6/10/2023 0 Comments All souls trilogy the book of life![]() ![]() The popular television adaptation of A Discovery of Witches, starring Theresa Palmer and Matthew Goode, was released in 2019 by Sky/Sundance Now, and also broadcast on AMC. ![]() The All Souls series has been translated in thirty-eight languages. The first book in Harkness’s beloved All Souls series, A Discovery of Witches, was an instant New York Times bestseller and the series has since expanded with the addition of subsequent NYT bestsellers, Shadow of Night (2012), The Book of Life (2014), and Time’s Convert (2018), as well as the companion reader, The World of All Souls. ![]() Deborah Harkness is a #1 New York Times bestselling author who draws on her expertise as an historian of science, medicine, and the history of the book to create rich narratives steeped in magical realism, historical curiosity, and deeply human questions about what it is that makes us who we are. ![]()
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6/9/2023 0 Comments A fortunate life by ab facey![]() ![]() Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australia 20th century ISBN: 0140081674. A wonderful story about a man and his life in the early part of the 20th century in Western Australia. ![]() This truly is a classic of Australian writing. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. The book has been read and may carry some marks and creases. Small rubber stamp marks indicating library book. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. ![]() ![]() Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Penguin Books Australia, Melbourne, 1986. Keywords BZDB5 Fiction A Fortunate Life.Place of Publication Scoresby, VIC, Australia.Category: Fiction General Australia ISBN: 0140081674. May we all take a moment to recognize these honourable firefighters, and thank Show more. It is the story of Albert Facey, a parentless boy who began work at eight, struggled as a rural worker, survived Gallipoli, the loss of his farm in the Depression, the death of his son in WWII and that of his wife after sixty years - yet felt that his life was fortunate. We are all fortunate to live in a place that is protected by brave men and women that put their life on the line to keep our communities safe from crisis. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: This is the extraordinary life of an ordinary man. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition except for gift inscription in ink. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Penguin, Scoresby, VIC, Australia, 1985. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Snowed In by Teodora Kostova![]() Remembering what it felt like to have the person you love most in the world torn away from you still hurt. ![]() But they'd never be anything more than that again. I need to heal.""I miss you so much it's hard to breathe."NOW"Beppe was still Gia's closest friend. I know you need me, but I have nothing left to give you. ![]() It belonged to them, not to abusive or dead fathers, not to guilt, regret or sorrow, not to the past or the future."But will their love survive when tragedy separates them? "I have to go, Gia. At least once he needed to be strong for her. She'd held him when he'd hurt so badly he'd thought he might die she'd talked him down when he'd been so angry he'd considered doing something he'd regret for the rest of his life. THEN"Gia had let Beppe into her life so easily, as if it was the most natural thing in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Angleton's and Elliott's unwitting disclosures helped Philby sink almost every important Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years, leading countless operatives to their doom. Every word Elliott breathed to Philby was transmitted back to Moscow - and not just Elliott's words, for in America, Philby had made another powerful friend: James Jesus Angleton, the crafty, paranoid head of CIA counterintelligence. ![]() ![]() But Philby was secretly betraying his friend. It was madness for one to think the other might be a communist spy, bent on subverting Western values and the power of the free world. The two men had gone to the same schools, belonged to the same exclusive clubs, grown close through the crucible of wartime intelligence work and long nights of drink and revelry. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philby's best friend and fellow officer in MI6. Summary: "Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War - while he was secretly working for the enemy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout her life Justice Ginsburg has been (and continues to be) a prolific writer and public speaker. In this collection Justice Ginsburg discusses gender equality, the workings of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and the value of looking beyond US shores when interpreting the US Constitution. My Own Words "showcases Ruth Ginsburg's astonishing intellectual range" (The New Republic). The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg-"a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most influential voices in both law and public opinion" (Harper's Bazaar). The american supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died september 18 at age 87. ![]() Collection of Cards, Maps, Atlases and ViewsĬollection of the History of Libraries and Books in Luxembourg ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There were issues with the color of the endpapers, the title page and the book binding.