Potter caller on several times and showed considerable interest in Christian Science. In the winter of 1882, Mary Baker Eddy visited Washington, where "Mrs. McNeil Potter, with love from the Author, 1886." The recipient, Frances Maria McNeil Potter was the niece of President Franklin Pierce and his sometimes hostess in the White house, assisting First Lady Jane Pierce after the death of the president's son Benny. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the second free endpaper in the year of publication, "Mrs. Octavo, bound in contemporary three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Early printing of the central text of the Christian Science which continues to rank as a best-seller to this day.
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And so I just thought that as good as that was and as good as the defense has been, which has been good, that it could be better. And I thought that would be the best thing that could help Micah, and not just help Micah as in pad his stats and get 20 sacks like he’s capable of, but it would lead to even more takeaways because the pressure that Micah is putting on them, they should have caught a lot more interceptions than they did. And I’m not denigrating any of their players on their team, but that’s not what they can do. The Cowboys don’t have anything like that. I watched Chris Jones just crush the pocket from the inside. I watched the Kansas City Chiefs win a Super Bowl. I live in Philadelphia, I see Javon Hargrave crush a pocket. So I text him about 100 pass rushers into it and I’m like, “Dude, does anybody ever get any push on your defense? Like, it’s just you winning on the outside and there’s nobody else winning play after play?” He goes, “Just tell me, don’t watch all these Baldy, just tell me how I can get better.” So I tell him what I think he could do better and then I’m like, it’s just obvious, they’ve got no interior push. Let me go watch every pass rush of Micah’s to see the good, the bad and where he needs help. Brian Baldinger: Well, I sitting there on Tuesday before the draft in Los Angeles and it’s six o’clock, I’ve done all my responsibilities for the day and I’m like, I don’t want to go to the hotel. When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, Kate is on the run for her life-all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up.Ĭara Black, doyenne of the Parisian crime novel, is at her best as she brings Occupation-era France to vivid life in this gripping story about one young woman with the temerity-and drive-to take on Hitler himself.Ĭara Black frequents a Paris little known outside the beaten tourist track. Thrust into the red-hot center of the war, a country girl from rural Oregon finds herself holding the fate of the world in her hands. But other than rushed and rudimentary instruction, she has no formal spy training. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed with a rifle, a vendetta, and a fierce resolve. Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Führer. The New York Times bestselling author of the Aimée Leduc investigations reimagines history in her masterful, pulse-pounding spy thriller, Three Hours in Paris. In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light-abruptly leaving, never to return. Register Now so you can join us via Zoom (check out this handy primer) or check it out on our Facebook page after the event. Condition: Comme neuf, Condition: Used - Like New, ISBN: 9781540219138, EAN: 9781540219138, Book Title: Remembering TROY : Heritage ON the HUDSON, Item Length: 9.2in., Publisher: Arcadia Publishing, Publication Year: 2008, Format: Hardcover, Language: English, Item Height: 0.4in., Author: DON Rittner, Genre: History, Topic: United States / State & Local / General, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Item Width: 6.1in., Item Weight: 12. In Remembering Troy, historian Don Rittner highlights the citys rich past and demonstrates that Troy, like its fabled Greek predecessor, can rise again to global prominence. Payment due within 24 hours or items will be closed and relisted. Used Like New, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. Holly’s passionate love affair will be derailed by those who want to drain her for their own purposes. The danger to Holly is extreme, for her special gift is the power of her blood to strengthen and bind any spell, for good or for evil. But trouble is coming to the City in the form of a black coven run by a murderous psychopath, and deputy marshals and ADAs are powerless to deal with that kind of crime. Holly is far more interested in Evan Lachlan, the handsome federal marshal who works with her best friend, assistant district attorney Susannah Wingfield. Holly McClure is one of them, a successful writer who tries to ignore her heritage, except when the local Magistrate needs her special gift in his coven. New York City has a small, and by preference discrete, population of witches and wizards who live and love and go dancing just like everyone else. There is magic in the big city literally. The book will appeal to foodies with Provençal dishes lovingly described from the aperitif to make a trou (hole) in the stomach, to the last sliver of bread to mop up the dregs of olive oil at the end. The locals are colourfully painted with their tall tales of how to cook fox. Each month has its own essence, the cold Mistral blows through the pages, making its presence felt, especially in the winter and spring months. The book is a drily amusing look at getting an old farmhouse renovated, when the French workers have a “ mañana, mañana” attitude, a sharp contrast to the anglo-saxon work ethic. Mayle moved to France in the late eighties. Birds who had been ducking all winter came out of hiding now the hunters were gone, and their song replaced gunfire. As the title suggests the book covers a year from January to December. This is a famous book, it tells of an Englishman who fell in love with Provence and moved to a small village in Luberon. Scarlet Īfter he lost everything he owned, forester Will Scarlet embarked on a search for King Raven, whose exploits had already become legendary. The book was dedicated to the Schloss Mittersill Community in Austria, which he and his wife were part of for a couple of years. Through the suffering of his pride-torn soul and the land of his ancestors being destroyed, Bran realized the dangerous paths through which his ambition was drawn and he soon succumbed to his fate. Bran needed to find a way to make it his own if he was to survive. There, in the primeval forest of the Welsh borders, danger surrounded him, for this woodland is a living, breathing entity with mysterious powers and secrets. Hunted like an animal by Norman invaders, Bran ap Brychan, heir to the throne of Elfael, abandoned his father's kingdom and fled to the greenwood. The King Raven series continued his themes of reimagining popular mythology into more authentic and gritty settings, which began with his Pendragon Cycle. The trilogy consists of three books named Hood, Scarlet, and Tuck. Lawhead relocates Robin Hood from Sherwood Forest in Nottingham to Wales, and sets the story in the late eleventh century, after the Battle of Hastings and to coincide with the Norman invasion of Wales and the struggles the Cymry (Welsh) people against the Normans, and the political intrigue of medieval Britain. The King Raven Trilogy is a series of historical novels by American writer Stephen R. With Mary disguised as an Arab boy and Holmes as a Bedouin, the pair hooks up with Arab-British agents Mahmoud and his nephew Ali, and begin to investigate the murder of several of their other agents in the delicate period after England has defeated the Turks to take control of what will become Israel 27 years hence. The fifth Sherlock Holmes-Mary Russell adventure actually takes place in time near the end of the first book, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, when Holmes and Russell have raced off to Palestine to recover from a bombing and possibly do some secret government work for Holmes's brother Mycroft. |