![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York. Kate Milford is the New York Times best-selling author of the Edgar Award–winning, National Book Award nominee Greenglass House, as well as Ghosts of Greenglass House, Bluecrowne, The Thief Knot, and many more. As objects go missing and tempers flare, Milo and Meddy, the cook’s daughter, must decipher clues and untangle the web of deepening mysteries to discover the truth about Greenglass House-and themselves. Soon Milo’s home is bursting with odd, secretive guests, each one bearing a strange story that is somehow connected to the rambling old house. But on the first icy night of vacation, out of nowhere, the guest bell rings. The creaky smuggler’s inn is always quiet during this season, and twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers’ adopted son, plans to spend his holidays relaxing. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery ![]()
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![]() ![]() When she was fifteen, her father and older brother Peter both died of brain tumors within six months of each other. ![]() Although she was born in Oakland, California, her family moved a number of times throughout her childhood. ![]() Her father was an electrical engineer and Baptist minister who traveled to the US to escape the Chinese Revolution. Tan is the second of three children born to Chinese immigrants John and Daisy Tan. Her first novel, The Joy Luck Club (1989) brought her fame and has remained one of her most popular works.
![]() ![]() Anything-or anyone-is his for the asking. ![]() ![]() ![]() Railway magnate Tom Severin is wealthy and powerful enough to satisfy any desire as soon as it arises. even knowing he might be the devil in disguise. As danger draws closer, she’ll do whatever it takes to save the man she loves. Their passion blazes with an intensity Merritt has never known before, making her long for the one thing she can’t have from Keir MacRae: forever. His world is thrown into upheaval, and the only one he trusts is Merritt Keir doesn’t know why someone wants him dead until fate reveals the secret of his mysterious past. One: don’t fall in love with the dazzling Lady Merritt Sterling. They couldn’t be more different, but their attraction is powerful, raw and irresistible.įrom the moment Keir MacRae arrives in London, he has two goals. But then she meets Keir MacRae, a rough-and-rugged Scottish whisky distiller, and all her sensible plans vanish like smoke. So far, she’s been too smart to provide them with one. Lady Merritt Sterling, a strong-willed young widow who’s running her late husband’s shipping company, knows London society is dying to catch her in a scandal. “The devil never tries to make people do the wrong thing by scaring them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Included in Introduction to Magic are instructions for creating an etheric double, speaking words of power, using fragrances, interacting with entities, and creating a "magical chain." Among the arcane texts translated are the Tibetan teachings of the Thunderbolt Diamond Path, the Mithraic mystery cult's "Grand Papyrus of Paris," and the Greco-Egyptian magical text De Mysteriis. Now for the first time in English Introduction to Magic collects the rites, practices, and knowledge of the UR group for the use of aspiring mages. ![]() So successful were they that rumors spread throughout Italy of the group's power, and Mussolini himself became quite fearful of them. Their methods: the practice of ancient Tantric and Buddhist rituals and the study of rare Hermetic texts. Their goal: to bring their individual egos into a state of superhuman power and awareness in which they could act "magically" on the world. In 1927 Julius Evola and other leading Italian intellectuals formed the mysterious UR group. ![]() Includes instructions for developing psychic and magical powers. Rare Hermetic texts published in English for the first time. The rites, practices, and texts collected by the mysterious UR group for the use of aspiring mages. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Great Peloponnesian War, also called the First Peloponnesian War, was the first major scuffle between them. It was only a matter of time before the two powerful leagues collided. The Spartans, meanwhile, were part of the Peloponnesian League (550 BC- 366 B.C.) of city-states. In reality, the league also granted increased power and prestige to Athens. united several Greek city-states in a military alliance under Athens, ostensibly to guard against revenge attacks from the Persian Empire. The formation of the Delian League, or Athenian League, in 478 B.C. The Peloponnesian War marked a significant power shift in ancient Greece, favoring Sparta, and also ushered in a period of regional decline that signaled the end of what is considered the Golden Age of Ancient Greece. The two most powerful city-states in ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta, went to war with each other from 431 to 405 B.C. ![]() ![]() ![]() Essentially, he is the antithesis of the Narrator. He is knowledgeable, confident, satisfied, and motivated. Tyler Durden seems to be the epitome of having everything figured out. Having met an eccentric soap maker by the name of Tyler Durden, the Narrator starts building a partnership with him when everything he had was stripped away in a freak accident. ![]() He seeks another way to compensate this disruption. So when a stranger infiltrates his