![]() ![]() Biography Early life, education and family ![]() With him often being described as a "feel-good-author", Glattauer's work is characterized by humor and romantic relationships, catering to the masses and leading some critics to find fault with a lack of depth to his novels. Glattauer's novels and plays are inspired by his personal experiences, dealing with situations and themes constructed from memories of his time as a journalist and his psychosocial counsellor training. In 2006 he was nominated for the German Book Prize ( Deutscher Buchpreis) for his novel Love Virtually. His literary works were translated into 40 languages, sold over 3 million times and adapted for radio, theater, television and cinema alike, even beyond the German speaking countries. A former regular columnist for Der Standard, a national daily newspaper, he is best known for his dialogic epistolary novel Love Virtually ( Gut gegen Nordwind) and its sequel Every Seventh Wave ( Alle sieben Wellen). He was born in Vienna, where he still lives and works. Daniel Glattauer at the 'Leipzig Book Fair' in 2009.ĭaniel Glattauer (born ) is an Austrian writer and former journalist. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Portrait of Jan Potocki by Anton Graff, 1785 The Saragossa Manuscript (as it is also known) is therefore that rare work of literature, the story of which is inextricably entwined with that of its author, each giving the other more speculative potency. Potocki’s immortality is due as much to the endurance of his strange, supernatural novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa as it is due to the mystery and intrigues of his life – and the bizarre circumstances of his departure from it. However, here in Poland he remains a household name, achieving no small share of celebrity during his own lifetime, a celebrity which he has sustained in the nearly two centuries since his death. Most Western readers have never heard of Count Jan Potocki indeed, his singular literary masterpiece was only translated into English in 1995, some 180 years after it was completed. ![]() ![]() The Extraordinary Life of 'The Mad Count' ![]() ![]() ![]() People so often think that they are the reason they can't achieve lasting change but the problem isn't with them-it's with their strategy. ![]() The science in Mini Habits exposes the predictably inconsistent results of most popular personal growth strategies, and reveals why mini habits are consistent.A mini habit is a very small positive behavior that you force yourself to do every day a mini habit's "too small to fail" nature makes it weightless, deceptively powerful, and a superior habit-building strategy.Mini Habits will better equip you to change your life than 99% of the people you see walking around on this globe. When something works, that which doesn't work is exposed. When I accidentally started my first mini habit-and the changes I made were actually lasting-I realized the prior strategies I relied on were complete failures. I had experimented with personal development strategies for a decade. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s perverse. Liam refuses to believe he’s that sick: related alphas and omegas can’t be drawn to each other or get fixated on their sibling’s scent. There’s no reason to think he isn’t who he says he is-except for Liam’s strange, inexplicable attraction to the man who claims to be Anthony. He has documents that prove his identity, and he has Anthony’s dark hair, blue eyes, and broad shoulders. He remembers adoring him and remembers missing him, but his childhood memories faded as he grew up.įifteen years later, a man who calls himself Anthony Blake finally comes home after the war ends. ![]() ![]() The last time Liam Blake saw his eldest brother, Liam was five and Anthony was sixteen. But if he isn’t? They’re even more wrong. Read more See product details for: Kindle 0.00 or 4. Book 3 in the Wrong Alpha series, but it can be read as a standalone. The book contains secret identities, not-so-forbidden love, and a happily ever after. Published by Kindle Unlimited on December 9, 2021 Illicit is an alpha/omega MM romance set in a sci-fantasy world. Illicit (The Wrong Alpha, #3) by Alessandra Hazard ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ī deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." -Annie Proulx Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. "A brilliant literary murder mystery." - Chicago Tribune ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He will oversee three software departments: software-defined vehicle and operating system that is led by Scott Miller, information and digital technology headed up by Stacy Lynett and Edward Kummer’s digital business team. Automakers’ shift to EVs has only accelerated those efforts as software plays a key role in behind-the-scenes battery management to front-facing features like showing the driver where EV chargers are located.