The story ends with the fall of Tsarist Russia in 1917, but the demise of the Soviet Empire (hastened by a decade of bloody fighting in Afghanistan) gives it new relevance, as world peace and stability are again threatened by tensions in this volatile region of great mineral wealth and strategic significance. The Great Game was Russia's version of America's "Manifest Destiny" to dominate a continent, and Hopkirk is careful to explain Russian viewpoints as fully as those of the British. His sensational narrative moves at breakneck pace, yet even as he paints his colorful characters-tribal chieftains, generals, spies, Queen Victoria herself-he skillfully provides a clear overview of the geographical and diplomatic framework. Peter Hopkirk, a former reporter for The Times of London with wide experience of the region, tells an extraordinary story of ambition, intrigue, and military adventure. When play began early in the 19th century, the frontiers of the two imperial powers lay two thousand miles apart, across vast deserts and almost impassable mountain ranges by the end, only 20 miles separated the two rivals. For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of. At stake was the security of India, key to the wealth of the British Empire. In a phrase coined by Captain Arthur Connolly of the East India Company before he was beheaded in Bokhara for spying in 1842, a "Great Game" was played between Tsarist Russia and Victorian England for supremacy in Central Asia.
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5/28/2023 0 Comments The dark hunters infinity vol 1Almost none of these designs match the characters nearly as well as the first manga series did. I know that this is set at least eight years before the original series, though I really have to draw the line. Not only this, but the designs were way off. It lost the humor of the series, which is something I adore. While the book Infinity was genuinely entertaining with the quips made by Nick's inner monologue and the situations he was thrust in, the manga lacks all of these and more. It's choppy, tasteless and doesn't carry the charm of the source material. Honestly, though I am a big fan of Kenyon's work, I found this to be the worst thing to come out of the series. Join her and her Paladins online at and Fan Run International Sites: Her Chronicles of Nick and Dark-Hunter series are soon to be major motion pictures while Dark-Hunter is also being developed as a television series. Her current series are: Dark-Hunters, Chronicles of Nick and The League, and her books are available in over 100 countries where eager fans impatiently wait for the next release. Since 2004, she had placed more than 80 novels on the New York Times list in all formats including manga and graphic novels. With legions of fans known as Paladins (thousands of whom proudly sport tattoos from her series and who travel from all over the world to attend her appearances), her books are always snatched up as soon as they appear on store shelves. New York Times and international bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon is a regular at the #1 spot. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Douglas stuart mungoWhen Mungo's mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in western Scotland with two strange men behind whose drunken banter lie murky pasts, he needs to summon all his inner strength and courage to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future. As they begin to fall in love, they dream of escaping the grey city, and Mungo must work hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his elder brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold.īut the threat of discovery is constant and the punishment unspeakable. They should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all, and yet they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the doocot that James has built for his prize racing pigeons. They are caught between two of Glasgow's housing estates, where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation. The extraordinary, powerful second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain, Young Mungo is both a vivid portrayal of working-class life and the deeply moving story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James.īorn under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. After the extraordinary success of Shuggie Bain, his second novel, Young Mungo, is another beautiful and moving book, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal world of Glasgow's housing estates.' - The Observer 'Prepare your hearts, for Douglas Stuart is back. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Threadneedle novelHer aunt constantly tells her that magic and love killed Anna’s parents, and that magic and any strong emotion, especially love, needs to be controlled. It ends with the immediate plot points resolved but with a lot of threads left hanging until the sequel.Īnna lives in modern day London with her emotionally and physically abusive aunt. All of this happens in an atmosphere that combines abuse at home and the politics of high school with near constant enchantment. As they hex bullies and dabble in romance, Anna must determine whether her aunt is to be trusted and whether her new friends are true friends or toxic tempters. In this YA novel, Anna, who has been taught to suppress her magic by her abusive aunt, falls in with a group of teens who are all too eager to explore their magical skills. Threadneedle was not at all the book I expected, but I found myself engrossed in the story even though I was upset by the content. TW: emotional and physical abuse, self-harm, gaslighting, toxic friendships, bullying, fat shaming, rape, murder, suicide, peer pressure 5/28/2023 0 Comments Irvin d yalom lying on the couchIt focuses on the lives of a few interlinked psychotherapists in San Francisco. This grand satire on psychotherapy came out in 2014. Fascinating, engrossing, and relentlessly intelligent, it ultimately moves listeners with a denouement of surprising humanity and redemptive faith. Driven by his sincere desire to help and his faith in psychoanalysis, he invents a radically new approach to therapy - a totally open and honest relationship with a patient that threatens to have devastating results.