The man, if he existed at all, lived even earlier. The legend of Robin Hood began more than 600 years ago. This edition includes new illustrations and The Gest of Robyn Hood, one of the oldest surviving tales. Holt reconstructs the historical basis of the stories but never loses sight of the human imagination that sustained them. Parts of the story that we now take for granted-Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, Robin as robber of the rich and giver to the poor, even Sherwood Forest-played little or no part in the original tales, and were added as the centuries passed and the legends grew.The legend of Robin Hood has enthralled people from the first ballads to contemporary movies. In this definitive work, Professor Sir James Holt, one of Britain's premier historians and author of the standard work on the Magna Carta, unravels pure invention from real possibility and offers the results of some thirty years of research.He assesses the evidence for the historical Robin Hood and finds that the tale originated with the yeomen and hangers-on of the households of noblemen and gentry in the later Middle Ages.
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“This guy can tell a story.” Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Brian Freeman proves once again he’s a master of psychological suspense.” Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author, on Spilled Blood Someone was willing to kill rather than let those long-ago secrets come out, and the suspect with the strongest motive … is Stride. The clues all point to a hot Duluth summer years earlier that everyone in town would prefer to forget. His only ally in clearing his name is his wife, Serena, who retraces the reporter’s investigation into the explosive allegations. With suspicion in the murder pointing at him, Stride finds himself off the case and on leave from the Duluth Police. And he admits lying to Maggie about that meeting, but won’t tell her why. He was the last person to see the reporter alive. Now Stride’s partner, Maggie Bei, is forced to ask Stride an uncomfortable question: Did you kill him? Back then, the police believed that the reporter drowned at a dangerous swimming hole called the Deeps … but the discovery of the body changes everything. Seven years ago, an out-of-town reporter disappeared while investigating anonymous allegations of rape against a prominent politician. Stride is pretty sure he knows who it is. Hours later, the police dig up Steve’s yard and find a body with a bullet hole in its skull. Jonathan Stride’s best friend, Steve Garske, makes a shocking deathbed confession: he protected Stride by covering up a murder. Each beautiful, simple illustration adds just the right amount of visual intrigue to anchor the words and their meanings'- Hardcover. The words and definitions range from the lovely, such as goya, the Urdu word to describe the transporting suspension of belief that can occur in good storytelling, to the funny, like the Hawaiian pana po'o, which describes the act of scratching your head to remember something you've forgotten. Lost in Translation brings this wonder to life with 50 ink illustrations featuring the foreign word, the language of origin, and a pithy definition. Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there's a Swedish word to describe the reflection of the moon across the water? The nuanced beauty of language is even more interesting and relevant in our highly communicative, globalized modern world. 'An artistic collection of 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English. Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World Ella Frances Sanders 4. Politicians who support Cop City have attempted to discredit forest defenders as “outside agitators.” This smear has a disgraceful history in the South, where authorities have used it against abolitionists, labor organizers, and the Civil Rights Movement, among others. What is happening in Atlanta is not a local issue. So do the gentrification and police violence that the bulldozing of Weelaunee Forest would facilitate. The destruction of forests affects all of us. In memory of Manuel Teran, also known by the name Tortuguita.įorests are the lungs of planet Earth. The official narrative is that Cop City is necessary to make Atlanta “safe,” but this brutal killing reveals what they mean when they use that word. This is only the most recent of a series of violent police retaliations against the movement. On January 18, in the course of their latest militarized raid on the forest, police in Atlanta shot and killed Manuel Teran, known by fellow forest defenders as Tortuguita. We call on all people of good conscience to stand in solidarity with the movement to stop Cop City and defend the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta. We endorse the following statement of solidarity with the movement to defend the Weelaunee Forest. The 2018 novel has been one of the most popular to break the typical fantasy mold and has brought something new and refreshing to the genre. Though it’s a trope that has worked well for the genre in the past, it’s never quite resonated with me or introduced me to new perspectives in the way that more recent fantasy novels have. I have been an avid fantasy reader for years, but I started growing weary of stories about small-town farm boys turned heroes, prophesied to save the world from a great and somewhat nebulous