The King in the Forest: Gripping Tales

It was close to the Irish shore.

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At lunch, an Englishman was waiting for a spoon to eat his ice cream. When the U's torpedo thudded into the hull, everything happened remarkably fast. The Lusitania sank in a mere 18 minutes. Some passengers managed to load up lifeboats but too many did not fetch their life jackets in time or worse -- they put them on wrong and were drowned suspended upside down in the water.

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Larson's description of the actual event churns like an angry sea, full of detail gleaned from memoirs and letters of the survivors and the rescuers. The latter were not British warships or cruisers, which were forbidden to conduct rescue missions for fear they, too, would be torpedoed, but by smaller craft that took hours to reach the wretched lifeboat flotilla. Nearly 1, people were lost, including Vanderbilt and other Americans. Dorothy Conner certainly got her thrill.

She survived and joined the war effort in France. Captain Turner, who remained on board as the ship sank, was among those rescued and at first was heaped with blame. The disaster was not enough to bring the United States into the war immediately. Wilson, the book suggests, was distracted by his romance.

It cites a famous blunder in a Wilson speech several days after the disaster, when he used the unfortunate phrase "too proud to fight". Maybe I unrealistically expected that following The Devil in the White City , Larson would give us a masterpiece with every succeeding book. His title, In the Garden of the Beasts , disappointed me. Dead Wake fares much better. It may not equal The Devil in the White City 's dazzle, but it still makes quite a splash. Well into her 30s, silent film star Mary Pickford was the waif-iest waif in film history, and the number of convincing variations she wrung on this theme is remarkable.

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Considering its YA audience, Markus Zusak's Bridge of Clay is a superb and accessible gateway to developing critical literacy skills. Jean Grey and Cassandra Nova have their final showdown in a war of ideas, wherein Jean applies a different tactic to quell the conflict. Christian Rivers' directorial debut, Mortal Engines, is that lump of coal in your holiday movie stocking. If you're still having trouble, follow these steps to sign in.

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They grow up together but when the fine stag leaves, Tod could never have predicted that he would become so powerful that he becomes King. And no kingdom can have two kings.

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