![]() ![]() She frequently visits her favorite city–London. As a successful Freelance Food and Travel Columnist, Ashleigh can escape whenever she likes and travel the world. To everyone else she seems to have it all– a posh independent lifestyle with nothing holding her back. Ashleigh Preston has always maintained control of her life, especially her romantic life. ![]() The past, can also bring you closure…provide answers you never knew you needed to mysteries you never thought existed…and the past, can force you to look at your current choices in an entirely different light. The past can keep you from moving on…holding your heart hostage. ![]() The past, it can haunt you…It can consume you…have a hypnotic hold on your mind, body and soul. You can read this before Fifteen Weekends PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Fifteen Weekends written by Christy Pastore which was published in May 25, 2014. Brief Summary of Book: Fifteen Weekends by Christy Pastore ![]()
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![]() Johnson entertainingly shows how appetites for spices led to international exploration and colonial empires and how the ornamentation of fashion and jewelry spurred technological innovation and industry. ![]() This is a history of what we do for fun.” It’s a history of how mankind has been making musical instruments from bones for as many millennia as it has been making weapons and how devices such as the player piano led to the development of computer software. ![]() “This is a history of play, a history of the pastimes that human beings have concocted to amuse themselves from the daily grind of subsistence. “This book is an extended argument for that kind of clue: a folly, dismissed by many as a mindless amusement, that turns out to be a kind of artifact from the future,” writes the author, who contends that delight and novelty have been given short shrift by cultural historians. An illumination of how civilization advances through the ways in which it plays.Īmusement, entertainment, and leisure are often seen as the byproducts of epochal change, yet Johnson ( How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World, 2014, etc.) provides a compelling counterintuitive argument that the Industrial Revolution, democracy, and the computer age were all driven by diversions and appetites that historians too often ignore. ![]() ![]() ![]() From debut author Anna James comes a charming and exciting adventure about a bookish young heroine, a mysterious librarian, and a magical bookshop that will delight book lovers everywhere. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. When new secrets are uncovered, it's up to Tilly to solve the mystery of what happened to her mother all those years ago. Tilly's new ability leads her to fun and exciting adventures, but danger may be lurking on the very next page. Listen Free to Pages & Co.: The Bookwanderers audiobook by Anna James with a 30 Day Free Trial Stream and download audiobooks to your computer. ![]() Not only can she follow Anne and Alice into their books, she discovers she can bookwander into any story she chooses. But when her favorite characters, Anne of Green Gables and Alice from Wonderland, start showing up at the shop,Tilly's adventures become very real. Since her mother's disappearance, eleven-year-old Tilly Pages has found comfort in the stories at Pages & Co., her grandparents' bookshop. ![]() Perfect for fans of Inkheart, The Land of Stories, and Story Thieves. An enchanting story about the magic of books and the power of imagination from debut author Anna James. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eliot's "The Four Quartets," Eliot includes an epigraph from a fragment of Heraclitus that says, "The way upward and the way downward is one and the same." This must be the origin of a couple of Hodge's Hermetic expressions ("As within, so without," and "As above, so below.") And when Nyx gives herself for the first time to Ignifex, she's wearing a classical empire dress with two brooches holding up the shoulders, which reminded me of Oedipus's mother's dress (and the brooches poor Oedipus used to poke his eyes out). ![]() There are so many small references, I'm sure I missed most of them. There's a fair amount of alchemy, and the tradition of Hermeticism-the near-religion of controlling nature through magic. ![]() The story is a little bit Beauty and the Beast, a little bit Cupid and Psyche (without being a retelling of either). Hodge is clearly a fan of ancient and period literature, because there are a lot of influences at work here. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lovecraft Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales Complete Novels of Jane Austen Complete Sherlock Holme Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allen Poe Complete Works of William Shakespeare Divine Comedy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales The Essential Tales of H.P. Other titles in the Chartwell Classics Series include: Complete Fiction of H.P. ![]() Chartwell Classics are the editions of choice for the most discerning literature buffs. Hyde (Shadow Trilogy) by Stevenson, Robert Louis - Royal Fireworks Press - Publisher for gifted and talented. This elegantly designed jacketed hardcover edition features a new introduction by English scholar and professor Allen Grove and a timeline of the life and times of Robert Louis Stevenson.