![]() Capturing Miss Marple’s essence, Hickson simply is the deceptively parochial lady with piercing insight to human wrongdoing. After playing Miss Marple on stage and in the BBC television series, for which she was awarded the OBE, the actress gives a sterling performance and vividly brings the modest yet razor sharp and resolute Jane Marple to life. Joan Hickson inhabits Miss Marple in all her unflappable charm. Unassuming and astute, Miss Marple is always on the scene, quietly gathering clues, appraising suspects, and coming to clever resolutions. This beloved character, created by renowned mystery author Agatha Christie, frequently encounters the most baffling crimes in the most unlikely places as she goes about her daily life in the tiny English village of St. Murder in the village library, at the vicarage, or on a garden tour–nothing rattles the indomitable Miss Jane Marple, spinster and amateur sleuth. ![]() Miss Marple, elderly spinster and humble village resident, often finds herself at the center of murder in Agatha Christie’s celebrated series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() With breathtaking photographs that will awe and inspire, this collection will enrapture anyone with a love of these magnificent creatures. Text describes what makes each breed individual-its origin, history, how climate and terrain shaped its physical features and temperament, how it lives today and its interaction with humans, and how all of these influences have contributed to its unique strength, skill, grace and of course, beauty. A fact file notes the basics of height, color, character, and color photographs displaying the unique brilliance of the most popular breeds. Descriptive text tells the story of the breed from its beginnings its role in the histories of kings and wars, peasants and industry the characteristics for which it is prized and how it rose from humble working horse to elite companion and valuable performer. Dreaming of Horses features spreads on a multitude of breeds, and is packed with stunning photographs of each breed in its color varieties, including at least one full-body image of the horse in motion. ![]() ![]() Horses are celebrated around the globe for their beauty, grace and power. ![]() Through Bob's lens, Horse Illustrated readers have experienced horse breeds from all corners of the globe and enjoyed the beauty of the horse in every form." His gorgeous equine imagery has graced countless covers and been the cornerstone of the magazine's signature breed profile. "For the last two decades, Bob Langrish's photography has been an essential part of Horse Illustrated. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They have been trapped at the orphanage by a cranky poltergeist who erupts into violent tantrums if they put even a spectral toe across the property line. The boys follow him and discover the long-abandoned Grauche Orphanage for Orphans, a house in the woods that is most definitely haunted.īut the ghosts are not the problem. That is, until they see a slightly transparent boy with a bad haircut appear by the soccer field and then disappear into the woods beyond. And equally dull summer journal writing assignments. One haunted orphanage + two types of ghosts + three freaked-out friends = plenty of trouble.īest friends Aldo, Pen, and Jasper are braced for a boring summer. ![]() ![]() ![]() But five years later, the once scrappy orphan Gregor took under his protection has become a woman. ![]() A born fighter, Cate was clinging to life when Gregor rescued her after a vicious English raid on her village left her mother dead. ![]() He returns home only to find a new battle waiting: a daring game of seduction involving his now very grown-up and very desirable ward, Cate of Lochmaben. But when his infamous face is exposed during a covert mission, Gregor is forced to lie low. Gregor is considered the most handsome man in Scotland, and his fame as an archer is rivaled only by his reputation with the lasses as a heartbreaker. The talents of legendary marksman Gregor "Arrow" MacGregor are crucial now, as Bruce moves to reclaim his Scottish holdings. Fearless and indomitable, no men are more loyal to their king, or more cherished by the women they love. NATIONAL BESTSELLER As King Robert the Bruce of Scotland plots to retake his English-occupied castles, he needs the stealth and skill of his elite soldiers, the Highland Guard. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kathe lived in Dallas for nearly three decades, where all three of her and her husband’s daughters were born and raised. Brown, 2016), Accidental Sisters is her debut work as an author. ![]() Her career has spanned the gamut from commercial banking lender to advertising account executive, from calligrapher/artist to tennis official, and now she has found her true delight in putting pen to paper.