![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The pendant featured tiny bells which, when jostled, would make a soft jingling sound like a whisper from Faerieland. Kit Williams crafted a true treasure: an intricate pendant/hanging of a hare made from 18 carat gold. What a brilliant and magical book leading to an equally mysterious and magical clue! And I haven’t even started talking about the treasure itself yet. The longer clue reveals the details: on the vernal or autumnal equinox, the shadow of the “finger” of the monument would fall where the treasure was buried. Ampthill Park in Bedfordshire has a tall cross monument honoring Queen Catherine of Aragon. The solution to the puzzle, for anyone who solved it, was a sentence: “Catherine’s Long Finger Over Shadows Earth Buried Yellow Amulet Midday Points The Hour In Light Of Equinox Look You.” Although this clue was important, the solver would further have to take the first letter of each word to create “CLOSEBYAMPTHILL” which revealed the location. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The phrase " do you love?" appears at the start of the collection and recurs throughout, tying these selections together thematically. ![]() As with Night Shift, the pieces here are arranged specifically for effect: between an epic beginning and a quiet, elegiac finale, the poems and stories achieve a cohesive pace and tone. Though many of the stories are longer, they don't fall victim to the literary sprawl of Nightmares and Dreamscapes, nor do they seem as beholden to King's larger body of work, as in Everything's Eventual. The sources from which the stories come are now more varied and diverse: in addition to men's magazines such as Gallery and Playboy, King's growing talent and reputation finds him publishing in respected horror and mystery magazines, and even non-genre publications like Yankee. The stories and poems within represent a growing maturity in King's work, many of the tales achieving depth and resonance beyond those in Night Shift. Skeleton Crew, King's third collection of shorter works, contains some of his best fiction to date. 1000 numbered copies, slipcased and signed by King and Potter.52 lettered copies, signed by King and Potter, bound in zipped leather. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His Midsummer Variations begins with a dark angry gurgle and then a piercing screech in the strings. He is a long-time program writer and preconcert lecturer for the Boston Symphony and has written program notes and essays for the orchestras of Cleveland, Chicago, San Francisco, and Toronto.Īs this new CRI release shows, Swafford writes superbly in the new romantic manner. His journalism appears regularly in Slate. The composer views his work as a kind of classicism: a concern with clarity and directness, pieces that seem familiar though they are new, that aspire to sound like they wrote themselves.Īlso a well-known writer on music, Swafford is author of biographies of Ives, Brahms, and Beethoven. The titles of his works-including Landscape with Traveler, From the Shadow of the Mountain, and The Silence at Yuma Point-reveal a steady inspiration from nature. Beneath the surface there are contributions from world music, especially Indian and Balinese, and from jazz and blues. Over the years his music has evolved steadily, but in all its avatars his work is forthrightly expressive, individual in voice, and steadily concerned with lucidity of texture and form. Louis, Indianapolis, and the Dutch Radio Boston's new-music groups Musica Viva, Collage, and Dinosaur Annex and chamber ensembles including the Peabody Trio, the Chamber Orchestra of Tennessee, and the Scott Chamber Players of Indianapolis. Jan Swafford's music has been played around the country and abroad by ensembles including the symphonies of St. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Lost Husband is currently in production as a feature film starring Josh Duhamel and Leslie Bibb. Katherine Center is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of How to Walk Away. She’s also written five other bittersweet comic novels about love and family, including The Bright Side of Disaster, The Lost Husband, and Happiness for Beginners. Katherine has one copy of Things You Save in a Fire for a lucky reader! Martin's Press) is already on Melissa A's 2019 favorites list (reviewed here). Katherine's latest novel, Things You Save in a Fire (published August 13th by St. ![]() Melissa A listed How to Walk Away as one of her 2018 favorites (reviewed here). ![]() We're thrilled to have Katherine Center at CLC today. ![]() ![]() ![]() …so there’s endless sprawling forests of bold and majestic pine trees, there’s native wildlife like cougars, and kids race each other at rock climbing in their spare time. ![]() The story is set in an isolated area in the gorgeous Canadian countryside of Vancouver Island. This series has some pretty cool things going for it: Because I found the first series SO addictive, I decided to wait until all the books were out so I could binge read them, and here we are! Unfortunately, The Darkness Rising Trilogy wasn’t as good as it’s predecessor, so here’s the bullet point, bookish low-down so you can decide for yourself whether this series is for you! So let’s start with the positives first. ![]() ![]() However, I soon discovered there would be a follow-up series, The Darkness Rising, set in the same world but in a different town with different characters. Afterwards, I was left with that satisfying yet hollow feeling you get when you finish a truly outstanding series and realise there are no more books. Not a new concept – but oh was it executed well! I am not the type of reader that usually gobbles up a series in one go… but I got through all 3 books in a week. 5+ years ago I read and devoured the Darkest Powers by Kelley Armstrong, a series about teens who discover they have a variety of supernatural abilities and find themselves caught between people who want to manipulate their powers for their own purposes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When she’s not writing, you can find her binge-watching various TV shows, especially Supernatural and One Tree Hill. She survives off coffee, pizza, and sarcasm. TEAGAN HUNTER is a Missouri-raised gal, but currently lives in North Carolina with her US Marine husband, where she spends her days begging him for a cat. Let’s Get Textual | I Wanna Text You Up | Can’t Text This | Text Me Baby One More Time Add Text Me Baby One More Time to your Goodreads TBR! Get a live alert for Text Me Baby One More Time!