![]() "A delightful romance-altogether a wonderful book." -Roberta Gellis ![]() Praise for Shirlee Busbee and Scandal Becomes Her Embarking on a bold scheme that gives way to an equally fiery passion, the adventurous pair discover a love neither can live without. When she asks Asher to steal letters Ormsby is using to blackmail her sister, he's happy to oblige. Asher has known Juliana since childhood and has always harbored a secret affection for her. The culprit is none other than his beautiful neighbor, Juliana Greeley. However, he's shocked to discover he isn't the only intruder in Ormsby's library. ![]() But when an old rival, the Marquis of Ormsby, infuriates him with his insipid arrogance, Asher cannot resist stealing the pompous fool's famous diamond. "A fast plot packed with clever twists keeps the action and passion blazing" in this intriguing Regency romance from the New York Times–bestselling author ( Publishers Weekly).įorced to resort to a life of crime in order to support his siblings, Asher Cordell is now ready to walk the straight and narrow path. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “For those without other forms of cultural capital,” says Peiss, “fashion can be a way of claiming space for yourself.” The garment had “profound political meaning,” wrote Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man. ![]() To some men, the suit’s ostentatiousness was a way of refusing to be ignored. These were ad hoc outfits, regular suits bought two sizes too large and then creatively tailored to dandyish effect. “It came right off the street and out of the ghetto.’’įox was one among many, from Chicago to Harlem to Memphis, who took credit for inventing the zoot suit-the term came out of African-American slang-but it was actually unbranded and illicit: There was no one designer associated with the look, no department store where you could buy one. Though the zoot suit would be donned by the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong, it was “not a costume or uniform from the world of entertainment,” the Chicago big-band trumpeter and clothier Harold Fox once said. By the ’40s, the suits were worn by minority men in working-class neighborhoods throughout the country. The flowing trousers were tapered at the ankles to prevent jitterbugging couples from getting tripped up while they twirled. ![]() ![]() With its super-sized shoulder pads, sprawling lapels and peg leg pants, the zoot suit grew out of the “drape” suits popular in Harlem dance halls in the mid-1930s. This story is a selection from the April issue of Smithsonian magazine Buy Subscribe to Smithsonian magazine now for just $12 ![]() ![]() ![]() MILITARY SERVICE IS REQUIRED.Īll Yeoman Warders must have at least 22 years of military service to qualify for the position and have earned a good-conduct medal. ![]() Recently, Mental Floss visited him to learn more about his life in service of the ravens. ![]() Skaife has worked at the Tower for 11 years, and has many stories to tell. According to a foreboding legend with many variations, if there aren’t at least six ravens living within the Tower, both the Tower and the monarchy will fall. His job is to maintain the health and safety of the flock of ravens (also called an “unkindness” or a “conspiracy”) that live within the Tower walls. There are 37 Yeoman Warders, popularly known as Beefeaters, but Skaife has what might be the coolest title of them all: He is the Ravenmaster. Christopher Skaife is a Yeoman Warder at the Tower of London, an ancient fortress that has been used as a jail, royal residence, and more. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In middle age he served in the trenches of World War I, during which time a German high-explosive shell came in through the roof of his dugout and blew his mess orderly’s head clean off. As a young man he was mentioned in dispatches for his bravery fighting alongside the Malakand Field Force on the North-West Frontier, and subsequently he took part in the last significant cavalry charge in British history at the Battle of Omdurman in central Sudan. Lack of courage was never Churchill’s problem. “If that is not courage,” Lord Mountbatten, the First Sea Lord, said later, “I do not know what is.” ![]() He had always found the depiction of the mouse too indistinct, so he retrieved his paint brushes and set about “improving” on the work of Rubens by making the hazy rodent clearer. In April 1955, on the final weekend before he left office for the last time, Winston Churchill had the vast canvas of Peter Paul Rubens’s “The Lion and the Mouse” taken down from the Great Hall at the prime ministerial retreat of Chequers. CHURCHILL Walking With Destiny By Andrew Roberts Illustrated. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book includes: The Unstrung Harp, The Listing Attic, The Doubtful Guest, The Object-Lesson, The Bug Book, The Fatal Lozenge, The Hapless Child, The Curious Sofa, The Willowdale Handcar, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Insect God, The West Wing, The Wuggly Ump, The Sinking Spell, The Remembered Visit. Amphigorey, a collection of fifteen of Gorey’s best-known books, allows new readers to discover his work relatively inexpensively. There are four omnibus editions, all named Amphigorey. ![]() You can always buy the individual hard bound books later. A collection of books produced by the surrealist artist Edward Gorey in the mid 19 hundreds. I wish the had fixed this simple issue.īut if your goal is to simply read Gorey and look at the art, then this is a good investment since it’s fairy cheap and comes with a good selection of stories. (2) Since Gorey’s artwork switches from portrait to landscape layout, sometimes you’d have to flip the book sideways to read the text. (1) The printing and page quality could be better. There are a few downsides to getting this book though. ![]() It even includes popular stories that were released on their own hardbound editions. This follow-up to the darkly humorous Amphigorey is wittier, more macabre, and more wondrous than ever. Amphigorey collects fifteen of Edward Gorey’s stories into a single 192 page book. If you’re looking to get a good sense of what Edward Gorey‘s art and writing is all about, then this book is for you. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has a terrible secret and is desperately searching for something that can reverse the effects of the misfired spell which created his predicament. What she does not realize is that his interest is anything but academic. Mercedes Lackey 4.16 1,549 ratings262 reviews The beloved Elemental Masters series moves to America for the first time in a rich retelling of The Queen of the Copper Mountain, set against the backdrop of Tennessee coal country. Beauty Meets Beast in San FranciscoAccepting employment as a. ![]() ![]() Instead, her duties are to read to him, through a speaking tube, from ancient manuscripts in obscure, nearly forgotten dialects.Ī requirement for the job was skill in translating medieval French, and she now understands the reason for that requirement, and assumes her unseen employer’s interest in the descriptions of medieval spells and sorcery is that of an eccentric antiquary. The Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey - Beauty and the Beast in a contemporary urban fantasy setting. Beauty and the Beast in a contemporary urban fantasy setting.Īccepting employment as a governess after hard times hit her family, medieval scholar Rosalind Hawkins is surprised when she learns that her mysterious employer has no children, no wife, and she is not to meet with him face to face. The Fire Rose (The Elemental Masters Fairy Tales). ![]() ![]() I imagine book 4 will recap some of these things to get Spensa up to speed, but fans who want all the details shouldn’t skip these books. People die, alliances are struck, and none of it is mentioned while Spensa is on her own adventure. They contain critical plot that absolutely affects the state of the galaxy and happens completely “off screen” in CYTONIC. (It’s become clear to me that novella 3, EVERSHORE, can likely be read before CYTONIC as well, but I’m reading in release order.) Here’s the thing about these novellas: they aren’t simply fun little stories to give fans more time with secondary characters. I held off on reviewing these two novellas because I wanted to see how they interacted with CYTONIC, particularly since they were released before that third book and are meant to be read before it. ![]() ![]() SUNREACH and REDAWN are two fun, adventurous novels that take place at the same time as the events in CYTONIC, book three of the SKYWARD saga. ![]() ![]() ![]() Emitting a cry of confusion, the catburglar instantly stands upright, reaches back, discovers the handle of the plunger with both hands. Poised behind her, in the small but determined hand of the mansion’s lowly maid is a common toilet plunger that length of the handle not in her hand is covered with crazy glue.Īgainst the shiny black rubber of the burglar’s large and unsuspecting bum the open mouth of the plunger makes an obscene and voluptuous farting sound as the little maid pushes it home. ![]() Perhaps, when she takes it home she thinks, she will even play with it a little before she sells it.īut she does not know that she has already been outwitted. ![]() There it is: the priceless and gigantic ivory dildo. The shiny black rubber on her big firm ass expands as she does so, the rubber squeaks a little. She bends forward into the safe a little. She turns the handle, swings the door open. It took me more time to get into this rubber catsuit than it will take me to get into this safe, she purrs to herself. Her sensitive fingers turn the knob of the wall safe quietly, the tumblers click inside. By day she is an ordinary hausfrau, a mother of teenage girls, but right now she is a sophisticated, masked sex icon, a mistress of darkness and stealth. It’s pitch dark in this room, but the catburgler was here earlier as an undisguised and formally invited dinner guest, remembers the layout, knows her way around. ![]() ![]() Along with pretty much every proud geek on the face of the planet. ![]() Today, with its scientific, sarcastic and often very insightful look at the world, xkcd can count amongst its many many fans the fantasy author Neil Gaiman, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and actor Will Wheaton. If you’ve an interest in science and access to the internet, there’s a pretty high probability that you’ve heard of Randall Munroe, author and creator of the hilarious and incredibly informative webcomic xkcd.īeginning in 2005 as some notebook doodles scanned and uploaded to a website, xkcd quickly gained an impressive following. We were absolutely thrilled when today’s guest let us know they could find an hour to join us in the Salutation Pub in Manchester. Welcome back to a very special one-off episode of the Pint of Science podcast, bridging the admittedly quite lengthy gap between our first and second seasons. ![]() Subscribe: Spotify | TuneIn | Stitcher | Apple ![]() ![]() ![]() "My entire estate, including a controlling share of stock in my company, Gregarious Simulation Systems, is to be placed in escrow until such time as a single condition I have set forth in my will is met. The contest was announced via a "meticulously constructed short film titled Anorak's Invitation." The video message which lasted just over 5 minutes "was crammed with obscure '80s pop culture references." People without much left to do had retreated sometimes wholeheartedly into the OASIS virtual video world feeling virtuality was a might better than the reality they faced in their every day-to-day lives. An ongoing energy crisis paired with catastrophic climate change triggered widespread famine, poverty, and disease. At the time of the contest's announcement, the world was in a state of ruin. James Halliday, the creator and designer of the world's most successful and largest interactive multi player virtual reality video game, the OASIS, died leaving no heirs and a massive fortune to be won. "Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest." ![]() |