![]() ![]() ![]() Our story was supposed to end there, but it didn’t. I was extremely attracted to Dax, and by that time, I was falling hard.Įventually, I’d find out why he’d been so aloof, the reason why he and I could never be together. ![]() Let’s just say it was challenging to keep things professional. It took three times before I finally gave him the massage he’d ordered. The man I now affectionately called “Moody” kept calling me to come back. But once again, there was no actual massage. That appointment, we talked a lot, developing a stronger connection. What I didn’t realize was that he would be younger than I’d imagined, single, stunningly gorgeous, and mysterious.ĭespite the fact that Dax had booked a massage, it never actually happened, since our first appointment was unexpectedly cut short by a comedy of errors.Ĭertain I’d never see him again after that day, I’d done nothing but think about the captivating man. ![]() The day I showed up to Dax Moody’s sprawling home, I had no idea what was coming.Īs a traveling massage therapist, I was used to entering the houses of strangers.īut this assignment was different from any before it.įrom the outside, I’d correctly assumed the owner was rich. From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new standalone novel. ![]()
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![]() ![]() What happens when the radical change agent goes too far? ![]() He has become the stuff of legends… the boogeyman who kills “good” vampires in their sleep. He recognizes, after his capture, that the society of vampires that has formed now views him as the monster. He drives stakes into their hearts with aplomb.Įvery night, the vampires stand at his barricaded door…calling his name.Įventually, Neville is captured. And he goes about his days hunting them down and killing them while they sleep. Neville, the last uninfected person standing, goes about his nights barricaded from the night stalking vampires–studying their evolution and weaknesses. ![]() They could, eventually, be coherent individuals–still infected with a terrible disease that prevented them from being in the sun. Those who know the book and not the movies (especially the Will Smith version) know that the vampires could still talk and interact. In Richard Matheson’s classic book I Am Legend, the protagonist, Robert Neville, is the sole survivor of a pandemic that has left the rest of the human population converted to vampires. As change agents, we must not become what we hate. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. 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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The books are printed in China using four bright jewel tones which look great against the thick paper used. ![]() This paper-style binding isn’t particularly robust, so you need to take some care removing them if they are in a tight bookcase or you may find the edges get scuffed.Īlthough the interactive elements are quite delicate, the pages are section sewn which makes them quite secure. So far, all the books in this series have been truly stunning editions of classic tales, and they really are wonderful additions to any library, or as a beautiful keepsake gift. The books are hardbacks, bound in heavy textured paper with debossing and spot foiling, but no dust jacket. And 2022 sees the advent of the standalone book MinaLima Magic, an interactive look into their creative process. The Potter books are a smidge shorter than the children’s classics, but follow the same construction and interactive design techniques as the classics series. In 2020 they expanded this line with the first of (presumably) seven volumes of the Harry Potter novels in similar style. Best known for their design work on the Harry Potter franchise, in 2015 they committed to producing a 12 volume series of interactive children’s classics in conjunction with Harper Design, and to date (2022), eight of these volumes have been released. Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima are the graphic design duo affectionately known as MinaLima. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "I was undercover at that point as an authenticator for an Eastern European mob group," he tells Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies. After weeks of negotiation, he agreed to meet the thieves in a hotel room in Copenhagen. After founding the FBI's Art Crime Team, he revolutionized the way the bureau tracks down criminals who swipe paintings and antiquities in high-profile heists around the world.įor the Swedish case, Wittman went into the field, posing as a crooked art dealer looking to swap cash for the Rembrandt. Wittman, who spent 20 years with the FBI, is one of the world's leading authorities on recovering stolen art and cultural property. Swedish authorities called in Robert Wittman to help them track down the paintings - and the thieves who stole them. As the thieves made their getaway in a high-speed boat, police could not access the museum because the highways were completely blocked. Simultaneously, two car bombs went off on the main roads leading to the museum, located on a small peninsula in central Stockholm. For the next 40 minutes, the thieves ran through the museum, taking two Renoir paintings and a 1630 self-portrait by Rembrandt - a painting valued at $36 million. In late December 2000, three people armed with machine guns went into the Swedish National Museum in Stockholm and ordered everyone to get down on the floor. Robert Wittman's book, Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures is now out in paperback. This interview was originally broadcast on July 12, 2010. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “God preserve Pat Conroy.” – Boston Globe “A work of enormous power, passion, humor, and wisdom.” – Washington Star Rich in humor and suspense, abounding in a rare honesty and generosity of feeling, this novel established Pat Conroy as one of the strongest fictional voices in a generation. And yet his greatest struggle will be with the corrupt institution of which he is a part. Will McLean, a senior on the cadets’ honor court, is an outsider by nature: a basketball star at a school that prizes military prowess above athletics, a military man in training who dares to question the escalating Vietnam war. The Lords of Discipline is a novel about coming of age, brotherhood, betrayal, and a man’s forging of his own personal code of honor. ![]() “ The Lords of Discipline is, simply, an American classic.” - Larry King ![]() ![]() ![]() Jaered stepped toward the window, aghast at the test subject’s transformation. But when Jaered is willing to sacrifice an innocent child to obtain the drug for himself, Ian risks everything to uncover the secrets of the rebel forces and their true intentions for Earth’s survival.Ī scream from beyond the glass. ![]() Jaered is determined to stop a malevolent Weir from releasing a drug capable of wiping out the last vestiges of their race and plunging Earth into self-destruction. But moments before he takes the stage, Ian encounters the mysterious Jaered and a rebel force fighting to protect Earth alongside the Weir. When presented with an opportunity to perform, Ian seizes the chance. His career as an illusionist is at a standstill and attending to the planet’s needs has distanced him from his best friend, his guardians, and the woman he loves. Ian Black’s commitment to safeguarding Earth has come at a price. Title: Masks and Mirrors (The Weir Chronicles #2) ![]() ![]() ![]() Every spare policeman in England and Scotland is in the area to protect the leaders and to police the streets of Edinburgh where the political activists are gathering to march first in the city and then onto Auchterader. It's July 2005 and world leaders are gathering for the G8 summit at Gleneagles in Scotland. ![]() ![]() It's a genius who produces a plot which is totally convincing and leaves you feeling that you know more about the events than you gleaned from the media at the time. It's a brave author who sets his novel in one of the most dramatic weeks in recent history, particularly when the events are so well known that there is no opportunity to tweak them or to use artistic licence. It's a fast-paced book and highly recommended at Bookbag Towers. Summary: Rebus finds himself investigating the apparent suicide of a young MP and the possibility of a serial killerall in the shadow of the G8 summit at Gleneagles. ![]() ![]() ![]() Excellent when considering his work's relation to politics, especially in Beirut but also, again, the title essay. Best when writing about writing, editing, writers, and daily life, more so than when describing photographs and paintings. It's sequenced well, opening with essays on photographers and artists before moving on to Houllebecq's Submission, Hamsun, an essay at one point on one page comparing War and Peace, Ulysses, and 2666, an excellent short piece on Madame Bovary, the title essay about being called a Nazi rapist pedophile by a Swedish feminist professor easily the most charged with emotion, all with familiar glimpses into domestic life in southeastern Sweden and growing up in Norway.Īs in The Seasons Quartet, thematic emphasis is on inner and outer, horizontal and the vertical, but also a new register or dynamic in this: the inside of the internal, the world inside the world - escape from reality deeper into reality to its core. It revisits some of the Munch book's focus on Kiefer, Hamsun, and Stephen Gill, and reminded me of Book Four (teaching up north) and Book Five (becoming a writer, friends with young influential writers named Tore and/or Geir), but for the most part it's a welcome extension of familiar dimensions. If you've read all of My Struggle and A Time For Everything and were wondering which Knausgaard to read next ( The Seasons Quartet, Home and Away, the Munch book, Inadvertent?), this one deserves consideration as your first stop. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A first-generation Filipino-American, Garbes shares the perspective of her family's complicated relationship to care work, placing mothering in a global context-the invisible economic engine that has been historically demanded of women of color. In Essential Labor, Garbes explores assumptions about care, work, and deservedness, offering a deeply personal and rigorously reported look at what mothering is, and can be. In response to the increasing weight placed on mothers and caregivers-and the lack of a social safety net to support them-writer Angela Garbes found herself pondering a vital question: How, under our current circumstances that leave us lonely, exhausted, and financially strained, might we demand more from American family life? ![]() ![]() The COVID-19 pandemic shed fresh light on a long-overlooked truth: mothering is among the only essential work humans do. From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America, and an exploration of mothering as a means of social change. ![]() |
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