![]() ![]() Always though events are closely anchored to one or another universally human fear: the fear of paralysis the fear of abandonment the fear of dying the fear that one's children are in danger the fear of being trapped. The novel asks you to banish any thoughts like "what is going on?" from your mind as you read, and to yield to its unhinged and unexplained storytelling style.Īs in a real fever dream-as in a nightmare-the events in the novel move in shuddering and unpredictable ways, from the mundane to the terrifying and back again. ![]() The story is told in dialog, and neither of the participants in the conversation are fully connected with a rational world of cause-and-effect. As I read I was gripped by a suffocating sense of dread that never let up. I finished the story last night and I'm still magnificently unsettled. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Her loving family in Mexico came to accept God into their lives through the ministry of a missionary. And not because she doesn’t trust him, but she’s worried for his life. She adores her new husband, but she’ll do anything to keep him from knowing what happened in Mexico before she fled the country. Rosita’s past is haunting her emotionally. Just days after their marriage, why is she crying and touchy? Has she fallen out of love with him already? Or is there something far more serious going on with her? His wife-the beautiful and exotic Mexican Rosita DeSantis, is totally in love with him-but something is wrong. He’s never known God or even much about him. It’s the late 1800s, and Hunter Carson has married the woman of his dreams and settled on the land he bought. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The beautiful oops book![]() ![]() The second book, A Little Bit of Oomph! 美丽的错误,无限创意 (měi lì de cuò wù, wú xiàn chuàng yì) is an interactive flap-lifting, tab-pulling, page-turning experience about how anything can be made beautiful. The title book Beautiful Oops! 美丽的错误 (měi lì de cuò wù ) is not only an artistic treat, but, also a lesson for kids about how to creatively convert imperfections and mistakes into masterpieces. Possibly some of the coolest "books" you will ever "read"! Flipping the pages of these bilingual books is more akin to visiting an art museum than reading book. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments My bondage and my freedom 1855![]() ![]() ![]() The interior is clean and bright, with a very light dampstain affecting only page containing the frontis portrait and the top of pages 165-170, and the top of the plate at page 334. I do not remember ever to have met with a boy, while I was in slavery, who defended the slave system but I have often had boys to console me, with the hope. Cloth is rubbed and lightly soiled with moderate age toning, gives a nicely rich, aged appearance. Gilt titling on spine mostly rubbed free, with just a hint here and there remaining. This is beautiful edition, with a square tight binding, has had the inner joints and the spine edges professionally and expertly repaired. This particular edition is in an unusually sound and attractive state.ĭouglass expands here on his first autobiography, 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave', going into greater detail of, not only his life as a slave, but also the transition to becoming a self-sufficient free man.īrown cloth. Item #13052 1855 1st Printing of one of Douglass' seminal slave narratives, the second of three autobiographies he would write during his lifetime. New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1855. Douglass, Frederick My Bondage and My Freedom ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Leonidas Croft Atherton, former cavalry officer turned society artist, has ferocious carnal appetites and little use for the Society that shunned him after his father, on his deathbed, pronounced him another man’s son. Now, she writes about love and adventure on the high seas from her writing room in Colorado. ![]() A newspaper and publishing professional for thirty years, she ran away to sea for three years, delivering yachts to the Caribbean, earning a USCG offshore captain’s license. Stein, the daughter of a trucker and an artist, never knew it would take the hard-work ethic of her father to achieve the light-filled magic of her mother’s art. Sex, Lies, & Forbidden Desires series (#1-2) by Andrea K. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Nar Ağacı by Nazan Bekiroğlu![]() ![]() She has authored numerous books as well as articles, essays, and stories published in various journals and magazines. She became a full professor on and continues to work at the same department. ![]() She received her tenure and became an associate professor upon completing a study about Şair Nigar Hanım (1995). Farkl inanlarn akt ortak zemin, lke ve sevda Nazan Bekirolu’nun mrekkebi ak olan kaleminde bulutu. ![]() thesis was the technical analysis of Halide Edip Adıvar's novels. at Karadeniz Technical University, Fatih School of Education, Department of Turkish Language and Literature under the supervision of Orhan Okay (1987). She worked as a teacher for four years followed by an assistantship at Karadeniz Technical University. After finishing high school in the same city, she graduated from Atatürk University, School of Literature, Department of Turkish Language and Literature (1979). ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Meg cabot how to be popular![]() ![]() Steph Landry is an average high school student in Indiana with best friends Jason and Bex. Who needs red dwarves when you're invited to the hottest parties in town?īut don't forget the most important thing about popularity! ![]() ![]() She's got a secret weapon: an old book called-what else?- How to Be Popular.Īll Steph has to do is follow the instructions in The Book, and soon she'll be partying with the It Crowd (including school quarterback Mark Finley) instead of sitting on The Hill Saturday nights, stargazing with her nerdy best pal Becca, and even nerdier Jason (now kind of hot, but still), whose passion for astronomy Steph once shared. That's why this year, she has a plan to get in with the It Crowd in no time flat. Steph's been the least popular girl in her class since a certain cherry Super Big Gulp catastrophe five years earlier. Everyone wants to be popular-or at least, Stephanie Landry does. ![]() ![]() With a painstaking, vigorous and engaging Ken Burns meets- Stan Lee approach, the battles and rivalries, the technical innovations, the triumphs and failures are all thoroughly researched and lovingly depicted. Piskor's exuberant yet controlled cartooning takes you from the parks and rec rooms of the South Bronx to the night clubs, recording studios, and radio stations where the scene started to boom, capturing the flavor of late-1970s New York City in panels bursting with obsessively authentic detail. Originally serialized on the hugely popular website Boing Boing, The Hip Hop Family Tree is now collected in a single volume cleverly presented and packaged in a style mimicking the Marvel comics of the same era. The lore of the early days of hip hop has become the stuff of myth, so what better way to document this fascinating, epic true story than in another great American mythological medium - the comic book? From exciting young talent and self-proclaimed hip hop nerd Ed Piskor, acclaimed for his hacker graphic novel Wizzywig, comes this explosively entertaining, encyclopedic history of the formative years of the music genre that changed global culture. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang![]() ![]() The more Rin witnesses, the more she fears her love for Nikan will force her to use the Phoenix’s deadly power once more.īecause there is nothing Rin won’t sacrifice to save her country. ![]() Her only hope is to join forces with the powerful Dragon Warlord, who plots to conquer Nikan, unseat the Empress, and create a new republic.īut neither the Empress nor the Dragon Warlord are what they seem. Though she does not want to live, she refuses to die until she avenges the traitorous Empress who betrayed Rin’s homeland to its enemies. Now she is on the run from her guilt, the opium addiction that holds her like a vice, and the murderous commands of the fiery Phoenix-the vengeful god who has blessed Rin with her fearsome power. ![]() Though the third battle has just ended, shaman and warrior Rin cannot forget the atrocity she committed to save her people. Three times throughout its history, Nikan has fought for its survival in the bloody Poppy Wars. Rin’s story continues in this acclaimed sequel to The Poppy War-an epic fantasy combining the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Aaronovitch lies sleeping![]() ![]() Trained as a theater actor, I suspect his versatility shows in his voices from the Welsh pathologist, to Nightingale's upper-class 'posh,' to the saucy junior apprentice Abigail, to the breathy, Cockney accent of a new character, to the semi-insane voice of a returning one. Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is a deity among readers. As much as I enjoy the written version of Peter Grant, the audio is superb. But then came Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, the reader for Aaronovitch's books. If I listened while cooking, I lost track of either my numbers or the plot (and that's no good when it comes to spices, let me tell you). When I listened to Harry Potter while driving, I found myself getting sleepy. ![]() I believe you until this series, you could have counted my attempts at audio books on one hand, as I suffered many of the same complaints. You will likely not believe me you will tell me that you hate audio books, that you lose track, fall asleep, and are 100% unable to pay attention. Stop reading the paper copy and give listening a go. The Post in Which I Muse on Audio Versions of Books ![]() |