![]() ![]() ![]() The Marina Green runs along the bay, attracting joggers and sightseers, sitting next to Fort Mason, which has evolved from army post to cultural hub, home to multiple galleries, restaurants, cafes, and bars, plus regular events like West Coast Craft and the popular weekly Off the Grid food truck gatherings from March to October. The Palace of Fine Arts remains a city landmark over a century after its construction for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, while Crissy Field has transformed from a former airstrip into a nature lover’s paradise, perfect for picnicking and hiking with the Golden Gate Bridge as a backdrop. The Marina mixes youthful vitality, exquisite oceanfront sights, and a hint of the outdoors into one truly iconic San Francisco neighborhood, balancing playful and relaxed with comfortable ease. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He turned to writing full-time in 1959, settling first on Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, and later on the Mediterranean island of Gozo (Malta). He was posted at first to Johannesburg, South Africa and then, in 1953, to Ottawa, Canada. Resigning his wartime commission in 1946, Monsarrat entered the diplomatic service. During his wartime service, Monsarrat claimed to have seen the ghost ship Flying Dutchman while sailing the Pacific, near the location where the young King George V had seen her in 1881. Monsarrat ended the war as commander of a frigate, and drew on his wartime experience in his postwar sea stories. ![]() ![]() His lifelong love of sailing made him a capable naval officer, and he served with distinction in a series of small warships assigned to escort convoys and protect them from enemy attack. Though a pacifist, Monsarrat served in World War II, first as a member of an ambulance brigade and then as a member of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR). He later commented in his autobiography that the 1931 Invergordon Naval Mutiny influenced his interest in politics and social and economic issues after college. The law failed to inspire him, however, and he turned instead to writing, moving to London and supporting himself as a freelance writer for newspapers while writing four novels and a play in the space of five years (1934–1939). Born on Rodney Street in Liverpool, Monsarrat was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge. ![]() ![]() ![]() Night by night, the demons grow stronger, while human numbers dwindle under their relentless assault. Once, under the leadership of the legendary Deliverer, and armed with powerful wards that were not merely shields but weapons, they took the battle to the demons. Once, men and women battled the corelings on equal terms. ![]() ![]() For hundreds of years the demons have terrorized the night, slowly culling the human herd that shelters behind magical wards-symbols of power whose origins are lost in myth and mystery, and whose protection is terrifyingly fragile. They possess supernatural strength and powers and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. And gigantic rock demons, the deadliest of all. The time has come to stand against the night.Īs darkness falls each night, the corelings rise-demons who well up from the ground like hellish steam, taking on fearsome form and substance. Martin, David Eddings, and Robert Jordan, this critically acclaimed dark fantasy features the man brave enough to travel demon-haunted roads at night, and the fallen kingdoms he protects. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the foremost deception expert in the country, Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is Ethan a killer? Is he being set up? Did Sutton hate him enough to kill the child she never wanted and then herself? The path to the answers is full of twists that will leave the reader breathless.ĭon’t miss It's One of Us, the next page-turning thriller from New York Times bestselling author J.T. When you scratch your chin, wring your hands, wrinkle your nose or swallow too much, Dr. As the police investigate, the lies the couple have been spinning for years quickly unravel. As tensions mount, Sutton disappears, leaving behind a note saying not to look for her.Įthan finds himself the target of vicious gossip as friends, family and the media speculate on what really happened to Sutton Montclair. Consumed by professional and personal betrayals and financial woes, the two both love and hate each other. They seem made for each other, but the truth is ugly. The life of a picture-perfect literary couple sours when the wife goes missing and suspicion immediately falls on the husband, exposing a home life that was. The couple seems made for each other, but the truth is ugly. Sutton and Ethan Montclair’s idyllic life is not as it appears. Sutton and Ethan Montclairs idyllic life is not as it appears. Ellison takes her exceptional writing to a new level with this breakout novel. Readers will devour this stunning page-turner about the disintegration of a marriage as grief, jealousy, betrayal and murder destroy the facade of the perfect literary couple. ![]() ![]() 1256-7 Fulk fitz Warin dies a natural death after reconciling differences with the Crown. ![]() 1252 Pope Innocent IV approves torture by Inquisition. He is renamed "Hobbehod" by an officer of the court. 1225-6 Robert Hod, a fugitive, York, Yorkshire. 1217 Rebel leader Eustace the Monk beheaded. King John, a French speaking Norman, loses Normandy to France, signs Magna Carta. 1213-16 Robert Hood, "slew Ralph of Cirencester in the Abbot's garden." Francis 1212 John Hood and wife appear in Stanley Bottom, Wakefield, the year of the Children's Crusade. 