![]() ![]() She also learns that Roger had been afraid for his life since he was a witness to computer espionage. Smith, McCone investigates the InSite offices and soon learns of its publisher's less-than-professional activities. In his final journal entry, Roger Nagasawa describes his fatal plunge from the San Francisco Bridge as being "swept away from sadness." With the help of her friend, J.D. It's a civil case in which the family of a young 'zine employee claims his suicide was the result of his company's treatment of him. But a wrongful death suit filed by the family of an young Internet magazine employee hits too close to home for Sharon.īook Synopsis Sharon McCone has decided to throw herself into work so she can get past her brother's suicide, but the wrongful-death suit she is working on hits too close to home. Sharon McCone throws herself into her work. ![]() About the Book Hoping to get past her brother's suicide, P.I. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "I know he's too young, but he's all we have left," says Fergal, and thus the boy takes his first command, on the bloody ground of Clontarf. ![]() Now, with all the fire and brilliance for which her writing is known, Morgan Llywelyn takes us there, to the battlefield where Brian died, and to Brian's fifteen-year-old son, Donough, whose mother is the voluptuous and treacherous Gormlaith, with her lust for life and power undiminished by age: Donough, the son who is determined to make the High Kingship of Brian Boru's Ireland his own. The Ireland of 1014 was a dream Brian Boru had dreamed and brought into being. He overthrew traditions, reformed society, and became the Irish Charlemagne. Lion of Ireland was the breathtaking chronicle of Brian Boru, the Great King who led the bickering chiefs of Ireland to unity under his reign. ![]() ![]() The townsfolk aren’t happy to see anyone related to Orla Sweeney, but Mahony is undeniable in his charm, with: Mahony has come to the tiny Irish town of Mulderrig, looking to find out what happened to his mammy, who left him orphaned when he was small. Sly as hell and fall-down-laughing funny, it will put a spring in your step for a goodly while thereafter. It’s too clever to miss, and if you don’t mind a bit of irreverence, if you have a heart at all for Ireland and for ordinary working folk just trying to get along as best they’re able, this book is your book. It comes out March 14, 2017, and although I read it free via Net Galley and Atria, there’s surely a chance I will buy one or more copies to give to those I love anyway. Ah, feck me blind now, Jess Kidd’s written herself a novel, and it’s good enough for any ten others. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1966, he had his own TV variety show, titled The Sammy Davis Jr. The show featured the first interracial kiss on Broadway. Davis was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance. He returned to the stage in 1964 in a musical adaptation of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy. In 1960, he appeared in the Rat Pack film Ocean's 11. He had a starring role on Broadway in Mr. Several years later, he converted to Judaism, finding commonalities between the oppression experienced by African-American and Jewish communities. In 1954, at the age of 29, he lost his left eye in a car accident. ![]() ![]() With the trio, he became a recording artist. After military service, Davis returned to the trio and became an overnight sensation following a nightclub performance at Ciro's (in West Hollywood) after the 1951 Academy Awards. and the Will Mastin Trio, which toured nationally, and his film career began in 1933. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, dancer, actor, comedian, film producer and television director.Īt age three, Davis began his career in vaudeville with his father Sammy Davis Sr. ![]() ![]() ![]() The ancient seat of the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910), Seoul in the 1910s was swiftly transforming into the minjok national capital and, simultaneously, a colonial city-within-empire. This article attempts a new, spatialized reading of the much-studied work to reconsider alterity (Japan-Korea, city-hometown) as a precondition of modernity itself. Its place in world literary studies, however, has often been obscured by the author's later collaboration with the colonial state. ![]() Yi Kwangsu's The Heartless ( Mujŏng, 1917) is Korea's first mature novel and its most celebrated text, on par with Natsume Soseki's Kokoro (1914) and Lu Xun's The True Story of Ah Q (1922). ![]() ![]() ![]() Though this book is wide-ranging, Jennifer Hecht gets right to the point in describing the kinds of happiness she wants to explore, and the reasons we seem to know so much about happiness, yet don’t really experience it reliably. There is so much to admire in this book, and like her previous book on trends in religious questioning through the ages ( Doubt: A History) Jennifer Hecht takes us on a whirlwind tour through history and across continents to ask: What has made humans happy in the past? What ideas were fads of the moment, and what ideas transcended their time to prove themselves worthy? How do celebrations, health and beauty, money, and drugs really correlate to happiness