![]() ![]() pages hold what life puts in: experience, joy, grief, and the sometimes-painful journey to love' Observer on Olive Kitteridge 'I am deeply impressed. So astonishingly good that I shall be reading it once a year for the foreseeable future and very probably for the rest of my life' Evening Standard on Olive Kitteridge 'Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force' The New Yorker on Olive Kitteridge 'Masterfully wrought' Vanity Fair on Olive Kitteridge 'Strout has a wonderful ability to turn a phrase. 'One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place.' The New York Times Book Review on Amy & Isabelle 'A novel of shining integrity and humour' - Alice Munro on Amy and Isabelle 'Strout's prose propels the story forward with moments of startlingly poetic clarity.' The New Yorker on The Burgess Boys 'As perfect a novel as you will ever read. ![]()
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![]() ![]() For more information, or to purchase, simply click on any book cover, below. Click here for the story behind Dan Millman’s books. And you can do anything when you find the heart and courage for it. Dan’s books, including Way of the Peaceful Warrior, have inspired and informed millions of readers in 29 languages worldwide. In the eyes of spirit, little things count. Dan discovers that the life and practice of the peaceful warrior is action. As Dan learns to live the life of a peaceful warrior, he is led toward a final confrontation that will deliver or destroy him. Shared among friends and families, this two million-copy word-of-mouth bestseller has inspired men and women of all ages in twenty languages worldwide. With this inauspicious meeting, Dan begins an odyssey of understanding that takes him through the door of awakening. Dan Millmans Way of the Peaceful Warrior has become one of the most beloved spiritual sagas of our time. ![]() one morning, while trying to walk off the confusion and dissatisfaction of his life as a college student and athlete. Dan meets Socrates at a gas station at 3 a.m. We travel with Dan on his journey as he is guided by a powerful old warrior named Socrates, and tempted by an elusive, playful woman named Joy. It's said that there's one journey but many paths. This audio edition of the international bestseller Way of the Peaceful Warrior is based on the story of Dan Millman, a world champion athlete who journeys into realms of romance and magic, light and dark, body, mind, and spirit. ![]() ![]() ![]() She set about a relentless, sixteen-year-pursuit of Chanal. What about her son, Eroline O'Keeffe wanted to know, and those other sons who had disappeared? Although everything pointed to Chanal as the perpetrator, the French justice system and the military seemed uninterested in pursuing the cases. In 1990 Chanal was convicted of abduction and rape. A year after Trevor's murder, chief adjutant Pierre Chanal was stopped by police, who found a Hungarian hitchhiker bound and gagged in the back of his van. ![]() Since 1980, seven young men had disappeared in the 'Triangle of Death' around Mourmelon military camp. The young hitchhiker had unwittingly strayed into the hunting ground of a serial killer. On 8 August 1987, the body of nineteen-year old Trevor O'Keeffe was discovered in France. A mother's story of her extraordinary efforts to get justice for her murdered son. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Told from the unexpected perspective of Sita-Queen Lakshmi's most favored companion and most trusted soldier in the all-female army-Rebel Queen shines a light on a time and place rarely explored in historical fiction. Although her soldiers may not appear at first to be formidable against superior British weaponry and training, Lakshmi refuses to back down from the empire determined to take away the land she loves. Instead of surrendering, Queen Lakshmi raises two armies-one male and one female-and rides into battle, determined to protect her country and her people. ![]() But when they arrive in the Kingdom of Jhansi, the British army is met with a surprising challenge. ![]() Although her soldiers may not appear at first to be formidable against superior British weaponry and training, Lakshmi refuses to back down from the empire determined to take away the land. India is fractured and divided into kingdoms, each independent and wary of one another, seemingly no match for the might of the English. Instead of surrendering, Queen Lakshmi raises two armiesone male and one femaleand rides into battle, determined to protect her country and her people. When the British Empire sets its sights on India in the mid-nineteenth century, it expects a quick and easy conquest. "From the internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti and Cleopatra's Daughter comes the breathtaking story of Queen Lakshmi-India's Joan of Arc-who against all odds defied the mighty British invasion to defend her beloved kingdom. ![]() ![]() But when Nancy goes missing, a panicked Jane calls on her former fiancé to track down her cousin. ![]() Now George is gone and the viscountcy restored to Dom, since his brother’s widow, Nancy-Jane’s cousin and closest confidant-never bore an heir. Brokenhearted, and attempting to end their engagement without destroying Jane’s reputation, Dom staged a betrayal of his own to convince her that he’s not the husband-to-be that she thought. Then a shattering betrayal by his vindictive brother George snatched away Dom’s inheritance and his hopes of offering Jane a secure future. The heir presumptive to the Viscount Rathmoor, Dominick Manton once had his heart’s desire within reach-a bright future as a barrister and engagement to Jane Vernon, a wealthy baron’s daughter. ![]() From New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries, the deliciously sexy fourth book in the Duke’s Men Regency romance series-the first of which was called “a totally engaging, adventurous love story” ( RT Book Reviews, Top Pick). ![]() ![]() ![]() Where Sandman offered only brief vignettes of a few gods, American Gods fills its world with richly-drawn characters full of history.