![]() ![]() he said did it you run ten miles day for 30 days he said if i did ![]() he said well did you do everything i asked you to do he said i did exactly what you told me. and he said come back and see me so very dutiful goes out does it 30 days later calls dock an he says how are you doing? he says i feel great. he say for next 30 days i want you to run ten miles day and i want you to start exercising he said well i've never run that much but i'll do it. he said you need to listen to exactly what ienl telling you. you've got to get your priorities straight. and he said well look, he said - you've got too much stress in your life. he goes when i go home, you know, the wife, kids are giving me trouble wife works full-time but she's giving me a bucket load and i need to do something about it. he said you know, everything is bachelor's degree at the business. and he went to the doctor and said you know dock i feel like i'm going to stroke out. he was just - it was a bad time for his company stock price was going down. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many titles were published virtually simultaneously in two places, for example, London, and New York. ![]() The location of publication is an often overlooked but important detail in a list of information about a collection of books. However, his Travels with Charley, first edition with dust jacket, is worth around $100. A first edition of John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath in good condition is worth around $2,500. Additionally, some books by famous authors are better than others. Who wrote that?Ī book is more likely to appeal to collectors, and therefore be worth more, if you have actually heard of the book or its author. If you have one on a good book, treasure it and be sure to protect it with a plastic sleeve. This huge difference in value is largely due to the fact that more than 90% of dust jackets are destroyed, either deliberately or due to their ephemeral and fragile nature. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night with dust jacket is around $6,000. If there is one single thing that is a make or break for book value, it would be the dust jacket. Dust jackets, dust jackets, and more dust jackets! Scott (1896-1940), Tender is the Night, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934, first edition with dust jacket, sold for: $8,295 1. ![]() Not quite a husband by sherry thomas6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() In 2013, she would branch into young adult fantasy before branching into traditional historical settings in 2014 to publish a set of novels set in Imperialist China. Her debut novel was an English-set Victorian romance that she first published in 2006 after seven failed attempts. ![]() Once she had moved to the United States aged thriteen, she would improve her English through reading romance and fiction novels such as “Sweet Savage Love” by Rosemary Roger, and the fiction of Isaac Asimov that she read with the help of an English Chinese dictionary. English is Thomas’s second language since she was born in China, and her very earliest experiences of English was her grandmother doing English language newspaper crossword puzzles. She has also been feted by media organizations such as the New York Times and National Public Radio. She has been the recipient of several prestigious reviews from venerated publications and trade publications such as Kirkus, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly. ![]() Sherry Thomas ranks as one of the most popular romance authors from the United States today. ![]() Review of lincoln in the bardo6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() President Lincoln knew that his son’s soul no longer animated the little body, yet contemporaneous accounts tell of the president returning to the crypt at night. As the revelers joined the festivities, praising the extravagant food and elegant décor, the president’s son, Willie Lincoln, lay dying of an illness upstairs.ĭays later a funeral procession marched Willie’s lifeless body to a tomb. Some remembered it being yellow-red, while others claimed the night was moonless with foreboding, heavy clouds. On a cold February night in 1862, guests arriving at a formal White House reception reported that the moon shone golden. ![]() However, the most significant aspect of the book is the lesson that the lies we tell ourselves imprison us in our falsehoods and distort our true nature. The most salient aspect of the book is the cacophonous chorus of narrators whose words build the bardo-in Tibetan Buddhism, the space between this life and the next. George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo is the 2017 Man Booker prize–winning work of fiction, inspired by the true story of a president’s display of sorrow. ![]() Full tilt by dervla murphy6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() OL111807W Page_number_confidence 88.64 Pages 266 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.11 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210415074053 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 772 Scandate 20210406141322 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0879512369 Tts_version 4. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:02:30 Boxid IA40088908 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck6/6/2023 ![]() Taken by surprise, a small coastal town is overrun by an invading army with little resistance. Written with the purpose of motivating resistance movements in occupied countries, the book has appeared in at least 92 editions across the world. Although the text never names the occupying force as German, references to "The Leader", "Memories of defeats in Belgium and France 20 years ago" clearly suggest it. literature in the Soviet Union during the war. Furthermore, numerous other editions were also secretly published across all of occupied Europe, including Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, and Italian versions (as well as a Swedish version) it was the best known work of U.S. The story tells of the military occupation of a small town in Northern Europe by the army of an unnamed nation at war with England and Russia (much like the occupation of Norway by the Germans during World War II).Ī French language translation of the book was published illegally in Nazi-occupied France by Les Éditions de Minuit, a French Resistance publishing house. ![]() Fashioned for adaptation for the theatre and for which Steinbeck received the Norwegian King Haakon VII Freedom Cross, it was published by Viking Press in March 1942. ![]() The Moon Is Down is a novel by American writer John Steinbeck. ![]() Klaus by Grant Morrison6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I thought it was such a franchise-able thing. We’ve never seen how the hell this happened – how did he get to be Santa Claus? It seemed such an obvious, ridiculous idea, that I really seized on it and it became a kind of « Lord of the Rings » meets « Batman Begins. » That was the image that came to me first. The first image that came to me, and this kind of sums it all up, is this ferocious-looking, almost « Conan the Barbarian » young man with black hair and a black beard, the snow is coming down onto him, it’s turning his hair and beard white. Le premier arc fera six numéros mais le scénariste laisse entendre qu’il pourrait s’installer bien plus longtemps si l’envie lui en prenait. ![]() Il y racontera les origines scandinaves du plus grand mythe super-héroïque de tout les temps: Santa Klaus. C’est ainsi que le scénariste Grant Morrison résume le titre Klaus sur lequel il collabore avec l’artiste Dan Mora. ![]() Trickster by matt dembicki6/6/2023 ![]() The stories vary in length, but most are in the range of 10 pages. The Catawba story “The Yehasuri: The Little Wild Indians” by Beckee Garris, illustrated by Andrew Cohen, tells readers about mischievous beings who trouble travelers and punish naughty children. Many are of the pourquoi tale type, offering etiological narratives, such as “Rabbit’s Choctaw Tail Tale” by Tim Tingle, illustrated by Pat Lewis, which explains why rabbits have short tails. Bruchac’s introduction describes how the stories serve a dual purpose, both entertaining and educating listeners and readers. ![]() An editor’s note explains that each author chose the artist who would illustrate their story and approved their work. retold by Indigenous authors and illustrated by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists. ![]() The 10th-anniversary reissue of this compilation, which features an introduction to trickster tales by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki), contains traditional stories from across Canada and the U.S. Twenty-three comics show how natural phenomena from the stars to buzzards have been affected by tricksters. ![]() ![]() In Love, Claire is the eldest of three sisters who occupy a single house. Gradually building in emotional intensity, the novellas paint a shocking portrait of families and artists struggling to survive under Haiti's terrifying government restrictions that have turned its society upside down, transforming neighbors into victims, spies, and enemies. ![]() ![]() In Love, Anger, Madness, Marie Vieux-Chauvet offers three slices of life under an oppressive regime. Suppressed upon its initial publication in 1968, this major work became an underground classic and was finally released in an authorized edition in France in 2005. In a brilliant translation by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokur, Love, Anger, Madness is a scathing response to the struggles of race, class, and sex that have ruled Haiti. Available in English for the first time, Marie Vieux-Chauvet's stunning trilogy of novellas is a remarkable literary event. ![]() The only English translation of a masterpiece (The Nation)-a stunning trilogy of novellas about the soul-crushing cost of life under a violent Haitian dictatorship, featuring an introduction by Edwidge Danticat. ![]() Jane Goodall by Dale Peterson6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The first decade was largely without incident until one day in July 1969. Over the next several decades, Goodall would establish her Gombe research camp and begin her groundbreaking chimpanzee research that would eventually win her numerous accolades and drastically alter the way that humans view the natural world. However, when Jane Goodall landed in the Gombe forest in 1960, the area was primarily labeled as a British mandate and Chimpanzee reserve. The local people regard the forest as the “sacred lair of their formidable earth spirits.” The forest has remained largely unaltered by human presence by its remoteness as well as its cutural traditions. It’s a true story of adventure, danger, and sudden death that makes compelling reading.”-Jane Goodallįlying over the East African Rift and landing at the airstrip at Kigoma, Tanzania, you arrive in the thick of the Gombe forest. Dale Peterson has brought to life the Gombe of the late 1960’s, describing the entwined lives of the chimpanzees and the people studying them. “ This brilliant narrative will haunt you. ![]() |