![]() When Marlowe shakes hands with someone, “It was like being given a sleek, cool-skinned animal to hold for a moment or two.” The title character, Clare Cavendish, wanders into Marlowe’s office to ask him to trace her lover, Nico Peterson, who disappeared two months earlier. As for the language, Black nails Chandler’s creative and memorable similes and metaphors. Parker’s lengthy experience in the PI genre, his sequel to The Big Sleep, Perchance to Dream, pales in comparison with Black’s pitch-perfect recreation of the character and his time and place. Black (the pseudonym that John Banville uses for his crime fiction) isn’t the first to tackle the daunting challenge of recreating the distinctive narrative voice of Raymond Chandler’s world-weary, mean streets–walking L.A. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She no longer wonders if she wants to leave…but if she can. Helen Vaughan doesn’t know why she and her mother left their ancestral home at Harrowstone Hall, called Harrow, or why they haven’t spoken to their extended family since. With each twisted revelation, Helen questions what she knows about Harrow, her family, and even herself. The Haunting of Hill House meets Knives Out in a bid for an inheritance that will leave Helen Vaughan either richor dead. Why is the house built like a labyrinth? What is digging the holes that appear in the woods each night?And why does the house itself seem to be making her sick? Helen knows that if she is going to survive the year, she needs to uncover the secrets of Harrow. For as long as she can remember, Harrow has haunted Helen's dreams-and now those dreams have become a waking nightmare. The inheritance comes with one condition: she must stay on the grounds of Harrow for one full year, or she'll be left with nothing. ![]() So when her grandfather dies, she's shocked to learn that he has left everything-the house, the grounds, and the money-to her. Helen Vaughan doesn't know why she and her mother left their ancestral home at Harrowstone Hall, called Harrow, or why they haven't spoken to their extended family since. The Haunting of Hill House meets Knives Out in a bid for an inheritance that will leave Helen Vaughan either rich.or dead. ![]() ![]() We do wonder, though, if her will, indomitable though it may be, is stronger than the magics arrayed against her and if she's blinded herself to anything beyond retribution. She wanted revenge, obviously, but the details won't be disclosed for several hundred gore-soaked pages. ![]() Her captors listen since one of their own soldiers is involved. So to delay being executed she explains why she came to the Scar and what she did there. Later, as the story opens, somehow the Revolution has captured her. She carried a sword named Jeff, a sentient but bloodthirsty gun named, yes, the Cacophony, with whom she's made some sort of deal, and a must-kill list of seven renegade mages. To this once beautiful land came the famous Sal the Cacophony riding a giant bird named Congeniality. Welcome to the Scar, a continent ravaged by the vicious and seemingly endless war between the elitist Empire and the egalitarian Revolution. ![]() Another ultraviolent doorstopper opens the Grave of Empires fantasy trilogy, from the author of God's Last Breath (2017, etc.). ![]() ![]() When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper-a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son-but Hitler’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. ![]() ![]() The bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. ![]() ![]() ![]() I argue that Feser (2017) nowhere establishes that Premises 4 and 7 in his 'Aristotelian proof' are anything more than claims about which he and his opponents - including atheists like me - disagree. In particular, I propose to focus on just two of the premises in the chosen first stage proof.Ībstract = "This article is a response to Ed Feser's claim that his 'Aristotelian proof' establishes that atheists have no part in 'the real debate'. Here, I propose to discuss just the first stage of one of Feser's five proofs. ![]() Each proof is given two presentations, one informal and one formal. Each proof is in two stages: the first stage proves the existence of something which, in the second stage, is shown to possess an appropriate range of divine attributes. Feser (2017) presents and defends five proofs of the existence of God. Given this, it is clear that Feser's 'Aristotelian proof' is not able to do what Feser claims that it does. In particular, I suggest that it is neither mysterious nor surprising that, by their own lights, atheists have more than sufficient reason to reject premises 4 and 7. ![]() This article is a response to Ed Feser's claim that his 