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![]() ![]() ![]() By purchasing any eBook from our store, you are not only helping support our website, but you are helping small businesses thrive in a market traditionally dominated by large companies. Title: Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels : A Tor.com OriginalĬountries: United States, Canada | Learn more about available countriesįormat: mobi,ePub | Learn More about our supported formatsĭragonmount is a proud provider of DRM-free eBooks. He is also the author of many other novels, novellas and short stories. The twist? Three different people are proudly proclaiming to have committed the crime.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Ībout the AuthorLavie Tidhar is the author of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winning and Premio Roma nominee A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), the World Fantasy Award winning Osama (2011) and the critically-acclaimed The Violent Century (2013) and Central Station (2016). Judge Dee is back to solve a brand-new case involving the mysterious death of the vampire Count Werdenfels. Award-winning author Lavie Tidhar returns with a dark fantasy Tor.com Original short story, "Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels." ![]()
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![]() ![]() You must be a registered user to use this feature. She soon discovers that her husband is not only a brute but that he has bizarre ideas about a wife's duty in the bedroom. Notice an error or discrepancy? Send us a comment about this quotation. A novel by Elizabeth Aston Alethea, the youngest, most talented and high-spirited daughter of the Darcys, has married too hastily on the rebound.Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005 Quotation #40233 from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations: You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed. ![]()
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Under the tuscan sun author6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Free to go Free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth. There’s the visceral aspect too – the huntress who is free. You open as in childhood and – for a time – receive this world. You become a godlike creature full of choice free to visit the stately pleasure domes make love in the morning sketch a bell tower read a history of Byzantium stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna dei fusi. Even better if you speak the language you catch nuances and make more contact with people. Language becomes simply a musical background for watching bicycles zoom along a canal calling for nothing from you. When travelling you have the delectable possibility of not understanding a word of what is said to you. They become friends and decide to leap out of what is forecast for them and take on life in Italy. Three southern women meet at orientation at Cornwallis Meadows, an active life-style retirement community. What makes these people who they are Could I feel at home here No one expects you to have the stack of papers back by Tuesday or to check messages or to fertilize the geraniums or to sit full of dread in the waiting room at the protologist’s office. Frances Mayes's new novel (April, 2018) Women in Sunlight delves into possibilities women face as they grow older. Widely published poet, gourmet chef, and travel writer, Frances Mayes opens the door to a voluptuous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa. “When you travel you become invisible if you want. ![]()
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I dissent by debbie levy6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes the novels chosen are new, often they are from the backlist and occasionally re-issued from way back. But to keep ourselves on our toes, we have a rule that author gender is alternated, girl-boy-girl-boy, and the continents always rotated (with occasional glitches). Too good to be true? The catch is that the bookshop gets to choose what the book group reads. Each month the discussion is lively and unpretentious, with naughty snacks and plenty to drink. You don’t even have to have had read the book. Debbie Levy is the award-winning author of many books of nonfiction and fiction, including the New York Times bestseller I Dissent, This. The title to be read and discussed is sign-posted and on sale for the whole of the previous month (with a discount for those who make it known they intend to come) and everybody is welcome, whether first-timer, part-timer or regular-timer. With rare exceptions such as bank holidays, the book group meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 7.30pm. Now past its tenth year the Crow Book Group has grown into a regular social event. ![]()
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Labyrinth kate mosse plot6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ‘A lovely, intelligent novel of discovery and loss, generous in its historical scope and intimate in its tender details’ ![]() Eat your heart out, Dan Brown, this is the real thing’ ‘ Labyrinth is a reader’s Holy Grail, mixing legend, religion, history, past and present in a heart-wrenching, thrilling tale. ![]() In this she is reminiscent of those twin goddesses of popular historical fiction, Jean Plaidy and Mary Renault’ Guardian Mosse wears her learning so lightly, knitting her historical research so neatly into her narrative, that we never get the slightest sense of being preached or lectured to. It is a testimony to Kate Mosse’s control over her material that the two narratives never seem to repeat or collide or, indeed, swamp one another. ‘ Labyrinth might be described as the thinking woman’s summer reading, chick lit with A levels. ![]()
