![]() ![]() Ill-prepared for temptation and seduction, he and his family are consumed by the project and by their dealings with the full-blooded painter from Paris. There, master-weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has on finishing the tapestries - his finest, most intricate work - on time for his exacting French client. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house - mother and daughter, servant and lady-in-waiting - before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. They appear to portray a woman's seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown - until now. ![]() A set of bewitching medieval tapestries hangs today in a protected chamber in Paris. ![]()
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![]() ![]() They talk of work, sport, and whatever else two men can talk, but not of feelings or of the real reason they are together, that they are both alone. They recognize the mutual loneliness and they make an unusual alliance whenever Evan can have a night free from the kids, they meet at the same pub. Matt and Evan meet in a pub with a beer between them. But he is alone the police department was his home, he has no family, and he seems to have no any purpose to go on. Not suffering to fake his policeman role, he resigned and now he works in a security firm. He trod on the toes of the wrong people and he was reassigned to patrol car service in Staten Island. Matt is a former NYPD Homicide detective. And now at 34 years old he is still young, but he seems to not have any reason to live if not his children. He never regretted to marry at 18 years old and to have soon after his first child. After that Evan is lost: Sherri was his highschool sweetheart, they met when they were 14 years old and there was no other woman in his life they grew together and Evan was perfectly happy, really. His life is perfect till the day his wife is killed in a car accident. He is the perfect good boy, a wife, four children, a suburban house. and don't get me wrong since now I will explain why.Įvan is a NYPD Vice detective. ![]() ![]() ![]() I think that the moral of this story is that love has not sex. Elisa_rolle 2 place winner as Best Characters in the 2009 Rainbow Awards ![]() ![]() ![]() Features the stories "Fat Cat," "Drive Slave," "Mines of Mind," and "Lost Past." Focusing on Section 9 agents in their daily battle against technocrime, Human-Error Processor. The"lost" Ghost in the Shell stories, created by Shirow Masamune after completing work on the original Ghost in the Shell manga and prior to his tour-de-force, Ghost in the Shell 2- Man-Machine Interface. This deluxe edition will mark the first time the book has been published in its original Japanese right-to-left format in English. The"lost" Ghost in the Shell stories, created by S. Released simultaneously with deluxe editions of The Ghost in the Shell 1 and 2 In the original, right-to-left format with Japanese sound effects for the first time! ![]() Definitive new edition supervised by creator Shirow Masamune NEW HARDCOVER DELUXE EDITION!Now a major motion picture! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At the end of this epic struggle, the dynasty of the Mongol queens had seemingly been extinguished forever, as even their names were erased from the historical record. Outlandish stories of these powerful queens trickled out of the Empire, shocking the citizens of Europe and and the Islamic world.Īfter Genghis Khan’s death in 1227, conflicts erupted between his daughters and his daughters-in-law what began as a war between powerful women soon became a war against women in power as brother turned against sister, son against mother. The queens of the Silk Route turned their father’s conquests into the world’s first truly international empire, fostering trade, education, and religion throughout their territories and creating an economic system that stretched from the Pacific to the Mediterranean. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis “Let us reward our female offspring.” Only this hint of a father’s legacy for his daughters remained of a much larger story. ![]() The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. ![]() ![]() ![]() In contrast, advanced state-formation came relatively late to the island nation, which has a limited history of large-scale polities in the precolonial era compared to neighboring Indonesia (Majapahit Empire) or Cambodia (Khmer Empire). 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Gorgeously original, full of wry humour and razor-sharp observation, redolent of Paris, its foibles, its food and its neglected corners, Hunting and Gathering is a universal story about despair, love and the virtues of ensemble-playing in a naughty world. Together, this curious, damaged little quartet may be able to face the world. He already has an unlikely flatmate, the foul-mouthed, talented working-class young chef, Franck, who is made more obnoxious by guilt about the beloved grandmother he's had to put in a home. One evening he overcomes his own excruciating reticence to rescue Camille, unconscious, from her freezing garret, and install her in the large, ornate apartment he is caretaking downstairs. Philibert Marquet de La Durbelliere is a stammering, erudite aristocrat who sells postcards outside a museum. ![]() She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner and lives in a tiny attic room. ![]() ![]() ![]() That new sound, the marching, was distinct from the rest of the city's morning din. She'd never seen any of that goodwill returned she never would now. That was all Mama had ever done, put others before herself. Even last night, before they'd run, Mama had been prepared to take a punishment that she hadn't deserved, to give up her own freedom so that Koffi didn't have to give up hers. Koffi suddenly remembered all the little moments too, the times Mama had shared her food when meals were sparse, or shared her blanket on colder nights. That sacrifice had ultimately made all the difference, but it hadn't been the only one. Mama had understood that there was a chance they wouldn't both make it out of the Night Zoo, so she'd followed a maternal instinct and told Koffi to climb the wall first. New truths took shape the longer she stared at them. ![]() Those two tattered rags were literal pieces of her mother, the only things she had left now. Koffi stared at her hands, still loosely wrapped in the bloodied strips of cloth Mama had torn from her own tunic to help her climb the vines. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Of course it damned well is,’ Hallam said gruffly while still holding the glass to his eye. ‘Is it there, sir?’ said a quiet voice to his right. Lieutenant Jack Hallam of the 28th Regiment of Foot, a British regiment raised in North Gloucestershire, pulled out his telescope and peered north to where there was a dark smudge amongst the dusted crop fields and pewter-coloured dykes that were so abundant in Holland. A silvery mist hung above the flat landscape where, in the dawn light, it resembled roving sea fog creeping across a shoreline. It was a land of cold beneath a wind-driven sky. The officer clambered up the side of the bank, the snow reaching the top of his knee-high boots. The Diabolical Circumstance of Captain Bartholomew Chivers Battle Scars: A collection of short stories Volume 1īattle Scars: A Collection of Short Stories Volume 1 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Cussy Mary Carter is A Heroine For The Ages. Inspired by the true and historical blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek showcases a first in traditionally published literary novels- a bold and unique story and tale of fierce strength and one woman's belief that books can carry us anywhere - even back home NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES and USA TODAY bestselling novel, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a powerful message about how the written word affects people-a story of hope and heartbreak, raw courage and strength splintered with poverty and oppression, and one woman's chances beyond the darkly hollows. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Every failure to cope with a life situation must be laid, in the end, to a restriction of consciousness” Translated into over twenty languages, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has sold well over a million copies and continues to find new audiences among professors and students in fields ranging from the history of religion and anthropology to literature and film studies among creative artists including authors, filmmakers, game designers and song writers and among all of those interested in the basic human impulse to tell stories. In The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell formulated the dual schemas of the Hero’s Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through all of humanity’s mythic traditions, and of the Cosmogonic Cycle, the stories of world-creation and -dissolution that have marked cultures around the world and across the centuries. This seminal work has influenced millions of readers since it was originally published in 1949, bringing the insights of modern psychology together with Campbell’s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. This title is part of the Bollingen Series series ![]() This title is part of the The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series ![]() |