![]() The sudden onset and unexplained origin and nature of the blindness cause widespread panic, and the social order rapidly unravels as the government attempts to contain the apparent contagion and keep order via increasingly repressive and inept measures. After a lengthy and traumatic quarantine in an asylum, the group bands together in a family-like unit to survive by their wits and by the good fortune that the doctor's wife has escaped the blindness. The ophthalmologist's spouse, "the doctor's wife," is inexplicably immune to the blindness. The novel follows the misfortune of a handful of unnamed characters who are among the first to be stricken with blindness, including an ophthalmologist, several of his patients, and assorted others, who are thrown together by chance. Blindness was adapted into a film of the same name in 2008.īlindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. Ī sequel titled Seeing was published in 2004. In 1998, Saramago received the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Blindness was one of his works noted by the committee when announcing the award. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is one of Saramago's most famous novels, along with The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Baltasar and Blimunda. ![]() Blindness ( Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness) is a 1995 novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Dina serves as an acquisitions editor for W Award-winning author, Dina Sleiman, writes stories of passion and grace. Also look for her books, Love in Three-Quarter Time, Dance from Deep Within, and the rest of her Valiant Hearts series with Bethany House Publishers. Her debut novel, Dance of the Dandelion with Whitefire Publishing, won an Honorable Mention in the 2012 Selah Awards, and her cross-over YA novel, Dauntless, won the 2016 Carol Award. Since finishing her Professional Writing MA in 1994, she has enjoyed many opportunities to teach literature, writing, and the arts. Most of the time you will find this Virginia Beach resident reading, biking, dancing, or hanging out with her husband and three children, preferably at the oceanfront. ![]() Award-winning author, Dina Sleiman, writes stories of passion and grace. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has gone rogue from his pack of bioengineered “augments” and emerged a victorious leader of a pack of human soldier boys. ![]() ![]() In this gripping, eerily prescient sci-fi thriller that Kirkus described as “masterful,” Tool–a half-man/half-beast designed for combat–proves himself capable of so much more than his creators had ever dreamed. Set in a dark future devastated by climate change, Tool of War is the third book in a major adventure series by a bestselling and award-winning science fiction author and starring the most provocative character from the acclaimed novels Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities. ![]() ![]() Faustus curses Mephostophilis for depriving him of heaven, although he has seen many wonders. Faustus requests a wife, a demand Mephostophilis denies, but he does give Faustus books full of knowledge. Mephostophilis distracts him with a dance of devils. The words "Homo fuge" ("Fly, man) appear on his arm, and Faustus is seized by fear. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mephostophilis returns, and Faustus signs away his soul, writing with his own blood. He uses it to convince Robin the Clown to be his servant.īefore the time comes to sign the contract, Faustus has misgivings, but he puts them aside. In a comic relief scene, we learn that Faustus' servant Wagner has gleaned some magic learning. Faustus will sell his soul, in exchange for twenty-four years of power, with Mephostophilis as servant to his every whim. They flesh out the terms of their agreement, with Mephostophilis representing Lucifer. He thrills at the power he will have, and the great feats he'll perform. From two fellow scholars, Valdes and Cornelius, Faustus learns the fundamentals of the black arts. ![]() The former advises him to leave off this pursuit of magic, and the latter tempts him. A Good Angle and an Evil Angel arrive, representing Faustus' choice between Christian conscience and the path to damnation. All of these things have left him unsatisfied, so now he turns to magic. He has learned everything he can learn, or so he thinks, from the conventional academic disciplines. Doctor Faustus, a talented German scholar at Wittenburg, rails against the limits of human knowledge. ![]() ![]() The scathing reports released Wednesday lay it all out. But at a Dorchester rally the next day, it was as if that call had never happened, and the new DA – with security provided by members of the antisemitic, homophobic Nation of Islam – let it rip. ![]() After that very public conflict, she and the governor appeared to smooth things over in a phone call. Governor Charlie Baker’s public safety chief criticized her proposals, and Rollins forcefully pushed back, bringing up the way sexual assault allegations against Baker’s son had been handled. And she won’t hold her tongue just because decorum – or somebody else’s idea of ethics – requires it.įor example, in 2019, shortly after she took office as DA, she set about fulfilling a campaign promise to overhaul the way crimes are prosecuted, including declining to prosecute certain drug offenses and relatively minor crimes. 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Her beloved mother dies in childbirth, and Marilla suddenly must bear the responsibilities of a farm wife: cooking, sewing, keeping house, and overseeing the day-to-day life of Green Gables with her brother, Matthew and father, Hugh. Plucky and ambitious, Marilla Cuthbert is thirteen years old when her world is turned upside down. ![]() ![]() before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility of heartbreak-and unimaginable greatness. A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this choose-your-own-path version of Romeo and Juliet, you choose where the story goes every time you read! What if Romeo never met Juliet? What if Juliet got really buff instead of moping around the castle all day? What if they teamed up to take over Verona with robot suits? Whatever your adventure, you're guaranteed to find lots of romance, lots of epic fight scenes, and plenty of questionable decision-making by very emotional teens.Īll of the endings-there are over a hundred-feature beautiful illustrations by some of the greatest artists working today, including New York Times bestsellers Kate Beaton, ND Stevenson, Randall Munroe, and Jon Klassen. ![]() It's Shakespeare as you've never played him before. The New York Times bestseller from the author of How to Invent Everything and To Be or Not To Be ![]() ![]() ![]() Translated from the Russian by Jane Ann Miller Translated from the Lithuanian by Delija Valiukenas Translated from the Norwegian by Francesca M. 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But the rest of the book was compelling and incredibly readable. Judith's ridiculous obsession with Tybalt got on my nerves I'd say someone should have smacked some sense into her, but she never let on to anyone in her world just how insanely besotted she was, she saved all those confidences for the reader. The first half is taken up with Judith's background and childhood it isn't until page 174 that we even get to Egypt. Honestly, Holt packed a lot into this book. The description on the book record is terribly simplistic, but it's as close or closer to anything I could come up with. ![]() I couldn't put it down, but there was so much eye-rolling too. This was another difficult read to rate properly. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Last Train Home, an endearing and often heart-wrenching story set in the late nineteenth century, will keep you on the edge of your seat. Blayne Cooper, the award-winning author of Cobb Island, Echoes from the Mist, and The Story of Me, and co-author of Madam President and First Lady, has once again presented readers with a well-spun tale. Cobb Island Blayne Cooper 4.59 - 16.79 First Lady Blayne Cooper 9.19 - 10.29 Stranded Blayne Cooper 4.39 - 4.89 Echoes from the Mist Blayne Cooper 5.39 Unbreakable Blayne Cooper 6.39 Hard Times Blayne Cooper 3.99 - 4.69 The Last Train Home Blayne Cooper 7.39 - 11.69 Undercover Tales Blayne Cooper 12.The end of the nineteenth century might have been the Gilded Age for the likes of Rockefellers and Carnegies-but for the newly arriving immigrants and poverty-stricken Americans packed into Manhattan's teeming Lower Eastside, it was a different story all 45(1). 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