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Better Than Blonde by Teresa Toten6/12/2023 "Toten captures perfectly the easy camaraderie of girls who trust each other enough to play Truth or Dare and challenge each other to develop into good people." " writes with insight and compassion about the complex moral universe of adolescence." After seven years, Sophie’s beloved Papa is finally out of prison. But in the end, the best and biggest news is also the worst. And her eccentric Aunties are still peppering Sophie with their eccentric advice on life, love, and how to land the elusive Luke Pearson. There will be no more cascading lies and secrets from her, but the Blondes-now that’s another story. As it turns out, the Blondes were as dazzled by her as she was by them, and Sophie enters grade ten at Northern Heights smack in the centre of the power grid. potentially perfect for Sophie Kandinsky. The enthralling sequel to Me and the Blondes, shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award
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Greegs & Ladders by Zack Mitchell6/12/2023 all while fending off Investment Banker-Fuel poachers and trying to get through another reading of the Treaty of Manderbatt. They even went to the bottommost layers of the Planet Lincra and back. They saw creatures like Grollers and Klaxworms. This book has been dropped off on the surface of your planet for the purpose of. Before Rip and his cohorts can make sense of their own predicament they must first prove themselves worthy of unlocking the riddles of the universe. But when Rip goes too far by betting he can pull off a pygmalion with a Greeg (probably the most savage creature you could ever meet) it sets in motion an unprecedented road-trip of strange worlds and even stranger beings. Especially an astrospeciologist who enjoys nothing more than winning those wagers and thus financing his research. Brash enjoys nothing more than making high-stakes wagers with anyone he meets.
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In his first daydream, every detail of the Commander’s wardrobe accents his unquestioned authority, knowledge, and bold flamboyance: a “full dress uniform” (undoubtedly bedecked with medals), and a “heavily braided white cap pulled down rakishly” (Paragraph 1). His response, meek and ineffectual in real life, flips the balance of power in his fantasies. This casual exercise of control over him, paired with her pointed allusion to his declining physical prowess (“You’re not a young man any longer”), chafes at his sense of autonomy and self-respect, making him feel infantilized (Paragraph 4). Mitty bridles at his wife telling him to buy galoshes to protect his feet from the cold weather, and at her reminders to wear his gloves. Clothing, in Mitty’s fantasies as well as in his actual life, embodies his sense of identity and self-esteem it is a measure of the power (or lack thereof) he enjoys in his two lives, real and imagined.
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The good lord bird author6/12/2023 An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, and told with McBride's meticulous eye for detail and character, The Good Lord Bird is both a rousing adventure and a moving exploration of identity and survival. Eventually Brown sweeps him into the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859-one of the great catalysts for the Civil War. Over the ensuing months, Henry, whom Brown nicknames Little Onion, conceals his true identity to stay alive. When an argument between Brown and Henry's master turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town-along with Brown, who believes Henry to be a girl and his good luck charm. Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856-a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces-when legendary abolitionist John Brown arrives. Winner of the National Book Award for Fictionįrom the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade-and who must pass as a girl to survive. Now a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed Diggs
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Dragons love books6/11/2023 Or scary dragons, like Smaug or the evil, blue-eyed Game of Thrones dragon* (Mr. Pufnstuf, Pete’s Dragon, How To Train Your Dragon, or The Tea Dragon Society. Whether its cute dragons like Puff the Magic Dragon, H.R. To the tune of “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer”: You know Syrax and Caraxes and Mushu and Shenron, Falkor and Rhaegal and Toothless and Bahamut…You get the idea. “Tight, tense, smoldering, and wonderfully queer.” -Mike Brooks, author of The God-King Chronicles “Dragons have never been so sexy.”-Kate Dylan, author of Mindwalker "Dragonfall will delight fans of well-designed worlds, heroes’ journeys and slow-burning romance. Long-banished dragons, revered as gods, return to the mortal realm in the first in this magical new epic fantasy trilogy from bestselling author L.R.
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Geoffrey household6/11/2023 Compare Standard and Premium Digital here.Īny changes made can be done at any time and will become effective at the end of the trial period, allowing you to retain full access for 4 weeks, even if you downgrade or cancel. You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. That hopefully shouldnt put too many off, Robin Brownes warmly elucidated. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. This is a golden, analogue recording of Geoffrey Households 1939 thriller release of Rogue Male complete with background hiss, the sounds of pages turning and even brief stitches of silence holding the sections together that make you wonder if playback has stopped. If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for $69 per month.įor cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. For a full comparison of Standard and Premium Digital, click here.Ĭhange the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages.