ĭon’t miss the other standalones in the Texting series! So, we strike a deal, and it’s a win-win all around.īesides, what’s the harm in a few dates to charity galas anyway? When he leaves me high and dry after a cross-country move, I push him out of my life as much as I can, which is hard to do when the guy who broke your heart also happens to be the most famous dude in town.Īfter a disastrous year, he’s aiming to rehab his reputation, and I just so happen to be aiming for a promotion at the paper. Text Me Baby One More Time is a brand new standalone second chance romcom coming February 11th! We are so excited to be sharing a brand new teaser for Text Me Baby One More Time by Teagan Hunter. ![]() ![]() You can expect an age gap, hurt/comfort, found family romance with a dose of suspense and angst. It was previously published under the same title with a different cover. It has been revised and re-edited, but the story remains the same. Note: Copping an Attitude is the second book in the action-packed Sin City Uniforms series. But the human traffickers are still on the prowl-and they'll stop at nothing to steal Slade back. Parker helps Slade to heal from the horrific attack and their bond deepens. The danger grows, but so does the relationship between Parker and Slade. The two men's lives become intertwined when Slade is almost beaten to death. ![]() Yet something in Slade's eyes tells Parker the young man might be in real trouble-especially after the recent wave of sex worker killings by a rival prostitution ring. His heart breaks every time he sees someone so young being exploited. It's another typical night on the Strip when officer Parker comes across Slade. As soon as he hit Vegas, Slade was lured into the hopeless world of prostitution where he's become a virtual prisoner to his pimp, the ruthless Julio Estevez. Barely twenty years old, he's had to survive any way he can after being thrown out for being gay when he was still in his teens. Hustler Slade has had little choice over his fate. ![]() ![]() Survival is all Slade understands until Parker saves him from the terrors of the streets. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unwilling to recant his Nasserist beliefs, the unnamed narrator is an Egyptian journalist in a self-imposed exile in Europe after conflict with the management of his newspaper and a divorce from his. Shelina is keeping a very surprising secret under her headscarf €“ she wants to fall in love and find her faith.Torn between the Buxom Aunties, romantic comedies and mosque Imams, she decides to. Through exquisite layering of the overlapping worlds of the. The Long Way Back tells the story of four generations of the same family living in an old house in the Bab al-Shaykh area of Baghdad. From his chlidhood in Fez, having fled the Christian Inquisition, through his many journeys to the East as an itinerant merhcant, Hasans story is a quixotic catalogue of pirates, slave girls and. ![]() ![]() ![]() First, however, he must convince her to trust in this dangerous desire-and in the promise of forever unleashed by one wild, scandalous night. The Scandal of It All 0062463624 Book Cover. Among the King’s four page boys, was nine-year-old Prince George, now second in line to the throne.He was joined by Lord Oliver Cholmondeley, 13, Nicholas Barclay, 13, and Ralph Tollemache, 12. She may not be to the ton's taste, but she suits him perfectly. See all books authored by Sophie Jordan, including While the Duke Was. A The Penwich School for Virtuous Girls Series Novel. Lord Strickland never permitted himself to fantasize about the sultry, off-limits lady, but then he never expected to find Ela in a place so wicked, looking for what he's more than too happy to give. Wicked Nights With a Lover (The Penwich School for Virtuous Girls 3). If only she were not so drawn to the smoldering Lord Strickland.a dangerous man who sees beyond her mask, and could ruin her reputation with a mere whisper. Ela longs to take a lover for a single, wild night, and within the walls of Sodom there are gentlemen to suit every forbidden taste. ![]() What kind of woman ventures into London's most notorious pleasure club? An outsider like Graciela, the Duchess of Autenberry, snubbed time and time again by society because of her Spanish roots. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Focusing especially on van Gogh's letters to these three steadfast women he called his sisters, award-winning author Derek Fell examines Vincent's interior life and poignantly documents his emotional decline. He described it, too, in his correspondence, not only in the remarkable, justly famous letters exchanged with his brother Theo, but also in heartfelt missives to his aggrieved mother, his loyal sister Wil, and his devoted sister-in-law Johanna. ![]() In none of them would he find the wife to seal the emotional bond that he so perfectly imagined and ardently desired. A widowed first cousin, Kee a prostitute named Sien shy, spinsterish Margot Bergemann the seventeen-year-old peasant girl Stien de Groot-to all of them Vincent van Gogh would declare his love. ![]() |