I produced the note to prove I was not a liar.īut, Monsieur, I did not know. Monsieur Caron arrived twenty minutes ago. S’il vous plaît, give this note to Monsieur Caron the moment he arrives. I can never thank them enough for bestowing this lovingly unselfish gift of intellectual freedom. From my father and mother, both musicians who loved to travel, I learned to embrace a world full of diversity and endless possibilities. She taught that passion and patience are inseparable partners. My mother, whose shadow appears in the photograph above, wrote stories and songs, becoming my inspiration. No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the author. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.Īll rights reserved. Names, characters, businesses, places (in particular restaurants mentioned in this book), events, and incidents, either are the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The Author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
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This is a story that will delight kids and return not-so-young readers to the magic of childhood. The Apothecary sparkles with life and possibility. What secrets does the book contain? Who is the Chinese chemist Jin Lo? And can they trust a skinny pickpocket called Pip to help them?ĭiscovering transformative elixirs they never imagined could exist, Janie and Benjamin embark on a dangerous quest to save the apothecary and prevent an impending nuclear disaster. And it seems that Russian spies are intent on getting their hands on it. But the real cure is meeting the apothecary’s son Benjamin, a curiously defiant boy who dreams of becoming a spy.īenjamin’s father is no ordinary apothecary, and when he’s kidnapped, Benjamin and Janie find themselves entrusted with his sacred book, the Pharmacopoeia. Janie feels uncomfortable in her strange new school, until the local apothecary promises her a remedy for homesickness. Read The Apothecary by Maile Meloy available from Rakuten Kobo. Listen Free to Apothecary audiobook by Maile Meloy with a 30 Day Free Trial Stream and download audiobooks to your. It’s 1952 and the Scott family has moved unexpectedly from Los Angeles to London. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Make It Messy by Marcus SamuelssonHe also published his book for young adults “Make it Messy: My Perfectly Imperfect Life”. Most recently Marcus appeared alongside Anthony Bourdain on Anthony’s show Parts Unknown with Ethiopia. Marcus was named the winner of the second season of Chopped All-Stars. He was the winner on Bravo’s Top Chef Masters Season Two and serves as a recurring judge for Chopped, one of Food Network’s highest rated series with a following of over 20 million viewers a month. He has been featured on a number of media platforms including Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, the Martha Stewart Show, Today Show, Regis and Kelly, and Charlie Rose. In addition to being a successful cookbook author, Marcus released his New York Times Bestseller 'Yes, Chef' to rave reviews. During his tenure as executive chef, he received an impressive three-star rating from the New York Times, the youngest person ever to receive such an accolade. Marcus caught the attention of the culinary world as the head chef at Aquavit. Marcus Samuelsson is an internationally acclaimed chef who has thrilled the food scene with a blend of culture and artistic excellence. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Wonder palacioWhile interacting with someone who looks different from them on the outside, these other characters discover that Auggie has so much to offer on the inside. Such an array of perspectives allows readers to understand how Auggie's entire community struggles to learn compassion and empathy. The novel is told from the points of view of multiple characters: primarily the deformed Auggie himself, but also his sister, his friends, and his supposed enemies. Later, while listening to Natalie Merchant's song "Wonder," Palacio reflected on the situation and began writing the novel, hoping that a tense scene from her own life could turn into a valuable lesson. She tried to move her son away so as not to upset the girl and her family, but an ice cream spill occurred and the situation only got worse. Palacio was inspired to write Wonder after taking her son to buy ice cream one day and witnessing him cry when a girl with facial birth defects sat next to him. Wonder, a story about a ten-year-old boy who lives in Manhattan and who has a rare physical deformity, was published in February of 2012 and was author R.J. Released posthumously: Henry V, The Merchant of Venice Released 1941: Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, Richard The Second, and Twelfth Night.Īlso released between 19: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing Released 1940: Henry IV, part 1, King Lear, and Romeo and Juliet Released 1939: As You Like It, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and The Tempest. The original series included the following volumes: The original series included an introduction to each play, text of the play, copious literary notes following the text, textual notes, and a glossary. Kittredge, who had taught Harvard undergraduates an introductory course on Shakespeare called English 2, had written very little on the subject, other than an address in 1916 at the Sanders Theater, before publishing his Complete Works in 1936 (see below) and the individual play series, starting in 1939. The original series included text and analysis of sixteen of Shakespeare's Plays. George Kittredge born in 1860, was nearly 80 years old when the first volumes of Kittredge Shakespeare were published in 1939. The first page in a 1946 edition of Sixteen Plays of Shakespeare Original series Please keep our original packing box until the damage claim has been cleared. You can always contact us for any return question at inspect your order upon reception and contact us immediately if the item is defective, damaged or if you receive the wrong item, so that we can evaluate the issue and make it right. Walt's Comic Shop cannot be made responsible for an eventual loss of the returned item. The buyer is responsible for careful packaging, shipping costs and insurance for the return shipping. Items sent back to us without first requesting a return will not be accepted. To start a return, please contact us first at If your return is accepted, we’ll give you instructions on how and where to send your package. For example, if the comic book was sealed, you must return it in sealed condition, if it was in a special case or box it must be returned in its original packaging, etc. To be eligible for a return, your item must be in the same condition that you received it. We have a 14-day return policy, which means you have 14 days after receiving your item to request a return. 