![]() ![]() She may be without allies, but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out untold millions – never mind easily destroy the countless monsters that prowl the school. El Higgins is uniquely prepared for the school’s many dangers. Once you’re inside, there are only two ways out: you graduate or you die. There are no teachers, no holidays, friendships are purely strategic, and the odds of survival are never equal. ![]() _ Enter a school of magic unlike any you have ever encountered. ![]() The Sunday Times bestseller! FINALIST FOR THE LODESTAR AWARD In the start of an all-new trilogy, the bestselling author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver introduces you to a dangerous school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death - until one girl begins to rewrite its rules. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Strout also wrote The Burgess Boys in 2013 which made The New York Times Best Seller List. In 2009 Strout was honored with a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Olive Kitteridge, a collection of connected short stories she wrote about a woman and her immediate family who lived on the coast of Maine. She was also on the faculty of the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina. Strout was a … More NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) professor at Colgate University during the Fall Semester of 2007, where she taught creative writing. Amy and Isabelle was made into a television movie starring Elisabeth Shue and was produced by Oprah Winfrey's studio, Harpo Films. Strout wrote Amy and Isabelle over the course of six or seven years, which when published was shortlisted for the 2000 Orange Prize and nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. In 1982 she graduated with honors, and received both a law degree from the Syracuse University College of Law and a Certificate of Gerontology from the Syracuse School of Social Work. Regarded by Wharton as one of her best works, Summer is the hot counterpart to Whartons winter novel, Ethan Frome, and is just as memorable. After graduating from Bates College, she spent a year in Oxford, England. Elizabeth Strout (born January 6, 1956) is an American author of fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Darcy offers a Pride and Prejudice - appropriate surprise. Suddenly, every woman’s fantasy becomes one woman’s reality. But that’s exactly what happens when she comes face-to-face with none other than Mr. The last thing Emily expects to find on her excursion is a broodingly handsome man striding across a field, his damp shirt clinging to his chest. ![]() Darcy has earned the title of Man Most Women Would Love to Date. Far from inspiring romance, the company aboard the bus consists of a gaggle of little old ladies and one single man, Spike Hargreaves, a foul-tempered journalist writing an article on why the fictional Mr. So when her best friend suggests a wild week of margaritas and men in Mexico with the girls, Emily abruptly flees to England on a guided tour of Jane Austen country instead. Darcy, the dashing, honorable, and passionate hero of Jane Austen’s classic. Dreams come true in this hilarious, feel-good fairy tale about life, love, and dating literature’s most eligible bachelor!Īfter a string of disastrous dates, Emily Albright decides she’s had it with modern-day love and would much rather curl up with Pride and Prejudice and spend her time with Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel". 78 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Kim No. ![]() "The book presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road." Accolades The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of the people, culture, and varied religions of India. It is set after the Second Afghan War (which ended in 1881), but before the Third (fought in 1919), probably in the period 1893 to 1898. The novel popularized the phrase and idea of the Great Game. The story unfolds against the backdrop of the Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co. Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. ![]() |