![]() Today the British Library website unveiled a few artefacts that will appear in the exhibition, including this image of a Mandrake, drawn by Jim Kay for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Illustrated Edition. ![]() Other pieces are on loan from institutions around the world. Over 100 specially-selected artefacts will go on display, some of which are centuries old and reside in the British Library. Rowling and Bloomsbury.Įach room in the exhibition will be devoted to a different class from the Hogwarts curriculum, including Defence Against the Dark Arts, Potions and Divination. ![]() The exhibition will delve into manuscripts, magical objects and myths from across the globe, and will feature new material from J.K. The Library’s collection has developed over 250 years and exceeds 150 million separate items representing every age of written civilization and includes books, journals, manuscripts, maps, stamps, music, patents, photographs. ![]() Harry Potter: A History of Magic comes as part of the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the UK publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world’s greatest research libraries. Tickets for Harry Potter: A History of Magic, a new exhibition delving deep into Harry Potter’s culture and historical inspirations, are to go on sale Monday 3 April.įrom today, fans can sign up to the British Library website to learn more about the upcoming Harry Potter exhibition and how to get tickets. ![]()
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![]() ![]() We need a players handbook to guide the practice of all Game.ĭrawing on over 20 years of evolutionary psychology, biology, sociology, and anthropology, The Players Handbook fluidly addresses the natures of men and women’s intersexual dynamics. ![]() We need a reference manual for all dating coaches, relationship experts, as well as married men and would-be players. We need a modern Game textbook based on empirical 21st-century data, not emotional hopefulness. While the rapid conditions of that marketplace are in constant change, the human-machine does not. Game is an adaptive set of social skills and best practices in navigating intersexual dynamics in a modern sexual marketplace. It’s not an instruction manual- it is the missing textbook on Game and understanding intersexual dynamics. ![]() The Players Handbook is not a " how-to" book, it's a " why-it-works" book. In this final master-work of The Rational Male series, Rollo Tomassi breaks down the fundamental mechanics of Game, intersexual social skills, and the nuts and bolts psychology that makes it work. ![]() ![]() The Spanish Love Deception is an enemies-to-lovers, fake-dating romance. But Catalina is desperate and as the wedding gets closer the more desirable an option Aaron Blackford becomes. Never has there been a more aggravating, blood-boiling and insufferable man. NYC to Spain is no short flight and her family won't be easy to fool.īut even then, when Aaron Blackford - the 6'4", blue-eyed pain in the arse - offers to step in, she's not tempted even for a second. She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic for her and aid in her deception. Now everyone she knows - including her ex-boyfriend and his fiancee - will be there. ![]() ![]() ![]() Three days to convince your family you're actually in love.Ĭatalina Martin desperately needs a date to her sister's wedding.Įspecially when her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiralled out of control. ![]() ![]() ![]() Series writer Ed Brubaker remarked, "What I found is that all the really hard-core left-wing fans want Cap to be standing out on and giving speeches on the street corner against the George W. 2009), Captain America resumed its original numbering, as if the series numbering had continued uninterrupted after #454.Īs part of the aftermath of Marvel Comics' company-crossover storyline " Civil War", Steve Rogers was ostensibly killed in Captain America vol. Beginning with the 600th overall issue (Aug. The series is notable for reviving Captain America's World War II partner Bucky Barnes as the Winter Soldier in issue #6, the presumed death of Steve Rogers in issue #25, and Bucky taking over the mantle of Captain America in issue #34.Ĭaptain America vol. After its fiftieth issue (July 2009), the series was renumbered to match the numbering of all the volumes of the title (454, 13, 50, 32, and 50), and volume 1 resumed publication with issue #600, with Brubaker remaining as writer. ![]() It was the fifth Captain America series with this title to be published, following series that ran from 1968–1996, 1996–1997, 1998–2002, and 2002–2004. It starred the superhero Captain America, and was written by Ed Brubaker. 5) was an ongoing comic book series published from January 2005 to July 2009 by Marvel Comics. Steve Epting, Michael Lark, Mike Perkins, Butch Guice, Luke RossĬaptain America (vol. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her heroines are strong, nurturing, and quirky while her heroes are what dreams are made of - gorgeous, committed, and in need of a little saving. She writes contemporary novels focused on love, humor, passion, and family. (Jill) Bengtsson is the bestselling author of the Cake Series. ![]() I could bring old Jess back for just one day. Surely I could spare that for a future rock legend. God, she’d been so fun.