The accursed kings books5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This bundle collects the first three novels of The Accursed Kings: THE IRON KING, THE STRANGLED QUEEN and THE POISONED CROWN. Bent on the persecution of the rich and powerful Knights Templar, Philip sentences Grand Master Jacques Molay to be burned at the stake, thus drawing down upon himself a curse that will destroy his entire dynasty… He governs his realm with an iron hand, but he cannot rule his own family: his sons are weak and their wives adulterous while his red-blooded daughter Isabella is unhappily married to an English king who prefers the company of men.Ī web of scandal, murder and intrigue is weaving itself around the Iron King but his downfall will come from an unexpected quarter. The Iron King – Philip the Fair – is as cold and silent, as handsome and unblinking as a statue. ![]() “Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!” Martin.Ī collection of the first three books in Maurice Druon’s epic historical fiction series, The Accursed Kings. “This is the original Game of Thrones.” George R.R. ![]()
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Terry pratchett and neil gaiman books5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() A non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Nei Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. ![]() The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal. There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. ![]() Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. ![]() Angela garbes essential labor5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() A first-generation Filipino-American, Garbes shares the perspective of her family's complicated relationship to care work, placingmothering in a global context-the invisible economic engine that has been historically demanded of women of color. In Essential Labor, Garbes explores assumptions about care, work, and deservedness, offering a deeply personal and rigorously reported look at what mothering is, and can be. In response to the increasing weight placed on mothers and caregivers-and the lack of a social safety net to support them-writer Angela Garbes found herself pondering a vitalquestion: How, under our current circumstances thatleaveus lonely, exhausted, and financially strained, might we demand more from American family life? The Covid-19 pandemic shed fresh light on a long-overlooked truth: mothering is among the only essential work humans do. From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America, and an exploration of mothering as a means of social change. ![]() These savage shores hardcover5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But he will soon find that the ground along the Indus is an ancient one with daemons and legends far older than himself.Ĭollects the complete, bestselling five issue series.įrom bestselling and award-winning writer Ram V (Eisner Award winner Blue in Green (Image Comics), The Many Deaths of Laila Starr (BOOM! Studios), Grafity's Wall (Dark Horse), Batman,Detective Comics, Justice League Dark, Swamp Thing, Catwoman (DC Comics), and Venom (Marvel)) and star artist Sumit Kumar ( Justice League Dark, Justice League, Batman (DC Comics)) comes the savagely haunting tale of blood and vengeance. ![]() An old evil now sails aboard a company ship, hoping to make a home in this new found land. Two centuries after the first European ship sailed to the Malabar Coast and made landfall at Calicut, The East India Company seeks to secure its future along the lucrative Silk Route, in the year 1766. But along the shores of the Indus lurk darker and more ancient powers, and a war is brewing in the night.ĪLONG THESE SAVAGE SHORES, WHERE THE DAYS ARE SCORCHED AND THE NIGHTS ARE FULL OF TEETH. In 1766 an insatiable vampire sails from London to the Malabar Coast, aboard an East India Company ship. ![]() I am c 3po5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Abrams, this book is a nostalgic look back at the Skywalker saga as it comes to a close. ![]() ![]() For the very first time, he candidly describes his most intimate memories as the only actor to appear in every Star Wars film – from his first meeting with George Lucas to the final, emotional days on the set of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. In this deeply personal memoir, Anthony Daniels recounts his experiences of the epic cinematic adventure that has influenced pop culture for more than 40 years. Inside the metal costume was an actor named Anthony Daniels. But C-3PO wasn’t an amazing display of animatronics with a unique and unforgettable voice-over. When Star Wars burst on to the big screen in 1977, an unfailingly polite golden droid called C-3PO captured imaginations around the globe. I have indeed now written a book – telling my story, in my voice, not his – recognising that our voices and our stories are inextricably intertwined.” My golden companion worries about such things – I don’t. “The odds of me ever writing a book were approximately…Oh, never mind. Abrams and a selection of music from the Star Wars films, composed by John Williams. Including a foreword written and read by J.J. DK Audio presents the audiobook edition of I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story, written and read by Anthony Daniels. ![]() From here to eternity by caitlin doughty5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() One of the chief questions in my work has always been why my own culture is so squeamish around death. In fact, in her introduction to the book she writes: And the differences can be quite striking.