Collecting and Displaying China's Summer Palace in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France
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In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and...
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism
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In this letter to his teenage daughter, one of the world's most famous economists uses vivid stories...
History as Theatrical Metaphor: History, Myth and National Identities in Modern Scottish Drama: 2016
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This revelatory study explores how Scottish history plays, especially since the 1930s, raise issues...
Saint Mazie
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From the bestselling author of The Middlesteins comes comes this unique novel about a forgotten...
Underworld
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'A literary colossus, equal to any (and surpassing most) of the vaulting novels which strive for the...
Death in Persia
Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Lucy Renner Jones and Roger Perret
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Since the rediscovery of her work in the late 1980s, Annemarie Schwarzenbach - journalist, traveler,...
Human Remains and Mass Violence: Methodological Approaches
Jean-Marc Dreyfus and Elisabeth Anstett
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This book outlines for the first time in a single volume the theoretical and methodological tools...
Merissa (12838 KP) rated Lord of the Last Heartbeat (The Sacred Dark #1) in Books
Sep 10, 2019
What a fantastical world Ms Peterson has invented, with a hint of American Civil War era, coupled with the English Victorian period, this was a great combination of worlds. And yes, I realise I may have the time periods wrong, but that is what it reminded me of!
I loved how the story for both Rhodry and Mio came out slowly, the reader learning bits and pieces of it until it all fell together. Their relationship was the same way, a slow burner with temptation and resistance.
This was an intriguing tale, with plenty of mystery and misdirection thrown in. An amazing cast of characters helps to move the story along.
A wonderful start to the series, and I can't wait to see what happens next. Absolutely recommended by me.
The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical
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Nick Joaquin is widely considered one of the greatest Filipino writers, but he has remained...
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