![]() ![]() He resides in Garden City, New York.ĭeMille’s earlier books were NYPD detective novels. He has three children, Lauren, Alexander, and James. He was decorated with the Air Medal, Bronze Star, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, and was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge.ĭeMille returned to the States and went back to Hofstra University, where he received his degree in political science and history. ![]() He was a First Lieutenant in the United States Army (1966–69) and saw action as an infantry platoon leader with the First Cavalry Division in Vietnam. He attended Elmont Memorial High School where he played football and ran track.Īfter spending three years at Hofstra University, he joined the Army and attended Officer Candidate School. He moved as a child with his family to Long Island. DeMille has also written under the pen names Jack Cannon, Kurt Ladner, Ellen Kay and Brad Matthews.ĭeMille was born in New York City on August 23, 1943. ![]() His novels include Plum Island, The Charm School, and The Gold Coast. Nelson Richard DeMille (born August 23, 1943) is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Man Ray and Lee create phenomenal paintings and photographs and enjoy artistic innovations by melding their creative artistic energy. Throughout the relationship, Man Ray and Lee have mutual love and affection for each other, and sometimes the descriptions of their feelings seem more like lust. While working as Man Ray’s assistant, their relationship soon changes to that of lovers. ![]() She has a great desire to become a photographer and settles for being Man Ray’s assistant. Her father had been the photographer for many of the nude photos that had made her famous. She had come from the United States, where she had done extensive American Vogue and Vanity Fair modeling. ![]() In 1929, She met Man Ray, a noted artist and photographer in Paris. The Age of Light is a fictionalized story of Lee Miller, a model, photographer, and writer who lived from 1907 to 1977. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Printed on 300 GSM, 100% cotton paper that is Acid-Free, Lignin-Free, Chlorine-Free and with No Optical Brighteners.Shipped with a Certificate of Limitation and Authenticity from the publisher.Limited to only 50 copies of each size worldwide, plus 3 Artist Proofs and 3 Publisher Proofs for private distribution. ![]() Now, this magnificent piece of artwork can be enjoyed as a beautiful giclée print - and you don't even need to line up the eyes!Įxclusively available through Suntup Editions for your private collection, and limited to just 50 copies per size, worldwide. Subsequent printings would reuse Brautigam's artwork, but the first edition is identified by the outermost front cover's "keyholes," which open up to a full page color stepback graphic underneath. The imagery of the eyes peering forth from the bandaged hand was inspired by King's short story "I Am the Doorway," which is included in this, his first ever short story collection.Ī unique characteristic of the Night Shift first edition paperback is its stepback, or keyhole cover. The 1979 Signet paperback release of Night Shift features the first of many covers Brautigam would be hired to create for Stephen King. This month, we have one of the highest anticipated and most requested covers the art from the first US edition paperback of Night Shift. We are delighted to reveal another beautiful bonus print in The Covers Collection from the late Don Brautigam. THE COVERS COLLECTION: NIGHT SHIFT (PAPERBACK) Remember to select your preferred print size option. ![]() ![]() About the AuthorJill Murphy is perhaps best known for her classic Worst Witch stories which she started writing when she was fifteen, but she is also a hugely successful picture book author and illustrator. ![]() This is a beautiful refreshed edition of a much-loved picture book classic. The familiar noises, repetition and beautiful illustrations make Jill Murphy's delightful Peace at Last an all-time favourite bedtime story with children and adults everywhere. With a snoring Mrs Bear, an excitable Baby Bear and a house full of tapping and dripping and ticking, peace is hard to come by - will Mr Bear ever get a decent night's sleep? Jill Murphy's bestselling classic Peace at Last has delighted children for almost forty years, and is equally beloved by tired parents who are all too familiar with the plight of poor Mr Bear. ![]() ![]() But he could not sleep - however he tried and wherever he tried. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since the reader follows Birdie, the merging of the space of Elemeno and the textual real world encourages a reading that questions how privilege, advantage, disadvantage, and systemically formed stereotypes affect visibility. Cole, who looks like their African American father, is accepted in their father’s community, but Birdie, who is lighter with European features inherited from her mother, has a more challenging time dealing with the power dynamics she meets in the real world. Cole and Birdie are mixed race, their different looks separate their gender experiences, and their parents’ different class backgrounds and realities affect them. Elemeno becomes a nodal point where the sisters escape from their polarized reality. What Cole is implying is that they could be like the Elemeno people. The people of Elemeno “were a shifting people, constantly changing their form, color, pattern, in a quest for invisibility … their changing routine was a serious matter – less a game of make-believe than a fight for the survival of their species” (7). ![]() ![]() In Danzy Senna’s novel, Caucasia, Cole Lee tells her younger sister Birdie about this imaginary place called Elemeno. 