![]() ![]() I have been itching to set a novel in Boston. WHAT ABOUT THIS HISTORICAL PERIOD AND SETTING PIQUED YOUR INTEREST? ![]() THE SETTING FOR THIS BOOK IS BOSTON OF THE 1890’S. I wanted Against the Tide to be a delight to read, despite the sometimes weighty themes. Whenever the drama gets a little heavy, I try to inject some glimpses of wit and joy into the mix. When they love, it is with both hands stretched out and no-holds barred. When they fail, they do so in a spectacular fashion. The characters in this book have huge dreams and are willing to risk everything in order to make them happen. ![]() WHAT WERE YOUR GOALS WRITING AGAINST THE TIDE?Īlthough I did my best to weave some pretty weighty themes of forgiveness and redemption into the book, what I really hope is that people simply enjoy reading a thrilling love story. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. The rebels are called the Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the all-powerful Party. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger, drawn into a forbidden love affair, and now a member of a secret revolutionary organization. ![]() In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. This long, massive, highly detailed adaptation uses a great deal of the original text from the book. One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984, translated from its first publication in Brazil in 2020. Pin-Up & Adult –You must be 18 or older. ![]() ![]() ![]() An unnamed protagonist arrives in a fictional city-state called Ravicka where she meets people, has. ![]() ![]() Eventually, the narrator immerses herself in the Ravickian national literary masterpiece, Waiting ("famous for its pace: nothing happens"), but is tormented by the imprecision of the translation, a feeling that won't be unfamiliar to readers of Gladman's alluring if sometimes frustrating narrative. Full Book Name:Event Factory (Ravicka 1) Author Name:Renee Gladman Book Genre:American, Cities, Contemporary, Fiction, Geography, Humanities, Language, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels, Poetry, Science Fiction ISBN 9780984469307 Edition Language:English Date of Publication:November 1st 2010 PDF File Name:EventFactory-ReneeGladman. Renee Gladmans Event Factory reviewed by Paula Koneazny. ![]() She stays at a hotel run by Simon, who tries to offer helpful information, and meets a succession of guides, such as Dar, a foreigner who knows the city but can't speak Ravic, and Ulchi Managua, a transient who despairs at the vanishing state of his beloved city. The narrator linguist has flown here to tour the city, but her interactions with the few and far between inhabitants are more bewildering than enlightening. In the dystopian land of Ravicka, people speak in extravagant gestures, maps do not correspond to landmarks, the streets are swathed in smoke, and people are fleeing en masse. Gladman's murky, eerie new novel (after To After That) leads a linguist into a foreign city on the brink of annihilation and creates for her a lonely foray into self-discovery. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() About the AuthorĪfter completing master's degrees in botany and zoology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Don Kurz spent the next 30 years working to inventory, acquire, protect, and manage natural areas, endangered species sites, and other special features. As a spiritual successor to Falcon’s long-beloved Tallgrass Prairie Wildflowers, this new book will become the definitive guide to the many varieties of wildflowers flourishing between Chicago and Denver. Written by a wildflower expert for the casual wildflower observer, Prairie Wildflowers is organized by color for easy access out on the trail and includes information on blooming season and range as well as a glossary of terms and a reference section. Prairie Wildflowers contains detailed, full-color photographs and concise descriptions of over 350 of these wildflowers. ![]() Now, with Prairie Wildflowers, readers will be able to locate and identify the many gorgeous flowering species blooming in America’s heartland. ![]() America’s prairies are home to some of the most abundant and beautiful wildflowers in the country. ![]() ![]() The other involves losing his heart to an ambitious journalist determined to expose the truth at any cost. One happens to be a wee international smuggling operation. ![]() He’s a rakish dandy with a heart of stolen gold and two teeny tiny secrets. Local blacksmith Monsieur Sébastien le Duc is the pillar of his community-when he’s not pillaging elsewhere. She’s definitely not falling head-over-heels for the deceptively charming subject of her front-page column. Eve learned the hard way that men are not to be trusted. Unpaid and under-appreciated journalist Miss Eve Shelling never goes anywhere without a trusty notebook and her overprotective Duenna-who happens to be a bullmastiff. From a New York Times bestselling author: Sparks fly between a smuggler and a journalist in this laugh-out-loud, heartwarming romance! ![]() ![]() Your own consciousness is embarked upon a reality that basically can be experienced by no other, that is unique and untranslatable, with its own meaning, following its own path of becoming." You can learn much from others, but the deepest knowledge must come from within yourself. "Do not place the words of gurus, ministers, priests, scientists, psychologists, friends – or my words – higher than the feelings of your own being. Here are a couple of the many Seth statements that have kept me coming back: At other times, especially when I heard about someone who experienced a horrible tragedy, I'd think, "No way did that person create that." But there's so much of interest, and resonance, in the Seth books that, again, I keep going back to them. At times, I could absolutely see myself doing that. His basic teaching is that we create our own reality through our thoughts and beliefs. ![]() ![]() (I'd "changed the channel," so to speak.)