evil. Entrenched in tales set in Western medieval worlds, the fantasy genre can often feel like a monolith for those who have not actively sought out more diverse stories. However, this has started to shift in recent years, as both the industry and the genre have started to devote more attention to new and varied voices. It was tense, exciting, chilling and heartwrenchingly sad – but incredibly and believably romantic. There was just something about this couple that sucked me right in, and they felt *right*. It kept me captivated, on the edge of my seat, and I *sighed* my butt off throughout. I started the book late Friday evening and read straight through until 4am. I LOVED it! In fact, I would have easily pulled an all-nighter, but my iPad quit before I was ready to (husband didn’t recharge it for me after his day of playing with it). MARYSE’S SURPRISE FROM HER FAVORITE BOOK BOYFRIEND’S.ALL MY REVIEWS (ALPHABETICAL BY AUTHOR). Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was an English poet, critic and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England, and one of the Lake Poets. The Wedding-Guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience, fear, and fascination as the Mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language style: for example, the use of narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create a sense of danger, or the supernatural, or serenity, depending on the mood each different part of the poem. The Mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. It relates the events experienced by a mariner who has returned from a long sea voyage. Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature. Modern editions use a later revised version printed in 1817 and featuring a gloss. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere") is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written circa 1797 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. As they walk home together, they meet "Starfish" a boy a few years older than Cristian who is involved in the black market. In return, Cristian's grandfather, Bunu will receive medicine to help his leukemia.Īfter meeting with the Secu agent, Cristian encounters Liliana Pavel, the girl he's been trying for days to "co-incidentally" meet after school. The Secu, whom he calls "Paddle Hands", threatens Cristian with this knowledge and coerces him into spying for the Secu. While waiting for his mother to finish work, Cristian is friendly with the diplomat's son, Dan they talk and trade stamps which is illegal in Romania. Terrified, Cristian finds himself being blackmailed by an agent of the Securitate, Romania's feared secret police, into becoming a spy.Ĭristian's mother, Mioara, works as a maid to a U.S. One gray October day in 1989, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is called to the office by the school's Comrade Director. I Must Betray You is a chilling portrayal of life in communist Romania under the brutal regime of Nicolae Ceausescu just as the Soviet Union is collapsing. We've all known someone like her, but is there a little bit of Susan in all of us?ĩ. Do you think Susan has ever experienced true love? Does she come to experience it by the end of the book?Ĩ. Susan approaches romantic love much like one would approach a business transaction. How does Susan's relationship with her own mother impact her attitude about becoming a mother herself?ħ. Discuss how the theme of motherhood plays out in the book. Should family always stick together, or do we sometimes have to accept that the differences are too great?Ħ. Whether or not Susan and Edward will continue to play a part in one another's lives is left open at the end of the novel. Rob tells Susan that she'd be good for him and he'd be fantastic for her. Why do you think this is? How does losing control change her life?Ĥ. Susan is a type A who likes to keep a tight hold on her control of even the smallest details of her life. How much do you think Susan's childhood shaped her and made her keep the world and relationships at bay?ģ. What do you think contributes the most to Susan's transformation as a character?Ģ. Part of the enjoyment of the novel is seeing Susan soften and let people into her life. He removed the plastic cover off each one, ripped off a leg, took a big bite, jammed the leg back inside the cavity of the chicken, and replaced the cover of each. When they both ran down the aisle yelling, I figured that was my cue to move my ass and finish up my shopping trip.Ī few months back, I’d seen a man sample a dozen whole rotisserie chickens. I watched, fascinated by how serious she was, while she sampled six different deodorants before a store employee finally noticed what she was doing. Again, she plucked the top off, sniffed, then swiped under each of her pits. Replacing the cap, she examined the shelf for a moment before picking another brand. She opened the top of the stick and sniffed it, then proceeded to lift one side of her shirt and wipe the deodorant under her armpit, then moved on to the other. I backed up enough to hide my body behind the endcap and peeked my head out to watch the action.Ī woman with the frizziest, most unnatural color of red hair placed a deodorant back on the shelf and grabbed a new one. But after taking a step or two, I couldn’t help myself. I pushed my shopping cart forward rather than turning to walk down the aisle I’d originally planned. |