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![]() ![]() The Amazon third-party marketplace provides a critical source of revenue for many small and independent businesses, especially in economically difficult times. Powell observed that this was "not an easy decision to make. We will not participate in undermining that vitality." The vitality of our neighbors and neighborhoods depends on the ability of local businesses to thrive. And yet when it comes to our local community and the community of independent bookstores around the U.S., we must take a stand. We understand that in many communities, Amazon-and big box retail chains-have become the only option. In an announcement to customers, Powell's Books CEO Emily Powell explained: "For too long, we have watched the detrimental impact of Amazon's business on our communities and the independent bookselling world. ![]() Powell's Books, Portland, Ore., is marking tomorrow's Independent Bookstore Day in an unusual way: to affirm its commitment to customers, the community and fellow bookstores, it is no longer going to sell through Amazon Marketplace, which for many rare, collectible and used booksellers is an important sales channel. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s an undeniable pattern between specific epiphanies and violent crimes. ![]() But unlike them, Venter gets close enough to Adam to learn a dark secret. Like his parents before him, Venter is quick to fall under the spell of the device’s sweat-stained, profane, and surprisingly charming operator, Adam Lyons. So when Venter’s grandmother finally asks him to confront the epiphany machine and inoculate himself against his family’s mistakes, he’s only too happy to oblige. This stigma follows them when they move upstate, where Venter can’t avoid the whispers of teachers and neighbors any more than he can ignore the machine’s accurate predictions: his mother’s abandonment and his father’s disinterest. But, oddly enough, so might the device.Ī small stream of city dwellers buy into this cult of the epiphany machine, including Venter Lowood’s parents. This particular ad has been circulating New York since the 1960s and it works. ![]() ![]() It’s an old con, playing on the fear that we are obvious to everybody except ourselves. The product: a junky contraption that tattoos personalized revelations on its users’ forearms. *A Most-Anticipated book of 2017 by The MillionsĮveryone else knows the truth about you, now you can know it, too. *Best New Science Fiction for Summer by The Washington Post ![]() ![]() The voice belonged to Lord Hatchford, the duke’s good friend and fellow womanizer. But there was every chance of the rest meeting an ignominious end in the rubbish bin. The house was vast and some of the fossils were sure to remain undisturbed. Worse, he was always threatening to scrap all the specimens that Christian had painstakingly gathered.Įvery night during the boy’s Easter holiday, he had been lugging about trays of fossils, hiding them in various trunks and broom cupboards. She didn’t have any particular interest of her own in these mementos of prehistoric life, but her fifteen-year-old stepson, Christian, quite adored them-and his collection was growing at a problematic rate.Ĭhristian’s father-and Clarissa’s husband-did not approve of his heir “mucking about in the dirt,” as he called it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just before Clarissa, Duchess of Lexington, met the man who would inspire four long years of unrequited love on her part, she was thinking about fossils. ![]() ![]() They could push each other’s buttons perfectly, knowing exactly how to wind the other up to reach boiling point. The chemistry between Arlo and Greer was through the roof, but at times it felt a lot more like hate than love. What will Mr Turns Me On do? Will he move past his fear of intimacy and commitment, and finally start planning a future with Greer? But he’s scared of Greer, and doesn’t quite know how to handle how she makes him feel, and so continues to draw out their chemistry, until one day, Greer strikes him with an ultimatum, all or nothing. Greer starts a hilarious round of pranks, with the help of fellow teachers, and Arlo’s friends, Gunner and Romeo, and Arlo fights back in the only way he knows how, with teasing. As they are in close proximity, sharing a classroom wall, every day, and as Greer is welcomed into their friendship group, so begins this dance of hate, lust and attraction. From the start, he’s been against hiring Greer, first for her teaching way and second, because she actually makes him feel something. Fresh out of college, she’s excited to put her different techniques to the test on her high school students, but Arlo Turner, head of department and resident moody arse has something to say about it. Greer is the new English teacher, and has some less than conventional ways of teaching. She’s written an unputdownable book, one which had me wanting to devour it as fast as possible, but also savour the slow burn relationship between Arlo and Greer. ![]() ![]() ![]() The people that populated his books would feel wholly real and three-dimensional, almost speaking directly to the reader. Ensuring that readers continued coming back for more too, he would build a brand around it all, really allowing the past to come alive. This is something that he excelled at, producing work that would really resonate, while speaking in a style that made history fun and engaging. Teaching as well, he lecture at a number of prestigious universities, becoming a central figure with an influential reputation.