For this reason, in the well-known "Embassy Letters" she posted to relatives and friends during her Turkish sojourn, she discredited the authors of those travel accounts, who failed to tell the truth but conveyed what was partial and erroneous, and continually emphasised the authenticity of her experience. Living for almost two years in the Ottoman Empire offered the English gentlewoman the possibility not only to appreciate the customs and mores of the local people, but also to realize how false and groundless were many of the ideas she had heard about the Turks. Here, the Whig politician Edward had been appointed ambassador extraordinary of George I to Sultan Ahmet III and representative of the Levant Company to the Sublime Porte. In the summer of 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu undertook a long journey across Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean to accompany her husband to Constantinople.
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But those who know Mina’s brilliant but gruelling Garnethill trilogy and the first two in her Paddy Meehan series know that her work is steeped in darkness. One of her children is rampaging along the wide corridor outside the study door her partner is baking bread in the kitchen. This friendly, funny mother-of-two is perched on the edge of a chair in the airy study of her spacious townhouse in the West End of Glasgow. Mina and her present setting seem a million miles from such gruesome images. And I really wanted to describe these scenes.’Ĭrime writer Denise Mina is talking about the starting point for her first novel, the award-winning Garnethill (1999), which she wrote when she was supposed to be working on her PhD at Strathclyde University. What made it human, what made it moving, was the detail. It was just mush but there was an eyeball lying there. With a shotgun, the air in the pellet expands so that if you shoot into the head the skull blows up. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst. ‘I n the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. In homage to Hazan's rich life and impact, we're sharing a profile of her written for the 2000 James Beard Awards program. In 1986 she was named a "Who's Who of Food & Beverage." She also received the Foundation's Lifetime Achievement award that same year. She is a multiple James Beard Book Award winner her first book, The Classic Italian Cook Book: The Art of Italian Cooking and the Italian Art of Eating, was inducted into the JBF Cookbook Hall of Fame in 2000. A native of Italy's Emilia-Romagna region, Hazan published several Italian cookbooks, and was widely considered to be one of the world's foremost authorities on authentic Italian cuisine and techniques. The James Beard Foundation is deeply saddened by the loss of author and culinary legend Marcella Hazan. More than once, he’d seen what the claws and teeth of the predators could do to human flesh-saw the terror frozen in the eyes of their dead victims. The predators’ night vision could penetrate the dark with ease and their sense of smell could detect the four of them wherever they may hide.ĭesperation begged that he plunge deeper into the woods. Gully had hoped the thick trees would offer him and the people he’d rescued, places to conceal themselves, but it wasn’t to be. Wails filled the night their terrifying howls alerting others of their pack that the chase was nearly over. He pictured his pursuers’ tongues lolling from their mouths, salivating with anticipation. The heavy pounding of their massive paws against the frozen landscape grew ever closer. Shadowing them on all fours, their stalkers were urged on with an inhuman need to slaughter. Gully’s lungs burned, and cold sweat dripped down his face, but he couldn’t stop running, because stopping meant death. In present day, Addie survives by stealing and sneaking into others' apartments to sleep. As soon as she leaves their sight, they forget her. She is given eternal life, but no one can remember her (she wanted to "live freely"). Instead, she offers the devil her soul when she is done with it, and he accepts. As a gift, she offers her favorite possession, a carved wooden ring, but the devil rejects it. Addie asks to live freely and to have more time. As she prays to the old gods, the night falls and the devil answers. In 1714, Addie is 23 and engaged, but she longs to be free. Estele also told her she had seven freckles, one for each man she would love some day. A local woman, Estele, taught her about the old gods, but warned her not to call on them after dark. In Part One, we meet Adeline "Addie" LaRue, who was born over 300 years ago, in Villon, a small french village. The book switches between the past and the present to tell this story. From Eric Carle, the New York Times bestselling creator of. Here visitors of all ages can enjoy, in addition to Eric Carle's work, original artwork by other distinguished children's book illustrators from around the world. From Head to Toe Board Book is a book about animals introducing movement with their body parts. From Head to Toe by renowned childrens author Eric Carle will have your children wiggling around as they mimic the movements of the animals described in. In 2002, fifty years after Carle's return to the United States, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art was opened in Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1952, after graduating from the prestigious Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart, he fulfilled his dream of returning to New York.