![]() The Diary of a Young Girl // Anne FrankĪrguably the most famous book to be published posthumously, The Diary of a Young Girl is a collection of diary entries written by Anne Frank. Here are 14 famous books that were published after their authors died. Virtually every artist dreams of making an impact with their work, and writers are no different-but in some cases, authors don’t live to see their works become classics. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It's as much a character in the novel as India is in "Midnight's Children," and to invest it with this status, the author needs a figure commensurate with the history of the place. Newfoundland - or, as one of Johnston's characters calls it, perhaps more appropriately, Old Lost Land - is the oldest British colony, a hardscrabble island that for centuries was subject, as the book makes quite clear, to the idiocy of various crown schemes. Naipaul, and you can see them, too, in Wayne Johnston's new novel, "The Colony of Unrequited Dreams." ![]() You can see these forces at work in the novels of Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey and V.S. From the former, the writer draws enveloping fantasies from the latter, an elegant melancholy. It's writing that plays on two counterpoised registers: the nostalgia of the native for the pre-colonial land, and the nostalgia of the colonizer for the mother country. The literature of empire keeps floating up from the verges of the British Commonwealth like buoys marking some drowned leviathan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kearney's strategy for the Randy is to break the power snatches down into 3 sets of 25 reps. "It's the one time you'll see me warming up," says Kearney. He prepares for the WOD with a short session on the assault bike, followed by a set of activation exercises. The hardest part's going to be standing up and going up and down 75 times, the weight's not really an issue." "It's a good one for me, seeing as it's just one barbell movement, rocking it out for 75 reps. But in a new video on his YouTube channel, strongman Rob Kearney is taking on a different kind of lifting challenge than usual, where 75 pounds will take a physical toll on his endurance: a CrossFit WOD called the "Randy", consisting of 75 power snatches at 75 pounds, performed as fast as possible. When you're a regular contender at the World's Strongest Man competition, not to mention the self-proclaimed "World's Strongest Gay," 75 pounds might not seem like a lot of weight. ![]() ![]() ![]() I admire anyone who can paint such small figures with so much detail. Here is a close-up Scott provided of this tiny little command stand. ![]() Line lines of Secesh infantry will dissuade the Union saddle soldiers from becoming too pesky. Stuart’s boys are in for quite a tussle, as this looks like a formidible group. Here comes the cavalry riding to the rescue! And now, on to more pictures from this veteran painter who has more than twenty years in the figure painting hobby and ten years as a miniature wargamer. Scott, an educator by trade, maintains an interesting website that might be useful to you. Old Glory has some great poses, and they are affordable and easy to paint. Scott MacPhee of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, was kind enough to send me several photographs of his superbly painted and well mounted 10mm Old Glory Civil War miniature armies. A colorfully painted Confederate command stand prepares to rally the troops and lead them forward in another assault on the distant Yankee line. ![]() ![]() ![]() Six of our guys ready and waiting with guns, and Junior single-handedly shot them all dead. When my mother died and I had to fly home to Moscow, he used my absence to try to eliminate the Italians and take the Chicago underworld for himself. I had set up a meet with Junior to get the Tacone family involved in my laundering scheme-to diversify interests-but Ivan fucked everything up. ![]() And when I was sent to join the cell, he saw me as a threat to his autonomy. Victor put Ivan in charge of setting up the street business, but he was too small-minded and power-hungry to make it into much. And six of my men were found dead in an Italian cafe. Granted, Ivan, my idiot second, planned to take them all out and forever end their reign of influence in the Windy City. Junior Tacone and his brothers destroyed the Chicago operation while I was back in Moscow dealing with my mother’s affairs. I’ve been staking out the Bellissimo and Nico Tacone for two months now. Just when I thought I was the least lucky bastard on this continent, I catch a break. Note: This steamy stand-alone romance is the sixth in USA Today best-selling author Renee Rose's Vegas Underground series. Because I'll never relinquish their queen of clubs. At the end of the day, the girl and the fortune will be mine. I'd rather keep her forever-my captive bride. Now that I have her, I don't want to let her go. The Tacone Family wiped out the Chicago mafiya. ![]() His Queen of Clubs (Vegas Underground #6) ![]() ![]() But then the Nazis invade Paris, and everything changes. When war is declared, the Library is determined to remain open. ![]() Odile Souchet is obsessed with books, and her new job at the American Library in Paris - with its thriving community of students, writers and book lovers - is a dream come true. 