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Elmore Leonard, 1925-2013
ELMORE LEONARD, 1925-2013 Elmore Leonard was born October 11, 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Due to his father’s position working for General Motors, Leonard’s family moved numerous times during his childhood, before finally settling in Detroit, MI in 1934. Leonard went on to graduate high school in Detroit in 1943, and joined the Navy, serving in the legendary Seabees military construction unit in the Pacific theater of operations before returning home in 1946. Leonard then attended the University of Detroit, majoring in English and Philosophy. Plans to assist his father in running an auto dealership fell through on his father’s early death, and after graduating, Leonard took a job writing for an ad agency. He married (for the first of three times) in 1949. While working his day job in the advertising world, Leonard wrote constantly, submitting mainly western stories to the pulp and/or mens’ magazines, where he was establishing himself with a strong reputation. His stories also occasionally caught the eye of the entertainment industry and were often optioned for films or television adaptation. In 1961, Leonard attempted to concentrate on writing full-time, with only occasional free- lance ad work. With the western market drying up, Leonard broke into the mainstream suspense field with his first non-western novel, The Big Bounce in 1969. From that point on, his publishing success continued to increase – with both critical and fan response to his works helping his novels to appear on bestseller lists. His 1983 novel La Brava won the Edgar Award for best mystery novel of the year. -
Bollettino Novità
Bollettino Novità Biblioteca del Centro Culturale Polifunzionale "Gino Baratta" di Mantova 4' trimestre 2019 Biblioteca del Centro Culturale Polifunzionale "Gino Baratta" Bollettino novità 4' trimestre 2019 1 Le *100 bandiere che raccontano il mondo / DVD 3 Tim Marshall ; traduzione di Roberto Merlini. - Milano : Garzanti, 2019. - 298 p., [8] carte 3 The *100. La seconda stagione completa / di tav. : ill. ; 23 cm [creato da Jason Rothenberg]. - Milano : inv. 178447 Warner Bros. Entertainment Italia, 2016. - 4 DVD-Video (ca. 674 min. compless.) -.929.9209.MAR.TIM color., sonoro ; in contenitore, 19 cm. 1 v ((Caratteristiche tecniche: regione 2; 16:9 FF, adatto a ogni tipo di televisore; audio 2 The *100. La prima stagione completa / Dolby digital 5.1. - Titolo del contenitore. [creato da Jason Rothenberg]. - Milano : - Produzione televisiva USA 2014-2015. - Warner Bros. Entertainment Italia, 2014. Interpreti: Eliza Taylor, Bob Morley, Marie - 3 DVD-Video (circa 522 min) : Avgeropoulos. - Lingue: italiano, inglese; color., sonoro ; in contenitore, 19 cm. sottotitoli: italiano, inglese per non udenti ((Caratteristiche tecniche: regione 2; video + 1: The *100. 2. : episodi 1-4 / [creato 16:9, 1.85:1 adatto a ogni tipo di tv; da Jason Rothenberg]. - Milano : Warner audio Dolby digital 5.1, 2.0. - Titolo Bros. entertainment Italia, 2016. - 1 DVD- del contenitore. - Prima stagione in Video (ca. 172 min.) ; in contenitore, 13 episodi del 2014 della serie TV, 19 cm. ((Contiene: I 48 ; Una scoperta produzione USA. - Interpreti: Eliza Taylor, agghiacciante ; Oltre lapaura ; Verso la città Isaiah Washington, Thomas McDonell. - della luce. Lingue: italiano, inglese, francese, tedesco; inv. 180041 sottotitoli: italiano, inglese, tedesco per non udenti, inglese per non udenti, tedesco, DVFIC.HUNDR.1 francese, olandese, greco DVD 1 + 1: The *100'. -
2006 TRASH Regionals Round 07 Tossups
2006 TRASH Regionals Round 07 Tossups 1. It appears twice in the e.e. cummings poem “little ladies more”. It also appears in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire when Blanche DuBois asks it of Mitch. Seemingly awkward because of its use of the formal pronoun, it means, “Do you want to sleep with me (tonight)?” For ten points, give this phrase re-introduced to a new generation by Mya, Lil’ Kim, Pink, and Christina Aguilera in their 2001 version of “Lady Marmalade”. Answer: Voulez-vous coucher avec moi (ce soir)? 