support groups, he finds himself incapable of sleeping again. His ability to cry gave him the ability to sleep. His first successful lifestyle change was incorporating attending support groups. Initially dealing with insomnia, the Narrator seeks different pathways to fixing his inability to sleep and interact normally with society on a daily basis. He is an unattached, young man who is bored with his job and unsatisfied with his life. ![]() In Fight Club, the unnamed main character goes by the title the Narrator. ![]() ![]() She decided to write some of her own, featuring Batman’s nemesis Bane as a sexy antihero, and posted them for free online. ![]() Cain began devouring works set in the world of Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy. Cain started reading things she could find for free online, and soon discovered fanfic - stories by amateurs that borrow characters and plots from established pop-cultural franchises. Her command of Japanese was halting, and English titles in bookstores were wildly expensive. Cain - who grew up in Orange County, Calif., under a different name - was three years out of college, alone abroad with a lot of time on her hands. She was supposed to be working on a scholarly book about her research, but started writing intensely erotic Batman fan fiction instead. Īddison Cain was living in Kyoto, volunteering at a shrine and studying indigenous Japanese religion. ![]() To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. ![]() ![]() ![]() Īfter graduation, Banks took a succession of jobs that left him free to write in the evenings. After attending Gourock and Greenock High Schools, Banks studied English, philosophy, and psychology at the University of Stirling (1972–1975). When someone introduced him to science fiction by giving him Kemlo and the Zones of Silence by Reginald Alec Martin, he continued reading the series, which encouraged him to write science fiction himself. The family then moved to Gourock due to his father's work. An only child, he lived in North Queensferry until the age of nine, near the naval dockyards in Rosyth, where his father was based. Early life īanks was born in Dunfermline, Fife, to a mother who was a professional ice skater and a father who was an officer in the Admiralty. In April 2013, Banks announced he had inoperable cancer and was unlikely to live beyond a year. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". ![]() ![]() ![]() His books have been adapted for theatre, radio, and television. His first science fiction book, Consider Phlebas, appeared in 1987, marking the start of the Culture series. After the success of The Wasp Factory (1984), he began to write full time. Banks, adding the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies ( / ˈ m ɪ ŋ ɪ z/ ( listen)). Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. From the BBC programme Open Book, 23 October 2009 ![]() ![]() ![]() All this has happened since the 2008 financial crisis, a period in which the markets were supposed to have been under closer scrutiny than ever. They have turned the exchanges into a computerized monster churning up unprecedented market volatility. Today's prime exemplars, argues Michael Lewis in "Flash Boys," are high-frequency traders-or HFTs-who nickel-and-dime investors by exploiting a technological arsenal of servers, fiber-optic cable and microwave transmission towers to trade milliseconds ahead of everyone else in the markets. Wall Street has always attracted more than its share of scammers and bandits. This is an extraordinarily serious accusation. It was as if the market were reading his mind and adjusting the prices just before he made his trade. In Flash Boys, Michael Lewis alleged that the entire U.S. ![]() But the moment he pushed the buy button, the offers vanished. He was trying to buy 10,000 shares of Intel, offered at $22. In the spring of 2007, Brad Katsuyama, a rising New York banker at the Royal Bank of Canada, realized something was funny with the markets. ![]() ![]() It’s also a reminder of how the loss of one person can scramble the lives of everyone that person touched. 'Now Is Not the Time to Panic': Kevin Wilson's new book destined to become a cult classic They do get around to discussing these matters, but mostly the business questions remain part of the subtext, bubbling beneath the surface, the largely unspoken tension fueling quiet animosity. ![]() Kate wants to move in, her emotional attachment to the family home overwhelms her need for money. Instead, they’re in the cold, at Henry and Alice’s place, figuring out how to sell that home, if to sell it, and who will benefit most from these next steps. The six would usually gather for the holidays at Helen’s Florida home. Helen was a mighty presence not just to her adult children but also to their spouses, Alice, Tess and Josh. Henry, Martin and Kate have suddenly lost their mother to a stroke. Hanging over their heads, and pushing them deeper into acrimony, is grief. ![]() Now they’re gathered for Christmas in Upstate New York environs as chilly as their own interactions. The siblings and spouses at the core of Lynn Steger Strong’s new novel “Flight” (Mariner, 240 pp., ★★★½ out of four, out now) have all endured their share of disappointment. Close quarters have a way of ratcheting up drama, especially when the people contained know each other’s pressure points and they’ve had years to nurse resentments and gauge each other’s strengths, weaknesses and personalities. ![]() |