īut while American Gods excels at these sorts of character moments, it never feels as compelling or essential as the “Brief Lives” arc of Sandman that served as its inspiration. By expanding on the ideas first developed in The Sandman, we get a much better insight into what it means to be an aging god in a secular age. Ultimately, American Gods feels like a novel-length exploration of these ideas, told via a roadtrip to some of the United States’ oddest locales. While Sandman‘s Odin resides firmly within a traditional Norse pantheon, Wednesday is an American god, bereft of worshippers and relying on con games and scams to get by. Wednesday in American Gods, who spends the novel running a long con to increase his own power and extend his own life, at the expense of everyone around him. Unsurprisingly, there are remarkable similarities to Mr. ![]() The Sandman #26, art by Kelley Jones, George Pratt, and Daniel Vozzo. ![]() ![]() ![]() But does have a few missteps including the third-act breakup which considering the circumstances around is too easily forgiven and also presents the solution to all the problems within the narrative making the story's ending feel unrealistic considering the tone of the rest of the book. The romance itself is cute, but nothing special, it is the highlight of this graphic novel with Ari and Hector slowing coming together as they struggle with their own insecurities. ![]() ![]() The author doesn't even show Ari as being that much conflicted about it, making the coming-of-age aspect weak in my opinion. Ari hires Hector to replace him so he can focus on music and moving out but spends all his time with Hector and at the bakery. This is because it immediately validates that Ari's place is within the bakery without challenging it. Despite a cute slow burn romance between our two leads, the rest of the story - a coming-of-age about finding your path between your passion and your family business - is rather lacking. ![]() ![]() ![]() Socialism: Utopian and Scientificcondenses some of the key ideas in Engels’s book into a concise and very accessible pamphlet, which remains to this day one of the best and most popular summaries of Marxist ideas ever produced. ![]() This pamphlet, first produced in French in 1880, is in fact a compilation of three chapters from Engels’s Anti-Duhring, a polemical work produced not only to combat the “new” socialist theories of Eugen Dühring but also, more importantly, “an encyclopedic survey of our conception of the philosophical, natural-science and historical problems” in Engels’s own words. We present here a reading guide to Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, which can help comrades digest the key ideas from this classic Marxist text by Friedrich Engels. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the exception of a few short panels that vividly (and not without humor) capture his suffering over nicotine withdrawal, the majority of Doing Time remains surprisingly detached. In a three-way interview at the book’s beginning, manga reviewer Yukihiro Abe remarks to Hanawa, “The way this book has turned out it looks like he went to do some research for three years.” Hanawa’s reaction is agreeably analytical: “For a long time I’d been interested in knowing what the world behind bars was like … And since I was there, I was able to experience life in the big cage for myself.” ![]() ![]() His reaction was to create a stark account of his incarcerated experience. His crime was a firearms violation, the result of a growing interest in collecting model guns. What does a manga artist do when he lands in jail as severe punishment for a minor offense? For Kazuichi Hanawa, an established artist known for his fantasy volumes set in the Middle Ages, reality shockingly became a tiny cell for three years in the mid-1990s. ![]() ![]() Wayne says these dark beings, the Overtakers, are causing chaos in the park at night when no one can see them except the five holo-kids. ![]() An elderly Disney Imagineer, Wayne, greets them and explains that their real purpose is to fight against evil Disney characters brought to life by the world’s intense belief in them. Four other kids-Charlene, Willa, Maybeck, and Philby-also become Disney Host Interactives, or DHIs, the models for the holographic hosts.Īt night, when they’re asleep, the kids wander the park as glowing, translucent holograms. The recording session uses computers that copy Finn’s words and actions and transform them into a hologram that greets park guests. Thirteen-year-old Florida resident Finn Whitman wins a Disney audition to be the model for a new animated host at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. The ebook version of the 2020 edition forms the basis for this study guide. The 2020 revised edition of Disney After Dark reflects changes made to the theme parks since the first edition. ![]() He has published more than two dozen adventure novels for young readers he also writes suspense thrillers for adults, including the Risk Agent, Walt Fleming, and Lou Boldt series. ![]() Author Pearson received a fellowship to Oxford University and later won the Quill Award from the Missouri Writers Hall of Fame. ![]() |