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Senlin ascends series7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() "Senlin is a man worth rooting for, and his strengthening resolve and character is as marvelous and sprawling as the tower he climbs."- The Washington Post on Senlin Ascends Mark Lawrence, author of Prince of Thorns on Senlin Ascends I was dragged in and didn't escape until I'd finished two or three days later." " Senlin Ascends is one of the best reads I've had in ages. ![]() This volume not only matches but adds to the notable achievements of the first."- Publishers Weekly, starred review "Bancroft's world continues to teem with explosive energy, and he ranges ably from the transcendent to the vicious in an instant. I loved every page."- Nicholas Eames, author of Kings of the Wyld on Senlin Ascends "Wonderfully unique and superbly well written. "The "Books of Babel" are something you hope to see perhaps once a decade - future classics, which may be remembered long after the series concludes."- Los Angeles Times on The Hod King I can't wait for more."- Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe His books are that rare alchemy: gracefully written, deliriously imaginative, action-packed, warm, witty, and thought-provoking. I'm wildly in love with this book."- Pierce Brown, author of Red Rising on Senlin Ascends "It's rare to find a modern book that feels like a timeless classic. ![]()
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De profundis oscar7/8/2023 ![]() 3 Wilde himself viewed his work through this lens, writing of his suffering as “a fresh mode of self-realisation.” 4 His account offers a unique point of view from which to probe the depths of mental suffering. It is an externalization of ideas, an interpretation of the narrator’s lived experiences. The narration of illness, or indeed any embodied experience, is more than a journal. His narration parallels, in many ways, the story of one experiencing an illness: forces beyond his control have isolated him and preyed upon his body and mind. Though much of De Profundis is a reflection on his life before prison, Wilde weaves in commentary on his mental suffering in being separated from all he held dear. As “a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of age,” 2 Wilde could not allow his mental trials to pass without seeking a new self from the ashes of his grief. Perhaps most striking is how the letter serves as a prose rhapsody on the nature of mental anguish – an individual reflection on the intersection of physical and psychological suffering. Finally granted permission to write, over a period of three months he produced De Profundis, an eclectic document that ranges from a narrative of his imprisonment to philosophical discourse. ![]() Imprisoned for a relationship that was criminalized by the government of his time, in 1897 Oscar Wilde had spent two years in jail. “There is only one season, the season of sorrow.” 1 ![]() De Profundis: Oscar Wilde’s narrative of mental anguish February 7, 2022 ![]()
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![]() Master of nothing, at the dead center of his game, Sedaris proves that when you play with matches, you sometimes light the whole pack on fire. Also recounted is the buying of a human skeleton and the author's attempt to quit smoking In Tokyo. Subjects include a parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo, and the recreational use of an external catheter. ![]() Author of the national bestsellers Should You Be Attacked By Snakes and If You Are Surrounded by Mean Ghosts, David Sedaris, with When You Are Engulfed in Flames, is clearly at the top of his game.ĭavid Sedaris has written yet another book of essays (his sixth). ![]() David Sedaris has studied this phenomenon, and his resulting insights may very well save your life. Culled largely from the New Yorker and 'This. When set on fire, most of us either fumble for our wallets or waste valuable time feeling sorry for ourselves. 'When You Are Engulfed in Flames,' while still quite amusing and eminently readable, is a structureless repository of Sedaris' recent work. ![]() From the shining notorious East Side, When You Are Engulfed in Flames confirms once again that David Sedaris is a master of mystery and suspense. Two straight-A students head off to school, and when only one of them returns home Chesney Yelverton is coaxed from retirement and assigned to what proves to be the most difficult and deadly - case of his career. ![]()
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Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas7/7/2023 ![]() As vendors begin selling T-shirts that read “Iranians go Home,” Dumas’s father loses his job and his pension and is forced to sell all the family's belongings. ![]() But these trials pale in comparison to the family’s difficulties during the hostage crisis. ![]() The author has the usual problems of a stranger in a strange land-nobody can pronounce her name or has any awareness of her homeland-but Dumas tosses in some new ones as well: the communal showers at sleep-away camp (she doesn’t bathe for a week) and the disappointment when her father fails to qualify as a contestant on Bowling for Dollars. Although the adventure in their new country begins with the author and her mother getting lost after elementary-school orientation, the Dumases rapidly embrace their new home: Las Vegas becomes their default vacation destination, and they spend every Christmas watching Bob Hope. In 1972, Dumas’s father, an employee of the Iranian National Oil Company, which had landed a two-year consulting contract with an American firm, came to the US and brought along the entire family. Light-as-air essays about an immigrant childhood in California. ![]()