2. In Need for Speed: Most Wanted it’s called “Speed Breaker”, and is most often used to dodge roadblocks. In GUN, it’s called “Quick Draw.” The earliest example of it is probably in the 1980 Epyx game Rescue at Rigel. In Star Wars: Jedi Academy, you can get it using “Force Speed,” by killing Reborn Jedis, or typing the cheat code “there is no spoon.” For ten points, give the common name for the ability in video games to move at normal speed while the rest of the game is slowed down, most famously used in the Max Payne and, predictably, Matrix videogames. Answer: bullet time (Prompt on “slow motion” or equivalents. Note for itinerant cheaters: the cheat code is really “thereisnospoon”) 3. His favorite movie may be Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, while he cried a lot when he paid to see Godfather III. His first name may be Marion, but his full name has also been reported to be William Williams. -
Seznam Gradiva Knjižnice Laško, Kupljenega S Sredstvi Ministrstva Za Kulturo V L
Seznam gradiva Knjižnice Laško, kupljenega s sredstvi ministrstva za kulturo v l. 2018 T. Značnica glavnega Leto št. COBISS.SI-ID vpisa Naslov in navedba odgovornosti izida 1 23726080 Kocbek, Edvard Zbrano delo / Edvard Kocbek ; [uredil in opombe napisal Andrej Inkret] 1991 2 55412993 Kozak, Primož Zbrano delo / Primož Kozak ; [uredil in opombe napisal Dušan Voglar] 2005 3 54781185 Kveder, Zofka Zbrano delo / Zofka Kveder 2005 Guareschi, Don Camillo in Peppone / Giovaninno Guareschi ; [prevedel in spremno 4 268826624 Giovaninno besedo napisal Vasja Bratina] 2013 5 288446464 Pamuk, Orhan Rdečelaska / Orhan Pamuk ; iz turščine prevedla Erna Pačnik Felek 2017 6 290784000 Carr, J. L., 1912-1994 Mesec dni na podeželju / J. L. Carr ; [prevod Sonja Porle] 2017 Ponikalnice : petinsedemdeset ugank in ena ugotovitev / Miroslav Košuta 7 291458048 Košuta, Miroslav ; ilustracije Suzi Bricelj 2017 Tukaj, zate, tam : pesmi in eseji / Aleš Debeljak ; [izbrala, uredila in Debeljak, Aleš, 1961- spremni besedi napisala Uroš Zupan in Urban Vovk ; bibliografijo sestavil 8 291657472 2016 Martin Grum] 2017 9 291566080 Clement, Jennifer Molitve za ugrabljene / Jennifer Clement ; prevedla Dušanka Zabukovec 2017 10 292381696 Partljič, Tone Ljudje iz Maribora / Tone Partljič 2017 11 291463168 Skubic, Andrej E. Permafrost / Andrej E. Skubic 2017 Nettel, Guadalupe, Telo, v katerem sem se rodila / Guadalupe Nettel ; prevod [in spremna 12 290250752 1973- beseda] Veronika Rot 2017 13 290382336 Munro, Alice, 1931- Pogled z grajske pečine : zgodbe / Alice Munro ; prevedla Tjaša Mohar 2017 Questions and answers about long ago : with over 60 flaps to lift / 14 16831796 Daynes, Katie [written by Katie Daynes ; illustrated by Peter Donnelly] 2018 Ready player one [Videoposnetek] = Igralec št. -
Comparative Literary Studies Program Course Descriptions 2013-2014
Comparative Literary Studies Program Course Descriptions 2013-2014 Fall 2013 CLS 206: Literature and Media: LaByrinths Lectures: TTh 11:00-12:20, Fisk B17 Instructor: Domietta Torlasco Expected Enrollment: Course Description: This course will trace a brief history of labyrinths through literature, architecture, cinema, and new media. From classical mythology to cutting-edge computer games, the figure of the labyrinth has shaped the way in which we ask crucial questions about space, time, perception, and technology. Whether an actual maze or a book or a film, the labyrinth presents us with an entanglement of lines and pathways that is as demanding as it is engrossing and even exhilarating. As we move from medium to medium, or pause in between media, the labyrinth will in turn emerge as an archetypal image, a concrete pattern, a narrative structure, a figure of thought, a mode of experience....Among the works which we will analyze are Jorge Luis Borges' celebrated short stories, Italo Calvino's experiments in detective fiction, Mark Z. Danielewski' hyper- textual novelHouse of Leaves, films such as Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941), Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980), and Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010), and the more intellectually adventurous video games. Evaluation Method: 1. Attendance and participation to lectures AND discussion sessions (25% of the final grade). Please note that more than three absences will automatically reduce your final grade. 2. Two short response papers (15%). 3. Mid-term exam (25%). 4. Final 5-6 page paper (35%). CLS 211 / ENG 211:Topics in Genre: Intro to Poetry Lectures: MW 11:00-11:50, Harris 107 Discussion Sections: F 11:00, 1:00 Instructor: Susannah Gottlieb Expected Enrollment: 100 Course Description: The experience of poetry can be understood in it at least two radically different ways: as a raw encounter with something unfamiliar or as a methodically constructed mode of access to the unknown. -
