![]() ![]() In a story that spans the political turmoil of Italy in the 1970s, Casaubon’s friendship with Belbo leads to his involvement with the Garamond/Manutius publishing house and his exposure to the Diabolicals- self-financing occult writers-as well as Agliè, a man who may or may not be the immortal Count Saint-Germain. ![]() This time the focus is more contemporary, with the unfortunate narrator-protagonist Casaubon and his colleagues Belbo and Diotellevi becoming immersed in an international conspiracy that involves the Knights Templar, the Holy Grail, and the Milanese publishing community. Analysis of Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulumįoucault’s Pendulum is the second novel by the highly prolific Italian writer Umberto Eco (1932–2016), and continues the pattern of linguistic games and narrative proliferation established in The Name of the Rose. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() 25 pistol to ward off threats from strangers and animals and used it when she doubted her instincts.ĭervla Murphy lived on the generosity of unknown people, sought help from policemen and authorities for her stay, visa and paperwork. She rode on the top of mountains, with valleys, negotiated hairpin bends, pedaling on the endless roads with unplanned stays in the remote areas. On her way, she battled rough weather, and extreme temperatures such as snowfalls, lashing rains, winds and blazing sun. Before leaving Ireland, she posted ahead four tyres to various British Embassies and consulates to use them enroute. Her preparation for the journey was simple one with a saddle bag, bell, lamp, a pump, and pannier bags. In those days in the absence of technology, she used paper maps to plan her route and calculate the distance from Dunkirk to Delhi. The author took the challenging expedition in January 1963 with her 2-year old bicycle named Rozinate. Full Tilt is a classic travelogue that describes the journey of Dervla Murphy from Ireland to India. ![]() ![]() Every reader is invited to find this authentic spirit of yoga in their own lives and practice. ![]() In a series of deeply honest, funny, gritty, thoughtful, and largely autobiographical essays, Yoke explores issues of self-love, body-positivity, race, sex and sexuality, cannabis, and more, all through the lens of an authentic yoga practice. ![]() This yoga of the everyday is about finding within life's toughest moments the same flexibility, strength, grounding energy, and core awareness found in a headstand or Tadasana or cobra pose. In Yoke, which draws its name from a literal translation of the Sanskrit root "yuj," from which the word "yoga" derives, Jessamyn writes about what she calls the yoga of the everyday-a yoga that is not just about poses but about applying the hard lessons we learn on the mat to the even harder daily project of living. She started writing her second book, Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance, around the same time, and it was released in June this year. Now she's back, here to take us even further on a personal and provocative journey into what it means to "practice yoga." Where Every Body Yoga, with 59,000 copies in print, taught us how to do yoga, Yoke tells us why. Yoke Jessamyn wrote her first book, Every Body Yoga, to help people that are often excluded from yoga spaces to try the practice. She's the proudly fat, Black, queer yoga teacher and charismatic author of Every Body Yoga, who drops a lot more f-bombs than namastes and refuses to pray at the church of Lululemon. ![]() "Remember Jessamyn Stanley? How could you not?. ![]() ![]() ![]() When one of the widows finds a book of sexy stories in English and shares it with the class, Nikki realizes that beneath their white dupattas, her students have a wealth of fantasies and memories. ![]() When her father's death leaves the family financially strapped, Nikki, a law school dropout, impulsively takes a job teaching a "creative writing" course at the community center in the beating heart of London's close-knit Punjabi community.īecause of a miscommunication, the proper Sikh widows who show up are expecting to learn basic English literacy, not the art of short-story writing. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she's spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more independent (that is, Western) life. Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women's lives at all ages-a spicy and alluring mix of Together Tea and Calendar Girls. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This novel explores the husband/wife, mother/son, and mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationships. Arla is sick of always feeling that she comes in at only second best to her mother-in-law, who much to Arla’s fury is never told anything by Ric or his sisters that she would not want to hear. Husband Ric will never voice an opinion, and puts his mother Edna up high on a pedestal. In addition it focuses on the sometimes tumultuous partnership between Arla and her husband Ric.