Anna Quindlen first visited London from a chair in her suburban Philadelphia home--in one of her beloved childhood mystery novels. She has been back to London countless times since, through the pages of books and in person, and now, in Imagined London, she takes her own readers on a tour of this greatest of literary cities.While New York, Paris, and Dublin are also vividly portrayed in fiction, it is London, Quindlen argues, that has always been the star, both because of the primacy of English literature and the specificity of city descriptions. She bases her view of the city on her own detailed literary map, tracking the footsteps of her favorite characters: the places where Evelyn Waugh's bright young things danced until dawn, or where Lydia Bennett eloped with the dastardly Wickham.In Imagined London, Quindlen walks through the city, moving within blocks from the great books of the 19th century to the detective novels of the 20th to the new modernist... Views: 30
The Fluorine Murder is the ninth story in the Periodic Table Mystery Series by Camille Minichino. Watch retired physicist Gloria Lamerino juggle wedding plans with solving a case of arson and murder. If you like it, you're in luck: there are 109 stories to go! Views: 30
'If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.'John von NeumannMathematics can tell you things about the world that can't be learned in any other way. This hugely informative and wonderfully entertaining little book answers one hundred essential questions about existence. It unravels the knotty, clarifies the conundrums and sheds light into dark corners. From winning the lottery, placing bets at the races and escaping from bears to sports, Shakepeare, Google, game theory, drunks, divorce settlements and dodgy accounting; from chaos to infinity and everything in between, 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know has all the answers! Views: 30
The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Lies and Fragile returns to The Hollows, delivering a thriller that explores matters of faith, memory, and sacrifice. After giving up his post at the Hollows Police Department, Jones Cooper is at loose ends. He is having trouble facing a horrible event from his past and finding a second act. He's in therapy. Then, on a brisk October morning, he has a visitor. Eloise Montgomery, the psychic who plays a key role in Fragile, comes to him with predictions about his future, some of them dire. Michael Holt, a young man who grew up in The Hollows, has returned looking for answers about his mother, who went missing many years earlier. He has hired local PI Ray Muldune and psychic Eloise Montgomery to help him solve the mystery that has haunted him. What he finds might be his undoing. Fifteen-year-old Willow Graves is exiled to The Hollows from Manhattan when six months earlier she moved to the quiet town with her novelist mother after a bitter divorce. Willow is acting out, spending time with kids that bring out the worst in her. And when things get hard, she has a tendency to run away – a predilection that might lead her to dark places. Set in The Hollows, the backdrop for Fragile, this is the riveting story of lives set on a collision course with devastating consequences. The result is Lisa Unger's most compelling fiction to date. Views: 30
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose. The History Boys premièred at the National in May 2004. 'Nothing could diminish the incendiary achievement of this subtle, deep-wrought and immensely funny play about the value and meaning of education .. In short, a superb, life-enhancing play.' Guardian Views: 30
Remo and Chiun must focus on the dizzy series of event connecting the banana republic of Hispania, the Peaches of Mecca, and a luscious blonde named Gloria X. The missing link lies in the tequila-soaked brain of Barney Daniels, an ex-CIA agent who is spirited away to a mental hospital when he tips a few wild stories to the press. Under the influence of an intoxicating woman, the groggy sot becomes a hired assassin and gets into some tight situations. Every cutthroat in New York City is plying him with drinks to find out what he knows, and Daniels is having a high time . . . until someone slips him a mickey. It all comes back to his staggering memory in a dream: it's not the U.S. but the Russkies who are pouring missiles into the lush jungles of Hispania. Unless Remo and Chiun act fast, Washington, D.C. is likely to get blasted. Views: 30
The Aisling Trilogy containing:
Guardian Constable
Dallin Brayden knows who he is, what he's about, and he doesn't believe
in Fate. 'Wilfred Calder' has no idea who he is, what he's about, and
has been running from Fate for as long as he can remember. When Wil is
brought in for questioning as a witness to a brutal murder, and
subsequently flees, Dallin is dragged by duty into the chaos of ancient
myth, fanatical religion, and the delicate politics of a shaky truce
between two perpetually warring countries, all of which seem to hinge on
the slender shoulders of the man he knows is not Wilfred Calder.Dream What
begins as Constable Dallin Brayden escorting the prisoner Wilfred Calder
back to Putnam quickly turns into a flight for both their lives.
Political betrayal and malicious magic lurk behind every bush and
boulder in their flight across the countryside, resulting in Dallin
becoming more protector than gaoler, and fostering a growing connection
between him and his charge.Beloved Son Newfound
love might not be enough. Trust holds the possibility of both salvation
and damnation. Circumstances having forced them to seek asylum in Lind,
Wil and Dallin are momentarily safe, but find themselves at the center
of a convergence they're not sure they're strong enough to face. The
power of the land and the Mother awaits Wil in the bowels of Lind, but
it comes with strings attached. With Dallin's help, Wil must find a way
to defeat the soul-eater, save the Father, Her Beloved, and manage to
keep his soul in the process.Bonus Short: Everything Both sex and a bathtub somehow are distracting for Wil and Dallin... but maybe not quite the way one would expect. Views: 30
The Education of Alexa is Book Two of the Master of the Elements series, following young, beautiful, innocent Alexa as she explores her strength, her love, and her sexuality. Each book explores explicit sexuality in all its forms, including domination and discipline, and may include graphic violence. Views: 30
