![]() For help, Margo turns to her brother’s best friend-because if anyone can get them to Scotland in time, it’s starchy solicitor Henry Mortimer. But when Matilda elopes with a dangerous aristocrat, Margo must stop her twin before this new misadventure becomes a permanent marriage. From the day of their debut-in which Matilda smoked a cheroot and Margo tied a cherry stem in a knot with her tongue-they’ve turned the ton upside down. In Which Margo Halifax Earns Her Shocking Reputation: he Halifax Hellions are the most scandalous, outrageous, ungovernable ladies in London. She fell in love with historical romance at age 11 and still swoons for Laura Kinsale and Judith McNaught.ġ. ![]() Overview: Alexandra Vasti comes from a long line of romance-reading Vasti women. Halifax Hellions series by Alexandra Vasti (#1-2) ![]()
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6/26/2023 0 Comments Alone by megan e freeman![]() ![]() After a rough start, Maddie learns to trust her own ingenuity and invents clever ways to survive in a place that has been deserted and forgotten.Īs months pass, she escapes natural disasters, looters, and wild animals. ![]() Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. ![]() She's alone-left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Blindsight sci fi![]() ![]() They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. ![]() And you send a synthesist-an informational topologist with half his mind gone-as an interface between here and there. ![]() You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments How Music Works by David Byrne![]() ![]() Or, as Byrne puts it, “how music might be molded before it gets to us, what determines if it gets to us at all, and what factors external to the music itself can make it resonate for us. ![]() But rather than an autobiographical work, a prescriptive guide to how to listen, or another neuropsychological account of music, what unfolds is a blend of social science, history, anthropology, and media theory, exploring how context shapes the experience and even the nature of music. Vincent (which made a cameo on Literary Jukebox), and now the release of How Music Works ( public library) - a fascinating record of his lifetime of curiosity about and active immersion in music. Great times and tall deeds for David Byrne this week: First his fantastic collaborative album with St. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the run from their foes and from their own hearts, they must find salvation in each other-before time runs out. Thrown together by crisis, Harry and Tessa will test the bounds of desire, loyalty, and trust. When she is assigned a stoic and damnably handsome new bodyguard, she resists his dominant ways-and a passionate war of wills begins. ![]() Her powerful grandfather, however, insists upon keeping her under lock and key. A princess of London's criminal underworld, Tessa Todd wants to defend her family against cutthroat enemies. She stands for everything he scorns-and seduces him with every look of her innocent eyes. Sent on a dangerous covert mission, he must protect a clever and wicked beauty who specializes in disguises and mischief. Shattered by betrayal, former scholar Harry Kent has made a new life for himself as a policeman. Danger brings them together.and desire binds them in this steamy enemies to lovers romance. ![]() She's a proud princess of the London criminal underworld. From USA Today Bestseller Grace Callaway Winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/ Suspense National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award Finalist He's a policeman on a hunt for justice. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Capitalism and freedom![]() ![]() Our experts can deliver a Freedom and Capitalism by Milton Friedman essay tailored to your instructions for only 13.00 11. It also placed tenth on the list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the twentieth century compiled by National Review and on Time Magazine's top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923. The main principle behind his book, Capitalism, and Freedom, was that the government only existed for the will of the people, and thus served as the means towards a goal. Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war". Supporters believe that where people are left alone to buy and sell freely among themselves. ![]() This is based on supply and demand of goods and services. In Capitalism and Freedom he argued for a negative income tax, or guaranteed income, to supersede centralized, bureaucratized social welfare services, which in his view are inimical to the traditional values of individualism and useful work" (Britannica). The most common is free market capitalism. "Friedman, a laissez-faire economist and professor at the University of Chicago, is considered one of the leading modern exponents of liberalism in the 19th-century European sense. Anderson with best wishes, Milton Friedman Sept 4, 1981.