![]() ![]() As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small-hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more-all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history. ![]() Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger’s U-boat, but told no one. ![]() Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. But the Lusitania was one of the era’s great transatlantic “Greyhounds”-the fastest liner then in service-and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. ![]() The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. “Both terrifying and enthralling.”- Entertainment Weekly
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![]() "Considerable ingenuity.Think of it as a visually spectacular movie.and a really outstanding, imaginative, and professional production staff and special effects crew working to bring off the big set-pieces and guarantee the thrills."-Locus the pleasure is in the nonstop action and the problem the characters must solve." - New York Review of Science Fiction. "Some ideas are just too good to pass up. On the Science Fiction Chronicle best of year list. Reached the preliminary Nebula Award ballot. Echoed in a small way by the 1996 Star Trek: Voyager episode "Displaced." Science Fiction Book Club selection. Very much in the same spirit and scope as the 1996 film Independence Day. Manhattan is taken away and placed under a huge clear dome, through which the trapped residents can see dozens of similarly trapped alien cities.įirst published in 1993. Aliens kidnap Manhattan read all about it. ![]() ![]() ![]() In August, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum opens its "Loretta Lynn: Blue Kentucky Girl" exhibit. It is nominated for the Best Country Album Grammy Award.Ģ017: Lynn celebrates her 85th birthday by playing two sold-out concerts at the Ryman Auditorium. ![]() ![]() 2010: Recording artists including Lee Ann Womack, The White Stripes, Faith Hill, Alan Jackson, Paramore, Lucinda Williams, Carrie Underwood and Reba McEntire contribute to “Coal Miner’s Daughter: A Tribute To Loretta Lynn.” Lynn sings her signature hit with Sheryl Crow and Miranda Lambert.Ģ011: Lynn, Crow and Lambert are nominated for an Academy of Country Music Award for their new version of “Coal Miner’s Daughter.”Ģ016: Lynn releases "Full Circle," her first album of new material in 12 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() He first meets the sagely, nameless organ grinder, who from his remote cave offers wisdom and bonhomie. Hans falls in with two groups from the edges of local society. ![]() His reasons for leaving are, and always have been, an illusion. I say ‘tries’ because Hans is soon seduced by the charm of the town and its inhabitants. With his heavy suitcase, he tries to pass through Wandernburg, a 19 th-century German village of mystical design. We go there in search of serendipity, desperate to preserve a moment.įor Hans, the itinerant translator and protagonist of Andrés Neuman’s Traveler of the Century, happenstance is a trap. Germain feel today, they remain sanctified because they will always be tethered to their respective generations. ![]() As hollow as San Francisco’s Haight- Ashbury or Paris’s St. But ‘place’ or ‘time’ pale in comparison to the company. By Andrés Neuman translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garciaīeing in the right place at the right time is an achievement. ![]() ![]() ![]() It went on to win Miura a prize from the Comi Manga School. While attending college at Nihon University, in 1988, Kentaro Miura debuted a 48-page manga known as Berserk Prototype, an introduction to the current Berserk fantasy world. And now the badass champion of adult fantasy manga is presented in an oversized 7" x 10" deluxe hardcover edition, nearly 700 pages amassing the first three Berserk volumes, with following volumes to come to serve up the entire series in handsome bookshelf collections. No Guts, no glory! Have you got the Guts? Kentaro Miura's Berserk has outraged, horrified, and delighted manga and anime fanatics since 1989, creating an international legion of hardcore devotees and inspiring a plethora of TV series, feature films, and video games. he badass champion of adult fantasy manga is presented in an oversized 7" x 10" deluxe hardcover edition, nearly 700 pages amassing the first three Berserk volumes, with following volumes to come to serve up the entire series in handsome bookshelf collections. ![]() Have you got the Guts? Have you got the Guts? Kentaro Miura's Berserk has outraged, horrified, and delighted manga and anime fanatics since 1989, creating an international legion of hardcore devotees and inspiring a plethora of TV series, feature films, and video games. ![]() ![]() ![]() 2022 New York Christmas Day Signature Dinner Cruise – (7-9:30) Bring the magic of the season to life with a dinner cruise departing from New York.You’ll have spectacular views of Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty, and the Brooklyn Bridge as you dine and dance on the water, enjoying a special Christmas buffet and a luscious spread of desserts. 