Įssential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, the Chartwell Classics series includes beautifully presented works and collections from some of the most important authors in literary history. This gothic horror novel is presented alongside five short stories by author Robert Louis Stevenson: Discover the mesmerizing tale of two personalities in a war over the soul of one man. ![]() ![]() In addition to the familiar tales, Whistlestop also remembers the forgotten stories about the bruising and reckless campaigns of the nineteenth century when the combatants believed the consequences included the fate of the republic itself. ![]() At the bar at the end of a campaign day, these are the stories reporters rehash for themselves and embellish for newcomers. Whistlestop tells the human story of nervous gambits hatched in first-floor hotel rooms, failures of will before the microphone, and the cross-country crack-ups of long-planned stratagems. As Mike Murphy the political strategist put it, "Campaigns are like war without bullets." The battle of ideas has a clear end, with winners and losers, and along the way there are sharp turning points-primaries, debates, conventions, and scandals that squeeze candidates into emergency action, frantic grasping, and heroic gambles. Presidential campaigns are a contest for control of power in the most powerful country on earth. From Face the Nation moderator and contributing editor for The Atlantic John Dickerson come the stories behind the stories of the most memorable moments in American presidential campaign history. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I learned to love local turns of phrase, like “yes, please,” which was doled out in situations where a simple affirmative just wouldn’t do. “Is the restroom over there?” “Yes, please!”“Are you Bob?” “Yes, please!” “. When I was told, “That would be right,” it wasn’t a use of the conditional as I first understood it, but somehow a gentler way of telling me something was correct. I was thrilled to report in Barbados last month for all the expected reasons (weather, beaches, food) and a slightly less conventional one: This would be my first time reporting a story entirely in English in more than a decade.In the lead-up to the trip, as my anxiety grew over driving on the left side of the road and making sure I had all my interviews confirmed, I comforted myself with the notion that doing something in one’s native language inherently makes it easier.Of course, I was wrong.Between Britishisms and Bajanisms, I frequently found myself asking, “What?” There were interviews where I even considered inquiring if the person spoke some Spanish.But, like any language, it only took a strong dose of humility – and tuning my ear to what was initially a linguistic puzzle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fisher, Professor of English, University of Mississippi, is a longtime enthusiast of the works of Poe. It includes his famed masterpieces, such as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter," featuring Poe's great detective, Dupin his insightful studies of madness "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" "The Gold-Bug," his delightful exercise in "code-breaking" and important but lesser-known tales, such as "Bon-Bon," "The Assignation," and "King Pest." Also included are some of Poe's most beloved poems, haunting lyrics of love and loss, such as "Annabel Lee," nightmare phantasmagories such as "The Raven," and his grand experiment in translating sound into words, "The Bells." Benjamin F. This anthology offers an exceptionally generous selection of Poe's short stories. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth, almost painful intensity, and unexpected¿and surprisingly modern¿flashes of dark humor and irony. Creator of the modern detective story, innovative architect of the horror genre, and a poet of extraordinary musicality, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of America's most popular and influential writers. The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, by Edgar Allan Poe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I came across the date 1619, and people who know me know I’ve been obsessed with that date since then. And that class changed my life,” she tells Oprah. “I was bused to white schools, and my high school offered a one-semester, Black Studies elective. After sharing how she grew up “on the Black side” of a segregated town in Iowa, Hannah-Jones reflects on the class that sparked her interest in this specific date. The year is of both personal and historical significance to Hannah-Jones, who says she feels like she’s “been working toward” this project since she was 15. Read on for highlights from Oprah’s groundbreaking conversation with Hannah-Jones ahead of the latest iteration of “The 1619 Project.” Hannah-Jones on the significance of the year 1619 ![]() Two books were also published in 2021 as part of the project, marking a new chapter in its evolution. It builds upon the sobering-and deeply comprehensive- "ongoing initiative" of the same name that the journalist released with The New York Times Magazine in August 2019, marking the 400-year anniversary of the start of slavery in this country. The duo executive produced this six-part Hulu docuseries, which wrestles with the undeniable ripple effect slavery has had on the United States. Oprah sat down with Pulitzer Prize-winner Nikole Hannah-Jones for an episode of the Super Soul podcast ahead of the premiere of The 1619 Project. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play ![]() ![]() ![]() The novella follows Alice's journey to a future Manchester populated by Newmonians, Civil Serpents and a vanishing cat named Quark. Noon describes Automated Alice as a "trequel" - it is a companion piece of sorts to Lewis Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. ( Automated Alice connects the series to the fictional world of Lewis Carroll), serving as a 'trequel' to Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass ) Noon's first four novels, which share ongoing characters and settings, are commonly referred to as the 'Vurt series' (after the first novel).Īlthough the fictional chronology leads from Automated Alice to Nymphomation to Vurt to Pollen, the books were originally published as Vurt (1993), Pollen (1995), Automated Alice (1996), and Nymphomation (1997). ![]() Prior to his relocation in 2000 to Brighton, Noon set most of his stories in some version of his native city of Manchester. ![]() Noon's speculative fiction books have ties to the works of writers such as Lewis Carroll and Jorge Luis Borges. Jeff Noon (born 1957 in Droylsden, Lancashire, England) is a British novelist, short story writer and playwright whose works make use of word play and fantasy. 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