![]() ![]() ![]() But what if they had come from some other place in the world, or another time? How would they differ from Conan Doyle's creations? How similar might they remain? Holmes and Watson are herein re-imagined in new cultural contexts, in different genders and sexualities, and in stories rich in foreign detail that still reflect their origins. Since his first appearance in 1887, Sherlock Holmes has been the quintessential English sleuth, alongside his loyal companion and biographer, Doctor John Watson. I'm a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is.' - Sherlock Holmes to Dr John Watson, A Study in Scarlet. ![]() I suppose I am the only one in the world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She was a fellow of the Royal Society for Literature. Her eight collections for adults have been given the Poetry Book Society Choice and Recommendations and Bestiary was shortlisted for the T S Eliot prize. Since then Dunmore has become one of our most acclaimed literary figures, winning many prizes including the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction and The Signal Poetry Award for children’s poetry. Zennor in Darkness, set during the First World War when D H Lawrence lived at Zennor in Cornwall, won the McKitterick Prize. Her fiction career began with short stories before her first novel was published in 1994. Her second, The Sea Skater, won the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award. Her debut collection, The Apple Fall, was one of the first titles published by Bloodaxe Books. She began to publish poetry and give readings in her early twenties. She studied English at York University and then taught for two years in Finland. As she said herself “In a large family you hear a great many stories,” a grounding which influenced her career as a writer of both poetry and fiction. Helen Dunmore (1952-2017) was the second of four children, her father the eldest of twelve. ![]() ![]() ![]() A great signed example of this collectible first edition first printing title, originally issued in paperback this is the first hardback edition."To Roger / Lover of books! / From another - / David Brin" Comes with great provenance as this volume was obtained from the estate of Roger Earnshaw, SF collector, well known at British conventions and fandom, who often attended author signings. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. This book is fitted with a non adhesive archival quality book protector to make a quality addition to your collection. ![]() For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. Jacket has a touch of crimping to edges and non colour break creasing to corners, glossy and crisp. Text block clean and crisp with white edges. Boards clean with light bumping to corners, gilt perfect. ![]() ![]() ![]() And guess what? All the visitors of the open house are connected with Emma’s disappearance. Investigation starts urgently by interrogating people who stopped by at the open house. Haley and her husband goes to the station to identify the bracelet and at the same week, at the open house where they meet with her realtor/ best friend is found stabbed, lying on the floor. And years after first piece of evidence comes out: a bracelet. Her little sister Haley and her family gets devastated and cannot move on their lives. Uninteresting characters, foreseeable twists, I read at least hundred books like this storyline made me dull woman ( all read and no dance! )Ī decade ago Emma, a young art student walks in the woods and nobody hears from her after that haunted day. I can hear the approaching choo choo disappointed readers’ train! I hate that song! I hate to write reviews about meh, well I did everything to find something positive but I wasted my efforts and I’m still bored books! ![]() ![]() ![]() The Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, a converted 19th century grist mill, includes hundreds of works by three generations of Wyeths. ![]() “He highly valued the natural world, the historical objects of this world as they exist in the present, and strong-willed people.”Ī Wyeth retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2006 drew more than 175,000 visitors in 151/2 weeks, the highest-ever attendance at the museum for a living artist. “He was a man of extraordinary perception, and that perception was found in his thousands of images – many, many of them iconic,” Duff said Friday in an interview. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth gained wealth, acclaim and tremendous popularity on his own, but he chafed under criticism from some experts who regarded him as a facile realist, not an artist but merely an illustrator. The son of famed painter and book illustrator N.C. Wyeth died in his sleep at his home in the Philadelphia suburb of Chadds Ford, according to Jim Duff, director of the Brandywine River Museum. PHILADELPHIA – Artist Andrew Wyeth, who portrayed the hidden melancholy of the people and landscapes of Pennsylvania’s Brandywine Valley and coastal Maine in works such as “Christina’s World” died early Friday. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first installment, The Eye of the World, hit bookshelves in 1990, with the last chapter, A Memory of Light, arriving in 2013. The Wheel of Time was a saga that took over 20 years to be completed. Since each book gives nearly every protagonist something meaningful to do, there’s quite a lot of material packed into Jordan’s novels that the show will need to find room for. Once the band of adventurers break apart, several different storylines open up, each centering on different point-of-view characters. Rand may be the main hero, but the focus isn’t strictly on him. That’s largely due to the sheer size of the book’s cast of characters. In paperback form, the average length of a novel in the series is about 800 pages. Also, these books aren’t short and concise by any means. First of all, the saga is comprised of 14 main installments and one prequel. With Wheel of Time, Amazon has a big challenge on its hands in terms of adapting all the stories that Jordan developed for Rand al’Thor and company. Based on what’s been revealed thus far, readers aren’t expecting Wheel of Time season 1 to go beyond the ending of the first book, but even so, now may still seem like a perfect time to tackle the entire book series. With The Wheel of Time on the way, those just learning about Robert Jordan’s fantasy novels may be interested in the best way to read the books ahead of the show’s release on Amazon Prime. ![]() ![]() He surpassed $1 million in career prize money in December 1988, after just 43 tournaments - the quickest player in history to do so.Īgassi married actress Brooke Shields in a lavish ceremony on April 19, 1997. When he was 14, Andre was shipped off to teaching guru Nick Bollettieri's Tennis Academy in Florida. His sister, Rita, finally had enough of their father, and moved in with Pancho Gonzalez (their son, Skylar, played on Bishop-Gorman High School's tennis team). ![]() Mike had Andre practice with Ilie Nastase and Jimmy Connors. Growing up, he and siblings had to hit 3,000 balls every day, 7 days a week. He was given a full-sized racket when he was 2. Mike Agassi was a tennis fanatic, to put it nicely, determined to turn at least one of his 4 children into a world-class player. ![]() citizen, he changed his name from Agassian to Agassi. His Armenian-born father, Emmanuel "Mike" Agassi, was a boxer for Iran in the 19 Olympics before emigrating to the U.S. As of 2004, he has won over $25 million in prize money and achieved a number 1 ranking on the ATP tour.Īgassi, an ethnic Armenian, was born and raised in Las Vegas, and still lives there when not on tour. ![]() Andre Agassi (born April 29, 1970, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA) is a notable American professional tennis player (1986-). ![]() ![]() ![]() Li'l Folks was dropped from the Pioneer Press in January, 1950. Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through. In 1948, Schulz tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association. ![]() In 1948, Schulz sold a cartoon to The Saturday Evening Post the first of 17 single-panel cartoons by Schulz that would be published there. The series also had a dog that looked much like Snoopy. Paul Pioneer Press he first used the name Charlie Brown for a character there, although he applied the name in four gags to three different boys and one buried in sand. Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Charles Monroe Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through his studies, Ishmael tries to understand why humans feel called to dominate the world, and he teaches the explanation he's come up with to his student (the narrator). ![]() ![]() Through his research on human history, he's come to see that they, too, are captive to a destructive way of life in their pursuit of domination over the rest of the world. Ishmael, having spent his life in captivity, has learned to question captivity thus, he tries to teach his captors (humans) what he's learned about them through his studies. Throughout the novel, Ishmael is used as a distancing mechanism by the author Quinn puts his own philosophical theories in the mouth of a gorilla to upset readers' expectations about and biases against other life-forms and their intelligence. ![]() Ishmael becomes a teacher whose focus is on how to save the world and challenges his students with his intellect, obstinacy, and pride, and his hope for the human race, despite the challenges facing it. During captivity, he grows more and more self-aware and eventually comes under the care of Walter Sokolow, who encourages his intellectual growth through their telepathic communication. Ishmael is a gorilla who was captured in the wild as a youth and has spent his adult life in various forms of captivity. ![]() ![]() I'll let you know when Wes is free."Īddie scowled. "But if you're here to spring him, you're gonna have to talk to Wes anyway, since it was his arrest." He picked up the phone. "Oh, Roy's in the lockup." He winced, remembering something. ![]() "I'm not talking about Officer Courtemanche," Addie said through clenched teeth. "Come to think of it, I once hid in the trunk of a cruiser when my wife was on the warpath." Or squeezed into one of the empty lockers in the squad room." The officer scratched his jaw. "My best guess? Maybe in the men's room, in a stall. "Hope Courtemanche found himself a good hiding place." "Jeez Louise," said the dispatch sergeant. "He's been arrested."Īddie stormed into the police department with such force that the double doors slammed back on their hinges, letting in a gust of cold wind. ![]() "It's your father," Orren explained, blushing. Could the accountant have reported them to the board of health so quickly? Did a law enforcement officer have the power to make her close her doors? But before she could voice her doubts, the policeman spoke again. ![]() |