Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
People of the Book is a 2008 historical novel by Geraldine Brooks. The story focuses on imagined events surrounding the protagonist and real historical past of the still- extant Sarajevo Haggadah , one of the oldest surviving Jewish illuminated texts.
The children recognize the criminal’s faces on the news to be Uncle Claudio and Estrella’s father, their suspicions confirmed by the sight of his gloved prosthetic hand. The novel returns to 1991 and a grown Estrella now has a son and works for a rental car company.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 non-fiction book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients. Sacks chose the title of the book from the case study of one of his patients who has visual agnosia , [ 1 ] a neurological condition that leaves him unable to recognize ...
The people recognize him and adore him at the Seville Cathedral, but he is arrested by Inquisition leaders and sentenced to be burnt to death the next day. The Grand Inquisitor visits him in his cell to tell him that the Church no longer needs him. The main portion of the text is devoted to the Inquisitor explaining to Jesus why his return ...
A Face in the Crowd is a novella by Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan, originally published as an e-book on August 21, 2012, as well as an audiobook, read by Craig Wasson. [1] A hardcover edition was published in July 2023 in an omnibus edition, paired with Richard Chizmar 's The Longest December .
Smiley's People is a spy novel by John le Carré, published in 1979. Featuring British master-spy George Smiley , it is the third and final novel of the " Karla Trilogy ", following Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Honourable Schoolboy . [ 1 ]
The book's title is reminiscent of two short stories by Whittaker Chambers in The New Masses: "Can You Make Out Their Voices" (March 1931) [4] and "You Have Seen the Heads" (April 1931). [4] The former story Hallie Flanagan (later director of the WPA's Federal Theatre Project) made into a popular play under the title "Can You Hear Their Voices?"
Profiles in Courage is a 1956 volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States senators.The book, authored by John F. Kennedy with Ted Sorensen as a ghostwriter, profiles senators who defied the opinions of their party and constituents to do what they felt was right and suffered severe criticism and losses in popularity as a result.