![]() ![]() "OK," said Rick as they got in to Sam's car. Look, to get us started, why don't you start by asking me some brainless questions so I can explain a few of the basic differences between the US and Italy." It's just a feelgood travel romp to show that Italy may be foreign and bad at football - they play soccer here - but even airheaded jocks can appreciate the quaintness if they really try. ![]() "No gangsters, then?" Rick asked, somewhat disappointed. He's writing something homier and cuter this time." "But this is a John Grisham book and we're in Italy." "I guess you must be in the mafia," Rick whispered. Rick had never heard of Italy, but it sounded a long, long way away and a long, long way away was the place he needed to be.Ī week later, he was greeted at the station. ![]() Three thousand euros a month plus an apartment and a car." "I've got you a contract as the pro quarterback for Parma in the Italian league. "There is some good news, though," Arnie said. ![]()
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![]() The clerk at the very expensive Hotel Goldene Eiche had given him the name of the Restaurant Maximillian. ![]() But tonight he had to find the perfect chateaubriand. He enjoyed peace, he relished freedom, he didn't really need wealth nor did he desire fame. As he walked along what was locally known as the Royal Road - so named because it was the procession path of visiting kings - he passed sights like Neptune's Fountain at the center of the Long Market and the Golden Gate with its statues symbolizing Peace, Freedom, Wealth and Fame. The population was ninety-eight percent German, and this was also reflected in its language. It had once been known as Gdansk and was originally part of Poland, had a complicated political history between the rulership of Poland and Germany and was now, in this month of April in the year 1938, known as a "free city" with its own national anthem, constitution, government and even its own stamps and currency apart from the Polish standard. ![]() He was out for enjoyment this evening, strolling casually through the charming streets of Danzig, a busy harbor city on the coast of the Baltic Sea. Sea Chase One At Work By Midnight He was a gentleman in search of a good piece of meat. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please contact us if any title or item you’re looking for is not currently listed. 1 The Tale of Peter Rabbit 2 The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin 3 The Tailor of Gloucester 4 The Tale of Benjamin Bunny 5 The Tale of Two Bad Mice 6 The Tale of. We are always buying and considering fresh material, and we can draw upon our extensive network to source rare books and manuscripts. You’ll find below our current selection of material by and relating to Beatrix Potter. ![]() Her works provide significant scope for a collector: from privately printed volumes to commercial trade editions, from inscribed copies to translations, from greetings cards to merchandise, from regular issues to deluxe bindings and, also, examples of her original artwork. Potter’s world of Peter Rabbit is populated by some of the most recognized characters in children’s literature: Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs Tiggle-Winkle, Tom Kitten, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and many others. Rare books by Beatrix Potter, including first editions of the Peter Rabbit books, signed and finely bound copies, and original artwork.īeatrix Potter’s books, which are filled with charming illustrations and simple yet engaging stories, have been beloved by generations of children. ![]() ![]() From author Kelly Quindlen comes a new laugh-out-loud romp through the ups and downs of teen romance. Hijinks, heartbreak, and gay fake-dating scheme for the ages. But when an opportunity presents itself for Scottie to get back at her toxic ex (and climb her school’s social ladder at the same time), she bribes Irene into playing along. Their bumpy start only gets bumpier the more time they spend together. ![]() Things only get worse when their nosey, do-gooder moms get involved and the girls are forced to carpool together until Irene’s car gets out of the shop. After losing spectacularly to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game since their break up, Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, the incredibly beautiful and incredibly mean cheerleading captain, Irene Abraham. ![]() ![]() ![]() Paul will stop at nothing to prove himself worthy of their friendship, because with Julian life is more invigorating than Paul could ever have imagined. Paul sees Julian as his sole intellectual equal-an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. When he meets the worldly Julian in his freshman ethics class, Paul is immediately drawn to his classmate’s effortless charm. Sensitive, insecure, and incomprehensible to his grieving family, Paul feels isolated and alone. ![]() When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, it’s with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father.
