![]() ![]() ![]() Not to mention, that she has to cooperate with Mark Taylor-the sinfully handsome and enigmatic Managing Director of IRC. But the problem is that it requires Alexandra to visit the forbidden for her island of Santorini. This job would be a dream come true for a lot of insurance agents. Revealing her real identity could turn lethal… And as if this threat is not enough, her boss assigns her the account of IRC-a multi-billion dollar corporation that owns residential and commercial properties, luxury resorts, and casinos, around the world. That is until someone seems to be on the trail of the golden heiress… Life as an insurance agent in Atlanta-away from her eccentric and mysterious, billionaire grandfather and deadly secrets well-concealed on the Greek Island of Santorini-makes Alexandra Stewart feel safe. T he promise of a luxurious resort with a view to an enchanting volcano, romantic sunsets, and a deep blue sea vista would make anyone jump for joy, right? But for Alexandra, Santorini is a forbidden island… ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() A total of 1,198 people, including 123 Americans, were lost when a German U-Boat sank the Lusitania off Ireland's west coast. In his gripping new examination of the last days of what was then the fastest cruise ship in the world, Larson ( Devil in the White City, In the Garden of Beasts) brings the past stingingly alive. Few of the present-day joggers and cyclists who pass by might recall that a century ago, on May 1, 1915, the Lusitania set sail from this berth on her last doomed voyage.Įrik Larson is here to remind us. Like whispers of the past, the engraved names of the shipping companies Cunard and White Star remain barely legible atop its rusted iron gate. Pier 54 on the Hudson River in Manhattan is padlocked and forgotten now. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Dead Wake Subtitle The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Author Erik Larson ![]() ![]() ![]() I know quite a few people who find Barker to be a difficult read, but I think it’s because he makes people uncomfortable. ![]() That’s part of his allure and his success as a horror writer. In execution and style, he seems to be a student of Lovecraft in many ways it isn’t so much the story itself that is important, but the way he tells it. Candyman and Hellraiser are the two franchises based on Barker’s stories that seem to have enjoyed the most longevity with the horror community, and the first entries of those respective series were well known for their over-the-top blood and gore.īarker’s writing is heavily reliant on poetry to describe his horrific monsters and the landscapes they slither across. The late 80’s and early 90’s were a great time for Barker fans, with many of his tales being made into Hollywood movies. The 1992 movie Candyman was based on a novella-length story by Clive Barker, entitled The Forbidden, which can be found in his anthology Books of Blood Vols. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I laughed and cried at the same time! And by the way. I still remember how I felt the first time I read the graphic memoir "Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant", by Roz Chast. The Best We Could Do brings to life her journey of understanding and provides inspiration to all who search for a better future while longing for a simpler past. With haunting, poetic writing and breathtaking art, she examines the strength of family, the importance of identity, and the meaning of home. Despite how impossible it seems to take on the simultaneous roles of both parent and child, Bui pushes through. ![]() At the heart of Bui's story is a universal struggle: While adjusting to life as a first-time mother, she ultimately discovers what it means to be a parent - the endless sacrifices, the unnoticed gestures, and the depths of unspoken love. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family's daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves. The Best We Could Do, the debut graphic novel memoir by Thi Bui, is an intimate look at one family's journey from their war-torn home in Vietnam to their new lives in America. ![]() ![]() The “perilous” story, and perhaps its link to her illness, stayed with Wharton for years. But “with my intense Celtic sense of the super-natural, tales of robbers & ghosts were perilous reading.” She relapsed, and when she woke, “it was to enter a world haunted by formless horrors.” “To an unimaginative child the tale would no doubt have been harmless,” she wrote. The book she acquired was a “robber-story,” and it sent Wharton into an unexpected panic. Her mother was particular about reading material-Wharton had to ask for permission to read novels until her marriage, in 1885-but on this occasion she got the goods. “During my convalescence, my one prayer was to be allowed to read,” she wrote in “Life & I,” an autobiography that was published posthumously. ![]() ![]() Confined to her bed, week after week, she wished most fervently not for recovery but for books. ![]() When Edith Wharton was nine years old she contracted typhoid fever and fell gravely ill. ![]() ![]() ![]() The second, a feeling of abandonment when he flew as an unaccompanied minor between his mother in Montreal and his father, who had walked out on them, in Los Angeles – which led to a self-destructive way with relationships and an all-consuming desire for attention. The first, being