5/13/2023 0 Comments Russian Lacquer Boxes by Unknown![]() ![]() Some particularly ornamental snuff boxes featured enameled designs or were set with precious gems and were given as gifts or party favors, particularly at the coronation of royalty or other lavish events. The boxes, some hand-painted with landscape scenes, some made from gold, porcelain or stone, contained a small amount of tobacco, which users would sniff, or “snuff,” throughout the day. ![]() Snuff boxes began to soar in popularity during the 17th century (and were commonplace in European homes by the mid-19th century). Whether they’re mid-century modern works of marble and brass or feature playful Art Deco–style geometric decor, jewelry boxes boast real staying power. Initially it was common for a jewelry box to bear intricate ornamentation. This accessory has transformed in size, shape and appearance over the years. A portable jewelry box, in its original intended use, was integral to keeping your jewelry safe and secure. These boxes were originally known as jewel caskets and were in common use in Ancient Egypt, as most Egyptians wore some sort of jewelry. The decorative box that is likely most common is the jewelry box. No matter what they’re made of or where they end up in your home, decorative boxes add both style and storage to your space. ![]() From mere trinkets to useful receptacles that serve a distinct purpose, antique boxes as decorative objects have come in many forms over the years. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments The tin flute by gabrielle roy![]() ![]() Fournier was part of the heyday of Quebec film, highlighted by his 1983 adaptation of The Tin Flute, the award-winning novel of Montreal working-class life, written by Gabrielle Roy. In addition to directing films and writing screenplays, he was usually his own cinematographer.įollowing the success of Deux Femmes en Or, Mr. Fournier returned to Montreal and began his long career in Quebec cinema. Fournier began work as a journalist at La Tribune, a newspaper in Sherbrooke, moving on to Radio-Canada and the National Film Board in Montreal in the 1950s where he gained experience as a cameraman and filmmaker.įollowing a two-year stint in New York City, where he worked with Drew Associates, the documentary film production house, Mr. Following a Quebec classical college education in Montreal and Saint-Hyacinthe, Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. ![]() The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library This novel is entirely a work of fiction. ![]() Ltd 77–85 Fulham Palace Road Hammersmith, London W6 8JB First published in Great Britain by HarperImpulse 2013 Copyright © Charlotte Phillips 2013 Cover Photographs © Charlotte Phillips asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The pale horseman series![]() ![]() He takes the side of Guthred, once a slave and now a man who would be king, and in return expects Guthred’s help in capturing Dunholm, the lair of the dark Viking lord, Kjartan.Ĭornwell was born in London in 1944. Instead he discovers chaos, civil war and treachery in Northumbria. The Lords of the North sees Uhtred, having helped Alfred secure Wessex an independent Saxon kingdom, returns north to find his stepsister. It seems that Wessex, and England, are destroyed, but Alfred is determined to make one desperate gamble that might save his kingdom. ![]() The Pale Horseman takes place right afterwards in the fateful year in which the Danes capture Alfred’s kingdom and drive him as a fugitive into the marshes of Athelney. Yet Uhtred’s fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the last English kingdom when the Danes have overrun Northumbria, Mercia and East Anglia. ![]() Uhtred is born into the aristocracy of 9th Century Northumbria, but orphaned at ten, adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Books 1-2 now available in one eBook collection. BBC2’s major Autumn 2015 TV series THE LAST KINGDOM is based on Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling novels on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Empire of storms series![]() ![]() I just felt it was unnecessarily long and graphic, and it honestly disturbed me. It’s not that I’m against including sex scenes in books – censorship shouldn’t be a thing for YA readers. The book gets more baffling as Maas presents us with constant horndog moments and then, finally, a 10-page highly graphic sex scene. However, it didn’t get much better at that point. Somewhere around the 200-page mark, I began to feel like there was some substance to the story. It definitely took its time to pick up in pace. As I said in that review, Queen of Shadows felt like it could have been the finale of the series, so I was already very wary about continuing with Empire of Storms. The book started off really slow, especially after the fast-paced climax of Queen of Shadows. It was a rollercoaster of emotions, hence the 3.5.Īs per usual, I’ll get what I didn’t like out of the way first. It was one of those books that I was highly excited to get to, yet confused when I actually got to it. This review might be all over the place as a reflection of my genuine thoughts while reading Empire of Storms. ![]() Apparently, I only ever reviewed Queen of Shadows on here, so check out that review! ![]() ![]() ![]() "Decorative art hangs strategically at eye level to keep my high-paying clients from staring at the shackled criminals in the waiting room." This is definitely not for the faint of heart. With that purpose in mind, it actually kept me quite interested, it held certain points of suspense that made me want to read on! However, this is supposed to be a romance and as much as I want to give this book any more stars. It fell more along the lines of a psychological thriller, and it read like an episode of Criminal Minds rather than a New Adult novel. I had so much hope for Born, Darkly and although the premise intrigued me, I was skeptical on how the author managed to pull a romance with a serial killer.