![]() ![]() Maisie grows increasingly suspicious of a peculiar secrecy that shrouds the village, and ultimately she must draw on all her finely honed skills of detection to solve o. As Maisie discovers, the villagers are bitterly prejudiced against outsiders who flock to Kent at harvest time?even more troubling, they seem possessed by the legacy of a wartime Zeppelin raid. Mysterious fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggests a darker criminal element at work. ![]() Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence that something is amiss. Maisie Dobbs new case takes her investigation into the pastoral beauty of the Kent Weald where acts of arson, theft and vandalism around the village of. With the country in the grip of economic malaise, and worried about her business, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment from an old friend to investigate certain matters concerning a potential land purchase. Read more about the seller notes “First edition. ![]()
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![]() ![]() and it will take more than a broken curse to save Harper, Rhen, and his people from utter ruin. But powerful forces are standing against Emberfall. And as Rhen realizes Harper is not just another girl to charm, his hope comes flooding back. A prince? A curse? A monster? As she spends time with Rhen in this enchanted land, she begins to understand what’s at stake. Harper doesn’t know where she is or what to believe. When she tries to save a stranger on the streets of Washington, DC, she’s pulled into a magical world. ![]() With her father long gone, her mother dying, and her brother constantly underestimating her because of her cerebral palsy, Harper learned to be tough enough to survive. Before he destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope. But that was before he turned into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction. Title: A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreakers #1)Ĭursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen, the heir of Emberfall, thought he could be saved easily if a girl fell for him. ![]() ![]() ![]() Weston continues to charismatically expand on his reasons for the Green Lady to disobey Maleldil and spend a night on the Fixed Land. ![]() Through a constant onslaught of materialistic arguments Weston, who is possessed by the Devil, tried to get the Queen to disobey Maleldil’s order to avoid sleeping a night on the Fixed Land. It is not until the antagonist Weston from the first novel suddenly arrives on the scene that the battle over Perelandra begins. Perelandra represented a “New Garden of Eden”. ![]() Kaleidoscopic and oceanic, Perelandra is largely composed of fluid raft-like islands and the planet contained a singular geographic feature called the Fixed Land. Now to go back to the story, Ransom travels to the second planet from the Sun in a coffin-like spaceship and wakes up to a vastly different world from his time on Malancandra. While I do not necessary know the exact motivation for Lewis’ selection of appellations I think it is telling, along with a type of foreshadowing, that Elwin is a splicing together of the ancient word for God plus win thus equaling God wins as a meaning of the main character’s name! ![]() Here he receives an assignment from Oyarsa-the angelic ruler of Malacandra-to travel to Perendra to thwart an attack by Satan! Before I continue on with the synopsis, I want to point out something interesting I discovered about the first name of Dr. Elwin Ransom a few years removed from his celestial journey to Malancandra. ![]() ![]() Menzies takes a tremendous dump on the sensibilities of his readers, bombarding us with outrageous claims backed up with erroneous facts and arrogant speculation. There are books that break new ground with bombshell research and there are books that spellbind us with the skill of their deception. Our knowledge of world exploration as it's been commonly accepted for centuries must now be reconceived due to this landmark work of historical investigation. Unveiling incontrovertible evidence of these astonishing voyages, "1421" rewrites our understanding of history. Also concealed was how the Chinese colonized America before the Europeans & transplanted in America & other countries the principal economic crops that have fed & clothed the world. Lost in China's long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America 70 years before Columbus & had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. ![]() ![]() Most records of their journeys were destroyed. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings. When it returned in 10/1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political & economic chaos. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" & unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. ![]() On, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. ![]() ![]() ![]() Oscar Wilde’s “The Nightingale and the Rose” follows the journey of a nightingale as she struggles to find a red rose for a student who wants to use it to ask the girl he likes to dance with him. I also found the cover and use of images intriguing in regards to how it altered the way I read and understood the work. ![]() I found it interesting how Wilde’s name is not on the cover of the book, further drawing attention to the story itself and not necessarily the author (although it may have been well known enough, especially by fans, that the author’s name was already known). As the story was published on its own versus published in a compilation like the original publication or the version we read in class, it gives the text individual attention and significance beyond being grouped or organized by being a short story of Oscar Wilde. The copy is also worn, again pointing to its popularity and how it was read multiple times. The book is a bit smaller than the size of a typical book and is slim and portable with slightly yellow, frayed, sturdy pages. Moreover, there were only four hundred copies printed, implying that the targeted audience was likely comprised of American fans of the story or of Wilde. This hardcover version of “The Nightingale and the Rose” was published in 1927 by Windsor Press in San Francisco, and as the story was initially published in a collection in 1888, the reprint as its own, hardcover book suggests how popular and well-loved the tale is. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “She was just a country girl from Virginia with a huge smile and an annoying accent. So he’s made his mission to make her life a real Hell. He can’t stand what she makes his cold heart feel. He can’t stand her looking like his stepmother. She’s attending a private school thanks to Vicious parents but does not fit in at all with the rich crowd. ![]() As the help’s daughter she is far from rich. If you love stories with bullies, complex characters and revenge this should more than float your boat! Trust me I did not want stop reading Vicious and Emi’s story.Įmilia (Emi) is the quintessential good girl. I’ve come to the hard realization that I fall for the bad boy like maybe 90% of the female readers. Wealth does not make you happy (even if I recon I would love unlimited budget for books) The plot is not overtly complicated but has its secrets and good revenge Vicious is a real a bully and VERY possessive Her main characters are flawed, strong and compelling L.J Shen never writes the same story twice but they’re ALWAYS gripping Genres & Themes: Adult, Bully, Revenge, RomanceĪn ARC has kindly been given by the author to this extremely enthusiastic reader in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() With that in your back pocket, let's talk about how Campbell breaks it all down (and down, and down). He sums it all up after he talks about each step-about two-thirds of the way through the book in the chapter helpfully labeled "The Keys"-but we're gonna include an outline right here just to give you a little road map to figuring it all out. The Journey consists of a series of specific steps, laid out by Campbell one by one. But think of it as the literary equivalent of being handed a skeleton key…because this book unlocks the plot of basically every movie (and most books) ever made. ![]() Joseph Campbell launches into a lengthy blueprint for storytelling, commonly known as the Hero's Journey.ĭoes that sound dry? Maybe a little. ![]() ![]() Stefan's in for the surprise of his life as he finds himself in danger as well. : Timing (1) (9781641080859) by Calmes, Mary and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Though leery of the unexpected feelings, Stefan is swayed by a sincere revelation from Rand, and he decides to give Rand a chance.But their budding romance is threatened when Stefan's business deal goes wrong: the owner of the last ranch he needs to secure for the company is murdered. Worst of all, he's thrown for a loop when he arrives to see the one man Charlotte promised wouldn't be there: her brother, Rand Holloway.Stefan and Rand have been mortal enemies since the day they met, so Stefan is shocked when a temporary cease-fire sees the usual hostility replaced by instant chemistry. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not only does he have to go to Texas in the middle of summer to be the man of honor in his best friend Charlotte's wedding, but he's expected to negotiate a million-dollar business deal at the same time. ![]() ![]() 2023 In a tour de force of illusion, the ceiling is painted to look as through the architecture opens up to the sky with the goddess Aurora, or Dawn, driving her chariot across the space above. 2023 Drive across the curbing of Inner Loop at Watkins Glen, and the headset's vibration deepens the illusion. ![]() 2023 What was important was the illusion, language, and moves of romance. 2023 That creates the retrograde illusion. 2023 On this version of Perry Mason, the characters openly debate whether justice is an illusion. 2023 Timoner, once again, invites us to get caught up in the illusion, and maybe she herself is caught up in it too. Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. ![]() Town & Country, And maybe our concept of things being continuous - continuous motion or whatever- maybe this is all just an illusion. Recent Examples on the Web Perfume is a dream, an illusion, a conjuring trick. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The war, which cost the lives of over 1,000 men, has left a legacy of many historical debates and controversies, from the sinking of ships such as HMS Coventry, HMS Sheffield and Sir Galahad, and the Argentinian cruiser, the Belgrano, to wider issues such as what was it like to command and fight a modern air and naval war, the biggest naval action since World War II. In these engrossing memoirs, Admiral Sandy Woodward, Task Force commander from the aircraft carrier Hermes, takes us from day one to day one hundred of the conflict from sailing through the waters of the Atlantic with hopes of a political settlement fading, and war becoming increasingly likely, to the repulse of the Argentinian navy and the daring amphibious landing at San Carlos Water. On 5 April 1982, three days after the invasion of the Falkland Islands, British armed forces were ordered to sail 8,000 miles to the South Atlantic unaware of what lay ahead of them or whether they would be committed to war with Argentina. Updated for the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War, this is the bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the conflict, written by the commander of the British Task Force. ![]() |