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Into the Water (2017) is a thriller novel by British author Paula Hawkins. [1] It is Hawkins' second full-length thriller following the success of The Girl on the Train . Although the novel performed well, becoming a Sunday Times best seller [ 2 ] and featuring on The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2017 , [ 3 ] critical reception was ...
Gold is a novel by British author Dan Rhodes published in September 2007 by Canongate. [1] It won the inaugural Clare Maclean Prize for Scottish Fiction and has since been published in five other languages: Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian. [2] It was also one of the 'best books of 2007' according to critics at The Independent. [3]
[35] The Asian Review of Books also proffered a mixed review. [ 36 ] The audiobook, narrated by Catherine Ho and Joel de la Fuente , received a starred review from Booklist 's Jane Philbrick, who stated, "The discrimination the family experiences brings an almost constant feeling of danger; Ho leans into its menace by emphasizing slurs, threats ...
Gold is a 1974 British thriller film starring Roger Moore and Susannah York and directed by Peter R. Hunt.It was based on the 1970 novel Gold Mine by Wilbur Smith.Moore plays Rodney "Rod" Slater, general manager of a South African gold mine, who is instructed by his boss Steyner (Bradford Dillman) to break through an underground dike into what he is told is a rich seam of gold.
Depiction of Sedziwój performing a transmutation for Sigismund III by Jan Matejko, 1867. Projection was the ultimate goal of Western alchemy.Once the philosopher's stone or powder of projection had been created, the process of projection would be used to transmute a lesser substance into a higher form; often lead into gold.
[7] According to Brian Dillon, reviewing it for the London Review of Books, "At its best, in the longer stories such as 'Lady of the House' and 'Morning, Noon & Night', Pond is all that its author admires in others: a work of gorgeous stylistic and structural ambition, deadpan comedy and profound, that is to say profoundly odd, expression." [8]
Rain of Gold is Victor Villaseñor's 1991 book, a national bestseller, [1] which tells the story of his own parents who were undocumented immigrants from Mexico.Two families escaping from the Mexican Revolution to the relative safety of the United States have parallel experiences centered on their mothers' strength.
The Man of Gold is a 1984 science-fantasy novel written by M. A. R. Barker and published by DAW Books.It is the first novel set on the fictional world of Tékumel – also featured in Barker's role-playing game Empire of the Petal Throne (1974) – and tells the story of a priest of Thumis named Harsan, a scholar who becomes involved in the quest for the eponymous artefact of a past immensely ...