![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With limited knowledge of the world around them, religion dominated the day and wildly imaginative metaphorical and miraculous occurences seemed possible.Īnd it’s one art historian Jack Hartnell brings to love in this fabulous work from 2018. Whilst times were indeed hard, your average London peasant was also as concerned with indigestion as you and I. That’s a period Laurence Bergreen’s Over the Edge of the World documents in enthralling fashion.ĭuring that time Europe went through often cataclysmic issues ranging between relentless outbreaks of killer diseases to war.Īlong with the disastrous medical procedures of the day, it kind of makes you happy to be alive here in 2019.īut whilst it’s easy to think of life back then being horrible, it doesn’t tell the full story. It came about with the end of the western Roman empire, before being succeeded by the Renaissance period and the Age of Discovery. Europe’s Middles Ages-medieval times, if you please-ran from the 5th through to the 15th century. ![]()
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![]() ![]() E-mail- ĬAREER: Former journalist for Philadelphia Inquirer and other newspapers writer and speaker at numerous schools, conventions, and other gatherings, beginning 1998. ![]() Hobbies and other interests: American history, advocating for children and teens.ĪDDRESSES: Offıce-P.O. ![]() Education: Onondaga County Community College, A.A., 1981 Georgetown University, B.S.L.L., 1984. Anderson (chief executive officer of Anderson Financial Systems), J(divorced, 2002) married Scott Larrabee (a construction company owner), Jchildren: Stephanie, Meredith (stepchildren) Jessica, Christian. (a Methodist minister) and Joyce (in management) Halse married Gregory H. ![]() PERSONAL: Born October 23, 1961, in Potsdam, NY daughter of Frank A., Jr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Watson introduces a lot of information with which I am not really familiar, and he does this engagingly. He gathers a lot of interesting facts together, which is fair enough, but then he generalises ad infinitum – leading to a reduction ad absurdum, to be frank.Let me start with a few positive aspects of the book. But what disappointed me in the end was not so much the content of the book, objectionable as some of it is to me, as the style in which Watson writes. Maybe both these responses are twined around each other, as Watson obviously wrote the book to elicit a strong response. On the other hand, I found myself vociferously disagreeing with a lot of Watson’s surmises. On the one hand, I was deeply stimulated and intrigued by most of the information and in the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Important information about the past, traditional stories and legends, and the magical elements of the book, are recounted as short stories. The backstory and colourful world building throughout is fantastic, and creatively woven into the text through engaging narrative styles. ![]() ![]() Moonchild Voyage of the Lost and Found by Aisha Bushby and Rachael DeanĪt moments like this, of heightened tension, the narrator will pull you out of the drama in page-turn-inducing style. Rachael Dean’s illustration is so powerful. So, when Namir really is lost, you feel all the feels. Straight away their powerful connection is established, and we see that Amira would go to the ends of the Earth for him. The thunderous waves nearly cause her to lose her beloved Jinni, Namur, her spirit companion who takes the form of a cat, especially when Amira feels angry. We first meet 12-year-old Amira during a terrifying storm that badly damages the dhow she lives on with her two sea-witch mothers, Jamila and Dunya. You can go with her to Sahar Peninsula it is just beyond the horizon. When Amira loses her Jinni she must voyage to a place where lost things can be found. Today’s spotlight is firmly shining on a captivating middle grade book, Moonchild: Voyage of the Lost and Found by Aisha Bushby, with illustrations by Rachael Dean. ![]() ![]() When I was still studying in the US, I visited Switzerland really briefly and visited a school up in the mountains called the Ecole d'Humanité on Hasliberg, and I was just there for a few days and then I left and went back to the US. So actually, I came over for basketball, which a lot of people are surprised to hear that. So, could we begin by speaking a little bit about your background and what brought you to Switzerland? ![]() Richard, thank you for joining us.Īll right. In addition to being a publisher, Richard is a best-selling author in his own right, with work translated into 15+ languages. Richard was born in New Hampshire in the US and now lives in Basel here in Switzerland, where he is Head of USA Publishing at Helvetiq, and Publisher at Bergli Books. ![]() The best way to do that is by sending an email to in today's episode, we'll be speaking with Richard Harvell. If you or anyone you know of is looking for a new role in Switzerland, or if you're looking to hire, let us know - we'd be happy to help. ![]() We are a staffing and IT-services company based in Zurich. This is a series of conversations in which we speak with experts about different aspects of life in Switzerland and share what we learn with you. ![]() Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of The Expert Guide to Your Life in Switzerland. ![]() ![]() ![]() How will Serapio stay human when he is steeped in prophecy and surrounded by those who desire only his power? Is there a future for Naranpa in a transformed Tova without her total destruction? ![]() For the Clan of Matriarchs of Tova, tense alliances form as far-flung enemies gather and the war in the heavens is reflected upon the earth.