Īlthough she has illustrated a children’s book ( Rocklin Goes to Work, M.D. She attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where she swam for the Mustangs and received her BBA (Finance), with Minors in Art History and Economics. Katherine Linn Caire was born and raised in Des Moines, IA. But when her investigation uncovers a half-sister that Kathe never imagined existed, she must decide whether to open her heart and mind to a stranger who shares her DNA or walk away without challenging her long-held beliefs about what it means to be part of a family. With each piece of information she uncovers, the mystery of her birth parents’ identities unravels a bit more. But what begins as a simple investigation takes a startling swerve when the social worker who sends the records fails to redact a crucial bit of information. ![]() Kathe isn’t interested in learning her birth parents’ identities, just the details of their health. ![]() ![]() ![]() They don’t seem to have published the arrangement, and I suspect there was never a real score - likelier it was just a marked-up copy of the piano piece. 29 is actually not one of the hardest Chopin pieces to play, and by slowing and abridging it somewhat, dividing the melodic material between voice (for the parts within human range) and piano (the higher bits), Onegin and her pianist Franz Dorfmüller figured out a perfectly singable version. What would it take to make a vocal arrangement of the Impromptu? Sigrid Onegin (1889-1943, a world-renowned Wagnerian and Verdian) decided to give it a shot. There’s also Trilby, FL 33593, so named one year after the novel’s appearance, population 419 as of the last census.Īnd then there’s this week’s record. Duval’s The Secrets of Svengali (1922), a peculiar but worthwhile compendium of good vocal advice, opera gossip, critical put-downs, and pre-scientific nonsense about physical aspects of singing, cast in the form of counsel from an imaginary Svengali to a new Trilby. Trilby had its own influence while its vogue lasted: there’s a Trilby hat (popularized via a stage adaptation of the book) there’s a certain Phantom of the Opera written 16 years later partly in imitation and there’s J.H. ![]() And often, as in the novel, seen as exercising a baleful or domineering influence over the protégé. People who have no idea of Du Maurier or singing know what “a Svengali” means: an athlete’s trainer, a politician’s adviser, an actor’s mentor, who is seen as providing the brains for someone else’s talent. ![]() ![]() ![]() For millennial writers who grew into the body of essays, novels and literary journalism Didion already had waiting for them, it was like sitting down to grainy footage of a party that ended long before they would ever arrive. Only a great artist creates and ruins a genre at the same time. But at the date of her death Thursday at the age of 87, Joan Didion’s 1967 essay “Goodbye to All That” remains the permanent sunspot obscuring the center-vision of many maturing writers even contemplating leaving a place like New York and telling other people about it. ![]() Perspective, after all, is one of the great pleasures of getting older. Anyone who’s completed the climb out of their early twenties hopefully has the wits to remember when life was as vivid as Kodachrome and the experience to recognize that perhaps all those new colors were duller than they seemed. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ![]() This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() They can lead to anti-elitism, nihilism, and ennui. ![]() ![]() I would posit that, indeed, they can weigh the entire readership down. These latter, lesser quality doppelgangers can be quite the malediction. It’s often difficult to distinguish between literature whose challenge is a function of its complexity and literature whose challenge is a function of obscurity or bad writing. The shattering of long-held beliefs is a beautiful cataclysm, and I might state with no qualification that human experience contains no greater sublimity than the upward transformation of a mind.Īnd yet the same key which unlocks heaven can also unlock hell. These books, by the hammer and chisel of structure, language, and character, reshape our preconceived notions on race, gender, culture, history, epistemology, or even basic story-telling. ![]() A disparaging of the easy pleasure read being not my intent, I nevertheless offer the following thesis: the most worthwhile and memorable reading experiences usually involve a level of difficulty. I gonna take a machete upside this beyotch, gonna show you guts, some shock-of-white-bone, a little bit o critique hoodoo.īut before I do, allow me to expound on why I must needs wage this figurative war. ![]() ![]() But if they travel into a house where a bad child is bringing shame to its parents, a year is added onto their time in this ‘limbo’. ![]() Each house they travel into on the breeze, if they find a good child who is a credit to its parents, one year is taken off their three hundred. Her spirit floats up into the air and she is informed by other mermaid spirits or ‘daughters of the air’ that, whilst they cannot gain a soul, they have a chance to do so if they provide a useful service to the world by bringing cooling breezes to the hot winds in warmer parts of the globe.Īt the end of their three centuries of service, they can create their own everlasting soul – and they can shorten the period of time it takes to earn one. ![]() But when the mermaid sees the prince and his bride sleeping together in his tent on the ship, she cannot go through with it, and hurls the dagger into the sea before diving overboard and dispersing into foam on the surface of the water. ![]() |