ĭoughty poignantly questions whether American funeral rites as they are practiced now actually serve the bereaved. Throughout the book, she compares these methods/ceremonies of caring for the dead to our own practices here in the United States. She weaves historical narratives among vivid descriptions of the various cultural practices she was able to witness firsthand. She wanted to show that there is no one, correct way to understand or deal with the deaths of our loved ones. Doughty, herself a funeral home owner, was inspired to witness how death is dealt with in other cultures. “ From Here To Eternity” by Caitlin Doughty is a fascinating look at funerary practices from around the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sheridan gives a strong sense of the rapine of the warlords who were Chiang's off-and-on allies, and of the feeble heritage of Sun Yat-sen's patriotic platitudes. The Kuomintang turned into a mere holding operation and faded into chaos. However, the book underlines Chiang's failure to give the masses a ""Strength through Joy"" spirit and, as wartime inflation of 300% gave way to postwar collapse, the anti-Communist pitch became emptier and emptier. The KMT did ensure that forced opium production took up at least a fifth of Chinese cropland by the 1929-1933 period, and they consolidated a soldier recruitment system that approximated Nazi roundups. The KMT failed either to create an effective dictatorship or to mobilize fascist passions which could ensure willingness to "sacrifice." Thus the difficulty in squeezing enough wealth out of the peasantry to meet a foreign debt which totaled half the national revenue. Sheridan's focus on the KMT brings more to light than do many surveys of Mao's revolutionaries. Sheridan, a Northwestern University scholar, concentrates on the Kuomintang movement of Chiang Kai-shek, insisting that we judge a political force by whether it solves the problems posed to it, not, as Chiang's partisans prefer, by means of what-if's. After the 1911 fall of the Manchus came the most hideous breakdown in Chinese history. ![]() 1913 willa cather novel5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She died of a cerebral haemorrhage at the age of 73 in New York City. In 1944, Cather received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, an award given once a decade for an author's total accomplishments. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943. In later life, she experienced much negative criticism for her conservative politics and became reclusive, burning some of her letters and personal papers, including her last manuscript. She travelled widely and often spent summers in New Brunswick, Canada. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, 'One of Ours' (1922), set during World War I. Her novels on frontier life brought her to national recognition. ![]() Because of this, she changed her major and graduated with a bachelor's degree in English.Īfter graduation in 1894, she worked in Pittsburgh as writer for various publications and as a school teacher for approximately 13 years, thereafter moving to New York City for the remainder of her life. She then attended the University of Nebraska, initially planning to become a physician, but after writing an article for the Nebraska State Journal, she became a regular contributor to this journal. Wilella Sibert Cather was born in Back Creek Valley (Gore), Virginia, in December 7, 1873. ![]() Damn, horny by Marie Lotte Hagen5/29/2023 ![]() Why is that? Do we avoid them? Find them boring? Feel guilty about them? Did we only seek them in our hormone-crazed teen years, when we wanted to know everything about sex? When did that curiosity dry up and why-or has it ever? I don’t think it has: people expressed curiosity about this list, which is why I’m sharing it. Many women I asked were hard-pressed to name a single sexy book. Another reader, after having shared a gem of a fan fiction site, said, “Now you know my dirty little secret.” Several women opted to send me their recommendations via private message rather than post them on Instagram, lest the world see that they… gasp … read sexy books. One reader, a mother of two, confessed she still skips sex scenes in books and fast-forwards them in series and movies. ![]() It’s still really, really hard for grown-ass women to talk about sex. ![]() Piano Stories by Felisberto Hernández5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Some of his most famous stories are: "The Balcony," "My First Concert," and "Daisy Dolls. His fiction often attempts to exploit the secret vitality contained in inanimate objects. He is considered to be the forefather of fabulism, predating writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Italo Calvino and Julio Cortázar, who all note Hernández as a major influence. ![]() He often used the events surrounding him as fodder for his fiction. What is interesting in Hernández’s fiction is the magic by-product of his anonymous first-person tales whose obsessive and deranged narrators have knocked down the wall between their minds and the empirical world and injected their obsessions into everyday life. Inhabited by rich, eccentric characters and full of strange and surprising landscapes, this collection of short stories deeply influenced a generation of magical realists.If I hadnt read the stories of Felisberto Hernandez in 1950, I would not be the writer I am today. ![]() He was a talented self-taught pianist who earned a living playing in the silent-screen theaters and cafés of Uruguay. Felisberto Hernández, Julio Cortázar (Afterword) 4.19. His father was from Tenerife (Canary Island). Hernández was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. ![]() |