ICLA 2016 – Abstracts General Conference Sessions, July 17Th, 2016
ICLA 2016 – Abstracts General Conference Sessions, July 17th, 2016 ICLA 2016 – Abstracts General Conference Sessions Content Fri, July 22nd, 09:00, Urmil Talwar , C. Many cultures, many idioms ..................................................... 7 Fri, July 22nd, 11:00, Marjanne Gooze, D. The language of thematics ................................................... 8 Fri, July 22nd, 11:00, Marta Teixeira Anacleto, D. The language of thematics ....................................... 9 Fri, July 22nd, 18:00, no chair yet, E. Comparatists at work - professional communication ................ 11 Fri, Huly 22nd, 16:00, no chair yet, C. Many cultures, many idioms ..................................................... 11 Fri, July 22nd, 11:00, no chair yet, D. The language of thematics ......................................................... 12 Fri, July 22nd, 14:00, no chair yet, D. The language of thematics ......................................................... 13 Fri, July 22nd, 09:00, no chair yet , C. Many cultures, many idioms ..................................................... 14 Fri, July 22nd, 11:00, Yiu-wai Chu , C. Many cultures, many idioms ..................................................... 15 Fri, July 22nd, 14:00, Gabriele Eckart, C. Many cultures, many idioms ................................................ 17 Fri, July 22nd, 16:00, Nagla Bedeir, E. Comparatists at work - professional communication ............... 18 Fri, July 22nd, 09:00, no chair yet, D. The language of thematics ........................................................ -
Winter 2017 – 2018 News and Calendar , 2017
Tlacolulokos, For the Pride of Your Hometown, The Way of the Elders, and In Memory of the Forgotten, 2017. Photograph: Jeff McLane. Winter 2017 – 2018 News and News Calendar Quick Hits Los Angeles Public Library News “Proceeds support the library’s cultural and educational Head of the Class: Library Cards Reach More Students and Teachers programs, while participation fulfills your earnest desire to never leave the house. That’s right — the genius of this bookish event is that you don’t actually have to go anywhere. Finally, an event that honors introversion, social anxiety and bibliomania. Everyone wins!” —Los Angeles Times, 2017 Letter from the President 30TH ANNUAL STAY HOME The murals featured on the this newsletter cover were commissioned by the Library Foundation and the Los Angeles AND READ A BOOK BALL Public Library and made possible by major grants from the Getty Foundation as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. They have attracted extraordinary interest and accolades Sunday, March 4th, 2018 from the national media. Art critics, cultural commentators, with Chair Viet Thanh Nguyen school groups, community members, and patrons who visit the exhibition have been stopping in their tracks to reflect, respond Save the Date for the Library Foundation’s most enduring fundraising campaign, and, of course, take photographs to share. now in its 30th year! This “non-event” provides the opportunity to directly support the Los Angeles Public Library’s cultural and educational programs I believe the viewers are sensing that there is much to be learned such as ALOUD, Adult Literacy, and Student Smart, from the comfort from these murals, which were painted by the artist collective of your own home. -
2008 Book Club Reads a Place Beyond: Finding Home in Arctic
