5/11/2023 0 Comments Natalie zina walschots next book![]() ![]() But is it really worse than working for an oil conglomerate or an insurance company? In this economy?Īs a temp, she’s just a cog in the machine. ![]() ![]() Working for a monster lurking beneath the surface of the world isn’t glamorous. Includes a bonus story for the paperback.Īnna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. The Boys meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this smart, imaginative, and evocative novel of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption, told with razor-sharp wit and affection, in which a young woman discovers the greatest superpower-for good or ill-is a properly executed spreadsheet. “This book is fast, furious, compelling, and angry as hell.” -Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Nettle & bone![]() ![]() Like many of Kingfisher’s novels, it draws on fairytale elements in its worldbuilding like most of them, it’s strongly concerned, in its own way, with ethics, with power, and with what you do in response to cruelty. ![]() Nettle & Bone shares this combination of the peculiar and the pragmatic. I imagine they share many of the same characteristics.) ![]() Vernon is an award-winning author under both names, and her novels and stories as Kingfisher are united by their combination of pragmatism among characters and peculiarity in worldbuilding, with a strong sense of humour and a definite impression that, given a choice between several options, Kingfisher will choose the one most likely to turn out weird. Kingfisher, as many of us know, is the open pen name of Ursula Vernon. ![]() ![]() ![]() * HAM & HIGH * Steinbach's lively survey brings together the results of researches to offer a revealing portrait of women's lives in every class and all areas of life * SCOTSMAN * A grand sweep of a book, a well-researched, freshly written and unexpectedly entertaining look at "the lost 19th century" from women's points of view * INDEPENDENT * A readable and fresh account of women's lives between the reign of George III and the First World War. * GOOD BOOK GUIDE * The research is impeccable. * SUNDAY HERALD * An intriguing and scholarly study. it offers a fresh and lively interpretation of women's lives between the reign of George III and the First World War. * DAILY TELEGRAPH * The book is well researched and lavishly illustrated. ![]() ![]() Steinbach shows the tension between the political, legal and cultural restrictions against women and the impressive range of activities in which they nevertheless engaged. Steinbach maintains a clear chronological approach within each theme, and writes plain prose, not feminist polemic. Steinbach is an American academic, but the book is refreshingly free of the compound nouns and tortured syntax that usually characterise that calling. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jess holds her loved ones close but working constantly to stay afloat is hard.and lonely.īut then Jess hears about GeneticAlly, a buzzy new DNA-based matchmaking company that’s predicted to change dating forever. After all, her father was never around, her hard-partying mother disappeared when she was six, and her ex decided he wasn’t “father material” before her daughter was even born. Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. ![]() The New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners returns with a witty and effervescent novel about what happens when two people with everything on the line are thrown together by science-or is it fate? Perfect for fans of The Rosie Project and One Plus One. ![]() “A sexy, science-filled, and surprising romance full of warmth and wit.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Ĭhosen as a best pick by Bustle, Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, E! Online, PopSugar, BuzzFeed, Goodreads, Country Living, The Pioneer Woman, Woman’s World, Bookish, Bookreporter, Frolic, and more! “Writing duo and reigning romance queens Christina Lauren are back with The Soulmate Equation, their most ambitious book to date.” - PopSugar ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Discworld hogfather![]() Among his many prizes and citations are the WORLD FANTASY LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, THE CARNEGIE MEDAL, the BSFA AWARD, eight honorary doctorates and, of course, a knighthood. Sir Terry Pratchett is a publishing phenomenon. Pratchett has a subject and a style that is very much his own. His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction. The 20th Discworld novel is a festive feast of darkness and Death (but with jolly robins and tinsel too).Ī sequence of unalloyed delight. Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by morning, otherwise there won't be a morning. ![]() Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the year is getting a lot darker. ![]() IT'S THE NIGHT BEFORE HOGSWATCH AND IT'S TOO QUIET. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Stoneface by Tymber Dalton![]() ![]() Can they weather the storms together, or will forces beyond their control rip their lives apart? Now the race is on to protect their family from an unknown killer and prove their innocence. While a hurricane aims for Savannah, the triad learns information that will forever impact their family and leaves Tom feeling guilty for not being home. She’ll make sure justice is done…even if she has to do it herself. Any threat to her family means she’ll immediately engage momma-bear mode. Which is why he travels with Ty on his journey, to support and love him through it. ![]() Tom loves Ty and understands if his guy doesn’t process things now, it’ll always haunt him. He knows he must deal with it, or forever regret it. All Tyler wants to do is go home following his exhausting book tour, when a phone call from his past brings life to a grinding halt. