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![]() ![]() (Charge it please and thank you very much. Here’s the thing: Whether you are just about to fall in love with Eloise or have already baked her a cake, you ought to have this book. Hilary Knight (the illustrator), photographs of Miss Kay Thompson when she was young and fabulous and rather like Eloise, and absolutely loads of information that you simply can’t can’t can’t get anywhere else. The book series, which Thompson wrote in the 1950s. ![]() In the front of this book we have printed the original Eloise story and pictures, and in the back of it there are sketches and stories by Mr. One of the main drawsespecially for those who are fansis the Eloise-themed room, based on author Kay Thompson’s children’s book Eloise. ![]() Take Eloise home with you and she’ll introduce you to life at The Plaza. She loves learning about people who aren’t boring. She may not be pretty yet, but she’s definitely already a real person. Celebrate with a beautifully illustrated hardcover edition of the original classic storybook with gobs of bonus material!Įloise is a very special little girl who lives at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. book, Plaza Hotel, friendship We hope you will enjoy today's Storytime Kay Thompson's classic 'Eloise'. Eloise has been delighting readers for more than sixty years -though she’s still not a day over six. ![]() ![]() An epidemic of gun violence plagues New Orleans and its surrounding communities and has claimed many innocent lives, including Brown’s former star quarterback, Tollette “Tonka” George, shot near a local gas station. For years, this football program has brought glory to Algiers, winning three consecutive state championships and sending dozens of young men to college on football scholarships.Īlthough he is preparing for a fourth title, head coach Brice Brown is focused on something else: keeping his players alive. Short on hope but big on dreams, its mostly poor and marginalized residents find joy on Friday nights when the Cougars of Edna Karr High School take the field. On the west bank of the Mississippi lies the New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers. ![]() ![]() ![]() The reason his novel is not read by anyone is not bureaucracy - they just don't want to. A young author is trying to get his novel published, walking around the publishing house and delivering copies of his manuscript to different employees, who, despite the protagonist's persistence, eventually don't read it. "Blue Mountains" is also about life in general. Kafka - and here I'll stop using him because I don't think it's all that similar - wrote about life in general, or life as a process where you're declared guilty and sentenced (to death) for reasons unknown to you. ![]() And just as Kafka's "Process" (which this movie was most likely compared to) is often narrowed to a "criticism of authoritarian rule", so is this movie commonly interpreted as (merely) a comedy that satirizes bureaucracy. The director, Eldar Shengelaia, remembers newspapers praising "Blue Mountains", writing that "this is Kafka!" after it premiered on Cannes film festival in 1985. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tom will have to decide once and for all whether to remain stuck in the past, or finally begin living in the present. ![]() As painful memories of his past and the erratic behavior of the Society's watchful leader threaten to derail his new life and romance, the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him. Better yet, a captivating French teacher at his school seems fascinated by him.īut the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: Never fall in love. So Tom moves back his to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher-the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's history first hand. ![]() Tom has lived history-performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. If you stick to this you will just about be okay." " The first rule is that you don’t fall in love," he said… "There are other rules too, but that is the main one. ![]() ![]() ![]() December 15, Hamilton received an urgent note from his mistress: Hamilton (whose wife and children were vacationing with relatives in Albany) and Maria Reynolds saw each other regularly throughout the summer and fall of 1791-until James Reynolds returned to the scene and instantly saw the profit potential in the situation. ![]() A conversation followed, at which point Hamilton felt certain that “other than pecuniary consolation would be acceptable” to Maria Reynolds.