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear, small name to the front free endpaper. With an autograph note laid in which reads, “For Michael H. $5,800.00 Item Number: 138578Ĭhicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.įirst edition of Friedman’s magnum opus. ![]() FRIEDMAN, Milton With the Assistance of Rose Friedman. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments The da vinci code writer![]() ![]() ![]() Members of the Catholic Church denounced both "The Da Vinci Code" novel when it came out in 2004, and its film version in 2006. ![]() "Normally, we read the script, but this time it was not necessary," Monsignor Marco Fibbi, spokesman for the Rome Diocese, told the Ansa Italian News Agency. Led by executive producer/director Ron Howard, the producers sought permission to shoot scenes inside two churches in Rome's historic center for the film adaptation of Brown's prequel to "The Da Vinci Code." The Diocese of Rome, the local church authority for the city, denied them access in early 2007, but the ban was only made public on Monday. The producers of Brown's latest thriller to be made into a film, "Angels and Demons," have been banned from filming key scenes inside any church in Rome, on the grounds that the book is "an offense against God," according to a church spokesman. June 17, 2008— - Once again, the Catholic Church is coming down hard on writer Dan Brown, the author of "The Da Vinci Code." ![]() ![]() Now he is positioned to match wits with this woman, who is determined to save young ladies from future heartbreak. Thinking himself undeserving of a diamond like her, he introduced her to his best friend-a decision he now regrets deeply, knowing of the hurt she carries in secret. Until he discovers the ringleader is his old friend's widow, a fine woman for whom he's carried a torch since the day they met. John, can't allow these wantons to dismantle the Marriage Mart. John, a familiar face and her most formidable challenger.Ĭlayton Kearsley, the Viscount St. ![]() But nothing prepares Sylvia for the Viscount St. ![]() With each new liberated member, the scandalous circle wreaks havoc on the romantic prospects of London's frustrated male peerage. Joined by two equally scorned and cast-off friends, Sylvia establishes the Mismatch Society. Her former husband has retained his reputation as an honorable and loving man in death, but Sylvia has privately mourned his lies and infidelity. ![]() Widowed Lady Sylvia Elton is out to save young ladies from the terrible fate of love and marriage. ![]() Christi Caldwell, USA Today bestselling author of the Wicked Wallflowers series, invites you to join London's most scandalous society in a witty romance of love, rebellion, and second chances. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Get out of here, pretender!” clucked the hen. “Did you not hear what the old woman said?” “Then why are you still here?” said the tomcat. In just moments, the Ugly Duckling was soaked through and through. Then came a big storm, with heavy rains pouring down from the sky. “I am too ugly even for the big hungry dog to want,” said the Ugly Duckling with his head hung low. The dog sniffed and sniffed at the Ugly Duckling, then turned away. They quickly flew up in the air, and their feathers fell down on the ground. “Woof! Woof!” Suddenly a big hungry dog came tearing by, chasing the two ducks. “What do we care?” said one of the ducks. “Can I please stay here for awhile?” said the Ugly Duckling. He flew till he landed on the other side of the lake. That night, the Ugly Duckling flew over the farmyard fence. “Why won’t they let me stay here?” said the Ugly Duckling to himself. ![]() One day, one of the yellow ducklings said to the Ugly Duckling, “You know what? You would do us a big favor if you just went away from here!” All of them started to quack, “Get out! Get out! Get out!” ![]() ![]() ![]() The Ascent of Money is an account of 'moolah' from the Incas to the credit crunch and, with it, an argument for the centrality of finance to all elements of human history. As Jay explains: 'A book may make more demands on its reader and, in return, the reader may expect more matter from the author.' It is not a deal on which Ferguson delivers. 'Both have their own demanding disciplines and imperatives and neither can be made successfully as an image of the other.' While TV glories in the concrete and struggles with the abstract, written history can embrace both. 'A book is a book and a television series is a set of television programmes,' wrote Peter Jay in Road to Riches. This truth was best acknowledged by a TV book on the same subject as Ferguson's series. ![]() ![]() But books and television scripts are not the same. His new work, The Ascent of Money, written 10 years later, is an altogether different beast.įrom its opening sentence - 'Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: call it what you like, money matters' - you know this is a TV tie-in. It's called The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker 1849-1998. N iall Ferguson has written a brilliant book exploring the historic nexus between money, diplomacy, warfare and globalisation. ![]() |