![]() The pendant featured tiny bells which, when jostled, would make a soft jingling sound like a whisper from Faerieland. Kit Williams crafted a true treasure: an intricate pendant/hanging of a hare made from 18 carat gold. What a brilliant and magical book leading to an equally mysterious and magical clue! And I haven’t even started talking about the treasure itself yet. The longer clue reveals the details: on the vernal or autumnal equinox, the shadow of the “finger” of the monument would fall where the treasure was buried. ![]() ![]() Ampthill Park in Bedfordshire has a tall cross monument honoring Queen Catherine of Aragon. ![]() ![]() The solution to the puzzle, for anyone who solved it, was a sentence: “Catherine’s Long Finger Over Shadows Earth Buried Yellow Amulet Midday Points The Hour In Light Of Equinox Look You.” Although this clue was important, the solver would further have to take the first letter of each word to create “CLOSEBYAMPTHILL” which revealed the location. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This is not Raiders of the Lost Runestone. So the book stayed with me long after the last chapter ended. What could have been a potboiler, contemporary fantasy, turned out to pack an emotional punch I was not expecting. ![]() ![]() The narration is musical and coherent, which allowed me to see the story played out in my mind's eye, this the experience I want from an audiobook. Paul Heitsch's narration provides distinction between the characters so that I was never confused about who was speaking. I enjoyed the characters, who were vivid and distinct. This first part of the book reminded me of Summer of Night or Stand By Me, a heartfelt tale of true friendship and bonding in late adolescence. But that's far in the background, for 3/4 of the book we are treated to an idyllic story of teens coming of age in the Midwest, yearning to discover their adulthoods. Brian Hodge's Oasis is the story of an ancient blood feud between Viking chiefs, one who worships the old gods, and the other who has been converted to Christianity. ![]() ![]() ![]() I could not - could not - COULD NOT - LOVE THIS BOOK MORE!!! In the tradition of Ann Patchett and Sue Miller, Signal Fires is riveting, emotional, impossible to put down, a literary and commercial tour de force, and a work of haunting beauty and complexity by a masterful storyteller at the height of her powers. But when Waldo Shenkman, a brilliant but lonely child, befriends Ben Wilf, a retired doctor who is struggling with his wife’s decline, the Wilfs’ and the Shenkmans’ lives and fates become deeply entwined, and the past comes hurtling back to Division Street, setting in motion a chain of spellbinding events that will transform both families forever. For the Wilf family, it will become the deepest kind of family secret, one so dangerous it can never be spoken.īy the time the Shenkmans move in across the street-a young couple expecting a baby boy-the accident has become a distant memory. ![]() ![]() ![]() One summer night in 1985, the lives of three teenagers are shattered by a horrific car crash, resulting in the death of a young woman near a sprawling oak tree that marks the perimeter of 18 Division Street. From the best-selling author of Inheritance, a gripping new novel about two families bound together across generations by an unspeakable tragedy. ![]() ![]() ![]() They feel right, too, the interlocking ecological, human, social and moral catastrophes he came up with, from dust storms and crooked politics to tides of doomed refugees and baroque criminality. Requiring a drought-shriveled near future for his three protagonists - Angel, a Vegas water thug Lucy, a Phoenix journalist Maria, a Texas refugee - to flee across, scrabble through and lose their illusions in, Bacigalupi has extrapolated, broadly and deeply, what would happen if the American Southwest dried up. ![]() It’s not some lame, off-the-shelf, one-apocalypse-fits-all dystopia that sci-fi novelist Paolo Bacigalupi has contrived for his new yarn, The Water Knife (Knopf, $25.95). ![]() ![]() Koestler’s impassioned case for human freedom was the coup de grâce for behaviourism. The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler (1967) In Todorov’s most dramatic demonstrations, ratings of the trustworthiness and competence of political candidates based on their photographs alone predicted the outcome of elections in the US with better than 70% accuracy.Ĥ. Take Grumpy Cat, for instance, who isn’t really grumpy – it’s just the way her face was made. We mistake the features of their resting face for a temporary emotional expression instead. ![]() We feel so sure that we know someone’s personality from just their face, but we are wrong. The power of a person’s face over our impressions of their personality is a case in point. Subsequent research (on humans) showed that events in the outside world can indeed affect us directly and unconsciously – but only through activating internal cognitive mechanisms that he had long insisted were irrelevant.