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| | Aaron Allston FAQ (Star Wars Novels) |
 | | At one point in the novel, he is asked his age, and says 28, but he's looking forward just a little bit. | | | Bantam, the previous license-holder, chose to tap writers who already have a number of science fiction and/or fantasy novels in print, the better to have an idea of their writing skills and reliability; the writers Del Rey is contracting suggests that Del Rey follows the same policy. | | | The first time he's a "kill" in combat in the novel is in a practice air duel with Hobbie, and it is described as a rare event — obviously, Hobbie seldom beats Tycho. |
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http://www.aaronallston.com/faqswars.html
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| | Leon Uris, Author of 'Exodus,' Dies at 78 |
| | Uris' most personal novel, "Mitla Pass," came out in 1988 and closely follows the lives of the author and his family. | | | It also doesn't mention his novelization of the poor innocent Clintons in A God in Ruins. | | | The novel was translated into dozens of languages and was even distributed secretly in communist countries. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/934640/posts
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| | Article - Anna Comnena the first female historian - presented by ©NewsFinder.Org - All Rights Reserved |
| | Anna lived in an era when women chiefly were expected to remain secluded in their quarters attending solely to family matters. | | | Anna was 55 years old when she began serious work on Alexiad, a 15-volume history of her family, the Comneni. | | | To Anna, they appeared as uneducated barbarians, with manners far beneath those of the wealthy and cosmopolitan Byzantines. |
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http://www.newsfinder.org/comments.php?id=187_0_1_0_C
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| | JBooks.com - Interviews and Profiles: Exodus and Aliyah |
| | In the end, the upper middle-class family that the novel has been following decides to return to America and life in Heavenly Heights goes on as usual | | | The novel, with all its slipping in and out of autobiography, fell awkwardly between two stools: it was neither objectively true nor persuasively false. Like about half of Roths novels, Operation Shylock quickly landed in the remaindered pile, where it languished and was soon pulped. | | | That, of course, is were the tensions in the novel reside, even though we know that her middle-aged American protagonist is headed for the chuppah in the concluding pages. |
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http://www.jbooks.com/interviews/index/IP_Pinsker_Israel.htm
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| | Mennonite Life - March 2001 - Regier article |
| | Let us return to the question of who "you" is, but let us look at the end of the novel as the structural, parallel pair to the beginning chapter. | | | In The Poisonwood Bible, the eventual scattering of family members becomes a scattering of the "den" of self and of the insularity of the nuclear family. | | | The mother nostalgically yearns for original wholeness, but the 'saying' of the novel presents heterogenous voices, not a familial monolithic whole. |
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http://www.bethelks.edu/mennonitelife/2001mar/regier.php
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| | Q&A with Author Gish Jen |
| | Q: The novel is told in the different voices of the Wong family. | | | Q: Although the Wongs are grappling, like any family, with serious matters, their lives are full of comedy. | | | Q: Carnegie Wong (Chinese-American) and Janie “Blondie” Wong (WASP-American) adopt their first daughter when she is abandoned at a local church. |
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http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/asian/arts_culture_media/qa_gish_jen_1104.asp
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| | Geek Love by Katherine Dunn |
| | We hope they will offer new ways of thinking and talking about a novel that Kirkus Reviews called an “audaciously conceived, sometimes shocking tale of love and hubris in a carnival family.” | | | What does the novel as a whole say about the relation between appearance and power? | | | Indeed, in one of the novel’s stunning reversals, the audience and the performers cross the boundaries that appear to separate them as Arturo convinces normal people that the way to true happiness is to “liberate” themselves from the straitjacket of their ordinariness by “shedding” their limbs. |
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http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375713347&view=rg
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| | Leo Africanus |
| | It is customarily claimed that the family was driven to Africa by Spanish policy, which had quickly turned hostile to the remaining Muslim population in Granada, despite the initial promises to allow them religious freedom. | | | The experiences of Leo Africanus clearly prove that the religious, ethnic, and cultural borders between the Islamic and Christian worlds were not insuperable even in the distant past—and nor should they become insuperable in the near future either. | | | Further evidence for this identification comes from Zanobio Acciaiuoli, the librarian of Pope Leo X. According to the librarian’s notes, a certain "Assem facchj", who was kept in Castel Sant’Angelo, had received eight Arabic manuscripts between November 1518 and April 1519. |
