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![]() Murray (Little Toller) and The World of the Unknown: All About Ghosts by Christopher Maynard (Usborne).Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)6'19 - The World of the Unknown: Ghosts by Christopher Maynard12'16 - Copsford by Walter JC Murray17'53 - The Breaking Point by Daphne du Maurier* To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk./shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops.* For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at Hosted on Acast. We also talk about the haunting books Andy and John have been reading this week: Copsford by Walter J.C. Joining John and Andy to discuss it are academic and du Maurier expert Dr Laura Varnam and, returning for Halloween, writer and critic Andrew Male. ![]() See search resultsfor this author Daphne Du Maurier(Author) 4.5 out of 5 stars26 ratings See all formats and editions Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. ![]() It's Halloween! Daphne du Maurier's The Breaking Point AKA The Blue Lenses is a collection of psychological horror stories that was first published in 1959. The Breaking Point Paperback Januby Daphne Du Maurier (Author) Visit Amazons Daphne Du Maurier Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. ![]() ![]() ![]() After her exploration, she experiences weird dreams. She investigates and realizes that the old door to the drawing room is slightly open. ![]() ![]() One night while she is lying awake in her bed, Coraline hears a mysterious sound coming from down the hall. She is especially intrigued by the door in the corner of the drawing-room, which only opens onto a brick wall. One day, Coraline decides to explore her own apartment. Although Coraline’s parents work from home, she feels lonely at times and must find ways to entertain herself. Miss Spink and Miss Forcible live below Coraline’s apartment with their dogs, while above lives an old man who trains mice for his circus. As she gets used to the area, she makes friends with her eccentric neighbors. Coraline is a girl who has just moved into a new apartment with her parents. ![]() ![]() ![]() He tries to cut through Canada, but he gets into a kerfuffle at the border because Charley doesn't have his proof of rabies vaccination, so he has to turn around. Then he comes back down out of New England and heads west, crossing through New York. Also, he kind of takes the temperature of regional "temperaments" along the way. Along the way, he meets a pretty colorful group of characters and learns about their ways of life and their perspectives on the country and its politics. He starts out by driving over into Connecticut from his home in Long Island (with some assists from ferries, natch) and then heads north into New England. He calls the truck "Rocinante" after Don Quixote's horse-clever, huh? When he's all set (and after a small run-in with a hurricane just before he was supposed to leave), he and Charley (his French poodle) hit the road. ![]() To get all prepped, he commissions a souped-up truck with a little house on the back that he can live in when he isn't crashing at hotels. to check it out and get a sense of where Americans and their hometowns are at in 1960. ![]() ![]() Because he's feeling pretty out of touch with his own country-and he's considered a great American author and all that-John Steinbeck decides to take a road trip around the U.S. ![]() ![]() “My uncle, my mother’s brother, had a big motorcycle. Growing up in Valsjöbyn, Sweden, before moving to the States, she was “taught to curtsy when I met someone, to curtsy when I said thank you, and that was different from everybody here.” She says with a laugh, “I certainly found that out!” But even with such a prim and proper upbringing, the actor confesses that she always had a taste for adventure. But the lifelong motorcyclist admits that she wasn’t always such a daredevil. The cover of Born to Be Wild features an image of Ann-Margret from the ’60s astride a Triumph motorcycle, as she was once the face of the brand. ![]() “I’m thrilled everybody wanted to do something. “I had a great time doing it,” she tells Vanity Fair. ![]() For the project, the Bye Bye Birdie star teamed up with some of the music industry’s biggest names, like Pat Boone, the Who’s Pete Townshend, and Aerosmith’s Joe Perry, to record old standards that she’s always wanted to perform onstage, but never had the chance to. At 81 years old, the film and music icon shows no signs of slowing down as she’s just released her new album, Born to Be Wild. ![]() ![]() ![]() Growing up, she took swim lessons at her community pool and captained the local team in high school, she raced across bays and sprawling North American lakes. Nineteen-year-old Avery Delacorte loves the water. Girl Underwater by Claire Kells 4.5 (24) Paperback 16.00 Paperback 16.00 eBook 9.99 Audiobook 0. Now, faced with sub-zero temperatures, minimal supplies, and the dangers of a forbidding nowhere, Avery and Colin must rely on each other in ways they never could have imagined. Girl Underwater is a stunning work of New Adult fiction from a talented young writer. She is one of only five survivors, which includes three little boys and her teammate, Colin Shea, whom she's avoided since the first day of freshman year. ![]() That all changes when Avery's cross-country flight home makes a ditch landing in a mountain lake in the Colorado Rockies. Now a sophomore on her university's nationally ranked team, she struggles under the weight of new expectations, but life is otherwise pretty good. Nineteen-year-old Avery Delacorte loves the water. Astonishingly, this is Claire Kells first book This is a story about survival in the thick of a crisis and afterwards when one has to deal with the fallout from enduring something horrific. ![]() Girl Underwater is a stunning work of New Adult fiction from a talented young writer. 