2008 Book Club Reads A place beyond: finding home in arctic Alaska / by Nick Jans The sparrow / by Mary Doria Russell Grape thief / by Kristine Franklin The brief history of the dead / by Kevin Brockmeier The world is flat : A brief history of the 21st century / by Thomas L. Friedman The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse / by Louise Erdrich The Yiddish policemen's union / by Michael Chabon All over but the shoutin' / by Rick Bragg Children of God / by Mary Doria Russell The amateur marriage / by Anne Tyler Another place at the table: A story of shattered childhood and the redemption of love / by Kathy Harrison 2007 Book Club Reads Hey Rube: Blood sport, the Bush doctrine, and the downward spiral of dumbness: Modern history from the sports desk / by Hunter S. Thompson Everything is illuminated / by Jonathan Safran Foer Harvest for hope: A guide to mindful eating / by Jane Goodall The funnies / by J. Robert Lennon Middle passage / by Charles Johnson Reading Lolita in Tehran: A memoir in books / by Azar Nafisi The Time Traveler's Wife / by Audrey Niffenegger March / by Geraldine Brooks Life of Pi / by Yann Martel The worst hard time / by Timothy Egan The shadow of the wind / by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 2006 Book Club Reads The collected stories of Eudora Welty / by Eudora Welty Independence Day / by Richard Ford Me & Emma / by Elizabeth Flock Finding George Orwell in Burma / by Emma Larkin Under my skin / by Doris Lessing The true history of the Elephant Man / by Michael Howell and Peter Ford The English patient / by Michael Ondaatje My brother / by Jamaica Kincaid All creatures great and small / by James Herriot The years with Laura Diaz / by Carlos Fuentes To kill a mockingbird / by Harper Lee 2005 Book Club Reads Don't let's go to the dogs tonight: An African childhood / by Alexandra Fuller The loop / by Nicholas Evans After life / by Rhian Ellis The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy / by Douglas Adams Pope Joan / Donna Woolfolk Cross The lovely bones / by Alice Sebold The good earth / by Pearl S. -
Transcript -- Sylvia Rosen Baumgarten
Transcript -- Sylvia Rosen Baumgarten, ’55 Narrator: Sylvia Rosen Baumgarten Interviewer: Mimi Pichey Interview Date: July 6, 1988 Interview Time: Location: New York City Length: 6 audio files; 275:12 Track 1 Mimi Pichey: [00:00] -- We’re going to give this thing a try and see if the tape is actually recording. This is Mimi Pichey, Brown Class of 1972 interviewing Sylvia Baumgarten. Do you go by your last name of -- or you go by Baumgarten? Sylvia Rosen Baumgarten. Brown Class of ’55, in her home in New York City on East 12th Street. The date is July 6, 1988. Well, why don’t we start off by asking you when you -- why you decided to attend Brown? Sylvia Rosen Baumgarten: Well, as I think we were discussing before, my generation of women was relatively mindless; we did what we were told. And [00:01:00] my father being a strong father announced to me in I believe about March of my senior year in high school, “You will apply to,” and then he listed Radcliffe and Wellesley and Smith and Bryn Mawr -- 14 schools in all he listed that I was to apply to, and I said, “OK, Daddy,” and did so. Got 14 -- no, excuse me, 13 yeses. The one I really wanted was Wellesley and Wellesley put me on the waiting list. I got 13 yeses qualified, except for Pembroke. They all depended upon what we called then the afternoon boards, which I guess is the achievement tests. We had taken the morning, boards, which was the English and math and then you had to take the afternoon boards which were your achievement tests and they said you are in pending the taking [00:02:00] of the afternoon boards. -
The Queen City Brew, Library Newsletter, Vol. 4, Issue 1, September 2007 Johnson & Wales University - Charlotte
Johnson & Wales University ScholarsArchive@JWU JWU Library Newsletter - Charlotte Campus University Libraries 9-2007 The Queen City Brew, Library Newsletter, Vol. 4, Issue 1, September 2007 Johnson & Wales University - Charlotte Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.jwu.edu/clt_newsletter Repository Citation Johnson & Wales University - Charlotte, "The Queen City Brew, Library Newsletter, Vol. 4, Issue 1, September 2007" (2007). JWU Library Newsletter - Charlotte Campus. 