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In Wild Game, Brodeur recounts how Brodeur helped her mother conceal her affair beginning in 1980 when Brodeur was 14. [2] [3] Brodeur's mother Malabar Brewster was a food writer for The Boston Globe, [4] and the book's title comes from the name of an unproduced cookbook Brewster planned to write with her husband, Charles, her lover, Ben Southern, a hunter, and Ben's wife, Lily.
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It is an expansion of a 9,000-word article by Krakauer on Chris McCandless titled "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside. [2] The book was adapted to a film of the same name in 2007, directed by Sean Penn with Emile Hirsch starring as McCandless.
Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass in North America and some other countries) is a young-adult fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published in 1995 by Scholastic UK.Set in a parallel universe, it follows the journey of Lyra Belacqua to the Arctic in search of her missing friend, Roger Parslow, and her imprisoned uncle, Lord Asriel, who has been conducting experiments with a mysterious ...
Wild Geese is a Canadian novel of the historical fiction genre written by the author Martha Ostenso, first published in 1925 by Dodd, Mead and Company. The story is set on the prairies of Manitoba, Canada in the 1920s. The novel details characters struggling against victimization to achieve a better life and follow their respective passions.
[3] July 15, 2012: Wild reached No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list. [4] December 3, 2012: Wild was named No. 6 best non-fiction book of 2012 by The Christian Science Monitor. [5] December 4, 2012: Wild was voted No. 1 book of 2012 in the "Memoir and Autobiography" category in the "Goodreads Choice Awards 2012." [6]
A Storm of Swords is the third of seven planned novels in the fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by American author George R. R. Martin.It was first published in the United Kingdom on August 8, 2000, [1] with a United States edition following in November 2000.
The book consists of two different stories, told in non-linear fashion in alternating chapters, which contain both parallels and contrasts. Wild Palms starts in New Orleans in 1937 with Harry, an impoverished and virginal intern finishing his training in a hospital. At a party he meets Charlotte, who abandons her husband and two children to run ...