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Glass (Object Lessons)
by John S. GarrisonObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it's in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone-you're drinking water out of a pint glass. Taking up a most common object, rarely considered because assumed to be transparent, John Garrison draws evocative connections between historical depictions of glass and emerging visions that see it as holding a unique promise for new forms of interaction. Grounded in everyday examples, this book offers a series of surprising insights into how we increasingly find ourselves living in a world made of glass.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Glass (Object Lessons)
by Professor John S. GarrisonObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it's in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone-you're drinking water out of a pint glass. Taking up a most common object, rarely considered because assumed to be transparent, John Garrison draws evocative connections between historical depictions of glass and emerging visions that see it as holding a unique promise for new forms of interaction. Grounded in everyday examples, this book offers a series of surprising insights into how we increasingly find ourselves living in a world made of glass.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
The Glass Bead Game: (magister Ludi) A Novel (Henry Holt Classics Library)
by Hermann HesseIn the remote Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty Third century play the Glass Bead Game. The elaborately coded game is a fusion of all human knowledge - of maths, music, philosophy, science, and art. Intrigued as a school boy, Joseph Knecht becomes consumed with mastering the game as an adult. As Knecht fulfils his life-long quest he must contend with unexpected dilemmas and the longing for a life beyond the ivory tower.
The Glass-Blowers (Virago Modern Classics #543)
by Daphne Du Maurier'Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape and form and sometimes beauty; but he can with that same breath, shatter and destroy it'Faithful to her word, Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master craftsmen in eighteenth-century France. The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, it's own language - and its own rules. 'If you marry into glass' Pierre Labbe warns his daughter, 'you will say goodbye to everything familiar, and enter a closed world'. But crashing into this world comes the violence and terror of the French Revolution against which, the family struggles to survive.The Glass Blowers is a remarkable achievement - an imaginative and exciting reworking of du Maurier's own family history.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (The\glass Books Ser. #1)
by G. W. DahlquistG.W. Dahlquist's The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, the first in the series of adventures of Miss Temple, Cardinal Chang and Dr Svenson and followed by The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage, is a rip-roaring tale like no other.In The Glass Books of The Dream Eaters three most unlikely but nevertheless extraordinary heroes become inadvertently involved in the diabolical machinations of a cabal bent upon enslaving thousands through a devilish 'process':Miss Temple is a feisty young woman with corkscrew curls who wishes to learn why her fiancé Roger broke off their engagement...Cardinal Chang was asked to kill a man, but finding his quarry already dead he is determined to learn who beat him to it and why...And Dr Svenson is chaperone to a dissolute Prince who has become involved with some most unsavoury individuals...An adventure like no other, in a mysterious city few have travelled to, featuring a heroine and two heroes you will never forget.Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven - Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthA page-turner, a rollicking ride. As stupendous as it is stupefying - Giles Foden, GuardianAn erotically charged, rip-roaring adventure for adults with scarcely a dull moment to be had, which defies its great length to keep the reader on the edge of his seat - Daily MailG.W. Dahlquist fell asleep when trapped by a snowstorm, and The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in his dreams. He is the author of the The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage, the next books in the series.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 1 Temple)
by G. W. DahlquistEmbark upon an adventure like no other in a Dickensian style ebook serialisation of the fantastical The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by G.W. Dahlquist.A SPY. A KILLER. AN IMPOSTER.THREE EXTRAORDINARY HEROES. ONE UNIQUE NOVEL.Three most-unlikely but nevertheless extraordinary heroes become inadvertently involved in the diabolical machinations of a cabal bent upon enslaving thousands through a devilish 'process':Miss Temple is a feisty young woman with corkscrew curls who wishes only to learn why her fiancé Roger broke off their engagement ...Cardinal Chang was asked to kill a man, but finding his quarry already dead he is determined to learn who beat him to it and why ...Dr Svenson is chaperone to a dissolute Prince who has become involved with some most unsavoury individuals ... An adventure like no other, in a mysterious city few have travelled to, featuring a heroine and two heroes you will never ever forget. . .'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic' Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 10 Inheritrix)
