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The red garden hoffman7/8/2023 ![]() From the town's founder, a brave young woman from England who has no fear of blizzards or bears, to the young man who runs away to New York City with only his dog for company, the characters in The Red Garden are extraordinary and vivid- a young wounded Civil War soldier who is saved by a passionate neighbor, a woman who meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet who falls in love with a blind man, a mysterious traveler who comes to town in the year when summer never arrives. These tales, with their tight, soft focus on America, cast their own spell."- The Washington Post The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives. ![]() ![]() " A dreamy, fabulist series of connected stories. From the author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Rules of Magic comes a transfixing glimpse into a small American town where a mysterious, magical garden holds the truth behind three hundred years of passion, dark secrets, loyalty, and redemption. ![]()
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Blackfoot by W.R. Gingell7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Worst of all, Blackfoot knows more than he’s telling, and what he’s not telling could be enough to get them all killed. Even more alarming is the fact that the person who tried to kill Annabel is rapidly gaining control over the magical ruins. More and more arrive each day, turning up at the old. Now Annabel and her friend Peter are being over-run by cats. ![]() When someone tries to kill Annabel and a spell goes very badly wrong, they find themselves trapped in the castle ruins, which are now growing back at an alarming rate. Despite that, Blackfoot manages to slink into her life like a small, furry shadow. And some of those cats aren’t as…friendly…as Blackfoot. More and more arrive each day, turning up at the old castle ruins where Annabel and Peter spend most of their time. Despite that, Blackfoot manages to slink into her life like a small, furry shadow. She certainly didn’t want a secretive, sarcastic black cat who takes over her pillow and makes remarks that no one else ever seems to hear. You can read this before Blackfoot (Two Monarchies Sequence, #2) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.īad luck is the least of their worries… Annabel has never wanted a cat. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Blackfoot (Two Monarchies Sequence, #2) written by W.R. Brief Summary of Book: Blackfoot (Two Monarchies Sequence, #2) by W.R. ![]()
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Corey hawkins topdog underdog7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() For Booth, escape is all tied up in Three-card Monte, the street con that his brother once mastered for money and renown. With the brothers subsisting on Lincoln’s meager salary and Booth’s shoplifting skills, dreams for a better life come hard. (Too fantastical? New York’s Coney Island had a “Shoot the Freak” attraction as late as 2010.) Heritage and destiny – to say nothing of humor and drama – collide in this bizarre display that works as both metaphor and reality. In perhaps the most audacious and risky example of Parks’ pointed, go-for-broke sense of humor, the playwright has Lincoln working as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator – in whiteface – at a local arcade, where customers pay to portray the historical Booth and reenact a certain pivotal moment at Ford’s Theatre. Abdul-Mateen II, Hawkins (Photo by Marc J. ![]()
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The flamethrowers book7/7/2023 ![]() "Rachel Kushner's fearless, blazing prose ignites the 70s New York art scene and Italian underground of The Flamethrowers."-Elissa Schappell "Vanity Fair" ![]() " I loved Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers."-Jonathan Franzen "The New York Times Book Review" Ardent, vulnerable, and bold, Reno is a fiercely memorable observer, superbly realized by Rachel Kushner. ![]() ![]() Reno is submitted to a sentimental education of sorts-by dreamers, poseurs, and raconteurs in New York and by radicals in Italy, where she goes with her lover to meet his estranged and formidable family. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity-artists colonize a deserted and industrial SoHo, stage actions in the East Village, blur the line between life and art. Reno, so-called because of the place of her birth, comes to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. ![]() "Superb.Scintillatingly alive.A pure explosion of now."- The New Yorker Description NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * New York magazine's #1 Book of the Year * Best Book of 2013 by: The Wall Street Journal Vogue O, The Oprah Magazine Los Angeles Times The San Francisco Chronicle The New Yorker Time Flavorwire Salon Slate The Daily Beast ![]()
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![]() By contrast, more radical forms of tolerance existed among underground millenarians and ecumenical societies of this period. It shows how the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 sparked a tolerationist spur in Protestant countries, ‘refuges’ that often offered only a limited level of freedom. ![]() Drawing from rare manuscript sources scattered over several countries, it argues that tolerance was a grassroots Christian belief primarily promoted by those who needed it the most: persecuted radical dissenters. This article considers tolerance not as an idea, but as a religious belief and a practice in the early Enlightenment. Tolerance, in other words, was a practice long before it became a theory. This assumption, however, is flawed as it tends to downplay centuries of religious pluralism and cohabitation. ![]() Freedom of religion generally resonates in the collective mind as a prized legacy of the European Enlightenment alongside most individual liberties and modern values. ![]()
