![]() ![]() She and Curran are soon drawn into a murderous web of treachery and deceit and find themselves face-to-face with a ruthless cabal that has no qualms about killing again to protect its secrets. Stuart Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins Release date: 08-06-19 Language: English 837 ratings Regular price: 18.49 Book 2 Sample Revenge in Rubies A Harriet Gordon Mystery, Book 2 By: A. When another body is dragged from the canal, Harriet feels compelled to help with the case. Singapore Sapphire A Harriet Gordon Mystery, Book 1 By: A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Harriet’s keen eye for detail and strong sense of duty interests him, as does her distrust of the police and her traumatic past, which she is at pains to keep secret from the gossips of Singapore society. When Inspector Robert Curran is put on the case, he realizes that he has an unusual witness in Harriet. It is unfortunate that she should discover her first client, Sir Oswald Newbold – explorer, mine magnate, and president of the exclusive Explorers and Geographers Club – dead with a knife in his throat. Hoping to gain some financial independence, she advertises her services as a personal secretary. Singapore, 1910 – Desperate for a fresh start, Harriet Gordon finds herself living with her brother, a reverend and headmaster of a school for boys, in Singapore at the height of colonial rule. Early 20th-century Singapore is a place where a person can disappear, and Harriet Gordon hopes to make a new life for herself there, leaving her tragic memories behind her – but murder gets in the way. ![]()
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This completed series is full of pure awesome – there are kidnappings galore, car chases, steamy bedroom scenes, swoony moments, outright hilarious moments, shoot-outs, explosions, a seriously epic food-fight, rock concerts, ALPHA heroes, insanely fun heroines, which of course lead to eight wonderful love stories. If you haven’t read one of Kristen Ashley’s series yet, you are seriously missing out on one of the pure joys of life. I really mean that. ![]() ![]() ![]() Narratives published separately, in 1691, 1693, and 1694 respectively. Perrault's fairy-tale legacy includes three additional titles - verse Return to this page by closing theĬendrillon, ou la petite pantoufle de verre Stories or Tales from Times Past or, Tales of Mother Goose ![]() His day their plots were well known - but he gave them literary His narratives belong to a story-telling tradition that has been Perrault chose his stories well, and he recorded them with wit and Publish the book in question under his own name but rather under the name Passé, avec des moralités: Contes de ma mèreĬharles Perrault, in a symbolically significant gesture, did not ![]() The original title, in French, was Histoires ou contes du temps Tales from Times Past, with Morals, with the added title in the Generations would rest almost entirely on a slender book published in 1697Ĭontaining eight simple stories with the unassuming title: Stories or Perrault could have not predicted that his reputation for future His dialogue Parallèles des anciens et des modernes (Parallels between the Ancients and the Moderns), 1688-1697, whichĬompared the authors of antiquity unfavorably to modern writers, served asĪ forerunner for the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, an era that was notĪlways receptive to tales of magic and fantasy. Charles Perrault (1628-1703) was a member of the Académieįrançaise and a leading intellectual of his time. ![]() ![]() ![]() She worked at various jobs, such as hoeing sugar beets, farm work, waitressing, short order cooking, lifeguarding, and construction work, before becoming a writer. Her fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother. Born in 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota, she grew up mostly in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her parents taught at Bureau of Indian Affairs schools. Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists. She is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant Native writers of the second wave of what critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance. ![]() She is an enrolled member of the Anishinaabe nation (also known as Chippewa). ![]() Her father is German American and mother is half Ojibwe and half French American. Karen Louise Erdrich is a American author of novels, poetry, and children's books. ![]() ![]() The Adkins have thoroughly researched their material, as corresponding notes and fascinating nineteenth century definitions of otherwise regular words are found throughout. ![]() ![]() This is not only a treasure trove of detail and delight for the Austen aficionado, but rather it can also be used by those interested in understanding the context and grander picture of a history that focuses on the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Indeed, the subjects of superstition, breeding, filth, pleasure, and fashion are all delved into-not to mention the multitude of other cultural terms and themes that they bring back to life. The Adkins have taken quite an undertaking in sifting through all of the research pertinent and available to the period, and they don’t shortcut some of the less-covered topics. ![]() Spanning the period of Jane Austen’s birth in 1775 to her untimely death in 1817, the brilliant husband and wife Adkins-duo take on the social history of Georgian England, with the beginning years of the Regency period thrown into the mix as well. ![]() ![]() ![]() A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark. Kelsier snapped and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. 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His pace, inflections and voices always work. ![]() The bi guy is the main character, but two transgender women are the heroes of this novelin the sense that these two characters are the ones my bisexual. What does John Benjamin Hickey bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? In One Person is about a young bisexual man who falls in love with an older transgender womanMiss Frost, the librarian in a Vermont public library. He should stop trying to be controversial and just tell us a story. What could John Irving have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you? "Last Night in Snowy River" was a little better than "Until I find you", but this last offering is probably the last I'll read. Somewhere between then and now he seems to have lost that magical edge. Irving's earlier books drew one into a surreal reality that was simultaneously wickedly funny and disquietingly wise - Garp, Cider House Rules, Hotel New Hampshire come to mind, and Owen Meany, and Son of the Circus. Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not? ![]() ![]() Inexperienced young people battle both criminals and their own flawed instincts in this disturbing lesson about greed, excess, and cultural corruption.ĭale Bailey’s literary fantasies have delighted readers for the past decade, and this collection brings together the best of his work. ![]() Suddenly, into their nightmare of guilt and confusion, a shadowy underworld figure known as the Pachyderm appears, vehemently demanding his money and video back. In the hours that follow, the students find themselves under pressure from both a private detective who claims to represent the father of the missing girl and a state trooper who has connected them with the man they left for dead on the fog shrouded mountain. Finding a sheaf of hundred dollar bills and a mysterious key in the pockets of the dead man’s coat, their curiosity is piqued and the friends follow clues to a bus station locker and a homemade video depicting the rape and murder of a missing teenage girl. ![]() Horror combines with noir motifs and a fast moving plot in this tale of four college students who run over a pedestrian while driving at night in the Smoky Mountains. ![]() ![]() ![]() Michale Swaine stated in Dr Dobbs Journal, that Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers offers insight "into the mind of the first professional programmer…we see the realtionship of science and art analyzed by a first-rate intellect." ACM is pleased to offer this unusual and groundbreaking look into the birth of the computer revolution for only $25, with free shipping & handling, even for our international members.Ĭontact ACM to order this "excellent & thoughtful" book. I admit to knowing very little about her and that's why I requested this book as an ARC However, I just never connected to the character(s) and felt the book was overlong and drawn out. Reviews range from the Annals of the History of Computing, which called it "excellent and thoughtful" to Wired magazine, which stated that it was "beyond stereotypes" to Howard Rheingold, who regards Ada as "one of the most picturesque characters in the history of technology" Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiaverini is a historical fiction look into the life of Ada Byron (Lovelace). ![]() ![]() ![]() Embedded figures cannot be submitted, and we discourage the use of figures within. ISBN: 0-912-674-09-4 Strawberry Press 456pp, 80 illustrations, HardcoverĪda, The Enchantress of Numbers is both a source book about the birth of the computer revolution and the fascinating human tale of Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, and her friends from Charles Babbage to Faraday, Wheatstone, and Dickens. eLetters should provide substantive and scholarly commentary on the article. Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers: A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and Her Description of the First Computerīetty A. ![]() |