![]() ![]() This is the Audiobook Cassette Library Edition in vinyl case. These six stories include: Rumpole and the Younger Generation, Rumpole and the Alternative Society, Rumpole and the Honourable Member, Rumpole and the Married Lady, Rumpole and the Learned Friends, and Rumpole and the Heavy Brigade. ![]() In this first title of the popular series featuring Rumpole, all of the major characters who occupy the Rumpole stories make their introductions: the sneaky, slightly effeminate Erskine Brown, the bumbling Guthrie Featherstone and various and sundry other lawyers and clerks whose lives weave in and out of these stories. He is not a particularly gifted attorney, nor is he particularly fond of the law by courts if it comes to that, but he’d rather be swinging at a case than bowing to his wife Hilda, She Who Must Be Obeyed. Horace Rumpole, the irreverent, iconoclastic, claret swilling, poetry spouting barrister at law, is among the most beloved characters of English crime literature. These six short stories introduce all the lovable or not so lovable characters from the delightful Rumpole series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Magicians appears to be on its way to becoming another bestseller for the British writer. In Magicians, Hancock now says he got it all wrong-there was no crustal shift instead he thinks this advanced civilization was destroyed by a comet. ![]() He also claims that the Mayan calendar portended world cataclysms in 2012. Portions of a supposedly highly advanced unknown lost civilization (none other than Atlantis) living on Antarctica at the time were able to survive the destructive cataclysms and go on to convey their knowledge to the builders of the megalithic structures of Egypt, Maya, Babylon, and other known great civilizations. 3 In Fingerprints, Hancock uses creation myths in ancient texts and wild geological scenarios to suggest that 12,450 years ago major crustal shifts moved Antarctica to its present location. ![]() Graham Hancock’s 2015 book Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization 1 is something of a sequel and update to his 1995 international bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth’s Lost Civilization, 2 which was translated into 27 languages and sold more than three million copies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() the beautiful, imaginative, protected world of my childhood swept away." Since his death in 2000 several works of biography have appeared, including A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations (W. He wrote of his loss "It happened too suddenly, with no warning, and we none of us could believe it or bear it. Much of his work is autobiographical, particularly concerning the loss of his mother when he was 10 years old growing up in the rural Midwest of America and the house where he lived at the time, which he referred to as the "Wunderkammer" or "Chamber of Wonders". His award-winning fiction, which is increasingly seen as some of the most important of the 20th Century, has recurring themes of childhood, family, loss and lives changed quietly and irreparably. ![]() ![]() Maxwell wrote six highly acclaimed novels, a number of short stories and essays, children's stories, and a memoir, Ancestors (1972). He studied at the University of Illinois and Harvard University. was an American novelist, and fiction editor at the New Yorker. Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. ![]() ![]() ![]() Brilliantly documenting both the dark and the light,Good Faeries/Bad Faeriespresents a world of enchantment and magic that deeply compels the imagination. The faery kingdom, we find, is as subject to good and evil as the human realm. In addition to such good faeries as Dream Weavers and Faery Godmothers, Brian introduces us to a host of less well behaved creatures - traditional bad faeries like Morgana le Fay, but also the Soul Shrinker and the Gloominous Doom. ![]() Crammed with Frouds full-colour paintings, and bound in a reversible format with good faeries on one side and bad on the other, this is an attractive gift book sure to delight any fan of fantasy art. In this richly imagined new book, Brian reveals the secrets he has learned from the faeries - what their noses and shoes look like, what mischief and what gentle assistance they can give, what their souls and their dreams are like.As it turns out, faeries arent all sweetness and light. Brilliantly documenting both the dark and the light, Good Faeries/Bad Faeries presents a world of enchantment and magic that deeply compels the imagination. ![]() ![]() That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc.In the long-awaited sequel to the international bestsellerFaeries,artist Brian Froud rescues pixies, gnomes, and other faeries from the isolation of the nursery and the distance of history, bringing them into the present day with vitality and imagination. Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m given strict orders not to talk to him, not to even look in his direction, but he makes this an impossible task. No reason at all to even think he was there. ![]() This time, there is no partying, no noise, no crowds. Like all the summers I’d been gone, Prince Elias is back, but this time with an incognito security detail and no friends. I hadn’t been home in years, but when I finally come back for the summer, I see that not much has changed. Anything to keep me away from the royals and their partying. If you had any ties to Marbella, it was impossible for you not to have heard the stories about Prince Elias and his debauchery.Įvery summer he arrived with his security detail and friends in tow and rented out a row of cottages near the water.Įach of those summers, my parents sent me away – summer camp and later, boarding school. “From New York Times Bestselling Author, Claire Contreras, comes a new, sexy, 100% stand-alone novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() This booklet contains much other information as well such as the spinal column has a tuning fork quality, and many products emit a sound that utilizes this breaking down the spine and leading to a vast amount of premature pain and illness. In fact it has probably been different than anybody who has ever set foot on the planet, (although I cant say this with absolute certainty) and I feel compelled to tell my story. Never the less I have lived my life differently during these past thiry years than anyone else on the planet. However body should do anything health related on my say so. Just because the latter disease is hereditary does t mean that genes must be involved in the cure. ![]() While I am t a healer but merely a retired home improvement contractor I believe I might have stumbled upon the cure for scoliosis and even muscular dystrophy. A number of years ago I self-treated my bad back, and in the process actually discovered a method of straightening it, as well as my limbs by utilizing my discovery of the connection between the spinal column and the senses. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her survival depends on suppressing her impulses and curbing her tongue which she has found difficult enough in her own decade of origin, but nearly impossible amongst the staid Victorians. She survives but instead of being propelled to New York in the 1970’s, as anticipated, she finds herself in the 1880’s in England, She is compelled to find a way to exist in this alien, repressive, misogynistic society for an entire year before she can hopefully return to her carefree life. It is revealed that the research involves time travel and although she is apprehensive about the dangers, she is drawn by the handsome remuneration, the prospect of adventure, and the emotional lure of reuniting with her deceased alcoholic mother, and she agrees to participate. She has many friends but the most beloved is her impressively large and remarkably flatulent dog Tinkerbelle.Īlways on the lookout for appealing revenue sources, she responds to a university ad looking for well paid volunteers for a Science project. Her foul-mouthed humor and unconventional lifestyle are in sharp contrast to her heart stopping beauty as she soars through life on a rocket of relentless energy and good humor. ![]() Charlie Hutton is an irreverent, wise cracking jock, living in La Jolla California. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() The enhanced eBook edition of Lawrence Wright’s revelatory study of Scientology includes additional photographs and documents, plus more than thirty minutes of original video-taped interviews with former members of the church speaking about what drew them to Scientology and about discovering past lives, the church’s position on abortion and homosexuality, and how the Guardian’s Office functions and in interviews with the author, Lawrence Wright speaks about his aims in writing this book, his respect for his sources, and methods of research.Ī clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The thing I can’t stand about Brexit is that it seems very clear that the people who will bear the human cost are those at the lower end of the wage scale, meanwhile the great imperialist nostalgia fantasy will chunder on,” he says. The subject we keep coming back to, however, is Brexit, and not simply because Harkaway, like his father, remains a passionate supporter of the European Union. “American sci-fi has always had a strand of revolution in it, which sits well with literary culture… I think it’s partially down to Philip K Dick being part of the counter-culture…” In person Harkaway, 45, is exactly the same: our conversation, which takes place in his airy, book-filled study at the top of his North London home, ranges from the most recent scientific experiments he’s read about, to the importance of technology in fiction and the good and bad points of Twitter (“I love it but I’m not sure how long I can stay on it because it’s become so ugly”) to the differences between US and UK science fiction: “American sci-fi has always had a strand of revolution in it, which sits well with literary culture… I think it’s partially down to Philip K Dick being part of the counter-culture” ![]() |