![]() ![]() Unfortunately, Reed Doherty is never far behind and continues to track May in a delicious cat-and-mouse game as the newly-minted Baroness’s misadventures take her from San Francisco to Shanghai to London and points in between. Unflappable May quickly rebounds, elevating seduction and social climbing to an art form as she travels the world, eventually marrying a wealthy Dutch Baron. Insinuating herself into Chicago’s high society, May lands a well-to-do fiancé-until, that is, a Pinkerton Agency detective named Reed Doherty intervenes and summarily foils the engagement. Circumstances force her to take up residence at the city’s most infamous bordello, but May soon learns to employ her considerable feminine wiles to extract not only sidelong looks but also large sums of money from the men she encounters. In 1887, at the tender age of eighteen, May ventures to Chicago in hopes of earning enough money to support her family. ![]() As the trial unfolds, May tells her version of events. The novel opens in 1917 with our cunning protagonist, May Dugas, standing trial for extortion. ![]() Based on a true story, comes a sweeping historical novel about a beautiful con artist whose turn-of-the-century escapades take her around the world as she's doggedly pursued by a Pinkerton Agency detective ![]()
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![]() Shielding Aristide from the expected fallout isn’t easy, though, for he refuses to let anything – not the crooked city police nor the mounting rage from radical conservatives – dictate his life.Įnter streetwise Cordelia Lehane, a top dancer at the Bumble Bee Cabaret and Aristide’s runner, who could be the key to Cyril’s plans – if she can be trusted. Cyril participates in a mission that leads to disastrous results, leaving smoke from various political fires smoldering throughout the city. They suit each other: Aristide turns a blind eye to Cyril’s clandestine affairs, and Cyril keeps his lover’s moonlighting job as a smuggler under wraps. Trust no one with anything – especially in Amberlough City.Ĭovert agent Cyril DePaul thinks he’s good at keeping secrets, especially from Aristide Makricosta. ![]() From author Lara Elena Donnelly comes a debut spy thriller, Amberlough, where a gay double agent schemes to protect his smuggler lover during the rise of a fascist government coup. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I read the book when it was first published and loved it. Wrapped in a very readable mystery) on Audible's virtual shelves. And with any luck someday an unabridged "Instance of the Fingerpost" will join the unabridged "Stone's Fall" (another shockingly good book by Iain Pears, this one about the rise of international capitalism. My advice is read the book - it's terrific. Not only does he bring the accents of the characters to life (including Italian-accented British English and Robert Boyle's Scots burr), but he can switch accents in mid-sentence to accommodate both a narrator and a conversation. ![]() It's a horrible thing to inflict on a magnificent book. To my horror, the "abridgment" simply cuts out all the meat of the story with an ax, leaving us with a threadbare little Rashomon story. I had read the book years ago and thought it was incredibly good: a thought-provoking look at a society just beginning to think scientifically, wrapped in a shifting story centered on the mysterious central character. I confess that when I downloaded this, I didn't notice that itt was abridged. ![]() ![]() The keeper of Wagenaer’s diary noted that this union was “The first marriage contracted here according to Christian usage with a native. On June 2, 1664, Krotoa married a prominent member of the Dutch colony, the junior surgeon Pieter van Meerhoff at the house of Commander Zacharias Wagenaer. ![]() ![]() That same year, the van Riebeeck’s left the Cape and Krotoa was given to van Riebeeck’s successor, Wagenaer, but the new Governor was doubtful of her since she was frequently leaving to visit her people. In 1662 Krotoa became the first indigenous Southern African to be baptised a Christian, and the Dutch settlers named her Eva. ![]() She was nevertheless said to have played a huge role in working out terms for ending the First Dutch-Khoi-Khoi War. She had in-depth knowledge of both Khoikhoi and Dutch culture going between both societies and exchanging her Dutch clothing for Khoikhoi skins, and vice versa.īut her major challenge was maintaining trust on both sides, as she did not know who to offer her full loyalty to either the Dutch, who had taken her in, or her people, whose land was being taken over by the Dutch. ![]() By 1660, Krotoa had bypassed her uncle to become the principal interpreter for the Dutch settlement at the Cape. Buy Krotoa-Eva: The Woman from Robben Island by Bloem, Trudie online on Amazon.ae at best prices. ![]() ![]() She told herself that an accelerated heart rate and perspiration were part of an orchestrated and appropriate response to running. A black-and-white circular ‘T’ sign directly in front of her marked an entrance to the Red Line trains and buses underground, but there were three such entrances in Harvard Square, and she couldn’t piece together which one of the three this was. She knew all of these places - this square had been her stomping ground for over twenty-five years - but they somehow didn’t fit into a mental map that told her where she lived relative to them. The Harvard Square Hotel, Eastern Mountain Sports, Dickson Bros. She knew she was in Harvard Square, but she didn’t know which way was home. The corridor, the hotel, the stores, the illogically meandering streets. ![]() ![]() “She wanted to continue walking but stood frozen instead. In one of Alice’s early episodes, she finds herself disoriented and lost in a place as familiar as her own home: Within 320 pages, readers see Alice Howland quickly swing from an admired professor to a confused and dependent patient. In just a few airborne hours, I had inhaled the entire novel, told from the point of view of a renowned Harvard cognitive psychologist who recognizes in herself the symptoms of early-onset Alzheimer’s. While wondering how I was going to pass the time, I