![]() Age of Bronze has been nominated for numerous Eisner (The comic industry's Oscar) Awards. The exhibit is centered on the current excavations at Troy and features Age of Bronze in an exhibit devoted to modern interpretations of Troy. ![]() ![]() Age of Bronze will be included in a major international exhibition travelling to three German museums in 2002. AGE OF A THOUSAND SHIPS reveals hidden secrets of the characters` pasts, serving up joy and sorrow, leading up to the brink of war, and foreshadowing the terror to come. Featuring the greatest of the Greek Achilles, Odysseus, and Herakles, along with a cast of thousands. From far and wide the ancient kings of Greece bring their ships to join the massive force to pledge their allegiance to High King Agamemnon. ![]() When a lustful Trojan prince abducts the beautiful Queen Helen of Sparta, Helen`s husband vows to recover her no matter the cost. Daring heroes, breathtaking women, betrayals, love and death-the most spectacular war story ever The Trojan War. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It payed an important role in the nationalist awakening of the 19th and 20th centuries, in the same way as the Icelandic movement for freedom and independence drew inspiration from the Sagas of Icelanders. Heimskringla has been published repeatedly in Norwegian translation, and has become a national Bible to the Norwegian. Snorri has an outstanding talent for drama and is a relist, as may be seen in his unflinching rejection of hagiographical accounts of the lives of Norway's missionary kings, Olaf Tryggvason and St. ![]() What is it that makes Snorri so superior to the other authors of sagas of kings? The magic of good literature will always remain intangible, but several factors are worth mentioning. Each king has his own saga, in chronological order, while the longest and most detailed of the sagas is that of the canonised King Olaf Haraldsson, who was the primary saint of the North. The story becomes more historical with Halfdan the Black and his son, the conquering hero Harald Fairhair. The book begins with legendary Swedish kings, after the clan moves to Norway. Snorri Sturluson's history of the kings of Norway has come to be known as Heimskringla ( The Orb of the World), from the first sentence of Ynglinga saga: "The orb of the world that is inhabited by men has a deeply indented coastline" ![]() ![]() ![]() If you have not received your delivery following the estimated timeframe, we advise you to contact your local post office first, as the parcel may be there awaiting your collection.Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe. 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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() The drama is no less suspenseful for that, but it is less satisfying. As the story becomes more political, the author loses sight of some compelling questions he has sewn into the opening pages: Who owns her-the chimp's owner, her parents, herself? Eva's human aspect becomes a device that allows her to help other chimps survive, but is otherwise unquestioned. The story is riveting from the outset, especially as Dickinson details the ways in which Eva's life is saved, and the progress of her recovery. She takes on the issue of animal rights, setting up (with the help of others, of course) an elaborate scheme to release chimps back into the last of the wild. With the aid of a voice synthesizer, she communicates with others and adjusts to her new body because her father is a scientist who has always worked among the chimps (who have been crowded by the massive human population out of any semblance of a natural world, and into iron and steel jungles), Eva is comfortable with her new self. Eva by Peter Dickinson, Used (153 results) You searched for: Author: peter dickinson, Title: eva. Medical science, in this book's future setting, has allowed doctors to pull her functioning brain from her crushed body and put it into the able body of a chimpanzee. ![]() Now there was mist still, but it was in the mirror. ![]() ![]() After the long darkness it was almost like pain, but Eva forced herself to stare through it, waiting for her eyes to adapt to the glare. Following a terrible car crash, Eva, 14, awakens from a strange dream and finds herself in a hospital bed. In one of the most original and intriguing plots in years, 13-year-old Eva wakes. A blur of bright light, clearing, clearing, and now a white ceiling with a large mirror tilted to show the window. ![]() ![]() ![]() (This book may contain a sharpie mark on the top or bottom edge and may show mild signs of shelfwear. Karma hopes that her what-ifs don’t make her give up the ghost before they can find a starring spirit to help their show go viral-and possibly even get them a season two. ![]() ![]() But her dad made Karma the head of research for the docuseries, so she, Mags, and a mysterious local boy named Nyx must investigate every strange happening in the historically creepy Stanley Hotel. Unfortunately, staying at a haunted hotel isn’t a walk in the park for someone with a big case of the what-ifs. Karma hopes that her what-ifs dont make her give up the ghost before they can find a starring spirit to help their show go viral-and possibly even get them a season two.With Melissa Savages quirky cast of characters and spooky setting underlaid by a touching and relatable struggle against anxiety and grief over her fractured family. If they succeed, the show will be a hit, they can pay rent on time, and just maybe, her mom will come back. Their mission: find a ghost and get it on camera. Karma and her best friend, Mags, join her dad’s Totally Rad film crew at a famous haunted hotel in Colorado over her spring break. Lemons, The Truth About Martians, Nessie Quest, Karma Moon Ghost Hunter by Melissa Savage Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe and Alien: The Cold Forge by. So when she asked her trusty Crystal Mystic if the call asking her dad to create a ghost-hunting docuseries was her dad’s big break, it delivered: “No doubt about it.” Because the universe never gets it wrong. ![]() Karma Moon is a firm believer in everything “woo-woo,” as her dad calls it. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL134446W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.69 Pages 522 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:075280958X Three Great Novels: Night Sins / Guilty as Sin / A Thin Dark Line Tami Hoag 4.13 40 ratings3 reviews Night Sins - when 8-year-old Josh Kirkwood disappears, the community of Deer Lake is stunned. ![]() Urn:lcp:thindarklinehoag00hoag:epub:59ce00d2-3bab-48b3-ba21-002e94ae82be Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier thindarklinehoag00hoag Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t16m47t28 Isbn 0553099604ĩ780553099607 Lccn 96029690 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary_edition As the author of Night Sins and Guilty as Sin, Tami Hoag lives up to her reputation as a master of suspense. Set in the bayou country of Louisiana, A Thin Dark Line explores dark psychological territory while weaving through a complex plot rife with sordid characters and unlikely heroes. A suspected murderer is free on a technicality, and the cop accused of planting evidence against him is ordered off the case. A Thin Dark Line book description Terror stalks the streets of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana. This book had a release date of March 3, 1997. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:55:00 Boxid IA126805 Boxid_2 CH103501 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĪlibris Edition 1st Ed. And she's unsure which side, if either, is to be trusted. Tami Hoag’s A Thin Dark Line is the fourth novel in her Doucet series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Apparently he died at Las Palmas, which I visited as a small child en route to Africa. Wikipedia tells me that he came to the attention of Portuguese censors late in his life, and moved to Spain to avoid interference on religious grounds. Saramago (1922-2010) was a Portuguese author: he wrote novels, plays and journalism and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. He becomes consumed by anxiety about this double, and his quest to deal with the problem of who owns his identity is, in the hands of this master storyteller, a remarkable story. ![]() It’s the story of a most ordinary man, a teacher of history, who one night, watching a video, sees himself as he was five years ago on the screen. The Double, by José Saramago, is very entertaining reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Or her whole life short, really, right? Isn't it a shame she died so young? At 42-as you document in this picture-book biography, this love letter to her life, and to her astonishing legacy to children's literature. ![]() Just like Margaret Wise Brown was herself, her whole life long. And Jacoby channels Clement Hurd, and Leonard Weisgard, and Garth Williams, and so many other Brown collaborators-and yet? Jacoby remains herself. ![]() Just like Brown's texts, yours is quirky, and sweet, experimental, funny, and at times heartbreakingly gorgeous. You've framed her conflict with a stuffy librarian as an epic, funny battle. You've sat with her respect for child readers as thinking, feeling, whole beings, and you've invited us, your readers, and hers, to do the same. You've acknowledged her queerness, telling readers she fell in love "with a woman called Michael and a man called Pebble." You've honored her words with references to such titles as Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, The Little Fur Family, and more. You've paid tribute to a woman who changed picture books. Here and now, we say to Barnett and Jacoby: We SEE what you've done. ★ “The important thing about this review is to say this picture book is great. In forty-two inspired pages, this biography artfully plays with form and language to vividly bring to life one of greatest children’s book creators who ever lived: Margaret Wise Brown. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was clever, but cunning and deceitful, and inherited much of her father's violent temper. She was well educated, but a roundabout writer, and rather a hard swearer and coarse talker. She was not the beautiful creature her courtiers made out but she was well enough, and no doubt looked all the better for coming after the dark and gloomy Mary. Her countenance was strongly marked, but on the whole, commanding and dignified her hair was red, and her nose something too long and sharp for a woman's. Queen Elizabeth was five and twenty years of age when she rode through the streets of London, from the Tower to Westminster Abbey, to be crowned. The nation seemed to wake from a horrible dream and Heaven, so long hidden by the smoke of the fires that roasted men and women to death, appeared to brighten once more. Weary of the barbarities of Mary's reign, the people looked with hope and gladness to the new Sovereign. There was great rejoicing all over the land when the Lords of the Council went down to Hatfield, to hail the Princess Elizabeth as the new Queen of England. ![]() ![]() Jodu, a Muslim boatman, returns to Calcutta to find Paulette, with whom he was raised however, when the Ibis destroys his boat, he asks Paulette to ask Zachary to get employment for him on the ship. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Zachary Reid joins the Ibis in Baltimore as his first voyage due to a series of mishaps, by the time he reaches Calcutta, he is the only remaining member of the original crew and the acting captain, taken under Serang Ali’s wing. However, Kalua, a low-caste ox-cart driver, saves her at the last moment, and the two run away together. ![]() Deeti’s husband is an opium addict and a member of a powerful family in the region when he dies, assuming she has nothing left to offer and concerned about her options, Deeti decides to die on a window’s pyre. Part 1 begins with Deeti, who has a vision of the Ibis while working on her poppy farm hundreds of miles inland. ![]() |