![]() “For new readers, there’s fascinating adventure in plenitude. His quest becomes a wild and gripping venture, blended with the mysteries and spectacular technologies that only Larry Niven can conjure! ![]() To survive he must locate the control center of the legendary engineers who built the planet. With Louis’ help, the Hindmost intends to regain his status by bringing back such extraordinary treasures from the Ringworld that his fellow puppeteers will have to be impressed.īut when they arrive, Louis discovers that the Ringworld is no longer stable. Now he and Speaker-To-Animals are going back, captives of the Hindmost, a deposed puppeteer leader. ![]() It’s been twenty years since the quixotic and worldsweary Louis Wu discovered the Ringworld. A return voyage to the astonishing world of Larry Niven’s Ringworld, with even more remarkable adventures and surprises, and a solution to that tantalizing question left from the earlier book: how was Ringworld built and by whom? ![]()
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This Man Trilogy is the intense, epic saga about private sex club owner Jesse Ward aka The Lord, Mr. Jesse Ward is back with count-downs & punitive fucks, but also a mature, vulnerable & compromising Jesse!īooks in This Man series should be read in order: ![]() ![]() ![]() An Oxford historian, in bitter competition with the rest of her faculty members, discovers an ancient tome whose sinister contents might solve her problems. In the thirteen darkly audacious stories of Parallel Hells we meet a golem, made of clay, learning that its powers far exceed its Creator’s expectations a ruined mansion which grants the secret wishes of a group of revellers and a notorious murderer who discovers her Viking husband is not what he seems.Īsta is an ancient being who feasts on the shame of contemporary Londoners, who now, beyond anything, wishes only to fit in with a group of friends they will long outlive. In this deliciously strange debut collection, Leon Craig draws on folklore and gothic horror in refreshingly inventive ways to explore queer identity, love, power and the complicated nature of being human. ‘The short, twisted tales collected in Leon Craig’s Parallel Hells have a laconic elegance that’s both chilling and pleasurable’ Financial Times ![]() It’s the queer horror book of your dreams’ Kirsty Logan ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Remained consistent with his Hasidic heritage, which teaches that "only in his childlike happiness is man nearest to God." He often used his creative abilities to explore and experiment with media. His acrobats, cyclists, and mothers and children convey joyfulness, exuberance, love, and intimacy. For more than sixty years Chaim Gross's art has expressed optimistic, affirming themes. Throughout his lifetime Gross has gone through tragedy and a real test of faith however, he has the unique ability to focus and direct his expression to the most joyful and beautiful works of art, such as the present lot. This is a wonderful piece by one of America's most treasured artists, Chaim Gross. A very early, rare work.Ī great New York city street scene with an El train (elevated subway line) and architectural renderings of buildings. ![]() ![]() This third volume contains the fifth and sixth sections: the fifth section, "In London and Moscow", and the sixth section, "Spanish Passions". He financed business projects, organized lotteries, wrote opera libretti, and dabbled in high politics. In his time he was a diplomat, businessman, trainee priest, traveler, prisoner, magician, confidence man, gambler, professional entertainer, and charlatan. His appetite for life is voracious for him, a life lived close to the precipice is the only life worth living. But Casanova was not just an energetic lover. He holds a verbal duel with Voltaire, a pistol duel with a Polish noble, and finds himself hauled before the court multiple times, including in London, where the judge in question turns out to be none other than Henry Fielding. He falls madly in love, has wild flings, and delirious orgies, and encounters some of the most brilliant figures of his time, including Catherine the Great, Louis XV, and Benjamin Franklin. Intense and scandalous, Casanova's extraordinary adventures take the listener on an incredible voyage across 18th-century Europe - from France to Russia, Poland to Spain, and Turkey to Germany, with Venice at their heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Story of My Life is the explosive and exhilarating autobiography by the infamous libertine Giacomo Casanova. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a quest like never before, and Jennifer soon finds herself fighting not just for her life, but for everything she knows and loves. 