![]() ![]() ![]() He died of cardiac arrest on December 4, 1987, at Doctors Hospital in New York, after suffering from AIDS for some time. In the early 1980s, he and Anita separated, and he moved to Greenwich Village. In 1974, he told his family that he was gay. They had two children: daughter Adrianne and son Adam Lobel, and three grandchildren.įollowing college, Lobel was unable to support himself as a children's book author or illustrator and so he worked in advertising and trade magazines, which he did not like. The two worked in the same studio and collaborated on several books together. In 1955, after he graduated, he married Anita Kempler, also a children's writer and illustrator whom he'd met while in art school. He attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Lobel's childhood was not a happy one, as he was frequently bullied, but he did love reading picture books at his local library. ![]() Lobel was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lucille Stark and Joseph Lobel, but was raised in Schenectady, New York, the hometown of his parents. Lobel also illustrated books by other writers, including Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley published in 1969. He wrote and illustrated these picture books as well as Fables, a 1981 Caldecott Medal winner for best-illustrated U.S. Arnold Stark Lobel (– December 4, 1987) was an American author of children's books, including the Frog and Toad series and Mouse Soup. ![]()
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![]() Mildred becomes a strong Catholic and there is an arson added at Stony Gates in the opening titles. Edgar Lawson confronts Lewis in the drawing room in plain view of everyone, in the dark though, and mimics Lewis' voice whilst he murders Christian with a army knife not a gun. Johnnie Restarick becomes Stephen's father not his brother and Jolly Bellaver is in love with him. As always, this part may contains spoilers! Firstly, Mildred and Gina become sort-of sisters: Gina was adopted by Carrie-Louis and Mr Gulbranson and then they had Mildred. Rutman's script remains faithful to the original story, but does make a number of changes. ![]() That's not all, when her step-son comes to visit, he is brutally murdered leaving Miss Marple with a very tangled web to untie. She and her third husband Lewis Serrecold (Brian Cox) have converted the stately home into a reforming facilities for corrupt boys. ![]() Jane agrees to travel to Stony Gates, and meet her old friend Carrie-Louise, but all is not as it seems. Miss Marple meets her old friend Ruth van Rydock (Joan Collins), who is concerned about her sister Carrie-Louise Serrecold (Penelope Wilton). This story was previously adaped into a film starring Helen Hayes under the title "Murder with Mirrors" and for the BBC series starring Joan Hickson. It was first broadcast on 1st January 2010. Julia McKenzie's third outing as Miss Marple was adapted by Paul Rutman and directed by Andy Wilson, who has also directed many Poirot films. ![]() ![]() ![]() The spice in this was just so good (□11, 12, 13, 16, 20, 21□) Elliot Miles is becoming my new favourite brother, I still need to read Christophers story yet to decide fully □ This enemies to lovers, hate to love, angst contemporary romance just had me in a chokehold. Description Grab a signed set of the Miles High Club Series and a bookmark to go with each book for each brother Please note: Orders are packed on Fridays at Swan HQ. The humour was just □ there are some certain scenes that genuinely made me laugh out loud, yes I got weird looks for it but I don’t care, especially chapter 21 □ I also adored having the cameos from not only the other brothers I loved this couple and their stpryline, it made me love the Miles brothers even more. This series never lets me down with the humour, as well as spice, but the angst in this book had me swooning. This book is set around Elliot Miles, the 34 year old playboy CEO of Miles Media in London and Germany, and the serious 27 year old curvy head of IT Kathryn Landon. ![]() The Casanova is the third book in T.L Swan’s Miles High Club series. ‘Elliot Miles is a heartbreak waiting to happen.’ ![]() ![]() He is delighted and excited but cannot join them, for he is too young, ugly, and unable to fly. ![]() The duckling sees a flock of migrating wild swans. He finds a home with an old woman, but her cat and hen tease and taunt him mercilessly, and once again he sets off alone. He wanders from the barnyard and lives with wild ducks and geese until hunters slaughter the flocks. The tale is an original story by Andersen.Īfter a mother duck's eggs hatch, one of the ducklings is perceived by the other animals as an ugly little creature and suffers much verbal and physical abuse. The tale has been adapted to various media including opera, musical, and animated film. First Collection, with three other tales by Andersen in Copenhagen, Denmark to great critical acclaim. It was first published on 11 November 1843 in New Fairy Tales. " The Ugly Duckling" ( Danish: Den grimme ælling) is a Danish literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). Illustration by Vilhelm Pedersen, Andersen‘s first illustrator ![]() ![]() He has sworn to find and wed his mystery miss, but this breathtaking maid makes him weak with wanting her. : From 1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Benedict Bridgerton, in the third of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. Ever since that magical night, a radiant vision in silver has blinded Benedict to the attractions of any other except, perhaps, this alluring and oddly familiar beauty dressed in housemaid's garb whom he feels compelled to rescue from a most disagreeable situation. Alas, she knows all enchantments must end when the clock strikes midnight. ![]() But now, spinning in the strong arms of the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton, she feels like royalty. ![]() Benedict'S Story Sophie Beckett never dreamed she'd be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball or that ""Prince Charming"" would be waiting there for her! Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. ![]() ![]() From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Benedict Bridgerton, in the third of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring her charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. ![]() ![]() ![]() Levantul ( The Levant), Cartea Românească, 1990 - Writers Union Prize, 1990, republished by Humanitas in 1998.Totul ("Everything"), Cartea Românească, 1984.Poeme de amor ("Love Poems"), Cartea Românească, 1982.Faruri, vitrine, fotografii., ("Headlights, shop windows, photographs.") Cartea Românească, 1980 - Writers Union Prize, 1980.His debut as a writer was in 1978 in România Literară magazine. Between 1994-1995 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Amsterdam ![]() As of 2010, he is an associate professor. Literary History, part of the University of Bucharest Faculty of In 1991 he became a lecturer at the Chair of Romanian ![]() Between 19 he worked as a Romanian language teacher,Īnd then he worked at the Writers Union and as an editor at the Caiete Critice Mircea Cărtărescu (born 1 June 1956) is a Romanian poet, novelist and essayist.Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the University of Bucharest'sįaculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language And Literature, inġ980. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's the second in a series, but can be listened to as a standalone. You'll find plenty of laughs and sizzling chemistry in this closed door romantic comedy. ![]() The Bluff is an enemies to lovers, grumpy boss rom-com set in the fictional small town of Sheet Cake Texas. Except the more time I spend around James Graham, the more I start to lose the one thing I refuse to give to any man: my heart. It's a battle of stubborn wills, and I don't plan to concede anytime soon. ![]() The more he pushes me away, the more I'm pulled into his orbit. Or that he lost his mom when he was young, same as me. All this has nothing to do with the fact that the man is unbearably, unfairly, unignorably (is that a word?) attractive. Not only am I going to help James launch a successful brewery, but I'm going to find out what makes him tick.and what makes him go boom. I won't be winning any employee of the year awards, but only because my boss is the grumpy boss to end all grumpy bosses.ĭid I mention he doesn't trust me to do my job? Challenge accepted. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, for the first time, in a memoir that is candid, humble, gutsy, and wry, he tells his story,beginning with his crossroads moment. ![]() But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always remained a mystery. In an age of startups,Nike is the ne plus ultra of all startups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognizable symbols in the world today. Today, Nike's annual sales top ,0 billion. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his lime green Plymouth Valiant, Knight grossed ,000 his first year. In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed ,0 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: importhigh-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. "In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands. ![]() ![]() ![]() That sky was bluest when I could beat my mates at examination-time, or beat them at a foot-race, or even beat their stringy heads. I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows. Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil. The exchange was merry, till one girl, a tall newcomer, refused my card, - refused it peremptorily, with a glance. In a wee wooden schoolhouse, something put it into the boys’ and girls’ heads to buy gorgeous visiting-cards-ten cents a package-and exchange. I was a little thing, away up in the hills of New England, where the dark Housatonic winds between Hoosac and Taghanic to the sea. ![]() I remember well when the shadow swept across me. ![]() It is in the early days of rollicking boyhood that the revelation first burst upon one, all in a day, as it were. Listen to the audio version of this article: Feature stories, read aloud: download the Audm app for your iPhone.Īnd yet, being a problem is a strange experience, - peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe. ![]() ![]() "Decline belonged to a massive body of literature which took shape between the first and second world wars on the 'Crisis of Civilization', and which includes, among others, works like Stoddard's The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920), Guenon's The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), Freud's Civilization and its Discontents (1929), Jung's Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1932), and is often seen, retrospectively, as a kind of manifesto of the pessimistic spirit which plagues Civilization like a demonic double but it has also acquired the reputation for being not just an embodiment of doubts about the very project of Civilization, but a masterful work of metaphysical poetry (Miller once described it as a "stupendous morphological, or phenomenological, tone-poem"), and thus itself a product of the high culture of the West, and thus, like Foucault, carrying "out, in the noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture". 6.2 Oswald Spengler on Depopulation Through Childlessness as the End of a Civilization.6.1 Oswald Spengler on the Evolution of Care Economy Orientations Across Civilizations. ![]() |