![]() This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.Ī collection of 8 short stories which feature A.J. Full of sophisticated banter, hair-raising close calls, and nefarious schemes, Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman is a masterwork of crime fiction and irrefutable proof that there truly is honor among thieves. Hornung introduced the world to a duo as gifted at burglary as Sherlock Holmes and Watson are at detection. A few hours later, he and his old school chum break into a jeweler’s shop and steal thousands of pounds’ worth of diamonds and gemstones. ![]() “I never dreamt you had such stuff in you, Bunny!” says Raffles, a gleam in his eye. ![]() When Raffles hesitates, Bunny pulls a gun out of his coat pocket and puts it to his head. Hundreds of pounds in the red, Bunny grows so desperate that he asks Raffles, a former classmate who captained their public school’s cricket team, for help. ![]() ![]() Raffles, such a moment comes when a bad night at the baccarat tables threatens to end in suicide. Sometimes the greatest of partnerships are born in the direst of moments. Raffles, proper English gentleman and jewel thief extraordinaire ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Patricia’s mother-in-law is shocked to see him, but Patricia and Carter chalk her outburst up to dementia. ![]() James quickly awakens and urges Patricia to leave. The next night, James arrives at Patricia’s home. When Patricia brings James a casserole to express her condolences for his loss, she finds him seemingly dead and administers CPR. ![]() Savage passes away, and doctors assume she was on drugs. Savage, attacks Patricia, knocking her to the ground and biting her earlobe off. The arrival of a handsome stranger, James Harris, sets off a chain of events that quickly threatens the safety Patricia so desperately craves. Over four years, the friendship between these women grows stronger, and their meetings fulfill a need for community. Patricia is enthralled by the texts and finds solace and community within the group, which is comprised of other housewives. Eager for a book club where members actually read the books, she joins a club focused on true crime and murder mystery novels. Patricia’s days are filled with caring for everyone except herself: her husband Carter, her children Korey and Blue, and her mother-in-law. In 1988, stay at home mom Patricia Campbell wants nothing more than to live in a safe neighborhood. This guide uses the Quirk Books edition of the novel, printed in 2021. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ivan was declared Tsar of all Russia later that same year, making him the first Tsar of a unified Russian state. Noblewoman Anastasia Romanovna married Ivan IV Vasilyevich, then the grand prince of Moscow, in 1547. Discover the intricacies of the Romanov rule. During those three hundred years, Russia became an empire, underwent multiple cultural revolutions, and eventually completely removed their ruling family. ![]() This second branch of the Romanov family would continue to rule until Nicholas II was deposed in 1917. He was succeeded by Anna Ioannovna, daughter of Ivan V, the half-brother of Peter the Great-Peter II’s grandfather. The original male line of the Romanov family came to an end in 1730 when Peter II died only three years into his reign from smallpox. ![]() ![]() Related: 5 Royal Figures Who Were Assassinated After the extinction of the Rurik dynasty, the Romanov family, then boyars of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, rose through the Time of Troubles to see Michael Romanov crowned Tsar of Russia in 1613. The mystique may be primarily associated with the last of the Romanovs, but in many ways they were a typical European ruling family. But the Romanov family and dynasty extend much further into the past than Nicholas II and Anastasia. The Romanovs conjure up a specific image for most-those doomed young girls, soon to face a late-night execution in the tumult of a changing Europe. ![]() ![]() There’s some serious lesbian yearning going on, but Caroline, ever the professional, doesn’t want to cross any boundaries. ![]() ![]() I love that, even right from the start, Caroline doesn’t deny (at least to herself) her attraction to Hannah. But Hannah’s given no indication she’s anything other than straight, and her life is fraught with complications that make it difficult for her to give up the independence she’s finally clawing her way back toward. ![]() Between asking Caroline to represent her in her impending divorce to raising her nine-year-old daughter to re-entering the workforce after almost a decade, romance is the last thing on her mind.Īs they work together on Hannah’s divorce case, their friendship evolves easily - so much so that it’s hard for Caroline to ignore her growing emotional attraction to the other woman. Hannah Dalton, however, has a lot going on. ![]() When Hannah Dalton unexpectedly appears in her life again, only previously known to Caroline as the wife of an insufferable co-worker, her attraction to Hannah is immediate, if not more than a little unhelpful. She has a large, loving family, but finding her own person has escaped her until now. When You Least Expect It by Haley Cass is a heartwarming and heart-hitting holiday romance about two women who need to decide if falling in love will ruin the perfect friendship they’ve built.Ĭaroline Parker is a successful thirty-something divorce attorney in Boston. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because it isn’t the difficulty of the garment that makes you a great knitter: It’s the care and attention you bring to the craft, as well as how you adapt to surprises. Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Club series Book 2) Kindle Edition by Kate Jacobs(Author)Format: Kindle Edition 4.4 out of 5 stars421 ratings Book 2 of 3: Friday Night Knitting Club series See all formats and editions Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. Following the beloved number-one New York Times best seller The Friday Night Knitting Club is this charming story of sisterhood.Īt the Manhattan knitting store founded by Georgia Walker, the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club - including Georgia’s college-age daughter, Dakota - rely on each other for help, even as they struggle with new challenges: for Catherine, finding love after divorce for Darwin, the hope for a family for Lucie, being both a single mom and a caregiver for her elderly mother and for 70-something Anita, a proposal of marriage from her sweetheart, Marty, that provokes the objections of her grown children.