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Slowly slowly sloth7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C.Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give.By TOPIC Award Winning Books African American Children's Books Biography & Autobiography Diversity & Inclusion Foreign Language & Bilingual Books Hispanic & Latino Children's Books Holidays & Celebrations Holocaust Books Juvenile Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers Professional Development Reference Books Test Prep.By GRADE Elementary School Middle School High Schoolīy AGE Board Books (newborn to age 3) Early Childhood Readers (ages 4-8) Children's Picture Books (ages 3-8) Juvenile Fiction (ages 8-12) Young Adult Fiction (ages 12+). ![]() BESTSELLERS in EDUCATION Shop All Education Books. ![]()
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Come together jessica hawkins7/7/2023 ![]() Because even though I saw Manning first, my older sister saw him next.īook one in a USA TODAY bestselling series of forbidden love. But I'd learn that no matter what you achieve in life, it means nothing if you suffer the heartbreak that comes with falling for someone you can never have. Through all the carefully-chosen words hiding what we knew to be true, his struggle to keep me innocent, and infinitely-starry nights-I would wait. I loved Manning before I knew the meaning of the word. Yet we saw something in each other that would link us in ways that couldn't be broken.no matter how hard we tried. I wore a smiley-face t-shirt and had never even been kissed. ![]() Under the sweat and dirt, Manning Sutter was as handsome as the sun was bright. ![]() ![]() It was a hot summer day when I met him on the construction site next to my parents' house. "The best slow-burn romance I have ever read."-New York Times bestselling author, Penelope Ward ![]()
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The beast by jenika snow7/7/2023 ![]() I just didn’t expect to enjoy being with a monster as much as I did. I was to be his wife, and so I offered myself up as the proverbial sacrifice to the very devil himself. If we were, he’d know she’d come hunting for us, Beast said. ![]() I was to live with him, to be his in every way-all ways-he saw fit. You’ve got to consider that fact she might be trying to set us up. He had pawlike hands tipped with claws and horns that arched back from his inhuman face. ![]() Sharp fangs and eyes that held an unearthly red glow. He was a beastly visage at three times the size of a man, his monstrously huge body covered in fur. What if the Beast never turned into the prince?īartered my body to erase his debt to the very devil himself.Ī creature whispered about amongst the villagers and feared by all. Take My Daddy, I’ll Take Yours by Jenika Snow.Download The Beast by Jenika Snow pdf epub Free Novel: Book The Beast by Jenika Snow is available to download free in pdf epub format. ![]()
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Sin city a dame to kill for comic7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Worldwide, the film has brought in a mere $15 million, and has a lot of ground to cover if it wants to make up its $70 million budget. ![]() The first Sin City, which hit theaters in 2005, managed to do that in its first day. In ten days, the film hasn't even crossed the $11 million mark in the US. That makes the fate of Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez's Sin City: A Dame To Kill For even harder to bear, as it was dead upon arrival last week and has become one of the biggest flops of the year. Even The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which was met with quite a bit of vitriol and a bad critical reception when it hit theaters in May, managed to take in over $750 million worldwide. Bryan Singer and 20th Century Fox knocked it out of the park with X-Men: Days of Future Past, while Marvel had two tremendous (and well-received) hits on their hands: Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy (which just became the highest-grossing film of the year at the United States box office). All in all, 2014 was a pretty great year for comic book movies. ![]()
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![]() ![]() They are, apart from Ariel, the only residents in the hotel. It is Gretchen that holds the only phone that can get a signal for communicating with the outside world. In addition, there is a another ‘daughter’ Gretchen who appears to be mentally ill. Jack is a small boy usually in the corner with face stuck into a video game. ![]() Leonard a buff character on the verge of a big deal. The matriarch Margot is confined to a wheelchair and plays on the emotions of others. The family consists of Margot, her son Leonard and his daughter Olivia and son Jack. Here he meets a rather dysfunctional family, the Borders. Meanwhile Zeva, cutoff from Ariel, waits for his arrival in Amsterdam. This is computer science hell to be completely separated from the virtual world, Ariel’s comfort zone. This is probably his worst nightmare as there is no phone, mobile signal or internet connection. However, when Ariel’s plane is grounded in London and he is booked in to a seaside resort guesthouse. The story starts with Ariel, a computer scientist, and Zeva, his student, who have arranged an illicit meeting at an international conference on informatics in Amsterdam. ![]()
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![]() The stories are scandalous, refreshing, and, of course, incredibly sexy. Misadventures is a romantic series of spicy standalone novels, each written or co-written by some of the best names in romance. A secret big enough to rip Jackson’s carefully ordered world to shreds. But Jackson isn’t used to rejection, and if Piper thinks it’s going to be easy to move on from their tryst, she’s underestimated his determination.Īs their work brings them together, temptation becomes too much, and Piper loses herself in all the wicked pleasure Jackson has to offer. ![]() When she agrees to be set up on a blind date, she never expects it to end with the hottest sex of her life.īut when she discovers that her very well-endowed secret lover is also her new boss, heartless womanizer and cutthroat CEO Jackson Dane, she chalks it up to a one-time mistake and puts up her best professional front. At twenty-nine, Piper Daniels is having the longest dry-spell of her life. ![]() |