Now only five individuals can avert Armageddon: mild-mannered Arthur Dent and his stalwart crew.īack on Earth, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky– so they plan to destroy it. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his comrades as they hurtle across the galaxy in a desperate search for a place to eat. The moment before annihilation at the hands of warmongers is a curious time to crave tea. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space. Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read) Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! In one complete volume, here are the five classic novels from Douglas Adams’s beloved Hitchhiker series.
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She resurrects the social and metaphysical legacy that is entwined with the evolution of perfumery, from the dramas of the spice trade to the quests of the alchemists. In Essence and Alchemy, which has been published in fourteen foreign editions, Aftel teaches the art of making natural perfumes, complete with recipes. No one knows this better than artisan natural perfumer Mandy Aftel, who has spent nearly thirty years immersed in the world of scent, culling the most beautiful natural essences from all over the world and using them to create exquisite fragrances. Yet in many ways perfumery, with its lush history and creative and sensual possibilities, is a lost art. "For centuries, people have taken an instinctive pleasure in rubbing scents into their skin and using them to pray, to heal, and to make love. Revised 2022 Edition of Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume by Mandy Aftel. The King has debased the currency to pay for the war, and England is in the grip of soaring inflation and economic crisis. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. Like Hilary Mantel, he produces densely textured historical novels that absorb their readers in another time' - Andrew Taylor, SpectatorĮngland, 1545: England is at war. 'Sansom has the trick of writing an enthralling narrative. 'When it comes to intriguing Tudor-based narratives, Hilary Mantel has a serious rival' - Sunday Times Sansom's number one bestselling Shardlake series, for fans of Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory. Sansom's fifth spellbinding mystery in C. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo Heartsone is C. “ will have fans groaning aloud for the next installment.” - ALA Booklist This bestselling series from powerhouse author Tahereh Mafi showcases relentlessly thrilling action, heart stopping romance, and a war-torn world in which rebellion is the only path to freedom. But when she’s reunited with the one person who ever cared about her, she finds a strength she never knew she had. Juliette has never fought for herself before. And they’ll stop at nothing to shape her into what they want. But The Reestablishment sees her as an opportunity. It feels like a curse, like too great a burden for one person alone to bear. No one knows why Juliette has such incredible power. One touch, and Juliette Ferrars can bring a grown man to his knees, begging for mercy. Juliette can kill with a touch-will she wield her power for good, or will it turn her into the monster she’s always feared she truly is? Find out in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shatter Me series-all six novels are now available in this paperback box set! Paris Red is like no other art-based historical novel I’ve read, it stirred not often accessed emotions and bodily drives, it is juicy in a way I could never have imagined nor expected. This is a novel of discovery and an exploration of what drives and binds the muse and artist. It is an intense and bold story set in 1862 Paris of a young working-class woman, Victorine Meurent, who honors her internal pulse, despite the unknown and risks as she enters the world of wealthy painter Édouard Manet. It’s as if this book was polished by a brunisseue, a “silver burnisher”, and their bloodstone, achieving a gleaming finish. This novel is artistic, poetic, exotic, and reflects deep care to reach perfection of prose, multi-dimensional characters and stimulating scenes. The artist and muse, the electric spark for high art, and in the case of Paris Red - high literature. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritanical constraints, and centres on his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation of the two sides of his personality, split apart by a straitlaced traducing of education and a narrow social moralism. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars. André Paul Guillaume Gide ( French: 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight". It was only a homeless old man after all. He was a homeless man, but he still wanted to live.' There's been a murder, but the police don't care. 'I found Jean's friend dead in the river. 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Responding to Berry's observation that the power of Read's early poetry lay in its unflinching clarity - 'crisp as medals, bright but cool' -he stated that this diction emerged from a war that also reconfigured the cultural scene: 'I think the trauma of war experience has more to do with it than anything else. Corresponding with Francis Berry in 1953, who was busily writing an essay on him for the British Council, Read reflected on how the experience of war set him apart from others of his generation. The First World War was an enduring frame of reference for Herbert Read. He saw the war as at once disabling and liberating, and his continual return to the conflict as a subject in his writing was a process of attempting to fix its ultimate meaning to his life. It argues that Read's perception of the war was deeply ambiguous, and shifted in response to the changing view of the conflict in British cultural history. Utilizing archival material and analysing Read's poetry, prose and polemical writing, the present article contests this reading. His war poetry and autobiographical prose reflected on the horrors of fighting, and his anarchist-pacifism was a product, they argue, of experiencing the war first hand. Herbert Read and the fluid memory of the First World War: poetry, prose and polemic*Īccording to many critics, Herbert Read's experience fighting in the trenches of the First World War was a formative one that shaped his intellectual life. There are also other kinds of love in this latest story, including a case of puppy love that develops into mindless, murderous rage. Quindlen, whose narrative style could make a page-turner out of a gas bill, won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, and is the author of other novels and nonfiction books. This isn’t a novel of entertainment, though the first half has some wry and amusing comment on American family life with a dog named Ginger. Only in the second half does the disaster artfully emerge, and the dimensions of the grief it evokes. At least one family is prosperous enough to afford a Christmas gift of two round-trip tickets to London for a literary daughter, still in high school. In the first half of Anna Quindlen’s “Every Last One,” the many characters, some lightly sketched, live ordinary lives in a contemporary atmosphere of mundane concerns: What can stop whole colonies of bees from disappearing? What wages should be paid to illegal Mexican immigrants?Īlmost all are educated, well-off people in a small American city. This is a novel on old-fashioned themes: mother’s love and, perhaps even deeper, mother’s grief. In the Baby Gun Club Landfill case, the government’s lack of protection for the public, and it’s concealment of toxic landfill waste is indisputable, through uncovered aerial photographs from the 60's and 70's of the dumping, and internal records documented that waste was dumped on the land for years before strict environmental laws were in place. Kelly, Detroit Free Pressīrow’s eight-year continuing journey is a stark reminder to us all of what happens when our government puts monetary concern over public trust. “Told with the knowledge and passion of one man who became a soldier in the fight for transparency and justice, this book is a call to arms for anyone who wants to ensure a future free of toxic areas in populated neighborhoods on this green Earth.”– John J. His new book, City of Atlanta’s Concealment of the Baby Gun Club Landfill, shines the light on his story and demands accountability from the government in protecting matters of public health and safety. 01 Jerry Brow's Book "City of Atlanta's Concealment of the Baby Gun Club Landfill" on Radio: Jerry Brow’s life has been a nightmare since he discovered the properties he purchased for development were previously an illegal toxic waste dump site, covered up and concealed by the city of Atlanta. |