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![]() ![]() "Brace yourselves for this heart pounding, gut wrenching, spellbinding third installment to the Witchlands. "It's hard to find a book in which I can't wait to read every character perspective, but with these characters - each connected by threads of friendship, love, and loyalty - I couldn't wait to see what would happen next! Placed in Dennard's stunning world and amidst her compelling plot, they had my heart racing and oozing emotions! Bloodwitch is the best Witchlands book yet!"-Meghan Vanderlee, Schuler's Books Fantasy at its best as the last page leaves your adrenaline pumping, heart broken and a yearning for more!"-Katie Stutz, Anderson's Bookshop Readers are in for a treat as more of the world is explored and Dennard continues to dazzle with nonstop action, beautifully crafted characterization and stunning prose. "The Witchlands series is back with higher stakes, new tricks and a deeper dive into this already epic world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Much love as ever, Dodie”.Ĩvo, publisher’s original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial decorative endpapers. ![]() Bless you and thank you for your lovable, funny and altogether admirable performance as “Dora”. It’s also intended as a get well present to your dear poodle – I trust you’ll be able to use Bill’s line and say “The dog liked it”. ![]() ![]() Additionally a postcard from the author is loosely inserted: ‘Dearest Cis, Here is “The Starlight Barking” as a tiny first night present. Dodie Smith’s married name, ‘Mrs Beesley’, Dodie Smith’s married name is also written in ink in another hand to the front flap of the dust jacket. The inscription refers to Smith’s play ‘Dear Octopus’, which was revived in 1967 for the fiftieth wedding anniversary of the comedy actors Dame Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hubert. Signed, inscribed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the front blank: ‘To Cicely Courtneidge, from Dodie Smith “Dear Octopus”, Theatre Royal, Haymarket, 1967’. Illustrated by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone. ![]() ![]() ![]() With its seemingly disorganized mass of large and small territories, its tangle of laws and privileges and its medley of languages, the Habsburg Empire has always appeared haphazard and incomplete. ![]() The family continued to dominate Central Europe until the catastrophe of the First World War. Then, in just a few decades, their possessions rapidly expanded to take in a large part of Europe stretching from Hungary to Spain, and from the Far East to the New World. From modest origins, the Habsburgs grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium. Students, scholars and the general reader will never find a better guide to Habsburg history' Alan Sked, Times Literary Supplement 'This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read. Aircraft & Spacecraft: General Interest.Ships, Boats & Waterways: General Interest.Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest. ![]()
![]() The Hindu universe is run by a married couple who only stop murdering in order to throw sweet dance parties.on the corpses of their enemies. The entire Egyptian universe was saved because Sekhmet just got too hammered to keep murdering everyone. ![]() Zeus once stuffed an unborn fetus inside his thigh to save its life after he exploded its mother by being too good in bed. ![]() Still skeptical? Here are a few more gems to consider: Ganesh was the very definition of an unplanned pregnancy.Īnd Abraham was totally cool about stabbing his kid in the face. Odin got construction discounts with bestiality. Narcissus probably should have just learned to masturbate. These are rude, crude, totally sacred texts told the way they were meant to be told: loudly, and with lots of four-letter words. In Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes, Cory O'Brien, creator of Myths RETOLD!, sets the stories straight. ![]() In reality, mythology is more screwed up than a schizophrenic shaman doing hits of unidentified.wait, it all makes sense now. From the creator of Myths Retold comes a hilarious collection of Greek, Norse, Chinese and even Sumerian myths retold in their purest, bawdiest forms!Īll our lives, we've been fed watered-down, PC versions of the classic myths. ![]() ![]() The texts printed in this volume are those of the critical edition of Hume's philosophical works now being published by the Clarendon Press. Hume's Abstract of the Treatise, also included in the volume, outlines his 'chief argument' regarding our conception of, and belief in, cause and effect. It then offers a novel account of the passions, explains freedom and necessity as they apply to human choices and actions, and concludes with detailed explanations of how we distinguish between virtue and vice and of the different kinds of virtue. ![]() The Treatise first explains how we form such concepts as cause and effect, external existence, and personal identity, and to form compelling but unconfirmable beliefs in the entities represented by these concepts. It is also the focal point of current attempts to understand 18th-century philosophy.
