![]() Something walks there in the darkĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:03:11 Boxid IA40151009 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Soon he will reach the point of no return - when the sea will freeze, making escape impossible. Soon he will see the last of the sun, as the polar night engulfs the camp in months of darkness. One by one, his companions are forced to leave. As night returns to claim the land, Jack feels a creeping unease. At last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men and eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. So when he's offered the chance to be the wireless operator on an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. ![]() 'What is it? What does it want? Why is it angry with me?' January 1937 Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. ![]()
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![]() This novel, Hemingway's first since A Farewell to Arms was published eight years earlier, follows the life and adventures of Harry Morgan from rum-running to revolution. Housed in a custom clamshell box.įirst edition, first issue of Hemingway’s first novel since A Farewell to Arms, basis for the Howard Hawks film co-scripted by Faulkner and featuring Bogart and Bacall together for the first time, in scarce original dust jacket. ![]() ![]() Octavo, original full black cloth, original dust jacket. “IF IT ISN’T ENJOYABLE-WHY DO IT?”: FIRST EDITION OF TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT ![]() ![]() ![]() Symbols - Which aspects of the book represented something more. Themes - The deeper meaning behind the plot and characters. Setting - How the setting impacted the story. Summary - Chapter by chapter descriptions of important events and why they are important.Ĭharacter Bios - Reminders of who main characters are so you can better understand the story.Ĭharacter Analysis - A deeper explanation of key characters and their roles. Review - What professional reviewers and authors thought about the book. Overview - An introduction to help you understand the book as a whole. With all evidence against his client, Haller turns to the one person who can help him discover the truth he believes – former member of the LAPD and self-proclaimed detective, Harry Bosh. ![]() Although the sentence seems ironclad, Haller believes his client, a reformed and former gang member, has been setup. ![]() Introduction A woman has been violently bludgeoned to death in her bed and the supposed culprit is locked up and ready to be prosecuted as guilty. We recommend purchasing the full version of The Crossing on Amazon in addition to this book. ![]() This book is a supplement to The Crossing and is intended to enhance the experience of reading the original book. Read This Book: Buy now and your book will be delivered to your Kindle device automatically. Presented by Brief Books (Includes Summary & Analysis)īuy Now: Only $1.99 (Save $2.00 or 50%, Regular Price: $3.99) ![]() ![]() We’re not quite at the half-year mark, but it’s as good a time as ever to check in on your Read Harder progress. ![]() It turns out they’re actually a secret cult keeping the truth from you-a hidden world filled with magical eyeglasses, talking dinosaurs, and knights with crystal swords! Now, Grandpa Smedry and I must invade the local library and get that sand back before it's used to conquer the world. The first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson's action-packed middle-grade fantasy-now in paperback with an all-new cover! | On my thirteenth birthday, I, Alcatraz Smedry, received my inheritance: a bag of sand. I thought the sand was a joke until Evil Librarians came to steal it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reticent, beautiful, and musically gifted, she’s an alluring mystery, and Maxim’s longing for her deepens into a passion that he’s never experienced and dares not name. It’s a role he’s not prepared for and one that he struggles to face.īut his biggest challenge is fighting his desire for an unexpected, enigmatic young woman who’s recently arrived in England, possessing little more than a dangerous and troublesome past. But all that changes when tragedy strikes and Maxim inherits his family’s noble title, wealth, and estates, and all the responsibility that entails. ![]() With his good looks, aristocratic connections, and money, he’s never had to work and he’s rarely slept alone. The passionate new romance from E L James, author of the phenomenal #1 bestselling Fifty Shades Trilogy ![]() ![]() ![]() The Phaistos Disk was found in the Minoan Palace of Phaistos on Crete in 1908 and is thought to date from the 17th century BC. Linear A is possibly related to Linear B but the language it was used to write is not known. It was named after Elam, the capital of SuseĪ script used between about 18 BC on Crete. It has yet to be deciphered and the language it represents in unknown.Ī partially deciphered syllabic script used between about 22 BC in the kingdom of Suse in south-western Persia (modern Iran). Some believe that these symbols are non-linguistic, while others argue that they represent a Dravidian language.