The Perilous Art of Forgetting


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Everybody knew that nothing unexpected or dangerous ever happened at St. Osmanna's College. Then one day Sister Bernadette fell down the main stairway and... Four friends, who apparently could not be more different from each other, are trying to solve the mysteries which are troubling the quiet and peaceful life of a small Irish village and its inhabitants.




The Perilous Gard


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In 1558 while imprisoned in a remote castle, a young girl becomes involved in a series of events that leads to an underground labyrinth peopled by the last practitioners of druidic magic.




The Bride's Veil


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The same three Irish characters who were the protagonists of ""The perilous Art of Forgetting,"" William Collins, Peter Boyle and Reginald McKenzie are back. A few years have passed since then, and they have left Ireland to start a new page of their life in charming Tuscany. Once again they get involved, against their will and expectation, in dramatic happenings and mysterious murders and have to summon up their speculative intellectual talents to unravel the evidences and the plots. What's happened to the beautiful, rich and spoilt Fiammetta Innocenti only a few days before her wedding? Was she really killed by Giorgio Cini, the photographer?




Goodbyes, they often come in waves


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Iris Ciancaleoni Alunni committed suicide while she was on a cruise with her husband Sabatino. Two years later, the devastated widower seems to recover from his deep grief and meets a lady with whom he hopes to find comfort and affection for starting a new life. But one of Iris' friends is not persuaded that everything was really cleared up even though the police have no new elements to justify the reopening of the case. She turns to William Collins and his friends, whose reputation of talented amateur detectives is well known among the inhabitants of Capacciano, a Tuscan village perched on the hill surrounding Arezzo. Will they help her to find the truth about Iris' death? "Goodbyes, They Often Come In Waves" is the third instalment in the William Collins & Peter Boyle's series - another entertaining crime thriller.




The Book of Laughter and Forgetting


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"An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." —Newsweek "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius." —New York Times Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.




Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture


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This collection of essays historicizes and theorizes forgetting in English Renaissance literary texts and their cultural contexts. Its essays open up an area of study overlooked by contemporary Renaissance scholarship, which is too often swayed by a critical paradigm devoted to the "art of memory." This volume recovers the crucial role of forgetting in producing early modernity's subjective and collective identities, desires and fantasies.




Little Russian Stories (So true, that they look invented)


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A collection of short stories, which have, as common denominator, the feature of being all about Russians and based on real facts. Actually there is very little fiction. In most of cases I wrote a literal description of true stories. In few occasions I adapted slightly a description or I shortened an event, for narrative needs only. The stories are presented in casual temporary order, like a voluntary backwards and forwards excursion in scattered memories.




Lest We Forget


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Thinking the US South


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Knowledge emerges from contexts, which are shaped by people’s experiences. The varied essays in Thinking the US South: Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives demonstrate that Southern identities, borders, and practices play an important but unacknowledged role in ethical, political, emotional, and global issues connected to knowledge production. Not merely one geographical region among others, the US South is sometimes a fantasy and other times a nightmare, but it is always a prominent component of the American national imaginary. In connection with the Global North and Global South, the US South provides a valuable perspective from which to explore race, class, gender, and other inter- and intra-American differences. The result is a fresh look at how identity is constituted; the role of place, ancestors, and belonging in identity formation; the impact of regional differences on what counts as political resistance; the ways that affect and emotional labor circulate; practices of boundary policing, deportation, and mourning; issues of disability and slowness; racial and other forms of suffering; and above all, the question of whether and how doing philosophy changes when done from Southern standpoints. Examining racist tropes, Indigenous land claims, Black Southern philosophical perspectives, migrant labor, and more, this incisive anthology makes clear that roots matter.




How to Forget to Remember to Forget about Magic


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Laurence P. Cromwell was once like many of us, navigating through life without direction or purpose, eager to uncover some deeper meaning to it all. Out of sheer desperation, and through the influence of a series of strange childhood occurrences, he became obsessed with the notion of true Magic, the ability to manipulate the world around him in ways often assumed impossible by others. Scouring countless shelves, he searched for that one old tome or relic which might reveal itself to be something more - something Magical. He knew in his heart he was destined for great things, if only he could make that first, crucial discovery. But as Laurence - along with an unlikely pair destined for a similar fate - would soon find out, not all Magical Objects exist to be used, to be possessed. And some are better off left where they were buried long, long ago… Beginning on our planet, in the prosaic time period known as present day, the Journey Eternal series methodically recounts the story of a group of unsuspecting heroes as they gain the courage and experience necessary to traverse billions of years, multiple worlds, and countless twisting timelines to discover the truth of humanity’s Magical past, as well as the monstrous future awaiting not only our race, but our entire universe. Will they succeed in restoring Magic to its prior state before time runs out, or will the forces of darkness prove too powerful, too tempting, even for them? Prepare to pull back the veil, revealing a world of Dark Magic and demons, of a battle that goes beyond good and evil, where heroes and villains clash not only with each other, but their own inner turmoil and precarious destinies. But beware, dear reader. As you take these first steps of your own journey, remember this: Not all fantasy is fiction, and nothing is ever quite as it seems…