![]() This 2009 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Paperback is in Good condition. In this ambitious and moving new novel, Anchee Min brings to life a courageous and passionate woman who loved the country of her childhood and who has been hailed in China as a modern heroine. ![]() And yet, through love and loss, heartbreak and joy, exile and imprisonment, the two women remain intimately entwined. ![]() Willow, despite close ties to Mao's inner circle, is punished for her loyalty to her 'cultural imperialist' friend. But when civil war erupts between the Nationalists and Communists, Pearl's family is forced to flee the country ahead of angry mobs. Moving out into the world together, the two enter the intellectual fray of the times, confide their hopes and dreams, and survive early marriages gone bad. Buck, the Nobel Prize-winning writer and activist, but for now she is just a girl embarrassed by her blonde hair and enchanted by her new Chinese friend. ![]() Pearl is the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries. ![]() Willow is the only child of a destitute family. In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, two young girls bump heads and become thick as thieves. ![]()
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![]() The series (listed below) sees McCaffrey collaborating again with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (see Petyabee) and Margaret Ball (see Partnership).Īcorna : The Unicorn Girl (1998), Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball Unicorns are a standard part of the fantasy lexicon, with a variety of qualities aspired to them, good and evil, and the mysticism and legend surrounding them.Īcorna has a tiny horn in the center of her forehead, funny-looking feet, beautiful silver hair, and several curious powers. This subject was inevitable for McCaffrey. Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg's O'Hare/Fox seriesįantasy/Science Fiction series: Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy seriesĪnne McCaffrey's Talents (psychic, rowan, tower) series ![]() Lilian Jackson Braun's Qwilleran and Koko (Cat Who) ![]() Lawrence Block's Bernie Rhodenbarr (Burglar) ![]() ![]() ![]() The illustrious photographer’s full range of expression is on display in this unprecedented gathering of editorial images. In France, Martin Schoeller is represented by A. Portraits Building on the success from his previous titles, Close Up and Identical, Martin Schoeller’s Portraits is cause for celebration. With this modern approach to the image, Identical is a clinical study in the mysteries of natural resemblance. ![]() The idea for the project came to Schoeller after a commission from National Geographic published last January. The work brings together nearly 200 pairs of twins photographed in the studio over the course of 2012. With an almost supernatural style-sharp close-ups, striking details, blurry backgrounds-Schoeller sheds a light on each subtle aspect of the twins’ faces, inviting the viewer to question the appearances and identities of the subjects before them. But in his latest work, the American photographer Martin Schoeller is attempting to juxtapose portraits of physically identical individuals in order to tell the difference between them. Identical - Portraits of Twins Martin Schoeller uses his distinctive close-up portrait style to examine 40 sets of identical twins, capturing every subtle. Twins can share the exact same DNA, tastes, habits, and have eerily similar life experiences. ![]() ![]() Long a source of fascination, twins have often been the subject of myths and legends, starting with the ancient figures of Remus and Romulus. ![]() ![]() The second notable piece serves as the epilogue to the book. ![]() The story was restored to The Yage Letters in a later reprinting by City Lights. The anarchic "Roosevelt After Inauguration", a savage parody of American politics in which "a purple-assed baboon" is appointed to the United States Supreme Court, was omitted from the original edition of the book on the grounds it might be considered obscene it was subsequently issued as a chapbook later in the 1960s and was later published in the small volume Roosevelt After Inauguration and Other Atrocities with two political essays. The book ends with further correspondence written in 1960 detailing Ginsberg's experiments with yagé.īeyond the letters themselves, the book is noteworthy for two short pieces by Burroughs. Along the way, Burroughs and Ginsberg share other stories and anecdotes, including some concepts Burroughs would later use in novels such as Naked Lunch. Most of the letters date back to 1953 and chronicle Burroughs' visit to the Amazon rainforest in search of yagé ( ayahuasca), a plant with near-mythical hallucinogenic and some say telepathic qualities. ![]() The Yage Letters, first published in 1963, is a collection of correspondence and other writings by Beat Generation authors William S. ![]() ![]() Simon and Catherine Marshall travel to Edinburgh, determined to see the safe return of The Lady of Scotland, but they inadvertently uncover a royal deception.