5/30/2023 0 Comments Slouching towards bethlehemFirst published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the "best prose written in this country." More than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion's focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. JUST MENTION IMAGECODE IN THE REMARKS FIELD AT THE TIME OF PLACING ORDER. LEATHER COLOUR OPTION:- CHOOSE ANY LEATHER COLOR OF YOUR CHOICE WITHOUT ANY EXTRA CHARGES. We will rebind this book after purchasing from the original Publisher/Distributor. We are bringing this book for our Elite readers in our Unique Premium Leather Bound. 256 It is a Bestselling Title, recommended by many readers around the Globe.
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Coraline by P. Craig RussellInsatiably curious Coraline is an explorer dedicated to discovering everything she can about the area around her family's new home. Grade 6-8–This adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel (HarperCollins, 2002) reads as though it were intended for the graphic novel format in the first place. He has won several Harvey and Eisner Awards. His work ranges from such mainstream titles as Batman, Star Wars, and Conan to adaptations of classic operas and a Jungle Book series. He is well-known for his graphic novel adaptations of Neil Gaiman's Coraline and Sandman: The Dream Hunters, as well as his Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde series. Craig Russell lives in Kent, Ohio, and has spent forty years producing graphic novels, comic books, and illustrations. He is Professor in the Arts at Bard College. Originally from England, he now lives in the United States. He is the winner of numerous literary honors, including the Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, and the Newbery and Carnegie Medals. Neil Gaiman is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, Anansi Boys, The Graveyard Book, Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett), The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains the Sandman series of graphic novels and the story collections Smoke and Mirrors, Fragile Things, and Trigger Warning. XanstaRapReadings 344,718 viewsĬontent: The History of Bed Bug Management– With Lessons from the Past “A Strenuous Struggle, a vigorous campaign, is before any housewife who is called upon to dispute the occupancy of her home with that persistent pest unfavorably known as the bedbug, who, gorged with the blood of his victim, lieth up in his lair from daylight to candlelight BAD LIP READING HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE EPISODE 1: THE FIRST TRAIN RIDE – Duration: 3:39.By reading the two first chapters I had the opportunity to read about the two main characters Bugs potter and Adam. Who is Bugs Potter, 1-35, Journal 1 I have recently started reading the book “Who is Bugs Potter.“ Which I think is a decent book so far. The name of the illness is apparently made from the word “scrofula” (the former name… The “Magical Bugs” section of St Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries treats this disease. It is a contagious disease and is provoked by an unknown magical bug. Edge and corner wear, corners bumped, cover crease, covers rubbed, inside covers and pages yellowed, gift inscription inside front cover. 5/30/2023 0 Comments We must be brave frances liardetThank you to NetGalley for providing an advanced copy of We Must Be Brave in exchange for an honest review.Įven though the war feels as if it’s at a distance from Upton, a small English village, the villagers are not immune to its impact in this War II story. I thought it was a nice way to conclude this story that spanned several years. I also felt the book could have cut 100 pages without detracting from the story. I admired her care and compassion for people yet still had a hard time connecting with her, other characters, and the overall story. I found the flashbacks to be more dull than the current timeline and they didn’t really keep my interest.Įllen was a kind and caring main character, always willing to do what needed to be done to help others. The story follows Ellen later in life (post-Pamela’s departure) and also includes flashbacks to her own childhood and earlier adult years. Pamela leaves Ellen’s home later in the story, which is tough on both her and Ellen. Ellen does not have children of her own but takes Pamela in and becomes close with her. Ellen finds a little girl, Pamela, alone on a bus. There are many positive reviews for We Must Be Brave so maybe it just wasn’t for me. It was difficult for me to get into the story, stay invested, and enjoy it. I generally enjoy historical fiction but this book moved at an incredibly slow pace. At the same time, she has filled her poetry with non-poetic language, dialogic forms, as a search of freedom even in the writing, but never failing to provide it with vivid and delicate images. In fact, the poems of the collection are a combination of very private moments with a wider expression of what an existence as a lesbian means. One example is given by Twenty-One Love Poems, a pamphlet that was first published in 1987, later included in the book The Dream of a Common Language. As somebody who considered that the personal was inherently political, it came as no surprise that she thought that poetry, too, should be the domain of radical political content. Initially married, and after giving birth to three children, she then began a relationship with a woman. Adrienne Rich was an American poet and essay writer, who was involved in the political activism of the 1960s, which ranged from civil rights, radical feminism, the anti-war movement and other aspects of counter-culture. 