Years later, he wrote the Hand of Thrawn duology, renowned for fixing a lot of odd details that had appeared in subsequent novels, pairing up Mara Jade and Luke Skywalker, and having the New Republic finally sign a peace treaty with the Imperial Remnant. Notably, the Thrawn trilogy also named Coruscant. In the Thrawn trilogy, he justified or filled in almost all of the original three movies' Technobabble, Loose Ends, Hand Waves, and Plot Holes, resulting in a consistent universe with coherent rules. There are a number of factors involved in that, including his respect for Imperial characters as multidimensional beings, his ability to write immensely complicated and detailed plots, the fact that he reads and uses the other books in the EU, and his habit of foreshadowing things that will be revisited years later in different books. Among fans, he's often considered to be among the best, if not the best, of the Star Wars authors. Timothy Zahn (born September 1, 1951) is a Science Fiction, Fantasy and Space Opera author, best known for writing The Thrawn Trilogy, one of the founding contributions to the old Star Wars Expanded Universe (now Star Wars Legends).
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Here are 3 lessons I learned from this historical biography by Doris Kearns Goodwin, a book Bill Gates has called “ one of his all-time favorites“: After becoming president, however, Lincoln managed to bring these disgruntled opponents together to create the most unusual cabinet in American history. Lincoln quickly built momentum while his rivals rested on their laurels, thinking him to be no threat. These men all became rivals in the 1860 race for the presidency. Among the party’s high-profile members were the outspoken statesman Salmon Chase, New York Senator William Henry Seward, and prominent St. In the 1840s, after Lincoln’s party, the Whigs, split over the slavery issue, he joined the Republican party. However, these experiences only strengthened Lincoln’s resolve and ambitions. At a young age, he endured the loss of family members and suffered a strained relationship with his father. 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Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but with World War II in full swing, Uncle Mick’s locksmith business just can’t pay the bills anymore. “Filled with wry humor, tight suspense, and a delightful cast of characters.” -Alyssa Maxwell, author of the Gilded Newport mysteriesįIRST RULE: DON’T LOSE YOUR CONCENTRATION.Įlectra McDonnell and her family earn their living outside the law. The first in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, set in England during World War II, A Peculiar Combination is a delightful mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and the author's signature wit. In April it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the judges of which praised it as “a book that stimulates the mind and touches the heart.” It’s been on the New York Times best-seller list for seven months, sold a million and a half print and digital copies, and drawn a cornucopia of rave reviews, including one in the daily New York Times and another in the Sunday New York Times Book Review. The novel is already on its way to becoming a movie, or a TV series, made by the producers of The Hunger Games. New York’s Frick Collection, which in October began exhibiting the painting for which the book was named, hadn’t seen so much traffic in years. When The Goldfinch came out, last fall, recipients of advance copies promptly showed off their galleys on Instagram, as if announcing the birth of a child. “Have you read The Goldfinch yet?” Consider it the cocktail-party conversation starter of 2014, the new “Are you watching Breaking Bad?” Eleven years in the making, 784 pages long, the book has re-ignited the cult of Donna Tartt, which began in 1992 with her sensational debut novel, The Secret History. It’s a one-of-a-kind story about finding your purpose in life, and an inspiring tribute to the power of education, art, and love to heal and redeem us. Now he was alone-his mother in a mental hospital, his father gone, his older brother locked up in a prison on the other side of the country-and forced to find his own way to survive physically, mentally, and spiritually, by any means necessary.īuck is a powerful memoir of how a precocious kid educated himself through the most unconventional teachers-outlaws and eccentrics, rappers and mystic strangers, ghetto philosophers and strippers, and, eventually, an alternative school that transformed his life with a single blank sheet of paper. But things fell apart, and a decade later MK was in America, a teenager lost in a fog of drugs, sex, and violence on the streets of North Philadelphia. MK Asante was born in Zimbabwe to American parents: a mother who led the new nation’s dance company and a father who would soon become a revered pioneer in black studies. A rebellious boy’s journey through the wilds of urban America and the shrapnel of a self-destructing family-this is the riveting story of a generation told through one dazzlingly poetic new voice. Boll, Eaton & Mains, 1913) The Rose Child (trans. by Frederick Richardson, Ginn, 1912) Chel: A Story of the Swiss Mountains (trans. from the German by Emma Stetler Hopkins illus. Ireland, Presbyterian Committee, 1902) Moni the Goat Boy, and Other Stories (trans. Mueller, Halle, Germany, 1902) Dorris and Her Mountain Home (trans. Perthes, Gotha, Germany, 1898) Schloss Wildenstein (F.A. Wheelock, Blackie & Son, 1896) Einer vom Hause Lesa (F.A. Brooks, Cupples & Hurd, 1887) In Safe Keeping (trans. Wheelock, Lothrop, 1886) Grittli's Children (trans. from the German by Louise Brooks, De Wolfe, Fiske, 1885) Uncle Titus (trans. from the German by Lucy Wheelock, Lothrop, 1884) Rico and Wiseli (trans. Dole and published as Heidi: A Story for Children and Those That Love Children, Ginn, 1899 ) Red-Letter Stories (trans. Johann Jakob Heusser and Meta (Schweizer) Heusser aunt of Emily Kempin Spyri (1853–1901, who was the first woman in Europe to earn a doctorate of law degree, though she was prohibited because of her gender from practicing law) married Bernhard Spyri, in 1852 children: one son, Bernhard Diethelm Spyri. Born Johanna Heusser on July 12, 1827, in Hirzel, Switzerland died on July 7, 1901, in Zurich daughter of Dr. Name variations: nicknamed "Hanni" and "Hanneli" first name also spelled Joanna. Swiss author who changed the course of children's literature for Switzerland and the world with her book Heidi. |