![]() ![]() I loved the way the magic worked in this world and all of the different types of magic. I loved All the Stars and Teeth and I couldn’t wait to read more about this world. As she tries to balance her loyalty to her people, her crew, and the desires of her heart, Amora will soon discover that the power to rule might destroy her. To save herself and Visidia, Amora embarks on a desperate quest for a mythical artifact that could fix everything―but it comes at a terrible cost. No one can know the truth about the boy who holds the missing half of her soul. No one can know that she’s lost her magic. No one can know about the curse in her bloodline. ![]() Now, with the islands in turmoil and the people questioning her authority, Amora cannot allow anyone to see her weaknesses. Through blood and sacrifice, Amora Montara has conquered a rebellion and taken her rightful place as queen of Visidia. **Disclaimer: I was given a free finished copy in exchange for an honest review from the publisher.** ![]()
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![]() He grew a mustache he concealed his scars he became a great detective of some fame. Afterward, Poirot did not return home to live a quiet life as a farmer. As the twisted murder plot unfolds, we learn from Poirot that the love of his life, the woman who stood by him after his face was rent apart, died trying to see him while he was still recuperating in the hospital at Christmas. Of course, this version of the famous Belgian detective may not be exactly the same as other versions, but one thing Hercule Poirot always is is a bachelor, and Death On the Nile does not change those beats. It is there to conceal more than anything else. This Hercule Poirot still has a memorable mustache, and perhaps even a great one, but in Death in the Nile this Poirot is less vain about that mustache. ![]() ![]() This version of Poirot seems to have take that note and run with it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on archives in the United States, England, and France, as well as unpublished Jefferson presidential papers, Meacham presents Jefferson as the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history. ![]() ![]() Jon Meacham lets us see Jefferson's world as Jefferson himself saw it, and to appreciate how Jefferson found the means to endure and win in the face of rife partisan division, economic uncertainty, and external threat. Passionate about many things - women, his family, books, science, architecture, gardens, friends, Monticello, and Paris - Jefferson loved America most, and he strove over and over again, despite fierce opposition, to realize his vision: the creation, survival, and success of popular government in America. Thomas Jefferson hated confrontation, and yet his understanding of power and of human nature enabled him to move men and to marshal ideas, to learn from his mistakes, and to prevail. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. ![]() ![]() Melchor seems fascinated by the gratuitousness of violence, by the absence of any sense of responsibility. Melchor must have been aware of the risks of this decision: if the novel doesn’t care, why should the reader?. Since they don’t care who Señora Marián is, in other words, the novel doesn’t care, either. ![]() Skillfully translated by Hughes, this is a book that’s as gorgeous as it is dark, and it proves that Melchor is one of the finest writers working today. The novel stays stubbornly within the vantage of the two friends who plan to attack her its narrative choices mimic their highly circumscribed empathy. The last two paragraphs are a gut punch, some of the most wrenching prose to come around in years. ![]() We never get to know Señora Marián as anything other than Franco’s object of desire. But Melchor is primarily a novelist, not a journalist, and there are no concessions here to any kind of reportorial completeness. But the new novel departs from the previous one in important ways: it is more contained, less daring, less ambitious it is, in a peculiar way, more reader-friendly. Paradais is a portrait of an ailing society inured to its own cruelty, and employs long paragraphs and supple sentences, always alive to the rhythms of speech. And they establish Melchor, who was born in 1982, as the latest of Faulkner’s Latin American inheritors, and among the most formidable. With a nimble command of the novel’s technical resources and an uncanny grasp of the irrational forces at work in society, the navigate a reality riven by violence, race, class, and sex. ![]() ![]() ![]() The authors in this series take a panoramic approach to the topic of each book aimed at a non-specialist. Thomas' philosophy with copious aids to understanding them. Series Summary The What Every Catholic Should Know series is intended for the average faithful Catholic who wants to know more about Catholic faith and culture. ![]() It contains the most famous and influential passages of St. ![]() This little book is designed for beginners, either for classroom use or individually. The Summa Theologica is timeless, but particularly important today because of his synthesis of faith and reason, revelation and philosophy, and the Biblical and the classical Greco-Roman heritages. He is a master of metaphysics and technical terminology, yet so full of both theoretical and practical wisdom. His writings combine the two fundamental ideals of philosophical writing: clarity and profundity. Thomas Aquinas is universally recognized as one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived. In it, there is also much philosophy, which is selected, excerpted, arranged, introduced, and explained in footnotes here by Kreeft, a popular Thomist teacher and writer. The reason for the double shortening is pretty obvious: the original runs some 4000 pages! (The Summa of the Summa was just over 500.) The Summa is certainly the greatest, most ambitious, most rational book of theology ever written. ![]() A shortened version of Kreeft's much larger Summa of the Summa, which in turn was a shortened version of the Summa Theologica. ![]() ![]() ![]() Written by one of the greatest scribes in the history of the medium, Alan Moore, V For Vendetta is considered not