Ĭombining journalism and history, he’d write about key figures throughout the ages, writing in a clear and detailed manner. ![]() Writing in a clear and accessible style, he would find a worldwide audience, with readers from all over coming to appreciate his work. This would see him become a huge figure throughout much of his writing career, making a name for himself internationally. Producing a highly respectable backlog of work over the course of his career and lifetime, Robert Kinloch Massie III was an award winning American author, journalist, and historian. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2002 USAToday recognized us as "1 of 10 Great Old Bookstores", and we have been featured in numerous other newspaper and TV stories including Washington Post and CSpan. ![]() Our retail stores have always been places where a reader can rush in looking for a title needed for a term paper that is due the next day, or where bibliophiles can get lost "in the stacks" for as long as they wish. A merging of the old and new is where we started, and it is where we are today. ALL kinds of books from 95 cent children's paperbacks to five figure rare and collectibles. Since 1980 it has always been about the books. 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With 3 stores less than 1 hour outside the DC/Metropolitan area (1 in Gaithersburg, 1 in Frederick and 1 in Hagerstown, MD), we have the largest selection of books in the tri-state area. ![]() ![]() Watson renders lucid and complete explanations of Aristotle’s ideas about catharsis, comedy, and a summary account of the different types of poetry, ideas that influenced not only Cicero’s theory of the ridiculous, but also Freud’s theory of jokes, humor, and the c. Based on Richard Janko’s philological reconstruction, Watson mounts a compelling philosophical argument that gives revealing context to this document and demonstrates its hidden meanings. Based on Richard Janko’s philological reconstruction, Watson mounts a. A document known as the Tractatus Coislinianus, first recovered in the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris in 1839, appears to be a summary of Aristotle’s second book. ![]() A document known as the Tractatus Coislinianus, first recovered in the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris in 1839, appears to be a summary of Aristotle’s second book. Now, philosopher Walter Watson offers a new interpretation of the lost second book of Aristotle’s Poetics. Now, philosopher Walter Watson offers a new interpretation of the lost second book of Aristotle’s Poetics. In the existing material, Aristotle tells us that he will speak of comedy, address catharsis, and give an analysis of what is funny-but these promised chapters are missing. But we know that what remains of this important text is incomplete. ![]() Aristotle’s lost wisdom on comedy and catharsis come to life in this philosopher’s interpretation of recovered ancient writings.Īristotle’s Poetics was the first philosophical treatise to propound a theory of literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since scriptures are nowhere to be found within these pages, I can conclude that this is merely his opinion and that I simply do not agree with it.įirst I want to reference the following verse: If he had been trying to argue that, I assume he would have used scriptures to back up his thoughts and arguments. ![]() Yes, I do realize this is his personal opinion and "nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality." It is not gospel truth. I will try to make it as clear as I possibly can. ![]() I also realize that a great many people will not understand my opinion. I never intentionally mark up books with pens or crease marks. (It'd be in the trash but I'm trying to do something nice for the environment.) While I'm typing this review, I'm using the book as a coaster for my sweating water glass. You'll also find my copy of the book in the recycle bin after I'm done with this review. I bent the pages down at the corner to remind me of the places in the book where I wanted to dissect Miller's personal opinion of the "Christian" walk (his quote marks, really. If you want to know my opinion of this book, you need merely to look at my copy of it. Chronicles of Narnia Reading Challenge (74). ![]() ![]() (The Confederation, which is pretty much controlled by the Elder Races, who have “evolved” past violence, has recently invited several more-aggressive races - Humans, diTaykan, and Krai - to join as members of a fighting force much needed in an ongoing war against the Others.) The commander of this Marine “honor guard” is a brand-new second lieutenant, a diTayken who just happens to have been a party to Torin’s all-night fling on the last night of her liberty. The centerpiece of both stories is Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr, a Confederation Marine, who is first ordered to put together an honor guard for a diplomatic mission to the newly discovered and very aggressive Silsviss. ![]() They demonstrate that Huff, whom I first encountered as a writer of sharp, witty urban fantasy, is equally at home in the realm of military SF. ![]() A Confederation of Valor is the omnibus edition of Tanya Huff’s first two novels in the Confederation series, Valor’s Choice and The Better Part of Valor. ![]() |