![]() ![]() In this vivid memoir that has sold millions of copies worldwide, Heinrich Harrer recounts his adventures as one of the first Europeans ever to enter Tibet and encounter the Dalai Lama. This is the astonishing adventure classic about life in Tibet just before the Chinese Communist takeover. A uniquely signed collectible from Easton Press, accented with 22kt gold and manufactured to last generations. This signed limited edition includes a COA to guarantee signature authenticity. A high quality book that also makes the perfect unique gift. One of only 1250 signed limited editions available. ![]() Enhance your library with this luxurious leather bound heirloom from Easton Press. Translated from the German by Richard Graves. Certificate of Authenticity from Easton Press guarantees the signature. Following his adventures in Tibet, he participated in many mountaineering expeditions and wrote numerous books. ![]()
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The third tale in the Burned Man series and one that take the reader from the lows of previous events and the principle players descent into drugs as he struggles to come to terms with what has gone before. Now his old accomplices must step in to save Don from himself, before he damns himself for good this time. ![]() With the Burned Man gradually driving him mad, Don meets with an ancient and mysterious tramp-slash-magician, with disastrous consequences. ![]() Six months ago, Don fled from London to Glasgow to track down his old girlfriend Debbie the alchemist. Don Drake is living rough in a sink estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh, doing cheap spells for even cheaper customers while fending off the local lowlifes. ![]() ![]() ![]() But in the country, Garnet finds herself under supervision of oppressive guardians, her father's wealthy cousin and the matron's stuck-up daughter. She dreams of indulging in ornithology and a visit to an amusement park-a summer of fun before she returns to a last year of high school, marriage, and middle-class homemaking. ![]() WINNER OF THE MILKWEED PRIZE FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE WINNER OF THE 2013 PATERSON PRIZE FOR BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS ALA RAINBOW LIST RECOMMENDED BOOK AMELIA BLOOMER PROJECT LIST RECOMMENDED BOOK LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOREWARD REVIEWS BOOK OF THE YEAR HONORABLE MENTION In the summer of 1926, sixteen-year-old Garnet Richardson is sent to a lake resort to escape the polio epidemic in the city. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Three lucky winners will get an Amazon Gift Card, assorted romance e-books from the anthology authors, a Monsters and Mistletoe paperback, plus swag and goodies!ġst Prize: $50 Amazon GC, assorted romance e-books, swag, naughty and nice socks, a holiday candle, and a Monsters & Mistletoe paperback, and a limited edition tumbler!Ģnd Prize: $50 Amazon GC, assorted romance e-books, swag, naughty and nice socks, a holiday candle, and a Monsters & Mistletoe paperback, and a limited edition tumbler!ģrd Prize: $50 Amazon GC, assorted romance e-books, swag, naughty and nice socks, a holiday candle, and a Monsters & Mistletoe paperback, and a limited edition tumbler!īy entering this giveaway you are joining each author's newsletter. ![]() ❄️ □ Enter the Monsters and Mistletoe Anthology giveaway! □ ❄️ ![]() ![]() After all, if humanity is to be reborn, someone must be its guide. But as the world continues to grapple with its terrible circumstances, she'll discover a role greater than chasing a pale imitation of independence. To preserve her freedom, she dons men's clothing, goes by false names, and avoids as many people as possible. Even fewer are safe from the clans of men, who, driven by fear, seek to control those remaining. A few women like her survived, though they are scarce. ![]() All that remains is power-and the strong who possess it. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population-killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant-the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. ![]() Dick Award Winner When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 and Philip K. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s reignited my love be of L J Shen, and I’ll be going back to finish the All Saints High series, so be prepared for more reviews. As usual, the sex is burning up the pages hot, and there’s plenty of it. Throw in their interfering families, and you’ve got a good love story with plenty of angst, feels, and self-discovery. ![]() Sailor also has her own demons to overcome as well as her lack of self-esteem. Hunter may be arrogant, but he’s been shaped by his dysfunctional family. As expected, she vows not to be tempted by the gorgeous player, but the reader knows that such a vow was made to be broken.Īs always with this author, the characters are layered and there’s a lot more to them than meets the eye. ![]() Cillian Fitzpatrick is powerful and captivating THERE IS NO ONE BETTER THAN HIM This is L.J. Babysitting Hunter is the nightmare she could do without, but she needs his family’s support to secure her place at the Olympics. Just when you think Leigh Shen cant top The Hunter in the Boston Belles series, she turns around and drops The Villain as the EPIC MIC DROP on a truly phenomenal year of writing. That babysitter is dowdy, yet dedicated, Olympic hopeful and old family friend, Sailor Brennan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Through his close reading of the visual culture of this tragic era, Gates reveals the many faces of Jim Crow and how, together, they reinforced a stark color line between white and black Americans. ![]() But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation sparked "a new birth of freedom" in Lincoln's America, why was it necessary to march in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s America? In this new book, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading chroniclers of the African-American experience, seeks to answer that question in a history that moves from the Reconstruction Era to the "nadir" of the African-American experience under Jim Crow, through to World War I and the Harlem Renaissance. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first half of the story goes through the practicalities of existing in a two-dimensional universe as well as a history leading up to the year 1999 on the eve of the 3rd Millennium. The narrator is a square named A Square, a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals, who guides the readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, whereof women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. Other efforts have been short or experimental films, including one narrated by Dudley Moore and the short films Flatland: The Movie (2007) and Flatland 2: Sphereland (2012) starring Martin Sheen and Kristen Bell. Several films have been made from the story, including the feature film Flatland (2007). Writing pseudonymously as "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. Flatland: The Movie (2007) is based on an 1884 satirical novella, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In her critique of contemporary views of women’s education, Wollstonecraft looks primarily at middle-class women and considers them first as “human creatures … placed on this earth to unfold their faculties.” She bases her argument on the belief that reason is what makes people human, that virtue is what distinguishes people from one another, and that virtue is attained through knowledge. Women are taught that romance is the primary goal of their lives, and they are not encouraged to develop their reason or virtue. Her argument is that if women are not “prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge and virtue.” Wollstonecraft believes that the neglect of women’s education has caused great misery. ![]() Mary Wollstonecraft writes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in response to French politician Talleyrand-Périgord’s pamphlet on national education. ![]() ![]() Paradoxically, these reactions could range from racist derision and stereotyping to admiration and eulogizing. ![]() Several Graeco-Roman writers before Tacitus had written about the tribal north, including Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, Posidonius, and Julius Caesar.įor a Roman audience, the Germania provided an ethnographic insight that triggered some powerful cultural reactions. Romans had a real fascination for ‘barbarian’ people. Our reliance on this classical observation comes with its own challenges. Graeco-Roman testimony is, therefore, often the sole literary evidence that we have for early tribal peoples like the Germans a people integral to the foundation and development of the European continent. Written around 98 CE, the Germania is valuable because Rome’s tribal enemies (Germans, Celts, Iberians, and Britons) operated an oral rather than a literary cultural tradition. The Germania has remained invaluable to historians due to the view it offers into the customs and social landscape of early Germanic tribes. A powerhouse of Roman historical writing, Tacitus is one of the great writers of history. The Germaniais a short work by the historian and politician Publius Cornelius Tacitus (65 – 120 CE). ![]() Tacitus & The Germania Publius Cornelius Tacitus, via Wikimedia Commons ![]() |