'Delightful, richly detailed' PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY 'An irresistible, compelling read' FIONA DAVIS 'I devoured The Paris Library in one hungry gulp. 'An irresistible and utterly compelling novel that will appeal to bibliophiles and historical fiction fans alike' SUNDAY EXPRESS ' Heart-breaking and heart-lifting and always enchanting' RUTH HOGAN 'A wonderful novel celebrating the power of books and libraries to change people's lives' JILL MANSELL THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK ![]() HEROISM CAN BE FOUND IN THE QUIETEST PLACES - HOW LIBRARIANS DEFIED THE NAZIS ![]() ![]() ![]() Hard.īUT THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGESI’ve seen someone who shouldn’t be alive. Against all common sense, I’m falling for Daemon. He knows what’s happened to me and he can help, but to do so, I have to lie to Daemon and stay away from him. ![]() And there’s this new boy in school who’s got a secret of his own. If they ever find out what Daemon can do and that we’re linked, I’m a goner. SOMETHING WORSE THAN ARUM HAS COME TO TOWNThe Department of Defense is here. So I’ve sworn him off, even though he’s running more hot than cold these days.īut we’ve got bigger problems. ![]() Aliens are the new vampires, and sexy Daemon Black will set your pulse racing…īEING CONNECTED TO DAEMON BLACK SUCKS… Thanks to his alien mojo, Daemon’s determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarro connection. Armentrout, author of the Covenant series, comes the unputdownable second book in the New York Times bestselling Lux series. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() I’m a Tessa Dare fan and have read a number of her books including both the preceding books in the Girl Meets Duke series: The Duchess Deal (currently my favorite regency) and The Governess Game (if you start with The Wallflower Wager it’s no problem – the books in the series don’t need to be read in order). ![]() But all this can be avoided if they take the Wallflower Wager: Penny’s aunt has agreed to help her stay at home in town, if Penny can a) get new clothes, b) get rid of the pets, and c) appear in the society columns. For Gabriel, it means potentially losing his home’s greatest asset. For Penny, this means returning to the scene of a traumatic childhood. Unfortunately, Penny’s family has decided it’s time for her to move back to the countryside where she grew up. He isn’t angry though, because he’s trying his hand at the regency-era version of house flipping, and Penny’s aristocratic status gives his new real estate an excellent address. He has a chip on his shoulder – a shoulder which now has a parrot sitting on it thanks to his neighbor, Lady Penelope. Gabriel Duke – known as The Duke of Ruin – has made his living buying up the debt and secrets of England’s nobles and then calling them in. That is, until her pet parrot flies into the house next door. She has a few friends in the area but no man in her life. Penny has been living in London for years, kept company by one deaf old housekeeper and a menagerie of pets. ![]() Lady Penelope – Penny – Campion has a new neighbor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His method of duplicity-one of many in the stories being told-is to teach the Italian man that the lady loves the art of seduction so that he can finally wrangle her into bed. Novel XIV is a pretty unlikely tale of the revenge enacted by a Frenchman named Bonnivet against a young Italian woman. This story is rather tame in the way it pursues a recurring motif situating Franciscans as an order of monks to be avoided because of a bad reputation. ![]() The central character of Novel XI, titled “A Nasty Adventure which befell Madam De Roncex at the Franciscan Monastery of Thouars.” Her story is quite befitting the title and among the shortest of all the tales in the collection, having to do with a trip to the outhouse, confusion by a young attending woman whose head has been filled with stories of the sexual perversion of Franciscans and a misunderstanding that ultimately results in laughter by all. She is especially important among the narrators not so much because of the stories she tells, but because she is the character whom the author, Marguerite of Navarre avowed she should be most closely identified. She is also married to another of the narrator, Hircan, and the object of unrequited love by another, Somintault. Parlamente is one of the narrators of the various tales which comprised the volume. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() |