![]() ![]() ![]() In 2015, Forbes listed his earnings at $63 million for the previous 12 months and ranked him the 20th highest-earning celebrity in the world. His illusions have included the disappearance of a Learjet (1981), the vanishing and reappearance of the Statue of Liberty (1983), levitating over the Grand Canyon (1984), walking through the Great Wall of China (1986), escaping from Alcatraz prison (1987), the disappearance of an Orient Express dining car (1991) and flying on stage for several minutes (1992).Īs of 2006, he has sold 33 million tickets and grossed over US$4 billion, more than any other solo entertainer in history by a large margin. He has been named a Living Legend by the US Library of Congress and widely regarded as one of the greatest magicians of all time. Best known for his combination of storytelling and illusion, his career of over 40 years has earned him 11 Guinness World Records, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and a knighthood by the French government. Ĭopperfield's television specials have been nominated for 38 Emmy Awards, winning 21. David Seth Kotkin (born September 16, 1956), known professionally as David Copperfield, is an American magician, described by Forbes as the most commercially successful magician in history. ![]()
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![]() Plus don't miss Realm Breaker ! Irresistibly action-packed and full of lethal surprises, this stunning fantasy series from Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Queen series, begins where hope is lost and asks: When the heroes have fallen, who will take up the sword?įascinating world building. This paperback bind-up also includes an excerpt of the second book in the Red Queen series, Glass Sword. ![]() She was raised to be strong, but planting the seeds of rebellion in Norta is a tougher job than expected-until she stumbles upon a connection that may prove to be the key to the entire operation: Mare Barrow. Steel Scars: Captain Farley exchanges coded transmissions with the resistance as she travels the land recruiting black market traders, smugglers, and extremists for her first attempt at an attack on the capital. Queen Song: Queen Coriane, first wife of King Tiberias, keeps a secret diary-how else can she ensure that no one at the palace will use her thoughts against her? Coriane recounts her heady courtship with the crown prince, the birth of a new prince, Cal, and the potentially deadly challenges that lay ahead for her in royal life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Until then he did without ice in the country and bought a weekly supply in the city. He had had one built and filled at the President's House the year before. This was not Jefferson's first ice house. waggon loads of ice to fill it," and cost $70 for the hire of wagons and food and drink for the drivers. Jefferson, monitoring the operation from Washington, recorded it took "62. ![]() ![]() Every available neighborhood wagon was assembled to bring ice from the river to Monticello's newly constructed ice house. Monticello overseer Gabriel Lilly had to wait for freezing temperatures before a combination of enslaved laborers and hired free white waggoners could harvest ice from the Rivanna Riverand transport it to the mountaintop. ![]() In the winter of 1802-1803 the summer's harvest of wheat was safely stored in barrels and barns. To keep ice for the Monticello plantation, Thomas Jefferson designed an ice house, constructed by enslaved craftsmen under the direction of his Irish house joiner James Dinsmore. The Ice House at Monticello with roof restored in 2009 ![]() ![]() ![]() Even the relationships that should have been the central focus of his healthy and happy home fall victim to his deteriorating mental state. The narrator kills his favorite pet, tries to kill its replacement, and goes on to kill his own wife. House and home: "Home sweet home" is supposed to be a place of safety and security, however, in this story, it becomes a dark and tragic place of madness and murder.Alcohol: While the narrator begins to view the black cat as an outward manifestation of everything the narrator views as evil and unholy, blaming the animal for all his woes, it is his addiction to drinking, more than anything else, that seems to be the true reason for the narrator's mental decline.Like the bad omen of legend, the narrator believes Pluto and his successor have led him down the path toward insanity and immorality. The black cat: More than just the title character, the black cat is also an important symbol. ![]() ![]() Note 2: Most of these are YA fiction, but I AM including some middle grade and adult fiction and YA nonfiction. Everyone always talks about US & UK/Australia, but GERMAN EDITIONS ARE GORGEOUS. Note 1A: German editions are really fucking cool & super underrated, you guys. ![]() Note 1: Unless specified, the default is the US "regular" edition. ![]() As the women on campus determine to expose the team and shut down the account, Luke and Phoebe find themselves grappling with confusing feelings and wondering how they’ll ever make it through freshman year. Rumors swirl about the Wall of Shame, a secret text chain run by Luke’s soccer team, filled with compromising photos of girls. Just when things start looking up (and Phoebe and Luke start hooking up), drama looms on the horizon. In fact, being on a soccer team is the only thing that stays the same. ![]() ![]() Luke didn’t set out to redefine himself, but as soon as he arrives on campus, he finds himself dumping his long-term long-distance girlfriend. Convenient: the only person from her high school also going to York is her longtime crush, Luke. And she’ll be totally