![]() "cloth wear, marks, spots, inside a few foxing spots, and spots page edges, inners clean and tight". Sweeping across four decades, Goodbye, Mr Chips features an extraordinary period of history, from the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s to Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s, and demonstrates that, through it all, love and a good sense of humour can make all the difference. Mr Chipping, classics master at Brookfield. As his love for Katherine blooms, Mr Chipping develops a sense of humour and a broad view of his role as a teacher and a friend to his students, becoming the beloved 'Mr Chips' to generations of schoolboys. Chips recollects his many years as a school master, with a touching poignancy that is touching and involving. Until, that is, he meets Katherine, who charms him and his students and teaches Mr Chipping that education is about more than just the hours spent in the schoolroom. Wholly conventional, he never veers from his established routines. Mr Chipping is a quiet, unassuming teacher at Brookfield Grammar School. ![]() Chips James Hilton Published by Little, Brown, 1934. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Yulia is quickly won over to the cause, even in the face of Soviet deceptions such as the plundering of the family’s harvest and livestock, and the deaths of several relatives. ![]() Stalinists, including foreign sympathizers, inventory the countryside’s residences, forcing farmers to give up their land and join collective kolkhozes. Compassionate 12-year-old Nyl narrates the harrowing story, which opens with the ethnically Ukrainian family-Nyl, his parents, and siblings Slavko, nine, and Yulia, 11-just managing to keep their farm going in February 1930. ![]() In a timely, hard-hitting novel, Forchuk ( Traitors Among Us) portrays the manufactured famine Holodomor (“murder by hunger”) that Stalinists inflicted on Soviet Ukrainian farmers in the early 1930s. ![]() ![]() Being an avaricious man, he steals away the Weirdstone from the cave, compromising the spells that keep the Sleepers from aging and dying. He buys one from a local farmer at market, and in the process, the farmer is taken to Fundindelve, the Cave of The Sleepers. Weirdstone starts out with a retelling of a local tale of the Wizard Under The Hill, who needed a white mare to complete his set of horses for the Sleepers. ![]() Garner also borrowed other elements from Norse and Celtic mythologies the lios and svart-alfar, the Morrigan, Ragnarok and mixed them all together to create a story of his own. The story of Weirdstone draws heavily on the local folklore of Cheshire, specifically a folk tale called The Wizard Under The Hill which revolved around a wizard guarding a cave in which King Arthur and his knights slept. There's even a musical adaptation made in the 70s, which was recently re-arranged by goth band Inkubus Sukkubus, though for copyright reasons their version is unlikely to ever see the light of day. Published originally by Collins, whose head at the time was looking for more fantasy novels in order to cash in on the success of The Lord of the Rings, The Weirdstone went on to critical and commercial success at the time and has remained popular ever since (though not so much with its author). ![]() ![]() The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is a 1960 fantasy novel by English Alan Garner. ![]() ![]() ![]() You’re as likely to miss something dreadful as something wonderful if it is cut short. The timeliness of its plot – the couple’s D-Day overlapping the early days of the Covid crisis – propels an argument that might otherwise have remained opaquely abstract: the past year has proven that life does not promise more joy than pain. Shriver’s characters are contemplating when and how to die rather than if, and the book has moments of profundity, especially when its characters’ heads and hearts refuse to align. ![]() Of course, it is no more an option to “stay” in any permanent way for Kay and Cyril than it is for any of us. Should We Stay or Should We Go is sometimes funny, often diverting, always driving towards an urgent answer to its question. “You’re the one who had to go on that big Trafalgar demonstration against the poll tax – which would have raised money for social care and a great deal else,” says Kay to her husband, somewhat formally. Snippets of dialogue between Kay (who voted Leave in the referendum) and Cyril (an ardent Remainer) seem more for exposition’s sake than reflective of their intimacy. Unsurprisingly for a book that privileges philosophising over narrative drive, Should We Stay or Should We Go features a lot of arguments which, one senses, Shriver herself would like to be having. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lustig also shows us how to navigate the grocery store with handy lists for stocking the pantry as well as how to read a food label in order to find hidden sugars and evaluate fiber content.Īccessible, affordable, and geared toward lasting results, The Fat Chance Cookbook will be a fun and easy roadmap to better health for the whole family. With more than 100 recipes as well as meal plans, nutritional analyses, shopping lists, and food swaps, he shows us easy ways to drastically reduce sugar and increase fiber to lose weight and regain health – both for ourselves and for our families. Now, in The Fat Chance Cookbook, Lustig helps us put this information into action for ourselves. ![]() Robert Lustig’s message that the increased sugar in our diets has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last thirty years captured our national attention. ![]() Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years. Publishers Text The companion cookbook to the New York Times bestseller Fat Chanceįat Chance became an instant New York Times bestseller. New York Times Bestseller Robert Lustig’s 90-minute YouTube video Sugar: The Bitter Truth, has been viewed more than three million times. ![]() |