īut I kept coming back. I'd be drawn to these books, get a lot out of them, then drop them and move on to other focuses. Seth (the entity channeled by Jane Roberts) has followed me around for many years. ![]() ![]() A memo to her boss thats replaced by obscene insults. ![]() If you would like to mask a potential spoiler, use the following format: (/spoiler)Īll times in ET (EST/EDT) unless otherwise noted. Come Closer a book by Sara Gran 24,199,695.25 raised for local bookstores Come Closer Sara Gran (Author) FORMAT Paperback 17.00 15.81 Available add to cart add to wishlist Description A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. Spoiler tags are left to user discretion. Some rule violations may result in a temporary or permanent ban on the first strike. Her work has been published in over a dozen countries and in nearly twice as many magazines, newspapers, and literary journals. Sara Gran is the author of five critically acclaimed novels, including Come Closer, Dope, and the Claire DeWitt series. We do ask that you help us keep a high level of discourse by avoiding image-only posts, blog spam, surveys, plugging your own unpublished or self-published fiction, and linking to fundraisers or items for sale. Sara Gran is the author of the novels Saturn’s Return to New York, Dope, and Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, the first in a detective series. No book is off-limits since horror is subjective. ![]() ![]() Here is your place to share your love or loathing for horror lit, but remember to be respectful.Ībusive comments and posts will get you banned but having a dissenting opinion is acceptable. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon she learns that her betrothed is also one of the Embraced. Luciana accepts her fate and agrees to wed the Beast - Lord Leofric - in order to save her father. He will be executed unless Luciana returns to the mainland and marries a man feared throughout the land: a terrifying brute known as the Beast. Now, nineteen years later, her father has returned with a frightening request. Like I said, I enjoy romance and fantasy - so I’m not going to let a hokey title stop me.Īs one of the Embraced - one born with magical powers - the beautiful, innocent Luciana escaped certain death after her father hid her away on the Isle of Moon. Why? Well, obviously it’s a series and the next book just came out so I have to refresh my brain on everything that’s happened. As it stands, here we are, and I’ve read it twice - my original read in 2017, and again a few days ago. In that respect, I guess it worked, but geez, that’s not exactly the best way to get someone to read your book. It was so ridiculous I picked it up just to see what the book was actually about. And yes, I realize plenty of books, romance or otherwise, tend to do this kind of play on titles (I work in a bookstore - the amount of puns in the cozy mystery titles is endless), but it just felt like too much. ![]() ![]() ![]() But I have to admit that the reason I picked up this book is not a good one. ![]() ![]() After the Destiny breaks down, all of Liza’s best-laid plans start to go awry. ![]() And she’s especially not interested in Russ, the probably-as-dumb-as-he-is-cute prankster jock whose ex, Demi, happens to be Liza’s ex–best friend and leader of the Athenas, a show choir that’s the band’s greatest competition.īut it’s not going to be smooth sailing. She’s therefore not interested when her old camp crush, Lenny, shows up on board, looking shockingly hipster-hot. Liza can’t imagine senior year without the band, and nothing will distract her from achieving victory. When Liza discovered that her beloved band was losing funding, she found Destiny, a luxury cruise ship complete with pools, midnight chocolate buffets, and a $25,000 spring break talent show prize. ![]() With her trusty baton and six insanely organized clipboards, drum major Liza Sanders is about to take Destiny by storm-the boat, that is. ![]() ![]() ![]() But I should certainly like to narrate my experiments in the spiritual field which are known only to myself, and from which I have derived such power as I possess for working in the political field. Yet Gandhi writes: "Often the title has deeply pained me. in his famous autobiography, My Experiments with Truth, writes about his own. The life of Gandhi has given fire and fiber to freedom fighters and to the untouchables of the world: hagiographers and patriots have capitalized on Mahatma myths. Joes Homilies (The lovely lady in the picture with me is my Mom, Terry. "My purpose," Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, "is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am." Satyagraha, Gandhi's nonviolent protest movement (satya = true, agraha = firmness), came to stand, like its creator, as a moral principle and a rallying cry the principle was truth and the cry freedom. This unusual autobiography, the story of My experiments with truth, is a window to the workings of Mahatma Gandhism mind, a window to the emotions of his. The Story Of My Experiments With Truth is a book that gives the reader an insight into the life of Mahatma Gandhi, from his childhood days to his death. In very good condition with some toning to the spine. ![]() Frontispiece of the author to both volumes. ![]() Item Number: 24096įirst editions of the Gandhi’s classic autobiography. ![]() |