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![]() On board the train Grey meets Ruth Kettering, an American heiress leaving her unhappy marriage to meet her lover. ![]() So does Katherine Grey, who is having her first winter out of England, after recently receiving a relatively large inheritance. Poirot boards Le Train Bleu, bound for the French Riviera. The novel concerns the murder of an American heiress on Le Train Bleu, the titular "Blue Train". The book features her detective Hercule Poirot. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The Mystery of the Blue Train is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by William Collins & Sons on 29 March 1928 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. ![]()
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Mountain Laurel by Jude Deveraux6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Captain Montgomery might be smart enough to figure out that she was no European duchess, and gentleman enough not to take advantage of her. ![]() And she didn’t intend to explain her reasons for coming West to any high and mighty soldier. After all, a Civil War was brewing! But LaReina, The Singing Duchess-as Maddie was called-didn’t scare easily. Ring’s plan was to scare the little lady enough so that she’d hightail it for home. ![]() Mountain Laurel:. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. That was reason enough for a jealous, surly colonel to saddle Montgomery with a most peculiar assignment: to escort an opera singer into the Colorado gold fields. Buy Mountain Laurel by Deveraux, Jude, Light, Judith from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Bestselling author Jude Deveraux spins a rollicking story of a mismatched couple who unearth a sparkling, irresistible passion across the rugged West!Ĭaptain Ring Montgomery was handsome, a skilled rider, a crack shot, popular with the men and their ladies. ![]()
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Ariella aisha azoulay potential history6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The naturalization of policemen exercising the right to disperse people from public spaces should be understood as part of the post-WWII literacy lessons in human rights.ĭoes the history of photography, in actuality, start in 1492? In her latest tour de force, Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay reframes the history of photography, the archive, and the museum by proposing that the camera’s “shutter” is a “synecdoche” for imperialism as a whole. ![]() From Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (Verso Books, 2019) (all images courtesy Verso Books) | As part of the “new world order” imposed at the end of WWII, policemen everywhere were trained to break up civil movements, protests, and strikes using direct and indirect violence, always in the name of a law constituted through this same violence. ![]()
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Sarah moss ghost wall6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But if you’re wondering which novelist will reach the tipping point next, take my advice: put your money on Sarah Moss. ![]() Of course, it’s easy to identify the writers who have taken the second path once they have hit household-name status the real trick is spotting them before they get there. Hilary Mantel is an obvious example Tessa Hadley another Kamila Shamsie a third. The second is slower, quieter, less sensational but ultimately perhaps more sustainable: the steady brightening of a reputation over the course of several books, until finally it’s impossible to imagine a time when the author wasn’t a fixed point in the heavens. The first (and undeniably the ritzier) involves the publication of a novel, generally a debut, that bursts forth in such a blaze that its author remains permanently backlit by it. F or novelists, there are two paths to a place in the literary firmament. ![]()
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Joshua dalzelle blueshift6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() What should have been a joyous return home after a long, hard mission has turned into a race to see which nightmare would kill them first.Blueshift is an all new sci-fi adventure from Joshua Dalzelle, author of the bestselling Omega Force Series and Black Fleet Saga. Eight hundred years have passed and Earth is nothing like they thought it would be.As Commander Markus Brentwood scrambles to uncover the mystery of what's happened to Earth in their absence, he also must contend with an increasingly dysfunctional crew and a damaged ship that's flying on borrowed time. Blueshift is an all new sci-fi adventure from Joshua Dalzelle, author of the bestselling Omega Force Series and Black Fleet Saga. As it turned out, the most dangerous thing they faced wasn't the mission. What should have been a joyous return home after a long, hard mission has turned into a race to see which nightmare would kill them first. If you could be the first to lay eyes upon a planet orbiting a distant star, would you go? If it meant that when you returned home-if you returned home-everyone you knew would have been dead for centuries, would you still go? The members of the Polaris Project knew what they were giving up when they volunteered to fly to the star named Angel-21, but the allure of being the first explorers to leave the Solar System far outweighed the risks. ![]()