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Rimbaud poesies completes7/7/2023 ![]() Topics: france, arthur rimbaud poesies completes, poesies completes. This small book of his collected poems and essays on his life is meant as a dedication to a man whose shadow looms large over the span of the centuries, and who, as Sartre once said of Jean Genet, was "rotten with genius." A "divine brat," indeed. free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. It could be the case that the alignment of natural disorder. ![]() ![]() Dying tragically at the age of 37, Rimbaud has come to exemplify what it means to be an explorer on the outer edges of artistic experimentation and excess. Rimbaud, Posies completes, Pierre Brunel, ed. ibertine, and a young man whose roaring talent burned out before his twentieth year. ![]() His lifestyle, up until his twentieth year, was one of a vagabond poet, a sexual l. The Divine Brat: A Tribute to Arthur Rimbaud (Trade Paperback / Paperback)īy Rimbaud, Arthur Translated by Augustine, C.Īrthur Rimbaud was an infamous legend in his own time, a young boy-genius who changed the face of modern poetry forevermore with his groundbreaking, horrific and surreal vision of A Season in Hell. ![]()
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Great circle shipstead7/7/2023 ![]() Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to redefine herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North and South Poles.Ī century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. ![]() There-after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes-Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. Spanning Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London, and modern-day Los Angeles, Great Circle tells the unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost.Īfter being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. ![]() An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780525656975 can be found here. ![]()
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Kill Process by William Hertling7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Using her coding and hacking expertise, she decides to destroy Tomo by building a new social network that is completely distributed, compartmentalized, and unstoppable. When Tomo introduces a deceptive new product that preys on users' fears to drive up its own revenue, Angie sees Tomo for what it really is-another evil abuser. She can't change her own traumatic past, but she can save other women. By day, Angie, a twenty-year veteran of the tech industry, is a data analyst at Tomo, the world's largest social networking company by night, she exploits her database access to profile domestic abusers and kill the worst of them. ![]()
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The tourist steinhauer7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The shocking blowback arrived in the Hammett Award winning The Nearest Exit when the Department of Tourism was almost completely wiped out as the result of an even more insidious plot. In Olen Steinhauer’s bestseller The Tourist, reluctant CIA agent Milo Weaver uncovered a conspiracy linking the Chinese government to the highest reaches of the American intelligence community, including his own Department of Tourism the most clandestine department in the Company. Milo is suddenly in a dangerous position, between right and wrong, between powerful self interested men, between patriots and traitors especially as a man who has nothing left to lose. Before he can get back to the CIA s dirty work, he has to prove his loyalty to his new bosses, who know little of Milo s background and less about who is really pulling the strings in the government above the Department of Tourism or in the outside world, which is beginning to believe the legend of its existence. Now faced with the end of his quiet, settled life, reluctant spy Milo Weaver has no choice but to turn back to his old job as a tourist. Milo Weaver has nowhere to turn but back to the CIA in Olen Steinhauer’s brilliant follow up to the New York Times bestselling espionage novel The Tourist The Tourist, Steinhauer s first contemporary novel after his awardwinning historical series, was a runaway hit, spending three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and garnering rave reviews from critics. ![]()
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Air awakens book series7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() And yet the palace has running water, hot and cold (there is a mention of aqueducts but they would not be enough to bring water to higher levels of the palace), there is a well-known fashion designer Chater with his own store and branded boxes for his wares, Vhalla's maternal grandparents worked at a post office and the servants' dining room looks like a modern-day canteen, complete with trays and a window to bring dirty plates to. Anachronism Stew: The world is ostensibly medieval, with very strictly enforced class system, a ruling family with almost absolute power, swords and bows (and magic) as main weapons, horses as main means of transport, torches and candles as the main source of light, as well as parchment instead of paper and no printing press.Altar Diplomacy: By the end of Earth's End, North agrees to surrender, as long as Aldrik marries their Chieftain's daughter. ![]() Alliterative Title: All book titles in the series.The series gives examples of the following tropes: And then, one night she happens to save the life of the mysterious crown prince Aldrik - and learns that she is in fact a sorcerer. She lives a quiet and boring life with other library apprentices and her only passion is reading. Air Awakens is a series of five Young Adult fantasy novels by Elise Kova, self-published by the author in 2015.Įighteen-year-old Vhalla Yarl is a modest library apprentice in the Imperial Library of Solaris, the capital of the Solaris Empire. ![]() |