![]() ![]() Dixon Free eBooks Download Description: To heal the body you must first heal the soul. Can he protect those he loves in time?ĬW: Homophobia, bullying, racism, teenage drinking and smoking, death of parents, sibling abuse, attempted murder, violence, explicit content. The Healer (Knights of Boston 1) by Courtney W. Unfortunately, I keep irritating him too much for him to really notice me.Ĭan the two men stop dancing around each other and colliding long enough to realize they are the perfect match? Will Jonas’ family finally accept him as he is? And danger lurks too close to home for José. José is a fiery nurse I work with, and I want him. ![]() But after eighteen years of absolute loneliness, there is only one man who could finally pull me out to see the light of day. So, back into the closet I went to maintain the peace. ![]() When I came out as gay at thirteen, it threatened to tear the family apart. In the end, she tries to help them grow to be better as they achieve their HEAs. ![]() Family is life and goodness, and I would do anything to protect them. True Luna: Finding My True Mate by Tessa Lilly (ePUB)įamily is everything. Dixon April 17 Other Girls by Diane Ayres Alondra by Gina Femia Allured by Her by Chelsea M. ![]()
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Last year John Coulthart dug out his Gormenghast box on news of plans to publish a fourth book, Titus Awakes, written by Peake’s widow Maeve Gilmore. ![]() Jones wrote that the factory in Titus Alone is “a powerful expression of that evil which attained for Peake its supreme manifestations when, having been commissioned as a war artist, he entered Belsen at the end of the war”.Īccording to Jones: “Peake seemed to regard evil and tragedy as a tangible force, and the book reflects a struggle that was taking place in reality, when Peake himself was facing a horror more dreadful and more protracted than that endured by Titus, and to which, after ten years, he succumbed.” Titus Alone carried a note by Langdon Jones, who reconstructed the phantasmogoric third book in line with Peake’s wishes (the onset of early Alzheimer’s rendered the writer incapable of resisting changes made by publishers Eyre & Spottiswoode when it first came out). Detail of Fuschia, daughter of Lord Sepulchrave and Countess Gertrude by Mervyn Peake ![]() ![]() ![]() Joe from Dublin the lyric go lightly on the ground is taken from Bob Dylans 'It aint me' Stephannie from Mt. The Ground Beneath Her Feet is a gripping story that encapsulates the history, dreams and passions of the last half century as no other novel has done. Anna from Gurgaon, India The lyrics are taken, almost word for word (a line here and there) from Salman Rushdies book, The Ground Beneath Her Feet. In this epic romance that stretches across whole lives, and even beyond death, Salman Rushdie's most accessible novel is also a vivid account of the intimate, flawed encounter between East and West, a remaking of the myth of Orpheus, and an exploration of the extremities of comedy, culture and desire. And Ormus has to confront just how far he is willing to go for love. ![]() ![]() Cracks and tears are appearing in the very fabric of reality, and exposing the abyss beyond. His journey takes him across the globe and through cities pulsating with the power of rock ’n’ roll, to Bombay, London and New York.īut around the star-crossed lover and his quest, the uncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and break. The book tells the story of three young people from India who ride the wave of the rock n roll industry in. Her lover, the singer Ormus Cama, cannot accept that he has lost her, and so begins his eternal quest to find her and bring her back. 'Salman Rushdies The Ground Beneath Her Feet is a great (but not easy) read. On Valentine’s Day, 1989, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, disappears in a devastating earthquake. "The first great rock ’n’ roll novel in the English language." - The Times ![]() ![]() I loved the car chase, the golf game, etc. ![]() Enemy Action), with each run-in becoming more and more over-the-top. I loved the way the novel was structured into the three run-ins with Goldfinger (I. It produced one of the best Bond movies of all time and also introduced one of the worst-named, but most-interesting characters (Pussy Galore) in the James Bond universe. I would have given this over-the-top spy thriller four stars, except for the sexist/racist complaints above. While I wasn't alive in the 50s, and I suspect it was more normal 60 years ago, it still reads a bit too heavy with white, masculine overcompensation. ![]() I hate Fleming/Bond's attitude towards Asians (Koreans in this book, but it was Chinese in Dr. ![]() "Fear, Mr Bond, takes gold out of circulation and hoards it against the evil day." - Ian Fleming, Goldfinger A very enjoyable read except for a couple nagging complaints. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() MGM’s previous DVD actually contained a couple of features, though limited only to a trailer and the film’s original/alternate ending. Really just an amazing looking presentation. Together with the clearly defined gray levels the shadows in the film come off the best I’ve yet seen them. Whites can be bold but never over powering or blooming, and black levels are incredibly rich. Gray levels are perfect and contrast is strong. ![]() ![]() It is a little rougher around the edges in comparison to something like Criterion’s presentations of Night of the Hunter and Sweet Smell of Success, laced with some more obvious damage and some softness on occasion, but as a whole the image is crisp and clean, with a stunning amount of detail and clarity when the materials allow, and film grain, which remains intact, looks natural and never like noise. Robert Aldrich’s noir classic Kiss Me Deadly comes to Blu-ray in the aspect ratio of 1.66:1 on this dual-layer disc, presented in a new 1080p/24hz high-definition digital transfer.