![]() ![]() ![]() Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their nascent hopes for a brighter future are tested when they are chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime honor: taking part in the creation of Princess Elizabeth’s wedding gown. “ The Gown is marvelous and moving, a vivid portrait of female self-reliance in a world racked by the cost of war.” –Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network “Millions will welcome this joyous event as a flash of color on the long road we have to travel.” -Sir Winston Churchill on the news of Princess Elizabeth’s forthcoming wedd ing London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation despite their nation’s recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers at the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. ![]() ![]() From the internationally bestselling author of Somewhere in France comes an enthralling historical novel about one of the most famous wedding dresses of the twentieth century-Queen Elizabeth’s wedding gown-and the fascinating women who made it. ![]()
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![]() Alan Roger Currie, author of the books, Mode One, Oooooh.Say It Again, and The Beta Male Revolution has now published an edited, revised, and updated edition of his 2012 popular best seller for single heterosexual men titled, The Possibility of Sex: How Naïve and Lustful Men are Manipulated by Women Regularly.Ĭurrie is well-known as the very first professional dating coach in what is now known as the "Manosphere" to encourage single heterosexual men to use upfront, specific, and straightforwardly honest verbal communication methods (otherwise known informally as "direct verbal game") as a means of quickly identifying women who possess sexually duplicitous tendencies and/or highly manipulative and materialistic desires with men.Ĭurrie was also the first professional dating coach to create the concept of the female archetype known as the "Manipulative Timewaster", and Currie popularized the signature phrase and personal philosophy of "No Free Attention". ![]() ![]() The characterizations are consistently superb, and animates everything with love for and knowledge of the sea. But the fate of the ship-and the Vestrits-may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider: the ruthless buccaneer captain Kennit, who plans to seize power over the Pirate Isles by capturing a liveship and bending it to his will. ![]() Narrated in first person by FitzChivalry Farseer, it follows his life in his mid-thirties, and is set after the events of the Farseer Trilogy and the Liveship Traders. For Althea’s young nephew, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard the ship, the Vivacia is a life sentence. The Tawny Man trilogy is a series of novels by American author Robin Hobb, and the third trilogy in the Realm of the Elderlings sequence. Now the fortunes of one of Bingtown’s oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia.įor Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy. Martinīingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships-rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. ![]() “Even better than the Farseer Trilogy-I didn’t think that was possible.”-George R. ![]() The first novel in Robin Hobb’s beloved Liveship Traders Trilogy ![]() ![]() ![]() Kwame Alexander has the magic to pull off this unlikely feat, both as a poet and as a storyteller. "A novel about a soccer-obsessed tween boy written entirely in verse? In a word, yes. This electric and heartfelt novel-in-verse bends and breaks as it captures all the thrills and setbacks, action and emotion of a World Cup match. Twelve-year-old Nick learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams. Helping him along are his best friend and sometimes teammate Coby, and The Mac, a rapping librarian who gives Nick inspiring books to read. ![]() A New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Longlist nominee. ![]() In this electrifying follow-up to Kwame Alexander's Newbery winner The Crossover, soccer, family, love, and friendship take center stage. ![]() ![]() Miguel agrees, with reservations.ĭue to his financial downturn, Miguel is forced to lodge with his brother Daniel and his pregnant wife Hannah, who is secretly attracted to Miguel. She believes coffee will be highly profitable and urges Miguel to enter into trade with her. ![]() His friend Geertruid, a Dutch widow, introduces him to a new drink made with coffee berries. In this city, fortunes are won and lost during the risky business deals that occur daily on the world’s first commodities market, the Amsterdam Exchange.