![]() Reminded of the beauty of the mountains where he was born, he is soon drawn into conflict with his father, a vain nobleman who has left his mother for a mistress and spent every last penny of their immense family fortune. After watching the men a moment George said: 'Someone must have leaped from off the terrace.'" After witnessing a suicide, Giorgio Aurispa leaves Rome and his lover Ippolita to return to his family in Guardigrele. ![]() "When she perceived a group of men leaning against the parapet and looking down into the street below, Hippolyte stopped and exclaimed: 'What has happened?' With a slight gesture, betraying fear, she placed her hand involuntarily on George's arm as if to restrain him. Considered a central text of Italian Decadentism, the novel has earned comparisons to the work of Oscar Wilde and Joris-Karl Huysmans. The third in a cycle of novels exploring the lives of the Italian bourgeoisie, The Triumph of Death was inspired by the author's interpretation of the work of Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Pater. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Triumph of Death (1894) is a novel by Gabriele D'Annunzio. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some can still identify the personality and appearance of each of the Romanov daughters (Olga: “shy and subdued”, Tatiana: “the tallest, slenderest and most elegant of the sisters”, Marie: “merry and flirtatious”, and Anastasia: “a short, dumpy blue-eyed child renowned in her family chiefly as a wag”). But what Nicholas and Alexandra lacks from a modern historiographical perspective it has always made up for with storytelling élan.įans of this book are many, and they can still remember stealing their mother’s book club copies and becoming entranced by the protagonists. Written a decade before the remains of Nicholas, Alexandra and three of their children were exhumed from their hastily selected resting place underneath Koptyaki Road (Marie and Alexei’s bodies were found in 2007, a short distance away from the others), and two decades before the Yurovsky Note detailing their assassination and disposal was officially made public to western audiences, Massie was well-skilled in the art of the write-around. ![]() ![]() I especially love the tiny piñata and paper flowers on the dining room table. Couldn’t be more perfect for me and reminds me of my childhood growing up in this colorful town. I am staying at a nice little Airbnb that is all decorated “Fiesta” style. I am at a conference in San Antonio, Texas for a few days where I will be speaking at the Evolutionary Business Council Annual Retreat. I have been working on it for a few days and the timing couldn’t be more perfect. I decided it would be fun to explore my own feelings by illustrating this poem with my cartoons. Some days, of course, feel sort of Brown. This wonderful poem helps us all – adults and children alike, accept that we feel all the feelings and that on no two days are we the same and that’s okay. Seuss called ‘My Many Colored Days.” I have a board book version I used to read to my kids. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, in the solar system, China has taken over Australia and Mars and the asteroids, but the UN-affiliated countries (read: America) have Mercury and its mysterious kernels that can power interplanetary/interstellar ships. Baxter leaves us thinking that this is the most cockamamie planetary colonization scheme ever dreamed up, until the very end-although the UN is majorly saved by the discovery of The Hatch, because otherwise I still think their colonization plan was a terrible one. The survivors are left with the knowledge that they are no longer trying to establish a self-sustaining colony but are basically just eking out an existence day to day for the rest of their lives. ![]() The story gets much better after all the potential settlers, save two, die at the settlement site of interest. I would have loved this more when I was younger. ![]() Proxima starts its life as a straightforward tale of enforced penal colonization of another planet before gradually sprawling into a parallel tale of solar system politics before eventually becoming something about exploring weird phenomena. Those also involved a future sentience/intelligence at the end of the universe reaching back in the history of the universe to alter events through weird, inexplicable phenomena. ![]() I seem to remember reading some or all of Stephen Baxter’s Manifold books when I was much younger. ![]() ![]() ![]() Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries.Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: Tommy & Tuppence. ![]() Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence: Partners in Crime. ![]() This show is still being repeated in the UK on Granada Plus and elsewhere around the world. Following the success of Partners In Crime, a 115-minute special, The Secret Adversary was filmed in 1982 and explains how Tommy and Tuppence came to join forces. Francesca Annis plays Tuppence as a fun-loving flapper with a passion for hats, while James Warwick as Tommy is all boyish charm. When offered the opportunity to play detective and help out Scotland Yard in the bargain, the couple take up residence in the offices of Blunt's International Detective Agency. They have a comfortable life, but have become bored with the ordinary day-to-day routine. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are an ideal middle-class couple of the 1920s. ![]() This series was set in the 1920s, filmed in the 1980s, and is based on a selection of short stories by Dame Agatha Christie. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() 'Quite simply the best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense to have come this way since Philip Pullman. ![]() The first novel in the epic Tales of the Otori series, Across the Nightingale Floor is followed by Grass For His Pillow and Brilliance of the Moon. He has love in his heart and death at his fingertips. But sixteen-year-old Otori Takeo, his family murdered by Iida's warriors, has the magical skills of the Tribe – preternatural hearing, invisibility, a second self – that enable him to enter the lair of the Tohan. Its surface sings at the tread of every human foot, and no assassin can cross it. In his palace at Inuyama, Lord Iida Sadamu, warlord of the Tohan clan, surveys his famous nightingale floor. On one morning Beck need to tell Vianna something, he stated, Your husband, Antoine Mauriac, has been captured along with many of your town’s men. ![]() Lian Hearn's stunningly powerful bestseller, Across the Nightingale Floor, is an epic story for readers young and old. In The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, Vianne, Sophie and Isabelle where in their own routine with Captain Beck living with them. Set in a mythical, feudal, Japanese land, a world both beautiful and cruel, the intense love story of two young people takes place against a background of warring clans, secret alliances, high honour and lightning swordplay. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ancient primal powers have already stirred, revealing the horror of what began eons ago. ![]() Together, Poppy and Casteel must embrace traditions old and new to safeguard those they hold dear - to protect those who cannot defend themselves. Not if she has any hope of building a future where both kingdoms can reside in peace. With the strength of the Primal of Life’s guards behind her, and the support of the wolven, Poppy must convince the Atlantian generals to make war her way - because there can be no retreat this time. Nothing will stop Poppy from freeing her King and destroying everything the Blood Crown stands for. The magnitude of what the Blood Queen has done is almost unthinkable. Armentrout comes book four in her Blood and Ash series.Ĭasteel Da’Neer knows all too well that very few are as cunning or vicious as the Blood Queen, but no one, not even him, could’ve prepared for the staggering revelations. From number one New York Times best-selling author Jennifer L. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book, The Kite Runner Audio CD ISBN# 9781442364219 in Compact Disc by Khaled Hosseini may be ordered in bulk quantities. ![]() But through the devastation, Khaled Hosseini offers hope: through the novel’s faith in the power of reading and storytelling, and in the possibilities he shows us for redemption. Written against a backdrop of history that has not been told in fiction before, The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of fathers over sons-their love, their sacrifices, and their lies. The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship and betrayal, and about the price of loyalty. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. ![]() Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir’s father’s servant, is a Hazara-a shunned ethnic minority. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. ![]() ![]() Doom - and James must save the Widow from her own past! But even with help from Wolverine and Hawkeye, must Bucky sacrifice everything to save his love? Meanwhile, Captain America takes on Scourge and the Discordians, while a deadly villain from the past reveals a mystery spanning generations of heroes! Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA AND BUCKY #620-628, FEAR ITSELF #7.1: CAPTAIN AMERICA, WINTER SOLDIER #1-14 and CAPTAIN AMERICA (2011) #11-19. Now, in the aftermath of FEAR ITSELF, James is the Winter Soldier again! When Russian sleeper agents awaken and old enemies resurface with new identities, Winter Soldier and Black Widow clash with Dr. ![]() ![]() Ed Brubaker's award-winning Captain America run concludes! As Captain America's staunch ally Bucky, James Buchanan Barnes was one of America's greatest heroes of WWII - until he was brainwashed into becoming the Soviet spy known as the Winter Soldier. ![]() |