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But from the moment she set eyes on sinfully seductive Sebastian Blood, the voluptuous vixen-in-disguise realized that her nights on the docks were numbered! She yearned to yield to his searing midnight embrace, even though he'd be sure to uncover her deception. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The real life Sokolov was a tattooist at Auschwitz, and he met Gita Furman there. What’s most extraordinary about this unlikely love story is that it’s mostly true. In the United States alone, there are half a million copies in print, and the book just hit No. Written by first-time author Heather Morris, based here in Melbourne, Australia, the book has seemingly come out of nowhere to be translated into 17 languages, with rights sold in 43 countries. At the camp, Sokolov met a Slovakian girl, and they fell in love. MELBOURNE, Australia - “The Tattooist of Auschwitz,” a novel published in the United States by HarperCollins in September, tells the extraordinary tale of Lali Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz in 1942, and forced to tattoo numbers onto the arms of thousands of incoming prisoners. ![]() ![]() The latter claim has a bit of circumstantial (and inconclusive) evidence in the only certain contemporary mention of the poet. Jerome makes two other claims about Lucretius's life, both of which have plagued scholars: first, that after he had been driven to madness by a love potion, he worked at his poem during his lucid intervals until he finally committed suicide and second-less luridly but still intriguingly-that Cicero later "corrected" or revised the poem after Lucretius's death. Jerome in the fourth century A.D., placing Lucretius's birth in 94/93 B.C. ![]() ![]() The dates assigned to his birth and death are based primarily on a brief notice in a chronicle compiled by St. ![]() ![]() Of the life of Titus Lucretius Carus scholars know less, perhaps, than in the case of any other Roman poet. "When a single day brings the world to destruction, only then will the poetry of the sublime Lucretius pass away." This judgment by the Roman poet Ovid, written in the generation after Lucretius's death, has been echoed by such writers as Voltaire and George Santayana the author of De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) holds a place in world literature as one of the great philosopher-poets. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To find out more about current writing projects as well as special offers and competitions, you are very welcome to join Karen in her Facebook group. Writing has given her a new lease of – and purpose to – life, and she is currently working on A Question of Witchcraft – a sequel to Parliament of Rooks: Haunting Brontë Country. ![]() Originally a financial advisor, a sailing injury left Karen with a chronic pain condition which she has been battling for over twenty five years (although she did take the European ladies title despite the injury!). Her first Yorkshire Ghost Story – THE HAUNTING OF THORES-CROSS – won the Silver Medal for European Fiction in the prestigious 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards in New York, whilst her Valkyrie novel, DEAD RECKONING, was long-listed in the 2011 MSLEXIA novel competition. All of her fiction has appeared at the top of bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic, including the top 21 in the UK Kindle Store in 2018. Karen Perkins is the author of the Yorkshire Ghost Stories, the Pendle Witch Short Stories and the Valkyrie Series of historical nautical fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1619, historian James Horn sheds new light on the year that gave birth to the great paradox of our nation: slavery in the midst of freedom. A few weeks later, a battered privateer entered the Chesapeake Bay carrying the first African slaves to land on mainland English America. In the newly built church at Jamestown, the General Assembly - the first gathering of a representative governing body in America - came together. 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In peaceful Shady Vale, half-elfin Shea Ohmsford knows little of such troubles. Now comes a fully annotated collector's edition of the novel that started it all-featuring never-before-shared insights into the classic tale, an all-new introduction by the New York Times bestselling author, and replica sketches of some of the long-lost paintings and color plates by the Brothers Hildebrandt that decorated the original edition. ![]() ![]() Fourteen more Shannara volumes would follow, making the series one of the most popular fantasy epics of all time. THE PHENOMENAL EPIC OF GOOD AND EVIL LIKE IT'S NEVER BEEN EXPERIENCED BEFORE Thirty-five years ago, Terry Brooks brought to life a dazzling world in The Sword of Shannara. ![]() ![]() ![]() But after Chance’s latest “refresh,” he awakens to accusations that he’s killed Lee Conway, a stranger Chance has never met. The public, though? They can’t get enough of the death-defying stunts he has parlayed into a social media spectacle. Chance was revived-and his grieving parents met his existence with anger, neglect, and aversion. Five years ago, when he was sixteen, he and his brother, Marley, were murdered in a kidnapping gone wrong. For Chance Harker, it’s a way of getting on with his lives. A clone plays a dangerous game of life, death, memory, and murder in a twisting thriller by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Matthew FitzSimmons. ![]() ![]() ![]() Literally one of my most pressing questions for the sequel was answered so quickly!!īut the days until Van Eck’s deadline were dwindling, and to get Inej back, they would need surprise on their side. “Why do you guys say that, anyway? No mourners, no funerals? Why not just say good luck or be safe?” But none of them knew the real game Kaz "Dirtyhands" Brekker - the smooth, smart, criminal mastermind - was running.Īnd so, piece by piece, the plan to rescue Inej had come together. ![]() And they're all fighting to get Inej back before Van Eck could have his way with her. It had been just under a week since the Dregs reached Ketterdam, almost a month since they’d left Djerholm. The book opens on Wylan still wearing Kuwei Yul-Bo’s features since Nina didn’t trust herself with her powers now. The wait for this grandiose sequel has been all-consuming, I've been thinking about the Dregs for months and months now, so getting back into their lives has been one of the most rewarding experiences. “I will have you without armour, Kaz Brekker. ![]() Check out my Depop where I sell books and niche findings here AT HALF-PRICE:īefore I start my review, can we just take a minute to admire this beautiful piece of art featuring my favorites: ![]() ![]() ![]() The rational approach works quite well in certain situations, such as mass production of goods, or in certain kinds of scientific measurements-but all in all the rational method, as it is understood and used, does not work as an overall approach to life, or in the solving of problems that involve subjective rather than objective measurements or calculations. "We are indeed dealing with two entirely different approaches to reality and to solving problems-methods we will here call the rational method and the magical one. 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