Ī script which first appeared in about 2900 BC in Suse (Susa), the capital of Elam, in south-western Persia (modern Iran). There is no agreement on whether these symbols are a writing system.Ī collection of symbols used in the Indus valley of India between about 3,500 and 2,000 BC. In some cases the writing systems have been deciphered but the languages they were used to write remain a mystery.Ī collection of symbols found on many of the artefacts dating from between 6,000 to 4,500 BC excavated from sites in south-east Europe, in particular from Vinča near Belgrade. The writing systems listed below have yet to be deciphered or have only been partially deciphered. ![]() ![]() ![]() These three Great Untruths contradict basic psychological principles about well-being and ancient wisdom from many cultures. How did this happen?įirst Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven into American childhood and education: What doesn't kill you makes you weaker always trust your feelings and life is a battle between good people and evil people. ![]() Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising-on campus as well as nationally. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. ![]() Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. "The remedies the book outlines should be considered on college campuses, among parents of current and future students, and by anyone longing for a more sane society." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Lukianoff and Haidt tell us that safetyism undermines the freedom of inquiry and speech that are indispensable to universities." -Jonathan Marks, Commentary "Their distinctive contribution to the higher-education debate is to meet safetyism on its own, psychological turf. New York Times Bestseller - Finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction - A New York Times Notable Book - Bloomberg Best Book of 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Text and illustration © 1973, 2010, and © renewed 2002 by David MacaulayĪll rights reserved. This title has been selected as a Common Core text exemplar (Grades 6–8, Informational Texts: Science, Mathematics, and Technical Studies) Read more “David Macaulay is nothing less than America’s Explainer-in-Chief.” - Providence Journal “Fascinating detail.” - The New York Times Journey back to a long-ago world and visit the fictional people of twelfth-, thirteenth-, and fourteenth-century Europe whose dreams, like Cathedral, stand the test of time. One of the New York Times’s Best Illustrated Books of the Yearįrom the author of The Way Things Work, whose books have won numerous awards and sold millions of copies-and delighted readers young and old alike-this is a lively, detailed, and lavishly illustrated account of the building of a cathedral, and the community around it, through many decades.Ĭaldecott Medal winner David Macaulay’s imaginary Cathedral of Chutreaux remains a touchstone for budding architects as well as those interested in medieval history. ![]() ![]() Recreates the building of a French Gothic cathedral from half a forest to the last sheet of lead on the spire” ( Time). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In general, the idea of orally pleasing a woman isn't the first thing most men think to do in most of the "medieval" environments that get written about - the idea is the woman is generally there for the man's pleasure, so not much time is taken to make sure the lady also gets the happy ending, as it were. So the remark is both her commenting on how he treats her differently than others (perhaps differently from other Northern men she's been with, which is why she asked about people in a different locale - she's assuming he might have been with someone more "foreign" who would have taught him these things). It's been a long time since I've read the books, but I read a lot of romances, and the idea is similar.īasically, she's teasing him about cunnilingus (the act of giving oral sex to a female/someone with a vulva) - she's surprised he knew what to do (or perhaps more accurately, surprised it is something someone would even think to do), and is curious how he knew how to please her. ![]() ![]() ![]() But will they be enough to salvage this family, to help them find their way back to one another? Kristen Arnett’s breakout bestseller is a darkly funny family portrait a peculiar, bighearted look at love and loss and the ways we live through them together. It’s not until the Mortons reach a tipping point that a string of unexpected incidents begins to open up surprising possibilities and second chances. ![]() And Brynn, Milo’s wife-and the only person Jessa’s ever been in love with-walks out without a word. Her mother starts sneaking into the taxidermy shop to make provocative animal art, while her brother, Milo, withdraws. In the wake of her father’s suicide, Jessa has stepped up to manage his failing taxidermy business while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. ![]() What does it take to come back to life? For Jessa-Lynn Morton, the question is not an abstract one. A Best Book of the Year pick at the New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker, TIME, Washington Post, , Thrillist, Shelf Awareness, Good Housekeeping and more. ![]() |