![]() ![]() Those of you who side with him – who hunt out repeats of The Murder Next to the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Fireguard or The Mystery of the Missing Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph – should look away now. My husband, by way of relations-severing contrast, loves it for precisely this. The determined retention of the worst aspect of Christie – the constant feeling of cipher-characters being moved into place by an all-knowing hand, like chess pieces with Marcel waves and costume jewellery. I did understand that it was A Quality Affair but I just couldn’t bear it. Nor – for lo, these last five years since the series ended – has anyone on TV dared to try. From the moment he smoothed down his moustache and sallied primly forth as the Belgian detective in 1989 in the first of what would become 70 episodes of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, to devote himself to the solving of mysteries in Art Deco properties across the land, he simply was Hercule. And by Poirot I mean the bespoke-padded, neatly-pomaded form of David Suchet, who dominated the Christie cultural landscape for a quarter of a century. M y husband and I married across many divides – class, political, minimal personal hygiene levels – but nothing separates us so firmly as our attitudes to Poirot. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Meg stifled a sigh, careful not to offend the god in front of her. ![]() And in war, one must have the will to fight for what they want or they will fall inīattle as swiftly as a sword cuts through the air.” ![]() “That’s not important.”Īthena’s eyes flashed. “Why don’t you play anymore?” Phil asked. “Not because you can’t, but because you have lost your will,” Athena pointed out. “Is that why you played my flute so beautifully when given the chance? We both know you know how to play.” “I have purpose and drive,” Meg said grudgingly, folding her arms across her chest. Go the Distance: A Twisted Tale is available for preorder now and hits shelves on April 6. Discover how Meg takes on this quest in an exclusive excerpt below. You know, the ex-boyfriend who she saved by giving up her soul? The ex-boyfriend who then moved on to a new girl while Meg was trapped in the Underworld? Yeah, that’s a challenge only a true hero can face. Hera offers a solution: Meg has to rescue her ex’s current wife from the Underworld. But what if he had accepted the offer to become a full Greek god? In Go the Distance: A Twisted Tale, author Jen Calonita explores what would happen to Megara when Hercules ascends to Mt. Olympus so he can be with the woman he loves. ![]() What is the measure of a true hero? In the Disney animated film Hercules, the titular character strives to discover just that, ultimately achieving true hero status but turning away his chance to live as a god on Mt. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These disappointments, as well as his horror at the outbreak of World War I and the wounds it inflicted on his closest friends, Braque and Apollinaire, shadowed his painting and drove him off to work for the Ballets Russes in Rome and Naples-back to the ancient world. ![]() Richardson recounts the untold story of how his two great loves of 1915–17 successively turned him down. Heartbroken at the death of his mistress Eva, Picasso tried desperately to find a wife. The misogynist of posthumous legend turns out to have been surprisingly vulnerable-more often sinned against than sinning. As well as portraying Picasso as a revolutionary, Richardson analyzes the more compassionate side of his genius. Hence his great breakthrough painting, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, with which this book opens. In the second volume of his Life of Picasso, Richardson reveals the young Picasso in the Baudelairean role of “the painter of modern life.” Never before have Picasso’s revolutionary vision, technical versatility, prodigious achievements, and, not least, his sardonic humor been analyzed with such clarity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kate Connolly is excited to join her sister in America and proud to be traveling on the grand Titanic, which was built in her Irish homeland. Is the dire threat to the unsinkable Titanic accurate? His ship is more than four hours away will Carpathia hold together if pushed to never-before-tested speeds? What if his ship also strikes an iceberg? How many of Titanic's 2,200 passengers will the Carpathia be able to accommodate? And with the freezing temperatures, will there be any survivors by the time the Carpathia arrives? ![]() Just after midnight on April 15, 1912, the passenger steamship Carpathia receives a distress signal from the largest passenger liner ever built, RMS Titanic, which is on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York.Ĭaptain Arthur Rostron is awakened to an enormous maritime emergency with little information to guide his actions in answering the call for help. Based on the remarkable true story of the Carpathia-the only ship and her legendary captain who answered the distress call of the sinking Titanic. ![]() ![]() ![]() She shares her life with her husband, her son-who is also her personal trainer-and an exceedingly spoiled cat. Her home base is a small town in New Jersey, very near NYC, a city she dearly loves. Along the way, she had some interesting jobs in television, animation, arts education, PR, and a national magazine-but she never stopped believing she would eventually earn her living writing stories about love. ![]() It took thirty-six years of “research” and “life experience” and well… life… before her first book was published but there are no regrets (she doesn’t believe in them). (The romance writer part was written in the stars-she was born on Valentine’s Day.) It seemed the most perfect and logical job in the world and after that, her path was never in question. Tere Michaels unofficially began her writing career at the age of four when she learned that people got paid to write stories. ![]() |