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To be sure, every operation Napoleon conducted contained unique improvisatory features. Napoleon disavowed any suggestion that he worked from formula (“Je n'ai jamais eu un plan d'opérations”), but military historian David Chandler demonstrates this was at best only a half-truth. The Campaigns of Napoleon is a masterful analysis and insightful critique of Napoleon's art of war as he himself developed and perfected it in the major military campaigns of his career. Napoleonic war was nothing if not complex-an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and dazing his conventionally minded opponents into that state of disconcerting moral disequilibrium which so often resulted in their catastrophic defeat. In this “engrossing,” ( The New Yorker) vivid, and intensively researched volume, esteemed Napoleon scholar David Chandler outlines the military strategy that led the famous French emperor to his greatest victories-and to his ultimate downfall.
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Kanae minato books6/10/2023 Yuko reveals the first step in her plot for revenge during the course of a long resignation speech to her rapt middle-school class on the last day of the school year. The couple parted, and Manami became the centerpiece of Yuko’s life. Her engagement to Manami’s father came to an end when he discovered that his adventurous past had left him HIV-positive. Until recently, Yuko was a single mother to a 4-year-old girl named Manami, doing her best to balance her child’s needs with the demands of her job as a middle-school science teacher. The protagonist is Yuko Moriguchi, a victim and vigilante in ravenous search of revenge. Think of “Confessions” as the “Gone Girl” of Japan - a twisted tale about a girl (OK, woman) who is pretty far gone and going further. It was then adapted into a movie, which also won a bunch of awards, and was selected as Japan’s entry for best foreign language film for the 2010 Oscars. It was published in 2008 to immediate acclaim, becoming a runaway hit and winning a slew of awards. “Confessions” is new to most American readers, but it’s already a literary phenomenon in Japan. Somewhere between the laundry and cooking, she wrote her debut, “Confessions,” the most delightfully evil book you will read this year. Before she became a bestselling novelist, Kanae Minato was a Japanese home economics teacher and housewife.
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This ‘off-season’ proves challenging for them all. One of the barmaids has ‘settled down’ and married a city bloke so a replacement date has had to be found. This seventeenth summer everything is different. Lawler’s much loved tale of Queensland cane cutters and Melbourne barmaids has endured, not through nostalgia, nor because it spawned a new age in Australian writing, but because the characters and their dilemmas are so true, so beautifully observed, so humorous and so poignant.Ī triumph at its 1955 Melbourne premiere, it was followed by a national tour and hugely successful season in London’s West End where it won an award for best new play.įor sixteen years two Queensland cane cutters have worked the punishing routine up north in the sugar cane fields for seven months of the year and travelled back to Melbourne to meet up for five months of partying and romance with their barmaid girlfriends. Plays and playwrights go in and out of fashion but some endure and speak to each subsequent generation. Playwright – Ray Lawler Producer – Christine Harris & HIT Productions Director – Denny Lawrence Set & Costume Designer – Adrienne Chisholm LX Designer – Niklas Pajanti
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Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee6/10/2023 Jess is turning seventeen in a week, and then it will be too late for her to register. Why not me? I could be a hero, Jess thinks as she picks up speed. Heroes’ LeagueJess’ dad can fly, and her older sister inherited the gene. The sky is a gorgeous, impossible blue, and clouds flutter down the endless horizon, a perfect backdrop for a first flight.Įvery step resounds in her body, and her heart races. The canyon is streaked with color, warm in the afternoon light golden striations race across the signature rusty reds of the landscape. The gravel on the trail crunches under her feet, the wind rushes through her hair, and she can taste success. Jess grits her teeth, going for a running start. On the upside, she gets to work with her longtime secret crush, Abby, whom Jess thinks may have a secret of her own… SIDEKICK SQUAD, BOOK ONE - Jess Tran is resigned to a life without superpowers and is merely looking to beef up her college applications when she stumbles upon the perfect (paid!) internship-only it turns out to be for the town’s most heinous supervillain. |