2021 (English) Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic) Abstract ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a lighthearted book, which goes well with a cup of tea or coffee. This mystery of the missing church artifact, leads them to lots of laughter, frustration, road trips and finally success. With his violent dreams and their possible aftermath, he worries about asking Sam to marry him. Sebastian (Suds) is still trying to understand Samantha’s mixed up family. I loved the interaction between these two characters and can’t wait to read about more of their adventures. The witty conversations between Suds and Sam made me laugh out loud at times. This well-written storyline has action, suspense, humor, frustration and romance. I have read all of these as individual books and would highly recommend getting the box set. This box set is filled with laughter, confusion, frustration, suspense, danger and romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shop my collection of bookish goodies on Etsy! These aren’t my shop items, but other shops I’ve curated into a book-themed collection.I don’t listen to enough to confirm this, but I do use Scribd myself and like it a lot. It is unlimited (especially the reading) but if you listen to tons of new audiobooks you may be restricted after a few. You can read books and listen to audiobooks. ![]() If you’re on more of a budget, try Scribd! You can get your first month free there.If you want to listen to some of these, consider trying Audible! You can get your first month free (one free book) plus tons of others they have for free.So if you like mysteries but not horror and still want a book set in Japan, these are perfect. Unlike the Japanese horror book list, these are more along the lines of regular police procedural/crime books. I’ve been working through NetGalley books this year but I’ll be making some time for these soon. Grab some tea and cozy up with one or five of these Japanese crime novels on a rainy day. I haven’t read any of these yet but I would say most of them are on my TBR/ wishlist. This is, I think, Japanese Noir which I assume is like Nordic Noir but set in Japan. I love mysteries and crime book so I’m excited for this list. I figured in the mean time I’ll work on more Japan book lists, starting with Japanese crime novels! I get a small commission if you purchase through them at no extra cost to you ![]() ![]() ![]() Are we better people, ethically, when we are happier? Sometimes, but by no means always. They are potent engines for creating and enhancing emotional experience: for making our lives "better". We have to make our own happiness – by working hard at activities that provide their own reward." Electronic games, seen in this light, are not just a medium or even an art form. "No object, no event, no outcomes or life circumstances can deliver real happiness to us. The key insights of Reality is Broken, then, are not so much technological as psychological. But it is not a hunger for food – it is a hunger for more and better engagement." Games, she believes, have far more to offer than solipsistic retreat. "Today," she argues, "many of us are suffering from a vast and primal hunger. ![]() ![]() According to McGonigal – an American game designer and researcher with some of the last decade's most ambitious experiments in gaming on her CV – what's broken is not so much the physical world we inhabit as the social structures layered on top of it. Despite its title, Reality is Broken is not a rallying call for virtual emigration. ![]() ![]() ![]() My first pregnancy ended in miscarriage and that was bad enough, I can’t imagine how she must have felt or how she managed to cope with it all. Three of her children survived but another three died within hours of their birth and she also suffered a miscarriage. It’s a book with plenty of funny moments in it but there’s lots of sadness too and when Deborah Devonshire relates the history of her many pregnancies it’s really heartbreaking. ![]() But, we can’t all be duchesses and all hasn’t been as wonderful as her life seemed on the surface. That’s where the resemblence ends though and it’s easy to feel envious of someone who has had such a full and seemingly charmed life. I’ve always felt a sort of affinity with Debo Mitford just because I know how it feels to be the youngest in a large family and have a mother who wanted boys, as my mother did too. In fact it was fascinating and it’s a must read for anyone interested in the Mitfords or even 20th century Britain. I was told that I would enjoy this autobiography, and I did. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a comprehensive way to transition from primary care nursing to referral. There were mentor meetings, help from supervisors and I could discuss with them any cases that I found challenging. “After qualifying as a registered veterinary nurse, I rejoined Davies and enrolled on the Linnaeus Post-Registration Programme. “I went on to study for my Level 2 animal nursing assistant qualification before moving on to complete my nursing training in 2017. She said: “I started at Davies as a kennel assistant in 2013 before moving across to work in sterile services and then, in 2015, I trained as a theatre technician. Nicola is now using Veterinary Nurse Awareness Month (VNAM) to speak about her career at Linnaeus-owned Davies Veterinary Specialists in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. Ten years ago, she joined one of the UK’s leading small animal hospitals and has since enjoyed a varied and successful career. ![]() Patient Care Assistants and TechniciansĮxperienced registered veterinary nurse Nicola Taylor knows all about multi-tasking and turning her hand to the next career challenge. ![]() |