![]() ![]() all the way from Darwin." Not one is successful. ![]() Men try and fail: there is the gentle schoolteacher who "had correctly named eighty-seven eucalypts and was doing it well when he went blank at the fatly handsome Jarrah up against the fence behind the house" and the New Zealander who "came up against, and was defeated by, one of the many Stringybarks." Old men, young men, commercial travelers, sheep-shearers-even a " smiling Chinaman. Once upon a time, on a property in western New South Wales, a man named Holland plants hundreds of varieties of eucalyptus trees, then decrees that only the suitor who can name each and every one of them will be worthy to marry his beautiful daughter, Ellen. After all, she was living on a property in western New South Wales." "The idea that Holland's daughter was like the princess locked in the tower of a damp castle was of course false. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() And the impending prophecy that drives her to unleash her magic will cause her to unearth the sins of the past and doubt any promise of a future. ![]() She seeks out the frighteningly scarred, yet mysterious W, a Calvert descendant, who is destined to change her life, but even he cannot prepare her for the danger that lies ahead. However, when an ancient prophecy reveals the rise of a young, powerful witch and the impending death of another, she realizes she can no longer afford to suppress the magic that has taken away so much. Although a stranger to her coven in Annapolis, she is no stranger to grief and denial. Hannah, the thirteenth great-granddaughter of the Wizard Earl Fitzgerald, has always known she was descended from a royal legacy of dark magic. And even if being a witch sounds super cool, it’s the last thing she wants. The young adult fantasy, set in present-day Annapolis, Maryland (lots of scenes are set at the historic sites in my hometown), focuses on Hannah Fitzgerald, a sixteen-year-old Chesapeake witch. My next enchanting novel, BEWITCHING HANNAH, is on its way from Mirror World Publishing! Mirror World has a reputation for publishing fantastic fiction, and I’m thrilled to be working with them again. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The school gang, known as The Rebels, has a reputation for picking on lower classmen, the "Low Dawgs." For Leon and Tyson, who are new students at the high school, this is all too t. The Tormentors (Trade Paperback / Paperback)īy Bowman, Erin Forbes, Cordell Benjamin, IsaiahĪttending North Heights High School is no walk in the park, especially on the first day of school. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is in excellent condition for its age. ![]() Each one the books has a frontspiece with an illustrated portrait of the author as well as more portraits of the author at the end of the book at various stages of their life Additionally the spine has two embossed fleur di lis. “The French Classical Romances” is also framed in gold at the spine’s base. The title and author are framed & written in gold on the spine. They are navy blue cloth covered books with an embossed double line on the front cover. This hardcover book from the 1900’s is part of the series The French Classical Romances which consists of 20 volumes each by a different author. Translation & Introduction by – Andrew Lang Illustrations – many portraits of the author Portrait illustrations of the author are by Octave Uzanne. It is part of the antique book series The French Classical Romances ca. This is a hardcover copy of the book The King of the Mountains by Edmond About. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1987 he became a Getty Fellow in the Arts and Humanities at Yale University. He currently lives with his wife and children in Oxford.īefore writing, he worked as a reporter for the BBC, Channel 4 (UK) and ZDF (Germany) and correspondent for Reuters from 1982 to 1990 in Italy, France, UK and US. In 1985, Pears married Ruth Harris, a historian and academic. ![]() He studied at Wadham College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree, and at Wolfson College, Oxford, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree. ![]() He was educated at Warwick School, an all-boys public school in Warwick. Pears was born on 8 August 1955 in Coventry, England. Iain George Pears (born 8 August 1955 ) is an English art historian, novelist and journalist. Iain Pears at the 2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival ![]() ![]() ![]() Clarice writes about the importance of picking yourself up and being comfortable in your own skin. ![]() This pocket sized illustrative book is written and illustrated by Clarice Ng, a Singaporean artist inspired by day to day observations, who is always Naiise's ex-intern. To You Out There, Math Paper Press, $12 Here are our recommendations of literary and photography fixes that you can use to feel whole again. Poetry, stories and even photographs can help to make us feel warm and whole again. ![]() You can seek comfort in various ways, and it is when you know you're not alone in this because someone else out there has gone through what you have gone