![]() But in the subsequent days, she cheers herself up with fantasies of Daniel, her boss’s boss, a handsome rogue with an enticingly dissolute air. Mark is wearing a diamond-patterned sweater that rules him out as a potential lust object, but Bridget’s reflexive rudeness causes her to ruminate on her own undesirability and thus to binge on chocolate Christmas-tree decorations. ![]() At Una Alconbury’s New Year’s Day Curry Buffet, her parents and their friends hover as she’s introduced to an eligible man, Mark Darcy. Bridget, a thirtysomething with a midlevel publishing job, tempers her self-loathing with a giddy (if sporadic) urge toward self-improvement: Every day she tallies cigarettes smoked, alcohol -units-consumed, and pounds gained or lost. Newspaper columnist Fielding’s first effort, a bestseller in Britain, lives up to the hype: This year in the life of a single woman is closely observed and laugh-out-loud funny. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Redhead is no different in this respect, but it has a slighter feel to it than some of her masterpieces. Tyler is famous for writing extraordinary novels about ordinary people. He has a girlfriend that he likes well enough, and a big, brash extended family that he visits from time to time. He lives in Baltimore and makes a mediocre living as a computer technician. Micah is in many ways a classic Tyler character. And it’s almost certain nobody’s ever asked him.” Meet Micah Mortimer, the curmudgeonly, mid-40s protagonist of Anne Tyler’s latest novel Redhead by the Side of the Road. “Does he ever stop to consider his life? The meaning of it, the point? Does it trouble him to think that he will probably spend his next thirty or forty years this way? Nobody knows. ![]() ![]() Every death carries a dangerous message, another in a trail of breadcrumbs that can only end in blood. ![]() Foxlike and sullen, Seong-Jae’s disdainful beauty conceals a smoldering and ferocious temper, and as he and Malcolm clash the sparks between them build until neither can tell the difference between loathing and desire.īut as bodies pile up at their feet a string of strange, seemingly unrelated murders takes a bizarre turn, leading them deeper and deeper into Baltimore’s criminal underworld. Seong-Jae is all that and more, impossible to work with and headstrong enough to get them both killed…if they don’t kill each other first. He’s used to working alone-and the last thing he needs is a new partner ten years his junior. ![]() Baltimore homicide detective Malcolm Khalaji has his own way of doing things: quiet, methodical, logical, effective, not always particularly legal. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zambra finds an original way to evoke life in a time of oppression and political terror by turning his book inward, shifting between fiction and a sort of meta-memoir. ![]() But though the book looks lean, don’t mistake it for something slight, as Zambra thoughtfully - even beautifully - navigates through larger themes of loss, political oppression and the nature of writing against the backdrop of Chile during and after the rule of dictator Augusto Pinochet. His previous novels, “The Secret Lives of Trees” and “Bonsai,” earned acclaim while coming in at fewer than 100 pages, and his latest effort, “Ways of Going Home,” is Melville-esque by comparison, topping out at 160. While many novelists create doorstop-sized statements in their reach for something profound and canonical, Chilean poet and novelist Alejandro Zambra is an adherent to the idea that less is more. ![]() In an age when writing careers can be born on the strength of 140-character tweets, massive word counts aren’t required to make an impression. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rita, the middle child, is fiery and headstrong not afraid to speak her mind or start a fight with anyone, human or otherwise. He has the ability to physically feel the harm done to others. Tendai is the gentlest and most sensitive of all the children. Much to his father's disappointment, Tendai, the oldest child, will never make a good warrior. Matisika has too many enemies so homeschooling, work, play essentially his children's every blessed second is spent behind gigantic heavily guarded walls. They are the overprotected and bored children of General Matsika, Chief of Security. ![]() ![]() In this landscape are Tendai, Rita, and Kuda. Witchcraft, spirits, and powers beyond human recognition rule the landscape. It is also a world full of ancient African cultures and traditions. Basically, insert your favorite sci-fi stereotype here. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm takes place in a world of computer animated Dobermans and genetically engineered monkeys a world where creatures called She Elephants (that aren't actually elephants) mine for plastic in a toxic dump. ![]() ![]() He originally posted the list on Twitter, and repurposed it for CBC Books. In 2021, Robertson curated this list of books by Indigenous writers about residential schools. Why the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation isn't just another stat holiday 30, Canada will mark its second National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a time to commemorate children who died while being forced to attend residential schools, those who survived and made it home, their families and communities still affected by the lasting trauma. Here is a thread of books, thanks to all who listed them over the last week (1/?)