Įric Carle received many distinguished awards and honours for his work, including, in 2003, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his lifetime contribution to children's literature and illustration. However, when he was just six, he moved with his parents to Germany. Eric Carle was the creator of more than seventy picture books for young readers.Įric Carle was born in New York, USA. But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fall-out forces Blythe to face the truth. Even Violet seems to love her little brother. Then their son Sam is born-and with him, Blythe has the blissful connection she'd always imagined with her child. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe is telling us about her life as well. Or is it all in Blythe's head? Her husband, Fox, says she's imagining things. A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family-and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for-and everything she feared.īlythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had.īut in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter-she doesn't behave like most children do. The Burmese chronicles trace the origin of the Burmese calendar to ancient India with the introduction of the Kali Yuga Era in 3102 BCE. It is still used to mark traditional holidays such as the Burmese New Year, and other traditional festivals, many of which are Burmese Buddhist in nature. Today, the calendar is used in Myanmar as one of the two official calendars alongside the Gregorian calendar. It was also used as the official calendar in other mainland Southeast Asian kingdoms of Arakan, Lan Na, Xishuangbanna, Lan Xang, Siam, and Cambodia down to the late 19th century. The calendar has been used continuously in various Burmese states since its purported launch in 640 CE in the Sri Ksetra Kingdom, also called the Pyu era. The calendar therefore has to reconcile the sidereal years of the Hindu calendar with the Metonic cycle's near tropical years by adding intercalary months and days at irregular intervals. The calendar is largely based on an older version of the Hindu calendar, though unlike the Indian systems, it employs a version of the Metonic cycle. The Burmese calendar ( Burmese: မြန်မာသက္ကရာဇ်, pronounced, or ကောဇာသက္ကရာဇ်, Burmese Era (BE) or Myanmar Era (ME)) is a lunisolar calendar in which the months are based on lunar months and years are based on sidereal years. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Burmese script. “In this Game of Thrones-esque high fantasy, Rhodes has created a world that’s raging with war, deceit, spoiled royals, and a populous needing little to spark a revolution.” - NPR/WAMC’s The Roundtable " Falling Kingdoms will gut you emotionally. It will make you ache, cry, and beg for the sequel as you turn the last page. I absolutely loved it." - Julie Kagawa, New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Queen “ YA Game of Thrones full of intrigue, betrayal, lies and love.” - The Guardian “ Falling Kingdoms is a superbly written and character-driven narrative.” - Bookpage “…You must have this book on your shelves.” - Bustle “An otherworldly epic.evocative and intricate.”- Publishers Weekly I can't wait to see what happens next!" - Richelle Mead, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Vampire Academy and The Glittering Court This is one of those series you can't help but be obsessed with. "Morgan Rhodes has created a rich, living fantasy world and characters that immediately draw the reader in. Even when his motivation for staying mum about his true identity is revealed, one struggles to feel sympathetic since he seems to prioritize his own griefs over the wrongs done to a woman. Gabriel is a hard character to like, however, because of his deception about who he is, his odd choice to remain in London despite the need to rescue a needy family member in the country-and the troubling implications of the fact that he has made money in shipping in pre–Civil War America. Yet she is unenthusiastic about her choices until two men, including Gabriel, show an interest. At 25, Jessica is finally ready to marry. But Gabriel has a secret about his identity, and he believes its eventual revelation requires that he have an aristocratic wife at his side-one he decides will be the patrician Jessica. In a new, baggy Westcott family novel, Lady Jessica Archer demands romance and recognition of her inner self from an American newcomer to Regency London.Ī brief encounter at an inn gives Jessica, the sister of the Duke of Netherby, and Gabriel Thorne, a merchant from Boston, an initial dislike of each other. |
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