![]() She's a devout reader of holy books and is well-versed in the military strategy text Belleza Guerra, but she has been kept in ignorance of world affairs. ![]() 12-14)Īdventure drags our heroine all over the map of fantasyland while giving her the opportunity to use her smarts.Įlisa-Princess Lucero-Elisa de Riqueza of Orovalle-has been chosen for Service since the day she was born, when a beam of holy light put a Godstone in her navel. ![]() Genre fans won’t be disappointed, and surely the rest of the series will reveal the truly important answer: Team Ash or Team Robbie? (Paranormal romance. Though Kagawa’s faeryland initially appears decorated with the stock set dressing of the genre, the novel’s eponymous villain adds a clever, unexpected twist. Good thing she’s got a crew of helpers: Puck, who seems awfully affectionate Grimalkin, a vanishing cat with motives of his own and Ash, an Unseelie prince of cold, unearthly beauty. Robbie escorts Meghan into the Nevernever on a dangerous rescue mission, where she unsurprisingly discovers she is more than your everyday bayou schoolgirl. On Meghan’s 16th birthday, everything changes: Her four-year-old brother is replaced by a changeling, and Robbie admits he is a faery (Puck, of course). At least she’s got one friend-spindly prankster Robbie Goodfell. Meghan Chase loves her family, but she doesn’t love living on a pig farm in the Louisiana swamps. Paranormal romance in the style of Melissa Marr and Cassandra Clare. ![]()
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His knowledge of the Beatles is world renowned and he was a long-time researcher for other writers before publishing his first book in the subject, Beatles Live! He would eventually leave that career in 1983 and then embark on a freelance career as he hoped to turn his lifelong interest in the Beatles into his profession. After his education, Mark went to work in several admin positions at the BBC before leaving to pursue a career as the research manager at the trade magazine Music Week. ![]() ![]() The author was in demand as a researcher and was used as a resource for the television, DVDs, CDs and book of the Beatles own Anthology. He has written numerous books about the band, including The Beatles: All These Years, Complete Beatles Recording Sessions and The Complete Beatles Chronicle. ![]() Mark Lewisohn is an English biographer best known in his role as the world authority on the Beatles. ![]() ![]() ![]() May the Bard be with you.Īge Recommendation: Comic depictions of violence, mild innuendo, bawdy language, and the occasional rude word. This is a high paced action-packed thrill ride, and we ask that should the intense hurtling speed of the Shakespearean canon and our majestic performances cause you to vomit and burst into flames, please refrain from screaming too loudly so as not to affect the enjoyment of those around you. NOTICE! The National Production Company takes no responsibility for any loss of blood pressure, brain cells or partners during the proceedings. ![]() The National Production Company presents ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged).’ This critically acclaimed play is an irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard’s 37 plays! Join these madcap performers in tights as they weave their way through all of Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies in one wild ride that will leave you breathless and helpless with laughter. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare ![]() ![]() ![]() He gracefully takes readers on his journey from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for the risky surgical procedure and then New York City for intense rehab, and he praises his compassionate doctors and their top-notch care. 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In his fourth book, Fox expresses gratitude for the past and looks to the future with a firm grasp on how to be “both a realist and an optimist.” ![]() ![]() ![]() From the 14th to 18th centuries, kings and peasants shunned water because they thought it spread bubonic plague, and Louis XIV cleaned up by donning a fresh linen shirt. Yet the Crusaders imported communal Turkish baths to medieval Europe. 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Durant's 90th year, the series represented its authors' attempt to provide a coherent synthesis and description of every aspect of the entire story of civilization.Įager and thorough, irrepressibly enthusiastic and unflaggingly energetic, Mr. Spanning 11,000 years of human history, from "Our Oriental Heritage," which appeared in 1935, to "The Age of Napoleon," published in 1975 in Mr. ![]() 25 at their home in Los Angeles was apparently never given to her husband, who had been in intensive care for three weeks following surgery. His death came 13 days after that of his wife, Ariel, who was his collaborator on most volumes of the series and was his coauthor on the last five. The author and teacher, whose volumes sold in the millions and buttress home libraries across the nation, died of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai hospital. Will Durant, 96, a student, scholar and popularizer of history and philosophy who devoted much of his life to writing "The Story of Civilization," a monumental and much-praised 11-volume work, died late Saturday in Los Angeles. ![]() |