Īnd now Quinn was here, built like a god and asking me to play. Yet sometimes… sometimes I missed that reckless girl. The new, improved version of myself represented stability and a roof overhead. She lived like there was no tomorrow… until tomorrow came calling and delivered her an ultimatum: repent or risk losing it all.Īnd so responsible Jess was born, the good girl who paid her rent and watered her plants and put others before herself. Hell, she’d already be in his lap by now. ![]() Jess of yore would’ve jumped at the chance. What to do with a runaway rock star in my passenger seat? My king.īut I’m not that worshipful kid anymore, and I’m tired of walking a step behind. Well, that and being the youngest brother to a rock star. Life after the kidnapping is all I’ve ever known. People ask if I’m screwed up after what happened, and I never know how to respond. While other kids were happily playing in the sandbox, I was hiding under press conference podiums listening to my parents beg for Jake’s safe return. Just six years old when my brother was snatched off the street, I grew up in the aftermath of tragedy. ![]() ![]() This sentence is full of injustice, and it’s even more so when it comes to Anna Todd! She is one of those authors that when she realeases a book, you are absolutely sure that she will have your heart in her hand for many pages, make you sigh, be afraid, be angry, passionate, all at the same time and right now! Too young for romance, but not young enough for YA” the aspiring author barked. “Some shitty subcategory that publishers created to help out their shittiest work. At the end of the After Ever Happy, Landon got married-but readers everywhere have been wondering who will get to call the nicest boy in the After series their forever love?Īt one point in this book, a character says: “what the hell is New Adult anyway?” the other one asked her, clearly intent on getting her riled up. ![]() ![]() Book 2 of a new series featuring After worldwide fan-favorite Landon Gibson as he leaves Washington to navigate love and life in New York City. ![]() ![]() The book contains dozens of extraordinary photographs. Hollander’s visual and textual extravaganza, Several Ways to Die in Mexico City, provides a perspective of this extraordinary city that could only have been caught by an observant outsider who lived in all its nooks and crannies for over two decades.Ĭrammed with caustic but fair observations of the city’s history, food, cults, drugs, and buildings, Hollander proves that he can love a city and culture that also kills its inhabitants softly. Before the decade ended, Hollander moved to the equally rough climes of Mexico City, making his living writing and photographing for The Guardian, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. In the ’80s, when author/photographer Kurt Hollander lived in New York and published The Portable Lower East, life there was particularly rough, and cops often drove yellow cabs as a method to surprise and roust its residents. ![]() ![]() So, when the Shen Fever strikes, wiping out the entire US – and possibly world – populations, excepting a handful, adult Candace feels scarcely less detached than she did before, when living a desultory millennial life in New York City. ![]() Hers is a chilly story of alienation and foreignness, as experienced by twenty-something Candace Chen, whose parents’ migration from China to Utah when she was a child has left her emotionally stranded and alone. (BBC’s Survivors, 1975, anyone?) Yet, familiar as these cultural tropes have become, Ling Ma approaches them afresh in her debut novel. ![]() Surely most of us have read or watched a high- or lower-brow version, from Cormac McCarthy to The Walking Dead. ![]() ![]() Hands up if you’ve never been infected by stories of post-apocalyptic survivalism or zombies. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 14 August 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this follow-up to All’s Fair, Carville and Matalin pick up the story they began in that groundbreaking bestseller and talk family, faith, love, and politics in their two winning voices. James Carville and Mary Matalin have long held the mantle of the nation’s most ideologically mismatched and intensely opinionated political couple. Twenty years after the publication of the bestselling All’s Fair, James Carville and Mary Matalin look at how they-and America-have changed in the last two decades. ![]() ![]() Yet, the previously jovial and good-natured Edmond is not completely lost after his experience in prison. Nevertheless, he carries out his plan until the end. ![]() As the Count of Monte Cristo, he reintegrates himself into their circle and stages the scene for his revenge.Įdmond constantly places justice on the same plate as revenge but there are times he faces a moral crisis as to whether his vengeance is justified. The wronged Edmond Dantes finds himself confronted with an intense thirst for justice and revenge against the men who condemned him to prison. The story of Edmond Dantes and his transformation into The Count of Monte Cristo is dramatic and flawless. ![]() There was a lot of historical information that I didn't find interesting at the time, but I am going to attempt to read the unabridged version again someday because this book is totally worth it. It took me a good chunk of time to get through the first 300 pages. ![]() I have to confess - the first time I tried reading this book, I tried reading the unabridged version which turned out to be too much for me. ![]() |