![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her sympathetic touch and ability to imbue each character with life involves us from the first to the last page. In The Town House, Norah Lofts evokes fourteenth- and fifteenth-century life from the perspective of five different characters. The vast scope of The Suffolk Trilogy - continued with The House at Old Vine and The House at Sunset - involves the reader in a fascinating journey through time. In its very foundations it held secrets and lies, passionate love and deep despair. Built in the late fourteenth century by Martin Reed, a runaway serf who had defied his master for the woman he loved, the house was to change and grow for six centuries. Can a house built from the ashes of tragedy ever be a place of lasting happiness? Can the hereditary mix of wild gypsy lore, fierce independence, magic and mystery truly settle in a respectable home? The Town House is the first in Norah Lofts' enduringly popular Suffolk Trilogy about the Old Vine at Baildon. ![]()
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![]() While by the end Schiff’s book pulls itself into a reasonably cohesive shape, offering some credible (if not wholly original). ![]() More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraftthe devil’s magic and 20 were executed. ![]() VERDICT Fans of Stacy Schiff's meticulous research of The Witches: Salem, 1692 and Oliver Pötzsch's solemn tone in The Hangman's Daughter will relish this well-imagined personal journey. Yet the result, The Witches: Salem, 1692, is a disappointment. The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between early 1692 and mid-1693. (It helps that the author is also a biographer of Judge Sewall, having penned Judge Sewall's Apology.) A pivotal conversation between Sewall and Thomas Brattle halfway through the novel introduces doubt to the character's convictions, paving the way for Sewall's epiphanies about his role as father, within both his family and the community. The inner monologs are combined with conversations that Salem witch history aficionados will identify as correct in their narrative placement. Set in the time just before, during, and then four years after the trials, this deftly crafted novel perfectly balances issues of religion, faith, and law. ![]() Imagine what a judge at the Salem witch trials would be thinking, feeling, praying for? Judge Samuel Sewall is a Massachusetts colonist, father, and lawman navigating the well-described hardships of everyday life in the 1600s when he's asked to assist with the hysteria overtaking the town. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He lives with his wife Debora and his children in Bern. Today, Marcus has illustrated over 50 books, which have been translated into more than 50 languages and received countless international awards. There are sequels in the Rainbow Fish book series: Rainbow Fish to the Rescue: About the acceptance and integration of foreigners. His debut picture book, The Sleepy Owl, was published by NorthSouth in 1986, but his big breakthrough came 6 years later with The Rainbow Fish. After studying at the Art School of Bern, he apprenticed as a graphic designer and worked in an advertising agency before bing self-employed in 1984. Book Synopsis A fresh new edition of this favorite board book! When a dangerous and hungry shark suddenly appears, Rainbow Fish must decide: Should he risk losing his new friends-maybe even his life-for the little stranger? About The Author Marcus Pfister was born in Bern, Switzerland. The gently implied themes of sharing and friendship in the first story are expanded here to include courage.-School Library Journal. Rainbow Fish to the Rescue Mini Book Hardcover Augby Marcus Pfister (Author) 259 ratings Part of: Rainbow Fish (19 books) Hardcover 4.95 8 Used from 2.59 1 Collectible from 15.00 Paperback 6.99 39 Used from 2.31 18 New from 6.99 Audio, Cassette from 91.68 1 New from 91.68 Board book 9.95 54 Used from 1.09 17 New from 4. About the Book The sequel to the bestseller The Rainbow Fish is now available in a glittering board book edition for the very young. ![]() ![]() ![]() This little book will charm anyone with an interest in style. ![]() “Surprisingly poetic.”-Entertainment Weekly “A memoir every reader will wish to copy in her own size.”-Glamour This small gem of a book is worthy of a Tiffany box.”-The New York Times Book Review “Illuminates the experience of an entire generation of women. The star-studded Off-Broadway show is receiving rave reviews with shows continuing in New York, and now Chicago. This book has been adapted for the stage by Nora and Delia Ephron. From her Brownie uniform to her Pucci knockoff to her black strapless Rita Hayworth–style dress from the Neiman Marcus outlet store, Ilene Beckerman tells us the story of her life. Ilene Beckerman’s runaway bestseller articulates something all women know: that our memories are often tied to our favorite clothes. ![]() ![]() Emmy has put her career in jeopardy by insisting that the ‘explained’ fires were actually murders and that they are all somehow connected.Įveryone seems to think that Emmy has gone mad, however, she actually has a unique skill, she sees connections that others tend to miss. ![]() However, there’s been a large number of other victims from fires deemed accidental. Her twin sister Marta had recently been killed in a fire that investigators insist was accidental. If You Click Through And Make A Purchase, I May Earn A Commission.įBI research analyst Emmy Dockery has recently been put on unpaid administrative leave. *As an Amazon Associate, I earn on qualifying purchases. ![]() CLICK ON THE BOOKS TO PURCHASE ON AMAZON.I highly recommend James Patterson’s Invisible series. The New York Journal of Books has said “Invisible is a difficult book to read because of the sheer horror and mayhem, but it’s even tougher to put down.” Unsolved is the long-awaited chilling follow up sure to keep you on the edge. Invisible is a #1 New York Times bestselling thriller. Another enthralling and suspenseful series written by James Patterson and David Ellis. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters are split into three Volunteer Decks each representing the range of inhabitants who might be found in different locations within the city: Lords & Ladies, Man & Beast and Shades & Shadows. There are twelve locations on the board where players may charm volunteers to join them on their quest. It is also used to mark the players Charm, Guild and Magic abilities, which can be developed throughout the game. Their chosen Guild Card will give them a specific selection of the Great Spells to collect and grants them a unique Guild Ability which can be used to hinder their opponents. Each player selects one of four Guilds to infiltrate: Thieves, Assassins, Alchemists or Fools. ![]() Each player is tasked with collecting and returning a number of the spells to the university before it is too late. With the Eight Great Spells missing from the Unseen University, the future of the Disc hangs in the balance. Guards! Guards! A Discworld Boardgame sees players taking on the role of newly recruited members of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. ![]() ![]() ![]() Salome is a great evocation of the Bible playing on essentially shadow and light. He is particularly fascinated by the male body as a direct representative of human destiny, human lot, man's history. He is interested in the body, its suffering, its confinement, its torturing, its structure, looks, excitement and excitation, etc. But they are not because of Barker's fantastical (as he says) imagination. Both films have in common that they are pocket money films, done with so little budget that they could have been a pure waste of time. In fact it is a revealer about Clive Barker's imagination and interests more than anything else. It does not bring anything to it to say it is an illustration of Faust. The Forbidden is a work that could and should stand all by itself. John is shown as a young beardless angel who is of course loved and tortured by Salome. Salome is a reference to the Bible, John the Baptist and King Herod. Two short black and white films by Clive Barker from the time when he was a student in Liverpool with a couple of friends who will become associates later on in Hollywood. ![]() ![]() ![]() Roxy is a goddess, the anthropomorphic personification of oxycodone. I earn commission on any purchases made through these links. You can order ROXY by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman from Amazon UK, Waterstone’s or UK. ![]() Thanks to Walker Books for the review copy of this book. ROXY was released in the United Kingdom on 11th November 2021. This is the start of a race to the bottom that will determine life and death. Isaac is desperate to recover from a sports injury that jeopardises his chance of a scholarship. Ivy is understimulated and over medicated. Roxy and Addison have made a wager to see who can be lethal the quickest. But here they are malevolent gods, toying with the fates of mortals. Humans know the partygoers simply as “narcotics”, “opioids”, “drugs”. Above our world is a toxic wonderland where the party has raged for centuries. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for The Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse: To make matters worse, Mops is starting to feel a little feral herself… (This might be Mops’ fault.) The survival of humanity-those few who weren’t turned to feral, shambling monsters by an alien plague-as well as the fate of all other non-Prodryans, will depend on what Captain Mops and the crew of the EDFS Pufferfish discover on the ringed planet of Tuxatl.īut the Jynx on Tuxatl are fighting a war of their own, and their world’s long-buried secrets could be more dangerous than the Prodryans. But if there’s one lesson Mops and her crew have learned, it’s that things like “training” and “being remotely qualified” are overrated. They were absolutely not trained to fight an interplanetary war with the xenocidal Prodryans or to make first contact with the Jynx, a race who might not be as primitive as they seem. Marion “Mops” Adamopoulos and her team were trained to clean spaceships. The third and final book of the Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse follows a group of unlikely heroes trying to save the galaxy from a zombie plague. ![]() ![]() ![]() The memoir focuses on Jefferson’s childhood in a community of affluent African-Americans in Chicago, but it is also a reflection on the history and status of America’s black elite more generally. In Constructing a Nervous System, she writes about the family members, artists, athletes, intellectuals, and activists who have influenced her the most. Negroland is a 2015 memoir by American author and academic Margo Jefferson, a former theatre critic at the New York Times. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation grant, Jefferson currently teaches writing at Columbia University. Her essays and reviews have been published in a variety of other periodicals, including Vogue, Harper’s Magazine, and New York Magazine, among many others. A former longtime theater and book reviewer for Newsweek and The New York Times, she won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for her cultural criticism. She is also the author of On Michael Jackson, an analysis of Jackson’s cultural legacy as a pop star and celebrity. “A national treasure” ( Vanity Fair), Margo Jefferson won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir Negroland, an examination of her upbringing and education amongst a small segment of privileged Black society in the United States. In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition ![]() |