28. https://scholarsarchive.jwu.edu/clt_newsletter/28 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the University Libraries at ScholarsArchive@JWU. It has been accepted for inclusion in JWU Library Newsletter - Charlotte Campus by an authorized administrator of ScholarsArchive@JWU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. It’sIt’s Time Time For... For…. The Queen City Brew Volume 4, Issue 1 September 2007 2007 Yiasou Not a Book Lover? Official Newsletter of Johnson & Wales Or, maybe you like books but just don’t have time to Greek Festival read? That doesn’t mean you can’t find entertain- University’s Go Greek this September. ment at the library. These books are short on text, Charlotte Campus but big on entertainment! Library The Yiasou Greek Festival sponsored by Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral Here are two books to Check-out! Inside this issue: at 600 East Blvd. provides the opportunity to experience Hellenic cultural exhibits and PostSecret, 2007 Yiasou 1 authentic Greek cuisine along by Frank Warren Greek Festival Percolator: with pastries, entertainment N71.W355 2005 Not A Book Lover? 1 and shopping. Festival hours are: CQ Researcher 1 And 11 am until 8 pm Thurs, Sept 6; J & W Charlotte Library 2 11 am to 10 pm Fri and Sat, Pride of Baghdad, Sept 7 and 8; and by Brian K. -
Judith Krantz, Whose Tales of Sex and Shopping Sold Millions, Dies at 91
Judith Krantz, Whose Tales of Sex and Shopping Sold Millions, Dies at 91 By Margalit Fox June 23, 2019 Judith Krantz, who almost single-handedly turned the sex-and-shopping genre of fiction into the stuff of high commerce, making her one of the world’s best-selling novelists if not one of the most critically acclaimed, died on Saturday at her home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles. She was 91. Her publicist, John Tellem, confirmed the death. Though she did not publish her first book until she was 50, Ms. Krantz reigned for decades afterward as the international queen of poolside reading. Her 10 novels — beginning with “Scruples” in 1978 and ending with “The Jewels of Tessa Kent” in 1998 — have together sold more than 85 million copies in more than 50 languages. Most became television movies or mini-series, many of which were produced by Ms. Krantz’s husband, Steve Krantz. What drove Ms. Krantz’s books to the tops of best seller lists time and again was a formula that she honed to glittering perfection: fevered horizontal activities combined with fevered vertical ones — the former taking place in sumptuously appointed bedrooms and five-star hotels, the latter anywhere with a cash register and astronomical price tags. A hallmark of the formula was that it embraced sex and shopping in almost equal measure, with each recounted in modifier-laden detail. “Recklessly she flung herself out of her clouds of chiffon plumage only to appear in her resplendent flesh, lying totally naked on a pile of horse blankets, laughing softly as she watched Stash Valensky, momentarily bewildered and taken by surprise, struggle out of his dinner jacket,” Ms. -
Gregory & Company
GREGORY & COMPANY AUTHORS’ AGENTS 3, BARB MEWS, LONDON W6 7PA TELEPHONE: 020 7610 4676 FAX: 020 7610 4686 WEBSITE: www.gregoryandcompany.co.uk EMAIL: [email protected] Rights Enquiries: Jane Gregory - UK, US, Film & TV: [email protected] Claire Morris – Translation: [email protected] Translation Rights (Highlights) Frankfurt 2015 For further information about our authors and their backlists, do visit our website www.gregoryandcompany.co.uk BAUER, Belinda Belinda Bauer grew up in England and South Africa. She has worked as a journalist and screenwriter, and her script for THE LOCKER ROOM earned her the Carl Foreman/ Bafta Award for Young British Screenwriters. With her first novel BLACKLANDS, Belinda won the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year in 2010. Her next two novels, DARKSIDE and FINDERS KEEPERS, were also highly acclaimed, and in 2012 she was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library Award for her entire body of work. This year her 2015 novel THE SHUT EYE is shortlisted for the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger. RUBBERNECKER won the 2014 Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year Award, which Belinda was shortlisted for again this year with her novel THE FACTS OF LIFE AND DEATH. Belinda is currently working on her seventh novel. THE BEAUTIFUL DEAD TV crime reporter Eve Singer’s flagging career is revived by a spate of bizarre murders – each one in public and advertised like an exhibition. When the perpetrator contacts Eve to discuss her coverage of his crimes, she is suddenly on the inside of the biggest serial killer investigation of the decade.