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My Sweet Girl by Amanda Jayatissa5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Oh my.oh.my.oh.my.argh! This.is.freaking.fantastic. Happy pub day to this mind blowing debut! Did Paloma's secret die with Arun or is she now in greater danger than ever before? Paloma is terrified this is all somehow tangled up in the desperate actions she took to escape Sri Lanka so many years ago. ![]() Paloma flees the apartment but by the time the police arrive, there's no body-and no evidence that Arun ever even existed in the first place. Paloma has to admit, it feels good helping someone find their way in America-until Arun discovers Paloma's darkest secret, one that could jeopardize her own fragile place in this country.īefore Paloma can pay Arun off, she finds him face down in a pool of blood. ![]() ![]() Now at thirty and recently cut off from her parents’ funds, Paloma decides to sublet the second bedroom of her overpriced San Francisco apartment to Arun, who recently moved from India. Paloma thought her perfect life would begin once she was adopted and made it to America, but no matter how far you run, your past will always catch up to you…Įver since she was adopted from a Sri Lankan orphanage, Paloma has had the best of everything-schools, money, and parents so perfect that she fears she'll never live up to them. ![]()
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Redwall by Brian Jacques5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The streaming giant has plans for an animated original movie adaptation of the first book in the series, Redwall, as well as an animated TV series adapting the adventures of the books’ legendary Martin the Warrior, whose exploits begin in Mossflower, the second book in the series. Recently, Netflix announced that they have acquired the rights to the entire library of Redwall books. ![]() ![]() RELATED: 10 Incredible Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books That Need Adaptations The books, which were published from 1986 to 2011, the last one seeing posthumous release just months after its author’s passing, were aimed mostly at elementary and middle-grade readers, though they have an undeniable appeal for adults as well, and often explore dark and serious elements.ĭespite the popularity of the series, however, the Redwall books have only ever made it to the screen once before, in a three-season animated series that aired on public television in the United States beginning in 1999. For those who didn’t grow up reading them, British author Brian Jacques’ Redwall series is a massive, 22-book saga of anthropomorphic animals fighting epic battles of good-and-evil. ![]()
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Room hate penelope ward5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() OL24335331W Page_number_confidence 93.36 Pages 288 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220217164943 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 829 Scandate 20220212224331 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781523662449 Tts_version 4. She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a television news. Urn:lcp:roomhate0000ward:epub:99403c23-c918-4174-a5e8-3653ba8bf59d Foldoutcount 0 Identifier roomhate0000ward Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2zzhbct4f1 Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781523662449ġ523662441 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9699 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0001166 Openlibrary_edition Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and 1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:17:19 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40369115 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]()
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Quichotte by salman rushdie5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirize the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the listener on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. ![]() Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where “Anything-Can-Happen.” Meanwhile his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Named One of The Best Books of The Year by Time and NPR Love and language.” (Jeanette Winterson, The New York Times Book Review ) “Lovely, unsentimental, heart-affirming.a remembrance of what holds our human lives in some equilibrium - a way of feeling and a way of telling. An epic Don Quixote for the modern age, “a brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder” ( Time ) from internationally best-selling author Salman Rushdie ![]()
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Review of the candy house5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() While there are “eluders” like Bix’s son Gregory, who refuse to share their private thoughts with strangers, many are seduced by the convenience and power of this collective tool. One of those instruments of change is Bix, an NYU classmate of Sasha in Goon Squad but here a vastly rich social media magnate who, in 2016, makes the next leap in the “Self-Surveillance Era” by creating, first, Own Your Unconscious, which allows people to externalize their consciousness on a cube, and then Collective Consciousness, which offers the option of “uploading all or part of your externalized memory to an online ‘collective,’ ” thereby gaining access to “the anonymous thoughts and memories of everyone, living or dead, who had done the same.” Egan explores the impact of this unnervingly plausible innovation with her habitual panache, ranging from her characters’ pre-internet youths to the 2030s. Egan revisits some characters from A Visit From the Goon Squad (2010) and their children to continue her exploration of what fiction can be and do in the 21st century.Īs Manhattan Beach (2017) showed, Egan is perfectly capable of writing a satisfying traditional novel, but she really dazzles when she turns her formidable gifts to examining the changes to society and individuals wrought by the internet and social media. ![]()
