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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of these, only the Lives of Galba and Otho survive. Parallel Lives was Plutarch's second set of biographical works, following the Lives of the Roman Emperors from Augustus to Vitellius. ![]() It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals described, but also about the times in which they lived. The surviving Parallel Lives ( Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi) comprises 23 pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman of similar destiny, such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, or Demosthenes and Cicero. Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of 48 biographies of famous men, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD. 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Responding to queries on the similarity of some of the concepts in his Wheel of Time books with Freemasonry concepts, Jordan admitted that he was a Freemason. He lived with his wife Harriet McDougal, who works as a book editor (currently with Tor Books she was also Jordan's editor) in a house built in 1797. He described himself as a "High Church" Episcopalian and received communion more than once a week. He was a history buff and enjoyed hunting, fishing, sailing, poker, chess, pool, and pipe collecting. After graduating he was employed by the United States Navy as a nuclear engineer. After returning from Vietnam he attended The Citadel where he received an undergraduate degree in physics. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with "V" and bronze oak leaf cluster, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with palm. He served two tours in Vietnam (from 1968 to 1970) with the United States Army as a helicopter gunner. Jordan was born in Charleston, South Carolina. ![]() He also wrote under the names Reagan O'Neal and Jackson O'Reilly. Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr., under which he was best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Much more modest in scope,it's the story of an old scientist and his grandson (the little star of his precedent short) who travel all above France, from north to south in a balloon.It was a technical tour De force ,for it was filmed in "Helivision" movie camera on a helicopter,a technique which was reportedly used later in the James Bond saga.No optical effects,quite a feat! The budget was certainly rather comfortable at a time when color and wide screen were not that common in France the cinematography is of course splendid and the score is up to scratch. ![]() "Le Voyage En Ballon ",although Pascal ,its young hero ,was taken away for a journey around the world by balloons,is not really a sequel. Albert Lamorisse was a specialist of works aimed at the children's market his first movies were shorts :'Bim" (a collaboration with Prévert),"Crin blanc" generally considered his towering achievement,and "Le Ballon Rouge"which is much more popular abroad than in France (although the story was in many textbooks in the early sixties). ![]() ![]() ![]() 1 Nelly Korda, who wrested the top spot away from Lydia Ko last week after Ko missed the cut at The Chevron Championship, and Chevron champion and world No. ![]() Coming off the season’s first major, The Chevron Championship, the field features a formidable lineup of ranked stars including eight of the top 10 players in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings, headlined by No. ![]() The inaugural JM Eagle LA Championship premiers this week at a familiar venue - Wilshire Country Club, host of the LA Open from 2018-22 - and marks the second LPGA event to be played in the Los Angeles area this season (the DIO Implant LA Open was played at Palos Verdes GC earlier this month). ![]() ![]() ![]() Her debut adult fiction novel A History of Wild Places will release in December of 2021. Her books have been published in over twelve countries/languages, and her novels The Wicked Deep and Winterwood were Indie Next Picks. well, nightmare?Ībout the Author SHEA ERNSHAW is a New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Oregon Book Award. Can Sally discover what it means to be true to herself and save the town she's learned to call home, or will her future turn into her worst. Long Live the Pumpkin Queen (August 2020) by Shea Ernshaw is a young adult fantasy and a sequel to the 1993 animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas directed by Henry Selick (screenplay by Caroline Thompson, story by Tim Burton). ![]() But when Sally and Zero accidentally uncover a long-hidden doorway to an ancient realm called Dream Town in the forest Hinterlands, she'll unknowingly set into motion a chain of sinister events that put her future as Pumpkin Queen, and the future of Halloween Town itself, into jeopardy. Long Live the Pumpkin Queen Audiobook by Shea Ernshaw - 9781368082327 Rakuten Kobo United States. Cast into the spotlight and tasked with all sorts of queenly duties, Sally can't help but wonder if all she's done is trade her captivity under Dr. ![]() or are they? Sally Skellington is the official, newly-minted Pumpkin Queen after a whirlwind courtship with her true love, Jack, who Sally adores with every inch of her fabric seams - if only she could say the same for her new role as Queen of Halloween Town. ![]() Read Sally's story in this young adult sequel to Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas written by New York Times bestselling Shea Ernshaw. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Consequently, the publication of her story offers shocking insights into the way incarcerated women are treated and thus highlights the necessity to talk about these horrifying practices. In her narrative, she draws attention to a number of different issues among them the maltreatment of women of all colors, origins, backgrounds and sexes in American prisons. After her release, she put her experiences in writing to raise awareness of the flaws of the U.S. As a consequence of her actions in the past, Kerman was sentenced to 13 months in a federal prison facility. In her autobiographical novel also entitled Orange is the new Black, Kerman narrates her life in prison after being convicted of drug offense after 10 years. However, the broadcast and discussion of the story draws attention to the actual narrative by Piper Kerman on which the show is based. The show has been criticized for inaccurately depicting the story of Piper Chapman, as the main character is called in the series. Orange is the new Black, a TV-series based on Piper Kerman’s autobiographical narrative, is all over the news and in our living rooms attempting to give us an insight of what life behind bars is like for women. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maud’s father, an aerospace engineer turned lawyer, was an educated man who extolled the virtues of slavery and obsessed over the “purity” of his family bloodline, which he traced back to the Revolutionary War. ![]() Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated through Maud’s maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts. Her mother’s grandfather killed a man with a hay hook and died in an institution. Her mother’s father, who came of age in Texas during the Great Depression, was said to have married 13 times and been shot by one of his wives. Maud Newton’s ancestors have vexed and fascinated her since she was a girl. ![]() One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 - Oprah Daily, Time, Esquire, The Millions, The Week, Thrillist, She Reads, Lit Hub, BookPage “A road map for all of us who long to understand, at the deepest level, where we come from.” (Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance ) An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her wildly unconventional Southern family - and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves. ![]() ![]() ![]() Events in History at the Time the Novel Takes Place Dynasties and alien invaders ![]() The character of Winnie Louie experiences trials and tribulations in pre-Communist China that mirror those suffered by Daisy, who fled to the United States on the last boat from Shanghai in 1949 before the Communist takeover. A novel set predominantly in China from around 1911 to 1949 and set in America around the time of publication published in 1991.Ī mother is forced to reveal the darkest secrets from her past in war-ravaged China to her American daughter.Įvents in History at the Time the Novel Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Novel Was Writtenīorn in Oakland, California, in 1952 to Chinese parents, Amy Tan wrote The Kitchen God’s Wife to tell the story of her mother, Daisy Tan. ![]() |