into a short-lived, unforgettable affair. Thus began a tumultuous and passionate relationship that deeply influenced one of the most exceptional artists of our time. During the years before his death at the age of 27, he shared his life with his lover and muse, Suzanne Mallouk.Ī runaway from an unhappy home in Canada, Suzanne first met Jean-Michel in a bar on the Lower East Side in 1980. It was where Jean-Michel Basquiat became an avant-garde street artist and painter, swiftly achieving worldwide fame. A hotbed for hip hop, underground culture, and unmatched creative energy, it spawned some of the most significant art of the 20th century. New York City in the 1980s was a mesmerizing, wild place. ![]() ![]() ![]() The beautifully written, deeply affecting story of Jean-Michel Basquiat's partner, her past, and their life together ![]() ![]() ![]() The book attracted further attention.īut when Anita Brookner turned up to write her novel, about a writer called Edith Hope staying in the hotel, it didn’t seem to be quite so pleasing to the eye It was only ever really famous for two things: Charlie Chaplin lived in exile for 25 years after the Americans wouldn’t allow him to return to Hollywood during the McCarthy era and Nestle, the chocolate to powdered milk conglomerate, was founded there and still thrives today. Montreux is too Monegasque for me, its shuttered apartment blocks looking as if they’re owned by the same people who’ve bought Knightsbridge, and don’t live there either, but Vevey just sits there, accommodating happy families who splash about in the lake’s clear waters. This is Europe’s largest expanse of freshwater, dividing Switzerland from France, with the diplomat enclave of Geneva at one end, Montreux at the other. ![]() ![]() The real Hotel du Lac is an elegant summer destination in Vevey, a jolly little resort that sits quietly towards the eastern end of Lake Geneva. Despite Martin Amis being that year’s shoo-in, it went and won the Booker Prize – bingo!īut hotel people should be careful what they wish for. Back in the 80’s, the Hotel du Lac – a Swiss property of which no-one had ever heard – unexpectedly found itself catapulted to international fame after Anita Brookner’s novel of the same name appeared. ![]() ![]() ![]() The thing that’s so different about this book from the others I’ve written is that we follow the characters through several years of their lives. How hard was it to write the future November 9 scenarios? OUaT: After I read November 9, I sat quietly trying to remember what I could have done the year before on the exact date…. However, I had no idea until I was almost finished with the book that the poet I quoted a lot (Dylan Thomas) died on November 9th. ![]() I wish I had a better answer, but it really was just a random date. ![]() I went through several in my head, looked at me schedule and figured Fall would be the best time to release and then decided on November 9 because I think it has a ring to it. I knew I wanted to write a book with the date as the title. OUaT: The most obvious question, why November 9? Why that specific date? Here is my Q&A with Colleen Hoover, enjoy!!! She lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys. Colleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Slammed, This Girl, Point of Retreat, Hopeless, Losing Hope, Finding Cinderella, Maybe Someday, Ugly Love, Maybe Not, and Confess. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But what if it also means never going home again? Above the sky awaits the discovery of who Calla was always meant to be. ![]() Above the waves lies more than princes and politics. Infatuated and intrigued, Calla rises out of her world in pursuit of a skyman who doesn’t even speak her language. Who are the men who walk on water? And how can such strange creatures be so beautiful? Raised on legends of fabled skymen, Calla never expected them to be real, much less save one from drowning-and lose her heart to him. Something killed that cloud someone brought it down. Father says there’s nothing, but Calla knows better. When a cloud falls to earth, Calla sets out to find what lies beyond the sky. Metzger‘s upcoming Fantasy Romance, Walking On Water, which releases on November 13! Here’s some info on the book, which contains both bisexual and transgender represenation: Today on the site, we’ve got an exclusive excerpt from Matthew J. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This mystery is a little different than the others in that there is no murder here, at least not an instigating killing. ![]() It’s obviously his second wind, and not one that he or his wife relish, yet the set-up for the future of the series is in the balance and the details being carved out, slowly, often forcibly, sometimes sloppily. Gamache was at first adrift and has now being seduced back into the investigative fold. The rest of the story, however, is still struggling to find its new balance. His heart has long been in the little village filled with delicious food and unique people. Moving Gamache to Three Pines is fairly seamless. Where then can the series go from here after such a neat conclusion, after nine books of steadily amplifying consequences and deepening complexities, all neatly resolved? The wounds are all still raw, but starting to stitch together. Even his second-in-command, Jean-Guy, has had a complete story arc and come out the other side of addiction and manipulation to a new hope. ![]() The long-running conspiracy at the Sûreté and over the Arnot case has finally been put to rest, the demons exercised, Gamache a battered but vindicated survivor. As the tenth book in the Gamache series, A Long Way Home attempts to reopen the narrative through a new lens. ![]() ![]() ![]() You enter a future world where every year two tributes from each region are thrown into an arena where they are expected to fight to the death or be defeated by other means. The fascinating trilogy expertly described by Suzanne Collins. 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