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April 1917, Book 1, captures the division and helplessness of Russia's first Revolutionary rulers, paving the way for the victory of the ruthless Bolsheviks later that year. One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution told in the form of a historical novel. April 1917—the fourth node—shows the intractable divisions that would lead Russia to catastrophic Communist dictatorship and civil war. If the first three nodes of The Red Wheel form its first act, "The Revolution," April 1917 opens its second act, "The Rule of the People." The action of Book 1 (of two) is set during April 11–May 5, 1917. Book 1 presents a shift toward a more radical revolution and an increase in political turmoil. The Provisional Government comes under fire for its "bourgeois" capitalism and continuing commitment to World War I. Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin returns from exile and delivers his April Theses in Petrograd, actively sowing seeds of division. He declares that the revolution is not complete and openly calls for civil war, outlining a radical plan to overthrow the Provisional Government and seize power for the Soviets. Amid the chaos and rising tide of Bolshevism, the elements of resistance, and decency, slowly begin to awaken.
Michael Wallner's thrilling first novel, set in occupied France during World War II, movingly recounts the impossible love affair between a German soldier and a French resistance fighter.Roth, a young soldier in the SS and a fluent French translator, works as an interpreter during the interrogation of Resistance fighters. But while off-duty, he slips away from his fellow officers, changes into civilian clothes, and wanders aimlessly through Paris disguised as his alter ego "Antoine." One day he is drawn into an antiquarian bookshop and becomes enchanted with the bookseller's beautiful daughter, Chantal. The two begin to meet and fall in love before Roth has the courage to reveal his true identity, or the time to discover that Chantal is part of the Resistance. Written in an elegant and arresting style, April in Paris is an engrossing novel from a promising new talent.
Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she was known as a poet, the most popular of her poems reprinted many times in national magazines and anthologies. Her first book of poetry, April Twilights, was published in 1903, but Cather significantly revised and expanded it in a 1923 edition entitled April Twilights and Other Poems. This Everyman's Library edition reproduces for the first time all the poems from both versions of April Twilights, along with a number of uncollected and previously unpublished poems by Cather, as well as an illuminating selection of her newly released letters. In such lyrical poems as "The Hawthorn Tree," "Winter at Delphi," "Prairie Spring," "Poor Marty," and "Going Home," Cather exhibits both a finely tuned sensitivity to the beauties of the physical world and a richly symbolic use of the landscapes of myth. The themes that were to animate her later masterpieces found their first expression in these haunting, elegiac ballads and sonnets.
A book of narrative/free verse poetry where a story is told, where rhythm and metered beat do not apply. Poems based on themes that move the poet.....life, love, loss, family, nature, places of the heart.
Best friends since childhood, the sexual tension between April and Oliver has always been palpable. Years after being completely inseparable, they become strangers, but the wildly different paths of their lives cross once again with the sudden death of April's brother. Oliver, the responsible, newly engaged law student finds himself drawn more than ever to the reckless, mystifying April - and cracks begin to appear in his carefully constructed life. Even as Oliver attempts to "save" his childhood friend from her grief, her menacing boyfriend and herself, it soon becomes apparent that Oliver has some secrets of his own--secrets he hasn't shared with anyone, even his fiance. But April knows, and her reappearance in his life derails him. Is it really April's life that is unraveling, or is it his own? The answer awaits at the end of a downward spiral...towards salvation.
On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m., while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King ended his final speech with the words, I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to the Promised Land." Acclaimed public intellectual and best-selling author Michael Eric Dyson examines how King fought, and faced, his own death, and how America can draw on his legacy in the twenty-first century. April 4, 1968 celebrates the leadership of Dr. King, and challenges America to renew its commitment to his vision.
"Invites comparison with Crane's Red Badge of Courage . . . Ithink this is an even better book."--The New York Times When you read this novel about April 19, 1775, you will see the British redcoats marching in a solid column through your town. Your hands will be sweating and you will shake a little as you grip your musket because never have you shot with the aim of killing a man. But you will shoot, and shoot again and again while your shoulder aches from your musket's kick and the tight, disciplined red column bleeds and wavers and breaks and you begin to shout at the top of your lungs because you are there, at the birth of freedom--you're a veteran of the Battle of Lexington, and you've helped whip the King's best soldiers...
