![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Good titles to recommend to readers who have done all of Anne Rice and are looking for other gothic vampire tales.Ĭopyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro began her Saint-Germain series in 1978 with the novel Hotel Transylvania. The Palace is the home of nobleman Francesco Ragoczy da San Germano, who collects the finest art and also dabbles in the black arts. ![]() In Hotel Transylvania, Le Comte de Saint-Germain, the newest member of Louis XV's court, catches the eye of Madelaine de Montalia, but the young lady has attracted others as well, not all of whom mean her well. When the fiery young Madeline falls in love with him, a group of evil sorcerers targets her for their black mass-and only Saint-Germain can save her soul.įrom Library JournalThese are the first two volumes in Yarbro's series of vampire novels. A fixture in 1740s Parisian society, Saint-Germain is a perfect gentleman-and a vampire. Secluded from civilisation in the impenetrable Hotel Transylvania-a human-proof castle, and luxurious resort for all kinds of monsters in 21st-century Carpathia-the overprotective single father, Count Dracula, raises his only daughter, Mavis, away from the dangers of the human world. “The classic tale that introduced the legendary Le Comte de Saint-Germain, first published in 1978 and spawning 14 titles in the Saint-Germain epic, is now available in paperback. ![]()
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She is too exhausted, Orito thinks, even to fear dying tonight.ĭr. "She's barely spoken"- the maid holds the lamp - "for hours and hours." ![]() Orito dabs the concubine's sweat-drenched face with a damp cloth. In the rice paddy beyond the garden, a cacophony of frogs detonates. "Miss kawasemi?" orito kneels on a stale and sticky futon. The House of Kawasemi the Concubine, above Nagasaki ![]() ![]() ![]() He shows us how in a thrilling journey that ranges from Silicon Valley dissidents, to a favela in Rio where attention vanished, to an office in New Zealand that found a remarkable way to restore our attention.Ĭrucially, he learned how-as individuals and as a society-we can get our focus back, if we are determined to fight for it.Īn excellent book that I cannot rate highly Johann discovered there are 12 deep cases of this crisis, all of which have robbed some of our attention. ![]() This has been done to all of us by powerful external forces. We think our inability to focus is a personal failing-a flaw in each one of us. ![]() He interviewed the leading experts in the world on attention and learned that everything we think about this subject is wrong. Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And, most importantly, how do we get it back?įor Stolen Focus, internationally best-selling author Johann Hari went on a three-year journey to uncover the reasons why our teenagers now focus on one task for only 65 seconds, and why office workers on average manage only three minutes. Bloomsbury presents Stolen Focus by Johann Hari, read by Johann Hari. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a kind of journey to our most intimate space, a descent into the storehouse of our memories, our hopes, fears and desires, and the accumulation of our ideas and beliefs. If our home is the interior to which we return everyday for respite from the outside world, sleeping and the dream realm are where we go to even deeper levels of ourselves. In my body of work I have always explored, in one way or another, the domestic sphere, our immediate surroundings and in particular the bed, where we spend a large part of our lives. Above, in the waking reality we play out our lives, acting out our respective stories in a physical universe we are apt at manipulating but nonetheless have very limited knowledge of. Into sleep we descend night after night - our bodies at rest as a part of us travels into the darkness of the altered state of consciousness that is sleep. Foundation Course, Camberwell College, London, UK.BA in Fine Arts, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, Uk. ![]() MA in Fine Arts, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon Billy and his hounds become the finest hunting team in the valley. ![]() It’s true that times are tough, but together they’ll roam the hills of the Ozarks. So when he’s finally able to save up enough money for two pups to call his own-Old Dan and Little Ann-he’s ecstatic. ![]() This special edition includes new material, including a note to readers from Newbery Medal winner and Printz Honor winner Clare Vanderpool, a letter from Wilson Rawls to aspiring writers, original jacket artwork, and more.īilly has long dreamt of owning not one, but two dogs. This timeless classic about a boy who saves two dogs-and who save him in return-has been given a new look for a new generation.