![]() ![]() “Must history have losers?” asked Tortorici. In the end, the piece called the situation for what it was: a hostility from those who were being asked – not always politely or eloquently – to re-examine their manner of existing in the world, in order to make room for others. They told her they could no longer speak. “None of the men I had in mind were Nazis,” wrote the author, Dayna Tortorici, but many of the men in her circles – left-wing, literary – were also telling her they felt as if they were living in Soviet Russia. The essay was probing and nuanced and it travelled widely. ![]() Last winter, the Brooklyn-based literary magazine n+1 published a thoughtful essay on the subject of white male-resentment and the idea that free speech is in crisis. ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Dani brown take a hint![]() ![]() Or is the universe waiting for her to take a hint? ![]() With every fake date and midnight meeting, Dani's easy lay becomes more complex than her thesis. But grumpy Zaf is secretly a romantic - and he's determined to corrupt Dani's stone-cold realism. Now half the internet is shipping #DrRugbae - and Zaf is begging Dani to play along.ĭani's plan is simple: fake a relationship in public, seduce Zaf behind the scenes. But before she can explain that fact, a video of the heroic rescue goes viral. When brooding security guard Zafir Ansari rescues her from a workplace fire drill gone wrong, it's an obvious sign: PhD student Dani and ex-rugby player Zaf are destined to sleep together. So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits. ![]() But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. USA Today bestselling author Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him 'rescuing' her from their office building goes viral - perfect for fans of Sally Thorne, Jasmine Guillory and Helen Hoang!ĭanika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown and an occasional roll in the hay to relive all that career-driven tension. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Men at arms pratchett![]() ![]() ![]() Men At Arms is the second book in the City Watch series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order. the best-crafted book I have read all year' Sunday Express The new recruits will need to learn fast. The heavy velvet curtains were drawn, even though there was still plenty of daylight left in the sky. Which is a shame, because no one knows the streets of Ankh-Morpork or its criminal underworld better than him.Īnd someone armed and dangerous has been getting ideas about power and destiny and lost kings, committing a string of seemingly random murders across the city. Men at Arms: The Play (Discworld Stage Adaptations) by Stephen Briggs (Adapter), Terry Pratchett (Creator) 4.40 Rating details 29,873 ratings 68 reviews In this latest 1 international bestseller, the hilarious and twisted author of Soul Music delivers readers once again into Discworld. There was barely room for the half dozen or so people who sat at the huge table. What's more, Captain Sam Vimes is getting married and retiring from the Watch. New recruits have been hired to reflect the city's diversity, including Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), and Lance-constable Angua (a woman. Times are a-changing in Ankh-Morpork's Night Watch. THE PROBLEM IS, PEOPLE ONLY THINK FOR THEMSELVES IF YOU TELL THEM TO.' ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Louise jensen the date![]() ![]() ![]() so addictive!' Steph and Chris Book Reviews ![]() 'This novel was paced perfectly and I actually finished it in one day because I couldn't put it down. An exceptional book.' Just One More Page, 5 stars This book had me guessing right up to the very end. What readers are saying about Louise Jensen: Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train and Before I Go To Sleep. 1 bestselling author of The Sister, The Gift and The Surrogate, The Date is a gripping page-turner that will keep you awake until the early hours. And she can't recognise the person who is trying to destroy her.įrom the no. ![]() She can't recognise her friends and family. Worse still, when she looks in the mirror, Ali doesn't recognise the face staring back at her. She is home, she is alone, she is hurt and she has no memory of what happened to her. She wakes, and she knows that something is wrong. She is about to take a step into her new future.īy Sunday morning, Ali's life is unrecognisable. She is ready, she is nervous, she is excited. Recently separated from her husband, Ali has been persuaded by her friends to go on a date with a new man. Something bad has happened to Alison Taylor. ![]() ![]() ![]() May 5 NFL Star Jamaal Williams Hosts Naruto Charity Auction With Voice Actor Maile Flanagan.May 5 Mushoku Tensei Joins The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross Game.Apr 8 Oshi no Ko is a Dark Look at the Entertainment Industry.Apr 10 Anime Boston 2023: What It's Like to Work in Anime (UPDATED).Convention reports chronological archives.May 5 Yōko Nemu's Kocchi Muite yo Mukai-kun Manga Listed with Live-Action Show.May 5 Otakon 2023 Hosts Composer Ryū Kawamura.May 6 Under Ninja TV Anime Announces Main Cast. ![]() 00:26 Manga UP! Global Adds ' Living it up in Another World as a Witch of Creation!' Manga in English.04:31 Fate/Strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- TV Anime Special Has World Premiere at Anime Expo on July 1.05:15 Gamera -Rebirth- Anime Reveals Visual for 3rd Kaiju Zigra.06:15 Otakon 2023 Hosts Voice Actress Junko Iwao, Director Shinji Aramaki.08:15 Gido Amagakure's A Galaxy Next Door Manga Ends, Gets Epilogue.08:32 Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out Anime Film's Trailer Previews Theme Song.8, Spy x Family Rank on NYT May Bestseller List ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Fingerprints