![]() ![]() ![]() But not only is Ron Howard’s film adaptation less intellectually profound than Team America-or for that matter, Terminator 2-it’s also less emotionally acute. Imagine the “dicks, pussies, and assholes” speech from Team America: World Police framed as a piece of homespun wisdom instead of nihilist satire and you’ll know how seriously to take Hillbilly Elegy, the movie Mamaw Vance inhabits. (Owen Asztalos), the septuagenarian Kentuckian expounds on its philosophical utility by telling the boy that “everyone in this world is one of three kinds: Good Terminator, Bad Terminator, and Neutral.” Watching the film on cable for the millionth time with her teenage grandson J.D. ![]() Mamaw Vance’s (Glenn Close) favorite line from T2 is “Hasta la Vista, baby”, which is fair enough: it’s close to the ultimate Schwarzenegger one-liner, a kiss-off for when you’ve definitively kicked somebody’s ass. In addition to its many virtues as an action film, a special-effects showcase, and a royalty-generator for George Thorogood and the Destroyers, James Cameron’s 1991 sci-fi epic contains a number of potentially excellent personal mantras, ranging from existential statements ( “There is no fate but what we make for ourselves”) to everything-Zen affirmations (“chill out, dickwad”). ![]() There are worse movies to base a worldview on than Terminator 2: Judgement Day. ![]() ![]() Almost all vintage books, hardcover and paperbacks are going to show signs of their age and usage that impact the condition. Please forgive me if I do! Always feel free to ask for more photos and/or ask questions if you would like further details before purchasing. I try very hard to capture any flaws or issues when I take the listing photos but on occasion I may miss something. Stamped name on the inside of front page. ![]() At a campground, they meet a plant scientist and her kids, who start nosing around to find out more about Stanley and Fluffy, while the plants cause more funny uproars. They have to take along their weird sock-eating plants, Stanley and Fluffy, because they act up and can't be left at home alone. In the sequel to The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks, brothers Michael and Norman and their parents are off on a fun-filled Florida family vacation in an RV. ![]() ![]() The Return Of The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks by Nancy McArthur Pre Teen Fiction 1990 Book 2 in the Series ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One is internal to individuals and concerns the development mainly of their mental faculties. For the present purposes there are two important elements to this view. Mill’s view was that human beings can, and should, develop their individuality by realizing their full potential and, thereby, flourish. However, contrary to Marx, the individual human being in Mill’s theory “is the same metaphysical individual whether in or out of society” (Thilly 1923, p. Like Marx, Mill’s theory of individualism concerns the realization of inherent properties in individuals. He also defended a moral version of individualism as individuality which is similar to, yet distinct from, Marx’s theory. Mill was a methodological individualist, in the sense that he believed that social phenomena can be reduced to, or explained with reference to, individual behavior (see, e.g., Mill 1974, pp. This is an excerpt from a manuscript on moral individualism (image). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “One of the finest prose stylists around, and-borrowing as he does much of the melodrama of Victorian literature, along with the revisionist modernism of later authors like D. He strings together ideally chosen words into sentences that are variously lush, sparse, subtle, bold, joyous, mournful, comic, or tragic … But it’s on the character front that MacLeod truly expends his best efforts and achieves the most.” -SF Signal “An outstanding smoke-and-sorcery saga to rival Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials trilogy and China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station.” -Michael Moorcock “Stands beside the achievements of China Miéville. “MacLeod brings a Dickensian life to the pounding factories of London in a style he calls ‘realistic fantasy.’ It’s a complete world brought to life with compassionate characters and lyrical writing.” -The Denver Post ![]() “A meditative portrayal of an exotic society, fascinating in its unhealthy languor and seemingly imperturbable stasis … so powerfully recalls Dickens’s that this affinity animates the entire work.” -The Washington Post Book World ![]() ![]() Here’s how the publisher describes the story. ![]() Generally speaking, there isn’t a ton of YA period fiction on shelves these days-with a few notable (and excellent) exceptions like Ruta Sepeytys or Krystal Marquis-so the arrival of Queen Bee, a Regency YA romance that’s described as Bridgerton meets The Count of Monte Cristo and that follows the story of a young girl crafting a false identity to seek revenge on the ex-friend who ruined her life, reputation, and debut into society.Ī charming YA romp from Amalie Howard, romance author behind such popular titles as The Duke in Question and Always Be My Duchess, Queen Bee is an effortlessly diverse tale of friendship, retribution, forgiveness, and-of course-love. No subgenre is safe from the Bridgerton effect, as Netflix’s popular Regency romance series continues to drive interest in the historical period in all kinds of new ways. ![]() |