![]() ![]() When she looked again, the image had dissolved. The woman needed to tell her something.Įmily jerked and almost dropped the mirror. Her dark eyes seemed to look right at Emily, as if she were no further away than the distance to the mirror.Įmily's hands trembled and her very bones felt cold. For a moment everything blurred, and then a face filled the mirror, the face of a young woman with black hair loose to her shoulders and a roughly woven shawl over her head. ![]() Some stood upright, while others had fallen on their sides or lay partly buried in the earth, crusted with orange and lime-green lichen.īy one of the upright stones, she made out a human shape. It cleared to reveal a circle of large stones on a grassy hill. Her face, her long brown hair, faded, and mist swirled across the glass. Moments later her image wavered, as if light shifted inside the glass. ![]() studied her face in the mirror, which was cloudy in spots after its long travels. CM Magazine: The Secret of the Stone Circle. ![]()
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![]() Our orders are shipped within 1 or 2 business days. END - Thank you for your interest and I do hope you can buy this beautiful book. There is a small chip at the page edge on the full title page. ![]() All housed beneath the accompanying dustjacket.- Story has 446 pages. Gilt lettering to the front and bottom of the spine legible ,- Overall a very nice clean condition. Now housed in a plastic sleeve for future protection. Created from a first impression, it retains a beautifully vibrant colour and has the price of 8/6 net to spine. Has the amazing opening line.'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.' DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK: A beautiful facsimile dustjacket accompanies this book. "A study in Jealousy", she is reported to have said. This is Daphne Du Mauriers most famous book. It delves into Daphne Du Mauriers private life. Interestingly, there is also a photocopy of a large newspaper article about Daphne Du Maurier and how she came to write Rebecca at her publisher's request. Hand-Signed slip with Daphne Du Maurier's signature, laid in. with Bonus Newspaper Article about Daphne Du Maurier Writing This Book (illustrator). ![]() ![]() The cover of "Magpie" for the latest novel of Elizabeth Day, right, a dark and domestic thriller about the strength of a woman determined to become a mother. Marisa gets pregnant, and it's everything she has ever dreamed of but Kate's presence continues to drill holes in the wall Marisa has built around her brand-new family. With dark hair and an eccentric style that makes her seem younger and brighter than she is, Marisa quickly finds she cannot stand how Kate enters their life. Kate, a 36-year-old film industry publicist, appears to be everything Marisa isn't. Then, little by little, Marisa's idea of the perfect world around her begins to crumble. Marisa's dreams of creating a family that is the opposite of the one in which she grew up seem to be coming true until she and Jake, needing some extra money, let Kate move in with them. She yearns for a baby with her loving boyfriend, Jake, a gentle and logical man who can do no wrong. This initially charming story takes an unexpected turn and turns into a taut domestic psychological thriller.Īll that Marisa, a 28-year-old children's book illustrator who lives in London, wants is a beautiful home and the quiet life of motherhood. ![]() English novelist, podcaster and journalist Elizabeth Day, author of The Party and How to Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong, has now written Magpie, a twisted and captivating new novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() This re-read of the the French historical fiction series revealed even more information of how much the first three volumes of ASOIAF took from the English language translation of Druon's retelling of the end of the Capetian dynasty. GRRM really did pull more inspiration from the novels of The Accursed Kings than he ever did from the Wars of the Roses. This post is evidently provoked by the inability to escape the frantic bleating of media of every kind around the coming premiere of the final season of HBO's Game of Thrones. From the arrest of the Templars and the royal adulteresses follow all of what happens in the series of seven novels, which end with the end of the line of the Capets. The night the Grand Master burns, concurrently, the Queen of France and her sister are committing adultery with two young men about-court, for which they too are soon arrested, thanks to the scheming of the Iron King's daughter, Isabella (the she-wolf), the Queen of England. As the Grand Master burns with his closest and oldest friend, he lays a curse upon the king and his line. ![]() At the start of the narrative proper, the Iron King gets the cooperation of the Church to burn at the stake the Knights Templar Grand Master, Jacques de Molay. ![]() ![]() ![]() The kind of thing you like to see in a good sketchy urban futurescape. The description of The Tenderloin was just great, I loved that. It instead built upon what exists, skewed it towards a bit more lawlessness, explored class differences and made the division stark, which seems to be the inevitability of most societies, like it or not. It didn't rely on a pre-existing conception of Cyberpunk or Steampunk or Dystopia, it didn't force a new social order setting. Plus it could be a recurring antagonist, that would make sense. Could have been a better final stand-off, they definitely built the villain up, but I liked it without the Big Finale. A killer who's more devious than most? The devious-est. ![]() Which I personally liked, it's a nice change. How about a quirky female lead character opposite the detective