of the gods kindle![]() ![]() Night of the Witch is the first book in War God series. ![]() In 2013, he published Nights of the Witch which marked the beginning of War God series. The book is a re-evolution of a well known theory that early man’s advanced civilization was erased from the face of the earth by a giant comet near the end of the last Ice Age. In 1995, Hancock set the pace among the academic elites when his book Fingerprint of the Gods was published. He’s been hailed as the Indiana Jones of alternative archeology and the New Age answer to David Attenborough. Graham Hancock is an English author of history and nonfiction books. Visionary: The Mysterious Origins of Human Consciousness Keeper of Genesis / The Message of the Sphinx (With: Robert Bauval)įingerprints of the Gods: The Quest Continues Journey Through Pakistan (With: Mohamed Amin) ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Save the ocean bethany stahl![]() ![]() How can you help clean up the contaminated environment &the water? Kleisha had to figure out what was wrong with him. ![]() There's also an animated audio version of this book on YouTube ( ), but the animated story doesn't have the words/text included, so you may want to read the book first and then use the audio version as a helpful read along.Īgwe (sea turtle) was headed to find some jellyfish & invited Kleisha (mermaid) to come along. It's definitely worth checking out with kiddos that are learning from home. This book, especially if it's still free, would be nice to use as an extension of science lessons on ocean environments and ways to protect the planet. The main message of the book is recycle plastic bags and encourage people to use reusable bags as much as possible. Kaleisha helps him out, but then the two decide to learn about ways to make sure that sort of thing doesn't happen to other animals. ![]() Agwe is feasting on some jellyfish, when he accidently ingests a plastic bag. These two friends have a great story to tell about the importance of keeping the oceans clean, so that sea creatures aren't harmed. This is a cute picture book featuring a mermaid, Kaleisha, and her friend, a green sea turtle named Agwe. I'm not sure how long the book is available at that price, but the other books in the series are available for $2.99 each on Amazon, so still pretty affordable. An Amazon Kindle edition of this picture book was available through BookBub for free. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the rain continues and the waters rise, each attempt to survive both the flood and each other while also resisting the strange pull of the monstrous, Leviathan-like creatures that have appeared to haunt the depths of the water beneath them. When a storm of biblical proportions strikes, the wayward sisters are begrudgingly forced together. Doris is trying to cope with her recent physical impairment from a car accident, while Thea roams the streets in search of more heroin. Sisters Doris and Thea are ten years, and seemingly worlds, apart. ![]() In debut-author Tiffany Meuret's, A FLOOD OF POSIES, estranged sisters find themselves thrust together as they battle both a world-ending flood and the monsters of their pasts. IN A FLOODED WORLD, TWO SISTERS FIGHT TO SURIVE THEMSELVES, EACH OTHER, AND THAT WHICH LURKS BENEATH THE WATER The monsters of your past are coming…and they've brought the deep with them. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Mossflower by brian jacques![]() ![]() In France, and other countries which observe Roman Law, the task of the court in a criminal case is to arrive at the truth, as far as it can be perceived by human eyes, and the business of establishing the outlines of the truth falls not on a jury, which is strictly asked to enter a judgement, but upon a juge d’instruction. Trials are conflicts and verdicts are decisions the two sides ‘win’ or ‘lose’. In England (and America), the task of the court in criminal cases, which it devolves upon a jury, is to arrive at a verdict of ‘guilty’ or ‘not guilty’ on the evidence presented by prosecuting and defending counsel in turns. The most useful, to my mind, is that of the difference between the English and French judicial systems. ![]() But there can be suggestions and useful analogies. “There cannot be any hard and fast rules. ![]() ![]() This is a standard action thriller, full of violence but short of surprises and developed characterizations. antiterrorist unit known as Taskforce, and his allies, including Shoshana, a stereotypical Israeli assassin who snaps out of a catatonic state after a prompt from Pike to remember the Pumpkin King from Tim Burton’s movie The Nightmare Before Christmas. While working as a contractor at an Australian F-35 facility, the former Taskforce membercallsign Dunkinsaw something he shouldn’t have, and now he’s on the run from. Standing in the way of that calamity are Pike, a member of a discredited covert U.S. Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill are enjoying a sunny vacation down under when they get disturbing news: their friend and colleague Clifford Delmonty is in serious trouble. Fearing for his life, Migonuv agrees to do what he can to provoke a war in Europe, including shooting down an American aircraft. On Putin’s orders, security men smother the Gazprom executives for their failure to stop the Ukrainians from working on a gas line that would make their country no longer reliant on Russia for energy. Simon Migonuv, the head of a Russian organized crime syndicate, is summoned to Vladimir Putin’s Black Sea estate, where he attends a meeting with the Russian president and four executives of Gazprom, the world’s largest oil company. ![]() ![]() ![]() The stakes are high in bestseller Taylor’s workmanlike 10th Pike Logan thriller (after 2015’s The Forgotten Soldier). ![]() |