5/30/2023 0 Comments The Ebony Tower by John FowlesRealizes that neither he nor "the first professional readers" need really have worried. Second, the fear of "the first professional readers" of the book that these "variations" were only visible in "a private mirage in the writer's mind." Well, after reading Mr. Fowles goes on to explain: first, his own fear that readers would "feel themselves at a disadvantage because they are unfamiliar with my work. Seemed to militate against using "Variations" as a title, Mr. Of the way through his new book, "The Ebony Tower" - "by which I meant to suggest variations both on certain themes in previous books of mine and in methods of narrative presentation." But two considerations He working title of this collection of stories was Variations"-John Fowles interjects in "A Personal Note" about one-third NovemMore Magic From John Fowles By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT 5/30/2023 0 Comments Candacy taylor green bookIt took courage to be listed in the Green Book, and Overground Railroad celebrates the stories of those who put their names in the book and stood up against segregation. It was a resourceful and innovative solution to a horrific problem. The Green Book listed hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and other businesses that were safe for black travelers. Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the “black travel guide to America.” At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for African-Americans to travel because they couldn’t eat, sleep, or buy gas at most white-owned businesses. This historical exploration of the Green Book offers “a fascinating sweeping story of black travel within Jim Crow America across four decades” ( The New York Times Book Review). 5/30/2023 0 Comments The tourist by olen steinhauerI knew that at any moment, if necessary, I could disappear. It’s a world without roots, carrying within it all the pros and cons this suggests, and until the birth of my daughter, the rootlessness of the expat felt like a powerful thing to possess. It’s neither the home you’ve left behind, nor an adopted culture-instead, it’s somewhere in between: a country of the mind, in which English is the national language, the Habsburg buildings are an outdoor museum made just for you, and because of your disconnection from the culture, you can arrange your daily details pretty much as you’d like. I’d never been a spy, committed murder, or smuggled state secrets across borders, but for the previous six years I’d lived as a novelist in Budapest, living in that tenuous non-place where many expatriates exist. The idea of a Tourist as a kind of intelligence agent sprang out of my own lifestyle in 2007. This love should not be considered better, or more perfect. Love will come quite naturally without a great struggle to the first. If two people, the one loving and docile by nature, the other inconsiderate and offensive, have equal love, they may love God equally, but not in the same way. This risk accompanies the capability of loving. While some souls have a natural tendency to love God, they are always at great risk of being diverted from the purity of sacred love by a mixture of other loves. This love lives independently in the ultimate place of the spirit. I have written in this treatise of the mystical love that God pours into our hearts. Guidance for Practising Divine Love by St Francis De SalesĪll the passages below are taken from St Francis De Sales’ book “ Living Love-A Modern Edition of Treatise on the Love of God.” It was edited by Bernard Bangley and published in 2003. 5/29/2023 0 Comments The castle of otranto author|a Inheritance and succession |v Fiction. Set in a haunted castle, the novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. He is well known for his Gothic romance novel, The Castle of Otranto. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle A Gothic Story. Walpole opened a private press that published his own works and that of his friends. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first gothic novel. First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto is a founding work of Gothic fiction. The Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole. But a series of terrifying supernatural omens soon threaten this unlawful union, as the curse placed on Manfred's ancestor, who usurped the lawful Prince of Otranto, begins to unfold. His calculating father, Manfred, fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son's bride himself-despite the fact he is already married. |a On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed under mysterious circumstances. 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