2022 New York Christmas Eve Signature Dinner Cruise (7-10 pm) – Celebrate Christmas Eve in New York City aboard a three-hour dinner cruise across New York Harbor.See the New York City skyline sparkle at night from panoramic views aboard your all-glass ship while enjoying a gourmet 3-course dinner and live music. ![]() 2022 Bateaux New York Christmas Eve Premier Dinner Cruise (7-10pm) – Celebrate the holidays in style on this 3-hour European-inspired Bateaux cruise on the Hudson River. ![]() New York City Christmas Eve & Day Dinner Cruise ![]() See More: NYC Hotels Best Holiday Decorations
![]() ![]() Read aloud sessions are a wonderful way for children to understand the connection between written text and spoken language. Elizabeth takes control of her own destiny and happily skips into the sunset by herself. He tells her to come back and save him when she has cleaned herself up and looks like a princess. She doesn’t have the reaction she hoped for when he doesn’t even say thank you. ![]() Princess Elizabeth enters the cave and rescues Prince Ronald. Ten seconds later, it passes out and falls asleep. She tricks it again when she asks the dragon how quickly it can fly around the world. ![]() Tracking it down to his cave, Elizabeth asks the dragon to prove it is the “smartest and fiercest dragon in the world.” After burning down 150 forests, it loses its fire. Her perfect life changes when “a dragon smashed her castle, burned all her clothes with his fiery breath and carried off Prince Ronald.”ĭetermined to save her prince, she sets out, wearing only a paper bag, to follow the trail of destruction left by the dragon. She lives in an enormous castle, has beautiful clothes and a perfect fiancé, Prince Ronald. ![]() ![]() This phenomenon becomes more and more clear as the series progresses, which is why the first book is the worst one. Lemony Snicket creates this almost-reality wherein even the smallest, most mundane occurrence is Veritably Fixed & Deliberate. ![]() So the things about these books.the setting is amazing. I can’t put it better than Lemony Snicket himself, so I’ll just shoehorn in his words: Within these pages, “the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast.” ![]() Second, we follow the Baudelaires - Violet, Klaus, and Sunny - through what can only be Very Foreseeably Described as a series of unfortunate events. What are you doing? There is nothing so important in your life that you can’t put it off in order to read this series. ![]() So, for the three misguided people who haven’t read this series - first off, get ON THAT. ![]() YES!!! The least fascinatingly detailed book in my favorite series! It just keeps getting better and better, folks. ![]() ![]() ![]() Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Tolkienĭo you dare enter the Spill Zone? The first volume of this dystopian graphic novel duology by science fiction visionary Scott Westerfeld and artist Alex Puvilland is now in paperback! ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C.Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give. ![]()
![]() ![]() Except it turns out he’s a jerk now, and he’s been writing terrible reviews of every restaurant in the area, including Lila’s. In a total rom-com move, she reunites with her college boyfriend, Derek. Lila has moved back home to be with her family and help her Tita Rosie run her restaurant. It’s got a very classic Agatha Christie-ish set-up, with a large community of people who had a motive to kill the dead guy, plenty of red herrings, and every indication that its protagonist will become an amateur sleuth going forward. It worked with spinach and it’s going to work with mystery novels.Īrsenic and Adobo was a perfect mystery to help me dip my toe back in the mystery novel waters. ![]() ![]() But I am undeterred! If I keep trying, eventually I will alter my reading habits and then I will love mysteries. Not because I’ve read mysteries that were my enemies, but more because I have a hard time, when I’ve picked up one mystery novel, remembering to go back and pick up another. I am constantly endeavoring to get myself into mystery novels, after a lifetime of reading almost no mystery novels, and my results have been… mixed. ![]() |