![]() ![]() Gurgeh spends the next two years travelling to the Empire of Azad in the Small Magellanic Cloud, where a complex game (also named Azad) is used to determine social rank and political status. The attempt fails, but Mawhrin-Skel uses its recording of the event to blackmail Gurgeh into accepting the offer, so that he can use his connections with SC to request that Mawhrin-Skel be admitted back into SC as well. While he is considering this offer, one of his drone friends, Mawhrin-Skel, which had been ejected from SC due to its unstable personality, convinces him to cheat in one of his games in an attempt to win in an unprecedentedly perfect fashion. The Culture's Special Circumstances (SC) inquires about his willingness to participate in a long journey but won't explain further unless Gurgeh agrees to participate. Jernau Morat Gurgeh, a famously skillful player of board games and other similar contests, lives on Chiark Orbital, and is bored with his successful life. A film version was planned by Pathé in the 1990s, but was abandoned. It was the second published Culture novel. ![]() The Player of Games is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. ![]()
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The suspense is relentless in #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson’s gripping thriller featuring the daughter of New Orleans Detective Rick Bentz-a resilient young woman whose two-time survival of a serial killer has left her fascinated by the criminal mind, determined to become a true-crime writer-and drawn her once more into a twisted psychopath’s unspeakable crimes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The express permission of the publisher in writingīritish Library Cataloguing-in-Publication DataĪ catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Contents It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. The poems contained herein include: Danny Deever Tommy Fuzzy-Wuzzy Soldier, Soldier Screw-Guns Cells Gunga Din Oonts Loot 'Snarleyow' The Widow at Windsor Belts The Young British Soldier Mandalay Troopin' The Widow's Party, etcetera. This wonderful and seminal collection of poems would make for a great addition to any bookshelf, and is certainly not to be missed by fans and collectors of Kipling's work. This compendium contains some of Kipling's most famous work, and includes the poems "Gunga Din", "Tommy" and "Danny Deever". They deal chiefly with the late-Victorian British Army and are primarily written in a vernacular dialect. "The Barrack-Room Ballads" is a collection of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling. ![]() ![]() ![]() “…I accept and I affirm, beyond truth and falsehood, beyond success and failure I have withdrawn from all finality, I live according to chance (as is evidenced by the fact that the figures of my discourse occur to me like so many dice casts). This stubbornness is love’s protest: for all the wealth of “good reasons” for loving differently, loving better, loving without being in love, etc., a stubborn voice is raised which lasts a little longer: the voice of the Intractable lover. ![]() ” I refer the devaluations of love to a kind of obscurantist ethic, to a let’s-pretend realism, against which I erect the realism of value: I counter whatever “doesn’t work” in love with the affirmation of what is worthwhile. Though I listen to all the arguments which the most divergent systems employ to demystify, to limit, to erase, in short to depreciate love, I persist: “I know, I know, but all the same. Despite the difficulties of my story, despite discomforts, doubts, despairs, despite impulses to be done with it, I unceasingly affirm love, within myself, as a value. ![]() ![]() ![]() It includes 145 stories with fresh new four-color illustrations. Adding technology to anything increases it’s appeal for kids like mine. Give kids the big picture of Gods story with this innovative, interactive Bible storybook. It brings the joy of reading and learning to a whole new level. I want my child who is learning to read to be able to do things like this himself until he is completely able to read on his own. I liked the simplicity and ease of which a child could use this as well as how prominent and easy to find the icon is on the page. There are icons on each page that can be scanned, then the illustration is scanned and that’s it! The book comes to life right before your eyes! Reed thought this was so amazing and doesn’t understand why this is his only book that does it! (See video below for detailed explanation). Ever since then he thinks all movies should be that way and now he thinks all books should! This comes with a code you can scan, or find and download for free in the APP store, to make this book come to life. ![]() My five year old son is more computer/tablet/phone literate then me so I knew when I saw The Big Picture Interactive Bible Storybook, it was just the Bible for him!