![]() Near me, over the dusty nettles, white butterflies fluttered lazily. “Then I used to lock myself in my room, or go to the end of the garden, climb on to the ruin of a high stone greenhouse and, dangling my legs from the wall which looked out on the road, would sit for hours, staring and staring, seeing nothing. Various emotions, delicate and quick-changing as the shadows of clouds on a sunny day of wind, chased one another continually over her lips and eyes.” And her face was ever changing, working too it expressed, almost at the same time, irony, dreaminess, and passion. ![]() ![]() About her whole being, so full of life and beauty, there was a peculiarly bewitching mixture of slyness and carelessness, of artificiality and simplicity, of composure and frolicsomeness about everything she did or said, about every action of hers, there clung a delicate, fine charm, in which an individual power was manifest at work. It amused her to arouse their hopes and then their fears, to turn them round her finger (she used to call it knocking their heads together), while they never dreamed of offering resistance and eagerly submitted to her. All the men who visited the house were crazy over her, and she kept them all in leading-strings at her feet. “There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another, and I was like wax in Zinaïda's hands though, indeed, I was not the only one in love with her. ![]()
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![]() ![]() 1992: visited tribal people of Kamchatka and Ussuria for Survival Int (with Paul Harris).1991: rode (with Louella) across Spain driving 300 cattle on the transhumancia.1990: mission to Eastern Europe to assess investment and environmental opportunities (with Robbie Lyle and Louella).1989: rode (with Louella) as pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela.1988: rode (with Louella) from South to North through New Zealand.to investigate the arrest of Malaysian environmentalists and Borneo tribal people for campaigning against excessive logging in Sarawak. 1987: led a mission for IUCN, FOE and Survival Int.1986: rode (with Louella) along the Great Wall of China.1984: rode (with his 2nd wife, Louella) two Camargue horses across France to Cornwall.1981: lived for three months with Yanomami tribe in Brazil researching book for Time Life (with Bruce Albert and Victor Englebert).1980-81: expeditions in Ecuador, Brazil and Venezuela. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Phoenix Award winning author Mollie Hunter has written another suspense story finely laced with folklore her storytelling is as spontaneous as it is irresistible.-H. Only 12-year-old Robbie knows that the mysterious Finn Learson is the evil Great Selkie, the seal-man of Shetland Islands legend. And Robbie knows it's up to him to save his sister. Then, in one frightening moment, Robbie recalls his grandfather's warning and discovers at last the terrible, incredible truth about Finn Learson. Robbie is sure that he is hiding something-but what? The clues Robbie finds are mysterious: Finn Learson's love of dancing an ancient gold coin that Finn gives to the family strange omens in the ashes of a fire and beautiful young Elspeth Henderson's increasingly odd behavior. Only young Robbie Henderson does not trust Finn Learson and his oddly unsettling secret smile. Finn Learson is charming and generous, and the Henderson family gladly give him shelter. The stranger is Finn Learson, a young and handsome man who seems to be the only survivor of the wreck. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shakey is the whole story of Young's incredible life and career: from his childhood in Canada to the founding of folk-rock pioneers Buffalo Springfield the bleary conglomeration of Crazy Horse and the monstrous success of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young to the depths of the Tonight's the Night depravity and the Geffen years and Young's unprecedented nineties 'comeback'. Neil Young is one of rock and roll's most important, influential and enigmatic figures, an intensely reticent artist who has granted no writer access to his inner sanctum - until now. ![]() One of the great tales of the rock 'n' roll era' Sunday Times 'One of the most penetrative studies of a rock icon ever written. ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course there’s tension between them from the start and Kaden comes across as being very arrogant, authoritative and even sort of sexist. Kaden is the brusque and handsome young man, who owns the apartment, that Allie hopes to rent a room in for the duration of her college time in town. ![]() Begin Again – The BookĪllie is a strong young woman, who moves to Woodshill, Oregon to get away from her family and begin her own life as the person she feels she wants to be. ![]() It took me only a few days to read it, but had I not been on a road trip for two of those I would have read it in one sitting. However, a little over a week ago I realised that Begin Again had been published in English and I quickly applied and was approved for an EARC by Bastei Entertainment through Netgalley – which by the way was amazing and so unexpected! I first saw Begin Again in an Instagram post by Buecherpalast (who by the way has an amazing feed) and was sold immediately by its amazing cover! After a while though, I realised that the book was only available in German and although I understand German alright I am nowhere near being able to read a book in German. ![]() ![]() ![]() Painted in Helen Stephens' much-loved retro style. A heart-warming story about a very special friendship, with a wonderfully heroic ending. The first irresistible picture book about Iris and her lion. When the lion sees three robbers stealing from the town hall, it's his chance to show everyone that he is, after all, a kind (and very brave) lion - just like Iris always said. But Iris can't hide her lion forever, and when her mum discovers him, he has to run away and hide all on his own. Luckily, there are lots of good places to hide a lion - behind the shower curtain, in your bed, and even up a tree. ![]() How does a very small girl hide a very large lion? It's not easy, but Iris has to do her best, because mums and dads can be funny about having a lion in the house. Independent Bookshop Editions and Autographed Books ![]() ![]() ![]() But can their feelings for each other survive once the weekend is over and Autumn's old life, and old love interest, threaten to pull her from Dax's side? As he and Autumn at first grudgingly, and then not so grudgingly, open up to each other, Autumn is struck by their surprising connection. Except there is more to Dax than meets the eye. Instead it becomes clear that Autumn is going to have to spend the next couple of days living off vending-machine food and making conversation with a boy who clearly wants nothing to do with her. Still, she just keeps reminding herself that it is only a matter of time before Jeff, her almost-boyfriend, realizes he left her in the library and comes to rescue her. ![]() Between the rumors about the fight he was in (and that brief stint in juvie that followed it) and his reputation as a loner, he's not exactly the ideal person to be stuck with. Autumn doesn't know much about Dax except that he's trouble. ![]() But that's before she realizes that Dax Miller is locked in with her. When Autumn Collins finds herself accidentally locked in the library for an entire weekend, she doesn't think things could get any worse. An irresistible story from Kasie West that explores the timeless question: What do you do when you fall for the person you least expect? ![]() ![]() ![]() His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series (the novels Rabbit, Run Rabbit Redux Rabbit Is Rich Rabbit at Rest and the novella Rabbit Remembered), which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death. He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker starting in 1954. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. John Hoyer Updike (Ma– January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. From the BBC program Front Row, October 31, 2008. ![]() ![]() ![]() So can you identify what someone else is thinking and feeling? But the second part is the response element. The first part is recognition of somebody else's state of mind. Baron-Cohen.įLATOW: Can you give us a definition of what empathy is or what empathy is not?īARON: Well, you just gave a very good definition. and director of the university's Autism Research Center there. That's the ability to recognize and respond to someone else's feeling.Ĭould lowered empathy cause cruelty? Simon Baron-Cohen is author of "The Science of Evil." He's a professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. ![]() How are some people capable of causing extreme harm to others? Are they hardwired to do it, or can their behavior be tracked back to a troubled upbringing? My next guest has written a book that asks what makes someone evil, and he says that empathy, empathy might have something to do with it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Race relations that do not seem to have improved much in the ensuing five decades, the civil rights movement notwithstanding. The depth comes from Mosley’s portrayal, from a black man’s perspective, of race relations in Los Angeles in the late sixties. It mesmerized me to the degree that I read it again the next day-to make sure I hadn’t missed anything and to savor Mosley’s fine writing and storytelling that much longer. I pretty much read it in one day (Christmas-best present I’ve given myself in a long time). Joe tells Easy he will pay well to see this young man exonerated, but seeing as how white cops-more inclined toward a quick close than seeking justice-found Seymour standing over the dead bodies, that exoneration requires puppetry that only Easy can manage.Ĭharcoal Joe has a depth and literary quality lacking in most books of the mystery genre, yet the pace never slows below a fast trot, and quickly returns to its former gallop. Joe, for reasons unclear at the outset, wants a young black man-Seymour (top of his class in physics at Stanford)-cleared of charges that he murdered two white men. ![]() I love this hypnotic book, the 14th in Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins series-best book I’ve read in ages.Įasy’s childhood friend Mouse introduces him to Rufus Tyler, a man everyone calls Charcoal Joe. ![]() |