![]() ![]() Grenouille spends his childhood learning all the different smells in the world and their names. He can smell people and places and things to a degree that no human ever could, and this ability is at the center of his life’s obsession. He can smell what’s behind cabinets and walls - not just obvious things like fragrance materials, but things like money, too. He can smell a specific person - or their absence - somewhere in a city while standing outside its gates. ![]() Ironically enough for someone who smells nothing, Grenouille is obsessed with scent, and his sense of smell is incredible. This guy goes without bathing for years and he simply doesn’t smell like anything. Not as a baby, not as a child, not as a teen nor as a man. He has abilities beyond what’s possible for a human.Īnd, most notably: Grenouille doesn’t have a smell. ![]() He displays psychopathic behavior and creeps everyone out. Everyone who meets him feels like they’ve seen something cursed, like they need to wash their hands. It’s very apparent from the very beginning something is supernaturally wrong with the boy. In fact, everything about Perfume: The Story of a Murderer makes me think Grenouille is supposed to be the actual Antichrist - or at least some demonic Antichrist prototype. Something about this feels like a twisted sort of Christ allegory in reverse. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The producers at the Mystery Masters division of the Audio Partners were smart to hire Fraser to record this classic, and listeners will find it a delightful romp that passes all too quickly. Not to be missed among the clamoring voices is Christie's narrative, from which Fraser manages to wring every wry drop. Add to the mix a number of students from England, a temperamental Greek landlady and an Italian house staff, and one must conclude that Fraser is some sort of magician to keep all the players sorted out as they converge in the common room. ![]() But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalised items including a stethoscope, some old flannel. An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirots interest. Poirot is absent much of the time in this tale of kleptomania, malice and murder set at a boarding house for students. The new-look series of Hercule Poirot books for the 21st century. Fraser's Poirot is derivative of the stellar performance of the series' star, David Suchet nevertheless, Fraser gives Christie's work his own imprimatur. Series, now performs the entire cast in Christie's 1955 mystery. Item 84374 The Book Club edition hardbound in blue cloth boards with black. Fraser, who played Captain Hastings, the sidekick for arch Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in the PBS Mystery ![]() ![]() NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. ![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Runton has published two Owly & Wormy children's books.
![]() Bao and Linh, who’ve avoided each other for most of their lives, both suspect that the feud stems from feelings much deeper than friendly competition.īut then a chance encounter brings Linh and Bao in the same vicinity despite their best efforts and sparks fly, leading them both to wonder what took so long for them to connect. The only problem? Her parents rely on her in ways they’re not willing to admit, including working practically full-time at her family’s pho restaurant.įor years, the Mais and the Nguyens have been at odds, having owned competing, neighboring pho restaurants. She loves art and dreams pursuing a career in it. Stable when unlit, but full of potential for joy and fire. ![]() If Linh Mai had to describe herself, she’d say she was a firecracker. ![]() He works at his parents’ pho restaurant, and even there, he is his parents’ fifth favorite employee. His grades are average, his social status unremarkable. Steady and strong, but not particularly interesting. If Bao Nguyen had to describe himself, he’d say he was a rock. When Dimple Met Rishi meets Ugly Delicious in this funny, smart romantic comedy, in which two Vietnamese American teens fall in love and must navigate their newfound relationship amid their families’ age-old feud about their competing, neighboring restaurants. “Will leave readers swooning.” - PopSugar ![]() ![]() ![]() “Miéville fills his enthralling fantasy with enough plot twists and wordplay for an entire trilogy, and that is a good thing. But then things begin to go shockingly wrong.īONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from China Mieville’s Embassytown. When twelve-year-old Zanna and her friend Deeba find a secret entrance leading out of London and into this strange city, it seems that the ancient prophecy is coming true at last. ![]() It is a city awaiting its hero, whose coming was prophesied long ago, set down for all time in the pages of a talking book. Un Lun Dun is a place where words are alive, a jungle lurks behind the door of an ordinary house, carnivorous giraffes stalk the streets, and a dark cloud dreams of burning the world. and some of its lost and broken people, too–including Brokkenbroll, boss of the broken umbrellas Obaday Fing, a tailor whose head is an enormous pin-cushion, and an empty milk carton called Curdle. It is London through the looking glass, an urban Wonderland of strange delights where all the lost and broken things of London end up. hybrid of Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, and The Phantom Tollbooth.”- Salon ![]() ![]() She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father, Javier, as her coach. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, PopSugar, Glamour, Reader’s DigestĬarrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. I’ll take a piece of Carrie Soto forward with me in life and be a little better for it.”-Emily Henry, author of Book Lovers and Beach Read The kind of sharp, smart, potent book you have to set aside every few pages just to catch your breath. ![]() “A heart-filled novel about an iconic and persevering father and daughter.”- Time “An epic adventure about a female athlete perhaps past her prime, brought back to the tennis court for one last grand slam” ( Elle), from the author of Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ALL SALES ARE FINAL AND NO SALE RESCISSIONS WILL BE MADE ON THE BASIS OF CONDITION, NO EXCEPTIONSģ.Ěcceptable forms of payment are Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express & Paypal. 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Your bidding at this Auction indicates that you have READ AND ARE IN ACCEPTANCE of the following Terms & Conditions of Sale.Ģ. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ransom became a New York Times bestseller that has been called “an enthralling tale” by Romantic Times, as well as “wonderful…provides suspense, passion, and humor” by All About Romance. Along the way, Gillian enlists handsome Scottish warriors Ramsey Sinclair and Brodick Buchanan to help her find love and the courage to fight back and defeat Baron Alford. Years later, when Alford goes in search of a golden jewelry box on behalf of the tyrannical King John, Gillian takes the opportunity to find her missing sister and avenge her father’s death. Set in London and Scotland in the thirteenth century, the story follows Lady Gillian, a powerless child whose world is upended when the ruthless Baron Alford slays her father and rips her family asunder. ![]() Book two in the Highlands’ Lairds trilogy, Ransom is the 1999 historical romance novel written by American author Julie Garwood. ![]() ![]() ![]() She spends months on remand, but when Gina is finally freed the nightmare is only just beginning. Gina knew nothing of her husband’s proclivities, but that doesn’t stop the police from charging her with being an accessory to multiple murders. Gina thought her husband Melvin did woodwork in his garage workshop, but serial killer Mel was up to much more gruesome activities, killing young women and then leaving their mutilated bodies weighed down in deep water. ![]() ![]() The crash has taken out the side wall of the attached garage – and hanging inside is the flayed body of a young woman. There’s not a scratch on Gina and her young son and daughter, in fact they weren’t even at home when the accident happened, but the collision causes irreparable harm to more than a mere property.Īs police arrive on the scene to inspect the damage and book the culprit they are not prepared for what they find. Written by Rachel Caine - A drunk driver loses control of his vehicle and hits a house in Wichita, Kansas, shattering the lives of Gina Royal and her two children forever – and not in the way you might imagine. ![]() |