Īfter finishing I realized, to me. Have you ever heard about an amazing plan where so many different things can go wrong? “For this to be over, one of us has to die.” “It’s never over.” He positions himself between the door and me. ![]() The ankle shackles slow his advance, but don’t stop him. ![]() “Grayson, this is over.” I hold up my hands. ![]() ![]() Klein will be sharing an excerpt during her University Lectures talk. “This Changes Everything” is also the title of a documentary based upon the book-and narrated by Klein and directed by her husband, Avi Lewis-that was released in September and has drawn sizable audiences at film festivals and special showings. It was the 2014 winner of the prestigious Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and was shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards in the nonfiction category. 5 on The New York Times Best Sellers list and is one of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2014. the Climate” (Simon & Schuster, 2014), which debuted at No. Klein is best known for her landmark 2007 book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” as well as her more recent “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. American Sign Language interpretation and Communication Access Real Time will be available. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her appearance is co-sponsored in cooperation with the LGBT Resource Center and Syracuse Symposium. The event is free and open to the public. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Ironweed book review![]() ![]() ![]() Francis Phelan, long-absent father of Billy Phelan, the main character in the previous novel, Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game, returns to Albany for the first time in twenty-two years. With Ironweed, William Kennedy completes his three novels of Depression-era Albany, wrapping up this study of time, place, and people with an emotionally gripping Pulitzer Prize-winner (1984) that focuses on those who call themselves “bums,” all of them living apart from society because their dreams have died. If I lose it, I have stood for nothing, done nothing.” The author was also WINNER of the 2009 O’Neill Award for Lifetime Achievement. Note: This novel was WINNER of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award in 1984. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After nearly 30 years, all charges against Hinton were dropped, and he was released from prison in 2015. The truth of Hinton’s innocence and his unshakable faith in God helped him cope with prison life and several failed repeal attempts until Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, eventually took up his case and brought it all the way to the Supreme Court. For the next three decades, he maintained his innocence in solitary confinement on Alabama’s death row, where he watched more than 50 men led past his cell to the execution chamber just 30 feet away. Hinton was found guilty of two counts of capital murder and sentenced to death by electric chair. At his trial, his lawyer presented an incompetent defense that failed to refute the state’s distorted evidence and several witnesses’ false claims. Hinton was black, 29, living at home with his mother, and innocent of all charges. ![]() ![]() Less than a week later, police showed up at Hinton’s house to arrest him for that crime and the murders of two other local Alabama restaurant managers. One night in July 1985, Hinton was locked in a secure warehouse of a supermarket for his overnight shift when, 15 miles away, the assistant manager of a local restaurant was kidnapped at gunpoint, robbed, and shot in the head. An urgent, emotional memoir from one of the longest-serving condemned death row inmates to be found innocent in America. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Bargainer book series![]() For the very thing that bonds her to Desmond Flynn, the King of the Night, also makes her vulnerable to the Thief of Souls, a man who wants to break the world … and Callie along with it.īut it’s not just the Thief whose shadow looms over the Otherworld. Things that once slept … but have now awoken.įor Callypso Lillis, the fae magic that now runs through her veins is equal parts curse and good fortune. ![]() ![]() Things that lurk in the shadows and slip into your dreams. Genre wise Dark Harmony belongs to paranormal romance, fantasy, new adult and romance.ĭescription: There are worse things than death. ![]() It is the third book in the Bargainer series and is part of the Kindle Unlimited program. I really have loved all of these covers because they are different because usually there are cover models on book covers but T he Bargainer series book covers are really something special and different.īasics: Dark Harmony was released on October 28th 2018, published by Lavabrook Publishing Group and is 369 pages long. The Cover: I love Dark Harmony‘s cover, I think it fits in well with the other covers and embodies the book perfectly. ![]() |