only one of the most important graphic novel works ever, but also one of the great works in fiction. It's a gripping tale of the blurred lines between ideological good and evil. ![]() In a world without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith in anything comes a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask who fights political oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts. The seminal graphic novel masterpiece V For Vendetta is available in hardcover in this new deluxe edition, featuring an essay from writer Alan Moore, sketches from artist David Lloyd and other bonus material! A powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality, V For Vendetta takes place in a totalitarian England following a devastating war that changed the face of the planet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Concerning Mark Twain’s book ‘Huckleberry Finn’ we will come back to you. Thus the Netherlands is filling up with Finns too. In this respect, since the character Finn Dandridge appeared in the highly popular tv-series Grey’s Anatomy around 2005 -and this Finn clearly was not an ugly Danish troll- the name Finn became a hit in the Netherlands. ![]() Further below we will dig a bit deeper into these CPC’s.įurthermore, the name Finn is a common Anglo-Saxon name. These southern Scandinavian type CPC’s have been identified in what is now the Netherlands as well, especially around towns of Rijnsburg and Egmond in respectively provinces Zuid Holland and Noord Holland. One hall measured an amazing forty-seven by ten meters. Kilos of gold have been found, and big halls similar to those described in the epic Beowulf. At the Danish island Fyn, also called Funen, near the village of Gudme, the most important so-called Central-Place-Complex (CPC) has been discovered known today. ![]() Indeed, everyone knows, Fins and witchcraft are one an the same. A bit more to the northeast from Denmark, a whole country is filled up with witchy Fins. In Danish folklore, however, the figure Finn was not a giant but an ugly troll instead. This Finn is said to be depicted on a pillar in the crypt of this cathedral dating early twelfth century. A Swedish legend has it ‘Finn the Giant’ built the cathedral of Lund in southern Sweden near Malmö. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While the identity of the individual framing Laura will come as no surprise to the savvy reader, the uniqueness of the relationship between the successful veterinarian and the woman whose handicaps are overshadowed by her ability to love more than compensates. ![]() Isaiah remains her stalwart defender as attraction sparks between them, developing into a romance that is both sweet and sensual. But when errors are committed on Laura's shift, naturally she's blamed, and she begins to suspect that someone is framing her in the hope of getting her fired. Contemporary Women, Small Town & Rural, Romance / Contemporary. With her sparkling personality and love of animals, Laura is the perfect addition to Isaiah's clinic. Five years ago, Laura Townsends life was nearly destroyed when a head injury impaired her ability to use language and forced her to abandon a brilliant career. Veterinarian Isaiah Coulter agrees to hire Laura Townsend as a kennel keeper at his clinic despite her speech impediment, the result of brain damage she sustained after a diving accident five years earlier. New York Times bestselling author Catherine Andersons Coulter Family series continues in this poignant story of a love that defies all the odds. Bestseller Anderson combines romance with a touch of suspense in the somewhat predictable fifth installment of her Coulter family series (after Bright Eyes). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is an MMF contemporary romance series that revolves around Chloé Thornton-Priestley, the wild-child daughter of the three P’s. What happens when control turns to chaos?ĭo you give in to it? Or do you make chaos…submit?Ĭonfessions: Ethan begins a new sub-series within the Chicagoverse. Until a mysterious redhead walks into their club and turns their world inside out. Ella Frank is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the Temptation series, including Try, Take, and Trust and is the co-author of the fan-favorite Preslocke series. Try - Versuch es by Ella Frank, 9783864437168, available at Book Depository with free delivery. He’s very particular on who he lets in his world, and even more so on who he lets in his bed.Īfter all, he’s not the only one who sleeps in it.Įverything in their world is in perfect order, just the way Ethan likes it. Why wouldn’t he, when he has several of his own? Ella Frank is the author of the 1 Bestselling Temptation series, including Try, Take, and Trust and is the co-author of the fan-favorite erotic serial, A. ![]() He believes that any fantasy can be created, and that any kink should be explored. Cover Designer: Hang Le Photographer: Rafa Catala Model: Alvaro Torralbo Confessions, Book 7Įverything in the world is about sex except sex.Įthan Holt is in the business of all three. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was a humiliated being who did not have a life, it is said, to the extent of his genius. The deep cries of revolt and the despair that rise from these refined stanzas give them a blackness of a particular brilliance so fascinating and frightening. A secret solemnity swirls like curls of smoke throughout these pages simultaneously as the restrained animality scolds, shaking its chains. In the crucible of his soul, gravity and lightness intermingle in a subtle and skillful dosage. Painter of passions with underground vibrations and sublime disenchantment, Baudelaire is parred excellence the alchemist of despair. This poem will always make me shiver with indescribable and exhilarating ecstasy. Le soleil s'est noyé dans son sang qui se fige.» «Valse mélancolique et langoureux vertige ! Then, weeks later, still echo in my ears in deep echoes the dizzying verses of "Harmonie du Soir": When I immerse myself in it, I feel the sensations of a descent into catacombs and those of a mystical elevation. It is the only book of poetry that has had such a lasting effect on me. ![]() |