![]() ![]() Lancer 1960s, Gray Morrow/Jeff Jones/Jack Fargasso "The Genesis of Hawkmoon", MM on Tor.com, 2010 Something like ‘Hey, we’re not always the good guys’. Those days addressing an Anglophone audience, and wanted to say Some relation to my own and my contemporaries’ experience of the real Though in all important ways essentially escapism, always has to have Relate at least to a degree to the contemporary world. Of vague ‘time before time’ and, if you like, Europeanise it, make it I was determined to move my fantasy away from some kind Hero a German and his base as the Camargue in France was to try to cutĪcross some of the ethnocentric elements you found in what littleįantasy fiction there was at the time and was found in genre fiction in Satire, relating to politics of the 60s, but the main reason I made my In the Hawkmoon books you find some fairly thinly-disguised political Post-war, a typical fantasy narrative might envision a resurgent, utopian Britain, but Moorcock as usual gives things a more cynical spin and makes the hero of his saga a defeated German Duke, and Britain the inhuman oppressors. Prior to World War II, Great Britain actually was the most powerful nation on Earth. ![]() ![]() This sequence is fascinating because is posits a post-nuclear world where Great Britain has succumbed to its darkest, most imperialistic tendencies and placed a yoke on all of its rivals. ![]()
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![]() Will this vibrant country, he asks, succeed in becoming a great democratic state? He makes it clear why Turkey is poised to become "the most audacious nation of the twenty-first century. He explores the nation's hope to join the European Union, the human-rights abuses that have kept it out, and its difficult relations with Kurds, Armenians, and Greeks. He reports on political trials and on his own arrest by Turkish soldiers when he was trying to uncover secrets about the army's campaigns against Kurdish guerillas. But he is also attuned to the political landscape, taking us from Istanbul's elegant cafes to wild mountain outposts on Turkey's eastern borders, while along the way he talks to dissidents and patriots, villagers and cabinet ministers. Kinzer vividly describes Turkey's captivating delights as he smokes a water pipe, searches for the ruins of lost civilizations, watches a camel fight, and discovers its greatest poet. Crescent and Star is Stephen Kinzer's compelling report on the truth about this nation of contradictions - poised between Europe and Asia, caught between the glories of its Ottoman past and its hopes for a democratic future, between the dominance of its army and the needs of its civilian citizens, between its secular expectations and its Muslim traditions. 16 2008 Dimensions 13.97 x 1.65 x 20.96 cm ISBN-10 0374531404 ISBN-13 978-0374531409 See all details + This item: Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds by Stephen Kinzer Paperback 18.81 Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer Paperback 21. ![]() ![]() ![]() If Turkey lived up to its potential, it could rule the world - but will it? A passionate report from the front linesįor centuries few terrors were more vivid in the West than fear of "the Turk," and many people still think of Turkey as repressive, wild, and dangerous. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication date Sept. ![]() ![]() ![]() He wants her back? He'll have to work for it. If Logan expects her to roll over and beg like all his other puck bunnies, he can think again. She's not a charity case, and she's not the quiet butterfly she was when they first hooked up. ![]() Now he's going to need to up his game… After a less than stellar freshman year, Grace is back at Briar University, older, wiser, and so over the arrogant hockey player she nearly handed her V-card to. A sexy encounter with freshman Grace Ivers is just the distraction he needs, but when a thoughtless mistake pushes her away, Logan plans to spend his final year proving to her that he's worth a second chance. For this hockey star, life is a parade of parties and hook-ups, but behind his killer grins and easygoing charm, he hides growing despair about the dead-end road he'll be forced to walk after graduation. He's a player in more ways than one… College junior John Logan can get any girl he wants. Get ready for another binge-worthy romance from international bestselling author and TikTok sensation Elle Kennedy. ![]() ![]() ![]() She paints nearly everyone pretty rosily and without much nuance. ![]() But, a public relations executive by trade, Kerman is often frustratingly careful, polite. Occasionally, she opens up, and these moments are powerful. She is less successful at talking about herself. Kerman excels at chronicling the other women and their struggles, from teenagers doing time for drug-related crimes to a 69-year-old nun in jail for trespassing as part of a peaceful protest at a missile silo. If the author seems hard to relate to in her wild-child days, empathy abounds as she skillfully describes her sense of terror upon losing all freedom. In contrast, her depiction of arriving at the prison in 2004-saying goodbye to Larry, surrendering all her possessions-is poignant and thoroughly-rendered. When Kerman reflects on this time, she seems unwilling or unable to explore her motivations, and more often resorts to describing her lifestyle in list form. a perceptive, if imperfect inside look at our criminal justice system and the women who cycle through it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And there’s a reason he’s been targeted for this upgrade. The truth is, Logan’s genome has been hacked. He’s starting to see the world, and those around him-even those he loves most-in whole new ways. Before long, he can’t deny it: something’s happening to his brain. Reading a bit faster, memorising and needing less sleep. The synopsis reads: “’You are the next step in human evolution.’ At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s different. Upgrade will be published in hardback on 21st July 2022 with the mass-market edition coming in January 2023. Pan Macmillan has landed the new “pulse-pounding" speculative thriller Upgrade from Blake Crouch.Īssociate publisher Wayne Brookes acquired world English rights, excluding the US and Canada, from David Hale-Smith and Alexis Hurley at Inkwell Management. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is really Leah’s book, even though it’s Charles and Anna who have more page time. I’m really not quite sure how much time has passed since the events in Burn Bright, but there is a scene at the beginning of Wild Sign that features Sage, Leah, and Anna and gives readers hints at which direction this story might be heading. The last book in the series, Burn Bright, released in March of 2018… which feels like forever ago. As much as I enjoy Mercy and Adam, I’m absolutely smitten with Omega wolf Anna and her mate, son of the Marrok and the Pack boogeyman, Charles Cornick. It feels like it’s been forever since readers were able to spend time with Anna and Charles. “I will defend your heart and your soul with everything in me.”Ĭontent Warnings: Violence, mentions of rape, child trafficking, pet deaths, and miscarriage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wolf 21 and Wolf 42 were attracted to each other the moment they met-but Wolf 42's jealous sister interfered viciously in their relationship. Leader of the Druid Peak Pack, Wolf 21 was known for his unwavering bravery, his unusual benevolence (unlike other alphas, he never killed defeated rival males), and his fierce commitment to his mate, the formidable Wolf 42. In this compelling follow-up to the national bestseller The Rise of Wolf 8, Rick McIntyre profiles one of Yellowstone's most revered alpha males, Wolf 21. This is the dramatic true story of its remarkable leader, Wolf 21-whose compassion and loyalty challenges commonly held beliefs about alpha males. The Druid Peak Pack was the most famous wolf pack in Yellowstone National Park, and maybe even in the world. "A redemption story, an adventure story, and perhaps above all, a love story." -Nate Blakeslee, New York Times -bestselling author of American Wolf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the harshness of winter, her family must join the largest exodus in human history to survive. With war looming dangerously close, Ilse’s school days soon turn to lessons of survival. This was an unforgettable look at two families’ experience – based on true events.įrom the bestselling author of The Murmur of Bees comes a transportive novel of two families uprooted by war and united by the bonds of love and courage. ![]() I have to say that I read all the time about WWII, but usually from the viewpoint of the victors. Set in Prussia in WWII it follows two families as they deal with war and loss. Sofía Segovia has a beautiful way of writing and the first half of this story captures the characters thoughts and personalities so we really feel like we know them. The good people at Over the River PR sent me a copy of this lengthy and engaging WWII novel, by the author of The Murmur of Bees. ![]() ![]() It gives an atmosphere in which we breathe more naturally: we see, as it were, the ancient building in a mellower and less garish light.Įditio princeps of the Historia Ecclesiastica, Eggestyn, Strasbourg, 1475 (about).Ĭollected edition of Bede’s works, Basle, 1563.įirst critical edition, Smith, Cambridge, 1722. And, apart from the intrinsic merits of his work, it is probably better to read an author dealing with an age like Bede’s, so different from our own in its thoughts and ways, through the medium of a translation which does not belong to our own day. The structure of his clauses is nearer akin to the Latin than the more choppy sentences of modern English: he has a dignity and nobility of style and a constant happiness of phrase, which have deservedly kept his translation alive. ![]() But, notwithstanding such drawbacks, Stapleton belonged to the age of the Book of Common Prayer and the Authorised Version of the Bible. ![]() He paraphrases and amplifies and omits, and it is not too much to say that there is scarcely a sentence in which some alteration is not required, if the English version is to be a close rendering of Bede’s Latin. But apart from this it must be admitted that he treats the Latin of his author rather cavalierly. Stapleton used the Basle edition of Bede’s collected works, 1563, and this accounts for some errors in his translation. ![]() The first critical edition of the text was that of Smith, 1722. ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. But whose? And how can she protect the royal children from the palace’s deadly curse? Too late, she realizes she has walked into a trap. Perveen is determined to bring peace to the royal house and make a sound recommendation for the young prince’s future, but she arrives to find that the Satapur palace is full of cold-blooded power plays and ancient vendettas. Just one person can help them: Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s only female lawyer. ![]() However, the maharanis live in purdah and do not speak to men. The royal ladies are in a dispute over the education of the young crown prince, and a lawyer’s counsel is required. ![]() The state is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur’s two maharanis, the dowager queen and her daughter-in-law. ![]() A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur’s royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic hunting accident. India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the princely state of Satapur is tucked away. The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel The Widows of Malabar Hill. ![]() |