books about: annals

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Annals

John McPhee

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000

Pure Pleasure
Writing East to West, McPhee released "In Suspect Terrain" when Plate Tectonic theory was still somewhat speculative. "Rising From the Plain', in which he owes a great debt (which he acknowleges) to David Love's mother's journal brings us to the Rockies, and is perhaps ...

The Annals of the World

James Ussher

Master Books; imprint, 2007

The Most Interesting History Of The World You're Every Likely To Read
I'd been reading about James Ussher's "The Annals of the World" for years but had never seen a copy. It has long been famous because of Ussher's claim that the world and everything in it was created at sundown on the day before October 23, 4004 BC. But it wasn't ...

Powers (Annals of the Western Shore)

Ursula K. Le Guin

Harcourt Children's Books, 2007

The best in the series so far
Powers is the third and, in my opinion, the best of the Annals of the Western Shore novels. In this book, we meet Gavir, a slave in the City State of Etra. Gavir was born in the marshes but was stolen, along with his sister, by slavers and brought to Etra. He has the ...

Voices (Annals of the Western Shore)

Ursula K. Le Guin

Harcourt Paperbacks, 2008

Courtesy of Teens Read Too
A companion novel to Le Guin's GIFTS, VOICES looks in on the life of a teen growing up in a city controlled by an enemy people. Memer has never known a life when hostile soldiers didn't patrol the streets and the possession of a book was not a crime punishable by ...

The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero (Oxford World's Classics)
Cornelius Tacitus, Anthony A. Barrett

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Here is a lively new translation of Cornelius Tacitus' timeless history of three of Rome's most memorable emperors. Tacitus, who condemns the depravity of these rulers, which he saw as proof of the corrupting force of absolute power, writes caustically of the brutal and lecherous Tiberius, the weak and cuckolded Claudius, and "the artist" Nero. In ...

Annals of the World: James Ussher's Classic Survey of World History

James Ussher, Larry Pierce, ...

Master Books, 2003

Annals of the Word: James Ussher's Classic Survey of World History
Wonderfully done book of History. Fun to unfold and learn the events that have gone before us. This book is great to compare with school material, and use for historical studies. Beautiful book.

The Vampire Agent (Annals of Alchemy and Blood)

Patricia Rosemoor, Marc Paoletti

Del Rey, 2008

excellent vampire urban fantasy
During the recent battle with the evil vampire Andre Espinoza, Special Ops Captain Scott Boulder was contaminated by the malevolent one; he knows his humanity has been breached. Anthropologist Leah Maguire saves his soul from the mummy she and a priestess brought back ...

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29: ...and Other Great Comebacks from the Annals of Sports
Barry Wilner

Taylor Trade Publishing, 2007

When Harvard came back from a 16-point deficit with less than a minute to go to tie Yale in the now-famous 1968 gridiron tilt, the headline in the Harvard Crimson the following Monday proudly boasted Harvard Beats Yale 29 - 29. This example and nineteen extraordinary comeback stories are the subjects of the authors' latest volume of sports ...

The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics)

Tacitus

Penguin Classics, 1956

The Beautiful Sarcasm
I read Tacitus for a college humanities course, and although I had to read the entirety of the Annales over two days, it was quite an enjoyable, if daunting, task. The other reviews discuss his historical importance, so I'll limit myself to commenting that his sarcasm ...

Gifts (Annals of the Western Shore)

Ursula K. Le Guin

Harcourt Paperbacks, 2006

you just can`t stop reading
when you just get the book in your hand you will not put it down till you finish reading it..

Games of God and Men: Book Six of the Latter Annals of Lystra (The Latter Annals of Lystra)

Robin Hardy

Westford Press, 2008

A broken heart God will not despise.
Games of God and Men was so much fun to read that when I reached the last page I wanted the next book to start on. Combined with plenty of action and excitement is a clear message, that we must be faithful and obedient, listen to the Lord, and let Him handle our ...

The Summer Palace (Annals of the Chosen, Vol. 3)

Lawrence Watt-Evans

Tor Books, 2008

A Midsummer Nights reading...
With the third installment of the Annals of the Chosen, Lawrence Watt-Evans has given us a novel that makes you want to scream out "Use your Magic...one spell can fix this...one spell". If only magic hadn't been neutralized by the new Wizard Lord in his efforts to ...

The Ninth Talisman (Annals of the Chosen, Vol. 2)

Lawrence Watt-Evans

Tor Fantasy, 2008

The Progressive Wizard
The Progressive Wizard The Ninth Talisman (2007) is the second novel in the Annals of the Chosen series, following The Wizard Lord. In the previous volume, Breaker -- the Chosen Swordsman -- slew the Dark Lord of Galbek Hills and ended his reign of evil. When the ...

The Wizard Lord (The Annals of the Chosen, Book 1)

Lawrence Watt-Evans

Tor Fantasy, 2007

Gathering of the Chosen
The Wizard Lord (2006) is the first fantasy novel in the Annals of the Chosen series. The Wizard Lord rules all of Barokan, although he has limitations on his authority. He can kill rogue wizards and any criminal who flees into the wilderness, but not innocent ...

The Shaping of Middle-Earth: The Quenta, the Ambarkanta and the Annals (The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. 4)

J.R.R. Tolkien

Houghton Mifflin, 1986

Early Notes for The Silmarillion, plus MAPS! Better than Vol III
`The Shaping of Middle-Earth' is the fourth volume of Christopher Tolkien's exegesis of his father, J.R.R. Tolkien's unpublished writings which were done before, during, and after the writing of `The Hobbit' and `The Lord of the Rings'. It is important to realize that ...