Sentences with phrase «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.

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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

Gabrielle Zevin, author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Nashville Public Library Auditorium

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.

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.

If she had, she never would have written The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, the lovely, irresistible story of a down - on - his - luck bookseller.

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?

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.

- 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.

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.

Maggie O'Farrell — After You'd Gone; The Hand That First Held Mine; I Am, I Am, I Am Liane Moriarty — What Alice Forgot; Big Little Lies; The Husband's Secret Maile Meloy — Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It Janet Fitch — White Oleander Colleen Oakley — Close Enough to Touch; Before I Go Lily King — Euphoria Marisha Pessl — Special Topics in Calamity Physics Jenny Offill — Dept. of Speculation Lionel Shriver — We Need to Talk About Kevin Rufi Thorpe — The Girls From Corona Del Mar Meg Wolitzer — The Interestings; The Ten - Year Nap Jhumpa Lahiri — The Namesake; The Lowland Caroline Leavitt — Pictures of You; Cruel Beautiful World Edan Lepucki — California Celeste Ng — Everything I Never Told You; Little Fires Everywhere Gabrielle Zevin — The Storied Life of AJ Firky Maria Semple — Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

Good ol' fiction: The River at Night by Erica Ferencik The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable Before I Go by Colleen Oakley Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan by James Michener We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard Since She Went Away by David Bell Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese The Decent Proposal by Kemper Donovan The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison Happy Family by Tracy Barone Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang Bird in Hand by Christina Baker Kline The Weight of Him by Ethel Rohan Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard Saving Grace by Jane Green After You by Jojo Moyes Britt - Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell The Passenger by Lisa Lutz The Girls by Emma Cline Cruel Beautiful World by Caroline Leavitt The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris California by Edan Lepucki Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak Christmas in London by Anita Hughes

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.

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

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?

Not exact matches

Life to date, the PS4 has sold more than 30.2 million units, making it the fastest selling system in the history of the PlayStation brand — even eclipsing the storied PS2.

Its principal features are: a three - storied universe consisting of heaven, earth, and underworld; the intervention of natural and supernatural powers in human life; the dominion of evil spirits and Satan over that life and also over the external realm of nature; the imminent end in time of this present world - æon.

Series creator Peter Berg has a knack for bringing working class characters to life (Deepwater Horizon, Patriots Day, Hell or High Water), and Friday Night Lights may be the most authentic work of his storied Hollywood career.

Moreover, after this realistic and active stay in the nether world, Jesus» return to life on earth and, by ascension, to life in heaven, was presented in bodily terms and was picturesquely set in the framework of the three - storied Jewish cosmos.

Even Paul's storied 500 is a pittance, considering that there were a couple of million people living in Israel at that time.

In an intriguing if controversial article, Stephen Crites argues that experience itself is basically narrative in form, providing the essential order for human understanding.13 The storied unity found in life is not, for Crites, a secondary result of human culture.

Living with a roommate who had grown up in Napa Valley and hearing storied tales about the wines and terroirs, invigorated him to become passionate about wine.

Lloyd Daniels was a storied playground basketball player, but his life — and his once bright NBA prospects — have taken a sorry turn

I am honored to be beside him in the storied history of Brooklyn as the first African - Americans to hold boroughwide office, and I know that many young men and women will reach a bit higher because of the heights that Ken reached in his career and his life,» Adams said in a statement.

The Loisaida Awards were reinstated, and we honored living legends such as Adela, the still - standing Puerto Rican restaurant and community epicenter; CHICO, street artist of storied fame; Melissa Mark - Viverito, newly elected as the first Puerto Rican speaker of the City Council; and Rosie Méndez, the Councilmember who played a pivotal role in keeping Loisaida Inc. alive.

«At a time when our country is mourning the loss of 17 lives in a mass shooting, it is profoundly disappointing that a storied Coney Island institution, with a long history of being a strong civic and community partner, is choosing to host a National Rifle Association fundraising event that includes raffle giveaways of guns.

«I am honored to be beside him in the storied history of Brooklyn as the first African - Americans to hold borough - wide office, and I know that many young men and women will reach a bit higher because of the heights that Ken reached in his career and his life.»

We've shrunken it down to a third of a mile along the Charles River, and invite you to join us on a walk through time to tour the many incredible events during Earth's long and storied history: the formation of the oceans, the origin of life, the first animals, the rise and fall of dinosaurs, and the appearance and evolution of our own species (to name just a few).

As we know, the British Royal family has a rich and storied history of coming into other people's countries and telling them how to live, so it comes as little surprise that they would try to impose a dress code on a group over which they have no power.

So began what Kirby dubs the happiest job of her life, one that played out over eighteen months with many months of filming to come, and one which placed Kirby in the ever - capable hands of writer - producer Peter Morgan and storied director Stephen Daldry, and alongside castmates Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II and Matt Smith as Prince Philip.

Director Douglas McGrath documents Nichols's early life, as he opens up to his friend and director Jack O'Brien about the storied beginnings of his career.

Disney cashes in on one of its most storied properties with this retrograde live - action fairy tale, which time - travels back to 1950 while adding plenty of sparkly 21st - century CGI effects.