![]() ![]() Time is of the essence aboard the week-long Trans-Siberian Express, but when someone is murdered on board, Benedikt and Marshall convince the officer in charge not to stop the train so that they aren’t thrown off-schedule. ![]() ![]() Her books have been published in over twenty countries and have been featured in the New York Times, PEOPLE, Forbes and more. In This Foul Murder, Benedikt and Marshall have been summoned by Roma to find the elusive scientist, Lourens, and bring him to Zhouzhuang. Press Kit Bio Chloe Gong is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Secret Shanghai novels, as well as the Flesh and False Gods trilogy. But when they hear about several Russian girls showing up dead in nearby towns, they decide to investigate - and ultimately discover that this mystery is much closer to home than they ever imagined. In A Foul Thing, Roma and Juliette have established themselves as the heads of an underground weapons ring in Zhouzhuang, making a living the way they do best while remaining anonymous in their peaceful, quiet life. From 1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong comes two captivating new novellas surrounding the events of Foul Lady Fortune and following a familiar. Fantasy, Romance, Historical Fiction, Young Adult Fictionįrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong comes two captivating new novellas surrounding the events of Foul Lady Fortune and following a familiar cast of characters from the These Violent Delights Duet! ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her biggest fear is that she'll end up like her Tarot card reading mother, who isn't all there. Gemma Star is fairly conventional considering her hippie upbringing. If he doesn't win her heart, he'll be forever lost. Using the Northern Lights as a conduit back to Earth, he attempts to seduce her in her dreams, hoping to anchor himself to the physical plane. Now he's stuck in Limbo, unwilling to move on after catching a glimpse of the future he was supposed to have and the amazing woman who was destined to be his. "Lucky" Leroy Morgan led a charmed life, until he was murdered. Using the Northern Lights as a conduit back to Earth, he attempts to seduce her in her dreams, hoping to anchor. ![]() ![]() Narrated in the wise, candid first-person voice of Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), the novel tells the story of Gentileschi's life and career in Renaissance Italy. Vreeland follows up the success of Girl in Hyacinth Blue with another novel delving into the themes of art, history and the lives of women. Vreeland seems to think she can make all this ''meaningful'' by imbuing it with a dated 1970's-style feminism. But in depicting Artemisia's life, Vreeland announces in a prefatory note that she has been true to the record ''only so long as fact furnishes believable drama,'' and that she seeks to portray her subject ''in a way meaningful to us.'' Alas, Vreeland fails on both counts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Susan Vreeland's novel is about Artemisia Gentileschi, who-along with her father is the subject of a current show at the Metropolitan Museum. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Of late, channels, production companies, and online streaming services have found themselves scrabbling for misfits like kids in a playground scrabbling for sweets – desperate for a chew, not sure of the taste of these sweets, these dreams, just aware they might be very profitable,” she added. ![]() Misfits who visibly fit in will sometimes find themselves merging with the mainstream, for a feeling of safety. ![]() Many however, are made into misfits because life looks at them differently the UK’s black, Asian, and ginger communities for example … The term can be cross-generational and crosses concepts of gender or culture, simply by a desire for transparency, a desire to see another’s point of view. During the lecture, in which she frequently praised the creativity and persistence of people written off by others as misfits, she announced her own definition of the word: “The term misfits takes on dual notions a misfit is one who looks at life differently. ![]() ![]() He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts. Ken is also the translator for Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, Hao Jingfang's Vagabonds, Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide, as well as the editor of Invisible Planets and Broken Stars, anthologies of contemporary Chinese science fiction. Ken frequently speaks at conferences and universities on a variety of topics, including futurism, cryptocurrency, history of technology, bookmaking, the mathematics of origami, and other subjects of his expertise. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Ken worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. The most recent projects include “The Message,” under development by 21 Laps and FilmNation Entertainment “Good Hunting,” adapted as an episode of Netflix's breakout adult animated series Love, Death + Robots and AMC's Pantheon, which Craig Silverstein will executive produce, adapted from an interconnected series of short stories by Ken. ![]() He has been involved in multiple media adaptations of his work. He also wrote the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker. His debut collection, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, has been published in more than a dozen languages. ![]() Ken's debut novel, The Grace of Kings, is the first volume in a silkpunk epic fantasy series, The Dandelion Dynasty, in which engineers play the role of wizards. ![]() He has won the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, as well as top genre honors in Japan, Spain, and France, among other places. Ken Liu ( ) is an American author of speculative fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Inferno is the first section of Dante Alighieri's three-part poem Commedia, often known as the Divine Comedy. Tremble, not caused by tortures, but from grief ![]() Here, as mine ear could note, no plaint was heardĮxcept of sighs, that made the eternal air Dante also uses his depiction of Limbo to discuss the Harrowing of Hell, using the motif to explore the concept of predestination. They live eternally in a castle set on a verdant landscape, but forever removed from heaven.