![]() When Christian needs a first mate for the Cove’s high-stakes Pirate Regatta, Elyse reluctantly stows her fear of the sea and climbs aboard. He challenges her to express herself, and he admires the way she treats his younger brother Sebastian, who believes Elyse is the legendary mermaid come to life. He’s also the only person in Atargatis Cove who doesn’t treat Elyse like a glass statue. Named for the mythical first mermaid, the Oregon seaside town is everything Elyse’s home in the Caribbean isn’t: An ocean too cold for swimming, parties too tame for singing, and people too polite to pry-except for one.Ĭhristian Kane is a notorious playboy-insolent, arrogant, and completely charming. ![]() Seeking quiet solitude, Elyse accepts a friend’s invitation to Atargatis Cove. Now, the most beautiful singer in Tobago can’t sing. The youngest of six talented sisters, Elyse d’Abreau was destined for stardom-until a boating accident took everything from her. The Summer of Chasing Mermaids by Sarah Ockler ![]()
0 Comments
![]() I didn't know I was going to do the work. To start to be able to become grounded in order to be able to do the work. ![]() ![]() I had the pleasure and surprise of ending up living on a small isolated island in Sweden for about a decade where I had some time to start to reflect about my family's past and also grew some roots. Well, I am a cosmopolitan who ended up, 24 years ago, settling in Sweden. Can you tell us a little bit about who you are and what book it is that has brought you from Europe over to the States? We've been having a blast, talking to you and just really enjoying your stay. And I got very lucky staying with you though. ![]() And we did not know each other beforehand, but you are on a book tour. You've been staying with us here in Los Angeles, in our home for several nights. So Julie, we're doing this in a little bit of a different situation than I usually do. ![]() I'm your host, Eric Weinstein and I'm here today with author of The Pendulum Julie Lindhal. Julie Lindahl: Personal Website, Twitter, YouTube Sponsors įour Sigmatic: /PORTAL and use discount code PORTAL to get a 15% discount on all ordersĬhili Pad /portal and use code “PORTALCHILI” ![]() ![]() He remarried, fathered other children and never saw Patrick again. Forsaken by her, Hearn was soon abandoned by his father, too, who returned to Dublin briefly before serving in the Crimean War and then moved to India. In 1852 Rosa and her son were shipped off to Charles's aunt in Dublin two years later, Rosa returned to Greece alone. Only four months after his son's birth, Charles disappeared, without his Greek wife, to a new assignment in the West Indies. ![]() ![]() Known until adulthood as "Paddy", Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was the product of a short-lived, messy marriage between a surgeon in the British army, Charles Hearn, and a beautiful Greek woman called Rosa Cassimati on the Ionian island of Lefkada, famous as the place of the poet Sappho's suicide and then a British protectorate. In the film version, Donald Pleasence appeared as Blofeld with a scarred eye-a curious echo of Hearn himself, who was blind and disfigured in one eye. It was no throwaway line by Ian Fleming, who spends the entire novel channelling his own inner Lafcadio Hearn by explaining, at great length, the nuances of Japanese culture to Western readers. Bond hisses, "Spare me the Lafcadio Hearn, Blofeld". In the penultimate James Bond novel, You Only Live Twice (1964), just before 007 slays his nemesis Blofeld in a "Castle of Death" in Japan, the criminal mastermind explains to Bond the term "kirisute gomen": the samurai right to peremptorily lop off the heads of lower orders for perceived insults. ![]() ![]() ![]() The photographs are presented alongside quotes, testimonies, and short texts offering perspectives on the array of themes, geographies, contexts, and events. ![]() Collaboration foregrounds key issues facing photography, including gender, race, and societal hierarchies/divisions-and their role in shaping and reshaping identities and communities, and provoking resistance or conformity. ![]() The book explores themes such as coercion and cooperation, friendship and exploitation, shared interests and competition, and rivalry or antagonistic partnership. Working with an accumulation of more than six hundred photographs, each entry breaks apart photography’s “single creator” tradition by bringing to light tangible traces of collaboration-the various relationships, exchanges, and interactions that occur in the making of any photograph and in the shaping, undoing and transforming archives. This collection uses the lens of collaboration to challenge dominant narratives around photographic history and authorship. Collaboration is a groundbreaking publication, by five great thinkersand practitioners in photography, in collaboration with hundreds of photographers, writers, critics, artists, and academics. ![]() ![]() Meany, after hitting "that fated baseball," no longer believes in accidents: his parents, in the granite business, convince him that he's the product of a virgin birth (we learn late in the book). Sweetly moralistic, Wheelwright, who became "a Christian because of Owen Meany," sometimes launches into tirades about Reagan and the Iran/contra fiasco, but mostly he tells Owen's story: Meany, who always writes and speaks in the uppercase, is the real mouthpiece here, though Wheelwright is his Nick Carraway. His best friend, Johnny Wheelwright, is the book's narrator: from Toronto, where he has lived for some 20 odd years, he tells the story of Owen Meany, who has a voice that "comes from God," of his own "Father Hunt"-Wheelwright is the product of his mother's "little fling"-and of growing up in the Sixties, when some people believed in destiny, others in coincidence. In 1953, Owen Meany-a physically tiny man with a big voice who believes he's God's instrument-kills his best friend's mother with a foul ball. ![]() This one-set in New Hampshire in the 50's and 60's-is a little of both, but not enough of either: its tone is finally too self-righteous to be fully convincing as fiction. Irving's novels, which often begin in autobiographical commonplace, get transformed along the way: sometimes into fairy tale (The Hotel New Hampshire), sometimes into modern-day ironic fable (The World According to Garp). