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![]() ![]() And if you leave a comment, you'll be entered to win one of FIVE copies. ![]() We think you will love 29- a story that reminds us why we all should live our life without regrets. ![]() On her birthday, she wishes to be 29 again for just one day and wakes up the next morning to discover she's morphed into her gorgeous twenty-nine-year old self! The sheer joy of being young again prompts Ellie to consider living her life all over-even if it means she'd have to leave all of her loved ones behind. In 29, Ellie Jerome is a young-at-heart seventy-five-year old who's done just about everything to stay young. In fact, Amy Adams (Lisa has a major girl crush on her) is set to play the lead in The Ten Best Days of my Life! After finishing this page-turner with the perfect cover in just two days (and seriously wanting more!), it's exciting to know that we will get more because 29 and another of Halpern's novels, The Ten Best Days of My Life have been optioned by 20th Century Fox to be made into movies. And we found it funny, engaging and sweet (the perfect combo). So when the fantastically talented Laura Dave told us about Adena Halpern and her latest novel, 29, we snatched up a copy immediately. And when we find out that author has already written three books? We just *might* jump up and down like giddy schoolgirls. ![]() For us, there's almost nothing we like better than discovering a new author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Knowing she will not be welcomed among humans, she is forced to face her demons, along with the one person who infuriates her more than anyone: Cassian. In an effort to help her, her family gives her an ultimatum: go into seclusion in the House of Wind, cut off from all her vices, training with Cassian, and working in the library with the priestesses, or live in the human lands. Nesta, forced into a world she didn't want to inhabit, struggles with her haunting memories, driving her to self-destruction. The war with Hybern is over, but the scars inflicted are still painful. ![]() ![]() A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J Maas is her fourth full length novel in her Court of Thorns and Roses series, and switches focus to the prickly, and most controversial character in the series, Nesta Archeron, Feyre's oldest sister, and Cassian, general in the night court, and one of Rhysand's and Feyre's closest friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the villagers did not discuss such things with the old man and his wife because of the habitual expression on the withered faces of the two, and because their cottage was so small and so darkly hidden under spreading oaks at the back of a neglected yard. But whatever the reason, this old man and woman took pleasure in trapping and slaying every cat which came near to their hovel and from some of the sounds heard after dark, many villagers fancied that the manner of slaying was exceedingly peculiar. Why they did this I know not save that many hate the voice of the cat in the night, and take it ill that cats should run stealthily about yards and gardens at twilight. In Ulthar, before ever the burgesses forbade the killing of cats, there dwelt an old cotter and his wife who delighted to trap and slay the cats of their neighbors. ![]() ![]() The Sphinx is his cousin, and he speaks her language but he is more ancient than the Sphinx, and remembers that which she hath forgotten. He is the kin of the jungles lords, and heir to the secrets of hoary and sinister Africa. He is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and bearer of tales from forgotten cities in Meroe and Ophir. For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. It is said that in Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, no man may kill a cat and this I can verily believe as I gaze upon him who sitteth purring before the fire. ![]() ![]() Peter Faulding searched part of a river for Nicola Bulley. He said he had not searched the reeds where she was found. He had initially ruled out her being in the water and later had to deny giving Ms Bulley's family false hope when her body was discovered in the river. ![]() Mr Faulding had to defend his search and his organisation, Specialist Group International, as they were removed from the National Crime Agency's list of specialists. We have got help from Peter Faulding, so I am feeling more optimistic." "Anyone experienced that can do that with us - or anywhere on the River Don or even just walk the river side again - is a help. Read more: Nicola Bulley diving expert Peter Faulding proud of work despite being 'cut from National Crime Agency list' ![]() ![]() We are getting into the water ourselves on kayaks throughout May. ![]() ![]() This two-volume set replaces not one but two predecessors, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval Philosophy and The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy. The paper focuses on the Modal Question (M), also known as ‘Ackrill’s