![]() ![]() ![]() The book opens with a brief account of Bonaparte's early years, his military education and formative experiences, and his meteoric rise to the rank of general in the army of the Directory. Chandler examines in detail each campaign mounted and personally conducted by Napoleon, analyzing the strategies employed, revealing wherever possible the probable sources of his subject's military ideas. To clarify these underlying methods, as well as the style of Napoleon's fabulous intellect, Mr. But there were from the first to the last certain basic principles of strategic maneuver and battlefield planning that he almost invariably put into practice. To be sure, every operation Napoleon conducted contained unique improvisatory features. Napoleon disavowed any suggestion that he worked from formula ("Je n'ai jamais eu un plan d'opérations"), but military historian David Chandler demonstrates this was at best only a half-truth. The Campaigns of Napoleon is an exhaustive analysis and critique of Napoleon's art of war as he himself developed and perfected it in the major military campaigns of his career. ![]() ![]() The Napoleonic Wars were nothing if not complex - an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and dazing his conventionally-minded opponents into that state of disconcerting moral disequilibrium which so often resulted in their catastrophic defeat." ![]()
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![]() ![]() Of books and writers, and the readers who sustain them. Brimming with the mischievous wit that has garnered acclaim for Bennett on both sides of the Atlantic, The Uncommon Reader is a delightful celebration With a young member of the palace kitchen staff guiding her choices, its not long before the Queen begins to develop a new perspective on the world - one that alarms her closest advisers and tempts her to make bold new decisions. Obliged to borrow a book when her corgis stray into a mobile library, the Queen discovers a passion for reading, setting the palace upon its head and causing the royal head of Great Britain to question her role in the monarchy 'When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. ![]() She finds herself devouring works by a tantalizing range of authors, from the Brontë sisters to Jean Genet. When her yapping corgis lead her to a mobile library, Her Majesty develops a new obsession with reading. By turns cheeky andĬharming, the novella features the Queen herself as its protagonist. With The Uncommon Reader, he brings us a playful homage to the written word, imagining a world in which literature becomes a subversive bridge between powerbrokers and commoners. The author of the Tony Award winner The History Boys, Alan Bennett is one of Britains best-loved literary voices. ![]() ![]() She wanted to reach up and feel him gently enfold her fingers in his large, warm hands. She wanted to hear her father’s laughter. Or missing the soft, clean, cool rain-nearly as much as she missed her father and her sister. Sarra was forbidden to speak about the Octagon Court, but she couldn’t help thinking. Grandparents, cousins, friends, schoolmates, everyone. She didn’t know where, only that there had been long, hot days of riding and short, sleepless nights in the open before they were welcomed to Ostinhold by Lady Lilen, she of the warm voice and sorrowing eyes.Įveryone Sarra knew and loved-except her mother-was gone. One moment she was in Ambrai the next, somewhere in The Waste. That night Sarra traveled by Ladder for the first time. ![]() ![]() During Maiden Moon this year, on a night when thousands took to the streets of Ambrai in a blaze of torches and a tumult of songs to celebrate Granna’s Birthingday, Sarra and her mother were hurried by First Sword Gorynel Desse from the Octagon Court to the Academy. ![]() ![]() ![]() It seizes hold of the readers sympathy and refuses to let go. ![]() This is the first book Ive read in a long time and Im glad it was this one. ![]() "Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen is an enchantingly origional and deeply affecting book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, kitchens, love, tragedy, and the terms they all come to in the minds of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Yoshimotos writing is lucid, earnest and disarming. Kitchen by Yoshimoto, Banana, 1964-Publication date 1993 Publisher New York : Washington. Kitchen won two of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes, climbed its way to the top of the best-seller list, then remained there for over a year and sold millions of copies. |a When Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen was first published in Japan in 1988, "Banana-mania" seized th country. |a Kitchen / |c Banana Yoshimoto trabskated frin tge Haoabese bt Negab /bacjys, ![]() ![]() ![]() Luckily Dalia comes up with a new plan: If she joins Alexa on her trip and brings Rani, the new girl from her swim team, along maybe she can have the perfect summer after all. With Dalia's future stepsister Alexa heading back to college soon, the grown-ups want the girls to spend the last weeks of summer bonding-meaning Alexa has to cancel the amusement park road trip she's been planning for months. But when her dad suddenly announces that he's engaged, Dalia's schemes come to a screeching halt. Would-be amusement park aficionado Dalia only has two items on her summer bucket list: (1) finally ride a roller coaster and (2) figure out how to make a new best friend. "Dalia’s journey to self-discovery is refreshingly honest, and this entire cast of characters will steal your heart.” – Maulik Pancholy, actor and Stonewall Honor-winning author of The Best At It ![]() In this Stonewall Honor book, a week-long amusement park road trip becomes a true roller coaster of emotion when Dalia realizes she has more-than-friend feelings for her new bestie. ![]() ![]() ![]() But her secret won't stay buried for long, and the truth could mean death for them both. ![]() While the detective is fighting to save Christina, she's desperately trying to conceal her real identity. Is she indeed an innocent victim or a deceitful