Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1929 by American crime fiction writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee and the name of their main fictional character, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murders. Pastedown titled illustration within a gilt border at the front panel and gilt titles and black design at the backstrip, which also shows raised bands. Frontispeice illustrated with tritone sepia drawing by Norman Walker. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. A like-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. The binding is square and secure the text is clean.
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My first career as a professional communicator/marketer involved plenty of writing, though telling other people’s stories rather than my own. Rather spookily, the first book I had published, Black Powder, is all about two children who get caught up in the infamous Gunpowder Plot – a satisfying synergy! When I go into schools now, I show the children my first ‘published’ work – a poem about fireworks, which the teacher liked so much she put it on the wall. I was a bit of a slow starter with reading at school, but once it finally clicked, I became a regular bookworm and loved creative writing too. This had quite a lot to do with the big King Tutankhamun exhibition that came to the British Museum in 1972 and with my ghoulish love of mummies – of the bandaged variety. If you’d asked me when I was about seven or eight what I really wanted to be, I’d have said – rather precociously! – that what I really, really wanted to be was an Egyptologist. I confess that I’m not someone who always wanted to be a writer. Lastly, I appreciated how Rowan talked things out with her friends and even Neil when she was called out (or realized herself) that she was unfair and/or rude. Tomorrow…maybe she’s already fallen for him.Ī post shared by Sarah Anne (she/her) on at 2:47pm PDT And, perhaps, this boy she claims to despise might actually be the boy of her dreams. But after learning a group of seniors is out to get them, she and Neil reluctantly decide to team up until they’re the last players left-and then they’ll destroy each other.Īs Rowan spends more time with Neil, she realizes he’s much more than the awkward linguistics nerd she’s sparred with for the past four years. When Neil is named valedictorian, Rowan has only one chance at victory: Howl, a senior class game that takes them all over Seattle, a farewell tour of the city she loves. While Rowan, who secretly wants to write romance novels, is anxious about the future, she’d love to beat her infuriating nemesis one last time. Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have been bitter rivals for all of high school, clashing on test scores, student council elections, and even gym class pull-up contests. The Hating Game meets Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by way of Morgan Matson in this unforgettable romantic comedy about two rival overachievers whose relationship completely transforms over the course of twenty-four hours. If that first line resembles the famous zen koan "what is the sound of one hand clapping?", it is because it's derived from a parallel philosophical tradition, and exists to fulfil the same purpose. Many readers derive more anger than comfort from the philosophy of the Tao Te Ching. Mitchell does a remarkable job of interpreting the more abstruse metaphors of the fourth-century mind for modern audiences - although, this does of course leave the possibility that it is actually the wisdom of Mitchell, not Laozi, shining through these words. The third is from the most popular modern translation by Stephen Mitchell. The tao that can be told, is not the eternal Tao. The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. Take this collection of more than 100 versions of the famous opening verse: Texts as old as the Tao Te Ching are subject to the problems of both translation and interpretation. Ochi's true motives remain shrouded to Luke and Lando. But every new rumor leads only to dead ends and fading hopes-until he crosses paths with Ochi of Bestoon, a Sith assassin tasked with kidnapping a young girl. and Luke's worst fears are confirmed when his old friend Lando Calrissian comes to him with reports of a new Sith menace.Īfter Lando's daughter was stolen from his arms, he searched the stars for any trace of his lost child. The disturbance in the Force is undeniable. Jedi Master Luke Skywalker is haunted by visions of the dark side, foretelling an ominous secret growing somewhere in the depths of space, on a dead world called Exegol. But for the heroes of the New Republic, danger and loss are ever-present companions, even in this newly forged era of peace. Nearly two decades after the Battle of Endor, the tattered remnants of Palpatine's forces have fled to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian return in this essential novel set between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. She often traveled to England to research for material for her books and, thus, frequented the British Museum for reference purpose. She opined