through, do you feel consoled. It is inevitable for one to feel down and dejected, be it personal life, work or just life in general. ![]() ![]() Most of the hockey players opt to play for Beartown’s bitter rival neighboring small town of Hed, where their former coach has also gone. ![]() The general manager and his family face vicious pressures to also leave town. The never-convicted rapist was subsequently frightened out of his wits by his victim and he and his family are leaving town. Everyone in town remains convinced the scandal was the only thing that prevented the national glory the team was on the brink of achieving and by doing so igniting the community’s economic revival. Months earlier the teenage daughter of the general manager of its beloved junior hockey team was raped by the team’s star player. This remote small town in a forest is still reeling from scandal. In “Us Against You,” the characters we came to know in “Beartown” are back, and a few new ones introduced. ![]() ![]() ![]() His characters are always so well developed you feel as if you know them and how they think and see things. “Beartown” showed that Fredrik Backman has the ability to make readers understand the feelings of each of a dozen different characters every bit as well as when he wowed us when focused on a single central character. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The stories are beautifully written, the characters are well developed and the author’s passion for ecology manifests itself on every page.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) “No one familiar with Robinson’s trilogy can read through these final, valedictory stories without feeling moved.” - The Washington Post “A uniquely rewarding experience of state-of-the-art science fiction.” - The New York Times Book Review Presenting unforgettable stories of hope and disappointment, of fierce physical and psychological struggles, The Martians is an epic chronicle of a planet that represents one of humanity’s most glorious possibilities. As the planet is transformed from an unexplored and forbidding terrain to a troubled image of a re-created Earth, we meet the First Hundred explorers-men and women who are bound together by Earth’s tenuous toehold on Mars. Now Robinson returns to the realm he has made his own-the planet Mars-in a brilliantly imagined drama with a searing poetic vision.įrom a training mission in Antarctica to blistering sandstorms sweeping through labyrinths of barren canyons, the interwoven stories of The Martians set in motion a sprawling cast of characters upon the surface of Mars. Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy is one of science fiction’s most honored stories, with Red Mars winning the distinguished Nebula Award, and both Green Mars and Blue Mars honored with the Hugo. ![]() ![]() It’s also the story of a century-long feud-seen through the eyes of a 177-year-old witch-that Sogolon had with the Aesi, chancellor to the king. ![]() In Moon Witch, Spider King, Sogolon takes center stage and gives her own account of what happened to the boy, and how she plotted and fought, triumphed and failed as she looked for him. In Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. ![]() James makes the mythic tantalizingly real.’” - Esquire "Even more brilliant than the first.” - Buzzfeed An Instant New York Times Bestseller From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the second book in the Dark Star trilogy. Summary: “Masterfully flips the first installment on its head. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wolf is wallpapered with first-person narration, takes pains to explain how the business and scams work and positively wallows in the pleasure of elaborating the minutiae of self-gratification through criminal and otherwise depraved activity, the immorality and illegality of which have been totally waived away by the characters. The format of Terence Winter’s ever-percolating script closely resembles those of two major Scorsese films about underworld figures, Goodfellas and, especially, Casino. ![]() He’s now a popular motivational speaker, his fee no doubt about to soar. Indicted in 1998 for securities fraud and money laundering, Belfort got off easy by ratting out many associates to the FBI and served but a brief sentence in a country club-like prison facility where his bunkmate was Tommy Chong. A working-class New York kid, Belfort enthusiastically embraced the cutthroat Wall Street ethos in his early 20s and eventually formed a respectable-sounding company, Stratton Oakmont, featuring a boiler room ethos among employees that was thoroughly drilled in their leader’s take-no-prisoners sales approach. Although never the household name he’ll now become with a big movie made about him, Jordan Belfort was nonetheless emblematic of the unrestrained financial shenanigans of the final years of the American century, when the idea of any consequences for lid-off monetary opportunism seemed unthinkable (it’s quite likely that Wolf could be a giant hit in China, Russia and other markets where the spectacle of American irresponsibility will be most appreciated). ![]() |