įloundering under the pressure of court life, Catherine is offered the guidance of Lady Agnes Dunbar, but what secret is the old lady hiding and why has she taken such an avid interest in the daily life of Lord and Lady Wexford? Trapped within the walls of Edinburgh Castle, Simon must choose where his loyalties lie, the consequence of which will decide the safety of his growing family. ![]() This is the third book in the 'Lions and Lilies' series and 'The Gilded Crown' draws you back into the 14th century lives of Gillet and Cécile, Catherine and Simon as, between them all, they strive to right an injustice and uncover a document that could end the reign of one king and send another to war. In the darkest of hours, courage must be found … ![]() ![]() One year later former Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Josh Griswold receives information from a whistleblower at Presto about the extent of corporate exploitation in the east, in particular the slavery, rape and human trafficking of workers. But America lives in a culture of deniability where all that matters is customer supply and demand. ![]() ![]() He decides to look into the sourcing and supply change in the aftermath of the fire and media frenzy, but is not prepared for the opening of the Pandoras Box that is the exploitation of workers in the sweatshops where the garments are made. The label on those pants is Piccolo an American fashion brand made by the Presto Omnishops Corporation.Ĭameron Alexander is a CEO at Presto and a lawyer. The media focus on one image, a young girl, dirty and broken on the ground with a pair of children pants covering her mouth to protect against smoke inhalation. People are jumping from the windows to escape, hundreds die and others are badly injured. ![]() 2013 Dhaka Bangladesh there is a fire at Millennium clothing factory. ![]() ![]() ![]() student at the University of Western Australia, sent to Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory by my professor, Ronald M. ?As the author writes in the preface to the book: In February of 1969 my wife Ruth and I first set foot on a remote island in north Australia to research the way of life of the local Aboriginal people, just as mining was commencing on their land-a couple from Canada via London, England, and Perth, Western Australia, myself enrolled as a Ph.D. And that worldview has much to offer the rest of the human world as it searches for a path to a sustainable and secure future. ![]() inter-relationship of interdependent parts. Those beliefs, he observes, form the foundation for a pan-continental way of life based not on the principle of unity but on a complex. In this brief but remarkable book, David Turner draws on a lifetime of experience to explore the beliefs of the Indigenous peoples of Australia. Life to the Power of Nothing (Trade Paperback / Paperback, Revised and Expanded ed.) The Old Boys: The Decline and Rise of the Public School (Trade Paperback / Paperback) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Smita struggles to maintain her journalistic impartiality when she talks to Meena and sees her horrifying injuries. The lawyer who has taken her case for free tells Smita the Indian media have ignored the story, saying “Do you think they can be bothered with such a story? After all, these were Hindus killing a Muslim. Perhaps the ultimate outrage for Meena’s brothers is that she is now suing them. To teach those Muslim dogs their proper station in life.” One of the brothers says it was “to protect the honor of all Hindus. When they marry, the chief of her village tells her brothers to burn down their hut with Abdul in it, which the chief later confesses to Smita. Abdul sees Meena working at her sewing machine and courts her with kind words and golden mangoes. ![]() She worked as a servant and cook for her brothers, who were outraged when Meena and her sister dared to find work. Meena tells her story in the first person. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was pious and took his coronation oath very seriously. George was the only Hanoverian king to be happily married and was a loving father to his many children, although he got little gratitude for it. I’m not qualified to review the book because it’s not my period, so I’m just jotting down a few things about it which interested me. Roberts does not write bad books the amount of research in this long book is phenomenal. It’s misguided, in my opinion, to dismiss a writer because you disagree with his or her politics and assume that they must write bad books. As he quotes another historian saying, British history is mainly Tory but has been written by Whigs. Roberts is a self-confessed ‘Thatcherite Conservative’, when most historians are left wing. ![]() George III: Farmer George the king who lost America the mad king.Īs Andrew Roberts shows, there was a lot more to George III than that. ![]() ![]() What other mysteries does the House hold, and is there really a Sixteenth Person who may be residing in the Far-Distant Halls? These are the questions that start to bother our narrator as he is slowly forced to question the very nature of his existence in this bewildering World of Tides and Architectural Beauty. Then, cryptic messages start to appear in some Halls, and our narrator witnesses strange visions. Our narrator’s only human contact is the man only known as the Other, who also often frequents the Halls and who sees the World very differently from our narrator. In the House, architectural splendours meet natural wonders – sea Tides, bringing marine life and vegetation, often flood the seemingly infinite number of opulent Halls, where numerous enigmatic statues of all sizes daze and confuse. ![]() This time, we have a diary-like narrative and our narrator observes, records and catalogues a curious World around him – the House. ![]() ![]() Piranesi is a new fantasy novel by the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. ![]() |