Far nicer than usually found and one of the nicest copies we have offered. A handsome copy in exceptionally crisp and clean condition. The internal pages are clean, crisp, bright and flat, with no foxing, no handling marks, no writing, no bent pages and no stains. The book is in stunning near fine condition with sharp corners, and no edgewear but some fading/rubbing to the spine cloth. Oatmeal cloth binding measures 18.2 cm vertically, top edge untrimmed, fore edge rough cut, spine set in 12-point type. 6000 copies were printed, of which 1500 were bound in cloth. This copy has Currey?s earliest 16 page catalogue to the rear with Hall Caine?s ?The Manxman? and Kipling?s ?The Naulahka?. FIRST British edition, FIRST printing, FIRST ISSUE cloth binding, with 152 pages and the 16 page publisher?s catalogue with first page headed ?THE MANXMAN? inserted at rear. Wells? first, groundbreaking ?scientific romance,? Bound in the publisher?s oatmeal cloth and titled in purple to both covers with deck (untrimmed) edges to the pages. A first edition, first printing, first issue, with 152 pages and the 16 page publisher?s catalogue with first page headed ?THE MANXMAN? inserted at rear. First UK Edition, First Printing, First Issue: A handsome copy of this title.
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What should have been a one-time fling quickly proves impossible to ignore, and soon Cassie and Erin are sneaking around. And despite Erin's better judgement-how could sleeping with your daughter’s friend be anything but bad?-she and Cassie get along in the day just as well as they did last night. To make things worse, Erin’s daughter brings Cassie to breakfast the next morning. In her defense, she hadn’t known Cassie was a student when they'd met. But then the next morning rolls around and her friend drags her along to meet her mom-the hot, older woman Cassie slept with.Įrin Bennett came to Family Weekend to get closer to her daughter, not have a one-night stand with a college senior. Buying a drink for a stranger turns into what should be an uncomplicated, amazing one-night stand. When Cassie Klein goes to an off-campus bar to escape her school’s Family Weekend, she isn’t looking for a hookup-it just happens. “ erotic yearning in a class all their own.” - Entertainment Weeklyįrom Meryl Wilsner, the acclaimed author of Something to Talk About, comes Mistakes Were Made, a sharp and sexy rom-com about a college senior who accidentally hooks up with her best friend’s mom. This reader hopes Wilsner keeps these scorchers coming." - The Washington Post Cassie and Erin’s romance is by turns delightfully raunchy and deeply emotional. "This blazing-hot forbidden romance manages to sensibly, and compassionately, capture the complexities of starting adult life after college and finding love and your identity in middle age. 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In several of the books, including “Thunderball” (1961), “Quantum of Solace” (1960) and “Goldfinger” (1959), ethnicities have been removed. His mouth was dry.” This has been revised to “Bond could sense the electric tension in the room.” A segment in the book describing accented dialogue as “straight Harlem-Deep South with a lot of New York thrown in,” has been removed. He felt his own hands gripping the tablecloth. A commonly used pejorative term used for Black people by Fleming, whose Bond books were published between 19, has been removed almost entirely and replaced with “Black person” or “Black man.” In other instances, references have been edited.įor example, in “Live and Let Die” (1954), Bond’s opinion of Africans in the gold and diamond trades as “pretty law-abiding chaps I should have thought, except when they’ve drunk too much” has been altered to “pretty law-abiding chaps I should have thought.”Īnother scene in the book, set during a strip tease at a Harlem nightclub, was originally “Bond could hear the audience panting and grunting like pigs at the trough. Vagabonding gives inspirational insights and practical tips on how to make your dream journey viable and fulfilling. I’m warning you, though: This book may well inspire you to quit your job, sell the house and leave on an extended adventure.” Vagabonding packs a serious philosophical punch and has a cult-like following among independent travelers. And he leaves us with a prescription for making our lives more meaningful and more fun.” Potts makes a valuable contribution to our thinking, not only about travel, but about life and work. Vagabonding chock-full of tips and first-person accounts about how to journey frugally and well.” … practical advice might just convince you to enjoy that open-ended trip of a lifetime.” … Vagabonding is an inspiring read for anyone who has ever contemplated taking an extended break.” With wit, insight and flair, he has created an inspiring philosophical handbook about living life as an adventure. Potts has synthesized more than six years’ worth of road experiences into an unusual travel guide that’s much more than a how-to manual for open-ended journeys. Vagabonding is a crucial reference for any budget wanderer.” It’s also a primer for those with a case of pent-up wanderlust seeking to live the dream.” The book is a meditation on the joys of hitting the road for months or years at a time. For all those that have the travel itch, this is the perfect book with which to scratch.” Kinder interweaves the tale of the Central America and her passengers and crew with Thompson's own story of growing up landlocked in Ohio, an irrepressible tinkerer and explorer even in his childhood days, and his progress to adulthood as a young man who always had "7 to 14" projects on the table or spinning in his head at any given moment. She then sat for 132 years, 200 miles offshore and almost two miles below the ocean's surface-a depth at which she was assumed to be unrecoverable-until 1989, when a deep-water research vessel sailed into the harbor at Norfolk, Virginia, fat with salvaged gold coins and bullion estimated to be worth one billion dollars.