![]() ![]() ![]() Strangers ? Gripping New ThrillerPaul Finch is one of the best crime writers of the moment with his Detective Mark Heckenburg series which is one of the bestselling series in the country. But puzzling clues left behind lead to complex codes, hidden rooms, and a dangerous secret that will turn their world upside down. Who, exactly, are these strangers?īefore Chess, Emma, and Finn can question their mom about it, she takes off on a sudden work trip and leaves them in the care of Ms. The other kids share their same first and middle names. They’ve been a happy family, just the three of them and their mom.īut everything changes when reports of three kidnapped children reach the Greystone kids, and they’re shocked by the startling similarities between themselves and these complete strangers. ![]() Chess has always been the protector over his younger siblings, Emma loves math, and Finn does what Finn does best - acting silly and being adored. Perfect for fans of A Wrinkle in Time and The City of Ember! New York Times best-selling author Margaret Peterson Haddix takes listeners on a thrilling adventure filled with mysteries and plot twists aplenty in this absorbing series about family and friendships. ![]()
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If these volumes are anything to go by, the series will provide authoritative and reliable essays on key aspects of the history of art, in a convenient format and, given the high quality, quantity and range of the illustrations, at an astonishingly reasonable price. compares well with other recent offerings on the same subject' -The Bookseller 'Fully and often surprisingly illustrated, carefully annotated and captioned, each combines a historical overview with a nicely opinionated individual approach.' -Independent on Sunday 'These two books in a new series, the Oxford History of Art, are welcome attempts to assimilate genuine and informed scholarship of the best sort to some, at least, of the ostensible aims of what refers to itself as the 'new' art history. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Priests of the dream-goddess, their duty is to harvest the magic of the sleeping mind and use it to heal, soothe. Upon its rooftops and amongst the shadows of its cobbled streets wait the Gatherers - the keepers of this peace. Rather than merely appropriating various details from Earth's past and present, Jemisin (the Inheritance Trilogy) has created a fully developed secondary world that is an organic whole. THE CITY BURNED BENEATH THE DREAMING MOON In the ancient city-state of Gujaareh, peace is the only law. As a hideous monster preys on the innocent, Ehiru's faith is tested in a crisis of world-shaking proportions. Devout and loyal, Ehiru is slow to accept that heretical evil lurks behind Gujaareh's unblemished facade only after encountering Sunandi, a foreign spy who is far less na ve about Gujaareh's "mad bitch" goddess and her unscrupulous worshippers, does Ehiru begin to glimpse the rot that extends up to the pinnacle of Gujaareh's social pyramid. In Gujaareh, a city-state reminiscent of ancient Egypt (though the differences far outnumber the similarities), dreams are the source of magic, and it is Gatherer Ehiru's job to collect the mystical life-giving dreamblood from the dying and those deemed too "corrupt" to live. Jemisin's gripping series launch immerses readers in an unfamiliar but enthralling world as well as a rousing political and supernatural adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through the parks and plazas of Tijuana and the bars and beaches of San Diego, On Swift Horses mesmerisingly charts the journeys of Muriel and Julius on their separate quests for freedom, new horizons and love. As tourists gather on roof tops to watch atomic clouds bloom in the desert, Henry and Julius’s love burns in the shadows – until one night Henry is forced to flee. There he meets Henry, a blackjack artist and a man who shares Julius’s passions, and his secrets. ![]() Julius has found himself in Las Vegas, where his gift for gambling leads him to a job patrolling the boards above the casino tables, watching through the cigarette smoke for chancers and cheats. ![]() Instead it is Lee’s brother, Julius, a thief and Korean War veteran – and someone she has only met once – whom she longs to tell, and who has struck a spark of promise and possibility inside her quietly ordered life. When she begins, secretly, to bet on the horses and, shockingly, to win, she feels strangely unready to share her good luck and its origins with her husband Lee. ![]() As she pours coffee and empties ashtrays, she eavesdrops on her customers, the ex-jockeys and trainers of the Del Mar racetrack. Muriel, newly married and newly orphaned, works as a waitress in a San Diego diner. ![]() ![]() ![]() “His enthusiasm for his subject is irresistible. Perfect for reading to alert and curious children, but it’s even better as a secret pleasure, read alone, with no children in sight.”-Philip Kennicott, Washington Post ![]() ![]() With a high-grade design, fine paper, and classic binding, this enhanced edition will have an important place on family bookshelves for many years to come. Featuring more than two hundred illustrations-most in color-this beautiful edition incorporates a wide range of images, showing us the earliest cave paintings, the classic sculptures of the ancient Greeks, beautiful Islamic calligraphy, oil portraits of the mighty through the ages, and much more. But Gombrich was, first and foremost, the best-known art historian of his time his beloved Little History suggests illustrations on every page. Gombrich’s text paints a colorful picture of wars and conquests of grand works of art of the advances and limitations of science of remarkable people and remarkable events. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World, an engaging and lively book written for readers both young and old, vividly brings the full span of human experience on Earth to life, from the stone age to the atomic age. Perfect for reading to alert and curious children, but it’s even better as a secret pleasure, read alone, with no children in sight.” (Philip Kennicott, Washington Post ) E. A special edition of the international bestseller that is “sumptuously illustrated. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tragedy was only one of a number of performing art forms current ![]() Of the times and (first) of some of what Medea’s original audience might have comeĭrama – a brief history and some technicalities To provide something of a general background to the play and to this book, we should begin by outlining a little of the history So, to set Medea in its historical context and Of Athens’ escalating conflict with Corinth and her Peloponnesian allies, and it may be that he was hinting at these ![]() To judge by his later works, Euripides was probably cautious ![]() You away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it’. (in the words of the late American political scientist, George Kennan), ‘war has a momentum of its own and it carries ‘first citizen’, Pericles, was promising a relatively easy victory, many knew that, once conflict is unleashed To chronicle the coming conflict that Herodotus returned to Athens at around this time – and, although the democracy’s ‘In peace time sons bury their fathers, but in war fathersīury their sons.’ If the historian Herodotus was in Athens’ Theatre of Dionysus on that brisk March morning inĤ31 bc, he may well have thought of these, his own words, as he watched Medea unfold to its bitter end, where Jason cannot even touch his dead sons, let alone bury them.įor, that spring, war was in the air – indeed, tradition suggests that it was ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His upcoming novel, Crossroads, is meant to be different. The anger he’s long harbored, manifested in everything from his self-admitted road rage to his vocal hatred of social media, informed his five previous novels, from his 1988 debut, The Twenty-Seventh City, to 2015’s Purity, he says. A homemaker who died of cancer in 1999, his mother, Irene, continues to be influential in the author’s life. “You must have observed the person carefully and you must have identified what’s likely to hurt the most, and then there’s the rhetorical challenge of delivering the painful blow without having your fingerprints on it,” he says. “It requires a high level of subtlety,” says the 62-year-old novelist from his home in Santa Cruz, California. Jonathan Franzen’s mother knew how to wound him in just the right way. ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Melissa Flashman, Trident Media Group. While readers will want to know what happened to Stacy, what most compels is the observant Kirsten’s account of how a small town and a family disintegrate under the weight of the tragedy. Mira, 14.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1497-4 Assured storytelling propels DeBoard’s first novel. In the aftermath, gossip, lies, and innuendo take a heavy toll on the Hammarstrom family. When Stacy goes missing, Johnny, the last person to see her, becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance. During an elementary school softball game, angelic 16-year-old Stacy Lemke introduces herself to nine-year-old Kirsten and expresses an interest in Kirsten’s older brother, Johnny, a high school wrestling star. The officer’s request for her license makes Kirsten nervous because he’s old enough to remember the case that put the name Hammarstrom on the front page of every Wisconsin newspaper years earlier. She divides her time between reading, writing, teaching composition at the University of California, Merced, and enjoying the antics of her husband Will and their four-legged brood. ![]() Berkeley professor Kirsten Hammarstrom is driving home to Watankee, Wis., when a cop outside Milwaukee pulls her over for speeding. Paula Treick DeBoard is the author of The Mourning Hours, The Fragile World and The Drowning Girls. ![]() Assured storytelling propels DeBoard’s first novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() And while some had made their own fortunes, many others were intent on preserving vast legacies they had inherited. They were mostly businessmen very few were women. Astor’s famous 400, which defined the top bracket of New York society in the late nineteenth century on the basis of those who could fit into the Astors’ ballroom, the Kochs’ donor list provides another portrait of a fortunate social subset. Only one full guest list of attendants at any of the Koch summits has surfaced publicly. ![]() ![]() Jane Mayer’s Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right opens the curtain on these shadowy figures, showing the aggressive maneuverings they employ to control and corrupt our politics. The network of hard-right billionaires extends far beyond the infamous Koch brothers. While it is well-known that deep pockets finance the big names in politics, much about the private world they inhabit and how their money is allocated remains hidden. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ovid himself attributes his exile to carmen et error, "a poem and a mistake", but his discretion in discussing the causes has resulted in much speculation among scholars. He enjoyed enormous popularity, but, in one of the mysteries of literary history, he was sent by Augustus into exile in a remote province on the Black Sea, where he remained until his death. ![]() The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. Publius Ovidius Naso (Classical Latin: 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known as Ovid (/ˈɒvɪd/) in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. ![]() |