1210 "Whoever should come to the brothers, be he friend or enemy, thief or robber, let him be kindly received." The Rule of St. Holt 1202-3 Fulk fitz Warin, his brothers, and a cousin named "Hodenet," conduct guerrilla war against King John I. "There is nothing at all in the early stories to associate Robin with Richard I (The Lionheart) or with his brother" King John. 1066 The Norman Conquest 1194-6 Famed troubadour and king, Richard I, held hostage in Austria. Which one is the original Robin Hood? Holt leaned strongly toward the "Robert Hod" of 1225, but rejected it in the end. ![]() ![]() The list places Holt's discoveries of the Hood name (and similar names) within their historical context. Holt's Robin Hood (Thames and Hudson, 19). Timeline Don't pass up Clyde's interactive Robin Hood Comic Book! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The capitalists behaved like socialists while the socialists behaved like capitalists. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists and patriotic incentives, fail while the American network succeeded? In How Not to Network a Nation, Benjamin Peters reverses the usual cold war dualities and argues that the American ARPANET took shape thanks to well-managed state subsidies and collaborative research environments and the Soviet network projects stumbled because of unregulated competition among self-interested institutions, bureaucrats, and others. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. ![]() None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. ![]() Between 19, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation-to construct a nationwide computer network. How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the case develops Perez finds himself peering deeper into the past of the Shetland Islands than anyone wants to go. But when Inspector Jimmy Perez insists on broadening the search for suspects, a veil of distrust and fear is thrown over the entire community. The body is found close to the home of a lonely outcast and local suspicion falls firmly on him. As Fran opens her mouth to scream, the ravens continue their deadly dance. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbour. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a vivid splash of colour on the white ground, ravens circling above. ![]() On New Year's Day Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer of snow. ![]() Raven Black is the first book in the Shetland series, from Ann Cleeves, the number one bestselling author and creator of Vera, Shetland, and The Two Rivers series.Ī remote community with a killer in their midst. ![]() ![]() We see her explosion at school, and her sorting through her memories of her mother. We see all the other characters through Mia's teenage eyes, and it is quite a sight.The author does a wonderful job of showing us Mia's grief without wallowing in it. Mia meets some very intriguing people along the way, usually through her father's hospital stays. Each of them is an interesting character, but only Mia is truly compelling. Along the way, we see some of her father's story and her sister's story as well. Just as the family is figuring out their new roles, Mia's father has a heart attack, followed by Alex leaving for college.The book is about Mia, her growing up and her healing. They understood each other, in the same way Mia's sister Alex and their father understand each other. ![]() I found this book to be very well written and touching.When Mia is 15, her mother is diagnosed with melanoma, then dies 12 days later. ![]() ![]() ![]() They're very vivid through Kay's eyes, but they have no incentives or motives of their own. ![]() ![]() I liked both these characters, and the approach to their relationships is very interesting, but Mele never digs into any of the other character's motivations. Brie is dating another girl, and her story with Kay is one of plenty of missed connections. They don't really get much into Kay's other friends, but, besides the murder, the main story centers on the love triangle (or possibly some other shape) between Kay, her best friend Brie, and her on again off again boyfriend Spencer. Guilt plagues her and informs nearly every action in her life, but once she gets to boarding school, Bates, she transforms into a quintessential mean girl with a whole posse. Overall: 4Ĭharacters: 4 Kay is an interesting character. But as the website intensifies and orders Kay to betray her friends one by one to keep her secrets under wraps, Kay begins to realize there's something more sinister at play. Then she gets an email with a link to a revenge website that claims to have been made by Jessica, the girl that they didn't even know till they found her body. While no one else has anything to fear, Kay has a long history with police questioning and suspicion, and she's terrified of finding herself in the same position again. Kay and her friends are the ones to discover her body after a school Halloween dance, and they're immediately at the top of the detective's suspect list. Overview: There's a girl dead in the lake. ![]() ![]() ![]() William Byrd ‘O Lord, Make Thy Servant Charles’, sung by The Sixteen Read more: Soprano sings King’s favourite hymn ‘Be Thou my Vision’ in historic chapel Nigel Hess, Roderick Williams, Shirley J Thompson: ‘Be Thou my Vision - Triptych for Orchestra’.Their individual musical responses to the Irish hymn ‘ Be Thou my Vision’, including a musical cryptogram of His Majesty’s name, were woven together into a single work: Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleevesīased on one of His Majesty’s favourite hymns, this next commission came from a trio of composers, Hess, Williams and Thompson.South African soprano Pretty Yende stepped forward to sing a new commission: Sir Karl Jenkins: ‘Tros y Garreg’ (‘Crossing the Stone’).The orchestra was joined by Royal harpist Alis Huws for a new arrangement of a Welsh folk song set by Sir Karl Jenkins, commissioned by the then Prince of Wales over two decades ago: Bryn Terfel sings at Westminster Abbey coronation ![]() |