Īuthor Gary Kinder wisely lets the story of the Columbus-America Discovery Group, led by maverick scientist and entrepreneur Tommy Thompson, unfold without hyperbole. In 1857, the Central America, a sidewheel steamer ferrying passengers fresh from the gold rush of California to New York and laden with 21 tons of California gold, encountered a severe storm off the Carolina coast and sank, carrying more than 400 passengers and all her cargo down with her. Both are fantastic female protagonists, and each have distinct voices. While we follow Sabriel in the first book, we primarily follow Lirael in the following two. At the beginning of the book, Sabriel goes in search for her father after he fails to show up for scheduled visit. It may go to a niece or nephew, instead of a daughter or son. It is a hereditary position, although not necessarily from a direct bloodline. The Abhorsen protects the world against the Dead by using bells to control them. In book one we meet the titular Sabriel, a young woman and daughter to the Abhorsen. There is also a prequel to the triolgy, Clariel, which was released in 2014 and a sequel, Goldenhand, which was released in 2016. Written by Australian author Garth Nix, the Abhorsen trilogy is set in the fictional fantasy world of the Old Kingdom and Ancelstierre. The memoir depicts place and relationships before, during, and after being at St Joseph's Mission Residential School, a Roman Catholic institution near Williams Lake, British Columbia. THEY CALLED ME NUMBER ONE: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School is a discursive articulation of land and relationship from the perspective of the Secwepemc writer and former chief of Xat'sull First Nation, Bev Sellars. Shame and silence were no match for story the suppressed truths couldn't remain hidden forever. But what the authorities didn't take into account was the capacity for old bonds to be rewoven and new links to be formed as people began to share their stories and experiences, in person and in print. What is often forgotten in discussions of residential school policy is that one of its fundamental purposes was to dismantle Indigenous resistance through a direct, sustained attack on families and the full network of relations and practices that enabled health and self-determination. APA style: Narratives of Place and Relationship: Bev Sellars's Memoir: They Called Me Number One.Narratives of Place and Relationship: Bev Sellars's Memoir: They Called Me Number One." Retrieved from 2018 Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English 05 Jun. MLA style: "Narratives of Place and Relationship: Bev Sellars's Memoir: They Called Me Number One." The Free Library. Praise for The Last Star " Yancey's prose remains achingly precise, and this grows heavier, tighter, and more impossible to put down as the clock runs out.this blistering finale proves the truth of the first two volumes: it was never about the aliens."- Booklist, starred review "A haunting, unforgettable finale."- Kirkus Reviews "Yancey doesn't hit the breaks for one moment, and the action is intense, but the language always stays lyrical and lovely. In these last days, Earth's remaining survivors will need to decide what's more important: saving themselves. Betrayed first by the Others, and now by ourselves. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They're down here, they're up there, they're nowhere. The highly-anticipated finale to the New York Times bestselling 5th Wave series. Fresh translations of the final two “Noon universe” books are being published this month.Īrkady Strugatsky was born in Batumi, Georgia, in 1925. And your imaginations would again run out of room, and then you’d look for another world, and you’d begin to remake that one, too.”’įutility sounds like a funny sort of foundation for an enjoyable book, but the Strugatskys wrote a whole series of them, and they amount to a singular triumph. “As soon as you made it to another world, you’d immediately begin to remake it in the image of your own. ‘“Another world, another world…” grumbles Puppen. Lev wonders what new world this portal might it lead to? Their search leads them through an abandoned city to a patch of tarmac, which Puppen insists is actually an interdimensional portal. In Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s The Beetle in the Anthill, zoopsychologist Lev Abalkin and his alien companion, a sentient canine “bighead” called Puppen-Itrich, are sent to the ruined and polluted planet Hope to find out what happened to its humanoid population. Reading The Beetle in the Anthill and The Waves Extinguish the Wind by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. |