![]() ![]() ![]() A bit of poking around reveals to the Op that the apparent jewel theft is merely the tip of a highly toxic iceberg. ![]() The household includes the inventor’s wife, Alice, and his daughter, Gabrielle, and associates of the family include Eric Collinson, a suitor of Gabrielle, and Owen Fitzstephan, a writer who happens to know both the Leggett paterfamilias and the Op. Some diamonds in Leggett’s possession have gone missing, and the Op starts chatting up people in the Leggett milieu who might know something about the whereabouts of those gems. The Continental Op, working on behalf of a jeweler’s insurance company, visits the San Francisco home of an inventor named Edgar Leggett. Then it spirals manically into a strange, labyrinthine affair. The story begins modestly, as if it came from one of the more desiccated leaves of a private eye’s casebook. More important, it stands as the ur-text for a prominent subgenre of detective fiction. ![]() Yet the book, which Hammett churned out quickly and as a matter of financial exigency, offers plenty of vintage pulpy charm. Of Hammett’s five novels, this one has long had the lowest reputation-certainly in the view of the author himself, and by a fairly wide margin among most critics who celebrate his literary achievement overall. ![]()
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![]() Her fifth young adult novel, BAD GIRLS WITH PERFECT FACES, came out in the US on. OL19721380W Page_number_confidence 87.35 Pages 326 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220624231141 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 265 Scandate 20220623181007 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781481418614 Tts_version 5. Lynn Weingarten is a New York Times bestselling author living in Brooklyn. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 04:52:32 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40579306 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled Foldoutcount 0 Identifier badgirlswithperf0000wein_c0c8 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s230qc230gm Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781481418607ġ481418610 Lccn 2017015886 Ocr tesseract 5.1.0-1-ge935 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9679 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0001216 Openlibrary_edition ![]() ![]() ![]() Snapper details the relentless disintegration of a relationship that has begun after a road crash: ‘I was holding a bag of oxtail on Green Street at Upton Park when the accident happened.’ Cronenberg’s Crash came to mind as I read this story. ![]() It’s only at the end that we find out there have been a ‘series of sexually motivated disappearances’ and that the woman is not all she seems. Loneliness itself becomes a character in Footer where a woman succumbing to ‘the feeling of being worshipped, to a delicious, deviant unspooling attached to a man’s tongue flicking between her toes’ dates a series of foot fetishists. He was cursed.’ The story builds to a shocking conclusion where his mother is forced to an act of savagery to make him socially acceptable. In Animal Parts, the first story in this collection, Henri is born in Denmark with a long, grey tail, but it’s not until he is subject to months of graphic bullying that he realises ‘His mother had lied. Set mainly in London, but with a few further afield these are narratives to dip into and enjoy. Strange and unexpected elements of nightmare and magic merge with everyday urban life and heighten the predominant themes of loneliness, alienation and mental breakdown. Speak Gigantular is a fascinating collection of surreal, and sexually charged short stories from Irenosen Okojie. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() Priced.) Or, if you'd prefer to do your shopping by internet, here are two very affordable copies of the book, either a softcover or a hardcover edition from. (It is in the public domain, and quite reasonably I encourage you to go to your local bookstore and buy a copy of this interesting book. ![]() The basic issues James discusses here remain of vital concern to people in psychology and religion today. This classic book was first published in 1902, and has remained in print ever since. ![]() Here is my copy of William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience. James: The Varieties of Religious Experience (Table of Contents)īack to Psych Web Home Page Back to Psychology of Religion Home Page ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Instructive, entertaining, and stimulating to the imagination.” – The Mathematics Teacher “ Flatland has remained of interest for over a century precisely because of its ability to engage its readers on so many different planes in so many different dimensions.” – Victorian Studies ![]() “This is a delirious book.” – The New York Times Start it and you will fall under its spell.” –Banesh Hoffmann Like all great art, it defies the tyrant Time. “A timeless classic of perennial fascination that seems to have been written for today. How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result.How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success.How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision.How, though the Sphere showed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desired more and what came of it.How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there.How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds.How the Stranger Vainly Endeavored to Reveal to me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland.How I vainly tried to explain the Nature of Flatland.Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition.Of our Methods of recognizing one another.Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 1884.Heathenry or: Concerning the text and its illustrations. ![]() ![]() As the miles accumulate and time runs out, Noah must face the most difficult choice of his life. Soon, a quiet but undeniable chemistry sparks. Nothing about the ultraconservative geoarchaeologist should attract Adrian, but once he discovers Noah's hidden love for video games, the two connect on a new level. That is until Noah Walters offers him shelter for the night and a reluctant cross-country ride. But he finds himself in need of a total reboot when he's left stranded at a snowy campground in Utah. ![]() ![]() He's a successful video game designer with everything a man could ask for, including a warm comfy ride to Denver and a date for his sister's wedding. Opposites attract on an accidental road trip in book one of #gaymers, a geektastic new series from multipublished male/male romance author Annabeth AlbertĪdrian Gottlieb is winning at life. ![]() ![]() Forster’s Maurice one more time, as much as I love it, here’s Alec, William di Canzio’s brilliant reimagining of Forster’s classic. Reading this sublime novel made me think of David Leavitt’s While England Sleeps and also, near the end, of Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham who wrote about Alec: “Just when it began to seem that I couldn’t read E. The story deals with class, war, shellshock, found family, but above all: fierce love. This is a story of how strong and deep love can be and all the hardships it can overcome.ĭi Canzio’s writing style breathes that of the period where the story is set in, early twentieth century. What follows is, In my opinion, one of the greatest love stories in literature. And he tells the story of what happens after the ending of Forster’s book. ![]() Where Forster’s novel is written from the viewpoint of Maurice, Di Canzio’s is from of Alec’s point of view. Forster’s novel Maurice, written in 1913 but only published in 1971, the year after his death. Di Canzio’s novel, published in 2021, is the story of Alec and Maurice, the lovers of E.M. ![]() ![]() ![]() He set aside the archaic prose flourishes of all those authors, instead drawing on hardboiled fiction to give his stories a contemporary feel. No matter how callous their heroes, they were ultimately still cut from recognizable heroic cloth.Ĭook introduced something new. Both Moorcock and Wagner were rooted in the foundations of swords & sorcery laid by Robert E. ![]() I had read some gritty fantasy previously - Michael Moorcock and Karl Edward Wagner in particular had published some pretty dark stories in the 1960s and 70s - but it was all written in the old familiar fantasy style. When my friend Carl lent me his copy of The Black Company back in 1984 I didn’t know what was about to hit me. As soon as I opened The Black Company last May, I knew I was back home among a band of brothers I’d first met and come to love over thirty years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was nothing”) and the longing to feel loved. ![]() Even powerful for that one brief moment before it was over. ) eloquently expresses the pain of lost innocence (“Their words made me feel beautiful. Jumping Off Swings Jo Knowles Sex Sexual Intercourse Pregnancy Interpersonal Relations Emotional Problems Of Teenagers Info/Buy Add To List Take a look at the WSIRN Gift Store for great products and gift ideas. Offering four equally sympathetic viewpoints, Knowles ( Lessons from a Dead Girl ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thank you to all the people who've read this story. Meanwhile, Corinne and Caleb are drawn together by their shared concern for Ellie. While rumors about her condition spread, Ellie has no idea how profoundly her pregnancy and her decision about whether to have the baby affects the baby’s father, Josh, whom she has avoided ever since he abandoned her after their only sexual encounter. Jumping Off Swings by Knowles, Jo Publisher: Candlewick Press Genre: Young Adult Fiction, Juvenile Fiction Topic: Social Themes / Dating & Relationships. Unable to go to her parents for comfort and guidance, she turns to her best friend, Corinne, and Liz, the compassionate mother of Ellie’s childhood friend, Caleb. Ellie wants a boyfriend, but what she gets instead is a series of meaningless hookups, the fourth of which leaves her pregnant. ![]() Absorbing from first page to last, this sensitively written novel explores how a teenager’s crisis rocks her life as well as the lives of others. ![]() |