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Ackroyd dickens![]() ![]() ![]() OL47997W Page_number_confidence 96.05 Pages 1258 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200303185531 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1142 Scandate 20200303081727 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0060166029 Tts_version 3. Urn:lcp:dickens0000ackr:lcpdf:20801265-3c87-429a-a00f-36c4bee4d61d Dickens the novelist, Dickens the radical and the actor, Dickens the prematurely exhausted middle-aged man whose own unquiet. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 00:00:39 Boxid IA1789112 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Col_number COL-609 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Second hand time alexievich![]() ![]() Her subject, she explains, is the Homo sovieticus or, pejoratively ‘sovok’, meaning someone ineradicably formed by the Soviet Union. ![]() Ten years in the making, Second-Hand Time is her longest and most ambitious work to date. Most recent is Voices from Chernobyl, which gathers together first-hand accounts of the nuclear disaster. The resulting transcripts are edited down to anything from a one-line snippet to a chapter-length monologue and presented to the reader with minimal biographical information and little or no authorial comment.īest known abroad of Alexievich’s books is Zinky Boys, the title taken from the zinc coffins in which Soviet soldiers killed in the Soviet–Afghan War were transported home. ![]() Hundreds of subjects are interviewed at length, some repeatedly and over many years. Since the start of her publishing career in the mid 1980s, her theme has been the tragic past of the former Soviet Union, as recounted by multiple individuals in their own voices. That changed last October, when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first ever Belarussian and the first non-fiction writer since Winston Churchill to receive it. Until recently, Svetlana Alexievich was little known outside the world of Russian studies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Powerful and often moving, Beware of Small States is a magisterial book, essential reading for understanding Lebanon or the current political climate of the Middle East. In a masterly narrative, he gives a much-needed, comprehensive history of the country and its conflicts, culminating with the recent war in Gaza and its fallout in Lebanon. Iran and Israel now face each other in the hills of south Lebanon.ĭavid Hirst, author of The Gun and the Olive Branch, is a hugely respected commentator on the Arab-Israeli crisis. acclaimed and fiercely independent Middle East journalist and historian David Hirst charts the interplay between a uniquely. Hirst, who has been banned from traveling in six Arab states and was kidnapped twice during Lebanons civil war, takes an unsparing look at Israels role. To understand Lebanon’s history is to understand the history of the entire region – and, with the rise of Hizbullah, it has come to assume a disproportionate, dangerous power of its own. Beware of Small States wrote Mikhail Bukanin in 1870. Throughout its short existence, it has been attacked, invaded, occupied or interfered with to serve the political interests of foreign powers, resulting a series of devastating wars and crises. Read 40 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. He could have meant Lebanon: a sectarian state no bigger than Wales that has become battleground for one of the defining conflicts of twentieth-century history. ‘Beware of Small States’ wrote Mikhail Bukanin in 1870. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments A million suns by beth revis![]() Their voices aren’t distinct, their actions and characterizations frustrating in many ways, but it hardly matters: Revis’ shining brilliance is the fierce tension about survival (is Godspeed deteriorating? can people survive terrorism inside an enclosed spaceship?) and the desperate core question of whether any generation will ever reach a planet. Amy and Elder alternate narrating in first person. ![]() The environment (levels elevators fields under a solar lamp crammed stacks of city buildings) gives the plot (food hoarding, rape, riots, revolution) an acute tension. Amy wants off the 10 square miles of this metal-walled spaceship. Among this population that’s been shipborn for generations, Earthborn Amy sticks out like a sore thumb (in race-coded ways that are troubling when examined closely). Confronting the Shippers who physically run Godspeed begins a string of surprising reveals and so does a set of clues left by a cryogenically frozen rebel. But Elder’s been studying physics, and he’s newly skeptical. ![]() ![]() Sixteen-year-old Elder (he refuses the title Eldest, despite being the ship’s leader now) learned in the trilogy opener that Godspeed’s weakened engine offers no chance of planet-landing for many decades. Opening soon after the bleak ending of Across the Universe (2011), this captivating middle volume takes Godspeed’s 2,763 residents through commotion, twists and game-changers. ![]() |