The Undying by Ronnell D. Porter7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() It took many lifetimes to watch mother Earth breathe her last, and with her vanished our only source of replenishment. The aftermath of man’s recklessness left the wounded planet defenseless as its shadows consumed the skies and devoured its atmosphere. The end of the world was a slow and gradual death for most of the living creatures on the face of the earth. It was not blasted away by the antimatter of a distant galaxy, and it definitely was not the work of a virus or plague. The earth was not destroyed by some rogue asteroid, or a collision with a vigilante planet. Humans, with their obsession with the ultimate and inevitable conclusion of their world, had thought through every destructive doomsday scenario to be imagined. The end was nothing like any one of us could have imagined it would be. ![]()
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Joanne m harris honeycomb7/8/2023 ![]() The tales are beautifully illustrated by renowned illustrator Charles Vess ( Stardust, Sandman, The Books of Earthsea). Dark, gripping, and brilliantly imaginative, these magical tales will soon have you in their thrall. Harris and legendary artist Charles Vess in a collaboration thats been years in the making. These are just a few of the weird and wonderful creatures who populate Joanne Harris's first collection of fairy tales.ĭark, gripping, and brilliantly imaginative, these magical tales will soon have you in their thrall in a uniquely illustrative edition. Full of dreams and nightmares, Honeycombis an entrancing mosaic novel of original fairy tales from bestselling author Joanne M. The toymaker who wants to create the perfect wife the princess whose heart is won by words, not actions the tiny dog whose confidence far outweighs his size and the sinister Lacewing King who rules over the Silken Folk. Harris and legendary artist Charles Vess in a collaboration that's been years in the making. Full of dreams and nightmares, Honeycomb is an entrancing mosaic novel of original fairy tales from bestselling author Joanne M. Harris Illustrated by Charles Vess Hardcover LIST PRICE 32. ![]() ![]() Description: Eerie, dark and opulent, cocooned in silk and shadows, this is a novel unlike any other: a honeycomb built from a hundred cells, each cell a story in its own right. The beauty of stories you never know where they will take you. HONEYCOMB Joanne Harris HONEYCOMB Long ago and far away, Far away and long ago, The World was honeycomb, we know, The Worlds were honeycomb. A lushly illustrated set of dark, captivating fairy tales from the bestselling author of The Gospel of Loki with illustrator Charles Vess ( Stardust). ![]() Review of the book of lost names7/8/2023 ![]() Many of them ended up in German libraries, and the article the photo illustrates is about a German librarian who is trying to trace some of the books, many of them rare, back to their rightful owners. ![]() The book Eva sees in that newspaper photo is one of the countless volumes the Nazis looted from their owners during the war. ![]() Eva is fictional, but her story draws from fact. In The Book of Lost Names, she bases her fiction on extensive historical research, including real-life forgers who had heroic roles during the war. She worked for a number of newspapers and magazines, including more than a decade as a reporter for People. ![]() Petersburg and began working as a journalist in high school, including covering sports for the then- St. Harmel, who lives in Orlando, grew up partly in St. ![]() The gown novel7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Her roommate and friend Miriam Dassin, another embroiderer, is a French émigré who arrived in London with a recommendation from Christian Dior in hand. Ann considers herself a plain girl that no one would notice. ![]() Ann Hughes is an embroiderer at the salon of Norman Hartnell, couturier to the royal ladies and designer of the princess’s wedding gown. Jennifer Robson’s latest novel focuses on three women, with a few men and glimpses of royalty on the side. Then, as now, the royals gave good value in troubled times. ![]() The one bright spot was the upcoming wedding of the heiress presumptive to the throne, Princess Elizabeth. There was still rationing of fuel to heat tiny rooms, and even soap and potatoes were scarce. The major cities, especially London, had been bombed to smithereens by Hitler’s Luftwaffe. England after World War II was a grim place, and the winter of 1947 was one of the nastiest Britain had seen, which is saying something. ![]() A spool of blue thread7/7/2023 ![]() As you read along you can actually feel yourself in the house on Boulton Road. The fact that Junior Whitshank desired and eventually was able to purchase the beloved house plays out the pivotal theme throughout the novel. This is a multi-generational story of a family on many different levels. I felt it answered many questions on how their story began and how the thread of their lives unraveled throughout the years.