by G. W. DahlquistThe final chapter in the ebook serialisation of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 10, Inheritrix.All is becoming clear and the cabal's dastardly plot is slowly revealed, as the unlikely trio battle to save themselves, and the world, from the power of the deadly blue glass. . . 'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 2 Cardinal)
by G. W. DahlquistThe adventure continues in The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 2, Cardinal, the second part of the ebook serialisation of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel. Feisty Miss Temple has escaped from the mysterious masked ball in the labrynthine country house and from an attempt on her life, but she fears her attackers may pursue...'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 3 Surgeon)
by G. W. DahlquistThe adventure continues in The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 3, Surgeon, the third instalment of the ebook serial of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel.Assassin Cardinal Chang is hot on the pursuit for a murderer but stumbles across an eerie chamber in which a book-like object made of glass pulses with an indigo blue light . . . 'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 4 Boniface)
by G. W. DahlquistThe adventure continues in The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 4, Boniface, the fourth instalment of the ebook serial of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel.Surgeon Dr Svenson has agreed to assist the beautiful but deadly Contessa Lacquer-Sforza but finds himself kidnapped and bundled into the trunk of a carriage, which he must share with the body of a murdered man. . . 'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 5 Ministry)
by G. W. DahlquistThe adventure continues in The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 5, Ministry, the fifth instalment of the ebook serial of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel.Our three heroes have finally met one another, but as they attempt to make sense of the mystery of the blue glass, Miss Temple disappears. . . 'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic' Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 6 Quarry)
by G. W. DahlquistThe adventure continues in The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 6, Quarry, the sixth instalment of the ebook serial of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel.Cardinal Chang and Dr Svenson have split up to recover Miss Temple. But after a thrilling chase, Chang finds himself hanging by his fingertips on the edge of an unknown drop. Gripping on for dear life, he can hold on no longer. . . he let's go . . .'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 7 Royale)
by G. W. DahlquistThe adventure continues in The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 7, Royale, the seventh instalment of the ebook serial of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel.Dr Svenson is trapped in a quarry with only one means of escape, one which looks like it may just be out of reach . . .'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 8 Cathedral)
by G. W. DahlquistThe adventure continues in The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 8, Cathedral, the eighth instalment of the ebook serial of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel.Miss Temple is being held captive by the dreaded Comte d'Orkancz, who claims she must be 'redeemed'. . . 'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 9 Provocateur)
by G. W. DahlquistThe adventure continues in The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 9, Provocateur, the penultimate instalment of the ebook serial of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel.After witnessing the horrifying experiment on the cabal's victims and the hideous transformation of Angelique, Cardinal Chang looks up to see Miss Temple in a feathered mask, the tell-tale scarring around her eyes - has she been subjected to 'the process'. . . ?'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth'A page-turner, a rollicking ride. As stupendous as it is stupefying' Giles Foden, GuardianG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Breaks (Form and Void #1)
by A.J. Smith'Convincing action sequences, vivid world-building and fascinating magic. Best described as George RR Martin meets HP Lovecraft, The Glass Breaks is a fine example of British fantasy writing at its most entertaining' Guardian. Seventeen-year-old Duncan Greenfire is alive. Three hours ago, he was chained to the rocks and submerged as the incoming tide washed over his head. Now the waters are receding and Duncan's continued survival has completed his initiation as a Sea Wolf. It is the 167th year of the Dark Age. The Sea Wolves and their Eastron kin can break the glass and step into the void, slipping from the real world and reappearing wherever they wish. Wielding their power, they conquered the native Pure Ones and established their own Kingdom. The Sea Wolves glory in piracy and slaughter. Their rule is absolute, but young Duncan Greenfire and duellist Adeline Brand will discover a conspiracy to end their dominion, a conspiracy to shatter the glass that separates the worlds of Form and Void and unleash a primeval chaos across the world. 'Epic fantasy at its scary, fun, sarcastic, shock-laden best' THE BOOKBAG.
The Glass Ceiling (Notting Hill Mysteries #3)
by Anabel DonaldAlex Tanner, TV researcher and private investigator, is more than a little curious when she receives a parcel from someone calling herself 'Mrs X'. Inside the package are £200, a list of four famous feminists and a grisly surprise. All this plus the impassioned plea:'I MUST SMASH THE GLASS CEILING. STOP ME IF YOU CAN . . . PLEASE STOP ME.'But what sends the biggest chill down Alex's spine is the cross against one of the names on the list. For this woman is now dead . . .
