In all, he is the author of over fifty bestselling books. after all, solving mysteries is his job.Ībout the Author TERRY PRATCHETT is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, "The Colour of Magic," was published in 1983. It's up to the dauntless Vimes-bothered as usual by a familiar cast of Discworld inhabitants (you know, trolls, dwarfs, werewolves, vampires, and such)-to solve the puzzle of the missing pachyderm. An attempted assassination and a theft soon lead to a desperate chase from the low halls of Discworld royalty to the legendary fat mines of Uberwald, where lard is found in underground seams along with tusks and teeth and other precious ivory artifacts. Of course, where cops (even those clad in tights) go, alas, crime follows. The one role he relishes the other requires, well, ruby tights. Now, he's been invited to attend a royal function as both detective and diplomat. When duty calls, Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers-even if he doesn't want to. But weren't there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. Everyone knows that the world is flat and supported on the backs of four elephants.
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Board of Education, and the government’s role in creating and upholding a segregated education system. Harris weaves through the legal, social, and political obstacles erected to block equitable education in the United States, studying the Black Americans who fought their way to an education, pivotal Supreme Court cases like Plessy v. In The State Must Provide, Adam Harris reckons with the history of a higher education system that has systematically excluded Black people from its benefits. While governments and private donors funnel money into majority white schools, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and other institutions that have high enrollments of Black students, are struggling to survive, with state legislatures siphoning away federal funds that are legally owed to these schools. Black students have always been an afterthought. From its inception, our higher education system was not built on equality or accessibility, but on educating-and prioritizing-white students. The definitive history of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher educationAmerica’s colleges and universities have a shameful secret: they have never given Black people a fair chance to succeed. You don’t have to be a great speaker to communicate your idea effectively-the authors show you what to do through numerous examples of messages that have succeeded and others that have bombed. Based on a wide-ranging examination of psychology research, popular culture, and news headlines, they identify six criteria for shaping your message so it resonates. Made to Stick by brothers Chip and Dan Heath explores what makes some messages “stick” in the public’s consciousness while others go unheard or unremembered and explains how to create an idea that sticks. In our overstimulated and distracted society, great ideas and important messages often fail to gain traction, while bad ideas and falsehoods, such as urban legends, go viral and seem to stick around forever. 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of Made to Stick The once non-shopping young lady at that point almost gets into a mishap when she comes out from shopping (bizarre, isn't it?) and sort of becomes hopelessly enamored with the person who almost hit her. She loses the glasses, starts to wear appealing dresses than old ‘spoiled pants’ and well, changes into a young lady. She moves into a top school away from her old neighborhood, is called to Delhi by her sister (who's that ideal young lady, as per her) and she returns a changed individual. She's had her heart broken early, and isn't hoping to rehash that experience and its repercussions. You could say she's a misrepresented form of a first-bencher, with those thick glasses and anxious to satisfy individuals' hopes. She's the plain young lady with no enthusiasm to dress appealingly or date, she's more into her studies. She has self-doubt about herself that she is not good enough in terms of beauty so she didn't get attention. This story is about an introverted girl Niharika. This cover page looks very simple and calm, each word reflects the story behind this isn't it, what do you think?Īuthor’s Name - Durjoy Datta and Nikita Singh On one hand, we disconnected to some older ones or another hand met some new ones, unconsciously they became a part of our life. life takes a very beautiful move from here. It is a very specific and new environment for us all. We all have different feelings when we transfer from school to college. "And it was really from there that it all came together because you bring this new character in and the storylines just emerge."