Ī central “character” in the novel is actually the “house” which was the heart and soul of the Whitshank family. You could say she writes in a rambling prose throughout the book in revealing the characters to the readers as she goes. The spool of blue thread plays an integral role at the end of the book and it is the perfect title for the ongoing narration by Anne Tyler. The novel A Spool Of Blue Thread weaves the story of the Whitshank family through the years of their lives pieced together through the smiles and tears and the memories. ![]() ![]() What do we all expect of life… love, joy, sorrow, happiness, disappointments, regrets, new opportunities, peace? ![]() I believe all families, large and small, could say truer words were never spoken. These are the words on a plaque I have had hanging in my kitchen for many many years. A Spool of Blue Thread: Book Review by Arlene ![]() ![]() ![]() Not since the publication of Randy Shilts’s classic And the Band Played On has a book measured the AIDS plague in such brutally human, intimate, and soaring terms. Around the globe, 16 million people are alive today thanks to their efforts. Ignored by public officials, religious leaders, and the nation at large, and confronted with shame and hatred, this small group of men and women chose to fight for their right to live by educating themselves and demanding to become full partners in the race for effective treatments. France’s book, acclaimed as a “masterpiece of intimate storytelling with moral purpose” by National Book Award winner Andrew Solomon, is based on France’s seminal Oscar-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague.įrance tells the riveting story of the grassroots movement of activists, many of them in a life-or-death struggle, who seized upon scientific research to help develop the drugs that turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. Please join us at Roosevelt House for a special evening marking the publication of How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS, by David France, the definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic. ![]() ![]() He is soon joined by this generation’s Robin–a girl named Carrie Kelley, who proves to be just as invaluable as her predecessors. The Dark Knight returns in a blaze of fury, taking on a whole new generation of criminals and matching their level of violence. As civil society crumbles around him, Bruce Wayne’s long-suppressed vigilante side finally breaks free of its self-imposed shackles. ![]() ![]() Crime runs rampant in the streets, and the man who was Batman is still tortured by the memories of his parents’ murders. ![]() Together with inker Klaus Janson and colorist Lynn Varley, writer artist Frank Miller completely reinvents the legend of Batman in his saga of a near-future Gotham City gone to rot, ten years after the Dark Knight’s retirement. This masterpiece of modern comics storytelling brings to vivid life a dark world and an even darker man. You can read this before Batman: The Dark Knight Returns PDF full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Batman: The Dark Knight Returns written by Frank Miller which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller ![]() ![]() ![]() Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. There was nothing under my skin but light.īut now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life,įrom Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins, published by Random House, 2002. It seems only yesterday I used to believe It is time to say good-bye to my imaginary friends, This is the beginning of sadness, I say to myself,Īs I walk through the universe in my sneakers. ![]() You tell me it is too early to be looking back,Īnd the beautiful complexity introduced by two.īut I can lie on my bed and remember every digit.īy drinking a glass of milk a certain way.Īt seven I was a soldier, at nine a prince.Īnd my bicycle never leaned against the garageĪll the dark blue speed drained out of it. Or the headaches I get from reading in bad light. I’m not sure if I’m making sense right now. I’m having one of those moments wherein I feel the weight of everything and yet I don’t particularly care, because I am bored, and thinking about things makes them old, like stale, like how you shouldn’t really touch them because of the risk of spoilage, like how your fingers can stain such fragility because your skin sustains biased perception. Had my photos developed, which was pretty much the highlight of my day. Then I was left alone to wander by myself for two hours. ![]() Gora by rabindranath tagore7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() It contains some of his best-known poems, including many in verse forms new to Bengali, as well as some social and political satire that was critical of his fellow Bengalis. There he published several books of poetry in the 1880s and completed Manasi (1890), a collection that marks the maturing of his genius. The son of the religious reformer Debendranath Tagore, he early began to write verses, and, after incomplete studies in England in the late 1870s, he returned to India. In 1913 he became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was highly influential in introducing Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of early 20th-century India. ![]() Britannica reports of Rabindranath Tagone, the following: “ Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali Rabīndranāth Ṭhākur, (born May 7, 1861, Calcutta, India-died August 7, 1941, Calcutta), Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Below, thwarted by a lake, a bloodthirsty horde of raiders await the coming of winter and the frozen path to destroy the sanctuary and its secrets. ![]() High in a snowy mountain range, a monastery that holds more than just faith clings to the side of a cliff. If you want to find out more about Stacking The Shelves, please visit the official launch page! Hardcover Bloodwitch by Susan Dennardįans of Susan Dennard’s New York Times bestselling Witchlands series have fallen in love with the Bloodwitch Aeduan. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! It was created by Tynga’s review. Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. ![]() |