![]() His only sister was Maria Anna (nicknamed “Nannerl”). ![]() Wolfgang’s mother, Anna Maria Pertl, was born to a middle class family of local community leaders. Leopold was a successful composer, violinist, and assistant concert master at the Salzburg court. The small city-state of Salzburg would be the birthplace of one of the most talented and prodigious musical composers of all time.īorn on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s was the sole-surviving son of Leopold and Maria Pertl Mozart. The music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods was transitioning toward more full-bodied compositions with complex instrumentation. Political leadership of small city-states like Salzburg, Vienna, and Prague was in the hands of the aristocracy and their wealth would commission artists and musicians to amuse, inspire, and entertain. The result was competing rivalries between these municipalities for identity and recognition. ![]() The remnants of the Holy Roman Empire had divided into small semi-self-governing principalities. ![]() Early LifeĬentral Europe in the mid-18th century was going through a period of transition. Over the years, Mozart aligned himself with a variety of European venues and patrons, composing hundreds of works that included sonatas, symphonies, masses, chamber music, concertos and operas, marked by vivid emotion and sophisticated textures. ![]() Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician capable of playing multiple instruments who started playing in public at the age of 6. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Someone is sending her threatening lettersletters that make her fear for her life. Ella is wracked with guilt over what she failed to do, and she’s not the only one who can’t forget. Someone knows where Anna is - and they're not telling. The next day, she wakes up to the news that one of the girlsbeautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballardhas disappeared. Anna's best friend, Sarah, hasn't been telling the whole truth about what really happened that night - and her parents have been keeping secrets of their own. Then an anniversary appeal reveals that Anna's friends and family might have something to hide. Someone is sending her threatening letters - letters that make her fear for her life. ![]() ![]() Ella is wracked with guilt over what she failed to do, and she's not the only one who can't forget. The next day, she wakes up to the news that one of the girls - beautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballard - has disappeared. But just as she's decided to call for help, something stops her. When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it - until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert. ![]() ![]() ![]() Loved this so much that I was mad I had to go to sleep and stop reading it!!!! Quinton and Oakley have my whole heart and I have no complaints. ![]() Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age.* *Iced Out is the first in a five book standalone college sports romance series featuring two misunderstood rival teammates, pages of snarky banter, and more secret spicy times than any book should be filled with. ![]() ![]() I never imagined that drive would lead me to do the unthinkable: falling into bed with my not-so-straight rival.īut athletes are a superstitious bunch, and when our hook-ups lead to victories, we tell ourselves we can’t stop.īesides, it’s all for the sake of the team, right? The only thing we can agree on is hockey is our true love, and we’ll do whatever it takes to come out on top. We’re as completely opposite as two people can be the golden boy and the black sheep.Ĭonstantly at odds or at each other’s throats. My path to success never included an enemy as a teammate, especially one as infuriating as Quinton de Haas.Ĭlawing under my skin is his favorite pastime, only feeding the animosity between us as the years pass. ![]() ![]() ![]() Spilling over with the sumptuous flavors and romance of Tuscany, These Tangled Vines takes readers on a breathtaking journey of love, secrets, sacrifice, courage-and most importantly, the true meaning of family. Fiona both fears and embraces her new destiny as she searches for the truth about the fateful summer her mother spent in Italy and the father she never knew. While the mystery of her mother's affair is slowly unraveled, Fiona must navigate through tricky family relationships and tense sibling rivalries. She is the only person who knows about her late mother's affair in Tuscany thirty years earlier, and she intends to keep it that way.until a lawyer calls with shocking news: her biological father has died and left her an incredible inheritance-along with two half siblings.įiona travels to Italy, where the family is shocked to learn of her existence and desperate to contest her share of the will. It works when both partners pull together, but the journey can’t continue for long if one partner unbuckles the straps and decides to ride in the wagon, because it’s easier, and because he knows his partner will keep pulling no matter what. If Fiona has learned anything in life, it's how to keep a secret-even from the father who raised her. From the USA Today bestselling author of A Curve in the Road comes a sweeping and captivating tale of one woman's journey to the lush vineyards of Tuscany-and into the mysteries of a tragic family secret. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She left two years later and married Thomas Tafuri, a fellow student at the School of Visual Arts. Her first job was as an assistant art director for the publishing firm Simon & Schuster. Tafuri entered the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1964. For the first ten years of her life she was an only child and says that this helped her to learn to entertain herself with stories and art. Since then she has had the opportunity to work with Scholastic Press, Scholastic Inc., Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division and most recently Little, Brown Books For Young Readers, Little, Brown and Company. Finally, Tafuri’s talent was recognized and tapped at Greenwillow Books, Harper Collins Publishers. “The pictures are too big,” she was told over and over about the large, colorful shapes she drew. Tafuri’s images were considered “too graphic” for children that age. When Tafuri first attempted picture book illustration in the late 1970’s picture books were aimed at five-, six-, and seven-year-olds. Nancy Tafuri is probably best known as the creator of Have You Seen My Duckling?, a 1985 Caldecott Honor Book described by Parent’s Choice as “beautifully precise yet emotionally affecting.” Trained as a graphic designer, Tafuri has authored more than 45 books over 30 years for the very young. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But, have the true villains been much closer all along? When the truth is finally revealed, it just might end up costing Emilia her heart. 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![]() ![]() You know who else uses fart jokes? Uses the hell out of them, in fact? A certain Louis CK, whom critics like me hail rightfully as not just a comedic genius but a humane, insightful storyteller. There are plenty of reasons not to watch The Millers–the shticky insult humor, the studio audience laughter that feels like it was pumped out of a bellows–but this is not one of them. ![]() It’s true: there are a bunch of fart jokes in The Millers, mostly centered on Martindale’s character–who gets gassy after popping a sleeping pill–and the fact that farts just “slip out” when you get older, which, the usual take goes, is a humiliation for an actress who created indelible characters in Justified and The Americans. I am also guessing, because it’s been mentioned in just about every piece I’ve read about the show since this summer, that you will hear a lot about the fart jokes. I’m guessing this because the pilot, at least, is not good–a braying, clunky, assembly-line sitcom–and because there’s a special pain in seeing actors like Arnett and Martindale, fantastic in better shows, stuck here. Tomorrow night, CBS premieres The Millers, a sitcom starring Will Arnett and Margo Martindale, about a divorced man whose mother moves in with him after her own marriage ends. ![]() ![]() “Oh, relax! It’s a fart! Some people think they’re funny!” That with the strook he was almoost yblent ![]() ![]() ![]() The Last of Britain (London: Macmillan, 1956) is an historical novel about events leading up to the British defeat at Dyrham in 577. Merlin's Ring (London: Collins, 1957) is a fantasy for juveniles about a boy transported briefly, through the power of Merlin's ring, back to the months preceding Arthur's victory at Badon, which Trevor locates near Bath. She has set many novels in this period, two of which make use of Arthurian tradition. ![]() ![]() The city's popularity dates back to much earlier times than that, however, for the curative value of its waters were appreciated by the Romans and it is their civilization and its collapse that interest Trevor. It even figures in the novels of Jane Austen, one of my favorite authors. Meriol Trevor lives on Great Pulteney Street in Bath, a street famed in Regency days for its architectural symmetry. ![]() |