6/25/2023 0 Comments The divine comedy paintingsAnd Delacroix’s painting was used as a reference for the movie “The House That Jack Built”, a psychological horror film directed by Lars von Trier. Bouguereau's skillful use of shading and highlighting brings the figures to life, giving them a sense of weight and presence that draws the viewer in.Īnother interesting fact is that the painter Bouguereau with this masterpiece wanted to surpass another famous author Eugène Delacroix, who earlier painted “The Barque of Dante” based on the same Dante Alighieri's epic poem. The anatomy of the two figures is also impeccable, with every muscle and curve of their bodies rendered in exquisite detail. Capocchio became an alchemist and learned to falsify gold and for this sin was damned.Īnd the second soul is Gianni Schicchi who had usurped the identity of a dead man in order to fraudulently claim his inheritance.īouguereau's use of light and color is particularly striking, with the warm, golden tones of Virgil's cloak contrasting beautifully with the dark, foreboding landscape around them. One of the souls who is bitten on the neck - Capocchio, and he was a friend of Dante in his youth. Dalí’s Illustration for Inferno, 1 from La Divine Comédie, illustrations de Dalí, Paris: Editions d’Art Les Heures Claires, 1963 Woodcut 10 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches (27 x 20 cm) Cornell University Library, Rare and Manuscript Collections (1 image) The dark forest that begins Dante’s journey is reduced here to a few cypress trees. What we see on the foreground – is an internal battle of 2 damned souls on eighths circle of Hell (the circle for falsifiers and counterfeiters). 6/24/2023 0 Comments Lemony Snicket by Lemony SnicketI actually started reading this book years ago to my daughter when we’d read aloud together before she went to bed, but I think she loved the story so much she must have started reading it on her own since I wasn’t going fast enough in those few minutes before bed. His writing is playful and he breaks all kinds of conventions but in such a clever way that I never mind. Lemony Snicket is one of the few authors, I think, who can do something like write a letter to the reader instead of paragraphs of back cover copy and it honestly works. It is my sad duty to write down these unpleasant tales, but there is nothing stopping you from putting this book down at once and reading something happy, if you prefer that sort of thing. In this short book alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast. One might say they are magnets for misfortune. From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster lurks at their heels. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. I’m sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. Published SeptemAmazon | Bookshop | Goodreads About The Bad Beginning The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1) You’re Zeus Kincaid, right? Holy shit! You are! I can’t fucking believe it! Zeus fucking Kincaid. Most of the time, he doesn’t even have to hit people to hurt them. That, and his God-given talent to hurt people. Six foot five and built of solid muscle.Īnd that’s why he’s the current heavyweight champion boxer of the world. Probably about five-eleven at a guess, but Zeus is bigger. Handsy isn’t small by any means of the word. “Hey…I know you.” Handsy Asshole stares up at Zeus, pointing his finger at him. Until he decided he no longer needed his dove, and he stripped me of my wings and left me to die.īut I didn’t die, and I got my wings back, too. With my fight hidden inside me.Īnd, as time went on, Zeus said I was his peace in the chaos that was his life. I used to love it when he called me Dove. “Hi, Dove.” His familiar deep voice saying the nickname he gave me all those years ago elicits a thousand memories. The shock of seeing him after all this time has his name rushing out of my lungs. The cheating bastard and heartless son of a bitch who walked away from me and his unborn child. My eyes cut up and over the head of Handsy Asshole, and for the first time in five years, I stare into the eyes of Zeus Kincaid. Handsy Asshole lets go of my wrist and spins around to face the voice that just sent chills down my back. 6/24/2023 0 Comments The way of chuang tzuIf wind is not piled up deep enough, it won’t have the strength to bear up great wings. But set the cup there and it will stick fast, for the water is too shallow and the boat too large. Pour a cup of water into a hollow in the floor and bits of trash will sail on it like boats. If water is not piled up deep enough, it won’t have the strength to bear up a big boat. Is that its real color, or is it because it is so far away and has no end? When the bird looks down, all he sees is blue too. He beats the whirlwind and rises ninety thousand li, setting off on the sixth month gale.” Wavering heat, bits of dust, living things blowing each other about-the sky looks very blue. The Universal Harmony records various wonders, and it says: “When the P’eng journeys to the southern darkness, the waters are roiled for three thousand li. When the sea begins to move, this bird sets off for the southern darkness, which is the Lake of Heaven. The back of the P’eng measures I don’t know how many thousand li across and, when he rises up and flies off, his wings are like clouds all over the sky. He changes and becomes a bird whose name is P’eng. The K’un is so huge I don’t know how many thousand li he measures. IN THE NORTHERN DARKNESS there is a fish and his name is K’un. |