different: cooler, prettier, smarter…the perfect potential girlfriend. On her own, discovering new things, no curfew…she’ll be free. ![]() ![]() In every generation, authors have taken upon themselves to modernize centuries-old tales to make them relevant for modern audiences, and we are lucky to be experiencing a flood of excellent literature. We are currently experiencing a renaissance of reconstructed fairy tales that allow girls to be the masters of their own destinies. Finally, she decides to take matters into her own hands and texts, R u coming 2nite? U no I <3 U, but I Gtg, R. ![]() Hopelessness fills her throat like thick honey as she waits for what seems like an eternity. ![]() And I’m so sad, Like a good book, I can’t put this day back, A sorta fairy tale with youĪ girl sits on the window seat of her room at the topmost level of her remote tower, looking wistfully across the dead city below for some sign of life. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was a little nervous about finally getting to read this - it had the potential to be really bad fanfic. It is very, very moving, even heartbreaking in the latter half, and fits in well to what I know of the canon, too. It's well-written, in the style of the original Sherlock Holmes stories, and yet filled with feeling - the focus is not on the mysteries, but on the characters and their feelings. ![]() I had a lump in my throat for most of the book. The second deals with Sherlock's 'death', in the case involving Moriarty, and Watson's grief afterwards, and the true circumstances of their eventual reunion. The first deals with Watson's apparently unrequited love for Holmes, and provides background to his swift marriage to Mary, an arrangement of mutual benefit that allows both Watson and Mary to disguise their true preferences. My Dearest Holmes contains two stories, with the conceit that they're both stories Watson set aside as being impossible to publish given the social circumstances of his day, and that he left them to be published years after his death, when it couldn't possibly affect him or his associates. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the last few years, it’s become my habit to pick up a Jane Austen novel after releasing the Summer Reading Guide ( sign up here to receive it in your inbox on May 14th). ![]() Reading about women who face challenges and overcome them with kindness and determination is ever so satisfying these days.Īusten novels soothe me during stressful times, and also lend themselves well to rereading again and again. Her settings are charming and quaint her heroines are strong and steady. Almost a century later and in the midst of uncertainty, readers voted Pride and Prejudice as the most comforting read for The Strand Bookstore’s first Stranded Book Club pick.įor me, the familiarity of Austen’s wit and wisdom is the epitome of comfort reading. During the World Wars, Austen sales spiked as soldiers and civilians sought solace in simpler, less terrifying times. Readers have been turning to the comfort of Jane Austen for decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After several futile and deadly days, Lieutenant Colonel Ernie Cheatham would finally come up with a strategy to retake the city, block by block and building by building, in some of the most intense urban combat since World War II. Captain Chuck Meadows was ordered to lead his 160-marine Golf Company against thousands of enemy troops in the first attempt to reenter Huế later that day. The commanders in country and politicians in Washington refused to believe the size and scope of the Front's presence. By morning, all of Huế was in Front hands save for two small military outposts. on January 31, 10,000 National Liberation Front troops descended from hidden camps and surged across the city of 140,000. Part military action and part popular uprising, the Tet Offensive included attacks across South Vietnam, but the most dramatic and successful would be the capture of Huế, the country's cultural capital. In mid-1967, the leadership in Hanoi had started planning an offensive intended to win the war in a single stroke. The North Vietnamese had different ideas. Yet General William Westmoreland, commander of American forces, announced a new phase of the war in which "the end begins to come into view". His most ambitious work yet, Huế 1968, is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam.īy January 1968, despite an influx of half a million American troops, the fighting in Vietnam seemed to be at a stalemate. ![]() Not since his New York Times best seller Black Hawk Down has Mark Bowden written a book about a battle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also inside are interviews with costume designer Milena Canonero, composer Alexandre Desplat, lead actor Ralph Fiennes, production designer Adam Stockhausen, and cinematographer Robert Yeoman essays by film critics Ali Arikan and Steven Boone, film theorist and historian David Bordwell, music critic Olivia Collette, and style and costume consultant Christopher Laverty and an introduction by playwright Anne Washburn. Learn all about the film's conception, hear personal anecdotes from the set, and explore the wide variety of sources that inspired the screenplay and imagery - from author Stefan Zweig to filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch to photochrom landscapes of turn-of-the-century Middle Europe. ![]() ![]() This companion to the New York Times bestselling book The Wes Anderson Collection takes readers behind the scenes of the Oscar®-winning film The Grand Budapest Hotel with a series of interviews between writer/director Wes Anderson and movie/television critic Matt Zoller Seitz. ![]() |