- Sept. There's no excuse not to know the history or its impact. Stories have played, & will continue to play, a role in educating Canadians, young & old, about the terrible legacy of Residential Schools. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was also instrumental in persuading the French to lend military assistance to the colonies. He served on the Second Continental Congress and helped draft the Declaration of Independence. On December 19, 1732, Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia first published Poor Richard’s Almanack. He returned to America in March 1775, with war on the horizon. He spent time in London representing Pennsylvania in its dispute with England and later spent time in France. By 1748, Franklin had become more interested in inventions and science than publishing. He began publishing Poor Richard’s, as well as the Pennsylvania Gazette, one of the colonies’ first and best newspapers. In 1729, Franklin became the official printer of currency for the colony of Pennsylvania. The book, filled with proverbs preaching industry and prudence, was published continuously for 25 years and became one of the most popular publications in colonial America, selling an average of 10,000 copies a year.įranklin was born in Boston in 1706 and was apprenticed to his brother, a printer, at age 12. In 1736 Franklin signed a contract to print money for New Jersey and became its official printer in 1740. ![]() On December 19, 1732, Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia first published Poor Richard’s Almanack. ![]() ![]() You name it, he was there: launching the nonviolent student protest movement at the Nashville sit-ins, Freedom Riding through the Deep South, delivering the March on Washington’s most controversial speech, serving time in Mississippi’s infamously brutal Parchman prison, organizing the voter registration drive that brought Schwerner, Goodman, and Cheney to Mississippi, marching in Birmingham in 1963 and Selma in 1965. Lewis’s itinerary during the civil- rights movement reads like a highlight of its most significant moments. His adulthood is the quintessence of the struggle to break that oppression. This son of Alabama sharecroppers grew up in a rural shotgun shack, picked cotton, matriculated in a tumbledown one-room schoolhouse, and faced Jim Crow segregation on every trip to town. Lewis’s childhood was the quintessence of post-Reconstruction southern black life. Georgia congressman Lewis (with journalist D’Orso’s help) crafts a passionate, principled, and absorbing first-person account of the civil-rights movement-dramatic, well-paced history fired by moral purpose and backed by the authority of hard time in the trenches. ![]() ![]() ![]() The books in this collection distill the wisdom and heart of the work Shambhala Publications has published over 50 years into a compact format that is collectible, reader-friendly, and applicable to everyday life. The covers in this series are rendered by Colorado artist Robert Spellman. This is a treasury of 108 short selections from the best-selling books of Pema. The Shambhala Pocket Library is a collection of short, portable teachings from notable figures across religious traditions and classic texts. ![]() Designed for on-the-go inspiration,this is a perfect guide to Buddhist principles and the foundations of meditation and mindfulness. Here she presents teachings on breaking free of destructive patterns developing patience, kindness, and joy amid our everyday struggles becoming fearless and unlocking our natural warmth, intelligence, and goodness. Size: 3 x 4.5 ISBN: 9781590306512 Details Here is a treasury of 108 short selections from the best-selling books of Pema Chödrön, the beloved Buddhist nun. She is resident teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery in North America established for Westerners. Pema Chödrön, beloved Buddhist nun and best-selling author, offers this treasury of 108 short selections from her more than four decades of study and writings. ![]() ![]() A portable collection of short inspirational readings by “one of the world's wisest women”-the American Buddhist teacher and author of When Things Fall Apart ( O, the Oprah Magazine) ![]() ![]() OL21359244W Page_number_confidence 94.75 Pages 326 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220124113940 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 277 Scandate 20220123203706 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781444736885 Tts_version 4. But my favorite works of his The Bottoms, Edge of Dark Water, to name a couple. ![]() Urn:lcp:edgeofdarkwater0000lans_v6x9:lcpdf:d57976e5-d1ae-43e2-94ee-01e7eefb6363 Lansdale best for his entertaining Hap and Leonard novels. 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