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Aristotle ethics and politics6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The history of Greek city-states, their wars and intrigues and political churning, was well-documented. In the ancient Greek conception of politics, "administration should be democratic and law-making the work of experts", which is in contrast to modern liberal notions in which "e think… of law-making as the special right of the people and administration as necessarily confined to experts." Aristotle’s Politics is in part a course designed to train such experts to create or reform a set of laws. The title of Politics literally means "the things concerning the πόλις ( polis)", and is the origin of the modern English word politics. ![]() The end of the Nicomachean Ethics declared that the inquiry into ethics necessarily follows into politics, and the two works are frequently considered to be parts of a larger treatise-or perhaps connected lectures-dealing with the "philosophy of human affairs". Politics ( Πολιτικά, Politiká) is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher. Aristotle's comparative politics and theory, grounded in virtue ethics and natural philosophy ![]()
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Bloody Ghost Stories by Brianna Stoddard6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Those not so lucky bear legacies filled with poverty, infamy or, worse yet, the unhinged insanity and murderous urges of their ancestors. The fortunate inherit riches, prestige, positive notoriety. Included in this brand new book is an assembly of The editor brings together some of the most talented modern authors whose horror and science fiction stories have appeared both on the internet and in traditional print. When he stepped on the brake, the car started to slide on the slick pavement. Lightning flashed, thunder roared, the sky went dark in the torrential downpour. (available as an ebook and kindle on Amazon)ĭid you ever wonder what happened after the Archangel Michael through the demons out of heaven? Let one of them guide you through the origin of evil in the world.Įdited by Nickolaus Pacione. Susan and Ned were driving through a wooded empty section of highway. It is a mind-blowing book about a young girl who turns into the ultimate werewolf hunter. ![]()
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Lure by Stephanie Jenkins6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() He tried Brittany, where he worked together with a group of followers. Thus Gauguin traveled widely, seeking inspiration for a radical new artistic vision. "What does it matter that I set myself apart from other people? For most I shall be an enigma, but for a few I shall be a poet. He believed firmly in his difference, often referring to himself as a "savage," and once he discovered his passion for art he had to create forms that were original and unique. As a boy he lived for a time with relatives in Peru, and in his teens, in the merchant marine and the military, he visited South America, India, the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the North Sea. ![]() The legendary, pioneering French artist who famously left his family and a career in finance to paint and live like a native in the South Seas, Paul Gauguin in fact began sailing to far-off lands during childhood. ![]()
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Squalo & Mage by Kara Bodegon6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Worst of all, Pong’s prison tattoo marks him as a fugitive who can never be truly free. The wealthy dine and dance under bright orb light, while the poor toil away in darkness. But when Pong escapes from prison, he realizes that the world outside is no fairer than the one behind bars. For Pong, who was born in Namwon Prison, the magical lights represent freedom, and he dreams of the day he will be able to walk among them. A compelling fantasy looks at issues of privilege, protest, and justice.Īll light in Chattana is created by one man - the Governor, who appeared after the Great Fire to bring peace and order to the city. ![]() Onward to the news!īook Releases This Week A Wish in the Dark by Christina SoontornvatĪ boy on the run. Friends, welcome to another exciting week of The Pond Book News! Every Sunday, The Quiet Pond brings you a fresh issue of book news to catch you up on the week’s lineup of diverse book releases, cover reveals, book news, and sometimes more! We also feature three incredible people in the book community every week, to highlight the important work that readers do in celebrating the books they love. ![]()
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Best leon uris books6/27/2023 ![]() Even before Israel came into being as a nation state MG Golwalkar and VD Savarkar supported the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine two decades before it came into being. Since Israel’s antagonists are Muslims, there is even more admiration for them in certain predictable circles in India. There is much admiration for Israel, and often rightly so, for its many achievements and for the legend woven around its armed forces in the neighbourhood and of the Mossad Aliyah Bet, the Israeli secret service. ![]() ![]() ‘A cliff of clay called home’: What a Tibetan prisoner remembers of his motherland’s ancient culture.‘Shaken, not stirred’: The rise, fall and rise again of the famous martini cocktail.‘Agra’ isn’t for the faint-hearted – and director Kanu Behl won’t have it any other way.10 chief ministers skip NITI Aayog meeting headed by PM Modi.‘Citadel’ review: Secrets, lies and banality.Video: Watch this cat’s dramatic reaction as he protests while getting his nails trimmed.‘Taranath Tantrik’: Fascinating tales of occult practices from a classic Bengali writer.‘City of Dreams’ season 3 review: Political drama is running out of ways to deliver the shocks.HS Prannoy: Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei once in-a-generation athletes, cherished playing against them.On a propaganda tour in India, the first Black Ivy League professor found complexities and paradoxes.New Parliament building seeks to legitimise Hindutva victory over India’s multicultural past.Modi’s new parliament could see Hindi belt gain, South lose power at the Centre. ![]() |