![]() ![]() “Irresistibly Yours has it all: fun banter, hot chemistry, and a couple that you just can’t help but want to be together!” -New York Times bestselling author Marquita Valentine IRRESISTIBLY YOURS | I WISH YOU WERE MINE | SOMEONE LIKE YOU | I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE Then Taylor’s ex comes crawling back to her, and Nick figures she’ll jump at the chance to go back to her old life-unless he fights for the best thing that ever happened to him.ĭon’t miss any of Lauren Layne’s juicy Oxford Novels: Soon they’re putting every part of their two-bedroom apartment to good use. Now that they’re shacking up together, the chemistry is out of control. Sure, she’s gorgeous, with mesmerizing silver eyes, but it’s her vulnerability that kills him. Nick’s always trying to fix people, and nobody could use a good fixing more than Taylor. Sexy in a permanent five-o’clock-shadow kind of way, Nick knows how to push Taylor’s buttons, as if he could see right through to the real her. Enter Nick Ballantine, career bartender, freelance writer-and longtime pain in Taylor’s ass. ![]() In the meantime, she needs a new roommate. Even after Bradley dumps her for a co-worker on move-in day, Taylor isn’t worried. ![]() Taylor Carr has it all-a sleek job in advertising, a stunning Manhattan apartment, and the perfect man to share it with: Bradley Calloway. ![]() New York City’s hottest bachelors are stirring up trouble in this fun, flirty Oxford Novel, as a love triangle forces a feisty beauty to choose between winning back Mr. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The team was assembled in a secret underwater drilling station where the U.S. Part One is a monster filled thrill ride following a motley crew of marine experts centered around heroine Dr. ![]() Snyder's track record of handling big characters with canon shaping story lines has been repeatedly proven despite his short comics career.Ģ.) It's two stories for the price of one. Outside of Gotham City, Snyder has tackled The New 52 Swamp Thing title and has teamed up with legendary comic book artist Jim Lee for the Superman: Unchained miniseries. At the helm of Batman, Snyder crafted masterful year long story arcs such as Court of Owls, Death of the Family, and Year Zero that will forever be used to define the Batman character. DC Comics snatched him up soon after that, entrusting him with two of their most beloved franchises, Detective Comics and Batman, for their New 52 launch. Snyder started writing comics for Marvel Comics in 2009 until Vertigo published his first ongoing creator owned series American Vampire, earning him both a Harvey and Eisner Award for Best New Series in 2011. ![]() Here are the top five spoiler-filled reasons you should be reading The Wake. Created by Scott Snyder ( Batman) and Sean Murphy ( Punk Rock Jesus), this Eisner Award winning miniseries is as smartly written as it is beautiful to look at. Science and mythology collide under the sea in Vertigo Comic's apocalyptic epic, The Wake. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Those car-bound conversations remain central to co-writer and director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s exquisitely acted expansion of “Drive My Car.” But the film deepens Murakami’s scenario. In the largely Saab-bound short story “Drive My Car,” part of Haruki Murakami’s collection “Men Without Women,” an actor takes a job playing the title role in Anton Chekhov’s simple, profound comedy of thwarted passions, “Uncle Vanya.” (Few consider it funny, even in productions trying to be, but Chekhov classified it as a comedy.) The story largely unfolds as a series of conversations - officious at first, then gradually more unguarded - between the actor, whose wife has died, and his chauffeur, an isolated young woman most at home behind the wheel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please contact us if any title or item you’re looking for is not currently listed. Among his best-known illustrations are the ones he created for Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty. We are always buying and considering fresh material, and we can draw upon our extensive network to source rare books and manuscripts. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was born in Lewisham, England, and studied at the Lambeth School of Art. You’ll find below our current selection of material by and relating to Arthur Rackham. Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1928), and Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1935). Intricately rendered, Rackham's illustrations are some of the finest examples of the art of illustration, had a marked influence on his contemporaries and successors, and continue to be admired and studied today. He was particularly known for his illustrations of fairy tales, myths, and legends, which he illustrated with a keen sense of storytelling and an eye for detail. ![]() He was celebrated for his imaginative and fantastical illustrations, which were often characterized by a strong sense of mystery and a dreamlike quality. ![]() Rare books by Arthur Rackham, including first editions, signed limited editions, copies in fine bindings, and original artwork.Īrthur Rackham was the dominant figure in the illustrated gift-book market in the early twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() They are both headstrong and proud but also trapped in what society expects from them. I both liked and disliked Ennis and Jack. Being a short-story, it didn’t need all the extra information. ![]() I read it in about two hours.īecause it is so short, there’s not a lot of character development or background to the story. This is a very short book, my copy only has 55 pages. I’m talking heart clenching, verge of tears. I did not expect to like this story as much as I did but by the time I finished reading it, it left me feeling very emotional. Short story by Annie Proulx published in The New Yorker October 13, 1997. