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5/11/2023 0 Comments Matryoshka by Penny Jones![]() ![]() Casting rays of light across the scarecrow’s stitched and sneering countenances painting them in sun and shadow as they danced to the sound of the breeze. The locals placed scarecrows amongst the crops, their leering sackcloth faces surveying over their land sparkling shards of glass and metal chimed amongst them in the wind. Neat hills and furrows, scored and scarified, by claw and beak as birds rooted for seed and worm in the freshly tilled soil. The bad luck didn’t stop once those meagre seeds were planted. Gnarled fingers twisted and turned them as they counted them out to the households that queued all along the lane for their share. Those seeds that hadn’t been eaten were smaller and tougher than the ones usually chosen to be planted as spring slowly edged its way towards summer. The packages containing a mere fraction of what they should have held the rat droppings and carefully woven nests, a sure sign of what had happened to the rest of them. Teeth marks marring the paper, which had been carefully stored away with the previous year’s seeds. ![]() The envelopes had been split and spilled. They knew it was going to be a bad year for the crop, right from the spring. Octoin News tagged Flash of Halloween / Penny Jones by jlwallen Defying Gravity signed paperback $10.00. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Chocolat by Joanne Harris![]() ![]() ![]() The novel's diary form-counting down the days of Lent until Easter-is suspenseful, and Harris takes her time unreeling the skein of evil that will prove to be Reynaud's undoing. A fun-loving band of river gypsies arrives, and a colorful pageant unfurls. Undaunted, Vianne garners support from the town's eccentrics, chiefly Armande Voizin, the oldest living resident, a self-professed sorceress who senses in Vianne a kindred spirit. In Francis Reynaud's zeal to enforce strict Lenten vows of self-denial, he regards his sybaritic neighbor with suspicion and disdain. ![]() Young widow Vianne Roche's mouthwatering bonbons, steaming mugs of liqueur-laced cocoa and flaky cream-filled patisserie don't earn her a warm welcome from the stern prelate of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes. The battle lines between church and chocolate are drawn by this British (and part French) author in her appealing debut about a bewitching confectioner who settles in a sleepy French village and arouses the appetites of the pleasure-starved parishioners. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The congo michael crichton![]() ![]() ![]() Jurassic Park III (based on characters created by Crichton) ![]() McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (2003)įilm and television Film YearĮpisodes "The War of the Eggs", "Killer" & "The Theft"ĭerivative works Films based on Crichton's novels Yearĭealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues Posthumous publication (completed by Richard Preston)Īs John Lange excerpted from Scratch One (1967)Īs John Lange excerpted from Grave Descend (1970) He wrote 28 novels and his books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films.īibliography Novels YearĪs John Lange (also titled as The Last Tomb)Īs Jeffery Hudson (re-released as Crichton in 1993)Īs Michael Douglas (with brother Douglas Crichton)Īs John Lange (re-released as by Crichton in 1993) Michael Crichton (1942–2008) was an American novelist and screenwriter. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Dead wake book review![]() Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat, but told no one. ![]() Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. He knew, moreover, that his ship - the fastest then in service - could outrun any threat. ![]() But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. ![]() On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Bread by Scott Cutler Shershow![]() "Anyone who spends serious time weighing a name for his starter has crossed over to the other side, but Shershow is comfortable there, too, at home with the philosophers and poets of bread." "Robert Pisor, Founder of Stone House Bread, Leland, Michigan"" All other bread books are now toast." "Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice University, USA, and author of Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence" In prose as crystal as bread isn t, and as sensual as it is, Shershow reveals how deeply political and philosophical issues concerning hospitality (aka the breaking of bread) are fueled and interrupted by bread itself. ![]() ![]() "Scott Shershow is a writer of beautiful sentences that convey the ambiguity of a thing we often take as a bland lump to be smeared with fats and oils. ![]() ![]() ![]() Beautifully illustrated with line drawings throughout, Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking brings together nearly five hundred of the most delicious recipes from the Italian repertoire in one indispensable volume.Īs the generations of readers who have turned to it over the years know (and as their spattered and worn copies can attest), there is no more passionate and inspiring guide to the cuisine of Italy. 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5/10/2023 0 Comments Conspiracy ryan holiday review![]() A.īut in Conspiracy, we as readers are privy to enjoy the killing (and suicide) of Gawker from even higher vantage point than Thiel himself, in part due to the author's exclusive access to Nick Denton and other Gawker team members, and more importantly because of the author's ability to draw both philosophical and tactical parallels with both ancient and contemporary strategists of war, sports, and politics. Surreal, disturbing, and potentially instructive, the story of Thiel's secret plans to totally and legally destroy one of the most powerful and ruthless media companies of the 21st century is brought into sunlight in a very dark time for the media landscape-a time that includes fake news, #gamergate and Trump, Breitbart and Salon, Antifa and Anonymous.Īs newsworthy and contemporary as the events in Conspiracyare, Ryan Holiday's commentary places them into a dramatic, overarching narrative-a narrative largely crafted by Peter Thiel, his camouflaged legal team, and the (in)famous, anonymous, ex-Gawker employee known as Mr. ![]() ![]() "These two seemingly unrelated events," author Ryan Holiday writes in Conspiracy, "were in fact the bookends of a nearly decade-long plot masterminded by Thiel." ![]() Nine years later in 2016, Gawker declares bankruptcy, slammed with a $140 million judgement after publishing an illegally recorded sex tape of Hulk Hogan. In 2007, Gawker outs Peter Thiel, Facebook's first investor and Paypal cofounder, as gay. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her father descended from the physician on the Mayflower. Her mother was from the Sisson family, generations of Rhode Island Quakers. ![]() Maud Fuller was born August 5, 1890, in Kingston, New York to a family with deep Yankee roots. They are known for technical excellence, exuberant color, and the introduction of international folk and modernist themes. Of the 50 books they both wrote and illustrated, many were recognized with important awards or critical acclaim. Both prolific and versatile, they produced illustrations for more than 120 trade and textbooks, anthologies, and picture books. They worked as a seamless partnership for more than five decades. The Petershams worked closely with such pioneering children's book editors Louise Seaman Bechtel and May Massee, and with such innovative printers as Charles Stringer and William Glaser. Maud Fuller Petersham (Aug– November 29, 1971) and Miska Petersham (Septem– May 15, 1960) were American writers and illustrators who helped set the direction for illustrated children's books that followed. Frontispiece of the 1922 first edition of Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories, illustrated by the Petershams. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Book about the sacklers![]() ![]() They are one of the richest families in the world, but the source of the family fortune was vague-until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. ![]() ![]() The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions-Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. ![]() "A real-life version of the HBO series Succession with a lethal sting in its tail.a masterful work of narrative reportage." - Laura Miller, Slate The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama-baroque personal lives bitter disputes over estates fistfights in boardrooms glittering art collections Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing. Item #291425 ISBN: 1984899015 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by Ox圜ontin. Keefe, Patrick Radden Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler DynastyĪnchor, October 2022. ![]() |