![]() ![]() It might quietly fade from memory.'' It has not faded from memory. Adams, however, to whose literary career a severe illness had put an end in 1912, had decided to have his autobiography, as Senator Lodge points out in his preface, ''unpublished, avowedly incomplete, trusting that Yet in 1913, when the Institute of Architects published the ''Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres,'' scholars already knew the ''Education'' Is now published, by the Massachusetts Historical Society, for the first time. ''Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres: A Study of Thirteenth Century Unity,'' which had been finished and privately printed the year before: 100 copies were privately printed, and sent to persons interested, in 1906 it Written in 1905, ''The Education of Henry Adams: A Study of Twentieth Century Multiplicity,'' was a sequel to Whimsical, deep-thinking, suggestive, a book greatly worth the waiting for. It is a book of unique richness, of unforgettable comment and challenging thought, a book delightful, Or the autobiography of Henry Adams we have waited for twelve years. ![]()
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![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. 'The pulse of a thriller and the hook of a fascinating hero balancing on the edge of psychosis' Library Journal 'An absolutely fantastic read' Fantasy Book Review The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds is an omnibus edition of the three amazing Legion novellas: Legion, Legion: Skin Deep and Legion: Lies of the Beholder. But managing a team is a challenge in itself, all the more so when some of the team feel they know better than Stephen himself. If you need a stolen corpse retrieved or a missing inventor found, Stephen Leeds is the man - or rather, the team - for the job. One of his many 'aspects' is a trained soldier, another a psychological expert, a third is a librarian, and all of them want to help him solve problems, making him an exceptionally versatile intelligence agent. But not for his own skills - his clients want to tap into the imaginary experts that populate his mind - and it's getting a bit crowded in there. ![]() ![]() From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes a new novella collection, including a brand new, never-been-published story. ![]() ![]() ![]() He then parlayed that connection into a relationship with a Goldman Sachs banker, who helped set up a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund in 2009, which was overseen by Najib Razak, the prime minister of Malaysia and Low’s family friend. Wall Street Journal correspondents Wright and Hope transform their investigation of a mind-boggling financial fraud into a nonfiction thriller tracking the rise and fall of Jho Low, the “alleged mastermind of a multi-billion-dollar scam.” In 2003, Low convinced an adviser to the rulers of the United Arab Emirates that he could broker deals between Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian governments. ![]() ![]() Outstanding account of the Great War from an English point of view. ![]() Today, hundreds of military cemeteries spread across the fields of northern France and Belgium contain the bodies of millions of men who died in the "war to end all wars". Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other. These critics were sometimes intimately connected to their enemy hawks: one of Britain's most prominent women pacifist campaigners had a brother who was commander in chief on the Western Front. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britain's leading investigative journalist, a future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and an editor who, behind bars, published a newspaper for his fellow inmates on toilet paper. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes. ![]() In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. ![]() World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ribsy: Ribsy is Henry's dog the dog was named "Ribsy" because when Henry found him, he was so thin, his ribs were showing.Henry Huggins: Henry is about 11 years old.Henry Huggins appears only rarely in the Ramona series, as a supporting character. The Ramona series ultimately surpassed the Henry Huggins series in popularity. ![]() The books describe adventures that Henry experiences in his neighborhood and Henry's interactions with other neighborhood children.Ĭleary, a librarian, wrote the first Henry Huggins book in 1950, in response to the boys in her library searching for books "about boys like us." Cleary later launched a new series about one of the supporting characters, Ramona Quimby. The novels take place in the 1950s, which is when Beverly Cleary wrote most of the books. Henry Huggins is a young boy living on Klickitat Street in Portland, Oregon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Collins’s work seamlessly integrates the African-American experience in her characters’ lives, creating rich, devastatingly familiar, full-bodied men, women, and children who transcend the symbolic, penetrating both the reader’s head and heart.