Eventually, she found her place as a riding instructor herself. Through the years, the constant force in her life was horses. The feisty horse's name was Lady, a Quarter Horse-Thoroughbred cross, who became Karen's steadfast companion. She was bitten by the horse bug at the age of five, and after diligently taking riding lessons for several years, was rewarded with her first horse at the age of eleven. Karen grew up about a mile from Lake Ontario in Upstate New York. The experiential knowledge she gained through her interactions with her neighbors drove her to create the story of the star-crossed lovers, Rose and Noah. She was inspired to create her first book, Temptation, by the Amish community she lives in. Karen rescues and fosters a variety of pets and farm animals, but she also finds time to give riding lessons, coach a youth equestrian drill team, and of course, write. Karen Ann Hopkins resides in northern Kentucky with her family on a farm that boasts a menagerie of horses, goats, sheep, peacocks, chickens, ducks, rabbits, pigs, dogs, and cats.
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In 1867, the family moved to Munich, where Planck attended the Ludwig Maximilians gymnasium school. His family was traditional and intellectual (his father was a law professor and his grandfather and great-grandfather had been theology professors). Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck, better known as Max, was born in Kiel in Holstein, northern Germany on 23 April 1858. This is generally regarded as the first essential stepping stone in the development of quantum theory, which has revolutionized the way we see and understand the sub-atomic world. Around the turn of the century, he realized that light and other electromagnetic waves were emitted in discrete packets of energy that he called " quanta" - "quantum" in the singlular - which could only take on certain discrete values (multiples of a certain constant, which now bears the name the “ Planck constant”). 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The Mercy of the Tide follows four people drawn irrevocably together by a recent tragedy as they do their best to reclaim their lives-leading them all to a discovery that will change them and their town forever. But then strange things start happening-a human skeleton is unearthed in a local park and mutilated animals begin appearing, seemingly sacrificed, on the town's beaches. A sleepy coastal town, where crime usually consists of underage drinking down at a Wolf Point bonfire. McCullough's two Pulitzer Prize-winning books- Truman and John Adams-were adapted by HBO into a TV film and a miniseries, respectively. McCullough also narrated numerous documentaries, such as The Civil War by Ken Burns, as well as the 2003 film Seabiscuit, and he hosted the PBS television documentary series American Experience for twelve years. Truman, John Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Panama Canal, and the Wright brothers. His first book was The Johnstown Flood (1968), and he wrote nine more on such topics as Harry S. īorn and raised in Pittsburgh, McCullough earned a degree in English literature from Yale University. In 2006, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. David Gaub McCullough ( / m ə ˈ k ʌ l ə/ J– August 7, 2022) was an American popular historian. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. ― Salman Rushdie, quote from Haroun and the Sea of StoriesīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, (Maybe the sadness of the city finally crept in through their windows.) The day Soraya stopped singing, in the middle of a line, as if someone had thrown a switch, Haroun guessed there was trouble brewing. To his wife, Soraya, Rashid was for many years as loving a husband as anyone could wish for, and during these years Haroun grew up in a home in which, instead of misery and frowns, he had his father’s ready laughter and his mother’s sweet voice raised in song. To his admirers he was Rashid the Ocean of Notions, as stuffed with cheery stories as the sea was full of glumfish but to his jealous rivals he was the Shah of Blah. “And in the depths of the city, beyond an old zone of ruined buildings that looked like broken hearts, there lived a happy young fellow by the name of Haroun, the only child of the storyteller Rashid Khalifa, whose cheerfulness was famous throughout that unhappy metropolis, and whose never-ending stream of tall, short and winding tales had earned him not one but two nicknames. 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When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. When I almost died it was just after midday.” “I come from a country that was created at midnight. Kayden and Callie though are very damaged and have suffered terribly, are still suffering terribly, and don’t cope very well – but they do survive and that is always a step in the right direction. I have only read one other Jessica Sorensen novel and that also featured a damaged character running from an event in her past. I think the first book would have given me a much greater insight into their pasts and what brought them to where Redemption started, but as the story unfolds you do learn all of that information. It’s very much the story of their romance but even more than that it’s the story of their recovery from their own personal demons and how they move forward. Let me start by saying that you don’t have to have read The Coincidence for this book to make sense, it does read fine as a stand alone but for me personally, I would have preferred to have read the first one in this instance.Ĭallie and Kayden are two very damaged young people that have found one another and together start thinking they might make it through. The Redemption of Callie and Kayden is the sequel to The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden, which I have not read. Rankin is a number one bestseller in the UK and has received the OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his wife and two sons. Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Hull, the Open University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.Ī contributor to BBC2's Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts. He has also been shortlisted for the Anthony Award in the USA, won Denmark's Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and the Deutscher Krimipreis. In 2004, Ian won America's celebrated Edgar Award for Resurrection Men. He is the recipient of four Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in 2005. Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into thirty-six languages and are bestsellers worldwide. Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. |