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Protecting Jill will take him into familiar territory-among a strange, savagely competitive bunch of collectors who'll do anything to stay at the top. Though he's got the skills to be a highly effective bodyguard, being a bullet catcher isn't his preferred way to spend time. His expertise is gathering and analyzing information from unlikely and often dangerous sources. Zach Balfour works part-time as a consultant for St. But when a string of ominous events-including a mysterious fire that kills her great-aunt and a furor in the Western art world raised by a dozen Breck family paintings-culminates in a threat to her life, Jill reluctantly calls in a favor. Jill Breck was just doing her job as a river guide when she saved the life of Lane Faroe, son of two of St.
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Clean by Katherine Ashenburg6/29/2023 Every culture defines it for itself, choosing what it sees as the perfect point between squalid and over-fastidious. For the Roman in the first century, it involved two or more hours of splashing, soaking and steaming the body in water of various temperatures, raking off sweat and oil with a metal scraper, and giving himself a final oiling - all done daily, in company and without soap.Įven more than in the eye or the nose, cleanliness exists in the mind of the beholder. For the aristocratic seventeenth-century Frenchman, it meant that he changed his linen shirt daily and dabbled his hands in water but never touched the rest of his body with water or soap. For the modern, middle-class North American, "clean" means that you shower and apply deodorant each and every day without fail.
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Sellout the major label feeding frenzy6/29/2023 As Ozzi’s brilliant epilogue serves to illustrate, this period was one of rapid upheaval for the music business. Sellout’s biggest strength is that doesn’t seek to cast judgment on acts for their decision to jump in with the majors. However, where Ozzi’s true strength as a writer and storyteller comes through is in the meticulous construction of chapters, and how these seemingly personal stories gradually lock together to form the backbone of the book’s larger subcultural chronology. Throughout the book, Ozzi’s prose is lucid, engaging, and largely objective. those looking for inside baseball on punk, emo, and hardcore’s most (in)famous acts will find plenty to dive into within Sellout.
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Exciting times book ending6/29/2023 Dolan peppers the novel with sharp observations about gender, class, race, colonialism and money.Īva uses her “abortion fund” – the cash she saved in Ireland, just in case that trip to England became necessary – to pay for her flight to Hong Kong, and later she ends up explaining to Julian why she has to fly home to vote in the referendum. Like both Conversations with Friends and Normal People, Exciting Times is about young people who are still learning how to be in the world. What matters here is what is being said – or, often more accurately, what is not being said. Dolan’s pared-back style is reminiscent of Rooney’s eschewal of all extraneous scene-setting. But in this particular instance, there is something in the appraisal. Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan, published by W&NĪny young, female Irish novelist writing about millennials is inevitably going to find herself compared to Sally Rooney. When Julian returns, Ava finds herself torn between them. While he is gone, she starts spending time with Edith, and history all but repeats itself – only she and Edith aren’t just sleeping together, they’re falling in love, too. Then Julian’s work calls him home to London for a few months, leaving Ava alone in Hong Kong. Not that they are a couple, though they both agree on that. Pretty soon, they start sleeping together and she moves in with him.
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Wells the world set free6/29/2023 Wells's novel may even have influenced the development of nuclear weapons, as the physicist Leà Szilárd read the book in 1932, the same year the neutron was discovered. Soddy's book Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt praises The World Set Free. Wells's knowledge of atomic physics came from reading William Ramsay, Ernest Rutherford, and Frederick Soddy the last discovered the disintegration of uranium. A frequent theme of Wells's work, as in his 1901 nonfiction book Anticipations, was the history of humans' mastery of power and energy through technological advance, seen as a determinant of human progress. Based on Wells' pre-WWII prediction of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort of weapon than the world had yet seen, The World Set Free first appeared in serialized form with the title A Prophetic Trilogy. First American edition of Wellsâ prophetic novel predicting the arrival of atomic weaponry.
