![]() ![]() That dark, accented drawl cut into her like a razor. The sound of that voice halted her in her tracks. The emotion was so intense, it literally frightened her. A golden girl with beauty, intelligence and everything to live for.until Damon Terzakis had come into her life and laid it to waste. ![]() At eighteen, Callie had been on the shady boundary line between child and adult. And Callie hadn’t even been a woman in her sister’s opinion. Women didn’t die in childbirth these days. She flinched inwardly away from the word and began to walk up the corridor on legs that didn’t feel strong enough to support her. She wondered if on some strange wavelength he knew that his mother was dead. He was Mediterranean-dark, his foreign ancestry clearly apparent. ![]() ![]() He had a shock of black hair and a pair of furious dark eyes. Her attention had locked into her nephew. The nurse stopped smiling but Sarah didn’t notice. She looked back at the nurse, her fine-boned face ashen and strained, her facial muscles frozen into a mask. She probably didn’t know, Sarah thought numbly. The nurse wheeled over her nephew’s cot and displayed him with a wide smile. And every minute, every agonising hour of it was etched into her soul. It had been a long night and a devastating dawn. Only the most fierce self-discipline held back her exhaustion. Every muscle in her body was rigid with tension. SARAH stood still as a statue at the glass viewing window. ![]()
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![]() ![]() By reflecting the ambiguity and density of the original, Hinton continues to create compelling English poems that alter our conception of Chinese poetry. David Hinton’s translation of Li Po’s poems is no less an achievement than his critically acclaimed The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, also published by New Directions. Legendary friends in eighth-century T’ang China, Li Po and Tu Fu are traditionally celebrated as the two greatest poets in the Chinese canon. He wrote 1200 years ago, half a world away, but in his poems we see our world transformed. However ethereal in spirit, his poems remain grounded in the everyday experience we all share. There is a set-phrase in Chinese referring to the phenomenon of Li Po: “Winds of the immortals, bones of the Tao.” He moved through this world with an unearthly freedom from attachment, and at the same time belonged profoundly to the earth and its process of change. His work is suffused with Taoism and Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism, but these seem not so much spiritual influences as the inborn form of his life. ![]() ![]() Learn more about possible network issues or contact support for more help. “Li Po (A.D., 701-762) lived in T’ang Dynasty China, but his influence has spanned the centuries: the pure lyricism of his poems has awed readers in China and Japan for over a millennium, and through Ezra Pound’s translations, Li Po became central to the modernist revolution in the West. If that doesnt work, there may be a network issue, and you can use our self test page to see whats preventing the page from loading. ![]() ![]() ![]() I also am a very leftist person, which I think we all know Frank Miller is not. I did not grow up in the 80's, hell, I was barely alive for the 90's and don't remember most of the 2000's, so I don't have any personal experience with the time period in which this was written and influenced by. I want to start this review by saying the following. Collected here are both parts of Miller's DARK KNIGHT saga, including THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS #1-4, THE DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN #1-3, with additional character sketch and script pages. And after facing off against his two greatest enemies, the Joker and Two-Face, for the final time, Batman finds himself in mortal combat with his former ally, Superman, in a battle that only one of them will survive.įrank Miller's THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS and THE DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN are considered two of the most influential superhero graphic novels of all time, cementing Miller's status as one of his generation's greatest graphic storytellers. ![]() Joined by Carrie Kelly, a teenaged female Robin, Batman takes to the streets to end the threat of the mutant gangs that have overrun the city. When his city cries out for help, Batman returns to save the city he had dedicated his life to protecting. In a dark dystopian future, Gotham City has descended into lawlessness in the ten years since the Dark Knight retired. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness. What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. Instead they "reunite" at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic.and then her bus drives away.Ĭertain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Josie Silver’s characters sneak their way into your heart and stay.”-Jill Santopolo, author of It absolutely charmed me.”-Reese Witherspoon (A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick) One Day in December is a romance novel by Josie Silver, told through the first-person point of view of two characters: Jack O’Mara and Laurie James. “Get ready to be swept up in a whirlwind romance. ![]() ![]() When the OBE was bestowed on Hickson in June 1987 Queen Elizabeth II was reported to have said 'You play the part just as one envisages it'. A Pocket Full of Rye: Books, Used (517 results) You searched for: Title: a pocket full of rye. Hickson played the role in all 12 adaptations of the novels produced from 1984 to 1992, and received two BAFTA nominations for Best TV Actress, in 19. A pocket full of rye and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The BBC began filming the Miss Marple stories in the mid 1980s, and set out to remain faithful to the plotlines and locales of Agatha Christie's stories, and to represent Miss Marple as written. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine very slightly faded, some browning, soiling and spotting to page block, rear flap torn, not price clipped (£9.95), no personal inscriptions, internally tight, overall a reasonable copy for its age and ex library. ![]() Ex library with usual stamps, defects and library mess, in brown vinyl library binding. ![]() The first television tie in edition, with the incomparable Joan Hickson (1906-98), on front cover, as Miss Marple. First collected edition, first impression. BBC jacket photo by John Green (illustrator). ![]() ![]() The Queen of all that Dies by Laura Thalassa is the first book in her Fallen World trilogy, and centers around nineteen year old Serenity, a soldier fighting to save the last piece of land from King Lazuli, a mysterious man who has slowly taken over the world. Only in war, everything comes with a price. Genre: Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction, New Adult, Romance. For the king, it means meeting the one woman he can’t conquer. For Serenity, that means confronting the man who’s taken everything from her. The king can taste it Serenity feels it deep within her bones. The Fallen Worldby Laura Thalassa The Queen of All that Dies By Laura Thalassa. As the future emissary of the Western United Nations, the last autonomous region of the globe, she is responsible for forging alliances where she can. More books in the Fallen World Series The Fallen World By Laura Thalassa. No one knows much about him other than a series of impossible facts: he cannot die, he has not aged since the conflict began, and he wants to rule the world. War has taken away her mother, her home, her safety. For the last decade, King Lazuli of the Eastern Empire has systematically taken over the world. ![]() No one knows much about him other than a series of impossible facts: he cannot die, he has not aged since the conflict began, and he wants to rule the world.Īll Serenity Freeman has known is bloodshed. ![]() ![]() For the last decade, King Lazuli of the Eastern Empire has systematically taken over the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The terrain seems to define their routes, actions, and lives more than their attempts to establish roads or farms define the terrain. The inconvenient, pointless curves of the trails seem to suggest that the frontiersmen, though established on the land, do not have a firm hold on it. In the days before Antonia must work and Jim must attend school, their activities are as subject to whimsy as the wanderings of the roads themselves. The initially untamed prairie and meandering roads seem to echo the fact that Jim and particularly Antonia have not yet been restricted by hardship and responsibility. Though the presence of roads on the prairie suggests habitation and civilization, in the early days the arrangement of the road haphazardly mimics the shape and features of the countryside, causing it to “ about like a wild thing,” as if it has a will of its own (Cather 18). In general, the features of the roads in the countryside correspond with the overall state of the land and the pioneers’ relationship to it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trapped in a seemingly unending cycle of jealousy and rage, neither has any idea if their passion is enough to keep their relationship alive.Īfter Ever Happy: Each new challenge Tessa and Hardin face only makes their passionate bond stronger and stronger. Everything Tessa thought she knew about her life goes up in smoke and she has no idea if Hardin will be willing to stay with her. Can Tessa manage to move on and forge a new life for herself? Or will Hardin be able to change enough to win back his one true love?Īfter We Fell: Hardin isn’t the only one with secrets. ![]() ![]() What follows is a passionate but tempestuous romance that turns Tessa’s usually calm and traditional world upside down.Īfter We Collided: Tessa and Hardin’s tentative relationship takes a devastating turn when a dark secret from Hardin’s mysterious past surfaces. He is rude, cocky, and the exact opposite of her reliable boyfriend back home-she should hate him, but then she finds herself alone with him one night. The inspiration behind the major films After and After We Collided!įrom the New York Times bestselling author and Wattpad sensation Anna Todd, “the biggest literary phenom of her generation” ( Cosmopolitan), comes the complete collection of her sizzling After series.Īfter: Once she meets Hardin, good girl Tessa’s life will never be the same. ![]() ![]() ![]() As it turned out, that might be the least of my problems. Getting them angry was hardly in my best interest, not if I wanted to live. Chase and his cousins Lexi and Travis are Divisa, half-demon, half-human. What I hadn't expected to find was an underworld of trouble. ![]() There was something weird about the family living next door. Our relationship was anything but love at first sight. Chase Winters might be drool-worthy, but he was also insufferable, arrogant and.in short a d-bag. ![]() With his sinful dark looks, unusually silver eyes, and kissable lips, there was something about him that was more than meets the eye. My only neighbor in this god-forsaken town was.well there really was only one to describe him, hot as hell. Sure the Internet service was splotchy, there was nothing but miles of wheat fields, and I probably wouldn't be faced with death at every corner. I wondered what my life would have been like if we had never moved to the ho-dunk town of Spring Valley, Illinois. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She vividly recounts their harrowing travels for more than 1,000 miles by bus, atop a lethally dangerous freight train, and finally on foot across the implacable Sonoran Desert. Cummins does a splendid job of capturing Lydia’s and Luca’s numb shock and then panic in the aftermath of the shootings, then their indomitable will to survive and reach el norte-any place they might go in Mexico is cartel territory, and any stranger might be an assassin. Lydia knows there is more to it, that her friendship with a courtly older man who has become her favorite customer at the small bookstore she runs is a secret key, and that she and her son are marked for death. ![]() Lydia’s husband, Sebastián, is among the dead he was a fearless journalist whose coverage of the local cartel, Los Jardineros, is the reason los sicarios were sent, as the sign fastened to his dead chest makes clear. She knows they must escape, fast and far. ![]() The only survivors are Lydia, a young mother, and her 8-year-old son, Luca. In a pleasant Acapulco neighborhood, gunmen slaughter 16 people at a family barbecue, from a grandmother to the girl whose quinceañera they are celebrating. border-and a testimony to the courage it takes to do it.Ĭummins ( The Crooked Branch, 2013, etc.) opens this propulsive novel with a massacre. This terrifying and tender novel is a blunt answer to the question of why immigrants from Latin America cross the U.S. ![]() |