ģ. But we so wanted to believe otherwise that we persisted in the illusion. Skinner’s last-gasp appeal to the general public, following the “ cognitive revolution” in psychology of the 60s, arguing that we had no actual freedom of will, that our conscious thoughts were not causal at all. ![]() The book that got me started in psychology, a bestseller when I was taking a high-school psychology class. ![]() Beyond Freedom and Dignity by BF Skinner (1971) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is a master of the cunning plot device, and brings zest and originality to the traditional murder mystery novel. think, 'Ooh, I can't wait!' more than Anthony Horowitz. A killer with a fiendish plot: a brilliantly intricate and original thriller from the bestselling author of Magpie Murders _ 'A beautiful puzzle: fiendishly clever and hugely entertaining. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but hidden in the pages of the manuscript lies another story: a tale written between the very words on the page, telling of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition and murder.įrom the creator of Midsomer Murders comes a fiendish mystery perfect for fans of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.Ī labyrinth of clues. But Conway's latest tale of murder at Pye Hall is not quite what it seems. Moonflower Murders Standalone Books Series A labyrinth of clues. Readers love his detective, Atticus Pünd, a celebrated solver of crimes in the sleepy English villages of the 1950s. Editor Susan Ryland has worked with bestselling crime writer Alan Conway for years. ![]() ![]() Wanted by the Southeastern Narcotics Bureau. Sequel to bestselling novels Diversion and Collusion. The Awards, that at today, is way more than only romance. I agreed with the only condition to maintain the all-inclusive nature of Last year I was approached by the Rainbow Chapter of the Romance Writers ofĪmerica: they were interested in joining force cause, basically, the RainbowĪwards were THE LGBT Romance Awards, and there was no sense in having another Then publishers, and then other categories like Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender… The Rainbow Awards, more like a gathering of romance readers talking together.Īnd after one year also non-romance authors were interested in submitting, and Reading were in ebooks, and those awards didn’t consider them. ![]() Rules, uplifting ending, love story, etc. The novels winning the Romance awards weren’t really “romance”. Romance categories were mixed together with other categories, and sincerely, Literature weren’t really focused on LGBT Romance most of the time, the ![]() I always used Romance Awards to find my choice of readings,Īnd when I started reading Gay Romance, again, the few awards devoted to LGBT ![]() ![]() ![]() The Velvet Rage is an empowering book that has already changed the public discourse on gay culture and helped shape the identity of an entire generation of gay men. This groundbreaking and empowering book examines the impact of growing up and surviving as a gay man in a society still learning to accept all identities.In The Velvet Rage, psychologist Alan Downs draws on his own struggle with shame and anger, contemporary research, and stories from his patients to passionately describe the stages of a gay man's journey out of shame and offers practical and inspired strategies to stop the cycle of avoidance and self-defeating behavior. I have recently started reading The Velvet Rage following recommendations online and having recently read Matthew Todd’s really engaging book Straight Jacket, a book that draws on Alan Downs’ classic. ![]() ![]() In The Velvet Rage, psychologist Alan Downs draws on his own struggle with shame and anger, contemporary research, and stories from his patients to passionately describe the stages of a gay man's journey out of shame and offers practical and. ![]() Download Or Read PDF The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World - Alan Downs Free Full Pages Online With Audiobook. This groundbreaking and empowering book examines the impact of growing up and surviving as a gay man in a society still learning to accept all identities. ![]() ![]() ![]() All kinds of writers have defied this tenet over time, so that we have Hemingway's trout streams and Willa Cather's prairies and the rocky desolation of Annie Proulx's landscapes to remind us of our size. Particularly in the English-speaking order of things, the natural world is afforded a place on the second tier in literature, somewhere below fiction and history. In an assessment of Doerr's first book, the short-story collection The Shell Collector, Gail Caldwell wrote for the Boston Globe (January 27, 2002), "Obsessed with our own existence, we tend to be far more enamored with stories about people-about wounded soldiers or heartbroken lovers or alienated souls-than we are with the vibrant theater beyond the human heart. ![]() " Anthony Doerr has won admiration and awards for his skill in incorporating scientific information and observations in tales that illuminate the human condition. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have been pleasantly surprised by an unexpected discount at checkout. 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I have gone there whenever I get a chance for many years now, I almost always find something interesting and affordable even if my intention is just to take a friend and not to buy (I could stand to sell some things myself as my "collections" have grown too large. ![]() |