Ī few months ago we went to an interactive movie where he used a tablet to play games along with the movie. In a technology driven age, even the Bible has to become a part of what reaches people. ![]() ![]() I can see where that might have made the plot a lot harder to move, but I think the story would have been better for it. I found myself wishing that the story pulled more from creepy old photography rather than using a polaroid-style camera. ![]() The big reveals just felt like info dumps, which killed almost all of the built-up tension surrounding the mysterious and unpredictable aspects of the camera. It fell apart for me in the final act, though. I thought Greg and his friends were believably bored kids in the suburbs, and that the plot built up the tension nicely throughout the first two-thirds of the book. It had a fun and original concept as well. ![]() ![]() Say Cheese and Die was one of the most iconic covers and titles of the series. ![]() ![]() ![]() The titular lighthouse is not, as you might imagine, at sea - the ferry was just a teaser - but a silver bauble which Futh carries with him - and a similar, wooden ornament which Ester was given. Meanwhile Ester - untouched by her meeting with Futh - continues her lonely life punctuated by the occasional casual sexual encounter which she barely hides from Bernard.Īlison Moore's writing is exquisite, the prose simple and powerful, but it's the use of imagery which really marks it out as something special. He sets out the following morning for a week of walking, thinking and remembering. He gets on well enough with Ester but is at a loss to understand a rather hostile encounter with Bernard. It begins and will end at Hellhaus, a guesthouse run by Bernard and his wife Ester. The holiday seems to be something which, when it is over, he will have done it and will then return to his new flat. He always wanted a dog, but keeps stick insects. There's no sense of enthusiasm or anticipation: Futh's middle aged and recently separated, seemingly without friends or family. When we first meet Futh he's on a North Sea ferry on his way to a walking holiday in Germany. The writing is exquisite and the use of imagery superb. ![]() You will have to read it again very quickly. Summary: Don't be fooled by the fact that this looks like a short read. ![]() ![]() ![]() His childhood dream becomes a nightmare with a shocking truth at its heart.Īt once psychologically piercing and magnificently absorbing, The Magicians boldly moves into uncharted literary territory, imagining magic as practiced by real people, with their capricious desires and volatile emotions. But the land of Quentin's fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined. After graduation, he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. Magic doesn't bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he dreamed it would. He also discovers all the other things people learn in college: friendship, love, sex, booze, and boredom. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the craft of modern sorcery. A senior in high school, he's still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. ![]() ![]() A thrilling and original coming-of- age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The full-length debut by Theodore Sturgeon, a legendary writer who won Nebula and Hugo Awards and authored such classic. Vividly drawn, expertly plotted, The Dreaming Jewels is a Sturgeon masterpiece. The Maneater has sinister plans for the world that go far beyond fleecing unsuspecting rubes and other easy marks-a dark and terrible scheme that requires unleashing the extraterrestrial power of the dreaming jewels, and the unwitting assistance of a young boy who may be far more remarkable than he’s ever imagined. In The Dreaming Jewels, Theodore Sturgeon renders the multiple wounds of loneliness, fear, and persecution with uncanny precision. There, among the fortune tellers, fire-eaters, sideshow freaks, and assorted “strange people,” Horty hopes to find acceptance and, at long last, a real home. But disgraced doctor Pierre “Maneater” Monetre’s traveling show is no ordinary entertainment, and its performers are not what they appear to be. Tormented and abused by his adoptive family, he’s had enough-and with a beloved broken toy he calls “Junky” as his sole companion, the desperate little boy runs away to join a carnival. ![]() ![]() Though only eight years old, little Horton “Horty” Bluett has known a lifetime of sadness. A desperate boy escapes his abusive home by joining a carnival and is drawn into a dark conspiracy in this tale by “a master storyteller” (Kurt Vonnegut). ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. this book sets new standards for the application of language to music.' George Steiner 'The word "masterpiece" should be used rarely if at all. In addition, the author ranges widely through the material of classical music which falls outside these categories. In this expanded edition, Rosen follows the development of each composer's best known genres: for Haydn, the symphony and string quartet for Mozart, the concerto, string quintet and comic opera for Beethoven, the piano sonata. In the book, Rosen concentrates on the three major figures of the time - Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven - because 'it is in terms of their achievements that the musical vernacular can best be defined'. ![]() With his experience as a world-class pianist as well as as teacher at Harvard and Oxford, Charles Rosen produced the definitive survey of the language of the music of the classical period. ![]() The Classical Style is an established classic which has remained in print since its first publication in 1971. 'Brilliant and epoch-making.' Times Literary Supplement ![]() |