![]() ![]() Falco's client, Sosia Camillina, 16-year-old daughter of wealthy tradesman Publius Camillus Meto and niece of senator Decimus Camillus Verus, tells him that her uncle is hiding something in her bank box, something that turns out to be a silver pig-a 200-pound lead ingot filled with silver ore from Britain. The twist is that the loquacious, indomitable detective is the informer Marcus Didius Falco, and the government the Roman Empire under Vespasian. Davis' first novel tells the familiar story of a hard-boiled detective whose rescue of a young gift on the run gets him involved in murder, theft, corruption, and an attempt to bring down the government. ![]()
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The incomparable Dav Pilkey adapts Clement Moores classic Christmas poem to tell his wacky Thanksgiving tale. Twas The Night Before Thanksgiving ( Bookshelf) Dav Pilkey First Published: Updated: 400149 About this free course 40 hours study Read A Cursed Prophecy (The Arcana Pack Chronicles 1) by Emilia Hartley Acknowledgements 389352 Dominance and Subjugation. Patterned as a parody of the celebrated Clement Moore poem, this story of eight baby turkeys unfolds with joyous abandon and crackling vitality, as eight children embark on a Thanksgiving field trip that will change their lives forever. ![]() ![]() ![]() There was a feeling that she was an aesthetician and an experimentalist, an interesting, sensitive, delicate modernist, experimenting with ‘stream of consciousness’. After she died, in the middle of the Second World War, her reputation-which had been high in her lifetime-rather sank down. Then, it was only twenty-five years since she died. 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In Life on Mars she celebrates our confusing, question-riddled relationship with the universe. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like “love” and “illness” now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. Smith (Author, Narrator), HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books (Publisher) 407 ratings Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback 12.79 87 Used from 3.30 28 New from 9.99 Audio CD 18.99 1 New from 18. ![]() With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. Life on Mars: Poems Audible Audiobook Unabridged Tracy K. 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The music from upstairs vibrates down through the floor as I assemble my tools. I doubt you’ll get anything else from him, but ye’re welcome to try.” “I’ve got one in the basement for ye,” he says. I don’t like people looking at me like that. He’s staring at me the way he always does. “Goddammit, Ronan.” Crow slams his fist down on the bar. I move to leave, and Crow grabs me by the arm. I just want to be sure everything is in line this time.” “Ah, Fitzy, quit being so bleeding contrary,” Crow grunts. ![]() “So I fecked up once, and now ye have no faith in me, is that it?” ![]() I need this handled in the proper fashion. I don’t know what’s going on with ye, but we need to tread carefully here. “So there’s no need to rush off anywhere.” “Rory already checked it out.” Crow interrupts me. I nod and toss back the whiskey before standing and shrugging on my coat. “ I ’ve got a lead on Andrei,” Crow says. ![]() ![]() My gaze fixed on the woods, glued to the last place I’d seen Daemon. Everything was silent and still, soundless in a totally creeptastic kind of way. There wasn’t even the low hum of insects. Not one sign of any woodland creatures scurrying anywhere. No birds were chirping or fluttering from leafy branch to branch. ![]() There was no flickering, brilliant white light shining through the trees. I peered out, beyond the porch and the cleared yard, into the thick woods surrounding the cabin Luc had stashed in the forests of Coeur d’Alene, a city in Idaho I couldn’t even begin to pronounce or spell. ![]() Opening my eyes, I inched aside the flimsy white curtain. It was happening-everything about the world as we knew it was ending, and it sure as hell did not feel fine. It involved climbing up on my roof and blasting R.E.M.’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” as loud as humanly possible, but real life rarely turns out that cool. ![]() Back in the day, I had this plan for the off chance that I was around for the whole end-of-the-world thing. ![]() ![]() While not quite as original, epic, or as good as Old Man Logan, OMH is still a highly entertaining read. ![]() ![]() Clint is slowly going blind but will he be able to complete his mission before Bullseye can catch up to him? Clint Barton sets on a quest of revenge against the Thunderbolts who betrayed the Avengers so many years ago. Set 45 years in the future (and 5 years before the events of Old Man Logan), the US is a dystopian wasteland broken up into multiple territories, each ruled over by various super villains. ![]() Old Man Hawkeye: The Complete Collection collects issues 1-12 of the Marvel Comics series written by Ethan Sacks with art by Marco Checchetto, Ibraim Roberson, and Francesco Mobili. ![]() ![]() He is not as straightforward in expression as Euripides, and his verbal complexity is more subtle, at times deceptively so, when compared to that of Aeschylus. Sophocles is the most challenging of the three tragedians to translate. In this work, he takes on Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, offering a verse translation, with introduction and explanatory notes. Aristotle in the Poetics championed it for its tight construction, and it has been among the most favored plays ever since.ĭavid Kovacs, a leading scholar of Greek tragedy for over four decades, has a long history of being a strong textual critic, and he has demonstrated a keen ability to provide crisp and clear translations in the complete plays of Euripides, edited and translated for the Loeb Classical Texts. Whatever the case, this less-than-stellar start in life did not keep Oedipus the King from being considered a masterpiece of Greek tragedy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe the other plays of his tetralogy weren’t so good, or maybe Philocles’ plays were simply better. ![]() When first produced at the City Dionysia, Sophocles’ tetralogy containing Oedipus the King came in second place to that of Philocles. ![]() ![]() ![]() a Hollywood movie in itself." - Spike LeeĬhasing the Light is Oliver Stone's intimate and ground-breaking filmmaker's memoir - and a razor-sharp insider's tour of Hollywood during its 70s and 80s upheaval. 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