![]() ![]() ![]() And NASA astronaut Reid Malenfant, and his wife Emma, are hurtling through the African sky in a training jet, when everything changes forever.For Malenfant and Emma, a reckless flight in a T-38 above the sun-baked continent sends them colliding with a great wheel in the sky. Scientists scramble desperately to understand what is on the big red moon and how it got there. While coastlands flood by the new gravitational forces, millions of people die. on earth and beyond.In the year 2015 a red moon appears in the Earth's orbit: brooding, multitextured, beautiful, and alive. Claiming the legacy of Heinlein and Asimov, Baxter now returns with his third Manifold novel-in which he uses an astounding adventure story to posit a breathtaking vision of the origin of species. Heralded by Arthur Clark as "a major new talent," Baxter stands time and space on their collective heads, envisions the future reflected in the past, and the past in the galaxy's most distant reaches and unformed speculations. ![]() Stephen Baxter's Manifold novels have struck the world of science fiction like a meteor. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() (As a benchmark, it’s useful to remember that the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the vote, was not enacted until 1920.) The matter of women’s rights, however, is very much still a live issue. So one could say, in a sense (and of course in a sense only) that the issue of slavery has been dealt with. (Though as we will see, to call this a “crusading” novel would be a considerable error.) As TB opens, the Civil War has been recently over. The main characters (well, two of them) are intimately involved in this. In Henry James’ The Bostonians - the subject of this review - we see a social movement not only discussed, but actually serving as the centerpiece of the novel. In Phineas Finn (1869), by Anthony Trollope - one of my favorite authors - male suffrage (forget about the female variety) is discussed, along with the Irish tenant-right movement. There is, of course, Dickens with his crusading against abuses such as debtor’s prison, and the mistreatment of orphans. But then again, many other novels do delve into this region to one extent or another. Many novels do not treat of social movements, and the need for change in society. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jason Bourne has been the assassin before: now he longs for peace with his family, but the threat of the Jackal puts in jeopardy all possibility of peace. First edition and complete row of numbers to 2 on the copyright page, which is how this publisher indicated a first edition, first printing, at this time. Their aim: to gain control at the highest level, to avenge, to destroy. : The Bourne Ultimatum: A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket, inscribed by the author Robert Ludlum on the front free endpaper. ![]() In Europe, Russia and America there are men and women whose lust for power is disguised by their positions and respectability. This is another paragraph Product Description: It all starts with a cat-and-mouse chase to the death in a Baltimore funfair: the Jackal, Bourne's age-old antagonist, is back and Bourne is forced from his idyllic retirement with his wife and children to confront his enemy. VGC.Grafton Books,1990.First edition.Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,light shelf wear on the cover) with Dj(two small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover),both in VGC.Nice and clean pages but slightly tainted and yellow on the outer edges,inscription written on the first blank page of the book,crease and nick on the edge of the pages.The book is in VGC with light shelf book. ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:bookofembraces00gale:epub:55d3f4be-883f-400b-aed9-c99e29d5348f Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier bookofembraces00gale Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0ns4rc05 Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780393029604Ġ393029603 Lccn 90021337 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:09:03 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1160608 City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. ![]() ![]() She is also a published author of two premarital books, two children's picture books, seven stories in compilation books, and Susan G Mathis is an international award-winning, multi-published author of stories set in the beautiful Thousand Islands, her childhood stomping ground in upstate NY. Mary’s Moment comes out May 12, 2023, and book eleven, A Summer at Thousand Island House, comes out in July. She has nine in her fiction line including, The Fabric of Hope: An Irish Family Legacy, Christmas Charity, Katelyn’s Choice, Devyn’s Dilemma, Sara’s Surprise, Reagan’s Reward, Colleen’s Confession, Peyton’s Promise, and Rachel’s Reunion. Susan has been published more than twenty-five times in full-length novels, novellas, and non-fiction books. ![]() ![]() Susan G Mathis is an international award-winning, multi-published