![]() ![]() ![]() The room was dark despite the afternoon hour. With a grimace I stood up from my three-monitor desk. The knuckles on my right hand were swollen and warm from the punch I’d landed on Gunnar just minutes after I’d gotten the email. I’d been so focused on the task at hand that I hadn’t even noticed the pain. It’d take a solid ten minutes to complete.Īs soon as the timer began, and there was nothing I could do but wait, my wrists and fingers throbbed. After another few minutes, I finally identified the error-a misplaced semicolon-and adjusted it, and then began the compilation. ![]() Or it would, if I could figure out why it wasn’t compiling properly. The bug I was programming would latch onto the email and trace it backward to its point of origin. ![]() Twelve hours ago I’d received an email: a picture of Dad’s fatal bike crash with two words. When I got in the flow like this, the code became an extension of my mind-my own desires and goals reified into thousands of lines of sometimes inelegant but always functional programming. I scanned through the program for what felt like the hundredth time. I’d been typing without pause through the past eight hours, and there was something wrong with the code I’d written. I leaned closer to the center monitor on my desk. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The novel opens with a group from a university mystery writing club discussing their practice as they travel to an island where a murder was committed the previous year. The Decagon House Murders is Ayatsuji’s second work to appear in English, and the first of his honkaku mysteries. But for years the Shin Honkaku (New Orthodox) group in Japan, of which Yukito Ayatsuji is a prominent member, have been putting out mysteries following Van Dine’s formula, shying away from new science or gimmicks in favour of good old honest mysteries. It’s become rare for a novel written in English to follow SS Van Dine’s rules for the writing of a mystery novel, the most well-known and thorough of several different sets of ‘rules’ that defined the Golden Age of detective fiction. ![]() Translated by Ho-Ling Wong - My advice to anyone who picks up this intriguing little pastiche of the Golden Age is don’t get too attached to any of the characters. ![]() ![]() His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many notable authors, including W. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. The author: George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. Strahan had published the story and illustrations as a serial in the monthly magazine Good Words for the Young, beginning November 1870. It was originally published in 1872 by Strahan & Co., with black-and-white illustrations by Arthur Hughes. ![]() The book: Rare and attractive First edition illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith of The Princess and the Goblin is a children's fantasy novel by George MacDonald. Illustrations: Beautifully illustrated with the complete 8 full-page color illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. First issue book, satisfying all of the points in Nudelman A55.īinding: Attractive and very good original beige decorated cloth-covered boards with gold stamped lettering on spine and a pictorial pastedown on front cover, upper edge gilt (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.Ĭontent: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean - as shown, rare light foxing or staining - as shown). First Edition illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. First edition. ![]() ![]() Publisher: Philadelphia, David McKay, 1920. Title: THE PRINCESS AND THE GOBLIN by George MacDonald. ![]() ![]() ![]() There she encounters the giant arachnid-the Shoyla, and threats both old and new. After her own trauma at the hands of her Agraak "mate," she is innately suspicious and frightened of alien males to her detriment as she flees into the deadly territory Vora's Shagorith mountains. When stowing away on a Buto trading vessel lands her on an illegal clearing in Vora, she discovers that finding a comm system and delivering the information she had to the Intergalactic Council wasn't going to be as easy as she thought. The royal families and elite castes of Agraak society would not allow their secrets to become known. ![]() Possessing full knowledge of the location of their breeding facility meant that she'd never be safe. ![]() Already facing termination for her failure to carry Agraak young to term, when Jenn escapes from the breeding facility she knows that the Agraak would not rest until they found her. ![]() ![]() ![]() Taylor, explained customs, language, family names, and nuances of Hawaiian culture to Michener. ![]() His technical adviser, noted Hawaiian scholar Clarice B. Each section explores the experiences of different groups of arrivals.įor Hawaiian history, Michener researched at the Hawaiian-Mission Historical Library and consulted experts on island history, volcanoes, botany, pineapples, and Chinese culture. The story begins with the formation of the islands themselves millions of years ago and ends in the mid-1950s. ![]() ![]() It is written in episodic format, like many of Michener's works, and narrates the stories of the original Hawaiians who sailed to the islands from Bora Bora, the early American missionaries and merchants, and the Chinese and Japanese immigrants who traveled to work and seek their fortunes in Hawaii. The historical correctness of the novel is high, although the narrative about the early Polynesian inhabitants is based more on folklore than anthropological and archaeological sources. It has been translated into 32 languages. Michener published in 1959, the year that Hawaii became the 50th U.S. Wikiquote has quotations related to James Michener's “Hawaii”. ![]() ![]() I do this by listening to our client’s needs, understanding their wants, and putting 100% of my time and energy into helping them achieve their sale or purchase. 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"There was recently an event on Martha's Vineyard for Jewish Democrats – who would be the first person you would think of as a Jewish Democrat on Martha’s Vineyard – me, but I wasn't invited because I'm now cancelled essentially from the Democratic Party." "I have essentially been excluded from the Democratic Party," Dershowitz told Newsmax. Alan Dershowitz was ridiculed on Saturday after invoking "cancel culture" to complain about how he has been treated on Martha's Vineyard after defending Donald Trump in the impeachment trial that could have removed Trump from office before the brunt of the pandemic and his Jan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Smith is always a lucid essayist, but these feel like personal essays that attempt to avoid the personal. ![]() In Intimations: Six Essays, Smith’s verbal brilliance and self-deprecating wit can seem like obstacles in her search for moral honesty. Given that Smith tends to be elliptical about her own interiority, it’s a rare moment of unvarnished disclosure, one that recalls an introductory epigram to the book, a quotation from Grace Paley: “My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.” At the very end of this slender, digestible collection of personal essays, Zadie Smith admits: “My physical and moral cowardice have never really been tested, until now.” It’s a sentiment that encapsulates the zeitgeist of 2020. ![]() ![]() Not only was the American version released from Saga Press, but the UK edition came out in November from Titan Books. 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Rochester’s attic-bound wife in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre-as they band together to combat the toxic men bent on destroying their lives, set against the backdrop of the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, 1967. Reluctant Immortals is a historical horror novel that looks at two men of classic literature, Dracula and Mr. Reluctant Immortals Gwendolyn Kiste € 24.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 7-10 working days.įor fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature-from Lucy Westenra, a victim of Stoker’s Dracula, and Bertha Mason, Mr. ![]() |