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Love radio ebony ladelle5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Prince has always dreamed of becoming a DJ and falling in love. After all, at seventeen, he has his own segment on Detroit's popular hip-hop show, Love Radio, where he dishes out advice to the brokenhearted. ![]() Prince Jones is the guy with all the answers-or so it seems. Hitch meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this "mega swoon-worthy, effortlessly cool" (Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author) novel about a self-professed teen love doctor with a popular radio segment who believes he can get a girl who hates all things romance to fall in love with him in only three dates. Description "Readers won't be able to get enough of these dope-ass characters." -Elizabeth Acevedo, author of Clap When You Land ![]()
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Book the man without qualities5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() The hospital aide clothed in lily-white, who, with the help of acids, thins out a patient’s stool in a white china dish in order to obtain a purple smear, rubbing it until the right hue rewards her attention, is already living, whether she knows it or not, in a world more open to change than is the young lady who shudders at the sight of the same stuff in the street. It practically revolutionises an outlook at the entire existing order of things… Short of an actual revolution, of course.Įven the outright reactionaries pretend to dig the new until the new starts breaking the old order of things… And The Man Without Qualities is groundbreaking in everything and in all directions. Revolutionary views? I’m afraid I must admit that I’m by no means an out-and-out opponent of revolutionary views. ![]() ![]() Everyone in the world has one’s own individual attitude to the surrounding reality… ![]()
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The complete illustrated sherlock holmes5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This required that he provide periodic medical assistance in the towns of Aston (now a district of Birmingham) and Sheffield. He then went on to Stonyhurst College, leaving in 1875.įrom 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather.Īt the age of nine Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school, Hodder Place, Stonyhurst. His baptism record in the registry of St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh gives 'Arthur Ignatius Conan' as his Christian name, and simply 'Doyle' as his surname. They were married in 1855.Īlthough he is now referred to as "Conan Doyle", the origin of this compound surname (if that is how he meant it to be understood) is uncertain. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, a talented illustrator, was born in England of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born the third of ten siblings on in Edinburgh, Scotland. ![]()
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A Savage Dreamland by David Eimer5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() The story of modern Burma is told through the voices of the people Eimer encounters along the way: former political exiles, the squatters in Yangon's shanty towns, radical monks, Rohingya refugees, princesses and warlords, and the ethnic minorities clustered along the country's frontiers. Setting out from Yangon, the old capital, David Eimer travels throughout this enigmatic nation, from the tropical south to the Burmese Himalayas in the far north, via the Buddhist-centric heartland and the jungles and mountains where rebel armies fight for autonomy in the longest-running civil wars in recent history. A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma reveals a country where temples take priority over infrastructure, fortune tellers thrive and golf courses are carved out of war zones. ![]() Nothing is straightforward in this captivating land that is home to a combustible mix of races, religions and resources. A historic 2015 election swept an Aung San Suu Kyi-led civilian government to power and was supposed to usher in a new golden era of democracy and progress, but Burma remains unstable and undeveloped, a little-understood country. ![]() The first of its kind: an exploration of one of the most mysterious countries in the world, as told by one of the first outsiders to access the country in its entiretyįor almost fifty years Burma was ruled by a paranoid military dictatorship and isolated from the outside world.
