And the secret he hides threatens to consume the lands of humans and Staryk alike. Set an impossible challenge by the nameless king, Miryem unwittingly spins a web that draws in a peasant girl, Wanda, and the unhappy daughter of a local lord who plots to wed his child to the dashing young tsar.īut Tsar Mirnatius is not what he seems. When an ill-advised boast draws the attention of the king of the Staryk-grim fey creatures who seem more ice than flesh-Miryem's fate, and that of two kingdoms, will be forever altered. Hardening her heart, the young woman sets out to claim what is owed and soon gains a reputation for being able to turn silver into gold. Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father's inability to collect his debts has left his family on the edge of poverty-until Miryem takes matters into her own hands.
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I have long been a fan of the husband and wife writing team that is known as Nicci French but up to now I have stuck to their stand-alone thrillers. She finds herself in the center of the investigation, serving as the reluctant sidekick of the chief inspector.ĭrawing readers into a haunting world in which the terrors of the mind have spilled over into real life, Blue Monday introduces a compelling protagonist and a chilling mystery that will appeal to readers of dark crime fiction and fans of In Treatment and The Killing. A red-haired child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, Frieda cannot ignore the coincidence: one of her patients has been having dreams in which he has a hunger for a child. The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes a national outcry and a desperate police hunt. This attitude is reflected in her own life, which is an austere one of refuge, personal integrity, and order. She believes that the world is a messy, uncontrollable place, but what we can control is what is inside our heads. The stunning first book in a new series of psychological thrillers introducing an unforgettable London psychotherapistįrieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London. He paints with words and even the readers who have little knowledge of the era and the events that shaped it will find themselves captivated and immediately drawn to the action. So, ‘’World Without End’’ is no exception to the rule. His descriptive passages and the way he composes the dialogues throughout the novel should be the example for any writer who’d like to attempt a foray to the tormented Historical Fiction genre. He doesn’t perform a History lecture, but builds his protagonists around the depicted era with compassion, respect and foresight. In my opinion, what differentiates his writing is the focus he places on the characters. And who can write better than Ken Follett who owns the crown in this field… ‘’World Without End’’ is the second installment in Follett’s Kingsbridge series and what a world it is….Set during one of the most turbulent times in European History, amidst the beginning of the Hundred Years’ War and the nightmare of the Black Death that swept over the continent causing the deaths of an unthinkable percentage of the population, it is one more example of why Historical Fiction is the Genre of the Genres when done right. “Whether I’ve been good or bad, I don’t think God will be fooled by a last-minute change of heart.” Title: World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)ĭate of Publication: October 3rd 2008 (first published October 4th 2007) He rested on his side after that, sweating in the cool night air, shivering and wondering where the fuck he was.ĭamn it. He lurched to his feet and stumbled a few yards before falling to his knees and vomiting in the bushes. Instead of rousing his hunger or even his wolf, who finally seemed sated, the smell only made him sick. The scent of death and blood and terror lay heavy around him. The forest was dead silent around him, not a rustle of a breeze to stir the air around him, as if all the forest animals knew an apex predator was among them and had scattered. It looked like someone had gone all Texas Chainsaw Massacre on the creature, not eating any of it, just slaughtering it for the sake of killing. He woke up curled in a fetal position among the carcass of a dismembered deer. Maddox aches to claim her as his own, but failure to return Kayleigh to her pack could start a bloody war. Yet, the instant their eyes meet he feels the rush of the mate bond. Kayleigh is the daughter of his greatest rival. Until a kidnapped princess is dropped at his feet. With Moon Madness creeping in, he fears time has run out. He can feel his grip on reality slipping, just as it did for his father. A forbidden love that might save them all. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. While the gender pay gap has not changed much in the last two decades, it has narrowed considerably when looking at the longer term, both among all workers ages 16 and older and among those ages 25 to 34. By comparison, the gender pay gap among workers of all ages that year was 18 cents. In 2022, women ages 25 to 34 earned an average of 92 cents for every dollar earned by a man in the same age group – an 8-cent gap. These results are similar to where the pay gap stood in 2002, when women earned 80% as much as men.Īs has long been the case, the wage gap is smaller for workers ages 25 to 34 than for all workers 16 and older. In 2022, women earned an average of 82% of what men earned, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of median hourly earnings of both full- and part-time workers. The gender gap in pay has remained relatively stable in the United States over the past 20 years or so. This audio edition of The Idiot is masterfully narrated Peter Batchelor. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this “positively beautiful man” on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature. Tolstoy’s most famous novella is an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption, here in a powerful translation by the award-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa. In Petersburg, the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. The 26-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people.” Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.Īfter his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. "Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era." ( The New Yorker) By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) He constructed his play to illustrate the greatest possible development of the character traits suggested for Tell by the chronicles. Keenly interested in the problematic interplay of history and legend, Schiller turned it to be dramatic advantage. In the midst of political turmoil Wilhelm Tell is the nonpolitical man of action. Respected for his courage and skill with a bow, for his peaceable nature and his integrity, Schiller’s archer-while always ready to aid his fellows-habitually seeks solitude. Since Tell’s existence has never been proven, Schiller, a historian by profession, felt he had to devise a figure who would bring the uncertainties and contradictions of the various Swiss chronicles into focus. Schiller based his play on chronicles of the Swiss liberation movement, in which Wilhelm Tell played a major role. Mainland brings out the essential tragi-comic nature of Wilhelm Tell but also emphasizes its impressive formal unity. This new English translation by William F. Since then the work as become immensely popular. In the midst of Great Power politics a play which drew substance from one of the fourteenth-century liberation movements proved both attractive and inflammatory. When Schiller completed Wilhelm Tell as a "New Year’s Gift for 1805" he foretold that it would cause a stir. He also gives her a swan carved out of bread, which is a lot nicer than a swan made from origami paper (because you can probably eat it). Uncle Anoosh teaches Marjane much about the world. because the Iranian regime believed him to be a spy. Marjane's mother and father often attend political protest rallies, kind of like a more violent Occupy Wall Street, and support revolutionaries when they can, including many of Marji’s family members, like Uncle Anoosh. A bloody conflict called the Iran-Iraq war strains the political situation even further. The Islamic Revolution is just the beginning of years of political and religious turmoil in Iran. Suddenly, Marji ’s being forced to wear a veil at her school, which is now segregated between boys and girls. Instead, the old government led by the Shah of Iran has fallen in the Iranian revolution, and a new regime of hardcore Islamic fundamentalists has established what they call the Islamic Republic of Iran. As the graphic novel Persepolis begins, it's 1980 in Iran, and Marjane Satrapi isn't rocking out to Michael Jackson or watching Dallas. Iyengar’s textbook is full of content, a detailed, precise and step-by-step “how to” instructions of asana and pranayama. The 34-page Introduction called “What is Yoga?” is a fascinating and thorough description of yogic philosophy and concise overview of the nature, aim and extent of yoga as seen and understood from the ancient texts (Pantajali’s Yoga Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita and Swatmarama’s Hatha Yoga Pradipika). If you want to own just one yoga book in your library it needs to be this one! Iyengar this book is a real Bible for anybody interested in this great form of exercise and meditation in one. The subtitle to the book, “The Bible of Modern Yoga – Its Philosophy and Practice” greatly describes the purpose of this piece. Iyengar PUBLISHED: 1995 COVER: paperback PAGES: 544 BOOK PRICE: $13.66 WHERE TO BUY: Amazon click here to buy TAGS: yoga, meditation, asana, pranayama TITLE: Light on Yoga: Yoga Dipika AUTHOR: B. |