![]() ![]() Their ill-fated love turned medieval Siena upside-down and went on to inspire generations of poets and artists, the story reaching its pinnacle in Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.īut six centuries have a way of catching up to the present, and Julie gradually begins to discover that here, in this ancient city, the past and present are hard to tell apart. In 1340, still reeling from the slaughter of her parents, Giulietta was smuggled into Siena, where she met a young man named Romeo. ![]() This key sends Julie on a journey that will change her life forever-a journey into the troubled past of her ancestor Giulietta Tolomei. The only thing Julie receives is a key-one carried by her mother on the day she herself died-to a safety-deposit box in Siena, Italy. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a mother to her has left her entire estate to Julie’s twin sister. Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved aunt Rose. ![]() Juliet, an ambitious, utterly engaging historical novel on the scale of The Thirteenth Tale and The Birth of Venus, follows a young woman who discovers that her family’s origins reach all the way back to literature’s greatest star-crossed lovers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Its power lies in its simplicity - it almost reads like a fable, consciously laced with nativity references. She dedicates her book to the women and children who “suffered time” in the Magdalene laundries.īut this is first and foremost a story rather than a polemic. There lies the dilemma for the quiet hero of Claire Keegan’s elegiac novella Small Things Like These, which reflects on how girls who ‘got in trouble’ were dealt with in Ireland. How do you make a stand against the willful blindness of your community? Or to put it another way: “Was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there?” Foster, a short novel, was published in 2010 and won the Davy Byrnes Award, judged by Richard Ford. Claire Keegan lives in County Wexford, Ireland. Her second short-story collection, Walk the Blue Fields, was published to enormous critical acclaim in 2007 and won her the 2008 Edge Hill Prize for Short Stories. It announced her as an exceptionally gifted and versatile writer of contemporary fiction, and she was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature. Her first collection of short stories, Antarctica, was completed in 1998. ![]() Claire Keegan grew up on a farm in Wicklow. ![]() ![]() After a three-week stay in Moscow with her colleague Hilary Knight, Kay Thompson had plenty of fodder for her distinctly Eloisian travelogue: the food ("It is difficult to know what to eat in Moscow/ There is no melon in season/ Nichevo") the stilted English of their tour guide ("That house is Chekhov/ That house is Stanislavsky if you want to see it/ No you cannot it is reconstruction") national security ("Our telephone had quite a bit of static/ so we talked about General de Gaulle/ to throw them off track/ Everybody listens to everything in Moscow. ![]() Although very much in the style of the first book - the same breathless accretion of text. The fourth book in Kay Thompson's beloved Eloise series. First published in 1957, and then long out of print, Eloise in Paris was re-released in 1999, together with Eloise at Christmastime and Eloise in Moscow, bringing the four original Eloise books (the first had always been available) back into circulation. Bottom cloth rubbed, near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. The illustrations, which make the book, are in black and white with yellow accents this time. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Kay Thompson and ME ELOISE.” Additionally signed by illustrator, Hilary Knight. In this book she travels to Moscow where she learns as much as she has fun. Thin quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Item Number: 5570įirst edition of the fourth book in the Eloise series. THOMPSON, Eloise Illustrated by Hilary Knight. ![]() ![]() ![]() They both turned, the visible portion of their faces bright and happy beneath the tinted plastic of their masks. Things go wrong from the moment he steps off the shuttle.Īlthough Gael arrives with unexpected complications, Abraham is prepared to make their relationship work-until Gael’s past catches up with them, threatening Abraham’s livelihood, the freedom Gael gave everything for, and the love neither man ever hoped to find.īram tapped his guests on the shoulder. But no plan of Gael’s has ever gone smoothly, and his new start on Alkirak is no exception. ![]() For a chance to get out, he’ll do just about anything-even travel to the far end of the galaxy as a mail-order husband. He’s spent his whole life locked in the undercity beneath Zhemosen, running from one desperate situation to another. ![]() Gael Sonnen has never seen the sky, let alone the sun. Someone to share his days, his bed, and his heart. Life can be harsh and lonely in the outer colonies, but miner-turned-farmer Abraham Bauer is living his dream, cultivating crops that will one day turn the unforgiving world of Alkirak into paradise. Survival is hard enough in the outer colonies-what chance does love have? Reader warnings: past and present violence, and references to past abuse.įor a full list of tags, visit: and click on “Additional Details” To See the Sun by Kelly Jensen | Release date: August 13, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The drawing used to be considered a sketch (study) for hands of an apostle, whose full picture was planned to occupy the central panel of the triptych installed in Frankfurt entitled the Heller Altarpiece – destroyed by a fire in 1729. Also, the partly rolled up sleeves are seen. The drawing shows a close up of two male hands clasped together praying. Dürer created the drawing using the technique of white heightening and black ink on (self-made) blue colored paper. The work is today stored at the Albertina museum in Vienna, Austria. Praying Hands ( German: Betende Hände), also known as Study of the Hands of an Apostle ( Studie zu den Händen eines Apostels), is a pen-and-ink drawing by the German printmaker, painter and theorist Albrecht Dürer. ![]() |