7/8/2023 0 Comments Jeanine cummings![]() ![]() The book’s opening – in which we meet Lydia and her son Luca, cowering in the bathtub of her mother’s bathroom as sixteen members of their family are gunned down outside – sets both the tone and the pace for the rest of American Dirt, a book that I read with a sense of looming horror and despair over two single sittings. ![]() Alas, I accidentally left said book in the airport, and so started American Dirt shortly after take off. I was lent a copy by my friend Jane, who owns Gertrude & Alice both her and her daughter Kate had read it, and I took it with me to Byron Bay over Australia Day weekend, with plans to start it if – and when – I finished the book I was reading at the time. But to begin with, I was swept up in such a state of sadness that I couldn’t quite find the words I needed to write about it as eloquently as I would have liked, and then I found myself down something of a Google rabbit hole as I read, watched and listened to all the controversy surrounding it something I will touch on later in this review. ![]() ![]() I had planned to write my review of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins the day after I finished it. ![]()
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![]() Wallace the Brave is elaborated from sketches of a child Henry began to make after working on Ordinary Bill. After graduation he created the comic strip Ordinary Bill, which depicted a beach bum cartoonist and ran in his hometown newspaper The Jamestown Press, but found the subject matter too limiting. Will Henry, the pen name of liquor store co-owner William Henry Wilson, previously drew a strip called Dormmates for the Connecticut Daily Campus, the daily student newspaper at the University of Connecticut. ![]() In March 2018 it began appearing in over 100 newspapers worldwide. It debuted on the company's GoComics website in 2015. Wallace the Brave is a humor strip written and drawn by Will Henry and syndicated through Andrews McMeel Syndication. Universal Uclick/ Andrews McMeel Syndication Comic strip by Will Henry Wallace the Brave ![]() ![]() ![]() wonderful, distinct, different, the story is very strange and exciting. He is a freelance journalist, political analyst, and military and security intelligence expert. ![]() The author of this book is from Syria, He is an activist and supporter of the Syrian revolution that demanded freedom, which started in 2011. It has been chosen by nine of the world's leading universities and USA universities, as well as the Library of Congress of all Arabic and Syrian books as a reference for research and studies About international intelligence services, the Middle East and About Syria, and other topics and addresses. The book contains very important information about the massacres of the city of Hama in /1982 / carried out by the regime of the criminal Assad in Syria, which was classified information and with details for the first time revealing to people. It is a very interesting book and has popularity around the world. Very important book, which includes an explanation of the espionage process for the benefit of the Syrian people and against the intelligence services of the Syrian regime that lasted for eighteen years. ![]() : "Spy for nobody!: Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence " ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Shanghai Girls by Lan Lan![]() ![]() Considered as one of the most influential lyrical Chinese poets of the present time, she is the bestselling author of nine titles including Life with a Smile (1990), Songs of Romance (1993), Inner Life (1997), Sleep, Sleep (2003), and From Here, to Here (2008). Awarded the prestigious Liu Li’an Poetry Prize in 1996, she was voted by a panel of seventy Chinese critics and poets as the top writer of the “Best Ten Female Poets.” In 2009, she garnered four of the most important national literary awards: the “Poetry & People” Award (regarded as the most significant Chinese popular international honor Lan Lan ( 蓝蓝), nom de plume of Hu Lanlan, was born in 1967 in Yantai, Shandong Province. She is also a prolific prose and children’s fiction writer. ![]() ![]() Lan Lan ( 蓝蓝), nom de plume of Hu Lanlan, was born in 1967 in Yantai, Shandong Province. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Queen of the tiles hanna alkaf![]() ![]() Surrounded by their Scrabble circle-Josh Mark, Trina’s boyfriend nonbinary Shuba Singaporean Ben, who had a crush on Trina Emily, who was caught cheating during a game Puteri, Mark’s ex-girlfriend and Yasmin, Trina’s childhood friend-Najwa remembers her therapist’s advice and struggles to maintain emotional equilibrium. Najwa, a short, chubby hijabi from Kuala Lumpur, has a passion for learning the meanings of words rather than just memorizing letter combinations like many contestants. Trina, a wealthy, effervescent social media influencer, was dubbed the Queen of the Tiles for her Scrabble skills. At last year’s Word Warrior Weekend, Trina collapsed and died in a high-stakes game, leaving her opponent, Josh Tan, the tournament winner. Sixteen-year-old Najwa Bakri has suffered from panic attacks, memory gaps, intrusive negative thoughts, and an obsession with her late friend Trina Low’s Instagram account. ![]() Returning to the Scrabble tournament where her best friend died a year earlier conjures up lingering trauma for a teen competitor. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments The dragon waiting john m ford![]() ![]() ![]() Christianity hasn’t survived, Islam never happened, and the old pagan religions are flourishing. Some internet digging indicates that the rights to all of John Ford’s books had been in limbo since he passed away in 2006, so thank you to everyone who made this reprint happen.ĭragon is set in an alternate version of late 15th-century Europe where Byzantium has not fallen but is instead seeking to reconquer former Roman territories in western Europe. Its finally getting a well-deserved reprint, including a first ebook edition, at the end of September. The Dragon Waiting won the Locus Award and the World Fantasy Award 1984 but has been generally hard to find since then, with only a UK paperback reprint in 2002. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Shatter me series![]() This series follows a girl whose touch has the ability to kill others. ![]() Series Review: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war – and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. ![]() The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments The do over by mk schiller![]() ![]() With Kyle’s support, Lanie begins to unravel the secrets of her past, and the deep pain that has quietly defined her life. However, as Lanie sheds more layers, both emotionally and physically, Kyle begins to examine his life choices, and his true feelings for this enigmatic girl. As an ambitious journalist, he also can’t resist the Pulitzer worthy scoop she offers him. Kyle gradually accepts, justifying that the mystery of Lanie has sparked his natural, thirsty curiosity. ![]() Lanie Carmichael is in love with Brad, and wants Kyle’s assistance in winning his best friend’s heart. Her brazen attitude though, astonishes him, especially when she explains she has no interest in gorgeous Kyle. She is dowdy, awkward, and dressed in so many layers she resembles a wedding cake, but not in an edible way. Attorney Lanie Carmichael’s appearance is no surprise. ![]() Arrogant womanizer Kyle Manchester hates blind dates however, when best friend, Brad calls in a favor, insisting Kyle take out his girlfriend’s sister, Kyle reluctantly agrees. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Dream Factory by Brad Barkley![]() ![]() Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Dating & Sex Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Emotions & Feelings Young Adult Fiction | Romance - Contemporary As they uncover the Magic Kingdoms treasures, they discover an undeniable magic between them. Why, then, does Luke find himself more drawn to imperfect things like the theme parks Phantom? A team-building scavenger hunt brings Luke and Ella together. Chip is played by his girlfriend, Cassie, who is perfect in every way. Luke is a fur character, Dale the chipmunk. It should be a dream come true, but Ella no longer believes in dreams. Ella gets to be Cinderella, simply because the shoe fits. ![]() Contributor(s): Barkley, Brad (Author), Hepler, Heather (Author)īinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: When the character actors at Disney World go on strike, the teens hired as replacements learn that it isnt exactly the Happiest Place on Earth. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Daniel deronda cliff notes![]() Reprints the authoritative Clarendon critical text.It considers themes of gambling and luck and questions negative judgements of the Jewish part. Newton argues for the novel's innovations in its subject matter and treatment, linking it with aspects of modernist fiction and re-aligning its realism with romance-based fiction and the sensation novel. The novel combines a powerful story of the intertwined lives of Gwendolen Harleth and Daniel Deronda against the backdrop of a morally bankrupt Britain and the vision of establishing a Jewish homeland.A new edition of George Eliot's last great novel, whose dual plot and Jewish storyline encompass issues that remain controversial and current in the twenty-first century.Both are damaged by their pasts, and alienated from the society around them, in a story set against the backdrop of economic crisis, political uncertainty, and proto-Zionism. ![]() Leavis s former student recalls that his teacher 'said hed been given a new US paperback and so didnt need this copy. ![]() Daniel Deronda, George Eliot's last great novel, charts the intertwined lives of spirited Gwendolen Harleth and the idealistic Deronda. Leavis gave his marked copy of Daniel Deronda, new edition, Blackwood, 1878, to one of his undergraduates at Downing College Cambridge, Brian Worthington. ![]() |