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![]() ![]() |a Includes bibliographical references and index. ![]() |a xvii, 326 pages : |b illustrations |c 25 cm |a King of the world : |b Muhammad Ali and the rise of an American hero / |c David Remnick. ![]() |a DLC |b eng |c DLC |d NOR |d OCL |d CLZ ![]() Most of all, King of the World does justice to the speed, grace, courage, humor, and ebullience of one of the greatest athletes and irresistibly dynamic personalities of our time. He gives us empathetic portraits of wisecracking sportswriters and bone-breaking mobsters of the baleful Liston and the haunted Patterson of an audacious Norman Mailer and an enigmatic Malcolm X. In charting Ali's rise from the gyms of Louisville, Kentucky, to his epochal fights against Liston and Floyd Patterson, Remnick creates a canvas of unparalleled richness. No one has captured Ali-and the era that he exhilarated and sometimes infuriated-with greater vibrancy, drama, and astuteness than David Remnick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb (and editor of The New Yorker ). Six rounds later Ali was not only the new world heavyweight boxing champion: He was "a new kind of black man" who would shortly transform America's racial politics, its popular culture, and its notions of heroism. The bestselling biography of Muhammad Ali-with an Introduction by Salman Rushdie On the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he was widely regarded as an irritating freak who danced and talked way too much. ![]() ![]() Nick finds he can’t get personally uninvolved with any of it. That doesn’t even get into the school principal, a woman with secrets of her own, who has a deeply unsettling effect on him. It all starts with his new case––a case involving dead hybrids, graffiti that tells the future, a kid who shouldn’t exist at all, and a possible conspiracy involving the richest humans in New York. More than anything, he just wants to be left alone, to endure his immortality in peace, but he’s barely in New York two weeks when things start to go sideways. Like all state-reg’d vamps, he gets his food delivered to his door, lives in government housing, and basically can’t sneeze without the U.S. Vampire with a past and homicide detective, Naoko “Nick” Tanaka just got transferred to the NYPD, where he works as a “Midnight,” or vampire in the employ of the human police. There was something wrong with this blood. Nick frowned, staring around at the alley floor. ![]() Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07TJ2T9DG ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers curious about the universal praise for this quiet, underappreciated author found a collection of writing that vividly preserves the past and earns a permanent place in American letters with its powerful embrace of emotional experience and the beauty of its precise prose style. His death in Manhattan in July 2000, at age ninety-one, made the front pages of The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, both of which made high claims for his place in twentieth-century literature, claims repeated in publications across the country and abroad. More took notice in the 1990s when Random House reissued sixty years of his fiction and nonfiction in its Vintage International series. Many American readers discovered Maxwell in the mid-1980s when Godine Press revived his work in elegant paperback editions graced by the cover art of his younger daughter, Brookie. They became a consistent source of material as he developed new fictional practices and challenged the bounds of the novel form. Yet even as he sought to preserve memories, he continually refigured and reexamined them. ![]() He often wrote of his native Lincoln, Illinois as it was before his mother's premature death during the 1918 influenza epidemic. For Maxwell, this process was guided by a historical imagination, a desire to make successive inquiries into the past. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you think we might need to communicate with Has page numbers, please include the page number otherwise please includeĪ significant text string to help us to locate the error. If the contents of theīook, please be as precise as you can as to the location. Please be clear in your message, if you are referring to the informationįound on this web page or the contents of the book. ![]() ![]() Charmingly illustrated by the author, Flatland is not only fascinating reading, it is still a first-rate fictional introduction to the concept of the multiple dimensions of space. Through strange occurrences that bring him into contact with a host of geometric forms, Square has adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions) and ultimately entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions-a revolutionary idea for which he is returned to his two-dimensional world. Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women-thin, straight lines-are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status. This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. Fiction, mathematics, satire, film/TV adaptation ![]() ![]() ![]() Every year, we examine each store coming up for lease renewal and review the level of profitability that the store can generate." Those reviews have become more positive. Klipper added that B&N's "real estate team has done a spectacular job of managing our lease exposure over the past several years. ![]() This is still a mature business, but it is connecting with its audience." Instead of closing its usual 20 stores, B&N plans to close only 13 of its 649 general stores this year. ![]() ![]() Still, as John Tinker, an analyst with Maxim Group, told the Wall Street Journal, " The turnaround continues. Yesterday, B&N stock fell 10.1%, to $22.36 a share, on six times the usual volume, because B&N's profit during the quarter, which increased 14.1%, didn't increase as much as Wall Street had expected. Klipper, CEO, Retail Group, said during a conference call with analysts yesterday ( via ) after the company released third quarter results. Barnes & Noble plans to close fewer stores than expected this fiscal year because of "improving sales trends and our increased confidence in the business," Mitchell S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the mystery at the heart of Ms George's story-about a beheaded farmer, whose near-catatonic daughter is found soaked in blood beside him-is so deftly handled and the Lynley/Havers interaction so compelling that she won both the Edgar and Agatha awards for Best First Novel and was launched on her best-selling career. Ms George packs her mystery too full of stock background-haunted manors and ripper murders-and overbroad characters-amusingly enough, it's the American tourists who are the worst caricatures-but a first-time novelist can always be excused for trying too hard to please after all, they may never get another chance. The films are diverting enough, but this first novel goes a long way to filling in just why Havers is so insecure, self-loathing, and difficult for even the eminently understanding Lynley to work with, a theme the series relies on heavily. ![]() ![]() That's how I was introduced to her Inspector Thomas Lynley ( Nathaniel Parker), who's also the eighth Earl of Asherton, and his bitter working-class sidekick, Barbara Havers ( Sharon Small). She's even received the ultimate imprimatur, having the BBC turn her books into a tv series. Elizabeth George is perhaps best known for being a Californian from Ohio who somehow writes pitch-perfect British police procedurals. ![]() ![]() And me." Quinn Sawyer, 17, lives at the Hundreds, a summer camp her family owns and operates. "As you know, in all camp stories, there are monsters. ![]() Perfect for fans of Morgan Matson, Jenny Han, and Jandy Nelson, this wondrous novel was proclaimed “a striking examination of love-of friends, of family, of self-as well as of grief” by ALA Booklist in a starred review. As Quinn lets herself open up again, she begins to understand the truth about love, loss, and monsters-real and imagined. But the new boy in town, Alexander, doesn’t see her as the monster she believes herself to be. Now it’s winter, the magic has drained from Quinn’s life, and she knows it’s her fault. A place where wild blueberries grew no matter the season, a legendary sea monster lurked in the waters, and Quinn fell in love with her best friend, Dylan. ![]() Last June, the summer camp Quinn’s family owns in Winship, Maine, was still a magical place. That shortlist includes Rainbow Rowell, Nicola Yoon, and now, Carlie Sorosiak."-Jeff Zentner, Morris Award-winning author of The Serpent King and Goodbye Days "It's the rarest author who can pull off laugh-out-loud hilarious, profound, and breathlessly romantic, all in the most sparkling prose. ![]() ![]() ![]() The third sub-series, Power of Three (2007–2009), centers around three prophesied cats with extraordinary powers, and the fourth sub-series, Omen of the Stars (2009–2012) details said cats using their powers to defeat evil spirit cats. Warriors: The New Prophecy (2005–2006) continues with a focus on the next generation of cats, and chronicles the four Clans' journey to a new home. It details the adventures of a "kittypet" ( housecat) named Rusty who joins ThunderClan, one of the warrior cat clans who inhabit the forest. The first, Warriors: The Prophecies Begin, was published from 2003 to 2004. There are currently eight sub-series, each containing six books. The concept and plot of the pilot series was developed by series editor Victoria Holmes. Published by HarperCollins, the series is written by authors Kate Cary and Cherith Baldry, as well as others, under the collective pseudonym Erin Hunter. ![]() ![]() The series is primarily set in fictional forests. 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