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Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy (Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command) written by A review of Timothy Zahn’swritten by Joe Breslin A farseeing clock ago, before the menace of the First Order, and before the significantly graver threat of George Lucas ’ s deplorable prequels, there was the Expanded Universe, or EU. Consisting of hundreds of formally licensed novels and amusing books that spanned the thousands of years before and the decades after the events of the original trilogy ( OT ), the EU was, for years, the home of Star Wars fandom. Through this…

”It was, indeed, the famous necklace, the legendary necklace that Bohmer and Bassenge, court jewelers, had made for Madame Du Barry; the veritable necklace that the Cardinal de Rohan-Soubise intended to give to Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France; and the same that the adventuress Jeanne de Valois, Countess de la Motte, had pulled to pieces one evening in February, 1785, with the aid of her husband and their accomplice, Rétaux de Villette.” A necklace worthy of the very best thief.The Queen’s Necklace is famous for being worth so much money, but also because of the scandal that surrounded it. It all…

The follow is from an introduction to American Geography, a choice of images from the permanent collection of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art . We ’ ve lived for generations in America with our promising tomorrows waiting for us precisely up ahead. Despite populace wars and ceaseless war, despite arduous ( for some ) economic depressions and recessions, despite a history of slavery and genocide and being plagued by regular flare-ups of malfeasance and corruption in government, despite the oceans of filth and poison that hang menacingly in suspension in our air travel and urine, we…

After his release from prison in 1897, Oscar Wilde lived in France in straiten circumstances. In 1900 at the age of 46, he died of meningitis following an acute ear infection. Oscar Wilde came from a outstanding family. While studying at Oxford in the 1870s, he gained notice as a scholar, poseur, wit, and poet and for his idolatry to the Aesthetic campaign, which held that art should exist for its beauty alone. Wilde late established himself in London ’ s social and artistic circles. Oscar Wilde ’ s literary reputation rests largely on his novel The visualize of dorian…

Crazy Rich Asians was entertaining, fun, dramatic, regular paced fabrication with amazing characters and fantastic details on East asian culture and custom. I read this with Toni and we both enjoyed it . Crazy Rich Asians ( Crazy Rich Asians # 1 ) by Kevin Kwan issue Date : May 20th 2014 publisher : Anchor Reading: Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians #1) by Kevin Kwan / Books Teacup and Reviews writing style : fiction / Contemporary Pages : 527 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating : 4 out of 5 .Synopsis When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore…

part of a book clubhouse a few years back, I read and discussed a script that half the group thought read like a college newspaper. They were turned-off, their attention applied to social organization over the content. This skewed the subsequent discussion away from the writer ’ s arguments towards the humdrum note of the book. It was a well-reasoned and heedful thesis, but it did not capture the care of at least half of us. How do you prevent that in your own write ? Improving your ability to write is unmanageable ; not merely must your ideas be…

If you are interested in the difference between paperback vs. batch grocery store paperback books, this stake tells you precisely that. I often wondered the deviation myself when shopping on Amazon for books and felt confused as to which option to purchase . In shortstop, paperback book books are larger, higher quality, and most expensive, whereas mass grocery store paperback books are smaller, with less lastingness but a lower price. The biggest difference to me is discernability : traditional paperback book books are both larger and spaced greater between the lines, so they are much easier on your eyes .…

The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel Reading: The Book of Lost Names | A Review – House of Cadmus Add to Goodreads Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one good morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a cartridge holder lying open nearby. She freezes ; it ’ s an effigy of a script she hasn ’ thyroxine seen in sixty-five years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names . The accompanying article discusses the plunder of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II—an experience Eva…

Read an ExcerptO If You’re Not Living on the Edge, You’re Taking Up Too Much Space I stand at the outer tarmacadam door staring at the flat I am about to get on and try my hardest not to freak out . It ’ sulfur easier said than done . not fair because I ’ m about to leave behind everything I know, though up until two minutes ago, that was my main concern. now, though, as I stare at this plane that I ’ m not even certain deserves the dignity of being called a airplane, a whole new…

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