![]() ![]() I had read some camp stories already but mostly European, and though my knowledge of the war on the Pacific is only basic this one felt very reliable to me. Changi was the inhuman Japanese camp for the war prisoners, for people whom the only sin was that they lost their war and didn't die. This beautiful opening line is like a promise of fantastic adventure, exotic trip, it evokes some delightful place, a mystery island you always dreamt about but it is anything but it. ![]() It stood on a slight rise and around it was a belt of green, and farther off the green gave way to the blue-green seas and the seas to infinity of horizon. Changi was set like a pearl on the eastern tip of Singapore Island, iridescent under the bowl of tropical skies. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I saw one person review this who said it was "anti-women" or "anti-women's rights" or "anti-feminist." That seemed totally off to me. Amazing, considering it is 650+ years old. I would compare this book a bit to Aesop's Fables, only usually much bawdier. And some of the morals did not seem right. ![]() I found the stories mostly really interesting, fun, educational, and humorous.īut also sad, since there was so much deviousness going on in many/most. The edition I bought only has about 30 of the top (rated) stories, out of the 100 total in the orig. but just not as good as I initially thought. I don't think I am going to downgrade my overall rating because of this. One was downright awful, in that it tried to justify a "great end" by using absolutely terrible means. By that I mean, I did not think they were as realistic &/or promoted good values for healthy and productive lives. The few extra stories toward the end of the book that I just read were not as positive as the earlier ones. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though I wanted to love this romance story, I couldn’t get past some of the content and the “okay-ness” with these acts. WERE! This was exactly what I needed with my reading rut recently, something cutesy and fun but doesn’t dive into TOO much. I’m not going to lie … about 70% of the reason I bought this book’s because the cover’s SUPER ADORABLE! I also saw a lot of reviews where people said they really enjoyed this as a relaxing and easy read … which I was desperately looking for this year! Publication Date: (first published May 3, 2016) ![]() Links: Book Depository | Chapters Indigo | Goodreads People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more. It’s a secret that will change everything she knew about her mother, her father-and even herself. A world that inspires Lina, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother’s footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept for far too long. Suddenly Lina’s uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home.īut then she is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. ![]() ![]() She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father. Synopsis: Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. “What I really want is someone who will wake me up early so I don’t miss a sunrise.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Here Claire and Jamie, with Jamie’s nephew Young Ian, seek to find a place for themselves in the colony of North Carolina, treading a dangerous line between Governor Tryon’s patronage and Claire’s knowledge of the brewing revolution in America, between the help of Jamie’s Aunt Jocasta, last of his MacKenzie kin (“MacKenzies are charming as larks in the field–but sly as foxes with it.”) and the unwanted obligations of her slave-run plantation. Suddenly the proceedings are disrupted, as another prisoner makes a break for it–and Jamie, moved by the death of his friend, impulsively helps the man, a pirate named Stephen Bonnet, to escape a decision that will have long-reaching and unforeseen effects.ĭRUMS OF AUTUMN is the fourth book in the OUTLANDER series, following VOYAGER. One of Jamie’s old companions from his days in Ardsmuir prison is being hanged for theft, and Jamie has come to lend what support he can. I was morbidly aware of necks at the moment…”ĭRUMS OF AUTUMN opens with a hanging. ![]() I wiped my face for the tenth time in as many minutes and lifted the heavy coil of my hair, hoping for a cooling breeze upon my neck. My shift was soaked through, and the cotton bodice clung between my breasts. ![]() The best places were on the seawall, where the air moved here below, it was like being roasted alive. The beating echoed in the pit of my stomach, as though I too were hollow… it was a hot day, even for Charleston in June. “I heard the drums long before they came in sight. ![]() ![]() ![]() Your order total must be $15.00 or more to qualify for the Free Shipping promotion. Posterazzi is offering Free Shipping on all U.S. We will respond quickly with instructions for how to return items from your order. If you need to return an item, please Contact Us with your order number and details about the product you would like to return. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days). ![]() You should expect to receive your refund within 2 weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. We offer a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee so that you can always buy with confidence. You may return any items within 30 days of delivery for an exchange or a full refund. ![]() ![]() Item: Her sweet boyfriend Walter Fletcher announces that he’s Jewish and that he’s told his visiting mother that Jane is taking conversion classes with a local rabbi. Item: Kelly Littlejohn, Jane’s wondrously sympathetic editor, becomes an agent and is replaced by Jessica Abernathy, the editor from hell. But when you’re a vampire who’s secreted yourself in Brakeston, N.Y., dreading the time when all your mortal friends will die, trouble has a way of finding you, and not just in the form of sycophantic nuisances like romance reviewer/literary tour guide Beverly Shrop. Now that her novel Constance has hit the bestseller lists and been picked up by Hollywood, and she’s succeeded in vanquishing her undead nemesis Violet Grey, née Charlotte Brontë, you might think that the troubles would be over for bookseller Jane Fairfax, née Jane Austen ( Jane Bites Back, 2009). ![]() ![]() A rollicking second installment in the adventures of Jane Austen, vampire. ![]() ![]() Since 1986, he is an independent artist, working on titles for both Marvel and DC, including the miniseries 'The Chronicles of Corum' (1987-88), 'Phantom Stranger' (1987-88), 'World of Krypton' (with John Byrne, 1987-88), 'Cosmic Odyssey' (with Jim Starlin, 1988), 'Triumph and Torment' (1989), 'Gotham by Gaslight' (1989), 'Wolverine: the Jungle Adventure' (with Walter Simonson, 1990), 'Ironwolf: Fires of the Revolution' (with Howard Chaykin and Alan Moore, 1992), and 'Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser' (1990). In 1985 his own comic mini-series 'Rocket Raccoon' was published, while he also contributed to 'The Incredible Hulk' and 'Alpha Flight'. He eventually got the opportunity to pencil his own short stories in Marvel Fanfare. In this capacity, he worked on such titles as 'Power Man & Iron Fist', 'Masters of Kung-Fu', 'Daredevil' and 'The Defenders'. In 1983 he was employed by Marvel Comics as an inker. Mike Mignola started his career publishing comics in fanzine The Comic Reader at age nineteen in 1981. ![]() Hellboy - Seed of Destruction #2 (October 1994) ![]() ![]() She began taking acting classes as a child. As his wife and given her relationship with Star Trek-participating in some way in every series during her lifetime-she is sometimes referred to as "the First Lady of Star Trek".īarrett was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She married Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry in 1969. ![]() She was best known for her roles as various characters in the Star Trek franchise: Nurse Christine Chapel (in the original Star Trek series, Star Trek: The Animated Series, and two films of the franchise), Number One (also in the original series), Lwaxana Troi (on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and the voice of most onboard computer interfaces throughout the series from 1966 to 2023. Majel Barrett-Roddenberry ( / ˈ m eɪ dʒ əl/ born Majel Leigh Hudec Febru– December 18, 2008) was an American actress and producer. ![]() ![]() Oliver goes after them, but as he travels he too realizes that this journey has a deeper purpose. ![]() ![]() The trip, which includes a visit to the site of the air crash in which toddler Rebecca was one of five survivors, is planned by Joley to make Jane finally use the ``untapped strength'' she has ignored. Fearing that she's becoming like her father, Jane, joined by Rebecca, flees the house and heads across the country to Joley, who adores Jane, his childhood protector against their abusive father. Rebecca tells her version of the journey backwards-a journey that begins in their San Diego home when Oliver announces that he'll have to miss Rebecca's upcoming 15th birthday, and Jane, no longer able to contain her pent-up frustrations and anger, hits him. ![]() This would-be epic of self-discovery is told in alternate chapters by the three travellers from California-Jane Jones, daughter Rebecca, and husband Oliver, a well-known whale-expert-with supplementary voices provided by Sam, the apple farmer, and Joley, Jane's brother and Sam's assistant. A family crosses the continent to find themselves, which they do on an apple farm in Massachusetts, in one of those too carefully crafted first novels in which literary ambition exacts a toll greater than a minor work can afford. ![]() ![]() ![]() But she wasn’t sure how much Stan would remember. Sandy explained to me that, as his memory wanes, Stan urgently wants to convey his concern that labor history and the history of unions is not being taught in schools. Rosen labor archive at the University of Illinois, Chicago Special Collections. ![]() A valiant effort on her part-at the Pittsburgh University Library there are 140 linear feet of papers, not including 500 books, and another Stanley R. ![]() Stan and I went into the library and his partner Sandra Herzon arrived shortly thereafter with an entire box of books, articles, papers and photographs. The two of them together, both with slightly unkempt hair, looked like brothers-clutching their walkers, they were rocking uproariously with laughter at some reminiscence of history that they shared. I found Stanley Rosen sitting in the lunch room talking with Reuben Hersh, 90, the famous mathematician. New Mexico Jewish Link, Fall, 2018 Stanley Rosebud Rosen Photo © 2018 Diane Joy Schmidt Stanley Rosebud Rosen, This Tumult that Teaches Us ![]() |