'Girl Underwater' by Claire Kells has already been published so you can go scoop it up right now and start reading this terrific thriller right away. ![]() 'What if the most devastating moment of your life was also the beginning of something beautiful? A compelling coming-of-age love story' (Jodi Picoult). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But before Lily and the brothers can forge a future together, they must heal the deep wounds of her past. The Colters never imagined they'd follow the unconventional path of their fathers, but they can't ignore their mutual need to offer Lily their protection-and their love. The problem is, when his brothers lay eyes on her, the same primitive instinct comes roaring to the surface. She's wary of his offer, but even one night out of the cold is too much temptation to resist. For Lily Weston, home is a secluded nook in a back alley-until Seth offers her a place to stay. Can their love give her the strength to overcome the tragedy in her past Colters Legacy, Book 2 When police officer Seth Colter sees the delicate. More baffling is the dark, possessive instinct that tells him she belongs to him. ![]() When police officer Seth Colter sees the delicate, shabbily dressed beauty in line at the soup kitchen where he's serving, he's gut shot over the idea of her being on the streets cold and alone. Maya Banks is a 1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author across multiple genres including contemporary romance, erotic romance, romantic suspense and Scottish historical romances. In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is helpful because so often the American war in Vietnam seems to have begun begin with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964. ![]() On one level, it is the backstory to America’s later overt but undeclared war in Vietnam. Logevall in Embers of War ends his marvelously researched and presented narrative in 1959. Embers of War, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in history, views these events through the eyes of the French, Vietnamese, and Americans. He now teaches at Cornell University and lectures internationally. He was born in Sweden, grew up in Canada, and educated in Canada and the U.S. To put Fredrik Logevall in either of these camps would be an injustice. Yet, French and American historians of these events have outnumbered their Vietnamese counterparts (the winners) by several orders of magnitude. ![]() France and America both lost wars to Vietnam in the thirty-year span from 1945-75. To say this cliché is perverse or worse is to give it more credence than it deserves. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s VietnamĪ common observation is that “victors” write history. ![]() ![]() ![]() She had to answer that question quickly, before she was sent on a one-way trip to Karachi. ![]() He might have been collateral damage in the war between Malyakov and Gringikov for control of the post-Soviet arms trade, but Lee had to determine if Branson still worked for the CIA when he was killed or if he'd sold out and if so, to whom. In Istanbul he was Karl Spiegel, and he worked for Belarusian arms dealer Felix Gringikov. In Dubai he was Gil Brady, and he worked for the Russian merchant of death Sergei Malyakov. He was a CIA officer, but she discovered that he had other identities as well. Lead had already begun to fly before former CIA analyst Lee Carruthers could get to Dubai to investigate the death of George Branson, and each question she asked ratcheted the danger up by a notch. Would the Pure Warriors of Islam send an assassin all the way to Switzerland to get me Possibly, but it seemed. I killed his killer, but Kemal was still dead. I touched the bloodstained pearl hanging around my neck. He might have been collateral damage in the war. I had been sent to Morocco to find a missing colleague and wound up fighting my way out of a terrorist camp. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Symbolic Directions: the rule is that one year of life equates to an increment of one degree for all the planets of the natal chart,.For instance, the Secondary Directions chart (also referred to as Progressed Chart or Progressions) for the age of 40 of a person born on 1st June 1980, corresponds to the chart of 11 July 1980 (same location and same time), ![]()
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