įor fans of Old Yeller and Shiloh, Where the Red Fern Grows is a beloved classic that captures the powerful bond between man and man’s best friend. To commemorate more than fifty years in print, this special edition includes a new cover and new back matter-a note from Newbery Medal-winning author Clare Vanderpool as well as historical materials to enrich this treasured novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. In reconstructing the life histories of black coal miners, Brown shows the mutable and shifting nature of collective identity, the struggles of labor and representation, and that Appalachia is far more diverse than you think. Drawn from over 150 original oral history interviews with former and current residents of Harlan County, Kentucky, Brown shows that as the nation experienced enormous transformation from the pre- to the post-civil rights era, so too did black Americans. In telling the stories of African Americans living and working in Appalachian coal towns, Brown offers a sweeping look at race, identity, changes in politics and policy, and black migration in the region and beyond. Brown's Gone Home offers a much-needed corrective to the current whitewashing of Appalachia. These stories, however, largely ignore black Appalachian lives. Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid crisis, its increasing joblessness, and its declining population. ![]() ![]() Yet she knows she could never compete with the girls constantly throwing themselves at his feet. During a wild weekend on tour with the band, Rowan can't help falling for the sweet guy buried beneath Adam's rocker persona. But Adam doesn't recognize her as a makeup-free, glasses-clad college student-a far cry from the beautiful, mysterious "Peach" he met at his concert. He's soon failing miserably, and, on a whim, she offers to tutor him. ![]() On the first day of school, Rowan is stunned when Adam saunters into her French class. But she can't stop thinking about the kiss they shared on his tour bus. When college freshman Rowan Michaels meets gorgeous, up-and-coming rock star Adam Everest, she knows a player like him is the last thing she needs after her ex-boyfriend shattered her heart. ![]() The first novel in a sexy, emotional new adult series for fans of Jamie McGuire and Jay Crownover. ![]() ![]() ![]() He wrote newspapers journals called ‘Chingari’ and ‘Dukh Duniya’ and penned political uprisings of Punjab and grievances of the farmers. ![]() He was the founder of Kisan Sabha in Punjab and was elected as the secretary of the Punjab Kisan Sabha in 1938. There he came in contact with early communist pioneers of Punjab and joined the Communist Party in 1934 and became a member of Congress Socialist Party in 1935. When enquired in the court, he introduced himself as “London Tod Singh” and was imprisoned by the British government under juvenile offenders for a year. On the anniversary of the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh in March 1932, he hoisted the tricolor on the district court of Hoshiarpur which resulted in open fire and his arrest. Harkishan Singh Surjeet, hailing from Jalandar district of Punjab started his political career in 1930 by joining the movement of Bhagat Singh “Naujawan Bharat Sabha'' in his early teens. ![]() ![]() ![]() Subsequent events lead Gwenda to start investigating past happenings in the house, although this is against the advice of Miss Marple who tells her is would be better to ‘ let sleeping murder lie.’ And sure enough, past evil is resurrected with tragic results for some. However, although she has never been in England before, everything about the house is strangely familiar and she has a terrifying vision of a murder. Before long she has taken up residence and feels that she has come home. On the outskirts of the small seaside town of Dillmouth, she sees a For Sale sign on a white Victorian villa and immediately decides that this is the house for her. Gwenda Reed, newly arrived in England from her home in New Zealand is house-hunting in Devon for a suitable residence in which to settle down with her husband of three months who is to join her shortly. This is one of a handful of retrospective murder mysteries that Agatha Christie wrote that is, the murder being investigated has occurred some years previously. ![]() Written in 1940, but not published until 1976, Sleeping Murder is Miss Marple’s last case and is a very fitting climax to an amazing career. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hamm doesn’t need to mimic that, but there’s no interpretation of his own. Not so here, he’s just up to … something.Ĭhase’s talents and instinct for physical comedy played up the character’s ability to fast-talk his way into, and out of, a variety of situations - sometimes with the help of a costume. He is forever obfuscating the truth, and if you know why he’s employing these tactics each step of the way, you’ll buy into them. ![]() He’s wry and unflappable, but there’s supposed to be a moral compass in there somewhere, beneath that self-satisfied exterior. And the newest film doesn’t do the necessary work to introduce - well, reintroduce - who he is: The guy’s a jerk, but he’s our jerk. There was a buoyancy to the original movies, which date from 19, but I’d wager Fletch is a blank slate to a sizable chunk of movie audiences born in the years since. ![]() |