![]() ![]() Here's a reading of it from a 50s radio show. If I'd read it as a kid I'd have been a wreck. There's one famous chapter with a pair of oak leaves in late Fall, wondering what happened to Summer, where everyone else went, what happens to you once you fall and preparing for their own. It's not just Bambi's Mom who brings the possibility of death home to the reader the threat is constant and often realized. First of all, the book is drenched in existential dread. Well, brother, the curiosities were just beginning. That confluence seemed so curious I bought it. Don't know that I ever would have either, except that when I picked up a copy at a book sale I discovered that it is, improbably enough, translated by Whittaker Chambers, a Columbia classmate of Clifton Fadiman, an editor at Simon & Schuster which bought the rights to the book in the '20s. While we did eventually have one of those Disney picture versions of the book for kids, I'd never read the original novel and knew nothing of the author, Felix Salten. ![]() An overly sensitive child, the death of Bambi's Mother left me sobbing, but my Father decided it would be a good idea for him to get in on the action, so he took me the next day. I was probably five years old and it was the first movie my Mom ever took me too. Like many of us, my introduction to the world of adult concerns came with a childhood viewing of Disney's horror classic, Bambi. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In Madhouse at the End of the Earth, Julian Sancton unfolds an epic story of adventure and horror for the ages. In the darkness, plagued by a mysterious illness and besieged by monotony, they descended into madness. When the sun set on the magnificent polar landscape one last time, the ship’s occupants were condemned to months of endless night. De Gerlache sailed on, and soon the Belgica was stuck fast in the icy hold of the Bellingshausen Sea. After a series of costly setbacks, the commandant faced two bad turn back in defeat and spare his men the devastating Antarctic winter, or recklessly chase fame by sailing deeper into the freezing waters. His destination was the uncharted end of the the icy continent of Antarctica.īut de Gerlache’s plans to be first to the magnetic South Pole would swiftly go awry. In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. Sancton has produced a thriller.”- The Wall Street Journal “The energy of the narrative never flags. The “exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing” ( The New York Times ) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry-with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Books still in shrink wrap and carefully stored in unread condition. Scholastic Press trade paperback seven volume boxed edition is Clean, tight, square set with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Condition Fine NO Dust Jackets, Slipcase Fine. ![]() RowlingSeven volume trade paperback Scholastic Press boxed set still in shrink wrap. 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From Cheesus (Jesus in the form of a Cheeto) to the Nun Bun (Mother Theresa's likeness on a cinnamon roll) to more serene images of the Virgin Mary in tree bark or agate, the author has compiled an amazing and delightful look at the worldwide phenomenon of finding the holy in the mundane. ![]() This is a lighthearted, pop culture photography book collecting images spiritual figures - Jesus, the Virgin Mary, the Pope, Buddha - as they have been revealed to believers in toast, woodgrain, campfires, watermarks, circuitboards, tortillas, and other everyday objects from around the world, many of which were featured in local/national /international news coverage(!). ![]() ![]() ![]() Jase Garrett sees her from his house and joins her. Samantha becomes annoyed when Clay acts condescendingly toward her, so she climbs through her bedroom window to her private spot, the roof. The man is Clay Tucker, her mother’s new political adviser and boyfriend. While home alone one night, Samantha hears sounds outside and opens the front door to find her mother and a younger man kissing passionately. The Garretts have eight children: Joel, Alice, Jase, Andy (Andrea), Duff, Harry, George and Patsy. ![]() Grace is now a state senator campaigning for a second term, and Tracy is waitressing on Martha’s Vineyard before she leaves for college. ![]() She doesn’t need to work since her family’s wealth comes from Grace’s trust fund, but Grace likes her daughters to have full schedules. Ten years later, Samantha is 17 and plans to get a job during the summer before her senior year of high school. Samantha is forbidden from playing with the Garrett kids, but she watches the family from her window and feels she knows them even though they never meet. Samantha’s mother, Grace, tells Samantha and her sister, Tracy, that the family with the messy yard will bring down property values. When the Garretts move into the house beside Samantha Reed’s, Samantha is fascinated by the family of seven’s hectic lifestyle, which is so different from her scheduled and carefully planned single-parent home. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the "exquisitely written, consistently entertaining" (The Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter andīestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a "delightful.reflection on the past, present, and future of libraries in America" (New York magazine) that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library-and if so, who? By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. "Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book" (The Washington Post). Notable Book is "a sheer delight.as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library" (USA TODAY)-a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. ![]() ![]() ![]() The nun Olivia, particularly through her singing and her voice, strikes a particular chord in Ellena that will later be explained as the cri du sang attracting daughter to mother. In The Italian, she is interested in the mother-daughter bond primarily as a bond between women. 1 Although (patriarchal) psychoanalysis may have neglected this area of the psyche, Radcliffe is intent on exploring it. Irigaray emphasizes the ‘one thing that has been singularly neglected, barely touched upon, in the theory of the unconscious: the relation of woman to the mother and the relation of women among themselves’. ![]() In The Italian, Radcliffe extends the female circle to include other like-minded women, as if to overturn the status quo of women’s relation to each other in patriarchy. A Sicilian Romance closes with a female community whose members are also tied to each other by family bonds. ![]() |