This is a contemporary story that takes us from glamorous Hollywood mansions and magic clubs to old cemeteries, the emergency room, and rural Nebraska. She uses her artistic abilities and focus to help her deal with her difficulties, shrinking her world down to a manageable scale and making it beautiful. I thought she might identify with Sabine, who immerses herself in making miniature architectural models, creating a sense of order and control when her life is plunged into quiet chaos. Just a few pages into The Magician’s Assistant, I was reminded of my 13-year-old daughter, Julia. As she goes through his belongings, she begins to find remnants that hint at the boy he once was and the family he left behind. Sabine is not at all prepared to learn just how much her best friend and partner had hidden his past. Sabine’s husband Parsifal was always a mysterious man with unusual talents: a magician, a seller of exotic carpets, a gay man with a millionaire boyfriend. Julia Ward is currently homeschooling, which allows her to spend time reading good books, drawing, and painting.
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9781444737523 The Last Enchantment 36.5000 NZD InStock /shop/books/fiction /shop/books /shop/books/fiction/historical With the great sword Caliburn in his hand and Merlin the enchanter at his side, Arthur comes out of hiding to claim the crown he was born to wear. But he is able to accept this because he knows that they will be at the service of his beloved monarch whose fabled victories, marriage and the building of Camelot shine through these pages. He is showing signs of age and he gradually realises he is losing his powers of prophecy and clairvoyance to a younger generation. and to save him Merlin musters all his power to weave one last enchantment. Merlin, Arthur's protector, sees the glories and horrors that await the new king. With the great sword Caliburn in his hand and Merlin the enchanter at his side, Arthur comes out of hiding to claim the crown he was born to wear. 7/6/2023 0 Comments The foundation pit platonovIt describes the impact of the forced collectivization that Stalin introduced in 1927. The Foundation Pit is the most well known of Platonov's novels. He was working as a window cleaner in the Soviet Writer's building when he died. His major works were to be published decades after his death in 1951. His enthusiasm was soon to be curbed and his disenchantment was to be reflected in the novels that he subsequently wrote. Once its enthusiast- he came from a working class background and immediately after the revolution graduated as an engineer and worked towards the electrification plans, he was sensitive to the brutality of its implementation. In that Andrey Platonov followed in the footsteps of the other great Russian novelists and used the medium of the novel to comment on the progress of the Russian Revolution. There is also a remarkable continuity of themes with Russian writers taking up, as it were, themes from a previous novel by a different writer and taking them forward. The classical Russian novel was more than a work of literature, it was more often than not a means for communicating ideas and for philosophical discourse. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Short story all you zombiesIt begins with a young man speaking to the narrator, the Bartender, in 1970. The story involves an intricate series of time-travel journeys. As the story unfolds, all the major characters are revealed to be the same person, at different stages of her/his life. "'-All You Zombies-'" chronicles a young man (later revealed to be intersex) taken back in time and tricked into impregnating his younger, female self (before he underwent a sex change) he thus turns out to be the offspring of that union, with the paradoxical result that he is his own mother and father. Some of the same elements also appear later in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1988), including the Circle of Ouroboros and the Temporal Corps. "-All You Zombies-" further develops themes explored by the author in a previous work: " By His Bootstraps", published some 18 years earlier. In 1980, it was nominated for the Balrog Award for short fiction. Since its publication, the work has become one of the most famous science fiction short stories about time travel. The story involves a number of paradoxes caused by time travel. It was written in one day, July 11, 1958, and first published in the March 1959 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine after being rejected by Playboy. "-All You Zombies-" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. For the song by The Hooters, see All You Zombies (song). 7/6/2023 0 Comments The v card lauren blakelyBut then I learn there’s another big stake she wants. What do I do when the board throws me for an unexpected loop so I can keep my business in my hands? I enlist the help of my best friend’s little sister since she holds a big stake in the company. As the CEO of a fast-growing company, I’ve been enjoying both to the fullest. As long as I keep my eyes on the prize, there’s no way this pluck-the-flower project could possibly complicate matters. Graham Campbell is charming, smart, and, I’m told, oh-so-skilled in the sack. Good thing I know just the man for the deflowering job-my brother’s business partner and best friend. And yet I’m still a card-carrying member of a club I don’t want to belong to anymore. At 25, I run a successful business, live in a fantastic apartment, and have fabulous friends to go out with any night of the week. A brand new sinfully sexy standalone romantic comedy from bestselling authors Lauren Blakely and Lili Valente, THE V CARD is coming December 13, 2017! Pre-order your copy today! Kindle users-stay tuned for the preorder right before release! And d on’t miss the hot, new cover below!Ĭover Design by Helen Williams with Photography by Paul Van Der LindeĪ brand new sinfully sexy standalone romantic comedy from bestselling authors Lauren Blakely and Lili Valente! When you think about how easy it is to lose keys, phones, sunglasses and your dignity on social media, you might figure it’d be a cinch for me to ditch my V Card. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Jumanji by Chris Van AllsburgBut is it possible that waves could ever go that high? There is another story – the story of a boy and his desire to be the greatest sailor, the story of a storm that carried the boy and his boat to a place. How did it get there? “Waves carried it up in a storm,” says an old sailor. In the great outdoors he feels the wind in his fur and experiences its wonderful sights and smells for the very first time.Īt the edge of a cliff lies the wreck of a small sailboat. Sweetie Pie the hamster is so excited to leave the pet shop with his new owner. What were the stories that went with these drawings? There are some clues." Who is Harris Burdick? Where did he disappear to? And how was he going to finish his stories? "His disappearance is not the only mystery left behind. but the game cannot finish until one of the players reaches The Golden City. When Peter and Judy start to play a mysterious board game, they have no idea they're about to be sucked into a whole new world of adventure and danger, of hungry lions and devastating jungle storms. "Magical" Guardian"Evocative and atmospheric" Sunday Times"A thrilling tale" IndependentAll aboard the Polar Express to the North Pole! Follow one boy's journey to receive a very special gift from Santa himself: a bell that only true believers in Father Christmas can hear ring. Discover The Polar Express, a true Christmas classic. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Typography sketchbooksThe result of these wide-ranging typographic musings provides fascinating insights into the expressive quality of letters and words. Typography Sketchbooks gets into the minds of designers who create typefaces, word images and logos through their private sketchbooks. It's at the heart of all visual communication and is one of the purest forms of design, one that can always be improved and refined. Typography is an obsession for most designers. This event is a chance to talk type with two type fans. An unrestrained and idiosyncratic collection, the book Typography Sketchbooks includes work by boundary-pushing designers including Ivan Chermayeff, Carlos Segua, Milton Glaser, Maira Kalman, Bob Aufuldish, Matthew Carter, Javier Mariscal, Patrick Thomas, Erik Spiekermann, Viktor Nubel, Peter Bilak, and Jean-Baptiste Levee. Design historian Steven Heller and educator Lita Talarico, co-chairs of the MFA Design program at the School of Visual Arts, and designers Travis Cain, Viktor Koen, Matt Luckhurst, Esther K Smith + Dikko Faust (of Purgatory Pie Press), discuss the merits of the graphic designer's typography sketchbook, a creative "work-out" space for generating ideas and drafting unique type that becomes synonymous with brands and institutions around the world. And one in which Natalya explores the city, tries to repair things with her mom, works on figuring out her future, and goes for the guy she never saw coming.ĬONTENT WARNING: brief mention of prior self-harm She can't, and so both summers play out in alternating timelines - one in which Natalya explores the city, tries to repair things with her mom, works on figuring out her future, and goes for the girl she's always wanted. Natalya Fox has twenty-four hours to make the biggest choice of her life: stay home in NYC for the summer with her dad (and finally screw up the courage to talk to the girl she's been crushing on), or spend it with her basically estranged mom in LA (knowing this is the best chance she has to fix their relationship, if she even wants to.) (Does she want to?) In Dahlia Adler’s Going Bicoastal, there’s more than one path to happily ever after. The Homo Sapiens AgendaĪ queer Sliding Doors YA rom-com in which a girl must choose between summer in NYC with her dad (and the girl she's always wanted) or LA with her estranged mom (and the guy she never saw coming). It’s got all the Dahlia Adler trademarks-romance, wry humor, specificity, and genuine emotional depth." - Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Kate in Waiting and Simon vs. "This is what it looks like when a brilliant high concept is executed to perfection. We find out that their father is not coping. The first family we are introduced to is that of Liam and Aidan O’Connell, and the first thing we hear about them is that their mother is dead.Īlthough Paddy and Kevin discuss how “cool” it would be to have a dead mother, it rapidly becomes clear that their family circumstances are difficult. Paddy is also very aware of the family tensions in the lives of the numerous characters in his neighbourhood. In one description he rocks back and forth, seemingly to comfort himself when he hears his parents arguing. Their relationship becomes progressively worse as Paddy’s narrative develops, and he is increasingly affected by his parents' arguments. But during the trip Paddy senses there is a distance growing between his father and mother when he says, "She wasn’t enjoying herself”. On the day trip to Dollymount, the family seem united and they share some touching and fun moments. In a totally unrelated account of his red hot water bottle, Paddy ominously ponders, “Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen.” While there is a lot of warmth and intimacy in the Clarke family at the start of the novel, Doyle foreshadows the impending breakdown in the parents’ marriage early on. Despite frequent moments of tenderness and humour, family relationships in the novel are often presented as difficult. 7/5/2023 0 Comments Robert jones the prophetsThese are people that you have already loved that have loved you, who cannot wait to embrace you again, to sit you down at the table and, and, and break bread. “What I realized about the pre-colonial spiritual ideas is that they were closely tied to family, that these godlike figures, for lack of a better term, were not hovering over these pre-colonial Africans in a way that Jehovah hovers over modern day. It was necessary that they had something to dream about.” That they can have a kind of beauty and a respite from it, a reprieve and something to dream about. It is to allow the characters flights of fancy so that they can become fuller, more realized characters outside of the violence. The way that myth often functions in this book is to give you a reprieve from the brutal reality of it. “I’m certain that Morrison’s influence and even the influence of Marquez plays a role in some of how I decided to write this, how I decided to combine myth and reality. |