![]() ![]() ![]() If you're super interested in this particular motif we have plenty more examples in the archives. These do not represent the best (as if we could decide something like that), or our favorites, but merely some interesting ones we've come across of late. There are many, many paperback fronts featuring knives-we mean hundreds-but we decided to stop ourselves at thirty-two today. and British offerings, you'll see covers from France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. It's a funny cover because we don't think we'd grab our throats if we got stabbed in the spine, but let's hope we never find out. Above you see Harry Bennett art of a poor fella getting a knife from nowhere. Today we have for your pleasure a collection of vintage paperback covers featuring characters on both the giving and receiving ends of knives-or knifelike tools such as icepicks. ![]()
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![]() After practicing corporate and labor law for a few years for GTE and Universal Studios Hollywood, she made a dramatic career change-choosing to write for young people instead. from Yale Law School, where she was a director of the Yale Law and Technology Association and worked for New Haven Legal Aid. ![]() in History and College Honors, Janet then obtained her J.D. When she returned from France, Janet founded the UCLA Immigrant Children's Art Project, a program focused on teaching refugee children to express themselves through art.Īfter graduating from UCLA, summa cum laude, with a B.A. As part of her undergraduate program at UCLA, she spent her junior year in France, studying art history at the Université de Bordeaux. ![]() Wong was born in Los Angeles, and grew up in Southern and Northern California. ![]() ![]() ![]() Which of these traditions had the biggest impact on you as an author? So dark fantasy, sci-fi and mystery are all present in Gideon. How does she go anywhere or do anything? Why is she not hiding in a special sensory deprivation coffin, like Daredevil? I have to keep my focus really tightly on me, my laptop, cups of tea, and occasional emails from my editor saying 'no-one even remembers the Ate My Balls meme any more'. When I try to imagine the life of someone genuinely famous, like Angelina Jolie or something, my mind just crumples under the weight. I just don't think the human brain was designed to ensure the experience of being talked about outside one's immediate circle of friends and acquaintances. ![]() I gather I have a lovely fan community on Tumblr, and friends occasionally try and lure me into looking at art or jokes they've found there, but I can't. I avoid anywhere I think my name might be mentioned. I realise that on one level I'm 'world-famous' because there exist people who have read my novel in various different parts of the world, and that is a lovely feeling - for example, I'm very excited to be getting interviewed for a Hungarian newsletter! But I cannot cope at all with 'fame' in its modern sense of people talking about me on the Internet. How do you manage to deal with being a world-famous author? Gideon the Ninth became a massive success. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This Is Vegan Propaganda is the empowering and groundbreaking book on veganism that everyone, vegan and sceptic alike, needs to read. Based on years of research and conversations with slaughterhouse workers and farmers, to animal rights philosophers, environmentalists and everyday consumers, vegan educator and public speaker Ed Winters will give you the knowledge to understand the true scale and enormity of the issues at stake. ![]() Whether you are a vegan already or curious to learn more, this book will show you the other side of the story that has been hidden for far too long. Through exploring the major ways that our current system of animal farming affects the world around us, as well as the cultural and psychological factors that drive our behaviours, This Is Vegan Propaganda answers the pressing question, is there a better way? It is quite literally a matter of life and death. /rebates/2f97816112488522fCollusion-Eden-Winters-161124885X2fplp&. Undeniably, these issues can be uncomfortable to learn about but the benefits of doing so cannot be overstated. Our choices can help alleviate the most pressing issues we face today: the climate crisis, infectious and chronic diseases, human exploitation and, of course, non-human exploitation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, Shane and Rattlesnake have set their hooks into him and whenever he thinks about leaving, it no longer seems like the right choice. As the days pass, Jimmy keeps planning to leave, because that’s what he does and he’s never needed to settle down. Jimmy ends up taking work at a local hotel where Shane serves as bartender and passion blossoms between them. He is naturally attracted to the drifter who blows into town. Shane Little doesn’t have many good memories of his biological father and calls his stepfather Dad. When Tom dies quietly in his sleep, Jimmy decides to deliver the man’s last words to his son. Tom has a son, one he hasn’t seen since he was a child, and he’s trying to get home to see him one last time. Both have made plenty of mistakes and neither has a place to call home. With a junker car on its last legs and only a few bucks in his pocket, Jimmy isn’t much better off than the man who calls himself Tom, but they have a lot in common. So when he sees an old man huddled on the side of the road hoping for a lift, Jimmy picks him up. Jimmy Dorsett knows what it means to be to down on his luck. Buy Link: Amazon | All Romance | Amazon UK ![]() ![]() ![]() Tessa learns from Landon that Hardin is his future step-brother since Landon's mom and Hardin's dad are engaged. On the first day of college classes, Tessa befriends Landon Gibson, who is also an English major. Steph tells Tessa about the boy, Hardin Scott, who is a rebellious figure on campus. The next morning, Tessa returns to her room to find one of Steph's friends inside, an attractive, tattooed boy who makes several rude comments to Tessa. When Carol fails to convince Tessa to switch dorms, Carol warns her daughter about the dangers of college parties before leaving with Noah. ![]() ![]() The conservative Carol is horrified by Tessa's alternative-styled roommate and her friend, upperclassman Steph Jones. Tessa Young, an incoming freshman at Washington State University, arrives at college with her mother, Carol, and boyfriend Noah. She took inspiration from singer Harry Styles and based the fanfiction on him. Anna Todd's writing of the novel was inspired by the music and fandom of One Direction. After is the first installment of the After novel series.