![]() ![]() ![]() Starring Toby Stephens, this thrilling dramatisation by Robin Brooks retains all the wry humour of Chandler’s serpentine suspense novel. If Marlowe doesn’t wrap this one up fast, he’s going to end up in jail - or worse, in a box in the ground. That’s the simple part.īut Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. His client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband’s collection. In The High Window, Marlowe starts out on the trail of a single stolen coin and ends up knee-deep in bodies. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. ![]() Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Raymond Chandler’s third Philip Marlowe mystery.įast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() With exceptional courage, Jahanara dares to challenge the bigotry and blindness at court in an effort to spare the empire from civil war, and to save her father from his bellicose son, Aurangzeb, a man whose hatred would extinguish the Islamic enlightenment from the Mughal Empire. She is soon caught between her duty to her mother’s memory, the rigid strictures imposed upon women, and a new, though forbidden, love. To escape a brutal arranged marriage, Jahanara must become the court liaison to Isa, architect of the Taj Mahal. Against scenes of unimaginable wealth and power, murderous sibling rivalries, and cruel despotism, Princess Jahanara tells the extraordinary story of how the Taj Mahal came to be, describing her own life as an agent in its creation and as a witness to the fateful events surrounding its completion. ![]() In 1632, the Emperor of Hindustan, Shah Jahan, consumed by grief over the death of his empress, Mumtaz Mahal, ordered the building of a grand mausoleum to symbolize the greatness of their love. ![]() ![]() So the novel is partly about the way that women can become defined by their roles in life and how society brackets women within a specific function. ![]() Chapters are headed by a part that these four different women play in the story: the biographer, the mender, the daughter and the wife. ![]() Sadly, it’s easy to imagine such regressive laws being put into effect with the current administration. Set on the western US coast it portrays the interweaving lives of four different women in a time when abortion is outlawed in America and legislation is coming into place that requires any child who is adopted to have two parents. The epigraph of this novel is a line from Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse”. The plot of Zumas’ novel doesn’t directly relate to Woolf’s writing but it gives several nods to it and pays tribute to her predecessor so part of the great pleasure of reading this book was knowing I was in the company of a fellow Woolf lover. ![]() I love Woolf’s poetically-charged novel so much and it’s lived with me for so many years I feel like it’s a part of my body and soul. ![]() When I recently heard that Leni Zumas’ new novel “Red Clocks” was partly inspired by Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves” I felt I had to read it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Castro cleverly uses Mexican folklore to shine a light on multigenerational trauma, but the jumping timelines and stilted dialogue create a level of remove from the more visceral chills. Alejandra must draw on her own inner strength and the strength of her ancestors, who readers meet in flashbacks, to break the cycle of torment. She reaches out to Melanie Ortiz, a therapist and curandera, and together they uncover that the curse of La Llorona, the crying woman, has plagued the women in Alejandra’s family for generations. Alejandra fears she’s losing her mind when she starts hearing voices and sees the ghostly apparition of a crying woman in a white dress. But on the inside, Alejandra has lost her sense of identity and finds herself falling deeper into a hole of darkness and despair. ![]() From the outside, Alejandra has the perfect life, complete with a well-off husband, a nice house in Philadelphia, and three healthy children. Castro ( Mestiza Blood) puts a unique twist on the Mexican legend of La Llorona in this eerie contemporary horror story of a woman’s struggle against both her inner demons and the demons of her family’s past. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here again the book makes use of the Lagrange-Euler and Euler-Newton formulations. ![]() In addition to this, the book also hosts a collection of five appendices, all of them primed to tackle the more tedious and complex mathematical derivatives.Īfter dealing with the semantics of Inverse Kinematics, Manipulator Differential Motion and Statics, and the fifth chapter delves into Dynamic Modeling. ![]() ![]() Therefore when the content deals with trajectory planning, the authors make use of both the Joint Space method and the Cartesian Space method to elucidate upon the concepts better and more holistically. The book doesn’t try to compromise on examples in an attempt to help students. The study book’s contents are laid down in ten elaborate chapters along with challenging exercises at the end of each chapter.īeginning with an introduction, Robotics And Control moves into the more complex worlds of Jacobian and Singularities and Velocity Transformations. This book has been designed specifically to compress an overview surrounding the gamut of robotics that equally involve the mechanics as well as the programming aspects. An essential reference guide for engineering students, Robotics And Control serves up the perfect foundation for developing an understanding of mechanical manipulation through technology and science. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, when Stella's mother, who knows a great deal about healing, is bitten by a snake, the white doctor refuses to treat her. The community comes together to rebuild the house. ![]() When Stella's father, minister, and another friend try to register to vote, the Klan has their revenge by burning the home of a friend. Stella and her friends and family are reasonably terrified of the Klan, but Stella is taught that courage begins with walking out of the house every day and facing your fears, even when they come with ironed white sheets. ![]() The KKK is alive and well in their town and the white doctor in the town, who should be fixing illness, spreads the poison of intolerance along with other grown white men. Her parents work hard to give her and brother education and ethics in a world where they can see that they are treated unfairly because of their color. Stella is a young African American girl in the segregated south during the time between the wars. This is a book with depth and history and real feeling and one that speaks to how young people can be brave and special when the opportunity presents itself. This is the type of book that I dearly wish young people would read instead of Wimpy Kids or SpongeBob. ![]() ![]() Joachim and Anna vowed to dedicate her to the Lord God, so they took her to the temple and offered her to the high priest Zacharias, who kissed her and blessed her and took her into his care. One day she saw a nest of sparrows in a laurel tree, and wept that even the birds and the beasts could produce young, when she could not.įinally, however, possibly because of their fervent prayers, Anna conceived a child, and in due course she gave birth to a girl. It was considered shameful that Joachim had never fathered any offspring, and he felt the shame keenly. ![]() She was the daughter of Joachim and Anna, a rich, pious and elderly couple who had never had a child, much as they prayed for one. The death of the other is not part of the story.Īs the world knows, their mother was called Mary. ![]() ![]() This is the story of Jesus and his brother Christ, of how they were born, of how they lived and of how one of them died. ![]() ![]() ![]() Okay?' Something in Paul's voice made me agree without thinking about it. ![]() " 'What's the matter?' 'I can't talk about it on the phone, I need to see you.' 'It's just-I'm not sure I can make it up to Cambridge at the minute.' 'I'll come to you. When you read Alicia's diary you'll conclude the woman could well have been a novelist instead of a painter because it contains page after page of detailed dialogue, scenes, and conversations quite unlike those in any journal you've ever seen. ![]() The narration of the increasingly unrealistic events that follow is interwoven with excerpts from Alicia's diary. They were both artists-Alicia was a painter, and Gabriel was a well-known fashion photographer." Michaelides' debut is narrated in the voice of psychotherapist Theo Faber, who applies for a job at the institution where Alicia is incarcerated because he's fascinated with her case and believes he will be able to get her to talk. "Alicia Berenson was thirty-three years old when she killed her husband. A woman accused of shooting her husband six times in the face refuses to speak. ![]() ![]() Though it all becomes worthwhile when she discovers her co-star is none other than childhood crush Nolan Shaw, an ex-boy band member in desperate need of career rehab. But when Bee’s favorite producer casts her to star in a Christmas movie he’s making for the squeaky-clean Hope Channel, Bee’s career is about to take a more family-friendly direction.įorced to keep her work as Bianca under wraps, Bee quickly learns this is a task a lot easier said than done. ![]() ![]() With a huge following and two supportive moms, Bee couldn’t ask for more. ![]() Co-written by number one 'New York Times' bestselling author Julie Murphy and 'USA Today' bestselling author Sierra Simone-a steamy plus-size holiday rom-com about an adult film star who is semi-accidentally cast as a lead in a family-friendly Christmas movie, and the former bad-boy pop star she falls in love with.īee Hobbes (aka Bianca Von Honey) has a successful career as a plus-size adult film star. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story then leaps forward in time to the commencement of the 1980s as the narrator describes his existential crisis of being a communist revolutionary without a revolution to fight and a crisis in ideology. ![]() This story opens with the still unnamed narrator on describing the horrific escape across the water on his way to a new homeland in France. At the end of The Sympathizer, the unnamed narrator/protagonist becomes one of many refugees collectively known as “boat people” who fled Vietnam in the wake of the collapse of the slightly democratic South to the overwhelming communist forces from the North as a result of American troops finally leaving after more than a decade of pointless war. The story begins where its predecessor left off. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() |