Ĭriterion’s presentation for the MGM titles they’ve been releasing have been all fairly stellar and Kiss Me Deadly’s presentation is no different. ![]() ![]() But his eyes were on the dancers: wasn’t that girl in the red sari the one who had come with baskets of wild hibiscus that she had flung carelessly into a corner of his factory floor? And that man who was dancing with his arm around her waist, wasn’t he one of the honey-collectors? It was hard to tell, with their new saris and dhotis, the flowers in their hair, the beads flying out from necks, the firelight. ![]() His kurta and dhoti were an austere white, his waistcoat a lawyerly black. He had smoked a pipe all evening and held one polite leaf cup of toddy that he had only pretended to sip. His long nose struck out, arrow-like, beneath deep-set eyes. The drums, the monotonous twanging of a stringed instrument, and loud singing obliterated the sounds of the forest.Ī man with a thin, frown-creviced face topped by dark hair combed back from his high forehead sat as still as a stone image in their midst, in a chair that still had its arms but had lost its backrest. Smoke curled from cooking fires and tobacco. Men in loincloths and women in saris had begun to dance barefoot, kicking up dust. ![]() ![]() In the warm glow of fires that lit the clearing at the centre of straw-roofed mud huts, palm-leaf cups of toddy flew from hand to hand. ![]() ![]() ![]() When a chance meeting at her new job with childhood friend, fellow otaku, and now coworker Hirotaka Nifuji almost gets her secret outed at work, she comes up with a plan to make sure he never speaks up. ![]() Narumi Momose has had it rough- Every boyfriend she’s had dumped her once they found out she was an otaku, so she’s gone to great lengths to hide it. It’s a relationship of convenience at first, but could it become something more? This manga comedy is now a hit streaming anime!Įxtra-long book includes 2 Japanese volumes! The awkward, romantic comedy manga about geeks in love that inspired the new anime! Can a professional man who’s secretly a hardcore gamer and a woman who’s secretly a fujoshi date without their hobbies getting in the way, or revealing each other’s secrets?Ī geeky girl whose life revolves around yaoi manga and a quiet gamer boy are old friends, but when they start working in the same office, they decide to date. Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku, Volume 1 by Fujita 4.6 (17) Paperback 17.99 Paperback 17.99 eBook 10. ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh, and I’m also working on a big secret project we hope to announce in the coming months! It’s a preposterously ambitious full color project covering the evolution and biology of vision principles of visual perception demonstrations of how visual elements behave in the mind’s eye best practices for clarity, explanation, and effective rhetoric and some personal reflections on our family’s experiences with blindness. The book has taken me years so far, but I sincerely believe it’ll be worth it. The second draft of my (neurotically-tight) layouts ran 571 pages, and I’m determined, as I plow through my third-and hopefully final-draft, to make it substantially shorter and less rambling. ![]() I’m still working feverishly on my massive book about visual communication. Yeah, yeah, nobody reads site blogs anymore, but I have a lot to talk about-more than can fit in a tweet-and this seemed as good a place as any to put it all into words… Nursing room sign, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. ![]() ![]() About the Authorīenjamin Graham was an American economist you expounded business principles that have proven to be timeless. Get this book on Snapdeal and de-mystify those numbers today! This book has even been touted as the ‘best book on finance ever written’ by popular figures including Warren Buffet. Written in a simple style with every day examples that the average person can relate to, the principles of finance are explained well. ![]() This revised edition includes the views of Jason Zweig (a financial journalist) while keeping large parts of the original text intact. ![]() It expands oh Grahams on philosophy ‘ value investing’ that helps the average citizen plan long-term investing and developing long-term strategies on avoiding error.ĭespite being published in 1949, ‘Intelligent Investor(revised Edition)is still considered to be a bible for anyone who is looking to dabble in the stock market. ![]() Ever looked at figures on the stock market and wondered what they were trying to say? Then this is the perfect book for you! The ‘Intelligent Investor(revised Edition)’, written by Benjamin Graham has been described as the ‘definitive guide’ to the stock market since its publication. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. ![]() But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.”Īgnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. ![]() “Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. ![]() |