The Iron Heel is a distopian utopian socialist novel, told in first person by someone that have read the manuscript finded in a oak, hidden 600 years ago that tolds the life and adventures of a socialist activist Avis Everhard and her husband Ernst Everhard executed in 1932. The Iron Heel is a
A boy in a basement, a man in a booth and a darkness that threatens to swallow them both... New York audiobook narrator Peter Larson and his wife Hannah head to his hometown of Maple City to help Peter's ailing father and to put a recent tragedy behind them. Though the small, Midwestern town seems
‘Loved loved loved this book!… What an incredible story... Will have you holding your breath until the shocking ending. I was glued to this book and couldn't go to sleep until I had finished it. And the next day I read it again!’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ She becomes aware of the silence at the
A forbidden passion. A lifetime of consequences. Cressida Felbridge is living the high life as a debutante in 1960s London society when she is courted by a friend of her brother's and set to marry. Wishing only the best for his daughter, her father decrees that she must have her portrait painted
Two months before he shot himself, Adolf Hitler saw where it had all gone wrong. By failing to seize Gibraltar in the summer of 1940, he lost the war. The Rock of Gibraltar, a pillar of British sea-power since 1704, looked formidable but was extraordinarily vulnerable. Though menaced on all sides
Here is a novel in the tradition of the troubadours, of the Romaunt de la Rose and the Chansons de Geste—of the days when "by way of diversion, gentlemen hunted and fished and rode a-hawking and amicably slashed and battered one another in tournaments: but their really serious pursuit was
EARTHFALL, published in 1977, never saw U. S. publication. What it does is take the pilot episode and build a novel around it that a real science fiction author could take some pride in writing. It addresses a number of factors that TV glossed over, explains a lot of stuff people have speculated
This handsome volume of Australian cave and bark painting features and informative introduction by authority Charles P. Mountford, in which he shows how the art forms of the Aboriginal Australians -- living representatives of a Stone Age culture -- reflect their economic life, that troubled me,
Mówią, że miłość rodzicielska jest nieokiełznana. Nigdy się za bardzo nad tym nie zastanawiałem. Aż do chwili, gdy usłyszałem, jak ona bierze swój pierwszy oddech. Ta mała dziewczynka jest całym moim światem. I zrobię wszystko, aby ją chronić. Moja była zrzekała się do niej praw, a jej rodzina
Pictures That Tick to zbiór krótkich form komiksowych Dave'a McKeana stworzonych w latach 90. XX wieku i na początku wieku XXI. McKean, jak żaden inny artysta, łączy rysunek i fotografię, poddaje obrazy cyfrowej obróbce, by uzyskać niepowtarzalny efekt graficzny. Niektóre z przedstawionych tu
