5/24/2023 0 Comments The woman in white novel![]() Put crudely, the richer you were, the more reason there appeared to be to keep you under lock and key. Of Chancery lunatics (that’s the very wealthiest and most socially elite group, whose affairs were overseen by the Lord Chancellor), only 1% found themselves at liberty again. By contrast, if you were in a private asylum, discharge rates were a mere 10-14%. ![]() In the state system, recovery and discharge rates ran at 37% of admissions – a figure that holds pretty steady across the nineteenth century. And this is another revealing detail by Collins: the 1859 Select Committee on the lunacy laws made public in crude statistical detail how much harder it was to get discharged from a private asylum than from a county (ie state-run) one. Anne’s colluding mother insists on a private asylum for Anne, not a county asylum, where paupers are sent. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Best served cold trilogy![]() ![]() He remained there for two years before he left the corporate world to become a freelance film editor. Joe attended Lancaster Royal Grammar School, following which he enrolled at Manchester University to study psychology.Īfter graduating from the university, he moved to London where he began working for a TV Post-Production company. He grew up reading fantasy books like Lord of the Rings, Dragonlance, the Belgariad, and Game of Thrones, so his love for fantasy was a constant companion. Joe Abercrombie was born in 1974, in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. Yesterday, Near a Village Called Barden….Sharp Ends, 2016 (collection of short stories).The Trouble With Peace (Age of Madness #2), 2020 ![]() ![]() ![]() That is why I said you have to be in the right mood. The first one.concerning a group of people in transit who accidentally fall to captivity at the hands of the Khmer Rouge is heartbreaking. There are over a dozen and all are quite short. ![]() I of coarse en joyed some stories more then others. If I were to rate this on a one to ten scale I would give it a 7.5. Nothing could be further from the truth.īut you have to be in the right mood to read these and you also have to know that the stories, do not, in themselves, end with clarity. I liked but did not love this and I am worried that giving a rating of 3, will look like I do not like it. This is one of those times I really wish there was a scale of 1-10 on GR. The best way to describe them would be Vignettes or little slices of life. Holiday in Cambodia is a series of short stories, some from past times, others current about Cambodia. "Where kings went, where singers went, where the Khmer Rouges went, and stayed, still camped up in the Elephant Mountains." ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Hunted by Evangeline Anderson![]() They possess a very special endowment that ensures every sexual experience is a tantric one.īlood Kindred - cold as ice to their enemies, these tall, blond warriors from Tranq Prime warm up when they find the right woman. ![]() More about the Brides of the Kindred seriesĪ race of Genetic Traders from beyond the starsīeast Kindred - savage in battle these dark, brooding warriors from Rageron bring their passion and intensity to the bedroom. Will they give in to the intense attraction between them, or will the evil hunting Sophia take its toll? You'll have to listen to Brides of the Kindred book two - Hunted to find out. Running for their lives, they have only each other to depend on. When their ship is forced down in the middle of a rugged mountain range, Sophia and Sylvan are stranded. ![]() After a devastating rejection on his home planet, his heart is a block of ice no one can melt - or so he thinks until he meets Sophia. Sylvan is a Tranq Kindred who has made a sacred vow never to call a bride. ![]() She's only on the Kindred Mothership to participate in her sister Liv's wedding, and that's all. Sophia Waterhouse has always been afraid of needles and vampires, so there's no way she wants anything to do with a modern-day Count Dracula - even if he does come wrapped in the package of a huge Kindred warrior with blond hair and ice-blue eyes. ![]() Books three and four, Sought and Found, are coming to audio by the end of 2015. Book one, Claimed, is also available in audio. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a solution she'd sewn an extra layer of cloth into her blouses at that spot and learned to live with any lingering irritation. In the past her heavy pistol in the belt holster had scraped uncomfortably against her side, causing a scab. The woman, in her early thirties and dressed in a black pantsuit, was in step behind the tall man. Then he took a nip of refreshment from a flask pulled from his pocket and returned to his artful wood carving. The elderly gent just shook his head and grinned at this spectacle, showing the few tobacco-stained teeth he had left. The old fellow looked up curiously as the procession passed by with a tall, distinguished-looking man ceremoniously in the middle. ![]() It was just that sort of a place, rural to the hilt, stock car racing and bluegrass ballads forever. An old man in a tattered suit that was too large for him and wearing a battered, oily Stetson sat on a bench outside the front entrance, whittling. A few bereaved trickled out the door, sobbing quietly into handkerchiefs. Appropriately somber gentlemen in black suits stood next to hearses of the same color. The structure had been many things in its time and currently housed a decrepit funeral home that was thriving solely because there was no other such facility within thirty miles and the dead, of course, had to go somewhere. The miniature army marched toward the ugly white brick building. T HE MOTORCADE STREAMED into the tree-shaded parking lot, where it disgorged numerous people who looked hot, tired and genuinely unhappy. ![]() ![]() Toads can be used for love charms or they can bewitch an enemy with their evil eye and even cause death." There are toad rituals to protect property and livestock and toad spells to bring sickness and calamity. At the same time both life giver and life taker. ![]() It has simultaneously been seen as mid-wife's helper and devil's familiar. "The toad has had a colorful and checkered history with its role in magic and folk-lore. The Secret Wisdom and Transforming Power of the Philosopher's Stone Toad Magic and Sorcery in Early Modern Europe The Toad in Eastern Alchemy and Occult Tradition Introduction: The Toad as Midwife's Helper New expanded edition first standard paperback impression. ![]() The Toad in Magic, Sorcery and Mid-wifery: An occult history of the toad in symbolism, ritual, healing and folk-lore On offer here is a print copy of our book Please note: A gift copy of our Spiritual Alchemy manual will be shipped together with this book. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments How to say knife book![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Knife” stars Harry Hole, Nesbo’s go-to detective whose intelligence and ability to solve crimes is second to none. I don’t see a lot of people reviewing Nesbo’s books, which is a shame, because they are really missing a treat. We will have to wait and see if we get drunk, messy Harry or a new Harry Hole in the next book.Ĥ.5 Stars -With the death of Stieg Larsson, there is only one foreign language author that I read on a regular basis, Jo Nesbo. While I didn’t love the events of Knife, the plot allows for Harry’s character to take a new path. Parts are overly detailed and could have been edited down. There isn't much action, but Harry develops and grows as a character, which I appreciated. Knife is dark and weighty and Harry is at his lowest point, which made this hard to read at times. While I was surprised by the identity of the murderer, I realized there were clues galore but I was too caught up in Harry to see what was going on right before my eyes. I was shocked by the murder and even more shocked when the murderer was revealed. But if he survives, it will be bittersweet. To clear his name, he will risk his life. I can’t say much without giving spoilers, so I am going to keep this review brief.Ī life-altering murder puts Harry Hole in the spotlight. With his career and credibility at stake, Harry falls into a deep dark abyss of self-destructive behavior. ![]() Knife adds another layer to the Harry Hole series! ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments One of our thursdays is missing![]() ![]() Another winner for fans and lovers of sf, time travel, puns, allusions, and all sorts of literary hijinks." - Library Journal (Starred review) "Jasper Fforde fans, rejoice! The Woman Who Died a Lot, the seventh installment in his Thursday Next series, delivers all the imagination, complexity and laughs we've come to expect from Fforde and his book-hopping, butt-kicking heroine. Fforde is ffantastic!" - Booklist (starred review) "Strap in and hang on tight. It's a dazzling, heady brew of high concept and low humor, absurd antics with a tea-and-toast sensibility that will appeal to fans of Douglas Adams and P. endearingly-bizarre fantasy world limited only by Fforde's impressive imagination." - Publishers Weekly "As always, Fforde makes this wacky world perfectly plausible, elucidating Ffordian physics with just the right ratio of pseudoscientific jargon to punch lines. Praise for The Woman Who Died A Lot, the next installment in the Thursday Next series "Fforde continues to show that his forte is absurdist humor in his seventh crime thriller starring Thursday Next, a member of the Literary Detectives division of Special Operations in an alternate-universe Britain. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Cougar by Alan Rabinowitz![]() ![]() Using this data, Panthera partners with governments and corporations to support land developments that are both economically profitable and ecologically sustainable, allowing safe passage for jaguars and other wildlife. A corridor might include a cattle ranch, a canal development, a citrus plantation or a backyard. Country by country, Panthera’s scientists begin by mapping the jaguar’s presence and the corridors through which they live and move. This is built through a multi-dimensional process. In partnership with governments, corporations and local communities, Panthera’s Jaguar Corridor Initiative works to preserve the jaguar’s genetic integrity by connecting and protecting core populations in human landscapes from northern Mexico to Argentina. ![]() Panthera’s Jaguar Corridor Initiative is the only conservation program that seeks to protect jaguars across their entire 6 million km 2 range. ![]() Follow our upcoming adventures in 2022 and join the #JourneyoftheJaguar on our social media account below. Alan Rabinowitz and the scientists of Panthera embarked on a race against time to secure the ancient path of the jaguar in Latin America. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Hunter s thompson the shark![]() ![]() San Francisco lost, once again, because their field-goal kicker was a third-rate bum who couldn't kick straight. That was nothing, however, compared to the horrible shock of seeing the favored 49ers go belly-up against stupid little Arizona. ![]() It gave me a creepy feeling all over my body. The Vikings went from a position of comfortable control of the game, to a helpless mess of dunces who couldn't do anything right and the Giants suddenly looked like world-beaters. I gave six (6) points and got snuffed like a wet candle when Culpepper went nuts and started throwing the ball up for grabs. The unbeaten Minnesota Vikings were the first of many bets gone wrong. There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted. ![]() It was like falling down an elevator shaft. I was $8,000 up on my weird neighbor, Omar, when the bottom fell out. The football season went sideways on me yesterday. Michael Strahan has a hold of Daunte Culpepper and Hunter S. No more of those warm summer days in the centerfield bleachers with no shirt and cold beer and Dolly Parton on the radio. Baseball is a sort of national fig leaf for the American spirit these days, but it withers away like smoke when the World Series finally ends, and the long hard slog of the football season is on us for real. The baseball season is over now, but the evil season is not. ![]() |