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.īoth men work hard, marry, and have kids because that’s what cowboys do. “… and if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it.”Įnnis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they’re working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. ![]() ![]() ![]() : Direct Link to the audio-cassette published in 1988 with an included, BONUS 1960 edition of ''Green Eggs and Ham.'' 2nd direct line to listen to excerpt of cassette tape of this edition: Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning. of Congress Abstract description: Sam-I-Am tries to determine under what circumstances the old man will eat ham and green eggs : Originally created by Dr. As of 2001, according to Publishers Weekly, it was the fourth-best-selling English-language children's book (novel) of all time. Seuss, first published on August 12, 1960. (*) Green Eggs and Ham is a best-selling and critically acclaimed book by Dr. Follow Sam-I-am as he insists that this unusual treat is indeed a delectable snack to be savored everywhere and in every way. In this most famous of cumulative tales, the list of places to enjoy green eggs and ham, and friends to enjoy them with, gets longer and longer. ![]() ![]() Seuss’s beloved favorite has cemented its place as a children’s classic. With unmistakable characters and signature rhymes, Dr. In a house or with a mouse? In a boat or with a goat? On a train or in a tree? Sam keeps asking persistently. : “Do you like green eggs and ham?” asks Sam-I-am in this Beginner Book by Dr. DESCRIPTION: Sam-I-am tries to persuade the character in the top hat to try green eggs and ham. ![]() ![]() ![]() Volume IX (Edwardes - Evangelical Association):.Volume VII (Constantine Pavlovich - Demidov):.Volume III (Austria Lower - Bisectrix):.The HathiTrust scans may be only accessible in the United States.Īrticle texts only (without images or introductory matter, rebranded as "Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia") The Gutenberg transcriptions may be from either imprint.) Internet Archive and HathiTrust page scans linked belowĪre from the Cambridge University Press imprint. Were published by Cambridge University and by theĮncyclopaedia Britannica Company. Presents The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information (11th edition) edited by Hugh ChisholmĮncylopaedia Britannica was published in 29 volumes in 19. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information (11th edition) The Online Books Page ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Erdrich's writing is as poetic and strikingly imaged as before, and even more crystalline. Pauline, who becomes a nun dedicated to martyrdom, has a role in hastening Fleur's destruction. Nanapush gives his name to Fleur's daughter Lulu, counsels Eli who loves and woos Fleur, and watches the betrayal of her pride and power. Rescued by Nanapush after her family dies in an epidemic, and already rumored to have infuence over men's lives, Fleur ironically is the victim of gang rape when she leaves the reservation to work in the nearby town of Argus. Both tell the story of Fleur Pillager, a magnificent woman who is rumored to be a witch, and whose life mirrors both the conflicts within the Indian community banded together in the face of an encroachingy white world, and the eventual supremacy of that world over their culture. The narrative voice alternates between Nanapush, a wise old man of the Chippewa tribe, and Pauline, who abandons her Indian heritage in an obsessive conversion to Christianity. ![]() Some of the characters in the previous books are here, but with a new dimension that renders this story the most riveting of the three, again set in North Dakota in the early 1900s. Erdrich's literary reputation, already formidable after Love Medicine and The Beet Queen, will be enhanced with this beautifully fashioned, powerful novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nye: It is my mission to change the world. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.ĪP: How do you see your role as a citizen-scientist? Nye: The world's going to change climatically. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it. It's strangely a hard thing to talk about because it's become so political and divisive, and people have a tendency to give up and see it as overwhelming. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. Nye: Not wasting any water bottles is good. The bow-tie bedecked engineer, who gained fame on the 1990s TV series Bill Nye, the Science Guy, spoke with the AP from the road last week.Īssociated Press: Your book includes sweeping approaches to address climate change. ![]() But fewer than one in four Americans are extremely or very worried about it. Martin's Press via AP)Nye has his work cut out for him: An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll in October found two out of three Americans accept global warming, with the vast majority of those citing human activities as at least part of the cause. ![]() Cover for Bill Nye's new book, Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World. ![]() ![]() ![]() Seven years after Anne's House of Dreams, Anne visits Diana Wright and her daughter, Anne Cordelia, in Avonlea following the funeral of Gilbert's father. As well, the short story collection The Blythes Are Quoted, written in 1941/42, but not published until 2009, concludes the Anne chronology. (Two novels that occur later in the Anne chronology were actually published years earlier. ![]() ![]() It is the tenth of eleven books that feature the character of Anne Shirley, and Montgomery's final published novel. It was first published in July 1939 by McClelland and Stewart (Toronto) and the Frederick A. Anne of Ingleside is a children's novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. ![]() |