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“Tell me this one, Momma”: Each snapshot revealed something new about who ...
I was being watched over by half a dozen angels on the mantel made from handkerchiefs stuffed with cotton balls, shirtsleeve buttons for eyes, supported on stands made of Popsicle sticks. I wondered, if she hadn't been Again I noticed the ticking ...
100 Notable Books of 2014
The year's notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The Book Review. FICTION & POETRY. ALL OUR NAMES. By Dinaw Mengestu. (Knopf, $25.95.) With great sadness and much hard truth, Mengestu's novel looks at a ...
The wonder world of Sidhpur's Bohra mansions
There are also striking photos of women performing mundane chores —notably a woman cooking on the floor on a two-ringed gas stove right next to an exuberantly sculptured marble fireplace whose mantel is being used to place clay matkas for water. One ...
Ye Olde Tea Shoppe owner collects 1000 teapots in every shape and size
During her 14 years in business in Midhurst, West Sussex, she amassed teapots in all shapes and sizes which jockeyed for position on shelves and mantel pieces. Now she is hoping that someone will take on the collection rather than having to box them up ...
Jim Harrison Stalks a Cult Leader
The critic glances at the clock and realizes that pretty soon he has to say something bad about Jim Harrison. Yes, he's established that he's read the book; now something to prove he isn't being paid off. Under duress, then, he ventures that there may ...
'The Invisible Bridge'
Andras glanced at the gold clock on the mantel. “Thank you for the sandwiches,” he said. “I'd better be off now.” “Stay another moment, if you don't mind,” said the elder Mrs. Hász. “I'd like to ask you to take one more thing.” She went to the writing ...
After a £12 million refit, the nation is being invited into Kensington Palace
'I hope visitors will learn she said shocking things, she liked to have fun, she liked to stay up dancing until four o'clock in the morning and Albert couldn't keep up with her. Wind dial Made by Robert Morden in 1694 on the over-mantel in the King ...