The Glass Cell: A Virago Modern Classic (Virago Modern Classics #4)
by Patricia Highsmith'The Glass Cell has lost little of its disturbing power . . . Highsmith was a genuine one-off, and her books will haunt you' Daily TelegraphPhilip Carter has spent six years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. On his release his beautiful wife is waiting for him. He has never had any reason to doubt her. Nor their friend, Sullivan. Carter has never been suspicious, or violent. But prison can change a man.In 1961, Patricia Highsmith received a fan letter from a prison inmate. A correspondence ensued and Highsmith became fascinated with the psychological traumas that incarceration can inflict.
The Glass Children (The Glass Children #1)
by Kristina OhlssonBillie is forced to leave the only home she’s ever known when her mother decides they should move to a new house in a small town. Musty furniture and odd belongings fill the old, dilapidated building, the ghostly remains of its previous tenants - including two small glass figures, one boy and one girl. The neighbours and local community are hiding something, Billie can tell – a secret about the house, a secret of its past. Then Billie notices that the glass figures have moved when the house was empty. Soon after, a tiny handprint appears on a dusty table - the handprint of a small child. Billie is certain that they are being haunted. But her mother thinks Billie is making it up With the help of her new friend Aladdin, Billie desperately tries to uncover the house’s dark, tragic history . . . leading her closer to the chilling truth.
The Glass Citadel (The Glasswater Quintet #2)
by James Morgan-JonesIn its frosted chambers, everyone is alone An abducted psychic reads the cards to preserve her sanity. In another part of the country, struggling to keep his family from disintegration and to deflect the lethal attentions of an East End gang, Luke is forced to flee his home. In the long hot summer of 1976, these two strangers are connected in a way neither of them understands. Yet, as mounting obsession and the pursuit of violent revenge send events spiralling out of control, it becomes clear that their lives depend on a mutually-powered drive to prevail. The cards offer both a line of communication and a tantalising hint at salvation: Luke and Paige need to rely not only on their wits but on symbiotic faith and vision. Can the intangible ever be strong enough to deliver them - and those closest to them - from the forces of destruction?
Glass Collection: Storm Glass / Sea Glass / Spy Glass (Mills And Boon E-book Collections #1)
by Maria V. SnyderStorm Glass Untrained. Untested. Unleashed.
The Glass Collector
by Anna PereraFifteen-year-old Aaron lives amongst the rubbish piles in the slums of Cairo.His job? To collect broken glass.His life? Wasted.His hope? To find a future he can believe in . . .
The Glass Demon: A Novel
by Helen GrantThe first death: Seventeen-year-old Lin Fox finds a body in an orchard. As she backs away in horror, she steps on broken glass. The second death: Then blood appears on her doorstep - blood, and broken glass.The third death: Something terrible is found in the cemetery. Shards of broken glass lie by a grave.Who will be next? As the attacks become more sinister, Lin doesn't know who to trust. She's getting closer to the truth behind these chilling discoveries, but with each move the danger deepens. Because someone wants Lin gone - and won't give up until he's got rid of her and her family. Forever.
Glass Eels (Oberon Modern Plays Ser.)
by Nell LeyshonLate August down on the Somerset levels: deep in the water and the silt, something is moving, unfurling...Suffused with the austere poetry of the West Country, Glass Eels tells the story of a girl's sexual awakening as she struggles to free herself from the shadows of her childhood and the stifling atmosphere of an all-male household. Glass Eels was produced by Hampstead Theatre and the Brewhouse Theatre (Somerset) and premiered in June 2007.
The Glass God (Magicals Anonymous)
by Kate GriffinSharon Li: apprentice shaman and community support officer for the magically inclined. It wasn't the career Sharon had in mind, but she's getting used to running Magicals Anonymous and learning how to Be One With The City.When the Midnight Mayor goes missing, leaving only a suspiciously innocent-looking umbrella behind him, Sharon finds herself promoted. Her first task: find the Midnight Mayor. The only clues she has are a city dryad's cryptic warning and several pairs of abandoned shoes... Suddenly, Sharon's job feels a whole lot harder.