Ī film adaptation of the same name was released on April 12, 2019.Īfter was originally released as a fanfiction on Wattpad. After is a 2014 young adult romance novel written by American author Anna Todd under her Wattpad name Imaginator1D and published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. ![]() ![]() He drops us into scenes and scenarios without any explanation I genuinely felt like Faulkner wanted to deliberately confuse his readers about characters and ideas he could have easily portrayed in a more accessible way. And Faulkner takes it to a whole new level. ![]() I don't mind working at a book if it's hard-going, but this style of narration makes it difficult for me, personally, to ever settle into the rhythm of the book. The first problem is my lack of enthusiasm for stream of consciousness narratives. I think, deep down, I always sensed Faulkner just wasn't for me. ![]() But when I've felt in the mood for a classic or something "literary", I've always passed him up for other authors, even those with 1000+ page monsters. His books always appear on lists of "best books of all time" and "books you should read before you die". I've been working up to a William Faulkner book for years. ![]() ![]() Maas How Many Throne of Glass Books are in the Series? Set in the fictional world of Erilea, the Throne of Glass series follows the journey of Aelin Galathynius who was once a slave but becomes a king’s assassin to earn her freedom and possibly more. Maas books in order! Throne of Glass Series Summary Don’t miss my post on all of the Sarah J. Her books have since sold more than twelve million copies and are published in thirty-seven languages. Maas first published the Throne of Glass stories online on FictionPress before they were picked up and published by Bloomsbury after gaining popularity. I love that Maas is another best-selling author who first found a following online by self-publishing her stories. The Throne of Glass series is actually a Cinderella-inspired fantasy with a strong female protagonist. She is known for her young adult fantasy series that combine fantasy, adventure, and romance. In addition to this series, Maas is also well known for her A Court of Thorns and Roses series and the Crescent City series. Maas is the author of the Throne of Glass series. Who is the Author of the Throne of Glass Series? ![]() ![]() ![]() In one, David brings home his new partner Greta and her young daughter he doesn’t explain that they are in a relationship, and, like rabbits trapped in headlights, no one asks. Tyler’s set-pieces – here largely conceived as awkward family get-togethers – seem undramatic, but her rhythms are masterly. Alice becomes prissy and domineering and Lily is flaky and unmoored, while David, never losing the sense that his dad dislikes him, keeps his family at arm’s length. We jump ahead in time with each chapter, observing how the family dynamic has shaped each of them. Their eldest, Alice, takes charge of the cooking Lily, the middle child, spends most of it off necking with a boy called Trent and young David, age seven, cautiously avoids getting into the water until his dad forces him into it. While there, it’s as though they are individuals unconnected with one another: Mercy wants to get on with her watercolours, while Robin wades into the lake and has blokey chats with a new friend he’s made. They are embarking on their first proper holiday with their three children, heading for Deep Creek Lake and stoically determined to enjoy themselves. ![]() He has taken over the running of a hardware shop that ran in Mercy’s family she has parked her painterly ambitions in order to be a housewife and a mother. The action spins back to 1959, and we meet Robin and Mercy Garrett. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Marco Polo describes the creature as a “serpent”, identifying it as a separate animal from snakes, which he mentions earlier, and is likely already familiar with, having hailed from Europe where there are various native snakes. ![]() ![]() Medieval depiction of a crocodile from Marco Polo’s time, c. He went on to add that “their mouth is big enough to swallow a man at one gulp.” The sheer fascination is clear when reading The Travels, although some historians and naturalists have disputed whether this really was a crocodile he was describing, or whether he used some generous poetic licence and sprinkled in some descriptions from Chinese mythical dragons. He came across the reptilians and described them as “loathsome creatures”. That is what Marco Polo had to do when he was on his travels in a place he called Kara-jang, which we now know as Yunnan Province, China. However, imagine describing a crocodile to people who had never even heard of one, let alone seen one. We may now think of crocodiles as something we would only see in a wildlife documentary on television, or in a zoo or safari park. Marco Polo’s Encounter with Crocodiles Mosaic of Marco Polo, displayed in the Palazzo Doria-Tursey, Genoa, Italy, 1867, via ![]() |