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During the mass exodus from Spain to France that followed, refugees Victor and Roser, forced to wed, find passage on a ship bound for Chile. The Nationalists, led by Gen. Francisco Franco, defeated the Republican Army. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage neither of them desires. The rest of Victor's family – father Marcel and mother Carme, along with Marcel’s student Roser Bruguera – is steadfast on the side of the losing Republican cause. Isabel Allende’s latest book, A Long Petal of the Sea, follows a pregnant young widow who finds her life intertwined with an army doctor who is the brother of her deceased love. The war, often historically overshadowed by World War II, which quickly followed it, is a brutal precursor of the horrors to come. Victor joined the Republican Army in 1936, along with his brother Guillem, while still in medical school. Victor Dalmau, a young medic caring for the wounded during the Spanish Civil War, restores the beating heart of a young soldier with the caress of his fingers. Even so, the effort almost killed him, and after a few steps he gave up. Isabel Allende’s latest novel, “A Long Petal of the Sea” (Ballantine, 336 pp., ★★★ out of four), begins, as it ends, with the heart. One winter’s day, when he came upon her crouched shivering in a ditch with her three goats, soaked from the rain and flushed with fever, Don Santiago tied up the goats and slung her over his shoulder like a sack, thankful she was so small and weighed so little. As the journey unfolds, the family of protagonists becomes so round and relatable that a reader is left with not only an increased knowledge of historical and political events but a genuine sense of loss when the book concludes. View Gallery: Winter reading guide: This season’s must-read books A Long Petal of the Sea takes readers from 1930s Spain to France, Chile, and Venezuela it concludes in Chile in 1994. No one dared enter, until…įebruary of 1988 – Ben Kellogg and Laura Hawks decide to collaborate on a book about the hellish legend of 1129 Ridge Avenue. What transpired in the hours that the elderly inventor and his acquaintance, Freddie Parlock, were in that house, changed both men immeasurably for the rest of their lives and unleashed a terrifying and demonic evil on the world. Edison entered the house on Ridge Avenue in order to test his newest invention: The Spirit Telephone. In the spring of 1920, esteemed inventor Thomas A. Brunrichter had disappeared, leaving behind him gruesome remnants of his multiple demented experiments in the reanimation of the dead. A year later, the horrific sounds of a woman screaming followed by a huge explosion, brought firefighters into a true ‘House of Horrors’: Dr. Brunrichter purchased the house in the early 1900s. For roughly 20 years, the house stood vacant until a reclusive doctor named Adolph C. Weeks later, Lyda Congelier brutally murdered Charles and Essie after discovering her philandering husband having an affair with Essie. Number 1129 Ridge Avenue – in the winter of 1871, Civil War profiteer Charles Wright Congelier, his wife Lyda and their young servant, Essie moved into the mansion after they bought it for a song. How long has it been on my TBR pile? Since 1 June 2009 Where did it come from? From a Library Book Sale “My God,” Vidal told Amis, “what a lucky life.” The official story, as set down in Vidal’s memoirs and essays, and in hundreds of reviews, profiles, and, finally, in his obituaries-he died in 2012-went like this: grandson of Thomas P. In 1977, after visiting Vidal at his cliff-perched villa on the Amalfi Coast, Martin Amis observed that “he has little of the paranoia worryingly frequent among well-known writers.” Norman Mailer had been onto something, Amis concluded, when he said that “Vidal lacks the wound.” It was an act, a put-on-perhaps the most effective double bluff in the history of literary P.R. In the course of more than half a century, his quips, aphorisms, insults, and punch lines amounted to a self-portrait, airbrushed so as to highlight his favorite warts: Olympian detachment, patrician hauteur. In October of 1975, dining in Rome, Gore Vidal told his new friend the novelist Michael Mewshaw that Françoise Sagan was “a magnum of pure ether.” He didn’t stop to clarify, but rigor was beside the point the Vidalian bon mot was about the speaker, not about the subject. But when he finds himself standing on her doorstep the next morning, things don't go quite as he expected. And it's her turn to walk away from him.Īfter five years of missing Cam, Zeus isn't prepared to let her go again. Now working as a dancer in an upscale club in Manhattan, Cam is brought face-to-face with the man she once loved. A few months later, Cam realized that she would never fulfill her dream of dancing for the New York City Ballet. He just didn't think they would come with a tragedy that would change how he viewed the sport forever.Ĭameron Reed was in her second year at Juilliard when her childhood sweetheart, Zeus Kincaid, walked away from her. Those are the words that Zeus Kincaid has been waiting to hear since he first put on a pair of boxing gloves. From Samantha Towle, the New York Times bestselling author of Wardrobe Malfunction and Breaking Hollywood, comes a dramatically powerful and passionate new contemporary romance.