Īs most "Big Little Lies" fans may already know, the beloved series is based on a book written by Australian author Liane Moriarty. "When I was sort of agonizing over whether or not I should do it, it was actually my sister who said to me, 'Only do it if it would be fun, and why not create a role for your favorite actor?' And that's when I came up with this role for Meryl Streep, to be Perry's mother," Moriarty told The Hollywood Reporter in May. It's partly why it took the series two years to return. She also specifically wrote a role just for Meryl Streep, who plays Mary Louise, the mother-in-law of Kidman's character, Celeste. To appease fans and HBO, Moriarty penned 50,000-word a novella just for the show. Fans wanted another season with the Monterey Five, but there was just one problem: Moriarty hadn't written a sequel. There was no denying its grab on viewers. It won eight Emmy awards and four Golden Globes. With A-list actors like Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern and Alexander Skarsgård-to name a few-the television adaptation became a massive hit. After it was published in 2014, it quickly became a New York Times bestseller and was produced into a limited series on HBO by 2017. As most Big Little Lies fans may already know, the beloved series is based on a book written by Australian author Liane Moriarty. Edith Hind?a beautiful graduate student at Cambridge University and daughter of the surgeon to the Royal Family?has been missing for nearly twenty-four hours. One night, after yet another disastrous Internet date, she turns on her police radio to help herself fall asleep?and receives an alert that sends her to a puzzling crime scene. Single and distant from her family, she wants a husband and children of her own. "An extraordinarily assured police procedural in the tradition of Ruth Rendell and Elizabeth George."?Joseph Finder, author of The Fixer At thirty-nine, Manon Bradshaw is a devoted and respected member of the Cambridgeshire police force, and though she loves her job, what she longs for is a personal life. For readers of Kate Atkinson and Tana French comes a page-turning literary mystery that brings to life the complex and wholly relatable Manon Bradshaw, a strong-willed detective assigned to a high-risk missing persons case. Why either the British (who knew the agents’ frailties) or the race-obsessed Germans (who knew that none of them had ethnic or ideological ties to the Axis cause) believed anything any of them reported is beyond mysterious. There was the Spaniard Juan Pujol Garcia, a failed chicken farmer (rather like SS head Heinrich Himmler) Serbian womanizer Dusko Popov Elvira de la Fuente Chaudoir, a bisexual Peruvian party girl Polish patriot Roman Czerniawski and a Frenchwoman of Russian descent, Lily Sergeyev, so devoted to Babs, her terrier-poodle cross, that she almost gave herself up to the Nazis out of rage after the British accidentally killed her dog. In an account redolent with ironies, Macintyre concentrates on five of the agents. The committee launched a plan in 1944 to use those double agents-along with others who had always been on the Allied side-to mislead the Germans as to the place and timing of the invasion of France, and thus thin the defensive forces arrayed against those storming the beaches. By 1942, a British counter-intelligence group, the punningly named Twenty Committee (its name in Roman numerals-XX-forming a double cross), was in control of every German spy in the United Kingdom. By the end of Double Cross he actually manages to make readers worry that the June 6, 1944, Normandy landings might fail. Though he’s not a novelist, Macintyre is one of the best spy-story writers around, someone who can weave a suspenseful narrative out of facts already on the public record. 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We have a 14-day return policy, which means you have 14 days after receiving your item to request a return. The description of Alvarenga’s life as a dirt-poor fisherman is fascinating. Sheltering in the small icebox used to store a fisherman’s catch, he avoided the scorching sun, and by night, he lay on the floor of his boat and watched a sky filled with stars, satellites and wistfully watched the occasional plane flying over. With sharks bumping into his boat to remind him that one small swim outside his boat would mean certain death, Alvarenga was bound in his silent, lonely and desperate new home. Lost, but with an indomitable spirit and a refusal to give in, Alvarenga learned how to feed himself by catching seabirds resting on his boat, hauling in turtles, and scooping the small but feisty triggerfish in his bare arms. The storm hit, the motor in the boat broke 20 miles off shore, the radio ran out of batteries and died, and the GPS monitor was not waterproof and was quickly waterlogged by the waves crashing over the boat.Īlvarenga managed one SOS call to shore before the radio died, and rescuers quickly mounted a search, but the weather was rough, and by the time a search began, Avarenga’s boat had drifted westward out of reach. Swept away from his home village during a ferocious storm, Salvador Alvarenga was cast out into the vast, empty and treacherous Pacific Ocean during an ill-advised fishing trip on 17 November 2012. 438 Days is the astounding story of a Mexican fisherman who drifted over 9,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean, spending over a year at sea – lost, alone and fighting for survival. As she deals with her grief, her younger sisters' needs, the relationship with her boyfriend, and her Dawdi and Mammi's strict rules, Ivy finds solace in both an upcoming trip to Germany for an international Mennonite youth gathering and in her great-great-aunt's story about Clare Simons, another young woman who visited Germany in the late 1930s. But when her parents are killed in a tragic accident, Ivy's way of life is upended. "Incredibly well-researched, thoroughly enjoyable, and singularly original." -SHELLEY SHEPARD GRAY, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author "A beautiful story of love, loss, and the bonds that connect a family to its faith." -SUZANNE WOODS FISHER, bestselling author of A Season on the Wind Ivy Zimmerman is successfully navigating her life as a young Mennonite woman, one generation removed from her parents' Old Order Amish upbringing. |