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![]() The rear panel is toned and a bit soiled as well. The spine is sun-darkened (this is especially noticeable on the interior of the jacket). ![]() The spine is chipped on the bottom and worn on the top. The end papers show light spotting and a bit of soiling.The dust jacket is also in good condition. The top of the text block shows some light foxing. The book features a dust jacket by Hubert Rogers.The book is in good condition, with light bumping and wear on the corners and spine ends. These stories are part of Heinlein's "Future History" series.CONTENTS Life-Line "Let There Be Light" The Roads Must Roll Blowups Happen The Man Who Sold the Moon RequiemThis 288-page book measures 5-1/2" X 8-1/2", and is bound in gray and black cloth with gold lettering. This is a collection of six science fiction short stories, novelettes, and novellas, published by Shasta Publishers. ![]() HEINLEIN The Man Who Sold the MoonShasta PublishersThird EditionHere is a nice hardcover copy of The Man Who Sold the Moon, by the Dean of Science Fiction, Robert a. ![]()
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Now I Rise by Kiersten White6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Mehmed wants control of the city, and Radu has earned an unwanted place as a double-crossing spy behind enemy lines. But Mehmed has sent him to Constantinople-and it’s no diplomatic mission. Lada needs the support of her diplomatic younger brother, Radu. There’s no time to wonder whether he still thinks about her, even loves her. And thinking of Mehmed, the defiant Ottoman sultan, brings little comfort to her thorny heart. ![]() She storms the countryside with her men, but brute force isn’t getting Lada what she wants. After failing to secure the Wallachian throne, Lada is out to punish anyone who dares cross her. All she has is what she’s always had: herself. ![]() The highly anticipated, mind-blowing New York Times bestselling sequel to Kiersten White’s New York Times bestseller, AND I DARKEN-the series that reads like HBO’s Game of Thrones. ![]()
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Animal farm 19546/28/2023 ![]() This is the final straw and that night while the pigs are toasting to their success, Benjamin briefly hallucinates that the pigs have Jones' face (as opposed to becoming humans as in the book) then leads a revolt against them with an army of animals from farms all over - the dogs are too drunk to do their job and Napoleon is quickly stomped to death. In the film pig delegates from other farms arrive to see Napoleon unveil the revised commandment: "All animals are equal but some animal are more equal than others". Adaptational Alternate Ending: The main diversion from the book.The CIA would provide similar influence for another Orwell adaptation, Nineteen Eighty-Four, a couple years later.Īll tropes are equal, but some are more equal than others: In addition to providing the money they also influenced the production: making Snowball less sympathetic and of course changing the ending to something more upbeat to inspire anti-communist resistance. The film's financing was done either in full or in part by the CIA - and no, the filmmakers themselves were not aware of this fact. The film has only two credited voice actors: Gordon Heath as the narrator and Maurice Denham, who voiced all the animals and humans! The first screen adaptation of George Orwell's classic satire released in 1954 and the first full-length animated film made by Great Britain to get a theatrical release (the actual first feature was a navy training film for sailors) by Halas and Batchelor, as well as the first one to be aimed at adult audiences. ![]()
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The midnight tour richard laymon6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It is my greatest hope that their lives will be the better for it, and I am forever grateful for the honor and the opportunity that Oprah has afforded me. Winfrey and her book club, my story will be introduced to a national audience. “My greatest hope at that time was that a few young people would read my story and learn from my mistakes. I wrote That Bird Has My Wings while in solitary confinement, isolated and alone,” he says. “I turned 60 this year, having entered San Quentin at the age 19. ![]() Masters had this to say about the selection of his book for Oprah’s Book Club: HarperOne has reissued the book, which contains a foreword by spiritual teacher Pema Chödrön, who has long championed Masters’s cause. Oprah read the book shortly after it was first published by HarperOne, in 2009, and it left a strong impression: “His story, of a young boy victimized by addiction, poverty, violence, the foster care system, and later the justice system, profoundly touched me then, and still does today,” said Oprah. Masters has been incarcerated in California’s San Quentin State Prison for the past 41 years. Publication date 1998 Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin Foundation Contributor Internet Archive Language English. ![]() |