Writen by Salley Vickers : Aphrodite's Hat

In Cranach’s celebrated study of Aphrodite and Eros, now hanging in the National Gallery, the Goddess of Love, apparently wearing nothing but a fur hat of Ascot-style proportions, turns her knowing smile and size zero body winsomely to the viewer.

That painting provides both the title for one of the finest stories in Salley Vickers’s first collection and a clue to many of the collection’s central concerns. In “The Hawthorn Madonna”, Ewan and Elspeth’s marriage, the only happy one in the entire collection, is strengthened by an annunciation beside the eponymous statue.

In “The Dragon’s Bones”, a somewhat conventional tale of Venetian adultery is deepened by a theological debate in a 12th-century Murano church. In “The Green Bus from St Ives”, an older married man meets a free-spirited young artist beside a Ben Nicholson drawing. “The Buried Life”, at once the longest and strongest of the stories, is both literally and figuratively interlaced with lines from a Matthew Arnold poem.

Although a couple of the stories are duds and a couple more are predictable in their unpredictability, the collection is shot through with a gentle wit and a winning charm.

Writen by Alan Grand- Brodies Law

Whoever did Brodie up forgot to check him for a cell phone. With the barest push of a button, Brodie knows help is on the way : Then recovery, and then payback.

But for a big guy like Jack Brodie, the line of payback is long and winding, and he may have brought it all on himself.

Brodie tried to rescue his wife, Marla, who left him to be a coke whore for a local, well-placed dealer. It's probably Brodie's fault that his wife no longer cares about him, their son, or even her own life. In fact, Brodie has a lot to account for, since he stole her love from his best friend.

Jack Brodie knows he's a low life, but lately, he hasn't been as proud of it. Damien is the only reason Brodie starts to care. Brodie wants to change. None of which even scratches the surface of Brodie's problems. Brodie's illicit occupation is as a thief for hire. A job that creates many enemies, and that kind of revenge debt is hard to shake off. What's more, Brodie's latest theft has exploded across the news of the city and even the country. Jack was hired to steal something from P-Fact Laboratorium. It's planet size big. Now why in the world would someone, with resources worldwide, want to set up a minor lowlife like Brodie?

There lies the tale.

BRODIE'S LAW is a thriller like I've never seen in a comic before. Oh wait, they already did that with SIN CITY.

BRODIE'S LAW, then, is SIN CITY 2.0.

Now I'm not saying BRODIE'S LAW is better than Frank Miller's SIN CITY. Frank Miller's THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS and RONIN continued that tradition of hard core comic like no other. Miller's SIN CITY took it even farther. Now Alan Grant, creator of the original JUDGE DREDD, returns to raise the bar.

BRODIE'S LAW is futuristic, and twisted. It's the definition of terms like hard-boiled and two-fisted tales.

Writen by Eric Segal - Love Story

The Love Story novel is most probably the best tale of love ever been told. The novel is a masterpiece of creation of Erich Segal, an author who penned scores of equally fascinating fictions but Love Story happens to be the best one for all time and for all generation.

The novel constitutes the story of all who had been in love at least once in their life.

Even the ones who haven't yet encountered or experienced love will start believing in love and will be out in search of his or her soul mate after reading this magnificent story celebrating love as its sole tenet.

The Love Story novel by Erich Segal is surely the best love novels and is one of the romantic novels which will incarnate your inner feelings and passions to the core. The characterization and the plot of Love Story is such that, it can appropriately stand as the saga of love of all generations. There lies the mastery of the story; there lies its universal appeal that it will never seem to be out of place.

The story line of the Love Story novel is not anyway a critical one. The boy meet the girl and they fall in love, the love that overwhelms, then comes the situation when the respective parents disapprove the love and disowns them. Still Leukemia wins and the girl dies. Leukemia snatches her Jenny from Oliver. Ways part but the Oliver who returns to his household pardons everybody as love imparted that forgiveness within him. Jenny has made him learn the greatest truth that, "Love means never having to say you're sorry."

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

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Brief Description:

A Passage to India sparked such political fury that enraged Anglo-Indians threw copies into the Indian Ocean. Adela Quested, visiting from England, shows an interest in Indian ways of life that is frowned upon by the British community. What happens to Adela at the infamous Marabar Caves, and the subsequent ordeal of the charming young Dr Aziz, is wrought into a tense drama which throws Chandrapore into a fever of racial tension. This work helped create a climate of opinion in England which would take the British out of India in less than a generation. This work won the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and has sold over a million copies since its first publication.

Product ID:

46224     ISBN-10: 0340512156

Categories:	Book of the Week, Novel
Supporting language:	English
Applicable country:	India
Platforms/media types:	Printed Matter

About the Author Edward Morgan Forester was born in England in 1879, and attended Kind's College, Cambridge where he retained a lifelong connection. Forster wrote six novels: 'Where Angels Fear to Tread', 'The Longest Journey', ' A Room with a View' and 'Howards End' were all published before the First World War. 'Maurice', his novel on a homosexual theme, which he completed in 1914, was published posthumously in 1971. His other works include essays, short stories and plays.

Stepping Stones

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Brief Description:

This is a narrative saga of two immigrants from Korea to Hawaii. The factors that led to their departure, each leaving for a new life alone and unaware of what awaited them, are developed delving into the cultural and sociological realities of the circumstances unique to each of them. The male meets the female in Hawaii and they wed. Their life together, forging a way along unknown paths of cultural integration in the multiracial community of Hawaii together with their successes and occasional failures are developed to give the true, full panoramic view of what these immigrants experienced in their new world. The steps they took in planting a Korean heritage in a lineage that was to expand in the new world should be of interest to readers on both sides of the cultures of the East and West. The issues they faced and tackled and the growth of this family's genealogy in just three generations should be of interest to readers residing throughout the Pacific Rim.

Product ID:

104558     ISBN-10: 1565911849

Category:	Novel
Supporting language:	English
Applicable country:	Korea (South)
Platforms/media types:	Printed Matter
Specifications:	212pp. 140x214mm. softcover.

The Yobo - A Novel of Korea, by Whalen M. Wehry

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Brief Description:

A monumental story of a Westerner's love for a Korean woman as the Yi Dynasty struggled for survival! One man pitting his will against kingdom upheavals and international clashes set the stage for this ambitious novel of Korea as explosive, fast-paced events sweep and are swept by a colorful cast of larger-than-life characters. Looming near, usually above all of them is Timothy Tubert, an orphaned American youth stranded during battle in Chaoshien, the old Corea of the Yi Dynasty. Tubert's struggles to find meaning and a place for himself over almost five decades mark a new chapter in epic English language novels about the orient. Rarely does a book of any era in any language so powerfully span the gamut of human spirit and emotions. Ignorance, innocence, murder, sex, greed, hope and fear, treachery and tragedy all intertwine to make this a monumental adventure story told against a background of a tottering dynasty trying to hold treaty powers at bay. Here is a story of violent Chinese, ambitious Japanese, well-intentioned missionaries and ruthless smugglers, intriguing Coreans, courageous tiger hunters, an exotic black mistress and the beautiful Corean girl who becomes the wife of a foreign devil, all stampeding at once in a towering pageant of life. This is a bawdy, stirring, fictionalized saga of Chaoshien, old Corea, a fascinating land the world would pay dearly for not knowing about decades later and a land which today enchants international travelers. Written by by Whalen M. Wehry.

Product ID:

104560     ISBN-10: 0930878388

Category:	Novel
Supporting language:	English
Applicable country:	Korea (South)
Platforms/media types:	Printed Matter