![]() ![]() Someone is making life difficult for Jamie Quinn’s boyfriend, Kip Simons, the new director of Broward County parks. Peril in the Park (Jamie Quinn Mystery Book 3) And she’s hoping that, in his spare time, he can help her find her long-lost father… ![]() When she can’t untangle truth from lies, Jamie enlists the help of Duke Broussard, her favorite private investigator, to try to clear her client’s name. ![]() It’s business as usual until a bitter divorce case turns into a murder investigation, and Jamie’s client becomes the prime suspect. Reluctant lawyer, Jamie Quinn, has returned to her family law practice after a hiatus due to the death of her mother. The Case of the Killer Divorce (Jamie Quinn Mystery Book 2) It doesn’t help that the victim is a former rock star with more enemies than friends, or that Adam confessed to a murder he didn’t commit. It’s up to Jamie to find the real murderer before it’s too late. Reluctant lawyer, Jamie Quinn, still reeling from the death of her mother, is pulled into a game of deception, jealousy, and vengeance when her cousin, Adam, is wrongfully accused of murder. Death by Didgeridoo (Jamie Quinn Mystery Book 1) ![]()
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Meanwhile, the unruly troops he commands are ![]() Lejaune sets his sights on stealing the jewel, which rumor holds to be Meet up in the deserts of Africa where they fall under the command of the To being the thief in order to protect the others and one by one they head Prized Blue Water sapphire turns up missing, each of the young men confesses Horseplay centered around these myths and legends. Their raucous youths are filled with the literature of adventure and ritualized The three Geste brothers, orphaned early in life, are raised by an Aunt. Happily, the original novel is nearly its equal. It was one of those movies you had to watch every time it was on. Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy and Susan Hayward, You march or you die!"] spring to mind, and of course the greatest of themĪll was Beau Geste (1939). 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And during this time we also learned that a major studio that had been developing a Warren TV series decided to not renew the option. That one stung - it's always been one of my favorite events, and to take part was an honor I was really looking forward to. More events were cancelled, including the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, where I was supposed to be a panelist. I tried my best to rally and I took part in a lot of virtual promo events and zoom panels and such. Thankfully my loved ones and I have managed to stay healthy through all this, knock on wood.īut on a purely professional level I have to say it really sucks to release a new book at the start of an unprecedented quarantine. Granted, it's been a struggle for everyone, especially those who have actually dealt with the virus and illness firsthand. Not only that, but my husband lost an entire year's worth of work as a touring sound engineer too! Talk about stress. ![]() ![]() Almost overnight all our planned events were cancelled. As you probably recall, March is when all the Covid-19 stuff began ramping up and Stay-at-Home orders were announced. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() People like Reilly Brennan, son of an old P-town family, whose days are caught up in wedding plans, even as his nights are increasingly taken over by heated fantasies about other men.Wide-eyed, blond-haired, All-American Toby Evans, an escapee from the Midwest ready to spend the summer in the equivalent of gay boot camp for anyone who will tutor him.Elegant Emmeline, age unknown, a southern belle straight out of Faulkner, with a mean drag act and almost enough money for her permanent gender transformation.Ty Rusk, one of Hollywood's hottest new stars hiding an ages-old secrets about to explode. With its windswept dunes, lazy summer days, and starry nights filled with possibilities, Provincetown holds special appeal for those who call it home.and for those who come seeking its open welcome. ![]() But the summer has other plans for Josh, and his trip to P-town will bring bigger changes than he ever imagined. Now, with his life playing out like a very bad movie of the week, Josh impulsively heads to the Cape for a few days-long enough to figure out where his relationship-what's left of it-might be going. Josh Felling has always been a romantic-up until the moment his lover Doug announced that he'd had an affair with a guy from their gym. Michael Thomas Ford delivers a triumphant first novel about a group of gay men looking for love, losing the past, and finding themselves in the bars and on the beaches of Provincetown. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The need to accomplish the form’s most important goal-an end to slavery-took narrators back to the world that had enslaved them, as they were called upon to provide accurate reproductions of both the places and the experiences of the past they had fled. An ironic factor in the production of these accounts can be noted in the generic title “Fugitive Slave Narrative” often given to such works. Like all slave narratives, Jacobs’s and Douglass’s works embody the tension between the conflicting motives that generated autobiographies of slave life. The genre achieves its most eloquent expression in Frederick Douglass’s 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: an American Slave and Harriet Jacobs’s 1861 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. During the last three decades of legal slavery in America, from the early 1830s to the end of the Civil War in 1865, African American writers perfected one of the nation’s first truly indigenous genres of written literature: the North American slave narrative. ![]() ![]() Mario Amaya, "The Painter who inspired Hollywood," Sunday Times Magazine, February 18, 1968, p. Elson, Modern Times and the Living Past, New York, 1921, p. Rudolf Dircks, "The Later Works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema," Art Journal, Christmas Supplement, 1910, p. Shepp, Shepp's Library of History and Art, Philadelphia, 1905, p. 41įedor Il'Ich Bulgakov, Alma-Tadema, Petrograd, 1897, pp. 105Įthel Mackenzie McKenna, "Alma Tadema and His Home and Pictures," McClure's Magazine, November 1896, illustrated p. Monthly Illustrator and Home and Country, March 1896, illustrated p. A.: A Sketch of his Life and Work, 1895, illustrated pl. 494įrederic George Stephens, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, R. "Lawrence Alma Tadema, R.A.," Franke Leslie's Popular Monthly, vol. ![]() "Cleopatra," The Theatre, an Illustrated Weekly Magazine, vol. 6Ĭarel Vosmaer, Alma-Tadema, Catalogue Raisonné, circa 1885, (unpublished), no. 179, 181įrederick George Stephens, "Alma Tadema," Artists at Home, vol. ![]() ![]() "Art at the Grosvenor," Choice Literature, A Monthly Magazine, vols. "Some English Artists' and Their Studios," The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, vol. Mabel Collins, "The Art of Alma Tadema," The New York Times, March 1, 1882, p. ![]() ![]() However that may be, the plot moves quickly and furiously through madcap chases and revelations and surprises. Only it turns out that there are no real anarchists? Or maybe only one or two? Is Chesterton saying that evil is, in the end, only an illusion? That God provides men with the illusion of evil in order to test them and give them the opportunity to suffer and show courage? Or is it that in order to confront real evil, men must “tested by fire” and know suffering? Maybe I’m not intelligent enough for Chesterton. The Man Who Was Thursday fits all of these adjectives, and to be honest I’m not sure I understand what Chesterton was doing in this novel about a subversive policeman poet who infiltrates and stands against the forces of anarchy. ![]() ![]() ![]() New mylar added to ensure future enjoyment. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Queen of the Hills: The Story of Piedmont, A California City by Evelyn Craig Pattiani Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Item: 195416348260 Queen of the Hills: The Story of Piedmont, A California City. Ships to: WORLDWIDE & many other countries, ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In his later works, alchemy is the object of ridicule and is placed with music, art, theatre and astrology in the category of less serious sciences. In his autobiography he indicated the Chymische Hochzeit as one of his works-as a "ludibrium", possibly meaning "lampoon". His role in the origin of the Rosicrucian legend is controversial. In 1650, he assumed direction of the monasterial school Bebenhausen in 1654, he became abbot of the evangelical monasterial school of Adelberg. He became also a spiritual adviser to a royal princess of Württemberg. In 1639, he became preacher at the court and councillor of the consistory (Konsistorialrat) in Stuttgart, where he advocated a fundamental church reform. To this end, he initiated the Christliche Gottliebende Gesellschaft ("Christian God-loving Society"). Here he reformed the school and social institutions, and established institutions for charity and other aids. He studied theology and natural sciences in Tübingen,obtaining a degree in 1614. Johannes Valentinus Andreä or Johann Valentin Andreae, was a German theologian, who claimed to be the author of the Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459 (1616, Strasbourg, the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz), one of the three founding works of Rosicrucianism. A mysterious figure associated with alchemy, Kabbalah, Rosicrucianism, and other philosophical esoterica of the 17th century, Andreae published this intriguing. ![]() |