Īt the outset of the novel, Miguel has recently experienced a major setback in his sugar trade and is worried that he will not be able to pay his debts at the end of the month. Miguel Lienzo is a Portuguese Jew who escapes the Inquisition to begin a new life as a trader in Amsterdam’s bustling commercial center. ![]() ![]() The Coffee Trader is a national best seller and a book club favorite. In A Conspiracy, the character of Miguel Lienzo appears as the great-uncle of the protagonist, Benjamin Weaver. Liss is the author of several historical mystery novels, including A Conspiracy of Paper, which won the 2001 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since that time, he began studying and working to become a professional photographer. ![]() His photographic activity stopped being a hobby in 1963 after he had seen the catalog of the exhibition of the American photographer Edward Steichen (“The Family of Man”). In the 1960s, he underwent military service. Being forced by the government, he started working in a print shop. ![]() Saudek often makes his shots in sepia or b&w colors, but even hand-colored photos reminding of vintage works seem disturbing, partly due to their soviet surroundings with scuffed walls and carpets everywhere.Īt the beginning of the 1950s, Saudek was an apprentice of a photographer. Despite being prolific, the photographs made by a holocaust witness living in his youth under a Soviet regime have a dark shadow on them. Saudek began his career as a photographer in 1950 when he bought his first camera Kodak Baby Brownie. The mother died in a camp, but the father was left alive by a miracle as his sons. Jan Saudek and his twin brother Kaja Saudek, being born in the family of a Czech mother and Jewish father, survived the holocaust. Jan Saudek, early 2000s () The Camp and the Camera Saudek treats the color as a way to accentuate details, like model make-up or her veins.įig. The Czech photographer Jan Saudek (born 1935) creates his sensual hand-colored daguerreotypes today, using the photograph as a sketch. ![]() In October, we’ve published an article devoted to pornographic daguerreotypes of the 19th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why? What happened? As Alisha sets out to answer these questions she is drawn deeper and deeper into a dangerous quest that will take her from the East End of London to Amsterdam's red light district and into a murky underworld of sex trafficking, slavery and exploitation.Ī gripping thriller, with twists at every turn, The Night Ferry is Michael Robotham's finest novel yet. Even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling. Her pregnancy is an elaborate lie, a cruel deception. Michael Robotham THE SUSPECT Joseph O'Loughlin appears to have the perfect life - a beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. As paramedics fight to save her life they discover there is no baby. On the night they arrange to meet, Cate is mown down by a car that kills her husband instantly. ![]() Now on her feet again, with her police career in limbo, she receives a message from an old school friend, Cate Beaumont, who is eight months pregnant and in trouble. Imagine finding out that your unborn child was a lie.Īlisha Barba's dreams of being a detective were shattered when a murder suspect broke her back across a brick wall. Don't miss Michael Robotham's new thriller When She Was Good, out now. A heart-in-mouth thriller from the multi-million-copy bestselling author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some star systems are linked by wormhole termini that offer instantaneous travel between their end points. Mankind has spread out into the stars using a form of Hyperspace which offers the ability of sail along dangerous gravity waves at hundreds, even thousands, of times the speed of light. ![]() So far there are eleven main novels in the series in print, plus over a half-dozen anthologies and spin-offs. A great space opera that quickly builds up to a full out war between the Star Kingdom of Manticoran and her allies against the aggressive and expansionist Republic of Haven. On Basilisk Station is the first of Weber’s Honor Harrington series. Themes: / Science Fiction / Military SF / War / Space Opera / Politics / On Basilisk Station (Book One in the Honor Harrington Series) – Welcome to Paul Campbell, prestidigitator with Cossmass Productions. ![]() ![]() The striking writers might be joined by actors, directors and behind-the-scenes workers. Well, the WGA told its members that this afternoon they'll begin picketing outside studios represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers - Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Discovery, Warner, NBC, Universal, Paramount and Sony. So tell us more about this latest development. Mandalit, the Writers Guild of America has been in negotiations with the studio since March. ![]() ![]() MARTÍNEZ: Here to tell us all about it is NPR's culture correspondent Mandalit del Barco, who is in LA. Their three-year contract with the studios expired at midnight. After talks failed last night, leaders of the Writers Guild of America union called on their members to stop working. ![]() Yeah, writers are demanding updates to their contracts to keep up with the streaming era, and they don't want to be replaced by AI. Hollywood writers are striking against the major studios. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reached the Top 5 on both Audible and Amazon out of the millions of books they sellĪnd enjoy a FREE peak at my 1st Audiobook narrated by THE Nick Podehl! Just CLICK HERE Became Audibles Customer Favorite of the Year Welcome to the Mist Village! I'm so glad you're here! Goodreads HTML profile Welcome to the Mist Village! I'm so glad you're here! 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