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http://www.uta.fi/~hipema/leo.htm
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| | Broadview Press: The Rebel of the Family |
| | Perdita Winstanley, the novels protagonist, struggles to balance the competing demands of her snobbish, conservative mother and sisters, her radical friends in the womens rights movement, and an admirable but low-born chemist and his family. | | | The Rebel of the Family (1880) is the first New Woman novel by Eliza Lynn Linton. | | | The Rebel of the Family also includes what is perhaps the first literary portrait of the late-Victorian lesbian community in London, featuring Bell Blount and her little wife Connie. |
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http://www.broadviewpress.com/bvbooks.asp?bookid=527
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| | Amazon.com: Leo Africanus: Books |
| | Traveller Leo Africanus goes on to make contact with a great many cultures and societies, from Muslim to Christian to pagan Berbers, and finds that the world is a turmoil of business and trade, religious intolerance, political manoevering, travel to beautiful foreign lands, and even some family troubles. | | | While most novels written in the West today seem to be about baby-boomers searching for happiness amidst material wealth and spiritual emptiness, here is a novel that contains journeys to faraway lands, exciting adventure, and real historical significance. | | | The Book of Saladin: A Novel by Tariq Ali |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1561310220?v=glance
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| | Study Abroad: In Search of Leo Africanus |
| | We entered a Quranic school like the one that Leo had to attend when he was a little boy, watching other boys, and today also girls, as they chanted out verses from the Quran. | | | Her two most recent books are Women Claim Islam and a novel about Palestinian women entitled Hayati My Life. | | | Built by Hadrian in the 2nd century, it was Leo’s home/prison for years. |
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http://www.transitionsabroad.com/publications/magazine/0503/study_abroad_in_search_of_leo_africanus.shtml
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| | Anna Comnena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A fictional account of Anna Comnena's life is given in the 1999 novel Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett. | | | The plot being discovered, Anna forfeited her property and imperial family status, though, by the clemency of her brother, she escaped with her life. | | | A determined opponent of the Latin church and an enthusiastic admirer of the Byzantine Empire, Anna Comnena regards the Crusades as a danger both political and religious. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Comnena
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| | Reading Group Guide: The Electrical Field |
| | However, much of the novel is concerned with that which cannot be seen: the whereabouts of Yano and the children in the days following the first murders, the goings-on in Tom and Keiko's house, what Stum does when he is away from home. | | | The murders that occur at the beginning of the book function as a kind of flashpoint for her memories—memories of what actually led up to the murders and, at the same time, of the death of her brother in an internment camp thirty years earlier. | | | Sakamoto claims that "the book culminates in redemption for Miss Saito." Do you agree? |
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http://www.wwnorton.com/rgguides/electricalfieldrgg.htm
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| | Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Simone Zelitch |
| | In my own novel, the story of Ruth is told from the point of view of the mother-in-law, who, it is implied, should feel gratified that her devoted daughter-in-law will carry on her family line. | | | I knew, almost from the outset, that the novel could not be linear, and I did quite a bit of initial shifting, trying to find a set pattern that would be easy to follow. | | | Then, slowly, I realized that shifting, uniformly, from 1949 to 1910 to 1944 was actually more disjointed and confusing than letting the novel find its own natural shape. |
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http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-zelitch-simone.asp
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| | Amazon.ca: The Foreign Student: A Novel: Books |
| | This novel is startling in its audacity to depict America's occluded responsibility for the war that probably even challenges what most Koreans over 50 believe. | | | Estranged from her family, Katherine, too, is mired in the past, having begun an affair at age 14 with an English professor nearly 30 years her senior. | | | I've read an article where Choi downplays the "authenticity" issue of her novel, and emphasizes that it is fiction. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/006019149X
