![]() ![]() ![]() But in this letter he will also reveal the astonishing secrets of his past and answer the question that has shadowed his fame: how did Moses Froben, world-renowned musico, come to raise a son whom by all rights he could never have sired? In a letter to his son, Moses recounts his humble birth in 18th-century Switzerland and his life as a novice monk, and tells of the two noble friends - and a forbidden lover - whom he cherished during his chaotic years in Mozart's Vienna as apprentice to the great Gaetano Guadagni, and even as he ascended Europe's most celebrated stages as Lo Svizzero. Gall and becomes its star singer, only to endure the horrifying castration meant to preserve his angelic voice and turn him into a musico. Cast into the world with only his ears to protect and guide him, Moses finds refuge in the choir of the great Abbey of St. His life is simple but he is content, until the day his father recognizes Moses's singular sense of hearing and its power to expose his sins. ![]() Moses Froben was born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps, the bastard son of a deaf-mute woman banished to the church tower to ring each day the loudest and most beautiful bells in the land. ![]()
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Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'An irresistibly hot romance that stays with you long after you finish the book.' #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. With an unexpected love on the line, can they overcome the fallout to build a future? And giving into desire sets off a chain reaction that has their pasts colliding. Alone.īefore long though, fighting with each other turns into fighting their attraction. He's undeniably sexy, but she's there to heal. She thinks she's found the perfect escape - until she discovers a stranger in the beachside cottage she'd been promised. Getty Caster is running away from the abuse that clouds her past. He needs to accomplish something all on his own - outside of his famous father's shadow. But after too much excess in his personal life, he's forced to step away. The New York Times bestselling Driven series continues with a standalone story about finding love where you least expect it.īehind the wheel, racing champion Zander Donavan is at the top of his game. ![]() The bestselling romance legend K Bromberg returns with another fast-paced, sizzling hot read - welcome to life in the fast lane. ![]() ![]() In this realm, code is the most significant form of law, and it is up to lawyers, policymakers, and especially citizens to decide what values that code embodies. These choices are all about architecture: about what kind of code will govern cyberspace, and who will control it. ![]() We can we must choose what kind of cyberspace we want and what freedoms we will guarantee. Under the influence of commerce, cyberpsace is becoming a highly regulable space, where our behavior is much more tightly controlled than in real space.But that's not inevitable either. That code can create a place of freedom as the original architecture of the Net did or a place of exquisitely oppressive control.If we miss this point, then we will miss how cyberspace is changing. It is not in the nature of cyberspace to be unregulable cyberspace has no nature.” It only has code the software and hardware that make cyberspace what it is. There's a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government's (or anyone else's) control. ![]() ![]() (If you know anything about me, you know I am too lazy to write multiple reviews of one book unless the circumstances are truly life-ending-ly dire. (DON’T HURT ME.)Īnd generally being so discombobulated and displeased that I have to write a whole new review. Rereading it.and dropping a three point five rating (already gives a Scrooge-like aura of grumpiness) to.two point five. Taking this book, which everyone has hailed as pure joy / cookie-level sweetness / the greatest romance of our generation even though it’s fictional / overall so happiness-bringing it seems like it should be relegated to black market dealings… ![]() ![]() And they say actions speak louder than words, so here I am. I have definitely said this before, but I don’t know if you’ve really HEARD me. ![]() ![]() To prove this, however, Nora sets a not-so-smart plan into action: She decides to flunk fifth grade. ![]() ![]() It is this reason that leads Nora to draw a very smart conclusion: that tests and grades should not be the only way students are judged. Most of all, she does not want her best friend Stephen to feel less good about himself because she is so much smarter. She does not want to leave her regular fifth-grade class to attend the Gifted Program. She does not want her family, friends, or teachers to know that she is highly intelligent because she does not want to be singled out as different. ![]() The secret is that she is very, very smart. Fifth-grader Nora Rose Rowley has been keeping an unusual secret for most of her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the center of everyone’s life is a garden where only red plants can grow, and where the truth can be found by those who dare to look. From the town’s founder, a brave young woman from England who has no fear of blizzards or bears, to the young man who runs away to New York City, the characters in The Red Garden are extraordinary and vivid: a young wounded Civil War soldier who is saved by a neighbor, a woman who meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet who falls in love with a blind man, a mysterious traveler who comes to town in the year when summer never arrives. Hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small-town America, presenting us with some three hundred years of passion, dark secrets, loyalty, and redemption in a web of tales. ![]() ![]() “Hoffman’s characters are always moving back and forth, challenging our perceptions, daring us to judge them.”- New York Times Book Review The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() ![]() But little can prepare him for the solitude of the house itself as he is kept from his guardian and finds himself spending the Christmas holiday wandering the silent corridors of the house seeking distraction. His arrival on the first night suggests something is not quite right when he sees a woman out in the frozen mists, standing alone in the marshes. Until he is invited to spend Christmas with his guardian in a large and desolate country house. ![]() Michael's parents are dead and he imagines that he will stay with the kindly lawyer, executor of his parents' will. ![]() One that would be unbelievable if it weren't true! Michael Vyner recalls a terrible story, one that happened to him. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most recently he's created a series of award winning horror novels that he both writes and illustrates: “The Plucker”, an adult children’s book, “The Devil’s Rose”, a modern western set in Hell, “The Child Thief”, a gritty, nightmarish retelling of the Peter Pan myth, and his latest concoction, "Krampus, the Yule Lord", a tale of revenge between Krampus and Santa set in rural West Virginia.īrom is currently kept in a dank cellar somewhere in the drizzly Northwest. ![]() He has since gone on to lend his distinctive vision to all facets of the creative industries, from novels and games, to comics and film. Three years later he entered the field of fantastic art he’d loved his whole life, making his mark developing and illustrating for TSR’s best selling role-playing worlds. From his earliest memories Brom has been obsessed with the creation of the weird, the monstrous, and the beautiful.Īt age twenty, Brom began working full-time as a commercial illustrator in Atlanta, Georgia. ![]() Brom, an army brat, spent his entire youth on the move and unabashedly blames living in such places as Japan, Hawaii, Germany, and Alabama for all his afflictions. ![]() Brom will sign and discuss Lost Gods ($27.99).īorn in the deep dark south in the mid-sixties. ![]() ![]() ![]() Institutions create the incentive structure in an economy, and organizations will be created to take advantage of the opportunities provided within a given institutional framework. The second part of the book deals with institutional change. North first explores the nature of institutions and explains the role of transaction and production costs in their development. Yet, institutions vary widely in their consequences for economic performance some economies develop institutions that produce growth and development, while others develop institutions that produce stagnation. Institutions exist, he argues, due to the uncertainties involved in human interaction they are the constraints devised to structure that interaction. Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. ![]() |