that her books were partly influenced by her short stint in a film studio where she learned to economize words and resist from wordiness. Even then some of her books such as “Tryst”, appear like a mystery genre but may not be classified as such. Elswyth Thane has also written romance genre and her various books, shelved as fiction and nonfiction, have an adventurous element. However, the Williamsburg series which she is famous for was published from 1934, where “Dawn’s Early Light” is the first book in the series. Elswyth Thane debuted in 1926, where she published her first book, titled “Riders in the Wind” and published her last work in 1976. “Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.” If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. but I will tell you a secret… all the best people are.‘” “‘Have I gone mad?’ ‘I am afraid so, you are entirely bonkers. “Imagination is the only weapon in the war with reality.” Here are 60 fascinating Alice in Wonderland quotes. Older readers of the Victorian age also saw a satire of certain aspects of society and the judicial system in the novel. It explores themes such as coming of age, the search for meaning, and the reality of death. The novel is both a beloved children’s book and a satire of Victorian society. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is the complete name of the popular 1865 novel commonly known as “Alice in Wonderland.” Written by Charles Dodgson using the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, the novel tells the story of young Alice, who falls down a rabbit hole into a world full of mystery and the unexpected. Honestly, I don't give up sleep for very many books but I just couldn't put this one down.” - Ian, Goodreads "It's like the characters reach out of the book grab you by the scruff of the neck and drag you through the pages. I think I have a new favorite witch!” - Barb, Paging Through The Days Claudia's trek to Peru is one helluva ride. Finding love is the last thing on Claudia's ever-growing to-do list, but sometimes what you need has a way of seeking you out. Suddenly, going to Peru in search of ancient Incan magic doesn't seem so crazy.įighting evil will require a pure spirit, but her quest is full of temptations, including a handsome Peruvian guide with secrets of his own. But Luciana strikes before they're prepared, and Claudia's twin brother pays the price. War is coming, and it won't be much of a battle if Claudia can't find the spells to counteract Luciana's demonic power. Now the coven has splintered into two factions: Luciana's army of witches wielding dark magic, and Claudia's few stragglers who fight with the wolves. She fought from the shadows as her coven turned dark, and with a little help from her half-witch/half-Alpha werewolf cousin, Teresa McCaide, Claudia is doing everything she can to keeper friends and family in the light. From USA Today Bestselling Author Aileen ErinĬlaudia de Santos has always looked out for every witch but herself. Caliban to King Kong, Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, the films of David Lynch, Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, E.T., B-horror movies, and the fairy tales of Angela Carterhow such a short novel could contain all of these disparate elements is a testament to its startling and singular charm. To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at . Reviewers have compared Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. No Love Lost by Rachel Ingalls is published by Faber (£9.99). One story ends with people destroying “the world which, until just a few moments before, had been theirs” – but from such destruction Ingalls confects delicious creations. Elsewhere, the blackness of Ingalls’s vision is offset by brutal comedy, whether through rains of toads ( Friends in the Country) or in her pitch-perfect ear for an ending, which never fails her. An exception is the title story, an uncharacteristically dense and sombre tale of a family struggling in the aftermath of war. Most of the stories are pacy and dialogue-heavy, so they slip down nicely just before a horrifying revelation makes them catch in your throat. At least half the pieces here are as satisfying as Ingalls’s masterpiece Mrs Caliban, which in 1986 was named one of the 20 outstanding postwar US novels by the British Book Marketing Council, alongside the likes of Humboldt’s Gift, Invisible Man and Song of Solomon. Ingalls had a prescient eye for subject matter: In the Act features a sex robot coming between a husband and wife (battling couples are fertile territory here) decades before Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me. The blackness of Ingalls’s vision is offset by brutal comedy and her pitch-perfect ear for an ending Lead them on a journey into the Nevada desert where nights become Religious interpretations, and their own faith. Struggle with visits to see their father, their mother's extreme The story features teenage Corey and his younger sister, Sarah, as they Joy Peskin at FSG has bought, in a preempt, world rights to Corey Egbert's debut YA graphic novel Visitations. 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