ĭante's depiction of Limbo is influenced by contemporary scholastic teachings on two kinds of Limbo-the Limbo of Infants for the unbaptised and the Limbo of the Patriarchs for the virtuous Jews of the Old Testament the addition of Islamic, Greek, and Roman historical figures to the poem is an invention of Dante's, which has received criticism both in his own time and from a modern perspective. The first circle is Limbo, the space reserved for those souls who died before baptism and for those who hail from non-Christian cultures. Inferno tells the story of Dante's journey through a vision of hell ordered into nine circles corresponding to classifications of sin. ![]() The first circle of hell is depicted in Dante Alighieri's 14th-century poem Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy. The castle in the first circle of hell, as illustrated by Stradanus ![]() ![]() ![]() She got dumped by a boy, turned to girls, got turned down again, and is now in an identity crisis.ģ.) A local teacher has been murdered, and Riley wants to find out who did it. ![]() So, there are three main "stories" or points of interests in this book:ġ.) Dez's manipulating and blackmailing of Riley's life in an attempt to make her love him.Ģ.) Riley trying to find her own sexuality. it tried so hard to incorporate them all that they all turned into one messy slop. The characters, the web of stories and intrigue, the dilemmas of the individuals. Mystery? Romance? Psychological? About finding and accepting your sexuality? A bit of this and a bit of that? Truthfully, I don't mind reading a book about various themes, but it just bothered me how none of them was ever developed enough. What could have been an interesting and intriguing novel turned out to be a mess of many dilemmas and problems, and throughout reading it, I wasn't 100% sure what kind of book it was supposed to be. If this book could be summed up in one sentence, it would be this: it's all over the place. ![]() ![]() ![]() Much of the drama arises from megalomania in the characters' brains. Zofloya is a pre-Freud gothic novel first published in 1806, but it often seems informed by modern theories of sexual psychology. Contradicting idealized stereotypes of women's writing, the novel's portrait of indulged desire, gratuitous cruelty, and monumental self-absorption retains considerable power to disturb. A minor scandal on its first publication, and a significant influence on Byron and Shelley, Zofloya has been unduly neglected. The novel's most daring aspect is its anatomy of Victoria's intense sexual attraction to her Moorish servant Zofloya that transgresses taboos both of class and race. Charlotte Dacre's narrative deftly displays her heroine's movement from the vitalized position of Ann Radcliffe's heroines to a fully conscious commitment to vice that goes beyond that of 'Monk' Lewis's deluded Ambrosio. ![]() The novel follows Victoria's progress from spoilt daughter of indulgent aristocrats, through a period of abuse and captivity, to a career of deepening criminality conducted under Satan's watchful eye. 'Few venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin.' This is the final judgement of Satan on Victoria di Loredani, the heroine of Zofloya, or The Moor (1806), a tale of lust, betrayal, and multiple murder set in Venice in the last days of the fifteenth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL28962355W Page_number_confidence 94.89 Pages 178 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20221012100630 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 199 Scandate 20221008010737 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781507579794 Tts_version 5. Urn:oclc:record:963584602 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier housewithoutwind0000turn Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2b03nft3ds Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781507579794ġ507579799 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0001047 Openlibrary_edition Urn:lcp:housewithoutwind0000turn:lcpdf:525ec268-9df6-4839-9c73-81047946aef2 BIOGRAPHY Stevie Turner is a British author of romantic suspense, paranormal, humor, and womens fiction family dramas. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:13:34 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Boxid IA40735715 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() Ambitious and cruel, Heydrich was also a master of bureaucratic maneuvering: As Binet writes, "His motto could be: Files! Files! Always more files!" He played the game of Nazi Party politics brilliantly, using his status as head of the SS's intelligence agency to spy and blackmail his way to the top. The first half of the novel focuses on Heydrich. Binet first heard of Operation Anthropoid as a child, and "HHhH" is as much the story of Binet's lifelong obsession with the mission as it is the story of the mission itself. "HHhH" takes as its subject Operation Anthropoid, the daring 1942 military plan that saw two freedom fighters, Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis, parachute into Nazi-occupied territory and assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi ruler of Bohemia and Moravia. ![]() Binet prefers to call his work an "infranovel," and this term hints at the task that the writer has set himself: to lay bare what lies beneath and within the novel form itself. "HHhH," the brilliant, haunting debut novel by the French writer Laurent Binet, is a hodgepodge of genres, blending straightforward historical fiction with postmodern metafiction, archival research and personal memoir. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 327 pages $26) ![]() |