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Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Alive is a 2015 dystopian young adult novel by American author Scott Sigler and the first book in the Generations Trilogy. The book was first published in hardback, e-book, and audiobook format on July 14, 2015, through Del Rey. [1] The second book in the series, Alight, released on April 6, 2016.
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
But in “When The Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day,” Graff weaves together hundreds of eyewitness accounts to create a history that stands alongside those works, expanding readers ...
She is the author of the book Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times (ISBN 9781493446971, Hodder/Brazos, 2024). [4] The title is from a quotation of St Irenaeus: "The glory of God is a human being fully alive". [3] Anglican priest and poet Rachel Mann describes the book as "part spiritual memoir and part self-help manual". [3]
A couple of books corresponding to the exhibits are stacked in nearby shelves and are accessible to those who pass by. There are also plenty of lesser-known storybooks sprinkled around the space.
The book was a critical success. Walter Clemons in Newsweek declared that it "will become a classic in the literature of survival". [2] Keith Mano of The New York Times Book Review gave the book a "rave" review, stating that "Read's style is savage: unliterary, undecorated as a prosecutor's brief." He also described the book as an important one:
To Live (simplified Chinese: 活着; traditional Chinese: 活著; pinyin: Huózhe) is a novel written by Chinese novelist Yu Hua in 1993. It describes the struggles endured by Fugui, the son of a wealthy land-owner, while historical events caused and extended by the Chinese Revolution are fundamentally altering the nature of Chinese society.