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The Mighty Shandar, the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen, returns to the Ununited Kingdoms. ![]() An extract from the third in Jasper Fforde's Last Dragonslayer series - his first for children, with his trademark magic and invention. ![]() ![]() ![]() The group, which also included Rebel Alliance droids R2-D2 and C-3PO, in possession of the Death Star plans, fled to the Rebel base on Yavin 4-closely pursued by the battle station. ![]() The Princess was rescued from captivity by an unlikely alliance of the smuggler Han Solo, former Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, a young farmboy from Tatooine named Luke Skywalker, and Solo's First Mate, the Wookiee named Chewbacca. Princess Leia was taken prisoner aboard the Death Star by Lord Vader. Imperial forces under the command of the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader, soon captured Princess Leia and the crew of the Tantive IV. " He put a fuse in the middle of your machine, and I've just told the entire galaxy how to light it." ―Jyn Erso, to Imperial Director Krennic ĭuring the Battle of Scarif, Jyn Erso managed to steal detailed plans and design specifications for the Imperial battle station known as the Death Star and transmit them to the Alliance Fleet above these plans soon made their way to Princess Leia Organa. ![]() ![]() The very day this thought struck me, I put pen to paper, without much in the way of prior thought." ![]() The shadow of war hung over us, especially when we tried to shut our minds to it. I could observe a similar phenomenon in many of my friends and acquaintances. deliberate acts of self-analysis that I found my way back to my war experiences. Modern readers return again and again to his words because their powerful message delineates a dehumanization vastly surpassed by modern technological warfare.Īn interview from the state archives in Osnabruck gives the reader some understanding of Remarque's reasons for writing All Quiet on the Western Front. The world would read his words and understand the questions of his generation, and the critics would treat his book kindly. Again and again, Remarque would return to scenes of the war and to postwar Germany for subjects of his novels. This one huge and overwhelming event in his life - World War I - would haunt him forever and influence practically everything he would write. Remarque, like many of his lost generation, suffered postwar trauma and disillusionment. During the time he had been in combat, his mother had died and now he had time to mourn and regret. His earlier dreams had included becoming a concert pianist, but, because of war wounds, that ambition was no longer a possibility. When Erich Maria Remarque was mustered out of the Great War in 1918 on a medical discharge, he returned home to a life devoid of hope and changed forever. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But her life soon changes when a feral, dirty-faced boy who has been sneaking onto her land to steal from her garden comes into her life. After years of rebuffing the advances of imperfect, yet eligible bachelors from her small town, Ivorie is without companionship with more love in her heart and time on her hands than she knows what to do with. But when her mother dies, leaving her to live alone in the house she grew up in, to work the farm she was raised to take care of, she finds herself lost in a kind of loneliness she hadn't expected. ![]() Tennessee, 1950: Still single and in her early thirties, Ivorie Walker is considered an old maid a label she takes with good humor and a grain of salt. In this full-length novel from the New York Times Bestselling author of The Christmas Hope series Donna VanLiere has written a beautifully rendered and poignant story about one woman's unlikely path to motherhood and the healing power of love. ![]() ![]() ![]() Frank Harold, born 1st July 1889 Jamaica, WI. Reference British Columbia Vital Records (BCVR) 1965 Death Registration #65-09-013305 Family History Library Film #2033798.ĪLLWOOD, Mr. Died North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2nd Oct. Germany Father Walter Harrison Allport b. Published in the Toronto Star on January 12, 2013ĪLLPORT, Mr. ![]() ![]() A funeral service was held in the Ward Chapel, 52 Main Street South, Brampton on Saturday, January 19th. She migrated to Canada in 1971 and worked at Bell Canada for 26 years until her retirement. In Jamaica, Ovetta worked as Postmistress at both the Hayes and Alley post offices. She also precedes siblings, Edelmera Harrison, Getseta Thompson, Seymour (Chappo) O'Meally and Gloria Nelson. Another daughter, Yolande Allison, preceded Ovetta. She was a loving mother to Ianthe Allison and grandmother to Mercedes, Katrinna, Savannah and Shadrach. She will be missed by Ian Allison, father of her two children. (The Edinburgh Advertiser of 10 January 1827)ĪLLISON, Ovetta - Died at Brampton Civic Hospital on Thursday, January 10, 2013. ![]() Andrews, Island of Jamaica, on the 22d October, the lady of Alexander AIKMAN, jun., Esq., printer to his Majesty, and to the Hon. BIRTHS - At Friendship Park Villa, in Liguanea, St. James, Jamaica to Lillian Wright and Josiah Wright (deceased).ĪIKMAN. Sybil was born on November 15, 1940, in St. Jamaican Family Search Genealogy Research LibraryĪDAMS, Sybil Maud Wright, died Octoin British Columbia, Canada. ![]() |