The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author 'Superb.' The Times 'Utterly absorbing.' Daily Mail 'A joy to read.' Sunday Times 'The ultimate page-turner.' Irish Independent On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax. And when he glimpses a familiar face in the twilight at the bar Las Arcadas, a woman who was meant to have died in a political scandal back in Ireland years earlier, any chance of a peaceful holiday is lost. After a call home, Detective St John Strafford is dispatched to Spain, but he's not the only one on route: as a terrifying hitman hunts down his prey, they are all set for a brutal showdown.
April de Angelis's second collection covers six plays written between 2011 and 2021, including the previously unpublished short play Rune and her first musical, Gin Craze!Jumpy'The funniest new play the West End has seen in ages. It's not only funny, it's painfully acute; and its wit is of a piece with its insight.' - Daily TelegraphThe Village'A great piece of storytelling . . . flat-out wonderful.' - The TimesA Laughing Matter'De Angelis's writing is even funnier than it is stimulating. . Comedy needn't be soft and comforting. It can be mischievous and subversive. You see the bind in which Garrick finds himself, trapped as he is by the economic, social and moral pressures. It's a bind his descendants know even today. I haven't seen it dramatised before with such infectious brio.' - The TimesRune'A gorgeous little nugget of a show in which a bored teenager on a school trip to see the hoard at the Potteries Museum suddenly discovers a power within her when she gets to hold a piece of it.' - GuardianExtinct'Builds its drama with its own gripping truth ... Necessary and urgent.' - GuardianGin Craze!'It's terrifically vivid and exciting. . A Brechtian message delivered with the most glorious, full-throated ebullience: an intoxicating show that leaves your head spinning, your spirit soaring and a fire in your belly.' - The Times
Bet and Al lead a quiet, humdrum life in their small Yorkshire home until Bet wins a 'Romantic Breaks' competition in a magazine. The prize, a holiday in Paris, represen's their first experience abroad and has profound effects on the way they look at the world around them once they return home.-1 woman, 1 man
A life of radical deed entwines with two lives of observation and inquiry. Blood doesn't wash out and old crimes endure to provoke consequences far down the road. Juan Cano's mother took him from El Salvador to Los Angeles as an infant. He became an outstanding student and athlete, bound for Stanford upon graduation from high school. But the spring of 1985 brings cataclysmic upheaval that sets Juan on a path back to his war-ravaged homeland. Ten years of peril ebb into a lazy sojourn in Antigua Guatemala, where Juan meets filmmaker and UC Berkeley professor April Tashima. There, in the seemingly peaceful colonial-era capital, he is reunited with an old friend from the Salvadoran hills, archeologist Joe Guinness. Juan ends his time in the shadow of three volcanoes with an act having to do with his years as a revolutionary, and with a wantonly smashed musical instrument. It is planned in a way that will allow April to film it.The stories of individual women and men form the weft of history. In April and the Gardener, separate destinies are braided into cables from which hang bridges between worlds.
This is the brilliant, mind-blowing life story of April Dawn Corbitt, detailing how she unweaved herself from time to become the most accurate medical intuitive in the world at reading cell tissue and profiling the human energetic system. "April's journey beautifully detailed in The Intuit is both painful and joyous as you watch her wake up to her amazing intuitive being. Her intuitive ability to read the physical body and emotional body is more accurate than most of the medical tests I have at my disposal. Her darkest nights and brilliant, clear insights will inspire you to peel the layers off your own story and become aware of your own magnificence and intuitive abilities. Enjoy " -Dr. Karen Van HoesenClinical Professor, Emergency MedicineUniversity of California San Diego
Kallan Fremantle has won two great victories. She's convinced the Probate Court judge that she is the rightful heir to the Quintus Rose Ranch, and she's prevented the Pentagram Woman from doing mischief for two years. Congratulating herself, in the erroneous belief that she has power over the demigod, Kallan is shocked when the Pentagram Woman refuses to abide by the laws of nature or the rules of the game. When the demigod strikes at her old enemies, the townspeople blame Kallan for the carnage.So far, no one has been able to stop the Pentagram Woman, until an old man and his cohorts find a way to divide and conquer the people Kallan cares about the most.