Ībbott will lead the team responsible for that entire software ecosystem. Software has become increasingly important in the automotive industry as companies try to attract buyers with so-called “software-defined vehicles” that offer voice, navigation and even third-party apps. The official title of this newly created position is executive vice president of software.Ībbott will play a central role in GM’s plan to bring software development in house and launch revenue-generating digital services and features for its consumer and commercial customers. General Motors has hired Apple executive Mike Abbott to head up its software division as the automaker ramps up its efforts to sell “software-defined vehicles” that offer a wide array of capabilities from in-car subscriptions and apps to over-the-air updates and digital services.Ībbott, the former vice president of engineering for Apple’s cloud services division, will report to GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra. ![]() ![]() He lives in New York City.ĭennis Quaid is renowned for his distinct portrayals in both comedic and dramatic roles over the past forty years. at Washington and Lee University and a PhD. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. Tom Wolfe is the author of more than a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers that made The Right Stuff a classic. Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure: namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Tom Wolfe at his very best" ( The New York Times Book Review) From "America's nerviest journalist" ( Newsweek) - a breathtaking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is this at all a normal way for a wife to treat her husband in these times?Ĥ. What is the difference between the mother and daughter of Wide Sargasso Sea?ģ. What is the difference between Antoinette's mother's insanity and that of Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre?Ģ. "I told you," she said, "I told you what would happen again and again." Her voice broke, but still she screamed, "You would not listen, you sneered at me, you grinning hypocrite, you ought not to live either, you know so much, don't you? Why don't you go out and ask them to let you go? Say how innocent you are. Mason, calling him a fool, a cruel stupid fool. So it was all the more dreadful when she began to scream abuse at Mr. ![]() "She left him, she ran away and left him alone to die," said my mother, still whispering. Her irate words to her husband are inappropriate, but it is debatable whether they are warranted, and whether she still has a sense of right and wrong. The main source of trouble is Rochesters insane first wife, Bertha Mason, a lunatic Creole who is locked in the attic of his country house, Thornfield Hall. In this passage, her mother shows a loss of self-control, but this instance could not as easily be construed as insanity as Bertha's lack of self-control in Jane Eyre. In Jane Eyre, Bertha Mason's insanity is hinted to be inherited from her mother. Wide Sargasso Sea is a detailed and intricate portrait of one of Jane Eyre's more one-dimensional characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when Francis and Zoe arrive in Treecrest, the new hunting group is having too much fun to pack up and go home and nothing Francis or Zoe say seems to help.Ĭan Annie, Liam and their new friends figure out a way to reclaim Treecrest before it's overrun with hunters? Or will Annie lose her one true home?ĭon't miss the rest of the Wide-Awake Princess series by E. ![]() ![]() Annie and Liam turn to their only friends who can help, Francis and Zoe. One new set of guests are particularly strange, and they are ready to take over a new hunting ground. Baker (Favorite Author) 4.3 of 5 Votes: 4 ISBN 1599908417 (ISBN13: 9781599908410) languge English genre Romance publisher Bloomsbury USA Childrens series Wide-Awake Princess review 1: Felt like just sort of randomly going from fairy tale to fairy tale without any real reason for it. Princess Annie's beloved kingdom is threatened to be overtaken in the seventh book in the Wide-Awake Princess series.Īnnie's beloved home Treecrest has become a favorite destination for all sorts of magical beings. ![]() ![]() ![]() To her, her natural face and body are signs of immaturity. David tells her, “Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You’re all brainwashed into believing you’re ugly” ( Uglies 276).įor Tally, “ugly” is not exclusively a description of her physical appearance. To David, who was raised in a rebel camp that frowns on plastic surgery, Tally is tragically hard on herself. Before they share their first kiss, they debate at length about whether or not someone with an imperfect, unaltered face can be beautiful. When she first meets David, the rebellious Ugly from New Smoke, she is completely floored by his admission that he finds her beautiful. Her entire body is natural, and the only obstacles to her expression of intimacy are socially programmed. ![]() When Tally is an Ugly in the first novel, she has never had a mind-altering operation. ![]() |