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The Game is the seventh book in the Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King, which focuses on the adventures of Russell and her partner and, later, husband, an aging Sherlock Holmes. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The author's website includes an excerpt from the first chapter.
The book was a Newbery Honor book in 2008. [1] Robin Smith, of Book Page, said that the book filled him with "joy and hope." [3] Norah Piehl, of Kids Reads, reviewed the book saying, "Set against the music, politics and conflicts of the early 1970s, Jacqueline Woodson's exceptional new novel grounds universal ideas in a particular time and place."
Seventeenth Summer is a book about a 17-year-old girl named Angeline "Angie" Morrow. It takes place in the early 1940s in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Angie gets asked out on her first date by local high school basketball star Jack Duluth.
The 1970s were a golden era for toys, with several iconic brands and characters emerging that are still celebrated today, such as all things Star Wars. Following the release of this culturally ...
The 1970s (pronounced "nineteen-seventies"; commonly shortened to the "Seventies" or the "' 70s") was the decade that began on January 1, 1970, and ended on December 31, 1979. In the 21st century, historians have increasingly portrayed the 1970s as a "pivot of change" in world history, focusing especially on the economic upheavals [ 1 ] that ...
The first edition of The Royal Game. Following the occupation and annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, the country's monarchists (i.e. supporters of Otto von Habsburg as the rightful Emperor-Archduke and the rule of the House of Habsburg), conservatives as well as supporters of Engelbert Dollfuss' Austrofascist regime, were severely persecuted by the Nazis, as they were seen as opponents of ...
Levels of the Game is a 1969 book by John McPhee, nominally about tennis and tennis players, but exploring deeper issues as well.. The book is structured around a description of the semi-final match in the 1968 U.S. Open Championship at Forest Hills, played between Clark Graebner and Arthur Ashe; Ashe won, and went on to win the Championship, becoming the only amateur to win it in the Open era.
The old man recounts what he remembers about what happened to humanity outside the city, and Logan realizes that Sanctuary is a myth. Francis has followed them, and he and Logan fight. Logan fatally wounds Francis; as he dies, Francis sees that Logan's life clock is clear and assumes Logan has renewed.