![]() ![]() His book is thus one of those rare works that have been supremely important in the creation of the greatest art masterpieces. ![]() Bramante, Michelangelo, Palladio, Vignola, and earlier were careful students of the work of Vitruvius. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, he was the chief authority studied by architects, and in every point his precepts were accepted as final. For hundreds of years, the specific instructions he gave in his Ten Books on Architecture were followed faithfully, and major buildings in all parts of the world reveal the widespread influence of his precepts. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and engineer flourishing in the first century B.C., was the author of the oldest and most influential work on architecture in existence. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nor once dreamed of seeing the wondrous wealth and beauty of Ilara, the kingdom that’s ruled her village for as long as anyone can remember. But though every girl longs to be chosen as the next princess, the cost of becoming royalty is higher than any of them could ever imagine… Summary ?įor generations, the princes of Ilara have married the most beautiful maidens from the ocean village of Varenia. Say goodbye to the typical fantasy tropes - the protagonist is female, and is the strongest character in the series, her love interest doesn’t distract her from her goals and she kicks some major butt. I am so happy I got an ARC for this book because it is refreshing in the best way. In case you didn’t read my last post about NetGalley, it’s a website that gives readers an advance copy of a book in return for a review.Ĭrown of Coral and Pearl by Mara Rutherford will be available to the public on August 27, and let me tell you - if you are a fantasy fan you are going to want to get it ASAP. I’m so excited to be sharing this review with you! I got the chance to review another book from NetGalley. ![]() ![]() To go back in time and create the conditions so that they will be born? This is almost a single nonbranching, static timeline, except for the fact that initially, ![]() So where did Lucy and Jamie come from initially in order to be able Jamie going back in time to save Sara and George (as well as Tom) that Sara and Tom live longĮnough to have offspring. Jamie actually have no grandparents (at least not on that side), and it’s only by Lucy and ![]() The story has a kind of reverse grandfather paradox: [spoiler Lucy and Jamie’s great-great-grandparentsĪre Sara and Tom (a boy who died trying to save Sara and George). Mission, and they definitely succeed, but in the process, an amazing twist on the grandfather (according to the gravestone that Lucy and Jamie found). Potion, Lucy and Jamie go back in time to the very day before the orphans will die in a fire Meet two orphans, Sara and Georgie, who are living in the house-with their own version Mr.īlunden-exactly one century before! The orphans need help, so with the aid of a magic ![]() Blunden-arranges for a widow and her children to move to anĮnglish house while the rightful heir is tracked down. ![]() ![]() ![]() The United States was building an empire as well. Purges, insistence on conformity, crushing of dissent reflected the priorities and practices of a single individual and resulted, Gaddis says, in an empire by imposition. Stalin tried to construct a Soviet empire in Eastern Europe modeled on the way he ruled at home. Convinced that total control was necessary to defeat his domestic “enemies,” he carried this attitude over in his relations with the area under Red Army occupation. ![]() Stalin’s suspicion, distrust, and his conviction that conciliation was weakness were fatal character flaws. For while superpower rivalry would certainly have existed, it was Stalin’s insistence on equating security with territory that led to counter-measures designed to contain his ambitions. ![]() Reviewing the origins of the East-West confrontation Gaddis maintains that the way it ultimately developed was not inevitable, but was due primarily to one individual. John Lewis Gaddis, a professor at Yale University, takes a new look at the Cold War, using materials that have come to light as a result of the breakup of the Soviet bloc. ![]() For the generation whose careers were entwined with it one way or another, We Now Know makes for an interesting read. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a very different sort of book from the Medicus series and clearly not a mystery, but I’ve been fascinated to see how the story’s come alive as my colleagues have pitched in with their own imaginative take on events. Although several of the characters appear all the way through, each of us handles the story from a different viewpoint and we all have very different styles, so for example while I’m seeing events through the eyes of a slave girl in Boudica’s household, the tales involving battles are written by people who are far more skilled at that sort of thing than I am (two of them are re-enactors who’ve actually worn the kit, done the marching and handled the weaponry). Main Character: Sophie Phee Kimball, divorced middle-aged mom, account clerk for the police precinct in Sun City West, Minnesota. It’s somewhere between 140,000 and 160,000 words long – I forget exactly, sorry – and about 20,000 of them are mine. With a gift for comic timing and historic detail, Ruth Downie has conjured an. ![]() ![]() Hi Kathryn! “A Year of Ravens” is a collection of supposedly stand-alone tales by 7 authors that actually fit together to tell the story of the Boudican rebellion. Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire (The Medicus Series) Author: Ruth Downie Format: Paperback Publish Date: ISBN-10: 1596914270 ISBN-13: 9781596914278 List Price: 18. The first novel in the New York Times bestselling Gaius Petreius Ruso series. ![]() ![]() “Jason,” I said more formally, “what do you want?” “Hello,” I said quietly, pretty sure that someone wanting to sell me an extended car warranty wouldn’t have tried me ten times. Just as I stared down at it, it rang again. I scuttled out of the courtroom as fast as my heels could take me, dashed into the ladies’ room, pulled my phone out of my pocket, and saw that unknown caller who had tried repeatedly. I’d had no less than ten calls in the last five minutes. Then we can all stop being distracted by her phone going off repeatedly.” Bang! went the gavel again. The defendant next to me fidgeted in her seat. ![]() He’d heard it every one of the ten times it had gone off in the past five minutes. The vibration from it was barely detectable. He glared at me from across the big desk behind which he sat. Jenkins, do you need to get that?” he asked. ![]() ![]() The judge banged the gavel, making me recoil even more. I cringed as my phone vibrated in my purse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However Solomon, who is trapped in a childless and loveless dynastic marriage with Pharaoh's daughter, allows himself to fall in love with the beautiful and intelligent African. She is hugely impressed by Israel's prosperity, by the wisdom and integrity with which Solomon rules, by the Hebrew religion, which she decides to adopt as her own, and by the justice for all that she determines to copy. Recognizing her own inexperience, yet desperately wanting to address Sheba's appalling social injustice, she is persuaded by her cousin Tamrin, wealthy merchant and narrator of the novel, to visit Solomon, King of Israel, to find out about how he governs his kingdom. 'An enthralling journey into an ancient world.' - Edoardo Albert, author of Edwin: High King of BritainĪ vividly-realized and beautifully crafted novel focused around the fabled meeting between Sheba and SolomonĪgainst all odds Makeda, daughter of an obscure African chieftain, is chosen as Queen of all Sheba. ![]() ![]() ![]() You'll find me on Twitter and LinkedIn and please stop by the Hidden Figures Book Facebook Group and Hidden Figures Movie Facebook Group. For keynote inquiries email David Lavin, REQUESTS, INVITATIONS, APPEARANCES, GALAS, VISITS, LITERARY RIGHTS, and anything else: Mackenzie Brady Watson at Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency,. Unfortunately, I will not be able to respond to your email immediately. I am on writing sabbatical, working on a new book. Orders will be processed as soon as possible, subject to my travel schedule. SPEAKING REQUESTS: Direct all requests to The Lavin Agency, my exclusive agent. To order, please email, or call (434) 295-2552. You will receive a quicker response by directing your requests as follows: Her first book, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race (2016), is about African-American women mathematicians working at NASA who were. Unfortunately, I will not be able to respond to your email immediately. Margot Lee Shetterly (born June 30, 1969) is an American nonfiction writer who has also worked in investment banking and media startups. Send all requests for signed copies of Hidden Figures to New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville, Virginia. SIGNED BOOK REQUESTS: Do NOT use the email form for signed book requests! ![]() PLEASE READ COMPLETELY BEFORE FILLING OUT THE FORM! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Forbidden is quite a intense ride of a romance. Since I had read the last book first, I had been waiting for Duncan and Ambers story for a while, and I was thrilled to finally be able to read it, and learn more about this couple. Amber knows her future, and as Duncan’s memories start to slowly surface, she knows that soon the love he has for her will fade and turn into anger, but will her love be strong enough to survive what has been foretold?įorbidden is the second book in the Medieval trilogy, and the last book that I needed to read to complete the series. From their first meeting, a desire builds between the couple. ![]() Then one day, a man who has lost all of his memory, a wounded warrior, enters her life, and as she brings him back to health, an unbreakable bond forms between Duncan and Amber. Amber has always been well protected, and if she ever touches another, it gives her pain, as she can sense emotions by touch. Amber is one of the ‘Learned”, and there is a prophecy that if Amber ever gives the three parts of her self Body, Heart and soul, then death will be in her future. ![]() ![]() ![]() No twilight within the courts of the Sun. 'The game is done ! I've won ! I've won!' ’And now the Storm-blast came, and he Was tyrannous and strong: He struck with his o’ertaking wings, And chased us south along. Through utter drought all dumb we stood !Īnd straight the Sun was flecked with bars,Īnd its ribs are seen as bars on the face of the setting Sun.Īlas ! (thought I, and my heart beat loud)Īre those her sails that glance in the Sun, The ship drawn by a storm toward the South Pole. With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,ĭown dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay, Why look'st thou so?' - With my cross-bowĪnd the good south wind still blew behind, ![]() Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,įrom the fiends, that plague thee thus!. It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, 'The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, ![]() 'Hold off ! unhand me, grey-beard loon !' ![]() |