Īnd for Serapio and Naranpa, both now living avatars, the struggle for free will and personhood in the face of destiny rages. How do you live when legends come to life, and the faith you had is rewarded?Īs sea captain Xiala is swept up in the chaos and currents of change, she finds an unexpected ally in the former Priest of Knives. The Meridian: a land where magic has been codified and the worship of gods suppressed. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God’s eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent. There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. Return to The Meridian with New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse’s sequel to the most critically hailed epic fantasy of 2020 Black Sun-finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Lambda, and Locus awards. ![]() ![]() Is it bad taste to suck blood from those fly covered kids to pump up a commercial horror novel? Well, Simmons puts them to such imaginative use that ghastliness disappears. ![]() The title's children of the night are those frail, ravaged infants we see televised from Romanian orphanages. slips into Bram Stoker/Anne Rice territory and writes his best novel ever. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first trade edition. He also writes mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz." (from Wikipedia). His work spans the science fiction, horror and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel: a typical example of Simmons' intermingling of genres is Song of Kali (1985), winner of World Fantasy Award. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles. Her most baffling case is that of an abandoned seven-month-old boy who requires biweekly transfusions to survive." "Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer. "Kate Neuman, a brilliant hematologist, is in post-Ceausescu Romania to lend her expertise in the treatment of rare blood diseases. There is some beginning generalized toning to the text pages. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. ![]() Illustrated by Ann Spinelli (illustrator). ![]() 7/2/2023 The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution by Ekaterina Konstantinovna Br...Read Now![]() ![]() Petersburg married Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov or Ulyanov later known as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian revolutionary), in 1899 (died 1924) no children.Īwarded a gold medal for academic excellence (1882) left University of St. Obolensky Female Gymnasium and University of St. Petersburg, Russia died on February 27, 1939, in Moscow daughter of Konstantin Ignatevich Krupsky and Elizaveta Tistrova Krupskaya attended Prince A.A. Born Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya on February 26, 1869, in St. Russian educator, writer, Marxist revolutionary, and wife of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who took on Stalin but was powerless to stop him. ![]() ![]() His first in the series, Imaginative Realism, was widely acclaimed in the fantastical art world, and was ranked the #1 Bestseller on the Amazon list for art instruction. This book is the second in a series based on his blog,. A glossary, pigment index, and bibliography complete what will ultimately become an indispensible tool for any artist. Gurney cuts though the confusing and contradictory dogma about color, testing it in the light of science and observation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Beginning with a survey of underappreciated masters who perfected the use of color and light, the book examines how light reveals form, the properties of color and pigments, and the wide variety of atmospheric effects. A researched study on two of art's most fundamental themes, Color and Light bridges the gap between abstract theory and practical knowledge. James Gurney, New York Times best-selling author and artist of the Dinotopia series, follows Imaginative Realism with his second art-instruction book, Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter. This art instruction book will accompany the acclaimed Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist. From New York Times best-selling author of the Dinotopia series, James Gurney, comes a carefully crafted and researched study on color and light in paintings. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When neighbours invite her to join them at the Edinburgh Festival for the summer, she encounters the lively Bella Thorpe and the latter's unsympathetic brother Johnny, who makes an unwelcome play for her. Like many of her generation, she is adept at all social media (posting selfies on Facebook), but remaining painfully unworldly. She finds real life dull, and like her Austen template finds escape in mysterious literature: not for her, however, Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Rudolfo but contemporary flesh-creepers such as the Twilight films with their deferred sex and (in a clever joke) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies her reading has her searching for the dark and menacing in everyday life. Though, there is an interesting mystery about McDermid's book not directly related to the rejigged Austen concept.Ĭat is 17-years-old, and chafes at her cocooned existence in rural Dorset with her clergyman father. ![]() She makes Austen's naive Catherine Moreland the naive Cat Moreland, a young woman obsessed with the erotic vampires of Twilight in the same way that her prototype read breathlessly about the sinister castles created by Ann Radcliffe. ![]() So how to find an equivalent for such things in a modern setting? Trollope was criticised for adding drugs and internet trolls, and it will be interesting to see if Val McDermid's newly Celtic Northanger Abbey gains favour. ![]() |