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The Baby Blitz by Lex Martin5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Without my permission, my gaze slides across the street to the oversized man-child, who has the gall to be moving furniture shirtless while flexing his stupid abs. PURCHASE LINKS – $2.99 for a limited time!Īs I walk Sienna to her car, she squeals. I’ll just ignore Rider and those soul-searing looks he gives me every time I reach for the baby. Once we solve this dilemma and figure out who’s the daddy, I’m out. They need my help, even if they don’t know it yet. Which means that adorable squawking bundle might be my niece, and there’s no way I’m leaving her unattended with those bumbling football players. I wouldn’t care about their paternity problems-not the slightest bit-except my brother lives there too. ![]() ![]() The problem? Baby mama doesn’t mention which of these numbskulls is the sperm donor. Until someone drops off a baby with a note pinned to her blanket that says one of those jocks-either Rider or one of his roommates-is the father. What’s worse than having Rider Kingston, the star quarterback, give you the big brush-off because he doesn’t want to get serious? You’d probably think living across the street from him where you get a firsthand view of his hookups, right? ![]() ★ A sexy, small town sports romance from USA Today bestselling author Lex Martin! ★ ![]()
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Moonglow michael chabon summary5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() And since we meet each character at various stages of life, in various settings, the book moves quicker, more efficiently, than Chabon’s earlier works. As in his short stories, Chabon proves more than able to render a whole person over the course of a single paragraph. Like his novels, the action builds quite late in the game, and upon mountains of description. If we consider the novel a race and the memoir a marathon, Chabon has been training for Moonglow his whole career. In the book’s disjointed, at times jarring narrative, Chabon gets to choose what sticks. Instead, his first few chapters cover a nighttime caper (a setting familiar to many of Chabon’s novels), an unfortunate kitten, and a particularly creative way to use a letter opener. ![]() Chabon rejects the idea outright, calling it “kind of trite.” For this, he catches a balled up Kleenex to the face. Chabon illustrates this point at the de facto climax of Moonglow, when his grandfather finally concedes to his grandson’s imagination the rights to his own story, all done up with “fancy metaphors.” The grandfather was born during a lunar eclipse, and he asks his grandson to start the book with that fact. ![]()
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A Suitable Affair by Erica Taylor5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() 'Wise and warm with plenty of twists and turns, you'll love this' Rachel Hore, bestselling author a satisfying treat of a novel' Adele Parks ![]() And before they can help her rebuild her shattered future, they must confront their own unspoken secrets, lost loves, and tragedies.įrom the Sunday Times bestselling author Erica James comes a captivating story that sweeps through sixty years of history, love, and family drama. Having caught her own fiance in bed with her best friend just weeks before they were due to marry, she's fled London for the comfort of the Suffolk countryside.Īt Larkspur House, with its magical garden created by renowned garden designer and one-time socialite Elfrida Ambrose, and its comfortingly familiar kitchen presided over by Libby's great-aunt Bess, she hopes to find a way to put her life back together.īut for lifelong friends Bess and Elfrida, Libby's arrival has stirred up the ghosts of the past. As the country prepares to celebrate Prince Charles' wedding to Lady Diana, Libby wants to be as far away from royal wedding fever as possible. ![]() Another heartbreaking but glorious tale of secrets and love from the Sunday Times bestselling author Erica James. ![]()
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Dawn of wonder the wakening book 15/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is a notable disparity between these people’s boundless beliefs and the reality of their constricted lives, lived in environments hostile to their nomadism. In the second of these, The Book of Sand, many interesting debates occur between Jewish dissenters, teasing out, for example, “how God can punish us for our sins with hell?” or whether the messiah is female. The novel is divided into a number of named books. ![]() Having written several novels that vary greatly in both style and subject matter, it was reasonable to expect that Olga Tokarczuk – winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 – would look to fresh themes and intentions when she began writing The Books of Jacob.īut few would have predicted that she would write a novel of more than 900 pages (with the pages numbered backwards), which concerns itself with the mystical beliefs of 18th-century Jews living in central Europe, the factionalism that develops between them, and the burgeoning transition from spiritualism to materialism of a central messianic character who is, at various times, a Jew, a Muslim, a Catholic and a devout believer in his own exceptional transcendence. ![]()
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The pun also rises by john pollack5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() His explanations of the anatomical regions and electrochemical activities in the brain are scientific, but not so scientific as to make the brain ache. One of the “world’s experts on the science of laughter” tells him that “the first joke in human history was most likely a feigned tickle.” He describes the neurological backtracking and cross-referencing required to process ambiguity. ![]() He rightly gives the pun the broadest definition, encompassing all the linguistic, symbolic and even gestural ambiguities of communication. Mercifully, once Pollack has finished describing this contest in excruciating detail, he has a number of things to say that are intelligent instead of clever. The stipulated subject was “external body parts.” The double meaning that gained him his victory was “I’m going to chinnel my energy into coming up with a new pun.” He claims that his first complete sentence was “Bears go barefoot.” He won the 1995 O. John Pollack is an admitted compulsive pun maker. ![]() It was with great trepidation that I o-punned this book. ![]()
