Sentences with phrase «storied life»

The theme for this first year of our arts@newman program could best be expressed with the statement «We live storied lives.»

Through the eyes of first - time author Edward Hollis, an architect who specializes in restoring historic buildings, readers will discover that iconic structures like the Parthenon, the Berlin Wall and even the Vegas Strip have led more storied lives than we realize.

Tales of Symphonia has had a long and storied life since its launch.

Kanemitsu's storied life took him between Japan, the U.S. and Europe — and included everything from a stint in a World War II internment camp to a period spent studying with Fernand Leger.

He was feisty, highly opinionated, and game to talk about the biggest challenges of his storied life (save for the allegations of phone hacking by News Corp. journalists in Britain, which he declined to discuss for legal reasons).

In a rare interview, she talks about her storied life and how she is now helping to build Heineken and her family legacy.

We pick up her story only when it is pertinent to the storied lives of other seemingly bigger characters.

With nothing much physically there, you're left to your imagination to appreciate the storied lives of long - dead natives, whalers, intrepid explorers and traders.

January 29 PBS's «Henry Ford» documentary takes a look at the storied life of the man who invented the assembly line and brought mass production to the world.

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March 21, 2016 • The company says its influential longtime CEO has died at age 79 after a storied life that led him from Hungary to the United States — and to the roster of Silicon Valley legends.

Instead of trying to squeeze in every facet of the man's storied life, Lincoln chooses to focus on the period as the Civil War drew to a bloody, heart - rending close and the president, who had chosen to form a cabinet made up largely of people who opposed him, was sticking to his campaign to abolish slavery.

Lee Grant has one of the world's great laughs, rich, throaty, and full of the elan that only someone who has lived such a storied life can give it.

That led us to the design, teaching, and assessment of the «Storied Lives» curriculum and studying how our struggling readers both experienced and learned from that curriculum.

Each unit within the «Storied Lives» framework draws upon a set of books that allows the particular focus to be fully developed.

You remained otherwise unchanged that year, a bold - but - courageous move you made again and again throughout your storied life.

In only a few months time, the Audi A1 has led a storied life.

The Collected Works of A.J.Fikry (aka The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry) is the fifth stand - alone novel by American author, Gabrielle Zevin.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin The cantankerous owner of a small independent New England bookstore is widowed and sales are lagging but he gets a new lease on life when an exciting package arrives at his doorstep.

From bestselling novelist Gabrielle Zevin (The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry) comes a fresh take on a classic theme.

With the number of titles, there was little overlap, but the number one title, also the number one LibraryReads Favorite of Favorites, is Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, (Workman / Algonquin Books; Highbridge Audio, OverDrive Sample) a book librarians embraced early on.

Today we're reading a passage from Gabrielle Zevin's delightful novel, «The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry.»

In Gabrielle Zevin's new novel, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, the titular character is the prickly proprietor of a seen - better - days bookstore — Island Books — whose life is turned upside - down... in a good way.

Will you be adding The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry — or any of Zevin's recommended books — to your TBR list?

If you loved «The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry» you will love «A Man Called Ove».

What do you think of this statement in view of the plot of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry?

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry author Gabrielle Zevin will return at the end of August with the novel Young Jane Young, as does perennial favorite Louise Penny with her latest Three Pines mystery, Glass Houses.

Do you think The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry was written - as an homage to her father - by Maya?

And so right from the get go I knew I was going to like The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry.

and book club discussions, with humor and flawless characterization, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry fills all the bills in straightforward, no - frills prose.

- LeahLovesBooks Do you think The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry was written - as an homage to her father - by Maya?

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As surprising as it is moving, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is an unforgettable tale of transformation and second chances, an irresistible affirmation of why we read, and why we love.

At the top of the list is Gabrielle Zevin's irresistible novel The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, which graces the cover of our April issue.

- Gabrielle Zevin, author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

While it includes all the requisite details of Hemingway's storied life — the love affairs, the feuds, the wars (real and emotional)-- that shaped the writer in all his complexity, her portrait is a largely psychological one, seeking both the impetus for his distinctive fiction as well as the roots of the failures in his personal life.

THE FAMILY FANG meets THE STORIED LIFE OF A.J. FIKRY in this literary mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician, left behind a dangerous equation for her to track down — and protect — before others can get their hands on it.

The author of the book has led a storied life.

Lutetia, a hotel of The Set, will re-open its fabled doors in the Spring of 2018, beginning a new chapter in the storied life of this iconic Parisian hotel.

The controversial art installation that was removed from Kennesaw State University's Zuckerman Museum of Art in the spring has a storied life.

But how does she capture this storied life in her own home?