problem’: is form essentially or contingently related to matter? I outline a hylomorphic model, what I label the ‘causal-explanatory’ model (CEM), and show how it can tackle M. What direction and modal profile should each relation have (e.g., is form prior to matter and the compound, or is the compound prior to matter and form is matter essentially or contingently related to form)? In addressing such questions we find that the types, directions, or modal character of the relations that we or Aristotle may favour are often in tension with each other, or clearly lead to inconsistencies. What types of relation are most suitable for each n-tuple of contributors (e.g., identity, part-whole, or some other relation)? b. Here are some central general questions: a. ![]() Serious problems arise when we seek to specify the sorts of relation holding among the different contributors to the hylomorphic picture. For example: objects (or kinds of object) are characterisable in terms of matter and form or analysable into matter and form or understood on the basis of matter and form. ![]() ![]() There are several innocuous or trivial ways in which to explicate Aristotle’s hylomorphism. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2007, the book was adapted into a BAFTA and Academy Award-winning film of the same title, starring Saoirse Ronan, James McAvoy, and Keira Knightley, and directed by Joe Wright.īriony Tallis, a 13-year-old English girl with a talent for writing, lives at her family's country estate with her parents Jack and Emily Tallis, who are members of the landed gentry. In 2010, Time magazine named Atonement in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923. Widely regarded as one of McEwan's best works, it was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for fiction. Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing. Atonement is a 2001 British metafictional novel written by Ian McEwan. ![]() ![]() ![]() In horror novels such as Bad Dreams and Jago, reality turns out to be endlessly subverted by the powerfully malign. He is complexly and irreverently referential the Dracula sequence-Anno Dracula, The Bloody Red Baron and Dracula,Cha Cha Cha-not only portrays an alternate world in which the Count conquers Victorian Britain for a while, is the mastermind behind Germany's air aces in World War One and survives into a jetset 1950s of paparazzi and La Dolce Vita, but does so with endless throwaway references that range from Kipling to James Bond, from Edgar Allen Poe to Patricia Highsmith. ![]() Note: This author also writes under the pseudonym of Jack Yeovil.Īn expert on horror and sci-fi cinema (his books of film criticism include Nightmare Movies and Millennium Movies), Kim Newman's novels draw promiscuously on the tropes of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. ![]() ![]() Ève goes on to describe how Loïe introduced them to August Rodin, and says that a “picturesque friendship untied her to the two physicists.” ![]() ![]() She writes about Loïe Fuller’s letters to her parents and details the dancer’s performance in the narrow dining room at their house on Boulevard Kellerman, which was followed by later performances and reciprocal visits by the Curies to Loïe’s home. In Ève Curie’s biography of her mother Madame Curie, Ève devotes p.To make it easier to locate primary documents specifically related to interactions between Marie Curie and Loïe Fuller, I put together this list of sources I used to document their meetings. Curie Museum and Archives, Paris, Franceīecause I wanted Radiant- The Dancer, The Scientist and a Friendship Forged in Light to read like a novel, I decided to forgo footnotes and place my sources in an extensive bibliography at the end of the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() I did enjoy it and I will continue into through the series from this point though given this as a start point I think I will be slow to read the series. This is one for the m/m lovers, but you need to aware that it is all three in a complete and equal relationship. The premise was as was expected, I did get my usual enjoyment from trying to figure out who the villain was. This book deals with some nasty and hard-hitting topics, not shying away and wanting you to get involved with the characters. Their damage felt humanising and it’s always nice to read. But the loss of different people with different impacts on their self and development as men. I like that their binding elements aren’t just the physical attraction, which is fierce and impressive to read from all three perspectives. The leading men were charming and versatile there was something for all tastes. ![]() I like the idea of a long haul interconnected series. Oh, and it’s menage.Ībsolution is my starting point for the mess of fiction that is Sloane Kennedy’s The Protectors, The Escort Series, Finding Series and Barretti Security Series. ![]() “And I need you to be whole.” - Mace Calhoun and Jonas Davenport The quote: “I need you to be safe,” I whispered. ![]() |