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Off the Reservation by Paula Gunn Allen5/19/2023 ![]() Scott Momaday to big hitters like the current poet laureate Joy Harjo and emerging voices like Tommy Orange. In this list, we’ve put together the best Native American authors to give you a headstart, from renaissance titans like James Welch and N. Though the Native American experience takes many forms in writing- a testament to the variety and complexity of Indigenous realities - what does unite these authors is a resounding rejection of whitewashed stereotypes. Most recently, the events at Standing Rock in 2016 and the tumult of the Trump era have inspired a new generation of Native American voices to pick up the baton and produce brilliant, incisive writing that confront important questions of identity. ![]() Subsequent social changes have further catalysed waves of Indigenous writing, as Native American writers grapple with increasing urbanisation and integration into mainstream America. Thankfully, things are different now: due to the political transformations of the 60s and 70s, Indigenous voices have started reaching a far larger audience. Prior to 1968, only nine novels by Native American authors had been published in the US and Canada. 40 Best Native American Authors to Read in 2023 ![]()
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The Everything Store by Brad Stone5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() If you've ever one-clicked a purchase, you must read this book." - Steven Levy, author of Hackers and In the Plex, "Jeff Bezos is one of the most visionary, focused, and tenacious innovators of our era, and like Steve Jobs he transforms and invents industries. ![]() ![]() " The Everything Store is a revelatory read for everyone-those selling and those sold to-who wants to understand the dynamics of the new digital economy. The Everything Store is the book that the business world can't stop talking about, the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read. Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, and his book is the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. 's visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Forbes, New Republic, The Economist, Bloomberg, and Gizmodo. The definitive story of Jeff Bezos and - "It's hard to imagine a better retelling of the Amazon origin story" ( New Republic ). ![]()
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The mill on the floss pages5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Despite the novel’s epic focus on natural history, tending to environmental scales beyond the human and. Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species(1859) was influential to Eliot, being published toward the end of the novel’s composition. The Mill on the Floss draws extensively on the emerging science of evolution and tends to ongoing geological debates between earlier theories of catastrophism and Charles Lyell’s contemporary theory of uniformitarianism in his work Principles of Geology (1830–1833). Ogg’s in the historical region of Lincolnshire, England, known predominantly for its wetland environment and seasonal flooding. ![]() The novel spans Maggie’s childhood and teenage years and takes place in the fictional provincial town of St. It is a coming-of-age story about Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom. Published in three volumes by William Blackwood in 1860, George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss precedes her more famous novel Middlemarch (1871) and is one of her first novels. ![]()
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Ken follett world without end series5/19/2023 ![]() The World) and King Stephen (Tony Curran,Ondine), they’ll stop at nothing to keep those secrets safe! ![]() ![]() But when that light threatens to illuminate the dark secrets of ambitious Bishop Waleran Bigod (Ian McShane, 2005 Golden Globe® Award, Best Actor, TV’s “Deadwood”) and the battling progeny of King Henry, Queen Maud (Alison Pill, Scott Pilgrim vs. Ken Follett’s best-selling novel is brought to life in a star-studded and critically acclaimed eight-part miniseries!Įmerging from the war-torn shadows of England’s Dark Ages, an idealistic mason, Tom Builder (Rufus Sewell,The Holiday), sets out on a quest to erect a glorious cathedral bathed in light. The Emmy Award winning mini-series The Pillars of the Earth and its sequel series World Without End come to Blu-ray The Pillars of the Earth (2010) ![]()
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Patricia collins black feminist thought5/19/2023 ![]() Black feminist thought according to the second chapter of Collin’s Black Feminist Thought. ![]() In this blog, I describe the six features of U.S. Everyday Black women contribute to Black feminist thought.įor example, Cashawn Thompson, an early childhood development expert living in D.C., coined #BlackGirlMagic as a lens for Black women and girls to self-define and innovate positive representations of their identities as a counternarrative to the negative controlling images of Black women and girls that perpetuated by the social institutions of mainstream society. ![]() ![]() Furthermore, not only Black women intellectuals engage in Black feminist thought. However, Patricia Hill Collins writes in the landmark text on the subject that the work of Black women intellectuals constitutes just one feature of Black feminist thought in the United States. For my conceptual framework, I used intersectionality as theorized by Kimberlé Crenshaw in her 1991 article “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.” For example, I analyzed the intersectional social media activism of #SayHerName proponents on Twitter. My research looks at the Black feminist practices of contemporary social movements. Black feminism encompasses both Black feminist thought and practice. ![]() |