author of stories set in the beautiful Thousand Islands, her childhood stomping ground in upstate NY. ![]() ![]() The book discusses the many ambiguities involved-some white Loyalists were slaveowners, and some blacks were recruited for the War of Independence. It tells of the legal battles which established that slavery was not valid in England itself, and how the British government offered freedom to enslaved African Americans if they would fight for Britain and King George III. Rough Crossings gives an account of the history of thousands of African-American slaves who escaped slavery in the American colonies to fight for the British cause during the American Revolutionary War. A 2007 drama-documentary television programme was based on it. It was the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award winner for general nonfiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution is a history book by Simon Schama. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Its a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdels childhood. ![]() Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. A New York Times, USA Today, and Time Best Book of the Year Alison Bechdels Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Book Synopsis From the New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama is a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel bing the artist her mother wanted to be. 1 Book of the Year, a poignant and hilarious graphic memoir of Bechdel bing the artist her gifted mother always wanted to be. About the Book From the bestselling author of Fun Home, Time magazines No. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our characters live by their wits, intrigues and more than a spot of derring-do: there is much swashing of buckles. Unlike those, however, this is unashamedly high fantasy, with wizards, magic, the odd centaur, and a definite hint of Dark Lord brewing on the horizon.Īs you might know, I’m generally slightly wary of full-on high fantasy, with all the bells and whistles of sorcery and unpronounceable names, but Luck in the Shadows isn’t really like that: at heart, it’s a story about people. ![]() Luck in the Shadows has proven to be an enjoyable start to the Nightrunner series: something of a lighter cross between Swordspoint and The Lies of Locke Lamora. Lynn Flewelling has been on the edge of my awareness for a couple of years and, when her books were also recommended by Goodreads, I decided it was time to give her a go. After Angélique, I thought it was time for something slightly more characteristic. ![]() ![]() He gives her too much of her medicine and she dies. Christopher couldn’t do it but he knew Kit would. To the point where she begged for someone to put her out of her misery. Sure enough I was right.Ĭlarisse was in a lot of pain. Now, I already figured that it probably didn’t happen the way Ashton is thinking. He thinks Ashton is Clarisse and says he’s sorry he killed her. On their way, somewhere I forget, they get ambushed. They take walks together on the beach, they have picnics and they fall in love. Kit not wanting her to leave says they need to go on a honeymoon. The original plan is for Ashton to have her day and then to head back home. But after spending a day with Ashton, he changes his mind.Īshton tells Kit he doesn’t have to marry her (she found out David’s plan) even though secretly she is in love with Kit. The one thing she’s always dreamed of having was a wedding. ![]() She has consumption and won’t make it through the winter. David, Ashton’s older brother, comes to Kit and asks him to marry his sister. ![]() He also still carries a torch for Clarisse. He’s famous cause he’s known for not carrying a gun. Kit is now a marshal in the town of Fortune. ![]() ![]() Actually, his father had planned to send him there before Clarisse got sick. She wasn’t a title hunter, it’s just she did what she was expected to do. She married his older twin, Christopher cause he was titled. Can her love make their marriage real before their time together ends-forever In his arms she found the greatest joy she’d ever known. ![]() ![]() ![]() You don’t need to have read the original series in order to enjoy these, but it does provide you with some nice background (and there will be spoilers for the original books in these spin offs). These are spin-off series featuring the Mayson daughters (Until Her) and sons (Until Him). She is a navy brat and her husband once served in the United States Navy. She has written the Shooting Stars series, the Until Her series, the Until Him series, the Underground Kings series, and the Until series. ![]() ![]() Bonus novella featuring November’s Dad, MikeĪlso check out Aurora Rose Reynolds’ Happily Ever Alpha Kindle World featuring stories by various authors about characters or couples that you have met in the Until series while others have just referred to a place or person from one of the Until books. Aurora Rose Reynolds is a best selling author (Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and New York Times). ![]() |