![]() They’re the ones sitting there making reforms happen by simply drafting and redrafting clauses. But you rarely think of the more tedious technical aspect of it which is the ‘babus’ behind the scene pushing paper. When you’re talking about an Independence movement, you’re thinking of leaders who make wonderful speeches, of bloodshed, of people fighting back. The run-up to Independence had public servants in the background, but they impacted the way India evolved. It’s a mix of ambition, great good fortune and supervisors willing to let him step in and step up. They don’t really look at his lack of educational qualifications. He meets English supervisors who are incredibly supportive. It is only when he’s selling towels outside Victoria Terminus that he meets somebody who gives a letter of recommendation to join the home department in the government. He does a number of odd jobs along the way. He then bounces around till he reaches north India. He is in Kolar Gold Fields as a coolie where he will stay for the next five years. He runs away from school at 13, after having set it on fire. It was a mix of drive, ambition and sheer good luck. How did he become the constitutional adviser? A recent biography ‘VP Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India’ by Narayani Basu explores one such story. ![]() ![]() The transfer of power in 1947 from the UK to India was midwifed by an unusual set of Indian bureaucrats whose work provided the nuts and bolts of the governance architecture. ![]() ![]() City of Glass combines dark, Kafka-like humor with all the suspense of a Hitchcock film as a writer of detective stories becomes embroiled in a complex and puzzling series of events, beginning with a call from a stranger in the middle of the night asking for the author Paul Auster himself. These three novels brought Auster international acclaim for his creation of a new genre, mixing elements of the standard detective fiction and postmodern fiction. Paul Auster’s brilliant debut novels, City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room, are here collected for the first time in the United States. ![]() You can read this before The New York Trilogy PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The New York Trilogy written by Paul Auster which was published in 1987–. ![]() Brief Summary of Book: The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster ![]() ![]() ![]() Last year we had the stand-out example The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - we also saw the release of Jerry Cornelius: His Life and Times - by the legendary author Michael Moorcock.Īs such my expectation was high for this book, a time travel story with the infamous wit of Ben Elton. I like Time Travel novels, there have been some great examples fairly recently. The only novel I've read of his prior to Time and Time Again is Stark - an early example of modern environmental fiction and a book that feels a lot like the love-child of Douglas Adams and Grant Naylor. His humour is often satirical, off-the-wall and almost always makes me laugh. I've loved most of the TV programs he's been involved in from the Young Ones and Blackadder to Blessed and the Thin Blue Line. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() STRICTLY OFF LIMITS: A FORBIDDEN ROMANCE NOVELLAĪlexandra James gave up her spring break for an offer she couldn’t refuse: a week-long job that would earn her enough money to buy her way out of a broken heart. ![]() Wealthy businessman Beau Olivier wants Lola for a night, and in order to get her, he’s willing to make her dreams come true.īut what if one night isn't enough, and Beau isn’t ready to say goodbye in the morning? Lola Winters doesn’t think she can escape her life as a waitress- until she receives a shocking proposition from a sexy stranger. “Pretty Woman meets Indecent Proposal in Explicitly Yours, a provocative series that’ll leave your heart racing.”-Louise Bay, USA Today Bestselling Author Yours to Bare is a standalone spin-off of Slip of the Tongue. But when Finn undoes the bow, he pulls strings that could unravel both of them. Halston Fox’s journal is the one place she can be herself-as long as she can tie it up and put it away when she’s finished. So when it drops a leather-bound journal at his feet, he knows he should walk away… No matter how cruel it’s been to him in the past, Finn Cohen’s never been able to flip fate the bird. ![]() |