![]() ![]() Kung Ching-ling, who married Sun Yat-sen, leader of China's republican revolution May-ling, who married Chiang Kai-shek, the autocratic ruler of Nationalist China whose ties to the Shanghai underworld the author has documented and son T.V. Sterling Seagrave describes for the first time the intricate and fascinating rise to power of Charlie Soong and his children: daughters Ai-ling, who married one of China's richest men, H.H. This is a 1985 first edition.ĭescendants of a Chinese runaway who grew up in America under the protection of the Methodist church and who returned to his homeland to make a fortune selling Western bibles, the Soong family became the principal rulers of China during the first half of the 20th century and won the support of the American government and press for many decades. ![]() The cover boards are black with a gold embossed dragon on the front cover and title on the spine in gold. ![]() 1985 Hardcover Book, The Soong Dynasty, First Edition, Biography, Political, Nonfiction, Literature, Chinese HistoryĪ hardcover book entitled The Soong Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The latter chapters are fuelled by the everyday tumult of Mungo’s home life the former are more mysterious. Unlike in Shuggie Bain, the action spans months rather than years, the narrative alternating between ‘The May After’ and ‘The January Before’. His brother, Hamish, a gang leader with a baby by an underage girl, sells drugs out of her mother’s mouse-ridden council flat his sister, Jodie, is being groomed by her secondary-school teacher, a married man who likes ‘to pick his nose after they fucked and wipe it on the underside of the veneer’ of a fold-out table in the caravan he takes her to. ![]() Mungo, fifteen, is the youngest of three children raised by single mother Maureen, or Mo-Maw, who is barely twice his age and has been absent for long stretches no one remembers his stabbed father. ![]() Young Mungo takes place in the early 1990s on a violent East End estate high on sugar and booze. Stuart has been open about the book’s relationship to his own background, but while you can’t really write a misery memoir twice, nothing stops a novelist from having a stamping ground. Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize two years ago for his first novel, Shuggie Bain, which is set in 1980s Glasgow and follows a boy who, ill at ease with the burds-and-fitba chat on his housing scheme, struggles to take care of his alcoholic mother, Agnes. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The book just grew from no initial plan to what it eventually became,” the 78-year-old author said in a recent telephone interview. The story was read by an editor for HarperCollins Publishers who contacted Maclean and asked if he would consider expanding the article into a book about his well-known family and its ties to Montana. “I’d never seen a Blackfoot rainbow that big before, never,” he wrote of the catch-and-release experience for a magazine article. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.” – “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories,” by Norman MacleanīILLINGS – Almost salmon-like in its brawny proportions, the 7- to 8-pound rainbow trout John Maclean reeled in while fishing the Blackfoot River left him awestruck. ![]() ”After you have finished your true stories sometime, why don’t you make up a story and the people to go with it? Only then will you understand what happened and why. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And knows Alec will take her as soon as he sees her.Īlec & Daniel’s ideas about how long it would take to get a bride. Dying! Violet eyes… are they a thing? Does Bridget actually know what the color violet is? Oooo ok, the ominous subplot of murder that will eventually threaten Jamie introduced early. The side characters were an additive and the murder plot (eek) was just enough to add stakes but not enough to detract from the love story. ![]() Well, Jamie isn't that wife, she tests him and challenges him and soothes him and generally loves him and gets right under that skin! ![]() He'll just pick her up quick and head home. The amount of feuds she accidentally starts in this book is HILARIOUS.Īlec is a strong, silent type who literally thinks having a wife will be no inconvenience at all. Jamie is a great MC (by the way this stands for the main character for those of you who didn't know either!) and is brave and foolish in equal measure. What a perfect way to end season 4! This book was so funny and romantic and sexy and we were here for it! Romance at a Glance Reviews The Bride by Julie GarwoodĪKA Bridget’s tied for 1st fav book of the historical (with The Wallflower Wager)! ![]() ![]() His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name. ![]() He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. ![]() Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. ![]() ![]() ![]() Twenty-one-year-old Kade Colton has his life planned out, and everything he does is an elaborate game to aid him with his future endeavors. Fate intervenes before she has the chance to find a new home, but she struggles to decide if it’s divine luck or the devil’s cruel sense of humour. Everything was working out perfectly until her two roommates were expelled for a prank, leaving Raya with the house she couldn’t afford on her own. ![]() ![]() Sterling Shore was supposed to be a new start for eighteen-year-old Raya Capperton. Despite the fact they live next door to each other, Kade and Raya have never made an effort to speak, until a wild party, four frat boys, and… a bulldozer. You can read this before Hooked on the Game (Sterling Shore, #1) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Įveryone has secrets that define them, a past that has shaped them, and a game they play – whether they know it or not. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Hooked on the Game (Sterling Shore, #1) written by C.M. Brief Summary of Book: Hooked on the Game (Sterling Shore, #1) by C.M. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I do not read a lot of Middle-Grade books, but ever since I first heard of Malamander, I knew I could not miss out on this one. And Herbert and Parma should hope that this monster stays a legend, too. Herbie and Violet are going to uncover one secret or another that has been hiding in Eerie-on-the-Sea, and for some reason, they all seem connected to the legend of a sea-monster. When Violet Parma stumbles into the Hotel, closely followed by a mysterious and scary man with a hook for a hand, she asks Herbie to help her find her parents who went missing in a long and wintery night many years ago. If anyone at the hotel loses something, Herbie will find it and keep it safe for them in his Lost-and-Foundery that has existed for many a century and houses a miraculous collection of things long left behind. In a small seaside town that you will not have heard of, Herbert Lemon is the Lost-and-Founder of the Great Nautilus Hotel. "If the impossible is possible anywhere, it’ll be possible in Eerie-on-the-Sea." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Both human and animal, Lucas Hunter is a changeling hungry for the very sensations the Psy disdain. To reveal them would be to sentence herself to the horror of "rehabilitation" - the complete psychic erasure of everything she ever was. In a world that denies emotions, where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire, Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed. Nalini Singh dives into a world torn apart by a powerful race with phenomenal powers of the mind-and none of the heart. Unexpected backup comes from a stranger who might just be the most lethal threat of all.Plus FIRST TIME IN PRINTIn Angels' Pawn a vampire hunter faces off against two rival factions and the angel manipulating them both, and a vampire whose help is not entirely selfless.And NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHEDIn Angels' Dance an angel trapped in the mountain stronghold of the Refuge finds herself under siege by a warrior angel from a martial court. ![]() But all is not what it appears to be in her court.In Angels' Judgment a hunter must track one of her own gone bad, while surviving the deadly tests placed in her way by the archangels themselves. ![]() This anthology of novellas features Angels' Wolf, Angels' Judgement, Angels' Pawn, and the never-before-published Angels' Dance.From the Back CoverANGELS' FLIGHTIn Angel's Wolf a vampire becomes fascinated with the seductive angel who rules Louisiana. Product DescriptionWarrior angels, vampire hunters, and angels gone bad heat up this altogether sizzling paranormal alternate universe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If a tree falls down in a forest far from you and you never become aware of this event, does the fallen tree make a difference to your world? Of course not. So, rather than being just the observer, your mind actually participates in the creation of the world. Based on your interpretation of the event, the same situation becomes either unbearable or funny. ![]() Think of it this way: when you squeeze yourself into a subway car and people crowd all around you, you can either get annoyed or think it’s fun that you don’t have to grab a handrail. Get ready to hear a few of them! Rest: when your mind rests, the world also restsĪccording to a famous Buddhist saying, “everyone appears as buddhas in the eyes of the Buddha and everyone appears as pigs in the eyes of a pig.” The saying suggests that “the world is experienced according to the state of one’s mind,” and that, rather than being objective, reality is subjective, conditioned by the individual’s perception. Known as the “megamonk,” he has the status of a K-Pop celebrity in his native South Korea, and a cultlike following in the West, as evidenced by his multimillion-copy bestselling debut book, “The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down.” Translated into 30 languages, the book offers “bite-size Buddhism” through brief essays, even briefer anecdotes and numerous haiku-like homilies. With more than one million followers on Twitter and Facebook, Haemin Sunim – which means “Spontaneous Wisdom” – is a new type of spiritual guru. ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. 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