Īnd thus began an affair that would put Alexander Hamilton at the front of a long line of American politicians forced to apologize publicly for their private behavior. When he arrived at the Reynolds home, Maria led him into an upstairs bedroom. Hamilton was eager to be of service, but, he recounted later, it was not possible at the moment of her visit, so he arranged to visit her that evening, money in hand. Hamilton, just 34, was serving as secretary of the United States treasury and was himself a New Yorker she thought he would surely be able to help her return to that city, where she could resettle among friends and relatives. Her husband, James Reynolds, had abandoned her-not that it was a significant loss, for Reynolds had grossly mistreated her before absconding. ![]() Maria Reynolds, a 23-year-old blonde, came to Hamilton’s Philadelphia residence to ask for help. In the summer of 1791, Alexander Hamilton received a visitor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Trolling, insults, or excessive hostility.Memes, image macros, jokes, circlejerking, or spamming.Low-effort comments or ones that do not contribute to discussion.Blatant Self Promotion - do not submit feedback for your writing here.Reposts: Use reddit's search function to check if your question has already been submitted.Mobile links/link shorteners/Facebook links.DAE/TIL/ELI5/PSA/(SERIOUS)/CMV styled titles. ![]() Submissions with no direct connection to books (this includes circlejerky submissions).Submissions that don't ask for book suggestions!.Which gives: Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker’s father. ! Spoilers ! < (remove the spaces between the arrows and the exclamation mark) Spoilers Please use spoiler tags when posting plot revealing information about a particular book. What is any library incomplete without? Literature Related Subreddits Useful Postsīook suggestions for beginners, veterans, and expertsīest suggestions based of two books you loved r/SuggestMeABook is a sub where you can find new books based on suggestions from the community. To The Top Hot New Top | | Check out /r/Books! About ![]() ![]() ![]() A scanned copy of the original 1935 printing is available for download, in part or in whole, on the HathiTrust website, along with a detailed description of the copyrights. Thomas had written Smedley Butler's oral autobiography.Īccording to the HathiTrust online library, the book published in 1935 is in the public domain. ![]() In an introduction to the Reader's Digest version, Lowell Thomas praised Butler's "moral as well as physical courage". His work was condensed in Reader's Digest as a book supplement, which helped popularize his message. The speech was so well received that he wrote a longer version as a short book published in 1935. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the 1915–1934 United States occupation of Haiti.Īfter Butler retired from the US Marine Corps in October 1931, he made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech "War Is a Racket". Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book by Smedley D. ![]() ![]() ![]() The less attention anyone pays to them, the better! But a deadly mystery has begun to haunt the ancient city of Camorr, and a clandestine war is threatening to tear the city's underworld, the only home the Gentlemen Bastards have ever known, to bloody shreds. Locke and company are con artists in an age where con artistry, as we understand it, is a new and unknown style of crime. All of Locke's gains are strictly for himself and his tight-knit band of thieves, the Gentlemen Bastards. And while Locke does indeed steal from the rich (who else, pray tell, would be worth stealing from?), the poor never see a penny of it. He certainly didn't invite the rumors that swirl around his exploits, which are actually confidence games of the most intricate sort. Slightly built, unlucky in love, and barely competent with a sword, Locke Lamora is, much to his annoyance, the fabled Thorn. The other half believe him to be a foolish myth. Half the city believes him to be a legendary champion of the poor. The Thorn of Camorr is said to be an unbeatable swordsman, a master thief, a ghost that walks through walls. Published: Februby Delacorte (Random House) ![]() ![]() ![]() They'll have to search for clues and follow the mystery wherever it leads-even if it's to the eerie pond at the end of the street that's said to have its own sinister secrets. Now, Quinn's determined to keep the investigation going with the help of Mike, her neighbor and maybe-crush. When he was alive, they'd come up with all sorts of theories about the Oldies. Are they vampires? Or aliens? Or getting secret experimental surgeries? Or is Quinn's imagination just running wild again? If her dad were still around, he'd believe her. She calls them "the Oldies" because they've lived on Goodie Lane for as long as anyone can remember, but they never seem to age. ![]() Thirteen-year-old Quinn Parker knows that there's something off about her neighbors. Something strange is happening on Goodie Lane. Summary A teenager picks up where her late father left off investigating her peculiar elderly neighbors in this spooky series opener. ![]() |