given a barbiturate for colic at just two months old. Perry blames his addiction on three things. After all, as Perry writes, “I was Chandler.” It is a witty but grimly graphic account of his alcohol and opiate addiction, disarmingly written with Chandler’s trademark sarcasm and self-deprecation. Perhaps prompted by the public’s concern for his wellbeing, or his frustration at misinformed speculation, Perry has now written a memoir: Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing. ![]() In fact, emergency dental surgery the day before was to blame – his front teeth fell out while eating toast – but it was heartbreaking to watch Chandler Bing, a beloved comic character who had spent 10 years cracking jokes in our living rooms, appear so extinguished. ![]() Perry, known to have spent the last 20 years struggling with addiction, was rumoured to have relapsed. ![]() When Friends: The Reunion broadcast last May, all anybody could talk about was Matthew Perry: his speech was slurred, his face was bloated, he looked lonely and sad. ![]() ![]() ![]() But few of the other characters in this novel seem to. ![]() In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, and through a young writer's virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before. We know Sophia, age eight, and Alyona, eleven, have been kidnapped. ![]() The New York Times Book Review described the book as a 'superb debut. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty-densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska-and into a region as complex as it is alluring, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. The literary review aggregator Book Marks reported that 75 of critics gave the novel a 'rave' review and 25 gave it a 'positive' review, based on a sample of 20 book reviews. Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters, all connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls-sisters, eight and eleven-go missing. Spellbinding, moving-evoking a fascinating region on the other side of the world-this suspenseful and haunting story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The oilskin-wrapped packet contains the papers of a missing English spy named Kimball O’Hara-indeed, the same Kimball who served as the inspiration for Rudyard Kipling’s famed Kim.Īn orphaned English boy turned loose in India, Kim long used his cunning to spy for the Crown. Mycroft, who has ties to the highest levels of the government, has just received a strange package. But the fragile peace will be fleeting-for a visit with Holmes’s gravely ill brother, Mycroft, brings news of an intrigue that is sure to halt their respite. It’s the second day of the new year, 1924, and Mary Russell is settling in for a much-needed rest with her husband, Sherlock Holmes. ![]() Now the illustrious duo returns for their most dangerous exploit yet, in a rich and atmospheric tale that takes them to India to save the life of one of literature’s most fabled heroes. King’s bestselling mystery series featuring Mary Russell and her husband and partner, Sherlock Holmes, is beloved by readers and acclaimed by critics the world over. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() NEON GENESIS EVANGELION is Sadamoto's only full-length manga series. His latest art book, DER MOND, is also available in English translation from VIZ Media. As mankind tilts on the brink of the apocalyptic Third Impact, human feelings are fault lines leading to destruction and just maybe, redemption and rebirth.Ībout the Author: Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, one of the founding members of the animation powerhouse Studio Gainax, is the character designer for THE WINGS OF HONNEAMISE, NADIA, NEON GENESIS EVANGELION the animated series, and many other anime, illustration and art projects. Once Shinji didn’t care about anything then he found people to fight for-only to learn that he couldn’t protect them, or keep those he let into his heart from going away. Each volume contains three of the original graphic novels and includes pages of stunning, full-color art. The manga adaptation of the landmark animated series that changed the mecha genre. The classic series, now available in a deluxe omnibus edition! ![]() ![]() ![]() The Circus is operating in a minimal way with most of its overseas facilities closed, its agents withdrawn due to Haydon, a tiny budget and its operations under close political supervision. In 1974 George Smiley, the chief of the British secret intelligence service referred to as The Circus, is repairing the damage done to their operations by double agent Bill Haydon and looking for opportunities to target Karla, the Moscow Centre spymaster. ![]() Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People were later published as an omnibus edition titled Smiley Versus Karla in 1982. This is the sixth le Carré spy novel featuring George Smiley. The Honourable Schoolboy is the second novel in the omnibus titled either Smiley Versus Karla or The Quest for Karla. In 1977, the book won the Gold Dagger award for the best crime novel of the year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. ![]() George Smiley must reconstruct an intelligence service in order to run a successful offensive espionage operation to save the service from being dismantled by the government. The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) is a spy novel by British writer John le Carré. ![]() |