Įxposing the many lies told on and off the psychoanalyst's couch, Lying on the Couch gives listeners a tantalizing, almost illicit glimpse at what their therapists might really be thinking during their sessions. Marshal, who is haunted by his own obsessive-compulsive behaviors, is troubled by the role money plays in his dealings with his patients. Seymour is a therapist of the old school who blurs the boundary of sexual propriety with one of his clients. From the best-selling author of Love's Executioner and When Nietzsche Wept comes a provocative exploration of the unusual relationships three therapists form with their patients. ) broaden the focus to insect life, to weather and the seasons ("I have talked with the faint clouds in the sky") and to other parts of the U.S. American Primitive Dream Work New and Selected Poems: Volume One White Pine The Leaf and the Cloud What Do We Know Why I Wake Early New and Selected Poems: Volume Two Swan A Thousand Mornings Dog Songs Blue Horses Felicity PROSE. One of the 42 new poems watches ravens on a "morning of green tenderness and/ rain" others describe a mockingbird, a white heron, an obedient dog, tiger lilies, deer, terns, blueberry fields on Cape Cod (where Oliver lives) and a "Mountain Lion on East Hill Road," glimpsed just "once, years ago." Poems reprinted from six earlier books (beginning with 1994's White Pine Select Titles Also by Mary Oliver POETRY. , this big and very quotable collection offers more of what Oliver's fans revere: optimistic, clear and lyrical explorations of varying ecosystems, (especially the birds, mammals, ponds and forests of the northeastern U.S.) mingled with rapt self-questioning, consolation and spiritual claims some might call prayers. Following by 13 years her National Book Award–winning New and Selected Volume One She would go on to publish her first work while working for an airports restaurant organization. It was during this time that she penned an Easter Bunny story for the first grade class. Quindlen thought writing was a very interesting career since she was six. Kelly currently makes her home in Atlanta, Georgia. She would then spend two years in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she was a teacher with Teach for America specializing in Mathematics. Quindlen graduated with a American Studies and English Literature degree from Vanderbilt University. She would then pivot to traditional publishing and has been combining both modes for her subsequent novels. The author initially started out as a self published author and was very successful as she sold more than twenty five titles in her first year. Kelly Quindlen is a young adult romance bestselling author who made her name with her debut novel “Her Name in the Sky” that she published in 2014. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Rafe by Rebekah Weatherspoontoo much pointless dialogue, not enough happening.Sloan is a brilliant, hilarious, badass surgeon & mother.Rafe is super sweet, gentle, and 100% anti-toxic masculinity. It's just that this book was one of my most anticipated reads and I was so convinced that I would adore everything about it, and instead, it fell short in so many ways. In the meant time, you can find Rebekah and her books on twitter at and her website Sigh. You can look for her most recent romantic comedy XENI : A Marriage of Inconvenience now, and a retelling of Sleeping Beauty, A COWBOY TO REMEMBER, late February 2020 from Kensington Books. Her 2018 romantic comedy RAFE: A Buff Male Nanny received praise from both Entertainment Weekly and the New York Times. Her novella FIT (#1 in the FIT Trilogy) won the Romantic Times Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Erotica Novella, SATED (#3 in the FIT Trilogy) was nominated for the the Romantic Times Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Digital Erotic Romance and most recently SOUL TO KEEP VSS#3 won the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ Erotica. Her BDSM romance At Her Feet won the Golden Crown Literary Award for erotic lesbian fiction. Raised in Southern New Hampshire, Rebekah Weatherspoon now lives in Southern California where she will remain forever because she hates moving. After years of meddling in her friends’ love lives, Rebekah Weatherspoon turned to writing romance to get her fix. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Hellboy by Mike MignolaEach page of Mike Mignola's Hellboy Artist's edition is shot from the original art and showcases Mignola's gorgeous work as closely as possible to the physical page-this is a book for fans of great storytelling and students of the craftĪs this book requires its own box for secure shipping, an additional shipping charge will be incurred if it is ordered with other products. This Artist's Edition features the first five issues of Hellboy in Hell as well as a wealth of historic supplementary material: the first three Hellboy stories-the two initial four-pagers, produced for promotional purposes, and the 10-page story from John Byrne's Nextmen #21- plus The Corpse, and two other tales selected by Mignola for inclusion. Mike's iconic creation struck a meteoric chord with fans from the very start and has not abated in the 20 years since his debut. Mignola and novelist Christopher Golden debuted a brand new. His career was already firmly established for his outstanding work on characters like Batman, Wolverine, a myriad of beautiful covers and more. HELLBOY Original Art from Dark Horse Comics Coffee Mug Mike Mignola. Mike Mignola's name may be synonymous with Hellboy, but that's not the only shared horror fantasy universe Mignola has established. Mike Mignola is one of the preeminent comics creators of the past 25 years. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Cold comfort farm book reviewAnd we encounter from time to time minor characters like Claud, Mr Mybug, and a collection of Starkadder wives who live in the nearby village rather than with their men folk at the farm. We make the acquaintance of Mrs Beetle, a sort of housekeeper, and her philoprogenitive daughter Meriam. We meet nonagenarian Adam Lambsbreath and his four cows, Graceless, Pointless, Feckless and Aimless. With names like Amos and Seth, Reuben, Elfine, Mark, Luke, Micah and Harkaway, the extended family and their contingent of domestic help are as crazy as they sound. No one truly knows what she saw, but she has never been the same since.įlora Poste, recently orphaned at the age of nineteen and possessing an income of one hundred pounds a year, goes to live with her aunts and cousins at Cold Comfort Farm. When she was a young girl (we are told), she saw something nasty in the woodshed. Indeed, she only comes out of her room once a year to do ‘the Counting’ – a kind of on the spot census of her numerous and eccentric relations, the Starkadder Family. She hasn’t left the farm for twenty years. |
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