Ī Christmas Carol was the most successful book of the 1843 holiday season. By Christmas it sold six thousand copies and it continued to be popular into the new year. Since Dickens was paying for the publishing of the book, he wanted the book done his way. Chapman & Hall would be paid for the printing costs and receive a fixed commission on the number of copies sold. As a result, they proposed that A Christmas Carol be issued in an inexpensive collection of Dickens’s works or possibly as part of a new magazine.ĭickens was adamant that A Christmas Carol be published as a high-quality, stand-alone book.Īfter a discussion between the parties, they came to an unusual agreement.ĭickens would fund the publication of A Christmas Carol. The owners of the company began to lose faith in the marketability of Dickens’s work. Sales of Martin Chuzzlewit, also published by Chapman & Hall, had been much less than expected. However, in an interesting turn of events, Dickens paid the publishing costs himself. Technically speaking, A Christmas Carol was published by Chapman & Hall. ![]() ![]() ![]() She simply writes the book for readers who read. Without giving too much away, Life After Death picks up 15 years after The Coldest Winter Ever, can you kind of set the stage as far as the plot summary goes?Ī genuine author does not set the stage. I wanted everybody anywhere in the world to know and to feel that prison is serious and there is no such thing as “the drug game.” I wanted the hood and everybody living anywhere in the world to feel the tension and loss that occurs when a family member or friend is incarcerated. ![]() I decided not to write a sequel until the fifteen-year sentence had been served. ![]() The storytelling picks up from the moment of the release of WINTER SANTIAGA from a New York State prison after she had served a full fifteen-year prison sentence. LIFE AFTER DEATH is the sequel novel to THE COLDEST WINTER EVER (actually and not “in a sense”). By MuzikScribe 0 Sister Souljah: Still In It To Win Itįirst things first, you recently unleashed your brand new novel, Life After Death, the follow-up (in a sense) to 1999’s super successful The Coldest Winter Ever - Why such a lengthy delay from continuing to tell this ongoing story of Winter Santiaga? ![]() ![]() ![]() “Victory Lap,” the collection’s opener, concerns a young girl who is abducted and the over-parented boy across the street who, upon witnessing this occurrence, must decide whether he will break one of his father’s many rules to do something heroic. In the title story, a man dying of cancer pulls himself out of a destructive downward spiral when he has a chance to rescue someone in danger. ![]() While language frays in the face of extraordinary circumstances in The Tenth of December its characters do not. What better means shifts from story to story, but it often circles back to an idea of goodness, or, empathy in action, not just words. This is a profound and sad book, about people in dire straits trying to do better. ![]() In his new book, The Tenth of December, he almost never does though. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments If only you chloe liese![]() I’ve had a problem at work since the day Ren Bergman joined the team: a six foot three hunk of happy with a sunshine smile. I just hope that when she leaves the team and I tell her how I feel, she won’t want to leave me behind, too. Frankie won’t be here forever-she’s headed for bigger, better things. I’m a player on the team, she’s on staff, and as long as we work together, dating is off-limits. ![]() Deadpan delivery, secret heart of gold, and a rare one-dimpled smile that makes my knees weak, Frankie has been forbidden since the day she and I became coworkers, meaning waiting has been the name of my game-besides, hockey, that is. ![]() The moment I met her, I knew Frankie Zeferino was someone worth waiting for. ![]() Series: Bergman Brothers #2 (companion novel) ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments IRL by Lucy Lennox![]() The more I get to know Conor, however, the more I start to fall for him. After all, once our business is concluded, he’ll be out of my life for good. ![]() Instead, I decide there’s no harm in flirting. The one that belongs to my anonymous late-night texter. The same geeky tie that’s held hostage on my phone. The first thing I notice about Conor Newell when he sits down in my high-rise conference room is how delightfully nervous he is. Within days, I’m falling for someone I shouldn’t, and I have to remind myself that none of this is real. I spend my days squaring off against Wells in the boardroom, and my nights succumbing to the sexy stranger’s commanding texts in the bedroom. Little do I know the man on the other end of the line is none other than Wells Grange: The most controlling, egotistical, emotionless SOB I’ve ever met. I tell myself an unexpected night of hot as hell back-and-forth is the perfect way to blow off a little steam while I’m in New York closing an important business deal. ![]() ![]() Only, instead of it going to the flirty hotel bartender, it goes to some random stranger who actually responds. ![]() |