![]() ![]() ![]() As the distance between the couple widens, Marilyn turns to the book she's secretly writing to express her unspeakable emotions. While his wife is relieved to have him stationary in a hospital bed, Kel's necessary lack of openess about his work puts a strain on their already troubled marriage. Turns out Marilyn is lucky this time: Kel is still alive, although gravely injured from the Saint Squad op that thwarted a terrorist attack in the southwestern US. This is what she signed up for when she exchanged wedding vows with that stunning man in military dress whites: a husband who leaves home whenever the phone rings and who might not ever come back. But the morning she sees two men in dark suits approaching her doorway with solemn faces, her fear turns to terror. In the five years she's been married to Navy SEAL Kel Bennett, Marilyn has lived with fear as a near-constant companion. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Everything Store will be the revealing, definitive biography of the company and its genius creator.īrad Stone is an American journalist and writer. In a club of tech business innovators that includes Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, Bezos stands out for his hyper-competitive business strategies, which are leading Amazon to current ventures from hardware like e-readers and tablet PCs, web hosting for some of the world´s most valuable companies, book publishing, and even a top secret space program. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and drive and revolutionized retail the way Ford revolutionized manufacturing.īrad Stone has been given unprecedented access to Amazon employees, both current and former, to give readers the first fly-on-the-wall narrative account of the world´s largest online retailer. He wanted Amazon to become the world´s store, where everything is available to everyone, usually in 24 hours. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn´t content with being a bookseller. ![]() Amazon made its mark sending new books quickly in nice, smile-embossed boxes. ![]() ![]() ![]() The action of the poem begins after an introduction, an invocation, and a dedication to King Sebastian. The 10 cantos of the poem are in ottava rima and amount to 1,102 stanzas. The work describes the discovery of a sea route to India by Vasco da Gama. ![]() (Summary by Leni)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit . The Lusiads, epic poem by Lus de Cames, published in 1572 as Os Lusadas. In the 19th century, Sir Richard Francis Burton translated Camões' Lusiads, in what he considered "the most pleasing literary labour of his life". Modelled after the classic epic tradition, Camões' Lusiads are considered not only the first literary text in Modern Portuguese, but also a national epic of the same level as Vergil's Aeneid. The poem tells the tale of the Portuguese discoveries in the 15th and 16th centuries, specially the voyage to India by Vasco da Gama. The Lusiads (Os Lusíadas) is a Portuguese epic poem, written in the 16th century by Luis Vaz de Camões. LibriVox recording of The Lusiads, by Luís Vaz de Camões, translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was published along with another short book called Quidditch Through the Ages and the profits from the two books directly benefited the charity Comic Relief U.K. In between the two books, she released a slim series companion book called Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. 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Reading it often feels like attempting a Sunday crossword puzzle the size of a football field. Oh, and lest that sound too straightforward, it's also told from the point of view of a young man who's reading an enigmatic scholar's manuscript about a mysterious missing documentary film about the possibly haunted house employing the use of footnotes, different colored texts, and unconventional layouts. that is, if you can figure it out.įor those who haven't read House Of Leaves, here's a (very) brief summary: a family moves into a new house and quickly discovers that it's larger on the inside than it is on the outside horror ensues. This door-stopper of a tome is just as unusual, just as puzzling, and just as inscrutable as the author's most famous work. Danielewski's new The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day In May. If you read 2010's House Of Leaves, then you know exactly what to expect from Mark Z. ![]() ![]() ![]() A vulnerable, trusting woman becomes spellbound by a charming, duplicitous married man, and what begins as a seemingly unremarkable affair is slowly transformed into an obsessive, convoluted and deadly relationship. ![]() In the most complex and shocking book of her long career, Ann Rule delves into the motivation that drove a seemingly successful man to kill, and she explores hitherto unknown aspects of a fatal affair between a beautiful young woman who moved confidently in the heady world of the upper echelons of government and a widely admired millionaire attorney who was an immensely popular political figure.Īnn Rule brilliantly traces the lives of both Ann Marie Fahey and Tommy Capano as she discloses the intimate details of their ill-fated bonding. She has a passion for HSC Dance, where her aim is to ensure that all students. 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Steinbecks Cannery Row in 1945, Monterey - Historical Photograph CollectionĪ Book by Michael K. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even better, Chula documents her travels to this redolent land in Dog Trots Globe to Paris & Provence, a charming gift-type book for lovers of dogs and France. The best way to avoid being nervous is to prepare you and your pet ahead of time and think through as many contingencies as possible. Sheron and Robert Long live out my fantasy on a delightful trip to Paris and Provence with Chula, their adorable Sheltie. Gwen Cooper, the author of Homer’s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned About Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat, said animals pick up on their owners’ moods, “which means if you’re nervous, your cat or dog is going to be nervous too. “Stopping overnight gives them a chance to use the litter box at their leisure and eat and drink comfortably,” said Golon, the founder of High Paw Media. 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I once interviewed Romaine Lowery of the Clutter Clinic, who said that when buying storage boxes, it’s better to get lots the same, rather than collecting a load in different colours and shapes. It’s basically lots of Muji zinc storage boxes, each labelled ‘shoe cleaning’, ‘sewing kit’, etc. Apparently the flat she shares with her family in Paris is only 750 sq ft, which made me feel a bit better: I also nicked this idea from Ines de la Fressange’s book Parisian Chic. ![]() ![]() I know, genius, right? It’s the perfect solution, as long as you never want to retrieve them again. We solved that one by fitting shelves in the beams. The clutter clinic : organise your home in 7 days by Lowery, Romaine. But there comes a time when you want something more… durable. Our initial solution was to call out a carpenter to fit some units, say ‘How fucking much?’ when given the quote and then go and buy a load of those souped-up shoeboxes from Ikea instead. 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