remembered I had downloaded Still Alice, a book which has been on my to-read list for nearly a decade. ![]() I found myself on a nine-hour flight with no television, no Internet and all my downloaded films mysteriously deleted from my e-reader. ![]() ![]() ![]() Peake has been compared to Dickens, Tolkien, and Peacock, but the Gormenghast trilogy is truly unique. On every day of the year from three hours before daybreak until about eleven o'clock, when the scaffolding and ladders became a hindrance to the cooks, the Grey Scrubbers fulfilled their hereditary calling." "The walls of the vast room which were streaming with calid moisture, were built with gray slabs of stone and were the personal concern of a company of eighteen men known as the 'Grey Scrubbers'. Peake's command of language and unique style set the tone and shape of an intricate, slow-moving world of ritual and stasis: The Gormenghast royal family, the castle's decidedly eccentric staff, and the peasant artisans living around the dreary, crumbling structure make up the cast of characters in these engrossing stories. The trilogy continues with the novels Gormenghast and Titus Alone, and all three books are bound together in this single-volume edition. ![]() ![]() Mervyn Peake's gothic masterpiece, the Gormenghast trilogy, begins with the superlative Titus Groan, a darkly humorous, stunningly complex tale of the first two years in the life of the heir to an ancient, rambling castle. ![]() ![]() ![]() I really thought the tone of the series was really established and got a sense of the possibilities." With the introduction of Death in Sandman #8, Neil really found his voice as a writer. "I preferred when the series found his own voice, he broke away from any connections to those previously established. It wasn't until The Sandman #8, the tail end of Neil Gaiman's original proposed story, that the series begin to find its own footing, according to Berger. All the other issues had an element of other series, which was in some ways a turn-off." ![]() " It's interesting that Neil had grounded the first seven issues of Sandman in DC continuity on some level – with some DC characters in there – except for the diner issue #6, which only had the spirit of Dr. "When we bought the series from him, I thought he was establishing a real intriguing cast and creating a whole world that hadn't been explored in such a way in comics before," said Berger. The early issues, although described as "awkward" by Gaiman, showed a clear trajectory away from the DC Comics superheroes it was originally conceived to be a part of, and into a bold new world. ![]() Artist Dave McKean, whom Gaiman worked with previously on Black Orchid (opens in new tab), was tapped as the cover artist. With that in mind, Gaiman wrote an eight-issue outline which was approved, and Berger set up the creative team of Sam Keith (penciller), Mike Dringenberg (inker), Todd Klein (letterer), and Robbie Busch (colorist). ![]() ![]() ![]() Often Shingo becomes aware that his son and his secretary have to subtly remind him of things that he needs to do at work or help him find items he has left in some place he cannot recall. Shingo is aware that his mind is beginning to go. The Sound of the Mountain is a novel of mortality and the legacy each living being leaves behind upon his death. A complicated situation emerges, causing Shingo to question his own actions in regards to the disaster that has become of both his children's marriages. While consumed with memories of the sister of his wife, a woman with whom he was once madly in love, Shingo finds himself growing closer to the young woman who is his son's wife. Shingo becomes obsessed with his memories and the legacy he will leave behind when he dies. ![]() In this novel, Ogata Shingo is a man in his sixties who is beginning to feel the edge of his mortality. The Sound of the Mountain is a novel by Nobel Prize winning writer Yasunari Kawabata. ![]() ![]() ![]() Who would succumb next? What happened to the people who fell ill? What could the town do–and what would the world do if the illness spread? A Big Story Told in a Small Way The book positively radiated with fear, questions, and the unknown. Some people woke up, and others just didn’t. ![]() The illness plaguing the town didn’t take it by storm it moved in quietly, and during an act that no one could avoid. Karen Thompson Walker’s writing is mesmerizing, and given the sleepy, dreamy theme of this book, her tone was exactly right. ![]() Dystopian story about a mysterious sleeping sickness that overtakes a town.Second novel from Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles, which I loved.The human brain is subject to all kinds of misperceptions, and the waking mind not always more attuned to reality than the dreaming one. ![]() ![]() Her last wish is to move back to her childhood home, so Kate’s going to start at a. It’s always been just Kate and her mom, but now her mother is dying. When Kate agrees to take the Goddess Test, she doesn’t know every girl who has taken it has died. “A fresh take on the Greek myths adds sparkle to this romantic fable. Book one in The Goddess Series from 1 international bestselling author Aimée Carter. The following is the complete Goddess Test series of three full-length novels and six companion novellas, in ideal reading order: ![]() But when it comes to dealing with immortals, Kate still has a lot to learn.ĭon’t miss any of the epic and exhilarating action in the GODDESS TEST series by Aimée Carter! ![]() Nevertheless, she is determined to help their cause. The last person they trust is Kate, the new Queen of the Underworld. ![]() Castor and Pollux have been on the run from Zeus and Hades’s wrath for centuries, hiding from the gods who hunt them. ![]() Get swept up in this companion novella to Aimée Carter’s popular Goddess Test series! Greek myths have never been so modern, romantic…and thrilling! A perfect quick read set during the summer between The Goddess Test and Goddess Interrupted.Ī vacation in Greece sounds like the perfect way for Kate Winters to spend her first sabbatical away from the Underworld.until she gets caught up in an immortal feud going back millennia. ![]() |