Bøker av Elizabeth Howard

"If a theatrical performance is primarily seen and heard, the main action in Much Ado About Nothing is principally overheard. The act of noting defines the play. While this dependence on noting seems rather harmless if the task is tricking Beatrice and Benedick to fall in love, Claudio's mistaken noting threatens to upend the comedy and undo all of the matches." -From Elizabeth Howard's guideThe Canon Classics Worldview Guides provide an aesthetic and thematic Christian perspective on the most definitive and daunting works of Western Literature. The Worldview Guides focus on the big picture (both the good and the bad) without neglecting the details. Each Worldview Guide is a friendly literary coach-and a treasure map, and a compass, and a key-to help teachers, parents, and students appreciate, critique, and master the classics.The bite-size WGs are divided into these ten sections (with some variation due to genre): Introduction, The World Around, About the Author, What Other Notables Said, Setting, Characters, & Argument, Worldview Analysis, Quotables, 21 Significant Questions & Answers, and Further Discussion & Review.

Ned O'Gorman: A Glance Back is a book of essays and reflections representing the various facets of Ned's life: The Poet, The Church, Harlem, and Sacred Spaces. The book is edited by Elizabeth Howard.

Meet PARIS Paris Mackenzie is a sixteen-year-old from Chicago with an irrepressible personality and a passion for Sherlock Holmes. When she visits her namesake city at the turn of the century, Paris finds all the glamour and romance she ever dreamed of. But the city's glittering façade hides a dark underside, whose danger is like a magnet to the intrepid Paris, pulling her closer and closer to treachery, deceit. . . and even murder.MYSTERY OF THE MAGICIANWhen Paris receives a beautiful Art Nouveau mirror from an auction house, little does she suspect it hides a secret for which people will kill. Suddenly her life is threatened and the mirror is stolen. When Houdini, the world-famous escape artist, is boldly abducted during a theatrical performance before her eyes only hours after the theft, Paris is horrified. She suspects a mysterious link between the mirror's secret and the magician's fate, but can she discover it in time to save Houdini?

¿Meet PARIS Paris Mackenzie is a sixteen-year-old from Chicago with an irrepressible personality and a passion for Sherlock Holmes. When she visits her namesake city at the turn of the century, Paris finds all the glamour and romance she ever dreamed of. But the city's glittering façade hides a dark underside, whose danger is like a magnet to the intrepid Paris, pulling her closer and closer to treachery, deceit. . . and even murder.MYSTERY OF THE DEADLY DIAMONDWhen Paris and her new friend Violette use Violette's experimental diving bell to explore the floor of the Seine, the trunk they discover proves an empty disappointment. Or is it? It soon becomes the first clue in a trail that leads from the recent theft of a priceless diamond to the villainous Madame Méduse. Even more disturbing is the connection that begins to emerge between Méduse, Violette, and Paris's own father. What links them together and what are the consequences for Paris if she insists on discovering the truth? This stunning fourth book in the My Name Is Paris series is a spellbinding mix of drama and intrigue.

Meet PARIS Paris Mackenzie is a sixteen-year-old from Chicago with an irrepressible personality and a passion for Sherlock Holmes. When she visits her namesake city at the turn of the century, Paris finds all the glamour and romance she ever dreamed of. But the city's glittering façade hides a dark underside, whose danger is like a magnet to the intrepid Paris, pulling her closer and closer to treachery, deceit. . . and even murder.A SCENT OF MURDERWorld-famous artist Claude Monet has invited Paris and Marcel to visit him in the tranquil French countryside at Giverny. But the waters of Monet's private pond are distinctly troubled when a dead man is found floating amid the lilies. Only Paris believes it is more than an accident. Before long her persistence uncovers a wicked web of duplicity, fraud, and murder threatening one of the world's greatest artists.