![]() Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. Another translated book written by Arthur Japin: In Lucia's Eyes Tim Krabbe. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. ![]() A deliciously entertaining and moving story of innocence and experience, love and sacrifice, In Lucia's Eyes takes the reader on an entrancing journey from the canals of Amsterdam to those of Venice, painting a glorious portrait of the eighteenth century. ![]() What Lucia doesn't know is that Seingalt will go down in history as one of the world's greatest lovers, Casanova. What Seingalt doesn't know is that he has already met the veiled woman many years ago, in another life. He sets her a challenge: if she can find a woman who has suffered after falling in love with him, she is entitled to resist his charms if not, she should play his game. He is, to all appearances, Monsieur le Chevalier de Seingalt she is a courtesan, well-known in Amsterdam for the fact that she never removes her veil. Amsterdam 1758, and a man is artfully seducing a woman. ![]()
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![]() We follow her journey as she becomes a suffragette and campaigns for votes for women. The year is 1914 and everything starts for Lizzy when she buys a bicycle from her hard earned cash as an office junior. Definitely, one to have in a class library. The book has already proved very popular with teachers – it was the poetry winner of the North Somerset Teachers’ Book Award last year. “Marching Song”, “Suffragette”, “Hunger Strike” and “Fashion Parade” focus on the suffragette movement and would be ideal to use in class. This collection of poems was published in March last year and celebrates the achievements of women and girls throughout history. Reaching the Stars: Poems about Extraordinary Women & Girls Jan Dean, Liz Brownlee & Michaela Morgan Here are some that could be used in the classroom: ![]() ![]() On the 6 th February 1918, the “Representation of the People Act” received royal assent and passed into law, giving some women in the UK the vote. There have been some fantastic children’s books published recently to mark the centenary of this event. ![]() ![]() "It is the book that shaped our generation it made us love, even obsess, with reading", said Peter-Paul Spanjaard, 32, a lawyer in Amsterdam at the time of Mulisch's death. His novel The Discovery of Heaven (1992) is considered his masterpiece, and was voted "the best Dutch-language book ever" by Dutch readers in a 2007 newspaper poll. It received an Oscar and a Golden Globe for best foreign movie and has been translated into more than twenty languages. Mulisch gained international recognition with the film The Assault (1986), based on his book of the same title (1982). ![]() The L Magazine 's Mark Ashe quoted the American editions of his novels by referring to him as "Holland's Greatest Author" and "Holland's most important postwar writer". Marlise Simons of The New York Times said his "gift for writing with clarity about moral and philosophical themes made him an enormously influential figure in the Netherlands and earned him recognition abroad". Culture minister Halbe Zijlstra bemoaned the demise of the "Big Three" as Gerard Reve and Willem Frederik Hermans had already died. ![]() Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte described his death as "a loss for Dutch literature and the Netherlands". ![]() ![]() His death occurred at his Amsterdam home and his family was with him at the time. Harry Mulisch' grave at Zorgvlied in 2011 ![]() ![]() ![]() Kane himself is not adverse to this and Eagles at War starts as if it will be the same again. The plots for books set in the Roman era sometimes feel as well trodden as the roads that the soldiers of the time walked on battle at the start, a bit of intrigue and then a battle at the end. Will centurion Lucius Tullus survive to tell the tale? The tribes have put aside their differences to make a concerted and joint attack against the occupying force. In AD 9 the Romans thought they had the local German populace tamed, but unbeknownst to Emperor Augustus and his Generals, the tribes had been rallied by the turncoat Arminius. One of the leading names in the historic fiction genre is Ben Kane and when he releases the first book in a new series fans of the genre take notice, but would they be right to do so?Įagles at War may sound like it is taken from the Simon Scarrow Marco and Cato series, but this book is all Kane and covers a fictionalised retelling of a real event that I was unaware of. This is especially the case with the Romans there are more books about Ancient Roman battles than there were mad Caesars. War, what is it good for? Looking at the ever buoyant historic fiction genre it would appear that war is great for selling books. ![]() Join Tullus and Arminius as they fight on opposing sides to determine who should rule Germany in AD 9. Summary: There are three things in life that are certain death, Roman taxes and historic fiction being gruesome fun. ![]() ![]() ![]() Your credit card will be charged separately for wine and liquor under "Parecell Wines LLC".Parcelle Wines LLC, and Baldor Transportation LLC are separate companies.Restocking charges of 15% of your order may also apply. If proper identification is not available at the time of delivery, your delivery will be refused and you will be charged a delivery attempt fee of $5.95.The person receiving the delivery must present proper age verification and will be required to sign. 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Designer: Letitia Hasser from RBA Designs My brother used to be a priest, and he only has one word for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Coates’s titles were slow to sell-that is, until 2015, when everything changed. She followed that up by self-publishing 22 horror novels through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing program. Seven years ago, Coates self-published her first horror e-book, “Once Returned,” a novella about a woman whose husband goes missing during a hiking trip. But with grit and determination, she went from self-published to a traditionally published author of more than 20 horror novels-many of which are USA Today bestsellers. “Happily-Ever-After Horror: Spotlight on Darcy Coates”ĭarcy Coates’s journey as a writer has been anything but easy. Because it was sponsored by Sourcebooks, and is a shareable piece, I’m copying it here. ![]() The partnership was recently covered in a Sourcebooks sponsored article in Publishers Weekly. 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![]() ![]() But keeping secrets is a skill she has cultivated since she was very young. Vancouver playwright and actor Carmen Aguirre’s debut non-fiction book, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter (Douglas & McIntyre), came as a shock to the local theatre community because she kept her revolutionary experiences hush-hush over the last couple decades. ![]() Well, Lindsay Glauser has read it and she gives some more compelling reasons as to why you should read it. What you should read, where you should go, who you should sit up and notice.Ī few weeks ago, thanks to "Canada Reads" CBC's annual battle of the books, everyone was talking about Carmen Aguirre's Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter when it was chosen as the one book that everyone should read. ReVIEWS, preVIEWS, interVIEWS, and overVIEWS: here's where you'll find out what the Vancouver Book Club team thinks about the literary scene in Vancouver. ![]() |