![]() ![]() “When I’m craving escapism, I pick up a Jack Reacher book… or a Lew Archer, or a Claire DeWitt, or a Travis McGee, or an Easy Rawlings, or a Parker… and I get taken away by these characters and their worlds. “ Reckless comes from my love of pulp heroes and private eyes,” said Brubaker. But when a fugitive from his student radical days reaches out for help, Ethan must face the only thing he fears… his own past. Meet Ethan Reckless: Your trouble is his business, for the right price. ![]() ![]() This first volume will clock in at 144 pages. Brubaker and Phillips ignited the industry recently with the triumphant Pulp release and fans are primed for the upcoming Cruel Summer graphic novel hitting shelves this week, but nobody expected the surprise announcement of a graphic novel series to kickoff before the year’s end-with the first three books in the series releasing over the next year. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Scorcher's personal life is tugging for his attention. But there are too many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective.Īt first he and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, tried to kill his wife Jenny, and finished off with himself. The mother is on her way to intensive care. In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead. Used - Fair: Worn book that has complete text pages but may have some small defect like slight tears. Used - Good: Average used worn book that has all pages or leaves present. ![]() ![]() Used - Very Good: Shows some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or paper. Please check “condition” in product details before ordering. This is a second-hand, used copy of this book. ![]() ![]() His works were largely set in a fictionalized version of New England. This was tied to his ambivalent views on knowledge. He incorporated fantasy and science fiction elements into his stories, representing the perceived fragility of anthropocentrism. Cosmicism posits that humanity is an insignificant part of the cosmos, and could be swept away at any moment. "Lovecraft's literary corpus is based around the idea of cosmicism, which was simultaneously his personal philosophy and the main theme of his fiction. Stories include: The Colour Out of Space, The Outsider, Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, The Transistion of Juan Romero, In the Walls of Eryx, The Festival, The Shadow over Innsmouth. The text pages are clean and mostly bright, but with some generalized beginning toning to the pages. There is some light bumping, rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. ![]() Cover Art This is a mass market paperback book. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a hate-to-love romance between an out and proud gay football player for the Barons, Simeon, and a bisexual football player from a rival team, Adrián, who hides his sexuality behind veiled comments. ![]() Down by Contact gripped me from its first page. With no choice but to work together, Simeon realizes Adrián is more than his alpha-jerk persona, and Adrián begins to question why he’s always had such strong feelings for the gorgeous QB…īasically, I loved this book, and I’m mad I haven’t stumbled upon this author sooner. When animosity between the two NFL players reaches a boiling point on the field, culminating in a dirty fist fight, they’re both benched for six games and sentenced to joint community service teaching sullen, Brooklyn teens how to play ball.Īt first, they can barely stand to be in the same room, but running the camp forces them to shape up. ![]() Though they were once teammates, Adrián views Simeon as a traitor and the number-one name on the New Jersey Predators’ shit list. Coming out as gay in solidarity with his teammate hasn’t harmed his reputation in the least-except for some social media taunting from rival linebacker Adrián Bravo. He’s universally adored by fans and the media. Simeon Boudreaux, the New York Barons’ golden-armed quarterback, is blessed with irresistible New Orleans charm and a face to melt your mama’s heart. Two rival football players begin a game with higher stakes than the Super Bowl in this steamy romance from the author of Illegal Contact. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is nevertheless a clever and enjoyable pastiche, which manages to press many of the buttons that were the purview of 007's creator. ![]() "And it's quickly apparent that Horowitz is doing something both clever and audacious– more so than he did with his continuation of Conan Doyle's great detective. The Independent review by Barry Forshaw is positive. Trigger Mortis is what you would call a Loving Tribute." " But from his brilliant first chapter on, Horowitz is a pitch-perfect mimic of the Fleming one-line punch. "Anthony Horowitz has written a humdinger of a Bond story, so cunningly crafted and thrillingly paced that 007’s creator would have been happy to have owned it. The Financial Times review by Simon Schama is very positive. Google Simon Schama in case you don't know who he is. On a side note, I am thrilled to see a genuine high-brow intellectual show enthusiasm for Bond and the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() "By giving us instructions.Ann Budd frees a knitter to pick up any yarn and create a custom garment." - Knitters Highly recommended for all knitting collections." - Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc., Library Journal ![]() The knitter has only to knit a generous swatch with yarn and needles of her/his choice and plug the resulting gauge information into the charted instructions and schematics provided. The patterns allow the knitter to create garments in any size from toddler to