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Oremere chronicles5/28/2023 ![]() It’s the prequel to the other three books. Book 2 was the best and was very satisfying and well written. but she’ll need them for what comes next. In a land where the mist can kill, magic is forbidden, and the powerful plot against each other, Bleak is caught in the middle.Īll she wants is a cure for her powers. But he isn’t the only one who needs her for their plans. When the king sends his top commander to take her, Bleak is too hungover to resist. Her powers have grown more than she knows. ![]() But the haze of the mead and wine has hidden something from her. but she was clever, even without resorting to magic.Īt 16, Bleak lost the only person she cared for when her mentor died at sea. With hours of adventure, secrets, magic, and mystery, this collection has been called “fantasy at its finest”, “addictive”, and “captivating” by fans all around the world. This omnibus set includes all four books in The Oremere Chronicles series by best-selling author Helen Scheuerer. ![]()
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The woodlanders hardy5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Situations, desires, hopes are set up and cruelly dashed as the beautiful narrative machinations begin cranking - the man-trap scene had me literally sweating. What astonishes first is Hardy's plot, related by a weirdly troubling narrator, awesomely intricate in itself, but full of an almost Nabokovian sadism. Not the characters, who rarely rise above their stock roles - the decent, honourable heroine impossibly torn between passion and propriety the manly, back-to-nature hero, who could come straight from Cold Comfort Farm the impoverished aristocratic cad his wealthy lover, the promiscuous bored ex-actress gold digger the bumbling middle-class trader of lowly origins. The Woodlanders is a masterpiece and absolute joy to read for two reasons. ![]() The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace Melbury. ![]()
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Norma Kent of the WACS by Roy J. Snell5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1921.Ī girl desperate to leave Boston buys a train ticket to Blossom, Maine, where she finds both independence and romance. However, the narrative is spiced with accounts of courtship, and the entrance of female characters who hold their own, both in battle and in life. This peculiar piece of juvenile literature is essentially a "boys" adventure story, filled with shipboard adventures, pirates and exotic settings. New York: The Authors and Newspapers Association, 1906. ![]() At the start of this novel, she moves into her own home, living alone for the first time. Rebeka has an odd name, a dark complexion, and has recently vowed to "live on earth as in heaven." In every respect, she is an anomaly, out of place in her world. Burt, 1898.Ī country girl struggles against social, class, and family expectations, travelling to the city to become a real artist. Annice Wynkoop, Artist: The Perseverance of a Country Girl. Lee and Shepard, 1868.Ī series of short stories about poor but adventurous girls who find success in life. ![]()
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The man who laughs hugo5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() And while the two often find themselves at odds on screen, in person their rapport is anything but. Meanwhile Fisher Stevens has become a social media fixation as younger Succession viewers learn about his extensive filmography-and extensive dating history. The pair are equal parts desperation and composure, a perfect balance of icy professionalism and underworldly maneuvers.ĭominczyk has since been seen elsewhere portraying characters just as icy, if not more intimidating, like her role as a threatening wife in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter. That chaos is perhaps no more apparent than in the pairing of Karolina and Hugo, the Waystar Royco communications team played by Dagmara Dominczyk and Fisher Stevens. Now with Logan gone, the gravity holding those groupings has left some flailing and revealed others to be tightly grounded. ![]() There are of course, the Roy children there are the disgusting brothers, Tom and Greg, the odd couple of Karl and Frank, the oedipal pairing of Gerri and Roman. A series of small ecosystems make up the Waystar Royco C-suite on HBO’s Succession groupings of individuals bound by trust, loyalty, fear, and blackmail. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Norwegian - Cappelens (DROMMER OM FRIHET), Bokklubb, 1994 (reverted) Malayalam – Serialization Chandrika Weekly, 2011 book version DC Books, 2014 (reverted) Italian - Giunti (LA TERRAZZA PROIBITA), 1996 Astrea Pocket Edition, 2006 new edition, 2023 German - Herder (DER HAREM IN UNS), 1994 paper, 1996 (reverted) Doubleday/ UK, 1994 under title THE HAREM WITHIN (reverted)Īrabic – Le Fennec (NISSEA ALLA), 1997 new edition forthcomingĬatalan - Ediciones Columna, 1996 reissue, 2003 (reverted)Ĭhinese - The Writers Publishing House, 2007 (reverted)ĭanish - Centrum (GRAENSELOSE DROMME), 1994 Boger book club, 1995 Den Grimme Aelling audio, 1997 (reverted)ĭutch - De Geus (HET VERBODEN DAKTERRAS), ECI bookclub, 1994 paper, 1995įinnish - Otava (UNELMA VAPAUDESTA), 1995 (reverted)įrench- Albin Michel (RÊVES DE FEMMES: Une Enfance au Harem), 1996 Livres de Poche, 1998 Edition: English / US -Addison Wesley, 1994 Book-of-the-Month Club & Quality Paperback Book Club, 1994 paperback Perseus, 1995. ![]() |