'Aristotelian proof' establishes that atheists have no part in 'the real debate'. ![]() ![]() This novella became the movie Stand By Me. In "The Body," four rambunctious young boys plunge through the facade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. Next is "Apt Pupil," the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. ![]() ![]() This gripping collection begins with "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption," in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge-the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption. "The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, are what make Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is," hailed the Houston Chronicle about Different Seasons. ![]() ![]() A "hypnotic" (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas from Stephen King bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This career shift reflected both her desire to contribute financially to her family and her ongoing commitment to ending slavery, the central issue of the Civil War.Īs a Union nurse, Alcott faced many challenging and emotional situations, including witnessing soldiers’ deaths in the service of a cause she had dedicated her life to supporting. ![]() In the winter of 1862, at age 30, Alcott entered nursing at Union Hotel Hospital in Virginia. ![]() Due to the limited success of her few published works and her concern about her family’s financial stability, she also worked for a time as a kindergarten teacher. As an adult, Alcott remained a staunch abolitionist as well as a feminist and suffragette.īefore becoming a nurse, Alcott wrote short stories and poems, which she often published under the pseudonym A.M. Her family was fiercely dedicated to the abolition of slavery, sometime sheltering escaped slaves as they traveled along the Underground Railroad to freedom. An Enlightened Familyīorn in 1832 in Germantown, Pa., the daughter of Transcendentalist Bronson Alcott, Louisa May spent many years surrounded by great literary minds, including the well-known authors and poets Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Although ill health forced her into premature retirement, her experiences as a nurse and a patient shaped her voice as a writer and helped her to craft what would become timeless stories. Before achieving fame for her literary accomplishments, Little Women author Louisa May Alcott served as a nurse during the Civil War. ![]() ![]() This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". ![]() These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Photo Caption: South Africa’s Isabella Kruger has had a great week at the Junior Wimbledon Grand Slam Championships, progressing to the quarter-final round on Wednesday, 6 July 2022. Kruger will now face the winner of the match between Polish world no.72 junior Olivia Lincer and world no.16 junior Victoria Mboko from Canda. The 17-year-old defeated Mingge Xu of Britain in straight sets: 6-4, 6-3.Įarlier in the week, Kruger caused an upset when she beat fourth seed and world no.12 Nikola Daubnerova of Slovakia in 3 sets: 6-4 6-7 6-2, to advance into the third round of the Junior Wimbledon Championships. The 17-year-old qualifier defeated Mingge Xu of Britain 6-4, 6-3.Ĭongrats, Bella! What a great week! □□□ #Wimbledon /3WYWmFnQAw South Africa's Isabella Kruger is through to the quarterfinals of the Junior Grand Slam Championships in London. ![]() ![]() South Africa’s Isabella Kruger has had a great week at the Junior Wimbledon Grand Slam Championships, progressing to the quarter-final round on Wednesday, 6 July 2022. ![]() ![]() It’s thrilling to know that Lesley and Tim will be returning to Masterpiece in Moonflower Murders.” Magpie Murders was a hit with our audience, who loved its clever storytelling of a mystery-within-a-mystery. Masterpiece executive producer Susanne Simpson added, “We’re delighted to partner with Eleventh Hour Films on another ingenious mystery from Anthony Horowitz. ![]() There are lots of surprises in the second book, including something I’ve never done before in a murder mystery. We had a fantastic response to Magpie and, speaking personally, it was a joy bringing Susan Ryeland and Atticus Pünd to life on the screen. ![]() More than 5.5M watched Magpie Murders on PBS Masterpiece, which is presented by GBH Boston.Īnthony Horowitz said, “I can’t wait to get started on the scripts of Moonflower Murders. ![]() The series is produced by Eleventh Hour Films, adapted by Horowitz and exec produced by Jill Green. ![]() ![]() ![]() Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content, providing access to journal and book content from nearly 300 publishers. 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