Īnd the new heavyweight champion of the world is. In the literature classroom, at secondary and tertiary level, Seid's imagery should resonate and appeal to the sensibilities of African learners from similar socio-cultural and historical environments. African readers, young and old, regardless of locality, will hear echoes of the folktales, fables, and legends narrated by their grandmothers of an evening under the stars or by the fireside. Rhythm of life, captivating, lyrical, spellbinding magic! With fertile, protean imagination, griot and bard recite the prowess and deeds of their distant ancestors or sing of the beauty and charms of their betrothed." Romantized scenes from Seid's boyhood, like the festival depicted here, as well as stories from the golden age of empires and other timeless tales in this collection evoke positive images of Chad and Africa more generally. All this time, the tom-toms are vibrating, their frenzy marvelously matching the dancers movements. They stamp the ground furiously with their feet: a cloud of dust envelops them in a tremendous halo of glory. Simulating combat, they brandish their assegais, crouch, rise up and face off in rapid succession. The young perform war dances, competing in strength, agility and skill. Their staccato boom echoes through the savannah and over the rolling, sandy hills. The drums reverberate, roar, summon to the dance. Excitement fills the air a tumult is unleashed. "In the evening, there are traditional games. Takakura fails to defuse the hostage situation and the result is that the smirking killer and his hostage end up dead and Takakura is himself seriously injured. His overzealous professional curiosity brings about a harrowing situation, as moments later, the killer breaks free and ends up threatening the police and holding a fork to the throat of an innocent woman. The murderer is smiling and relaxed - Takakura is fascinated by this example of a ‘perfect psychopath’ and is eager to continue examining the prisoner. The film opens in an interrogation room where a detective, Takakura (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is questioning a serial killer. Written by Kurosawa and Chihiro Ikeda, Creepy is a dark and oddly droll adaptation of the novel by Yutaka Maekawa. Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Masahiro Higashide, Toru Baba, Ryôko FujinoĬreepy (Kurîpî: Itsuwari no rinjin) is the latest feature from the prolific Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Writers: Chihiro Ikeda, Kiyoshi Kurosawa (screenplay), based on the novel by Yutaka Maekawa Ren Zelen ventured into Creepy territory as she watched the film at London Film Festival recently. Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£2.85). If you are in the UK, quoted price is for books up to 2kg. Book(s) above this weight may incur a surcharge. If you are located outside the UK, quoted shipping costs are for a book up to 1kg only. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional photographs. The wraps will be covered with a 100 micron inert protective cover which is removable. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation's heart and became the bestselling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC poll the book that best represents Britain.Now, to mark the twentieth anniversary of that modern classic, Bryson makes a brand-new journey round Britain to see what has changed. Flat signed by the author without dedication to the title page. Small black and white illustrations as chapter headpieces. Corners sharp and contents clean and unmarked. Front wrap illustrated with the 'Jolly Fisherman' by Neil Gower. First printing in this paperback edition. But set against these tales of woe are the remarkable benefits of phosphorus. Whenever man has wanted to commit evil, phosphorus has often been there to help him. It has for centuries been used as a murderous poison. During World War II, the Nazis turned phosphorus into chemical agents far more powerful in disabling people than any other war gas. During World War I, the bum damage done by phosphorus was horrific. Although phosphorus matches (called lucifers) were considered "the greatest boon and blessing to come to mankind in the nineteenth century," the women and children who made them endured dangerous and unbearable working conditions and, eventually, the rasping pain of phossy jaw. However, it soon became known as the "devil's element" by causing more curses than cures. First unleashed in the mid-1600s in Hamburg, Germany, when alchemist Hannig Brandt distilled it from human urine, phosphorus was hailed as one of the secret substances of the "philosopher's stone" and a marvelous cure-all. Now, award-winning author John Emsley combines his gift for storytelling with his scientific expertise to present an enthralling account of this eerily luminescent element. For more than 300 years, phosphorus-one of nature's deadliest creations-has continued to fascinate us with the many surprising roles it has played in human history. The 13th Element It was discovered by alchemists, prescribed by apothecaries, exploited by the industrialists of the nineteenth century, and abused by the combatants of the twentieth century. Deanna Nichols was researching a potential cure for the antidote’s effects, when her superiors determined there was a small population of non-treated, but uninfected humans in a maximum security prison complex north of the Arctic Circle. Children were born with a multitude of problems, not least of which was their inability to learn, think progressively or continue the cultural progress enjoyed by the human race up to that time. Quarantine zones were established to enable the human race to continue, but only when the survivors bore children was it learned the antidote itself had teratogenic effects. Long before an antidote could be distributed, millions died. However, they failed to recognize how quickly the agent would travel into their own population. The premise is that a global war was finally ended when the losing side released a biological agent over the enemy. “Human Instincts” by Ioana Visan is an apocalyptic novella unlike any other I’ve read. |