![]() Truth is, her English accent is a hasty fake and her real name is Tennessee Schaff. Tess Fairweather is traveling second-class on the Lusitania, returning home to Devon. Restless and longing for a different existence, Caroline is determined to take charge of her own life. She's hoping a trip in the Lusitania's lavish first-class accommodations will help them reconnect?but she can't ignore the spark she feels for her old friend Robert Langford, who turns out to be on the same voyage. Her formerly attentive industrialist husband, Gilbert, has become remote, preoccupied with business?and with something else that she can't quite put a finger on. ![]() 1915 Southern belle Caroline Telfair Hochstetter's marriage is in crisis. Sarah embarks on an ambitious journey to England to enlist the help of John Langford, a recently disgraced member of Parliament whose family archives might contain the only key to the long-ago catastrophe. ![]() Desperate, she opens an old chest containing the belongings of her great-grandfather, who died when the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915. From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery that links the lives of three women?two from the past, one from the present?to the doomed passenger liner RMS Lusitania 2013 Bestselling author Sarah Blake is broke and struggling to come up with a big idea for her next book. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Two men from completely different cultures. ![]() The premise is great and the world is intriguing, while the themes delved into are the kind we should all keep in mind. ![]() 'The world doesn't fix itself just because someone points out its inherent unfairness.'Īn enemies-to-lovers MM fantasy romance with Captive Prince vibes, this first in the Riehse Eshan series is a promising debut that will appeal to all those in search of a dark story with emphasis on relationship and feelings. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s represented by Nationale in Portland.Ĭarson lives on a farm in Oregon with Colin, their two sons, three cats, three llamas, two goats, many chickens, and an unfathomable multitude of tree frogs. She works sporadically as an editorial illustrator for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and others publications and exhibits art on occasion. Meloy and Ellis have spoken about the thematic and artistic influences that color Wildwood discerning young readers will spy allusions to Robin Hood, Rapunzel, Narnia, and other talesbut. ![]() She's the illustrator-in-residence for Colin's band, The Decemberists, and received Grammy nominations in 20 for album art design. ![]() Carson has been awarded silver medals by the Society of Illustrators for her work on Wildwood Imperium and on Dillweed's Revenge by Florence Parry Heide. She has illustrated a number of books for kids including The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, The Composer Is Dead by Lemony Snicket, and The Wildwood Chronicles by her husband, Colin Meloy. Carson Ellis is the author and illustrator of the bestselling picture books Home and Du Iz Tak? (a Caldecott Honor book and the recipient of an E.B. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trade Edition: Featuring 12 color oils and 45 ink illustrations. ![]() The texts for this edition were based on Howard’s original manuscripts and typescripts or the first published appearance if a manuscript or typescript was unavailable. Untitled poem (“There’s a bell that hang’s…”).Untitled fragment (“A grey sky arched over…”).Howard (variant of Bran Mak Morn (synopsis)) Untitled Synopsis (“The story of a forgotten age…).Notes on Miscellanea (Bran Mak Morn: The Last King). ![]() ![]() ![]() The trouble is that the fiction of time travel can all too easily stumble over the potentially infinite convolutions and paradoxes inherent in the subject matter. Well, of course they’re implausible, everyone but Ronald Mallett might say - they’re stories about time travel. But fiction only has to work on its own terms, not reality’s. ![]() Alas, it has seldom delivered on that promise: whether their characters jump forward into the future, backward into the past, or both, the past 125 years of time-travel stories have too often suffered from inelegance, inconsistency, and implausibility. Wells’ 1895 novel The Time Machine, time travel has been a promising storytelling concept. ![]() ![]() ![]() It tells the story of the historically important, 14th-century love affair in England between the eponymous Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the third surviving son of King Edward III. ![]() Urn:lcp:katherine00anya_0:epub:18246669-bcbf-4e20-85bd-62a37c4e02ee Foldoutcount 0 Identifier katherine00anya_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t77t04p75 Invoice 11 Isbn 155652532Xĩ781556525322 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.5 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary OL8596244M Openlibrary_edition Katherine is a 1954 historical novel by American author Anya Seton. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:55:22.047003 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA1110501 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Chicago Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() Having braved a discriminatory educational system to become one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, Frenkel now works on one of the biggest ideas to come out of math in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program. Love and Math tells two intertwined stories: of the wonders of mathematics and of one young man's journey learning and living it. ![]() ![]() In this heartfelt and passionate book, Frenkel shows that mathematics, far from occupying a specialist niche, goes to the heart of all matter, uniting us across cultures, time, and space. ![]() A New York Times Science BestsellerWhat if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the intellectual equivalent of watching paint dry.In Love and Math, renowned mathematician Edward Frenkel reveals a side of math we've never seen, suffused with all the beauty and elegance of a work of art. ![]() ![]() ![]() The company explains that its list “ highlights works that look to the past, present and future to deepen our engagement with the world as we know it today. Morgan Reading List selected ALONE TIME as one of 10 titles. But she also explored New York, her hometown, as if she were a tourist: “Savoring the moment, examining things closely, reminiscing - these practices are not strictly for use on the road. “I liked to be alone in Constantinople,” Greta Garbo said. ![]() In Florence, she communed at the Uffizi with the most ogled woman in the world, Botticelli’s Venus. In Istanbul, she lolled in the steamy Cemberlitas hamam. In Paris, she picnicked amid the promenades of the Luxembourg Gardens, feasted on oysters at the Closerie des Lilas and ambled through Balzac’s home, Hampl-style. In so doing, she not only dispels the stigma attaching to solo travel, she debunks the myth of the “supposed horror of solo dining.” Learning that increasing numbers of Americans were taking vacations-for-one, she decided to test-drive the trend in some of the world’s most sociable cities. Stephanie Rosenbloom, a travel columnist for The New York Times, set out on her own for a more practical purpose. The New York Times Book Review included ALONE TIME in its Summer Reading List. Credit: ANGIE WANGvia The New York Times Book Review: 73 Books to Read While the Sun Is Out and the Days Are Long ![]() ![]() ![]() For years now, fans, readers and collectors have been begging for a reissue of the hardcovers so that they could. In 2013, Styxx (the book about his twin) followed suit and sold even more copies. Acheron & Styxx are Kickstarter Favorite! ApA HUGE thank you to Kickstarter and the backers! The Acheron/Styxx novel has been selected by Kickstarter as a project they love! We are so grateful to all of you! #projectweloveLove #darkhunters #sherrilynmcqueen #books Acheron & Styxx are coming! ApIn 2008, Acheron burst onto the publishing scene, and spent a whopping 1.5 years on bestseller lists across the globe. I know many of you have been waiting for the next League story about Jayne & Hadrian, Born of Blood. ![]() From Sherrilyn (dubbed the AG by Paladins) Learn more news BORN OF BLOOD is finally released! AugA huge thank you to all my wonderful Paladins for your patience while I get my life back on track. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you think all of this is pretty simple, think again. ![]() Our captain is old but still looking young by this point, and since she's the Wizard and it's traditional to sing the Yellow Brick Road when they go on expeditions and status updates with all these distributed intelligences that are gods in their own rights, we're thrown into intrigue and a possible rebellion. except for the twelve distributed ancient AI intelligences that make up her bulk. After all, Titan herself is a god or near enough, technologically, so as to be the utter master of her domain. None of it is really quite easy to exploit. Of course, with this fantastic alien landscape, there's the Titanides, the 29 times over ambisexual centaurs who like to do it every which way they can, even with humans, and killer blimps and vast and amazing adventurous locations full of glory and beauty. ![]() Decades have passed in an eyeblink and Titan has turned herself into the goose that lays the golden eggs, opening up exploration and exploitation to her artificial moon. I was honestly expecting a straight carryover from the first novel with its surprising end and lead, making the next title, Wizard, something much more than I might have expected, but I was surprised. There a lot to love in the second Gaia book. ![]() |