The Best of the Rejection Collection: 293 Cartoons That Were Too Dumb, Too Dark, or Too Naughty for the New Yorker
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"The Rejection Collection" brings together some of "The New Yorker's" brightest talents - Roz Chast,...
The Director's Craft: A Handbook for the Theatre
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The Director's Craft is a unique and completely indispensable step-by-step guide to directing for...
Monkey Puzzle
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
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"I've lost my mum!" It's not too much fun being lost in the jungle, and little monkey wants his...
The Illuminations
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As heard on BBC Radio 4 - the acclaimed new novel from Man Booker Prize-nominated author Andrew...
The Travelling Bag: And Other Ghostly Stories
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From the foggy streets of Victorian London to the eerie perfection of 1950s suburbia, the everyday...
How to be a Good Parent
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'To keep children clean is something that should never be attempted. It cannot be done.' 'The mere...
Dressed to Confess (Costume Shop Mystery, #3)
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Costume shop owner Margo Tamblyn faces a deadly conspiracy when a small-town festival turns into...
Clara's War
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On 21 July 1942 the Nazis took control of the small Polish town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish...
David McK (3632 KP) rated Fall of Kings (Troy #3) in Books
May 14, 2023
As evidenced by the title, this particular volume deals with events leading up to and the actual fall of the city of Troy itself, with the Trojan Horse largely responsible (still) for this fall, but having a more mundane explanation than in the legend.
The same characters appear in this version: Agamemnon, Odysseus and Hektor chief among them, with supporting work by Cassandra and both Andromache (Hektor's wife) and Helikaon proving to be more prominent than I remember from that legend (both of whom were also prominent in the first two entries in this series i.e. 'Lord of the Silver Bow' and 'Shield of Thunder'). There's also room for some of the cast of those earlier novels (such as Banokles or Gershom), but this particular entry, I felt, was not so much about them as about the 'power players' (if you will) of Hektor, Achilles and Odysseus.
Shared Sorrows
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Frank DioGuardia, a New Jersey college professor always feared the onset of autumn. A chill in...
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