![]() ![]() We have found good success in obtaining new or used copies of the privately published and self-published books listed here from ABE books. ![]() sanctions are lifted, they might be available for Persian language practice. Two of the listed volumes have been translated into Farsi so when the U.S. Included are works of memoir, fiction, anecdote, poetry, academic writing, essays, photography and reference that have been brought to our attention after we put out the call for authors for the Peace Corps Iran Association conference in Austin. It is a list of the books about Iran and the Peace Corps experience published by Iran RPCVs and Peace Corps country staff. Note: This list does not pretend to be comprehensive. ![]()
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You’ll want to bring a tripod and some patience. ![]() The easiest way to photograph them is to stand in one place and wait for them to fly past you. Fireflies are notoriously hard to photograph as they move so quickly and are unpredictable. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because the most powerful surprises are yet to come. As a violent mystery unwinds around him, Will knows he must press his search all the way to the end. And this is just the first in a series of stunning revelations as Will is forced to confront startling truths about his brother, and even himself. NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Gone for Good contains more plot twists than you can count, with a jarring revelation in nearly every chapter. And he has found proof that Ken is alive. He has a beautiful new girlfriend, Sheila, and a job working with the homeless. Will has tried to get on with his life in the intervening years. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman-a girl Will had once loved-was found brutally murdered in her familys basement. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins’ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman - a girl Will had once loved - was found brutally murdered in her family’s basement. As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Will Klein lost the love of his life and his brother in the same moment … A superb thriller from the No.1 bestselling author.Īs a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. ![]() ![]() Brad must deal with the plague while Novo Gaia and the United Grid Regions fight a cold war battle about how much aid to give the afflicted area. In Tinker’s Plague Brad, a tinker, enters the Dark Lands town of Guelph to find that a plague has been released from an abandon research facility. Tinkers also supply basic medical, veterinary and other services. Novo Gaia runs the tinker program, where they send Doctors of General Applied Technologies, colloquially known as a Tinker, into the Dark Lands, areas without electricity, to help the people bootstrap themselves back to energy abundance through the use of sustainable technologies. Two high tech societies have risen from the ashes in the area that is today Ontario by centring on the old hydroelectric plants. Over a hundred years before the first book, human society collapsed from the excesses of the twentieth and twentyfirst centuries. ![]() Starting over doesn’t mean escaping the past. Before we dive in to the nittygritty, what is the Tinkers World series about? ![]() Welcome to another fantastic stop in our Worldbuilding Showcase blog hop! On this stop, we’re highlighting a story where the world changes or ends as we know it, but you can find a full list of authors and topics on the OWS Cycon website.ġ. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this incredible narrative, Erica Armstrong Dunbar reveals a fascinating and heartbreaking behind-the-scenes look at the Washingtons when they were the First Family-and an in-depth look at their slave, Ona Judge, who dared to escape from one of the nation’s Founding Fathers.īorn into a life of slavery, Ona Judge eventually grew up to be George and Martha Washington’s “favored” dower slave. “Accessible…Necessary.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Ī National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave, who risked everything for a better life-now available as a young reader’s edition! ![]() “A brilliant work of US history.” - School Library Journal (starred review) ![]() ![]() Perhaps he appreciated that when it came to Trilby, emotions ran high. Luckily for the woman, the injured party declined to give evidence in court. In Brooklyn, meanwhile, a woman had a disagreement with her husband over Trilby’s morals, culminating in her smashing an earthenware jar over his head. ![]() When free from mesmeric influence, she lived with him as his daughter, and was quite innocent of any other relation.” His assurance was published in The Argonaut, a San Francisco weekly, thus alleviating any similar fears for the girl’s reputation among that paper’s readership. Du Maurier replied politely but briefly: “I beg to say that you are right about Trilby. The concerned correspondent asked that his mind be put to rest regarding the decorousness of relations between Trilby, the young heroine, and musical genius Svengali, under whose hypnotic spell she becomes an overnight opera sensation. ![]() In the fall of 1894, a New Jersey reader wrote to George du Maurier, the Franco-British author and satirical cartoonist whose Harper’s Monthly serial, Trilby, had just come out as a novel. ![]() ![]() Emma Garman | Longreads | February 2017 | 6 minutes (1,788 words) ![]() ![]() You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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![]() ![]() The danger escalates quickly, and worried parents do everything they can to protect their children who, on the verge of adulthood, have decided to take matters into their own hands. Set in a wealthy housing estate, where community members lead quiet lives with close relationships, Hold Tight sees everything change after 18-year-old Adam disappears without a trace. Young Polish talent appearing in the series include Agata Łabno ( Komisarz Alex), Marta Piętka, Jakub Pruski ( Komisarz Alex), and Mikołaj Śliwa ( Na dobre i na zle). Additional cast members include Agnieszka Grochowska and Grzegorz Damięcki, who reprise their roles as Laura and Pawel from The Woods (the first Polish adaptation of a Harlan Coben novel), as well as Jacek Poniedziałek ( The Pact), Justyna Wasilewska ( Hotel 52), Wiktoria Gorodeckaja ( The Trap), and Bartłomiej Topa ( Ultraviolet). ![]() ![]() ![]() For a moment Osborne finds himself speechless. Her eyes are wide and dark and shaped like some exotic nut. Her skin has a lustrous walnut sheen that goes perfectly with her jet hair. Osborne slides onto the stool next to her it is inexplicably unoccupied on this noisy, crowded night. Silky black hair flows over her shapely neck and shoulders with the grace of a waterfall, concealing what her scanty red summer dress would otherwise reveal. ![]() She’s sitting on a tall stool at the end of the bar, with one long, impossibly shapely leg extended toward the floor, like a dancer doing a pirouette. The girl catches Michael Osborne’s eye as he comes out of the men’s room. This story is not particularly gory, but I’ve always considered it one of the most creepy and unsettling things I ever wrote. “Underground with the Mouthless Girl” appeared in “The Earwig Flesh Factory” from Eraserhead Press in the summer of 2000. “Underground with the Mouthless Girl” is about a rather nasty ghost from India called a churel, which is the restless spirit of a woman who died in childbirth. (This was before we could just hop on the Internets and pull information out of the worldwide series of tubes.) One of my favorite reference books was The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits, which listed literally hundreds of ghouls and beasties from around the world. Back when I wrote mostly horror, I accumulated quite a collection of reference books of ghosts, spirits, and various and sundry monsters. ![]() |