Īs the club’s projects - an afghan, baby booties, a wedding coat - are pieced together, so is their understanding of the patterns underlying the stresses and joys of being a mother, wife, daughter, and friend. ![]() ![]() ![]() She asks Laurel why she didn't summon one of the staff-who are all Spring faeries-to cut the cards, then summons one for her. The next morning, Katya comes to Laurel's room and finds Laurel making note cards. She is introduced to professor Yeardley, who gives her a stack of books to read, and told that Katya, another Fall faerie, has agreed to tutor her. At the Academy, Laurel is surprised to learn that it was her home, not just a school. ![]() Jamison welcomes her back to Avalon and tells her that the gates were made by King Oberon (at the cost of his life) and that Winter faeries are the only ones who can open them. Tamani, who is still disappointed that she chose David over him, meets her and escorts her to the gate. Laurel has summer vacation and has been summoned to spend eight weeks at the Academy of Avalon. Six months have passed since the events of the first book. ![]() ![]() It also debuted on the Indie Bestsellers list. Spells was released in the United States on May 4, 2010, and debuted on the New York Times Best Seller list. It is the sequel to Pike's #1 New York Times best-selling debut, Wings, which introduced readers to Laurel Sewell, a faerie sent among humans to guard the gateway to Avalon. Spells is a fantasy novel by author Aprilynne Pike. ![]() ![]() The institutions guarding the practicalities of art including apprenticeship and art schools are what prevented women from becoming renowned artists rather than something inherent in women themselves. ![]() Making art and becoming an artist has an important level of practicality - learning techniques, applying paint to canvas. ![]() Adoption of the latter frame of thinking about artwork makes it clearer that there are no great women artists because the institutions which focused on the creation of art discriminated against women. By assuming that art is more than anything a personal outpouring of one’s own experience, one fails to recognize that art is embodied and, as such, requires practice and individual style. ![]() Second, many answers to the question, according to Nochlin, have misconceptions about art. First, the question attempts to lead individuals to the answer, “There are no great women artists because women are incapable of greatness.” While this statement may seem laughable in 2021 as most would say that women are capable of greatness, the question can also be extended that women are incapable of the same greatness of men. ![]() When asked the question, “Why have there been no great women artists?” Linda Nochlin complicates the question itself and the presuppositions that are associated with the question. ![]() ![]() –John Shirley, Bram Stoker Award-winning author Actual brain damage is unlikely, in most cases.’ ‘This intense mixture of giddy activity, cyberpunk essences, avant fusion and social satire may make your head spin at an accelerated rate. –Kim Stanley Robinson, Nebula, Hugo, Locus, BSFA and John W. Dick’s Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch–fast, smart, funny, and full of a scarily plausible vision of just how weird things could get if we take our biological fate into our own hands.’ ![]() ‘This novel is from the wild edge of science fiction, in the tradition of Philip K. In an overtechnologized world of constant reckoning, all Vincent has are his wits, his weapons, and a briefcase full of replaceable extremities to crack a mysterious code that, he soon discovers, resides within himself. ![]() Under the so-stupid-it’s-genius alias of ‘Vincent Codename Prague,’ he works a case that leads him to the Former Czech Republik’s Prague, a dark cirque du city where androids run wild, femme fatales chronically manhandle him, and a mad chef named Doktor Teufelsdrockh has created a Hitler/Keats/Daikaiju hybrid that would make Frankenstein’s monster sing like a Von Trapp… The MAP Ministry of Applied Pressure promotes him to Anvil-in-Chief, the catbird’s seat of special agents. ![]() ![]() His celebrity status has skyrocketed, however, and everybody wants a piece of him. Since he assassinated the Nowhere Man, Vincent Prague hasn’t been the same, haunted by the ontological impossibility of the kill. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He views it as one of a number of literary experiments of late antiquity, taking its place alongside Augustine's Confessions and Soliloquies as a spiritual meditation, as an attempt by Boethius to speak objectively about the life of the mind and its relation to God. He argues that it is a Christian work dramatizing not the truths of philosophy as a whole, but the limits of pagan philosophy in particular. Relihan delivers a genuinely new reading of the Consolation. The conventional reading of the Consolation is that it is a defense of pagan philosophy nevertheless, many readers who accept this basic argument find that the ending is ambiguous and that Philosophy has not, finally, given the prisoner the comfort she had promised. Her offer to teach him who he truly is and to lead him to his heavenly home becomes a debate about how to come to terms with evil, freedom, and providence. ![]() In the Consolation, an unnamed Boethius sits in prison awaiting execution when his muse Philosophy appears to him. 480-524) is best known for the Consolation of Philosophy, one of the most frequently cited texts in medieval literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Charioteer could not be published in the U.S. Instead she was free to focus on larger ethical and philosophical concerns, while examining the nature of love and leadership. ![]() By turning away from the 20th century and focusing on stories about male lovers in the warrior societies of ancient Greece, Renault no longer had to deal with homosexuality and anti-gay prejudice as social "problems". In a sense, The Charioteer (1953), the story of two young gay servicemen in the 1940s who try to model their relationship on the ideals expressed in Plato's Phaedrus and Symposium, is a warm-up for Renault's historical novels. They include a pair of novels about the mythological hero Theseus and a trilogy about the career of Alexander the Great. Her historical novels are all set in ancient Greece. In addition to vivid fictional portrayals of Theseus, Socrates, Plato and Alexander the Great, she wrote a non-fiction biography of Alexander. ![]() Mary Renault was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in Ancient Greece. ![]() |