Venous hum suzette mayr6/10/2023 ![]() 'The momentum of this novel, which I read in two delightful days, comes from the pile-on of absurd tragedies - how could things get any worse? Suzette Mayr taking care to immediately answer the question. Like an unholy collision of Stoner, The Haunting of Hill House, Charlie Brown, and Alice in Wonderland, this audacious new novel by the Giller Prize - longlisted Suzette Mayr is a satire that takes the hallowed halls of the campus novel in fantastical - and unsettling - directions. Except for her broken washing machine, her fickle new girlfriend, her missing friend Coral, her backstabbing fellow professors, a cutthroat new dean - and the fact that the sentient and malevolent Crawley Hall has decided it wants them all out, and the hall and its hellish hares will stop at nothing to get rid of them. ![]() ![]() She's a little anxious, but a new floral blouse and her therapist's repeated assurance that she is the architect of her own life should fix that. Her dissertation on pioneer housewife memoirist Beulah Crump-Withers is about to be published, and her job's finally safe, if she only can fill out her AAO properly. ![]() Edith Vane, scholar of English literature, is contentedly ensconced at the University of Inivea. ![]()
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Yoshitomo Nara by Kristin Chambers6/10/2023 ![]() He explains, “People say you have a big influence from Japanese animation. ![]() As Nara often remarks, for him manga and anime are not stylistic trends or even consciously chosen references, but simply one among numerous early influences. While many of his contemporaries were inundated by pop components of a re- newed Japanese culture, Nara was a child of working parents, a “latchkey kid”, who lived in the country and spent time with mainly his imagination, comic books, and family pets to keep him company. ![]() ![]() Born in 1959, Nara was raised in post-World War II Japan, an era defined by aggressive economic development and an influx of pop culture influences from the West, including the animation of Walt Disney and Warner Bros. ![]() "This business has legs" by Peter Bieler6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I have not once missed a (professional) deadline. My approach to editing is like Michelangelo's to sculpture: precision interventions to reveal the inner quality, but with an activist streak that doesn't shy away from rewrites if that's what it takes to make the prose sing. My books are sold around the world in seven languages. ZU VERKAUFEN Im the guy behind the ThighMaster', says author Peter Bieler. As an author myself, I've written or co-written sixteen books for numerous publishers in the PTR space, including O'Reilly, Osborne, and Microsoft Press. " DIESES GESCHÄFT HAT Beine': Wie ich Infomercial-Marketing verwendet habe, um die 100,00 zu schaffen - EUR 47,76. I can speak to your authors as a fellow traveler. Editing broken English off a third-generation mimeograph is just another Tuesday for me. I've managed authors directly since my first day on the job. I've also served as a technical editor, developmental editor, and manuscript reader for various other titles. My specialty? Professional/technical/reference books, the harder to produce, the better, by committees of authors who are brilliant in their fields but maybe not always the most natural writers.Īs an editor and editorial supervisor, I've completed multiple it-can't-be-done book-length projects for publishers like McGraw-Hill, Wiley, and Prentice Hall. Me? A bona fide miracle worker and quarter-century veteran of the publishing industry. ![]() Our violent ends series6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Roma and Juliette must put aside their differences to combat monsters and politics, but they aren’t prepared for the biggest threat of all: protecting their hearts from each other. Shanghai is already at a boiling point: The Nationalists are marching in, whispers of civil war brew louder every day, and gangster rule faces complete annihilation. A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets. The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery. Then a new monstrous danger emerges in the city, and though secrets keep them apart, Juliette must secure Roma’s cooperation if they are to end this threat once and for all. These Violent Delights Publishers Summary. Roma knows it’s his fault for letting the ruthless Juliette back into his life, and he’s determined to set things right – even if that means killing the girl he hates and loves with equal measure. Roma is still reeling from Marshall’s death, and his cousin Benedikt will barely speak to him. If Juliette were actually guilty of the crime Roma believes she committed, his rejection might sting less. ![]() The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the Scarlets is to have him want her dead for murdering his best friend in cold blood. One wrong move, and her cousin will step into usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang’s heir. The heartstopping follow up to These Violent Delights, an imaginative, alluring retelling of Romeo and Juliet set in 1920s Shanghai.Īfter sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on the warpath. ![]() ![]() The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Spine is Fine, no creasing, Bright gold lettering. Black 1/4 Cloth over blue boards are Fine, sharp corners. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON BOOK-PLATE! First Edition Thus, First Printing, Full number-line to # 1 (Doubleday, November 1993)) ***UNREAD*** Signed by John Grisham on an Official Book-Plate Laid-in (Note the column at the bottom of the plate, just as there is a column on the Dust Jacket) (I will attach it for you if you like, just email me) his name only. I always carefully ship in VERY well padded boxes, and always smoke and odor free!