īoth contemporary and timeless, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? is a major addition to the literary canon, and is sure to earn Kathleen Collins the widespread recognition she is long overdue. ![]() In “Only Once,” a woman reminisces about her charming daredevil of a lover and his ultimate-and final-act of foolishness. In “The Uncle,” a young girl who idolizes her handsome uncle and his beautiful wife makes a haunting discovery about their lives. Humorous, poignant, perceptive, and full of grace, Kathleen Collins’s stories masterfully blend the quotidian and the profound in a personal, intimate way, exploring deep, far-reaching issues-race, gender, family, and sexuality-that shape the ordinary moments in our lives. ![]() Now available in Ecco’s Art of the Story series: a never-before-published collection of stories from a brilliant yet little known African American artist and filmmaker-a contemporary of revered writers including Toni Cade Bambara, Laurie Colwin, Ann Beattie, Amy Hempel, and Grace Paley-whose prescient work has recently resurfaced to wide acclaim ![]() ![]() ![]() Her works were extremely popular among the upper class and the growing middle class, especially among young women. It set the tone for the majority of her work, which tended to involve innocent, but heroic young women who find themselves in gloomy, mysterious castles ruled by even more mysterious barons with dark pasts. ![]() She published The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne in 1789. The money she earned from her novels later allowed them to travel together, along with their dog, Chance. Radcliffe called him her "nearest relative and friend". ![]() They enjoyed a childless but seemingly happy marriage. He often came home late, and to occupy her time, she began to write and read her work when he returned. In 1787, she married William Radcliffe, the Oxford graduate and journalist. Although mixing in some distinguished circles, Radcliffe seemingly made little impression in this society, and Wedgwood described her as "Bentley's shy niece." Radcliffe occasionally lived with her uncle, Thomas Bentley, in Chelsea in partnership with a fellow Unitarian, Josiah Wedgwood. William Radcliffe, her father and a haberdasher, moved the family to Bath to manage a china shop in 1772. Ann Ward Radcliffe of Britain wrote Gothic novels, including The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). ![]() ![]() That is, until an encounter with a bounty hunter and a miles-long kinetic projectile leaves her life and her perspective shattered. Or whether she really is-impossibly-the lone survivor of a species destroyed a millennium ago. ![]() And most days, she can almost accept that she'll never know the truth-that she'll never know why humanity was deemed too dangerous to exist. Or making sure her adoptive mother doesn't casually eviscerate one of their neighbors. ![]() Like hiding her identity among the hundreds of alien species roaming the corridors of Watertower Station. Most days, she's got other things on her mind. Taylor, author of We Are Legion Most days, Sarya doesn't feel like the most terrifying creature in the galaxy. ![]() "A good old-fashioned space opera in a thoroughly fresh package."-Andy Weir, author of The Martian "Big ideas and believable science amid a roller-coaster ride of aliens, AI, superintelligence, and the future of humanity."-Dennis E. The last human in the universe must battle unfathomable alien intelligences-and confront the truth about humanity-in this ambitious, galaxy-spanning debut ![]() ![]() ![]() "Breaking Strain": The inspiration for the popular book series Arthur C. The next time you see the full moon high in the south, look carefully at its right-hand edge and. "The Songs of Distant Earth": A fantastic tale of first contact with an alien world, which became the basis for one of Clarke's most successful novels. "Guardian Angel": The rarely-glimpsed work that gave birth to Childhood's End. "The Sentinel": The story that inspired 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of the most famous SF movies of all time. Clarke Publisher: Byron Press Date: 1983 Format: Hardcover Condition: Very Good Condition Description: Dust. Among the ten stories included in this volume are: Clarkes The Sentinel Author/Editor: Arthur C. To commemorate the fast-approaching arrival of one of the most notable dates in science fiction history comes this special anniversary edition of The Sentinel, a brilliant collection of Clarke's highest caliber short fiction. ![]() It is the startling realism of his vision that has made classics of his Childhood's End and 2001: A Space Odyssey – and Clarke himself one of the genre's most successful writers. ![]() Few masters of science fiction have brought us glimpses of the near future as vividly as Arthur C. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Yes please, sugar,” she said, a hint of a southern accent spilling out as she moved towards me. “Can I help?” I asked, moving closer to her as her eyes swept over me slowly enough to let me know she hadn’t missed an inch of my muscular frame. ![]() ![]() I hadn’t seen her before but I sure as hell wouldn’t mind getting to know her better. Her dark eyes were shrouded by long lashes and raven hair fell to her waist in a straight sheet like a spill of ink. She turned around and caught me looking, my smile widening as I spotted the pout on her full lips. Like, actually stomped her foot like a Disney character or a three year old. “For the love of the stars, where the hell is it!” a girl’s voice caught my ear and I looked up as she stomped her foot. My Cardinal Magic teacher, Professor Montague, was pretty easy going and I was acing her class so I knew she wouldn’t mind if I wasn’t quite on time. I was running the line of being late for class, but I wasn’t too concerned. But if I didn’t do something soon then Ella was going to pay the price and there was no way in hell I’d be letting that happen. ![]() |