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Megan hart tempted series6/29/2023 I’m LOVING it!! We keep seeing smaller characters (and even main characters) from other books appear over and over again. 11 pov s, love hart bums barely he to teen hole does wait amateur open si. What was I waiting for!!? I’m thrilled that it keeps branching off into more and more stories. Lots of recommendations, kept coming my way, and I decided it was time. The original cover of “Dirty” which I LOVED!Īnother series I’m obsessed with! I’ve been devouring these books ever since I finally FINALLY read book #1. UPDATED 01-10-2020 Note: This is going to be both a combination of the “series reading order guide” (scroll further down below if that’s what you need right away ) and also observations, fun notes and trivia about the series in general (as per myself, fellow readers, and the author). Didnt like how James changed when he was around, didnt like how his penetrating eyes followed me everywhere. MARYSE’S SURPRISE FROM HER FAVORITE BOOK BOYFRIEND’S The first time I saw my husbands best friend, I didnt like him.
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With this debut, the Hungarian Tea House mystery series has jumped on my list of all-time favorites, and I’m very excited to see where it goes next. It is both absorbing and, in parts, genuinely spine-tingling. Buckley wove Hungarian legends and traditions into the narrative. The romance is both sweet and believably beset with obstacles, while the mouth-watering food descriptions had me looking up Hungarian restaurants in my vicinity. The mystery is solidly and cleverly constructed, with an unusual motive. I am wildly impressed with the way Julia Buckley incorporates so much into this culinary cozy. But as the investigations continue, Hana and Detective Erik Wolf find themselves increasingly drawn to one another, even as a murderer-or perhaps one of the evil witches of Hungarian legend-prepares to strike again. She shakes it off, intent on showcasing her prized Budapest Butterfly teacup at the event for the Magyar Women’s group, but disaster strikes when that very cup is used to poison one of the guests.Īt first, the detectives in charge rely on Hana, her mother, Maggie, and her tea-leaf-reading grandmother, Juliana, to help translate Hungarian-language testimony and explain cultural peculiarities. Proud as she is of her Magyar heritage, she doesn’t necessarily buy into all their superstitions-until a strong sense of foreboding before a tea service one day literally stops her in her tracks. Hana Keller is the third generation of her Hungarian-American family to run Maggie’s Tea House, the popular Illinois establishment that serves European-style teas.
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Suketu mehta books6/28/2023 As civil strife and climate change reshape large parts of the planet, it is little surprise that borders have become so porous. Mehta juxtaposes the phony narratives of populist ideologues with the ordinary heroism of laborers, nannies, and others, from Dubai to Queens, and explains why more people are on the move today than ever before. As he explains, the West is being destroyed not by immigrants but by the fear of immigrants. Drawing on his own experience as an Indian-born teenager growing up in New York City and on years of reporting around the world, Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering scrutiny. But do we really understand it? In This Land Is Our Land, the renowned author Suketu Mehta attacks the issue head-on. A timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrants There are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and controversy than immigration.
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Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate6/28/2023 It is in consciousness where the character struggles, works through dilemmas, grows and triumphs. Generally, in verse novels, the action happens within the characters’ consciousness. They require engagement by the reader in a way that prose often does not. By their very nature, verse novels seem more introspective. I appreciate the sensitivity to the characters which are often found in verse novels. I loved this book! As a genre, verse novels appeal to me because poems employ language in a way that astounds me with its beauty, unique word choice, exceptional description and gorgeous figurative language. Triptych: Thirteen Year Olds Discover Hidden Telep.Triptych - Developing in One's Own Time.Triptych: Learning Lessons from Grandparents.Integrated Unit: "Introduction to the Library".Author/ Illustrator Study: David Wiesner.Integrated Unit: Second Grade: Dinosaurs.Biography:Ğric Carle was born in Syracuse, New.Meeting the Literature Challenge: A case study bas.Literature Circle Reflection- The City of Ember.Thoughts on The Book Thief Literature Circle.Getting Lost with Alice in Her Adventures in Wonde. Movie Review: The Indian in the Cupboard.Literature Circle Reflection: Home of the Brave.Circle: Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate Literature Circle Reflection - The City of Ember. |