Tress of the emerald sea art6/30/2023 ![]() Huck, being a very cheeky rat, perches atop her right shoulder. In March 2022, author Brandon Sanderson announced in quite a theatrical. Her gaze is turned directly towards the viewer and she is lit from a warm reflected light from the left side in front of a dark brown backdrop, like she is standing in the bowels of a ship. Review Secret Project 1: Tress of the Emerald Sea. Her curly hair falls open over her shoulders and her back, hold back by thick goggles pushed onto the top of her head. ![]() In her gloved hands she holds a pink, crystalline ball and a big, thick barreled flare gun. She stands confidently in her red coat with golden trimmings and the full sprouted gear, which consists of a big leather belt across her chest with a pouch, a small silver shield, a trowel and other things hanging from it. These are based on the cover of Brandon Sandersons new book, Tress of the Emerald Sea. ![]() The second image is portrait of Tress as she appears in the middle of the book. The first image is a blurred version of the second one with yellow text spelling „Tress of the Emerald Sea spoiler“ ![]()
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![]() ![]() 'OFF WITH THE OLD LOVE, AND ON WITH THE NEW. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood. The novel was first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. Wives and Daughters revolves around Molly Gibson, only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s. She was the author of The Life of Charlotte Brontë, a much-acclaimed and sometimes-reviled biography of her friend and peer. Gaskell'-is now recognized as having created some of the most complex and broadminded depictions of women in the literature of the age, and is today justly celebrated for her precocious use of the regional dialect and slang of. ![]() She was one of the earliest novelists ever to use dialect in her works, finding often that no word but the vernacular would suffice to convey the meaning she wanted to achieve. British novelist ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL (1810-1865)-whose books were sometimes initially credited to, simply, 'Mrs. Eighteen months later Gaskell died, suddenly, in mid - sentence, surrounded by her daughters, in the house in Hampshire. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest British novelists of the Victorian era. If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book! Download cover art Download CD case insert Wives and Daughters ![]() ![]() ![]() The original first edition dust jacket has benefited from some slight restoration to the spine tips by an expert paper conservator and presents as a near fine example. Bright Strong red top stain applied by publisher, and rough cut outer page edges as issued. The internal pages are bright, flat and clean inside with No marks, No inscriptions, No stains, No writing, No bent pages and No foxing. BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED by Ray Bradbury in blue pen as ?Ray Bradbury / 3/26/86?, across the front end paper. ![]() ![]() The end papers are clean with but one extremely tiny owner name hidden under the flap of the dust jacket, otherwise no inscriptions, and no bookplates. The book is in near fine condition with crisp, clean mustard boards, The boards have sharp corners with but a few slightly softened, and no edgewear. First Edition, First printing Near fine stated first edition, BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED by Ray Bradbury in blue pen as ?Ray Bradbury / 3/26/86?, across the front end paper. ![]() Billie bridgerton book6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Given that season 1 largely followed the events in the first Bridgerton book, The Duke and I, the next installment of the TV series is expected to follow the framework of Julia's second novel, The Viscount Who Loved Me, and so on. ![]() You can keep yourself immersed in the scandalous world of Lady Whistledown and the Featheringtons until season 3 comes out by reading Julia Quinn's eight romance novels that inspired the Shonda Rhimes-produced show. So if you love reading stories that are set in the interconnected regency universe, you’ll love the books in the list. It has a total of eight books and follows eight siblings. If you find yourself wanting more in-depth background on the characters, there’s a way to find out what happens next in Bridgerton. The first book in the series is The Duke and I and narrates the story of Daphne, the oldest Bridgerton daughter. Now, more than a year later, the second season arrives on March 25. The good news kept on coming when Netflix announced that Bridgerton season 2 was officially happening. Book 1: The Duke and I Book 2: The Viscount Who Loved Me Book 3: An Offer From a Gentleman Book 4: Romancing Mr. ![]() After the period drama premiered on Christmas Day 2020, it quickly rose up in the streamer’s history books as one of the most watched shows with a whopping 82 million viewers tuning in. Everyone expects Billie Bridgerton to marry one of the Rokesby brothers, and shes not. Bridgerton took Netflix and the internet by storm. A generation before the Bridgertons, there were the Rokesbys. ![]() Gideon the ninth6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() 'Gideon the Ninth' is too funny to be horror, too gooey to be science fiction, has too many spaceships and autodoors to be fantasy, and has far more bloody dismemberings than your average parlor romance. Gideon Nav - orphaned girl, ward of the Ninth House, smart and mean and bad-ass from shades to bones - lives in that line. All the weird, all the violence, all the rebellious snark and darkness live in that one line. ![]() The opening line of Tamsyn Muir's debut novel, Gideon the Ninth, is, in effect, a primal distillation of everything that comes after. No, it's a line that lurks a little bit further back in the pack that mocks its betters under its breath and slinks right into your brain to let you know exactly what you're in for. It can't compete with punchier, pithier, more highly polished openers, but who would want to? That isn't a front-row line. ![]() It's not at the top because it's a little weird, a little long, a little clunky and oddly punctuated. In the Eternal Record of great opening lines, that one is. In the myriadic year of our lord - the ten thousandth year of the King Undying, the kindly Prince of Death! - Gideon Nav packed her sword, her shoes and her dirty magazines, and she escaped from the House of the Ninth. ![]() |