Īrla Deane sometimes likens her marriage to undergoing daily psychological warfare. The Daughter-in-law Syndrome investigates the complicated relationship causing much friction between Grandmother Edna Deane and her daughter-in-law Arla. This is an alternate-cover edition for B00Y9270XU. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was in 1904 on the 3rd of August that Clifford D. Knowing and understanding his audience, he was a well regarded author who managed to really get to the heart of what it was that his audience were actually looking for. Mostly focusing on the fantasy and science-fiction genres, he was able to entertain and engage his many readers worldwide, something which he continues to do to this day. Simak was also an extremely well regarded author as well. Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science FictionĪn American newspaperman for the majority of his life, Clifford D. The Wesleyan Anthology of Science FictionĪnthology of Sci-Fi V21, the Pulp Writersīorn of the Sun: Adventures in Our Solar System The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories ![]() Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humor Tomorrow 1| Science Fiction by the Masters Nourse)Īnthology of Sci-Fi V12 (By:Mack Reynolds) Gallun)Īnthology of Sci-Fi V5 (By:Alan E. Dick)Īnthology of Sci-Fi V3 (By:Poul Anderson)Īnthology of Sci-Fi V4 (By:Raymond Z. Hellhounds of the Cosmos and Other Tales from the Fourth DimensionĪnthology of Sci-Fi V2 (By:Philip K. The Marathon Photograph and Other Stories Time is the Simplest Thing / The Fishermanīest Science Fiction Stories of Clifford D. ![]() ![]() Police quickly identify a suspect, the boyfriend of one of the victims, who flees and is never seen again.įifteen years later, more teenage employees are attacked at an ice cream store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive. ![]() But at a Blockbuster Video in New Jersey, four teenagers working late at the store are attacked. Y2K is expected to end in chaos: planes falling from the sky, elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing. ![]() "The night was expected to bring tragedy." So begins one of the most highly-anticipated thrillers in recent years. From the author of the breakout thriller Every Last Fear, comes Alex Finlay's electrifying next audiobook The Night Shift, about a pair of small-town murders fifteen years apart-and the ties that bind them. ![]() ![]() The collection includes: The Outsiders - S.E. ![]() From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths. The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. But will the world around them change too? Getting to know Sadie Jackson will change Kevin's life forever. It starts with a dare - kids fooling around - but soon becomes something dangerous. Sadie is Protestant, Kevin is Catholic - and on the tense streets of Belfast their lives collide. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. The Twelfth Day of July is first of Joan Lingard's influential Kevin and Sadie books, set in Belfast during the Troubles. ![]() ![]() The book is for any bookworms no matter your age, it is a book about a bookish child. Why, oh why, did I ever leave it so long. ![]() This wasn’t something I really thought about recently until I saw it on Sarah Cox’s book show as one of the guests ‘Bring Your Own Book’ and she made it sound so appealing that I ordered it right away and then read it in a day. However, over the years I have noticed that I never actually read a few of his work, namely Danny the Champion of the World, The Witches, and Matilda. At school, we had to read his older children’s work on his life, Boy and Going Solo. So all the terrible adults had better watch out, because she’s going to teach them a lesson they’ll never forget!Īs a child, I was a massive Roald Dahl fan and spent hours with my nose in his books. ![]() She’s a big bully, who thinks all her pupils are rotten and locks them in the dreaded Chokey.ĭespite these beastly grownups trying to push her down, Matilda is an extraordinary girl with a magical mind. Her mother spends all afternoon playing bingo. Matilda is the world’s most famous bookworm, no thanks to her ghastly parents. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her forties, she married a local solicitor, William Heelis. ![]() Potter eventually published 24 children's books, the most recent being The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (2016), and having become financially independent of her parents, was able to buy a farm in the Lake District, which she extended with other purchases over time. ![]() In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit and became secretly engaged to her publisher, Norman Warne, causing a breach with her parents, who disapproved of his social status. Because she was a woman, her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology. She had numerous pets, and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developed a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. ![]() Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, mycologist, and conservationist who is best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit.īorn into a wealthy household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. ![]() |