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The History of England discusses the conversion of each of the major English Kingdoms: Kent, Mercia, Wessex and Northumberland. This is tied in with the decision to build Hadrian’s Wall so extracts can be used as source material. He refers, for example, to the problems that Northern England had with invaders such as the Picts and Scots. Though Bede himself was not a contemporary writer, his is one of the first English written accounts of the period that is written in-depth. The book is interesting for Primary School teachers as it provides a history of Roman Occupation. Augustine undertook and the conversion to Christianity of many Anglo-Saxons at that time. He makes use of earlier sources, which he acknowledges, to describe the Roman occupation. The primary focus of the work is the history of the conversion of the English from Paganism to Christianity.īede starts his History of England with the invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar in 55BC. Bede wrote his History of England in the 8th century, it was completed in 731AD. As a relatively newly formed nation, it was searching for its identity and tackling the challenges of invasion and internal politics. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of England was one of the first major histories of the English. ![]() ![]() ![]() Association of Applied Biologists, 59-66. In: Sparks, Tim Britt, Chris Cherrill, Andy Marrs, Andy Mortimer, Simon Pywell, Richard Rotheram, Ian Stokes, Victoria Westbury, Duncan, (eds.), Vegetation Management. Effects of Yellow-rattle (Rhinanthus minor) establishment on the vegetation of species-poor grassland. Wagner, Markus Peyton, Jodey Heard, Matthew Bullock, James Pywell, Richard, 2011. Association of Applied Biologists, 23-30. In: Peele, Steve Chesterton, Chris Cooke, Andrew Jefferson, Richard Martin, David Smith, Barbara Smith, Stuart Tallowin, Jerry, (eds.), Restoring diverse grassland: what can be achieved where, and what will it do for us?. Species-specific establishment requirements in calcareous grassland restoration. Association of Applied Biologists, 55-62. In: Boatman, Nigel Green, Mike Marshall, Jon Musters, Kees Peach, Will Peel, Steve Siriwardena, Gavin Smith, Barbara, (eds.), Environmental management on farmland. ![]() Higher Level Stewardship (HLS), the quality of agreements and evidence of progress: Results of a national survey in England. ![]() Association of Applied Biologists, 291-296. Testing the benefits of new agri-environment options for pollinating insects. ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. 'The spycraft of le Carre refracted through the blackly comic vision of Joseph Heller's Catch-22' Financial Times 'Mick Herron is an incredible writer' Mark Billingham Once a spook, always a spook, and even being dead doesn't mean you can't uncover secrets.ĭickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live. ![]() ![]() On Dickie's phone Lamb finds the last message he ever left, which hints that an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in the Intelligence Service's back-yard. But he's not an obvious target for assassination in the here and now. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day. Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets. 'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on Sundayįrom the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where disgraced spies are sent to see out the dregs of their careers, Jackson Lamb is on his way to Oxford, where a former spook has turned up dead on a bus. ![]() *Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* ![]() ![]() ![]() A passive-aggressive standoff between Sid and Charity ends with Sid giving in and repacking everything as Charity checks off their supplies. After Sid and Larry have packed everything the foursome will need for their walkabout, Charity insists on double-checking. The serpent comes to the fore on a planned walking tour of the countryside. Larry and Sally are charmed, but, “no Eden valid without serpent.” Sid and Charity seem to have everything they need for a quality life and the desire to extend their happiness to others. It all seems very pleasant, with time for the men to write in the morning and the families to have dinner together and guests over for lively conversation. Larry characterizes it as a place where he could be “capable of anything, including greatness.” Charity plans each day down to the minute. ![]() Most of their story takes place in tableaus of rural New England at Sid and Charity’s summer house. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail. ![]() In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth between the skeletons, a stone ring, and a small leather bag.Įight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade to stamp out heresy that will rip apart southern France, Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father as he leaves to fight the crusaders. In this extraordinary thriller, rich in the atmospheres of medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two women born centuries apart are linked by a common destiny. First edition, first printing, mint, new/unread, flawless dustjacket, signed by author. LABYRINTH by Kate Mosse - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKĢ006 NY: Putnam. ![]() |