extra-large adult in any weight of yarn, from fingering to bulky. Budd is managing editor of the popular magazine Interweave Knits, and this is the book she wished she had when she worked in a yarn store and customers requested patterns made for their size with yarns available in the shop. "Have you seen those advertisements that say 'this is the only book you'll ever need on this subject'? This new volume by Budd isn't the only knitting book you'll ever need, but one could knit hundreds of different mittens, gloves, socks, sweaters, vests, hats, and scarves from just the patterns found here. ![]() ![]() ![]() Grubbs, 47, an associate professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, and the author of the new book Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers: A Kidney Doctor’s Search for the Perfect Match, recently discussed her journey and her goal of educating the public about kidney disease. ![]() She also became an advocate for African-American patients, who have to wait nearly two years longer than whites to get life-saving transplants. And she didn’t stop there.ĭistressed by the racial disparities in health care she encountered during her husband’s medical odyssey, she shifted course professionally, pursuing advanced training in the demanding field of nephrology, or kidney treatment. Grubbs married her boyfriend, Robert Phillips, now the CEO of a Sacramento nonprofit, four months after the surgery. So we kind of knew what we wanted in a partner we knew where we were going.” We had (chuckles) - how do you say it? We’d been to the circus, seen all the rides. “We weren’t officially engaged, but it’s not like we were teenagers. ![]() ![]() “A lot of people thought I was insane,” she recalled. Grubbs, who is not a woman given to halfway gestures, not only gave a kidney to the man she loved on that day in April 2005 - she did so after dating him for only nine months. Dr Vanessa Grubbs lay in a hospital bed, her stomach doing somersaults, even as a smile played at the corners of her mouth.Ī nurse gave her Valium through the IV in her left arm, and then Grubbs was wheeled off to the operating room, where a surgeon would extract one shiny pink kidney from deep within her abdomen. ![]() ![]() “The gate is wide open, and the lunatics come out. O autor neste Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira nos faz refletir sobre. Stage director Nuno Cardoso helms an Iberian (and bilingual!) raft filled with a cast of Portuguese and Catalan actors, united in the utopian belief that the stage might solve, or else further complicate, the mysteries of this text. Saramago tambm brinca com a importncia dos livros: Agora ningum os pode ler, portanto como se no existissem. The culmination of a cooperative project between the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya and the Teatro Nacional São João, this stage adaptation of Saramago’s novel testifies to the universality of the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese writer and the cross-border nature of theatrical creation. Segundo a BNA, «Ensaio sobre a Lucidez» é «uma história ambientada no mesmo país de Ensaio sobre a Cegueira, e começa com. ![]() In this apocalypse of the soul, where “man is a wolf to man”, Saramago displays a ravaged society’s vicious survival instinct. O romance «Ensaio sobre a Lucidez», de José Saramago, foi publicado no Irão, traduzido para língua pársi, a partir do inglês, por Alireza Shaheri, anunciou hoje (19) a agência de editores iraniana (BNA). Blindness (1995) fictionalises a world where (nearly) everyone becomes blind, an epidemics that causes a discretionary power to isolate all the infected in a restricted space. ![]() “Three hundred pages of non-stop anguish”: thus José Saramago describes his book, an anguish devoid of sentimentality and tinged with a very dark humour. ![]() ![]() Starting out, hugely appreciative of their friendship, the delight in healthy exercise in the open air, the two friends absolutely appreciate the solitude and connection with the natural world which takes so many of us out into walking, running, swimming, or climbing ‘in nature’ What happy endorphins we feel, rushing through us : A couple of friends, boating enthusiasts, embark on a canoe trip down the Danube, and all in blissful, balmy weather As the nights are still long and dark, this chilling, genuinely creepy long short story or short novella by Algernon Blackwood should still make a reader shiver, starting nervously as winter winds rustle the branches against the windows I read a whole slew of books around the witching end of October, but never got round to reviewing. It may start out jolly, but for sure it’s far from light-hearted ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was resistant to My Antonia back in the early days of reading Cather because, to me, its wide-spread readership, praise, and scholarly attention seemed to come at the cost of neglect or disparagement of other Cather novels which are less commonly read. In my case, I wanted to champion other Cather novels that didn’t seem to get enough attention. Those afflicted with the condition avoid reading what is considered popular or trendy and either stick with their core “masters” or champion the underdog, be they overlooked or forgotten writers or books. I attribute this to a condition from which I’m healing, a condition that inhibited me from reading and/or enjoying books that are “popular.” This condition is a form of book snobbishness that can be both the cause and effect of the closing of the mind and spirit that has been known to plague people such as English majors and booksellers. In the past, My Antonia was NOT one of Cather’s novels that I gushed over. ![]() |