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![]() ![]() ![]() The key is that it be speculative, not that it fit some arbitrary genre guidelines. History, Postmodern Lit., and more are all welcome here. Not sure what counts as speculative fiction? Then post it! Science Fiction, Fantasy, Alt. Canticle for Leibowitz Rendezvous with Rama Princess of Mars Altered Carbon Foundation Blindsight Accelerando Old Man's War Armor Cities in Flight A Brave New World Children of Dune Stranger in a Strange Land Dhalgren Enders Game Gateway A Fire Upon the Deep Neuromancer A Clockwork Orange Ringworld Diamond Age Lord of Light Hyperion Startide Rising Terminal World The Forever War Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hunger Games Left Hand of Darkness Man in the High Castle The Martian Chronicles The Player of Games The Shadow of the Torturer Sirens of Titan The Stars my Destination To Your Scattered Bodies GoĪ place to discuss published Speculative Fiction ![]()
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Survivor christina crawford5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() This book features an exclusive new introduction by the author, plus rare photographs from her personal collection and one hundred pages of revealing material not found in the original manuscript.Ĭhristina Crawford is the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the memoirs Mommie Dearest and Survivor, as well as the women's history book Daughters of the Inquisition. ![]() ![]() She endured and survived, becoming the voice of so many other victims who suffered in silence, and giving them the courage to forge a productive life out of chaos. A fierce battle of wills, their relationship could be characterized as an ultimately successful, for Christina, struggle for independence. But at home, her lonely, controlling, even ruthless mother made her life a nightmare. Christina was a young girl shown off to the world as a fortunate little princess. It also shed light on the guarded world of Hollywood and stripped away the facade of Christina's relentless, alcoholic abuser: her adoptive mother, movie star Joan Crawford. When Christina Crawford's harrowing chronicle of child abuse was first published in 1978, it brought global attention to the previously closeted subject. The 40th anniversary edition of the "shocking" #1 New York Times bestseller with an exclusive new introduction by the author (Los Angeles Times). ![]()
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Cordelia's honor5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Sick of combat and betrayal, she was ready to settle down to a quiet life, interrupted only by the occasional ceremonial appearances required of the Lady Vorkosigan. ![]() Discovering deception within deception, treachery within treachery, she was forced into a separate peace with her chief opponent, Lord Aral Vorkosigan - he who was called "The Butcher of Komarr" - and would consequently become an outcast on her own planet and the Lady Vorkosigan on his. ![]() In her first trial by fire, Cordelia Naismith captained a throwaway ship of the Betan Expeditionary Force on a mission to destroy an enemy armada. This a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780671578282, newer one here. ![]()
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Thank you mr falker cover5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() They tormented her, and she tormented herself. That’s not what the teachers intended to teach her. Instead, she learned that she was stupid. But she didn’t learn to read in kindergarten, or in first grade, or even in second grade. ![]() And the family says in unison, “Yes, and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book!” He puts honey on the cover of a book, and tells her to taste it. It’s one that has been handed down in the family. When Trisha is five years old, and about to start kindergarten, her grandfather holds a ceremony for her. Falker tells the story of a girl named Trisha as she struggles to learn to read. You don’t expect them to grab your heart and wring tears out of your eyes.īut that’s exactly what Thank You, Mr. I try to avoid it.īut I thought Thank You, Mr. And it’s awkward, sitting on the train with a book on my lap and tears running down my face. I’m a sappy and sentimental reader, and all kinds of stories make me cry. I should have known not to read Thank You, Mr. ![]()
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The maddaddam trilogy order5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() With breathtaking command of her brilliantly conceived material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, she projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter. ![]() This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. Synopsis: From Booker Prize–winner and #1 national bestseller Margaret Atwood, The MaddAddam Trilogy is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. ![]()
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Maurice leloir les trois mousquetaires5/23/2023 ![]() The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (illustration of the Appleton edition) by Maurice Leloir and Jules Huyot – WikiCommons Below are 5 of the best books written by Alexandre Dumas! ![]() That’s a lot to choose from, so I can understand if you’re unsure where to begin! I’m a Dumas lover, so let me give you some suggestions. He had a penchant for drama and intrigue, and his works are usually quite the page-turners! Dumas also specialized in the genre, Romanticism, and was the rival of another famous French writer, Victor Hugo.ĭumas penned a whopping 100,000 pages in his lifetime, including 200 books. He wrote plays, essays, novels, and travelogues. Dumas’ biracial background served as an inspiration for his fight against racism, and he even published a book on the subject called Georges.ĭumas started out by writing plays, and the first time his work was ever performed in Paris he was just 27 years old. “Dumas” is a tribute to his grandmother, a former Haitian slave. ![]() His real name is Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, but he decided fairly early on to go by Alexandre. ![]() He lived and worked in Paris in the mid-19th century. ![]() Alexandre Dumas is a legendary French writer. ![]() |