** I have a No Disappointments policy. That edition (signed) sells for $6,500.00 or much more) IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND A BETTER COPY! **As a Collector of Fine Books myself, I take personal pride in accurate, honest descriptions and grading. NOTE: (All Doubleday Editions are First Thus, the true First is Wynwood Press, only 5,000 were printed and many were damaged in a flood. Protected in a clear, removable archival cover. Pages are As New, no writing, no folding. ![]() Spine is Very Fine, no creasing, Bright gold lettering. ![]() The Book: Black 1/4 over blue boards are Very Fine, bright, sharp and clean, sharp corners. SIGNED BY AUTHOR!! First Edition Thus, Ninth Printing, Full number-line to # 9 (Doubleday, November 1993) *UNREAD* Signed on the half-title page (where he signs over 99% of the time, especially the older books. ![]() Lady Of Sherwood by Jennifer Roberson6/10/2023 ![]() The room was bathed in shadow, courting the flame. She stared, momentarily transfixed by fire, by the flare and gutter in the eternal dance, the courtship of air and flame. Flame blazed in the darkness, setting the room alight. He was a subtle man, she knew, and therefore all the more dangerous. What he wanted was as blatant, though he would say nothing of it. She knew what he saw: tangled black hair harboring bits of dungeon straw a soiled, dishevelled kirtle smelling of horse and sweat and smoke gritty blue eyes red-rimmed from tension and lack of sleep. Her legs were tangled in heavy bedclothes, bound up by twisted skirts. She lurched abruptly upright, squinting against the torchlight, then forced herself to relax. The roaring of the torch swallowed the darkness and the world was alive again. Or merely the opportunity to have what another man had. He brought the torch with him, unattended by liveried soldiers what he wanted from her he wanted given- or taken-in the privacy of the chamber. Such a soft, seductive whisper-But with the edge of a blade in the sound, issuing from a man long accustomed to being heard no matter how softly he whispered. ![]() Grimly she reflected, But mostly into compliance, in bed and out of it.Ī sound destroyed the silence even as light banished darkness. Each was a weapon meant to break her, to drive her into humiliation out of defiant self-possession to goad her into surrender, into pleas for mercy, for compassion, for understanding. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The relationship between Frances and Sebastian both as a conflicted prince and the glamorous Crystallia glows Frances understands that Sebastian and Crystallia are two halves of a brilliant whole. Despite Frances's connection with Sebastian, she worries that being part of the prince's secret is limiting her dreams of finding success as a designer. She soon discovers that her employer is none other than Prince Sebastian, who wants her to create dazzling gowns for Lady Crystallia, Sebastian's alter ego, who quickly becomes a fashion icon. After creating a scandalous dress for an attendee of Prince Sebastian's 16th birthday party, Frances an overlooked seamstress with big dreams accepts a position as personal seamstress for a mystery client. A talented seamstress and a prince with a secret will win readers' hearts in Wang's utterly charming graphic novel, which is set in a playfully tweaked version of 19th-century Paris and highlights identity, acceptance, and fashion. ![]() ICommand by Dave Lewis6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() He received critical acclaim for his first three novels, a crime thriller trilogy set in Wales and Africa: Ctrl-Alt-Delete, Raising Skinny Elephants and iCommand. He also runs Publish & Print - a book publishing company which looks to get into print great writers that have been ignored by the mainstream publishing houses. He writes content for and still maintains many websites, was web producer for the BBC Wales Scrum V website, has run four hugely successful rugby sites with, has written newspaper columns for local newspapers and runs the Official Ponty Town website - a resource for his local community. In 2007 Dave set up and organised the first ever Welsh Poetry Competition - an international English language poetry competition aimed at encouraging the wealth of creative writing talent that exists in Wales but is overlooked by the arts establishment. His poetry collection 'Going Off Grid' was a finalist in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2018. His first-ever short story was runner-up in the Rhys Davies Competition. He has published many books and his work has included poetry, prose, short stories, photography, haiku, travel, comedy and three crime novels. He also likes to cycle and walk his dog.ĭave has been widely published all over the world in a number of literary magazines and websites. He is a full-time writer based in Pontypridd, south Wales. Dave Lewis is a #1 Amazon Best Seller, award-winning writer, poet and photographer. ![]() ![]() And this year, the highlight of the show will definitely be the We're All Country Guitar Pull, powered by Ram Trucks, featuring performances by country music's biggest names. ![]() Ram Trucks is coming back to the iHeart Country Festival Saturday, May 13th in Austin, Texas. To learn more, go to es. and listen to Exactly Amara as part of the Michael Tura Podcast Network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Like a good neighbor? State Farm is there. If you want to start a small business, dedicate a couple of hours after work, figure out ways that you're not creating someone else's generation of wealth. Just ask Amara La Negra from the Exactly Amara Podcast. ![]() What is Circle? At Circle, we're building a digital dollar that's actually dollar-backed, one to one.Ĭircle is a future where money will travel at the speed of internet for fractions of a penny and no one will think about it because it will just be the way we work. ![]() Artemis fowl book 36/9/2023 ![]() About stinkworms the ultimate fairy delicacy. ![]() Update: Now includes the code from the new UK versions of the series. The Arctic Incident – This code, written in Centaurean only appeared on the UK versions. ![]() About Artemis’ first appearance in the paper. On each of the pages below, you will find a picture which tells you the code, if you want to de-code the message for yourself, and further down, you can find the message fully de-coded, for anyone who would rather just see what it says.Īrtemis Fowl – Both the Uk and US editions of the book had this code, written in Gnommish. But did you know that that design is actually a code?Īnd as with all codes, it can be de-coded, to discover the message written in it. You’ve probably noticed that each book in the UK editions of the Artemis Fowl series, as well as some other editions, has a strange little design at the bottom. ![]() |