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| | Fiction by Susan Knutson |
| | When a son is born into the succession, Spanish politics and the family curse explode in a frightening conflagration. | | | Then there is Gloria, who cleans house for Sandy, and who tries to introduce a little open-minded civility and love into her pain-riddled and abusive family. | | | Sakamoto mixes in just enough of the detective genre to lighten up the pain of the rest of the novel and keep us reading to the end. |
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http://www.utpjournals.com/product/utq/691/fiction141.html
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| | onnazaka |
| | The "female slope" Tomo climbs up in exhaustion (Kagurazaka in the novel, but metaphorically Onnazaka, women's hilly road) is symbolic of the hard life women must endure while sacrificing everything as victims of feudalism. | | | As she lays dying, her eyes suddenly gleam of excitement and she asks others to throw her corpse into the sea after her death, instead of having a formal funeral ceremony, a social, familial institution which would just be a mockery in the case of her distorted, perveted family experience. | | | Enchi wants readers to undrstand and appreciate that the traditonal family system, the ie, which is to say, the patriarchy, is not something natural, but a social construct. |
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http://www.willamette.edu/~rloftus/onnazaka.htm
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| | Questions for Exam 2 -- Islamic Societies and Cultures -- Spring 2005 |
| | What was the predominant religion during Leo's time in Granada and what other religion posed a threat to its supremacy? | | | In Book 4, Leo speaks to the Pope on the subject of religion (pg.330). | | | Leo compares the time of the caliphs as rulers and the time of sultans as rulers in Book 4 (pg. |
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http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/dcrawford/05s_islam_exam_2.html
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| | 5thGrade.txt |
| | The Coffin Quilt by Ann Rinaldi A suspenseful novel based on the true story of the feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys. | | | Backwater by Joan Bauer Ivy Breedlove, in compiling a history of her family of lawyers, tries to find a reclusive aunt who may explain why Ivy is so different from the rest of her family. | | | Sammy Keyes And The Sisters Of Mercy by Wendelin Van Draanen Sammy is now doing volunteer work at St. Mary's church, where she is accused of stealing the pastor's favorite cross. |
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http://www.seemore.mi.org/booklists/5thGrade.txt
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Eleazar, Exodus to the West at Epinions.com |
| | Tracking back to the beginning, what reads like a parable begins with am Irish boy of a Protestant family who wanted to be a carpenter, but was forced to be a shepherd. | | | It is supposedly his analysis rather than Tournier's, but as a novel this book flounders in the essay on Moses before resuming the trek with an ending of forced parallel to Moses glimpsing and not being able to go down into the "Promised Land." | | | For those not remembering all the characters in the Biblical book of Exodus, Eleazar was the third son of Aaron (Moses's brother and spokesman) and the one who reached the "Promised Land," Canaan. |
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http://www.epinions.com/content_107375332996
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| | Featured Author: Katherine Paterson |
| | This makes Park feel doubly bereaved and he undertakes a quest to know his father and his father's family. | | | Indeed there are allusions to the Arthurian quests in this novel in which Park's mother refuses to talk about his father who was killed in the Vietnam War. | | | In this novel, set in Feudal Japan, a famous samurai warrior's daughter, Takiko, is taken into the court of the boy emperor, Antoku, when her mother remarries and becomes his musician and personal servant. |
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http://www.carolhurst.com/newsletters/31dnewsletters.html
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| | Rebel Yell, Pt. 7 - The Final Word: Be Prepared Or Be Lost |
| | After his death, the manuscripts to those other novels were acquired by the executor of his will who chose to keep the will secret and did not contact any of the family members regarding the terms of the will. | | | The Doubleday editorial board was happy to read the novel but found it had certain problems, problems which had already been pointed out to Jason in letters he received from friends whom he asked to evaluate the book. | | | Jason sold Rebel Yell for less than he paid, then returned to the States to begin work on the novel you have just read. |
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http://www.nonoctave.com/RY/RY8.HTM
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| | Cloning and Characterization of Exodus, a Novel beta -Chemokine -- Hromas et al. 89 (9): 3315 -- Blood |
