![]() This new edition will introduce a fresh audience to Maclean’s beautiful prose and understated emotional insights.Įlegantly redesigned, A River Runs through It includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award-winning 1992 film adaptation of River. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture-for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art- A River Runs through It has established itself as a classic of the American West. ![]() One editor, so the story goes, replied, “it has trees in it.” Forty years later, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. ![]() When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. ![]()
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In Josh Lanyon's A Dangerous Thing, the second in his on-going series of Los Angeles-based thrillers, featuring bookseller Adrien English, a holiday trip, following directly on from the 'Gay Slasher Killings' narrated in Fatal Shadows, proves far less relaxing than English anticipates. ![]() When he describes to Adrien WHY he can’t kiss him – you feel so bad for Adrien but to Adrien’s credit – he doesn’t dismiss him but still hangs on to try to figure out who is this man that he cares for. His struggles for who he is, who he loves, and why he feels broken brings new insight to who Jake is as a man. /rebates/2f97819028523312fDangerous-Thing-Lanyon-Josh-19028523382fplp&. I was disappointed in Jake but soon felt sorry for him. ![]() When Adrien refers to Jake being buried in the closet, I think it is more like six-feet under. The feeling like you are, just a convenience maybe be taken for granted does hurt. For me, I felt Adrien’s pain – when you realize you’re with a man who wants to be just buddies, want’s you as a mentor not a lover - that realization is heartfelt. Well Lanyon doesn’t disappoint – although the mystery is not the most intriguing one, I think the foundation of this story brings romance/relationship to the forefront and the mystery in the background. But by the time the unfriendly local sheriffs arrive, the body has disappeared. Adrien with an “e” – oh how does he get himself into these messes but isn’t that what we love. 'In this second LA-based adventure, bookseller and mystery writer Adrien English arrives at the Pine Shadow Ranch (left to him by a beloved grandmother) to find a corpse in his driveway. ![]() ![]() ![]() With great flair and authority, Christopher Clark describes Prussia’s great battles, dynastic marriages and astonishing reversals of fortune, its brilliant and charismatic leaders from the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg to Bismarck and Frederick the Great, the military machine and the progressive, enlightened values on which it was built. Prussia began as a medieval backwater, but transformed itself into a major European power and the force behind the creation of the German empire, until it was finally abolished by the Allies after the Second World War. Historian Christopher Clark says Prussia was never the bad guy of Europe Image: Clark But wasnt nationalism something inevitable that was going to happen sooner or later Or can one. Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, Christopher Clark’s Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 is a compelling account of a country that played a pivotal role in Europe’s fortunes and fundamentally shaped our world. Christopher Clark demonstrates how a state deemed the bane of twentieth-century Europe has played an incalculable role in Western civilizations fortunes. Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, Christopher Clarks Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 is a compelling account of a country that played a pivotal role in Europes fortunes and fundamentally shaped our world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, taking down Lucas has become more than business for Vivian. With their offices at stake, Vivian and Lucas play the field of love in a fierce battle of wits that quickly turns hot and personal, especially when Vivian's daughter gets involved. But it's Lucas who gives her the perfect opportunity when he proposes an unexpected bet. Lucas Keller, a couple's therapist whose piercing blue eyes and flawless dark hair are just as annoying as his bad temper.Īnd when Lucas starts poaching Vivian's clients by saving their marriages, she makes it her mission to force him out of the building to save her practice. ![]() The worst offender is her new neighbor: Dr. Single mom Vivian has been burned by love once before, and her job as a divorce lawyer has presented enough evidence to convince her there are no good men left in New York City. First law of magnetism: opposite poles attract. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was fascinated by this because every time I passed by the floors were in a different position, spreading out vertically as the building grew.Īnd then one day, it just wasn’t there anymore. ![]() Rather than putting together a steel frame, laying out decking, and covering each floor with concrete, the workers seemed to be fabricating each floor at ground level and then jacking them up on the vertical steel columns. One project I loved to watch back in the 80s was a new high-rise going in right next to the highway, which fascinated me because of the construction method. One trick I used to use was keeping mental track of the various construction projects I’d pass by on my way to work, noticing which piers on a new highway overpass were nearing completion, or watching steelworkers put together the complex rebar endoskeletons of a new stretch of roadway. People with long commutes usually come up with tricks to stay focused and alert and avoid the dangerous tendency to zone out during the drive. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. ![]() Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig-until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Blade’ is just one of the projects being affected by the industrial action. Marvel had targeted a September 6th, 2024, release date, but that is all but certain to shift. Yet Blade is probably most famous for the trilogy of movies released by New Line in 1998, 20, starring Wesley Snipes as the gruff, sword-swinging character. He’s also battled living vampire Morbius, who had his own movie out earlier this year, starring Jared Leto. In his time, he’s crossed paths with many notable Marvel characters in the comics, including Spider-Man and the Avengers. Gifted with speed, strength, and the ability to walk in the daylight (hence his other name, the Daywalker), his mission is to hunt down and destroy vampires. The attack passes on vampire enzymes to her child, who becomes a Dhampir – a mix of both human and vampire. ![]() Originally crafted by Gene Colan and Marv Wolfman as a human who was immune to vampire bites, he was later changed to Eric Cross Brooks, whose mother is murdered by the bloodsucker Deacon Frost as she gives birth. Related Article: ‘True Detective’ Creator Nic Pizzolatto Working on Marvel’s ‘Blade’ Script Comic book origins and cinematic past ![]() ![]() ![]() She was sharply critical of most philosophers and philosophical traditions known to her, except for Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, and classical liberals. Although Rand opposed libertarianism, which she viewed as anarchism, she is often associated with the modern libertarian movement in the United States. Instead, she supported laissez-faire capitalism, which she defined as the system based on recognizing individual rights, including private property rights. In politics, she condemned the initiation of force as immoral and opposed collectivism, statism, and anarchism. ![]() She supported rational and ethical egoism as opposed to altruism. Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge she rejected faith and religion. Afterward, until her death in 1982, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own periodicals and releasing several collections of essays. In 1957, Rand published her best-selling work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful and two Broadway plays, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. Born and educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. ![]() She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum February 2, 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand ( / aɪ n/), was a Russian-born American writer and philosopher. ![]() ![]() The prequel to the New York Times bestselling book The Magician King and the #1 bestseller The Magician's Land, The Magicians is one of the most daring and inventive works of literary fantasy in years. The land of his childhood fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. But his newfound powers lead him down a rabbit hole of hedonism and disillusionment, and ultimately to the dark secret behind the story of Fillory. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams have come true. ![]() A high school math genius, he’s secretly fascinated with a series of children’s fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison. Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. an unexpectedly moving coming-of-age story.” “This gripping novel draws on the conventions of contemporary and classic fantasy novels in order to upend them . . . “ The Magicians may just be the most subversive, gripping and enchanting fantasy novel I’ve read this century.” “A very knowing and wonderful take on the wizard school genre.” “Sad, hilarious, beautiful, and essential to anyone who cares about modern fantasy.” ![]() “ The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea. ![]() The New York Times bestselling novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world, now an original series on SYFY ![]() |