in the grand arc of human history (instead of in the tiny snapshot of our current ideas and fads)? What do philosophers, historians, and mythologists know about enduring happiness, and what current ideas about happiness look very suspicious, considering the lessons of the past? The Three Kinds of Happiness ![]() If you’re feeling troubled about the current state of the world, and confused by what seems like weekly changes to scientific theories about happiness, this book is just what the doctor ordered. The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think is Right is Wrong. Right now, I’m re-reading an amazing book by the historian, philosopher, poet, and funny kook Jennifer Michael Hecht. ![]() ![]() ![]() Set in one of the most tumultuous eras in Japanese history, Sachi's story is a potent mix of adventure and high romance. But before she dare dream of a life with him, Sachi must unravel the mystery of her own origins – a mystery that encompasses a wrong so terrible that it threatens to destroy her. Rescued by a rebel warrior, she finds unknown feelings stirring within her. As civil war erupts, Sachi flees for her life. Black Ships have come from the West, bringing foreigners eager to add Japan to their colonial empires. ![]() Sachi is chosen as his concubine.īut Japan is changing. Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man - the young shogun. Then, when she is just eleven, an imperial princess passes through her village and sweeps her off to the women's palace in the great city of Edo. Growing up deep in the mountains of rural Japan, Sachi has always felt different, her pale skin and fine features setting her apart from her friends and family. How do you fall in love when your society has no word for it?Īn epic novel closely based on historical events, The Last Concubine is the story of a shogun, a princess and the three thousand women of the women’s palace - all of whom really existed - and of the civil war that brought their way of life to an end. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the first edition published in 1937. It contains the whole and same text as normal editions of Hobbit with a whole lot of extra footnotes, illustrations and information. So basically, The Annotated Hobbit is richly composed book filled with many interesting details on various editions of Hobbit through the years. This time nothing could stop me to read it trough.īefore I can even start on the book summary I have to explain the difference of this version from the normal editions of Hobbit. Maybe it was a really old copy from the library with no illustrations or something about the writing style but the book just did not sit with me and I returned it after skimming trough first few pages. I tried reading Hobbit once when I was nine but something about it just put me off. To make matters more difficult ( this is where my truly masochistic nature rears its ugly head) I went and got on board of the annotated version. Since my reading appetites are great and my general reading lately has been somewhat scarce, I was inspired to make my start with Hobbit. ![]() I picked this book up as a part of a reading challenge – I still have to read Lord of the rings trilogy (only the first book is mandatory). Finished reading: The Annotated Hobbit Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since 1981, ‘The Bad Boys of Abridgement’ have created nine stage shows, two television specials, several failed TV pilots and numerous radio pieces – all of which have been performed, seen, heard and translated into Klingon the world over. The Reduced Shakespeare Company is a three-man comedy troupe that takes long, serious subjects and reduces them to short, sharp comedies. “STUPENDOUS, ANCHORLESS JOY!” The Times of London IRRESISTIBLE.” New York TimesĪn irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard’s plays, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)was London’s longest-running comedy having clocked a very palpable nine years in London’s West End at the Criterion Theatre! Join these madcap men in tights as they weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies in one wild ride that will leave you breathless and helpless with laughter. All 37 Plays in 97 Minutes! Written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield ![]() ![]() ![]() A prize that eluded him before, she is all the more irresistible to him now although he is surprised to discover that she is as eager now for the excitement he offers as he is himself. Viola caught his eye when she herself was a young mother, but she evaded his seduction at the time. Marcel Lamarr has been a notorious womanizer since the death of his wife nearly twenty years earlier. With her children grown and herself no longer part of the social whirl of the ton, she is uncertain where to look for happiness-until quite by accident her path crosses once again with that of the Marquess of Dorchester, Marcel Lamarr. Two years after the death of the Earl of Riverdale, his family has overcome the shame of being stripped of their titles and fortune-except for his onetime countess, Viola. Once the Countess of Riverdale, Viola Kingsley throws all caution to the wind when adventure calls in the form of a handsome aristocrat. ![]() |