![]() ![]() This Shepard Boston edition of Wrecked appears as shipwrecked on the title page. Sampson Low published this work in three volumes, the first of which was entitled Dropped from the Clouds or Wrecked in the Air. In 1875, the first American edition appeared by Scribner s after the original plates of Sampson Low. This book is iconic as being a melding of another Verne novel, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. This novel follows the story and adventures of American Civil War prisoners of war, who escaped on a balloon to an uncharted island in the South Pacific. Mysterious Island, originally published in 1874, is an adventure novel that was significantly influenced by Robinson Crusoe and other shipwreck adventures. Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island Jules Verne s adventure novels are some of the most popular and famous works of literature of all time. 1875 1st ed Jules Verne Mysterious Island Wrecked in Air Shipwrecks Adventure It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() His first novel Praise (1992) won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the regional prize for best first book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. revelation of life in the slow lane of drugs and sex and alcohol.' - "The Weekend Australian"Īndrew McGahan was born in Dalby, Queensland, and now lives in Victoria. 'McGahan's book is a bracing slap in the face to conventional platitudes and hypocrisies.' - "The Australian" 'Praise is one of those books that takes a hefty bite out of a piece of subject matter, chews it to a pulp and then spits it out.' - Peter Craven 'A tour de force. A time when, for two hopeless souls, sex and dependence were the only lifelines. A time when the dole was easier to get than a job, when heroin was better known than ecstasy, and when ambition was the dirtiest of words. ![]() "Praise" is an utterly frank and darkly humorous novel about being young in the Australia of the 1990s. Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the Canada-Australia Literary Award. Winner of The "Australian"/Vogel Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in the Pacific Region. ![]() ![]() ![]() His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature. Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. ![]() Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, and until the early 1990s he juggled his dental career with his increasingly successful hobby - even after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Umezu prize for horror manga. Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lola needs more than a pack to shield her. One way or another, he?s determined to get his hands on her again. ![]() No more chasing alphas who abuse and toss away betas like her. ![]() The rest of the Sweetverse series including the first book in the Series Baby and the Late Night Howlers are all fantastic TW: Hide or Die by Ember Blaze has double omegas (one F, one M) who find a pack of alphas. Lola & the Millionaires 1 ( 2020) (A book in the Sweetverse series) A novel by Kathryn Moon Buy from Amazon Search Sorry, we've not found any editions of this book at Amazon Find this book at Lola Barnes only wants one thing, to get her life under control. Lola is quickly realizing that her worst enemy is herself, and it?s like walking the tightrope to find a balance with the pack that gives her strength rather than sends her toppling to the ground.But Indy won?t be ignored. Lola and The Millionaires by Kathryn Moon is recommended all the time here. If only it weren?t just one monstrous alpha that twisted her own thoughts. Tensions at work are at a tipping point and after taking the role of management?s spy, Lola?s in the crossfire if anything goes wrong.As romances between Lola and the pack members are developing left and right, the woman who swore she wanted nothing to do with alpha is turning to them like a bloom to the sun. Sheltered with the pack of her dreams, at first it seems like the hardest challenge isn?t even staying safe from Indy. ![]() Lola is being hunted by her past, stalked with every step she takes. Read Or Download Lola & the Millionaires: Part Two (Sweet Omegaverse #3) By Kathryn Moon Full Pages. ![]() ![]() Brendan Cowell, as Proctor, is a rough, gruff farmer whose core of earnestness is revealed gradually.īrendan Cowell as John Proctor. Some Bostonian accents are distinctly off kilter and lines are spun lightly so that they cause ripples of laughter in the audience which defuses the sense of threat.Įrin Doherty, as Abigail, is full of urgent energy but her fearful anger seems overplayed and her character stays oddly flat: even her tender, pained private conversation with John Proctor in which she begs him to rekindle their passion, ends up sounding like an angry child’s strop without the accompanying vulnerability. Still it kicks off with wobbles and appears like a play being performed by numbers at the start. In terms of the drama itself, it is difficult for a play of this calibre to go awry: the dread, suspense and horror is all in the script, from Abigail’s young, blindly destructive passion for John Proctor, to the hysteria that swarms this 17th-century Massachusetts community to bring out all its grudges and betrayals. ![]() ![]() A stunner … Es Devlin’s set for The Crucible at the National Theatre, London. ![]() ![]() ![]() Written in the tradition of Marc Bloch and E.H. So who's really being scientific and who isn't? This question too is one Gaddis explores, in ways that are certain to spark Happens in the social sciences, where the pursuit of independent variables functioning with static systems seems increasingly divorced from the world as we know it. Their approaches parallel, in intriguing ways, the new sciences of chaos, complexity, and criticality. In doing so, they combine the techniques of artists, geologists, paleontologists, and evolutionary biologists. ![]() Like cartographers mapping landscapes, historians represent what they can never replicate. Gaddis points out that while the historical method is more sophisticated than most historians realize, it doesn't require unintelligible prose to explain. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today. What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There's some sexual violence, too, with a man nearly raping a woman in the serving class (only to have her employer tell her to wear "less tempting clothes") and an attempted rape that ends in a severe beating of the predator. That said, the "fasted" or married couple's first night together goes on for pages and leaves little to the imagination. ![]() If teens are in that phase where they're thinking about their own sexuality and what kind of partner they want to have and to be someday, there are good messages here about using birth control and being a committed and equal partner. Parents need to know that The Shadow Wand, the third book in the Black Witch Chronicles, has much more sexual content than previous books in the series. Drinking of both low-alcohol spirits and hard liquor, once to drunkenness to dull the pain of an injury.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lying to help children ? Who on earth would refuse? Dani's plan is simple: fake a relationship in public, seduce Zaf behind the scenes. Turns out his sports charity for kids could really use the publicity. Suddenly, half the internet is shipping #DrRugbae-and Zaf is begging Dani to play along. But before she can explain that fact to him, a video of the heroic rescue goes viral. ![]() When big, brooding security guard Zafir Ansari rescues Dani from a workplace fire drill gone wrong, it's an obvious sign: PhD student Dani and former rugby player Zaf are destined to sleep together. ![]() So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits-someone who knows the score and knows their way around the bedroom. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. Named one of the Best Romances of 2020 by Apple, Kirkus, PW, Washington Post, NPR, BookPage, OprahMag, EW, Insider, Buzzfeed, Bustle, and Amazon! USA Today bestselling author Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him "rescuing" her from their office building goes viral. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maia, an orphan, is sent from this safe and cosy environment to stay with distant relations, the Carters, who are not as kind as she had hoped for. The book opens in an exclusive London girls' school, The Mayfair Academy for Young Ladies. 'Oh, please let her write another book as fine as this, because, in any other year, we would have handed her the prize without a thought." Plot Anne Fine, British Children's Laureate (2001-3) and one of three former winners on the Guardian panel, wrote that "we all fell on Eva Ibbotson's perfectly judged, brilliantly light to read, civilised Journey To The River Sea, in which we are shown how, as one of the characters Miss Minton reminds us, 'Children must lead big lives. It was a finalist for all of the major British children's literary awards ( below), winning the Smarties Prize, ages 9–11, and garnering an unusual commendation as runner-up for the Guardian Award. ![]() It is set mainly in Manaus, Brazil, early in the 20th century and conveys the author's vision of the Amazon River. JTTRS is an adventure novel written by Eva Ibbotson, published by MacMillan in 2001. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is always anxious to help those people who give her assistance, and she would always be obliged if others would share her meager meals with her. She believes that she will be with the father of her child when it is born. Her responses to life are the fundamental reactions founded on the concept of charity and hope. She possesses a simple and basic faith in life. She never complains of her lot and never asks help from anyone even though she willingly accepts assistance. In contrast to the bitter harshness which Joe Christmas evokes, Lena inspires kindness and compassion.īasically, Lena is presented as a simple and relatively uncomplicated person with apparently a great strength and determination. ![]() Also, she will evoke positive and favorable responses from the community and will receive help from many people. Armstid, some of them don't approve of her. ![]() While it is true that Lena is now isolated and alone on the road, she almost instinctively knows that people will help her even though, as with Mrs. But by focusing on Lena Grove at the beginning, Faulkner is first giving us a brief positive view. ![]() Many of these ideas will appear to be negative or pessimistic when viewed from the standpoint of the main character, Joe Christmas. Some of the dominant ideas in the novel involve (1) man's isolation, (2) man's relationship to the community, and (3) man's inhumanity to man. During the course of the novel, Faulkner will investigate several varied themes connected with modern civilization. ![]() |