straight man? I'll ruin it for you-they don't bang. Quite enough of that lately in real life for me to want a bit more in a novel, so I'm glad of that. Oh and it doesn't cast Them as a main villain, that's a whole other novel. A little bit dystopian, but not in such a way that it becomes a major plot element. ![]() A bit futuristic, a bit sci-fi? Yep, but aside from a few things it's a touch subtle. Do you want a kind of detective-y novel? This is it. ![]() ![]() ![]() And nowadays, it’s as easy as typing “Make an essay for me” in live chat. Luckily, you don’t have to suffer in silence or give up on your dream of a college degree. ![]() You’re not alone, and it’s perfectly normal to struggle in a new environment and buckle under the weight of elevated expectations. So don’t feel bad if your thoughts go from “Can someone write my paper?” to “Write me a paper asap!” within the first few weeks of the college term. If you try to stay on top of all your responsibilities, you’ll likely burn out or suffer an anxiety attack sooner rather than later. You will soon forget about your plans to discover the party scene, visit your parents every other weekend, or find your soulmate on campus. Not only is it your first attempt at independent life free from parents’ oversight, but it’s also a completely new level of academic requirements and independent study many aren’t ready for.Īnd if you’re an overachiever or a perfectionist, keeping up with all the classes, assignments, extracurriculars, and side gigs will keep you up most nights. ![]() After all, college is an eye-opening experience for most students. ![]() If you’re suddenly wondering, “Can someone do my paper for me?”, there’s likely a very good reason for that. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Married to spivvy salesman Beck, she was abandoned in 1944 and left to bring up their three children single-handedly. The novel opens in the 1970s in Tyler’s eternal setting, the city of Baltimore, where Pearl, a sick old woman now, is reflecting upon the past. I found that the novel took a while to hook me in, but I finished it feeling genuinely awestruck at Anne Tyler’s ability to conjure up a whole cast of such nuanced, flawed but sympathetic characters. ![]() By the end of the 1990s I had read pretty much everything Anne Tyler had written, and I’ve read most of her work since.Īssuming I have read the book before, I remembered nothing of it, although the character of Ezra, the novel’s middle child, seemed faintly familiar, and he’s someone who it is very easy to warm to (unlike his more handsome, charming but unfeeling older brother Cody). I often made a hungover trip to Wood Green library to choose books on a Saturday afternoon, and remember the lurch of excitement on spotting an Anne Tyler novel that I hadn’t already read. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant was published in 1982, and I must have read it before, probably in my twenties when I lived in North London and didn’t have much money for books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Story Identifier lp_sounder_william-h-armstrong Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t47r17c58 Lineage Technics SL1200MK5 Turntable + Audio-Technica AT95e cartridge > Radio Design Labs EZ-PH1 phono preamp > Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Original-ppi 1200 Pages 4 Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 600 Ripping_date 20210910132343 Ripping_operator Ripping_scanner archivelp-rip-cebu15 Ripping_software_version ArchiveCD Version 2.2.57lp Ripping_stylus archivelp-rip-cebu15-20210706-caa7acbe Ripping_time 3242 Scandate 20210820060526 Scanner archivelp-cat-cebu03 Scanningcenter cebu Software_version ArchiveCD Version 2.2. Adaptive_ocr true Addeddate 16:48:17 Betterpdf true Bookreader-defaults mode/1up Boxid IA1600425 Catalog_time 1252 Country US Derive_submittime 21:24:21 Disccount 1 Genre ![]() ![]() ![]() Known mainly for his exquisite studio portraits and unique retouching techniques, VanDerZee (1886 – 1983) not only documented, but articulated, life in Harlem during and beyond the famed Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.īefore cameras and film became widely accessible to the average American, studios like VanDerZee’s provided the very few photographs that would be made of a person in their lifetime - and in some cases, after their death. If one were to ask the foremost contemporary black photographers to name their biggest influence, it is likely that they would answer with the same name: “VanDerZee.” In Through A Lens Darkly, a new documentary by filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris that traces the history of African American photography, artists Hank Willis Thomas, Lorna Simpson, Anthony Barboza and others discuss James VanDerZee’s impact on both black photography and, perhaps more importantly, identity. ![]() ![]() ![]() For some time, as she describes in her book Fox & I, the fox (whom she often calls Fox) would show up on her property each afternoon, and she would watch him from a distance. Raven dwells on this saying because her best friend, for several years, was a wild fox she met while living in an isolated cottage in Montana-and unlike a domesticated dog, this fox chose her. “Defense and loyalty? A best friend should give you something money can’t buy.” ![]() “Voltaire has low standards for a famous guy,” Raven writes. But in her new memoir, biologist Catherine Raven reminds us that we often take the French philosopher’s words out of context: he comes to the conclusion only after citing how protective and faithful a dog is. At least, that’s what people remember best from his famous quote about the furry companion. Several centuries ago, Voltaire declared that a dog is man’s best friend. ![]() |