| | Exodus has similarity to the other beta chemokine family members in the positioning of the conserved cysteines that participate in the disulfide bonds that define this family. | | | This novel chemokine is distantly related to other chemokines (28% homology with MIP-1 | | | Exodus is especially similar to RANTES from amino acids 24 to 46 and again from 58 to 75 (numbering from the initiating methionine), where between these positions there are only six nonconservative changes. |
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http://www.bloodjournal.org/cgi/content/full/89/9/3315
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| | Nihilism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | In Russia, nihilism became identified with a loosely organized revolutionary movement (C.1860-1917) that rejected the authority of the state, church, and family. | | | And in his last novel, the short and sardonic, The Fall (1956), Camus posits that everyone has bloody hands because we are all responsible for making a sorry state worse by our inane action and inaction alike. | | | The Plague (1947) shows the futility of doing one's best in an absurd world. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/n/nihilism.htm
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| | Author Scott Wittenburg Announces Publication of Supernatural Thriller, Katherine’s Prophecy |
| | The author states that his first published novel illustrates a classic case of good vs. evil and the power of unconditional love. | | | Author Scott Wittenburg announces publication of his first novel, "Katherine’s Prophecy," a supernatural thriller. | | | The mystery surrounding her family’s scandalous past begins to unravel as Emily and Lenny join forces but eventually discover that the couple’s chance meeting was anything but mere coincidence. |
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http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/7/prweb263201.php
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| | MGPL Webrary® - Historical Fiction for Teens |
| | A novelization of twenty-two-year-old photographer Edith Irvine's experiences in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, as seen through the eyes of fifteen-year-old Daisy, a fictitious traveling companion. | | | Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation. | | | An outcast eight-year-old boy, orphaned by the Civil War, is taken in by the owner of a traveling medicine show and, despite the doubts of others, years later he confirms the man's faith in him. |
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http://www.webrary.org/rs/bibhistfict.html
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| | ORANGE COUNTY WEEKLY OC Weekly: Books: The Anti-Rebel |
| | Liars and Saints is a multigenerational family novel, tracing the fates of five generations of a Southern California family, the Santerres, from the early days of World War II to the turn of the millennium. | | | Only, she doesnt use their surrealism or shoot her novel full of the drug culture; Meloy does it all with her quickdraw realism. | | | Liars and Saints, the debut novel from UC Irvine M.F.A. grad Maile Meloy, comes on the heels of her celebrated collection of short stories from 2002, Half in Love. |
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http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/03/46/books-bonca.php
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| | Books, Listed by Author |
| | A woman wishing to interest her granddaughters in their family history gets help from ghosts real and imagined. | | | A poison expert’s son has a secret as exotic and deadly as his father’s garden. | | | This is the fifth-anniversary edition, with a new preface by the author. |
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http://www.locusmag.com/index/b389.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Geek Love: a Novel: Books |
| | A wild, often horrifying, novel about freaks, geeks and other aberrancies of the human condition who travel together (a whole family of them) as a circus. | | | This audacious, mesmerizing novel should carry a warning: "Reader Beware." Those entering the world of carnival freaks described by narrator Olympia Binewski, a bald, humpbacked albino dwarf, will find no escape from a story at once engrossing and repellent, funny and terrifying, unreal and true to human nature. | | | Katherine Dunn writes with a force and bravado I haven't seen anywhere else. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375713344
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| | ITMS Newsletter |
| | Ten Circles upon the Pond: Reflections of a Prodigal Mother by Virginia Tranel (New York: Knopf, 2003) [$22.95 hbd; $14.00 pbk] is the authors memoir of raising ten children, born between 1958 and 1978, and the changes in consciousness and in the wider culture that accompanied and influenced her familys growth, numerical and otherwise. | | | The chapter has also formed a contemplative prayer group that meets on the first Sunday of each month at the Monastery of the Holy Cross for discussion and silent prayer. | | | On Friday, April 16, 2004, Daniel Berrigan, SJ, Catholic priest, social activist and poet, will speak on Thomas Merton, Nonviolence and Me at Frazier Hall on the campus of Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY. |
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http://www.mertoncenter.com/ITMS/newsletter7.htm
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