charmer who stole his heart? Christina and Dan find themselves caught in a deadly game of conspiracy, murder, and vengeance. When she disappears from the hospital, he feels responsible, but his suspicions grow. ![]() But his instincts tell him she is more than a simple jewelry designer in the wrong place at the wrong time. When Police Detective Dan Mallory finds Christina injured and terrified, he is enchanted with her beauty and resilience. As the fog lifts, memories of terrible events come crashing down. Realizing that she has been dumped in an alley next to a dead body, she searches her mind for an explanation, but it's terrifyingly blank. A heroine on the run… A brave police detective with secrets of his own… Danger and passion collide as her deadly secret won't stay buried for long, and the mob is on her trail… Christina Connors wakes up on a freezing hard surface surrounded by spine-chilling darkness. ![]() ![]() ![]() There was not a moment that I did not understand the motivation behind their actions and reactions, and there was not one scene that did not make my heart race or skip a beat. This fourth instalment in the series is possibly my favourite of the lot, encompassing every single element I hoped to find in it, in particular the careful attention that is paid to these characters’ emotional growth and change. ![]() ![]() This is one of the most powerful, passionate love stories that I know of, Gideon and Eva being two such meticulously developed characters that we cannot help but want to talk about them over and over again, psychoanalysing their every action, their every word, their every breath, because they feel that real to us. No other series has kept me as emotionally invested for such a long time as these books have, having re-read each one of them countless times and always discovering new layers to the story, new details that I might have missed or skimmed over on that first…or tenth…or twentieth re-read. It will come as no surprise to anyone who knows me as a reader that the Crossfire series is my own personal kryptonite. ![]() ![]() ![]() She definitely had some grumpy teenager vibes but I could also see her point of view when it came to having to work around what her sister needs. I really felt for Daisy throughout the book. Daisy is not happy at all about this arrangement. This leads to Daisy needing to go to Scotland before the big day so that the royal family can control how the media portrays Daisy. ![]() This puts Daisy in the spotlight even though she is the opposite of a royal. Prince Charming follows Daisy Winters the sister to Ellie Winters who is engaged to the prince of Scotland. but Daisy may just rewrite the royal rulebook to suit herself. The crown–and the intriguing Miles–might be trying to make Daisy into a lady. While the dashing young Miles has been appointed to teach Daisy the ropes of being regal, the prince’s roguish younger brother kicks up scandal wherever he goes, and tries his best to take Daisy along for the ride. Daisy has no desire to live in the spotlight, but relentless tabloid attention forces her join Ellie at the relative seclusion of the castle across the pond. ![]() She’s an offbeat sixteen-year-old Floridian with mermaid-red hair, a part time job at a bootleg Walmart, and a perfect older sister who’s nearly engaged to the Crown Prince of Scotland. ![]() Purchase Locations: Amazon and Kindle Book Depository Booktopia Dymocks QBD ![]() ![]() ![]() The fast-paced plot is never dull and never predictable. His friends and family are all believable and interesting. Joey is a fully developed, complex character one can't help but love. ![]() Powerful, moving, and wonderful." - Kirkus Star Review "A superb story. Readers will be completely enthralled with Joey's world and root for him all the way. Woven through it all is the story of Jackie Robinson's first season of professional baseball in Montreal, captivating Joey and his friends, with actual quotes from sports reporters placed at the beginning of each chapter. ![]() Yiddish phrases and traditions are defined as they occur. Friedman speaks to Joey about his Holocaust experiences and losses. All the characters, including the city itself, are fully developed and play important roles in Joey's journey, as when Mr. Camlot weaves the elements together seamlessly and naturally while never losing sight of Joey at the center of it all. "Heather Camlot hits it out of the ballpark with this wise, tender and often funny story about friendship, loss and post-World War II Montreal." - Monique Polak, author of Bullies Rule "Life, death, love and baseball! What more could a reader want? A home run." - Kevin Sylvester, author of MiNRS, "Joey narrates his own tale with all the fear and bravado he is feeling moment to moment. ![]() ![]() ![]() If she were 20 years younger, she’d have an anxiety diagnosis and an SSRI prescription. ![]() M has suffered enormous pain in her life - she writes obliquely of a withholding mother and a cruel first husband - and so she lives in a state of constant uncertainty, catastrophizing every tiny setback. M is a middle-aged writer who lives with her husband Tony on a marsh in rural France. And it deals with a woman we know only as M, who narrates, to us and to the unknown Jeffers, how she happened to bring the famous painter L to come and stay with her in 2020, as the pandemic spread. “My version,” Cusk writes in a brief author’s note, “is intended as a tribute to her spirit.” Like Lorenzo in Taos, Second Place is addressed to a figure called Jeffers Luhan’s Jeffers was the poet Robinson Jeffers, while Cusk’s remains a mystery. Lawrence came to stay in her artists’ colony in Taos, New Mexico. It is vexed and questing, in search of some missing piece, some object that will bring meaning to the world but is utterly inaccessible it fairly seethes with discontent.Ĭusk has patterned Second Place loosely after Lorenzo in Taos, a memoir by the artist’s patron Mabel Dodge Luhan about the time D.H. ![]() Rachel Cusk’s new novel Second Place - her first since the breakaway success of her Outline trilogy - is a lovely and vicious piece of work. ![]() |