My family and other animals setting5/31/2023 ![]() To explain some of their more curious ways, however, I feel that I should state that at the time we were in Corfu the family were all quite young: Larry, the eldest, was 23 Leslie was 19 Margo was 18 while I was the youngest, being of the tender and impressionable age of 10. “I have attempted to draw an accurate and unexaggerated picture of my family in the following pages they appear as I saw them. The first in that series of books is My Family and other animals, and from the moment that Gerald Durrell introduces us to his hilarious eccentric family, the reader is hooked. He is however just as famous for his series of books about his family and his animals. Gerald Durrell was a world famous conservationist and founder of the Jersey zoo which specialised in conservation of endangered species. I have said before how re-reading old favourites are like meeting up again with old friends, and when better to do that, than when one is feeling rotten. ![]() I have been really ill with a very severe cold, chest infection and major flare up of asthma. ![]() This was really the perfect book for me to take to my sick bed with. ![]()
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Japan in Print by Mary Elizabeth Berry5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She specializes on the topic of ukiyo-e, the “pictures of the floating world,” and is the author of Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty(Reaktion and Hawai’i, 2007), Partners in Print: Artistic Collaboration and the Ukiyo-e Market(Hawai’i, 2015), and numerous articles and essays. Teaches modern East Asian art from 1600 to the present. Julie Nelson Davis, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania A former president of the Association for Asia Studies, she is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is completing a book on the economic culture of seventeenth-century Japan. Mary Elizabeth Berry, Department of History, UC BerkeleyĪ uthor of Hideyoshi, The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto, and Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period. ![]() The shadow wand laurie forest5/31/2023 ![]() And to forge onward through the most devastating loss yet. With just weeks to train to become a warrior, and no control over her magic, Elloren finds unexpected allies among those under orders to kill her. With the Mage forces of Gardneria poised to conquer all of Erthia, Elloren has no choice but to ally with Lukas and combine their power to keep herself out of the hands of Gardnerian leader Marcus Vogel…the holder of the all-consuming Shadow Wand. Separated from everyone she loves, isolated and hunted, Elloren must turn to the last person she can trust-her fastmate, Commander Lukas Grey. ![]() Elloren Gardner hides the most powerful secret in all Erthia-she is the Black Witch of Prophecy, and destined to triumph…or be used as the ultimate weapon of destruction. Prepare to be spellbound by the third book in The Black Witch Chronicles by critically acclaimed fantasy author Laurie Forest. The New York Times bestselling series! Her world-altering secret can't be hidden much longer. ![]() The crossing by michael connelly summary5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Store owners had shot looters, National Guardsmen had shot looters, looters had shot looters, and then there were the others-killers who used the camouflage of chaos and civil unrest to settle long-held scores that had nothing to do with the frustrations of the moment and the emotions displayed in the streets. ![]() stepped up to control the darkness, even calling for a truce to their internecine battles to create a united front against the police. ![]() Looters moved in packs from storefront to storefront, all semblance of dignity and moral code gone in the smoke that rose over the city. It wasn't the proper way to carry out homicide work, not even close, but it was the best that could be done under the surreal circumstances of a city that had come apart at the seams. The four-man team moved in a black-and-white patrol car, jumping from crime scene to crime scene and never staying still for long. ![]() They were dispatched to any place they were needed-wherever a body turned up. Detective Harry Bosch and his partner, Jerry Edgar, were pulled from Hollywood Division and assigned to a roving B Watch team that also included two shotgunners from patrol for protection. By the third night the death count was rising so high and so quickly that many of the divisional homicide teams were pulled off the front lines of riot control and put into emergency rotations in South Central. ![]() |