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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Juvenile, Children's, Polish, Dog) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fantasy for young readers which can be read and understood on several levels, about a mysterious spectre that manifests in unexpected and fragmentary ways, and sometimes as a Great Dane. With atmospheric interior monochrome illustrations by Julek Heller. In original pictorial jacket, illustration by Julek Heller, about as new with tiny creasing to parts of edges, protected in mylar wrap. Internally, no owner's marks, faint tiny trace of bookseller notation, very few faint dots of foxing on endpapers, contents about as new except for group of few pages with creased and foxed upper corner edge. speckle of foxing to tops and few scattered specks to other edges. Designed as a field handbook, it aims at helping us observe, navigate, and orientate into the increasingly artificial fabric of the world. Covers about as new, with slightly bumped spine extremities, very slightly rubbed edges. A BESTIARY OF THE ANTHROPOCENE is an illustrated compilation of hybrid creatures of our time, equally inspired by medieval bestiaries and observations of our damaged planet. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good in Mylar Wrap. ![]() ![]() To dub Echo Must Die 'Infantile, flatulent, ghastly drivel would be an insult to infants, to flatulence, and to ghosts alike. "In my salad days at Cambridge, I got into a fistfight defending the honor of Hershey's early masterpiece Desiccated Embryos and to this day I wear the scar on my ear as a badge of honor. The interesting thing is that David Mitchell, in many ways, has already reviewed his own book. What vanity! Who was it, David Foster Wallace, that said people don't think about you nearly as much as you think other people think about you? " What happened to him?" "Didn't he just love David Mitchell?" "He wouldn't shut up about him!" And then the marauding hordes would rise out of the woodworks, tear me from my home, and tie me to the stake, set those sticks ablaze, crying, "Traitor! Traitor! What hath the apostate said about the lord our Mitchell? Blasphemy!" And I'd look fierce and proud, dying a martyr for the cause. ![]() This is all planned out: I imagined a ceremonious return to goodreads, where I shock the masses with a derisive and scathing critique of one of my favorite authors, and the goodreads community would all be astir. Here is the review that this book deserves: please read this and not mine. ![]() ![]() ![]() USA Today bestselling author Patricia Potter “ verve…The prose is lush, and the author clearly has a talented way with plot and pacing.” Clare is an author to watch for the future and readers of romantic suspense are sure to love this excellent, well-written novel, one of the best I’ve read this year.” Believe me, I lost some sleep reading this book. She communicates this in a terrific love story that grabs you and will not let you go. Clare knows this world and the nuances of investigative reporting. The characters were people I would love to know. “I really loved this book because it was so realistic. “A gem, Extreme Exposure has all the elements of great romance and is an entertaining summer read.” ![]() Extreme Exposure is the launch book for a sizzling new suspense series that promises to generate lots of intrigue, action, and romance. “Investigative reporter turned author Clare brings a gritty realism to this intense and intricate romantic thriller. ![]() ![]() ![]() But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the perilous brink of cataclysmic change. Now, in celebration of the week-long, once-in-a-decade rite of Apert, the fras and suurs prepare to venture outside the concent's gates - opening them wide at the same time to welcome the curious "extras" in.ĭuring his first Apert as a fra, Erasmus eagerly anticipates reconnecting with the landmarks and family he hasn't seen since he was "collected". ![]() Erasmus, however, has no fear of the outside - the Extramuros - for the last of the terrible times was long, long ago. Yet always the avout have managed to adapt in the wake of catastrophe, becoming out of necessity more austere and less dependent on technology and material things. Three times during history's darkest epochs, bloody violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community. ![]() Over the centuries, cities, and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Fraa Erasmus is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the "Saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. ![]() ![]() ![]() By turns romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisitedtranscends Waugh s familiar satiric exploration of English society and mores, revealing an elegiac, lyrical writer of the most lucid and profound feeling.Įvelyn Waugh’s short stories are the marvelous, concentrated riffs of his comic genius, revealing in miniaturized perfection all the elements that made him the greatest comic writer of our century. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the world of Waugh s own youth, but it is also a story about religious and secular love, about the notions of sin and judgment, guilt and punishment and how, almost unaccountably, they can give shape to one s life. The novel Waugh thought of as his magnum opus, it is the story of the intense entanglement of a young, middle class Englishman, Charles Ryder, with a wealthy, eccentric Anglo Catholic family, the Marchmains: in particular, with Sebastian, the flamboyant young man Charles meets at Oxford in the 1920s and Sebastian s sister Julia, who will become the great and unrequited love of Charles s life. ![]() Opens July 2008.Įvelyn Waugh’s most celebrated novel is a memory drama of extraordinary richness and depth. Soon to be a major motion picture from Miramax Films, starring Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Ben Whishaw, and Matthew Good, and directed by Julian Jarrold. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Erin Bowman’s Contagion is everything I want in my science fiction: a cast of smart characters on a desperate rescue mission forced to confront an elusive and unstoppable enemy. Read this one with the lights on!”-Beth Revis, New York Times bestselling author of the Across the Universe series and Star Wars: Rebel Rising “Few understand the true horror that lies in the empty unknown of space, but Erin Bowman nails it in Contagion. “Gripping, thrilling and terrifying in equal measures, Contagion is the perfect intersection of science fiction and horror-I couldn’t look away.”-Amie Kaufman, New York Times bestselling author of Illuminae and Unearthed ![]() As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are best left buried-and some monsters are only too ready to awaken. When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project-including its members’ dead bodies. Perfect for fans of Madeleine Roux, Jonathan Maberry, and horror films like 28 Days Later and Resident Evil, this pulse-pounding, hair-raising, utterly terrifying novel is the first in a duology from the critically acclaimed author of the Taken trilogy.Īfter receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. Edgar Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Mystery ![]() ![]() Her first novels came in 2001, with the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel EarthWorld for BBC Books and the Bernice Summerfield novel The Squire's Crystal for Big Finish. (The novel featured the character of Bernice Summerfield and was part of a spin-off series from Doctor Who.) She went on to do five of the six Bernice Summerfield audio adaptations and further work for Big Finish before going to work for BBC Books on their Doctor Who lines. Her first professional writing credit came when she adapted Paul Cornell's Virgin New Adventure novel Oh No It Isn't! for the audio format, the first release by Big Finish. ![]() ![]() Jacqueline Rayner is a best selling British author, best known for her work with the licensed fiction based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ![]() ![]() ![]() Snorton's lecture, "Fleshy Encounters: Black Feminisms and the Mutability of Gender" on Friday, February 22nd from 2:30pm to 4:00pm in 100 Ramseyer Hall. ![]() ![]() He is the author of Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (2017) and Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low (2014). Snorton's work focuses on cultural theory, queer and transgender theory and history, Africana studies, performance studies, and popular culture. in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania with graduate certificates in Africana Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Dr. Riley Snorton is a Professor of English Langauge and Literature and Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at The University of Chicago. Riley Snorton Lecture: "Fleshy Encounters: Black Feminisms and the Mutability of Gender"ĭr. ![]() |