6/24/2023 0 Comments Hell followed with us review![]() Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.īut when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him-the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. ![]() "A long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world like, well, a virus." -The New York Times A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And a town cop, recently relocated from the Bay Area of California, decides after a bedding a few of the local women that small town life in the back of beyond is not to his liking. Meanwhile, Jim's sometime girlfriend, Rhea, on the lam from an upper middle-class family in Dallas, has taken a teaching job in the northern Montana town of Harlem, where the story takes place, and abruptly quits in the middle of the school year to go back to Texas or to Seattle, she doesn't know where, and to do what, she isn't sure either. His older sister, Kate, with a beltway job in Washington DC tries unsuccessfully to jump start his life, and partly as a result, begins to doubt that most Indians can be rescued from what amounts to a debilitating inertia. But being a "half-breed" merely deepens the confusion about his identity. Jim, cast adrift early in life as a throw-away child of an Indian mother and white father, believes that his life would take on meaning if only he knew more about his background. ![]() While the central character of this short novel, Jim Loney, is stricken with a loss of direction and purpose that suggests a death of the soul itself, the characters surrounding him are themselves unmoored and drifting in their own ways. ![]() ![]() Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. ![]() Societies that had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed writing, technology, government, and organized religion-as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war-and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race. ![]() ![]() one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years." ![]() "Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments A streetcar named desire goodreads![]() ![]() Stella is drawn to Stanley’s brute, animal sexuality, and he is drawn to her traditional, domestic, feminine sexuality. Stella’s desire for Stanley pulls her away from Belle Reve and her past. To Blanche, perhaps motivated by her discovery that her first husband was in fact homosexual, losing her desirability is akin to losing her identity and her reason to live. ![]() Blanche clings to her sexuality more and more desperately as the play progresses. Blanche dresses provocatively in red satin, silks, costume jewelry, etc: she calls attention to her body and her femininity through her carefully cultivated appearance. When Blanche meets Stanley’s poker-playing friends, she lights upon Mitch as a possible suitor and adopts the guise of a chaste lover for him to pursue.īlanche nearly attacks the Young Man with her aggressive sexuality, flirting heavily with him and kissing him. Blanche tells Stella that she and Stanley smoothed things over when she began to flirt with him. Her interactions with men always begin with flirtation. Much of Blanche’s conception of how she operates in the world relies on her perception of herself as an object of male sexual desire. ![]() The power of sexual desire is the engine propelling A Streetcar Named Desire: all of the characters are driven by “that rattle-trap street-car” in various ways. Many critics believe that Williams invented the idea of desire for the 20th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her new home, a call-center metropolis, sports a breed of men and women who are her contemporaries, yet whose English she can scarcely understand. In this case, the village girl is Anjali Bose, a Bengali girl from a less-than-thriving town in central India who rejects her family's plan for an arranged marriage after suffering rape and humiliation by a suitor.Īnjali feels as though she is "part of the bold new India, an equal to anywhere, a land poised for takeoff," and the metaphor seems apt with the help of an expatriate teacher, she leaves home and heads to Hindi-speaking Bangalore. Mukherjee employs a classic plot: A village girl goes to the big city, where she throws off most of the old ways and discovers her new identity. Miss New India, Bharati Mukherjee's latest novel, gives us a picture of India as we've never truly seen it before, as a country as up-to-date - and as traditional - as any place in the world. Miss New India By Bharati Mukherjee hardcover, 336 pages Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, list price $25 ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Victor and Nora by Lauren Myracle![]() ![]() When Victor and Nora happen to meet at the cemetery outside of town, they are astonished to find the connection they have each been missing in their lives. On that day, she plans to take her own life. She is suffering from an incurable illness that will slowly consume her, so she's decided to live her last days to the fullest at her summer home outside of Gotham City until her birthday. After his brother died in a tragic house fire for which Victor feels responsible, his parents have isolated themselves, and Victor has dedicated his whole life to one thing: science. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Victor Fries has a cold heart. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Lauren Myracle (ttyl, ttfn) and artist Isaac Goodhart ( Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale) reunite in this gorgeous YA story about living life to the fullest, and how far one will go for love. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Aciman andre![]() ![]() The series editor takes a spin through his thoughts on Gertrude Stein, which have little if nothing to do with the essays here, all of which are more readable than Getrude Stein's writing. There is a lot of good writing, pleasurable to read and intellectually provocative, in The Best American Essays 2020, but all that starts once you have finished the odd forward by the series editor and the introduction by the volume editor. The Best American 2020 Essays includes RABIH ALAMEDDINE From a Black father’s confrontation of his son’s illness, to a divorcée’s transcendent experience with strangers, to a bartender grieving the tragic loss of a friend, these stories are a master class not just in essay writing but in empathy, artfully imbuing moments of hardship with understanding and that elusive grace. “The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, are what ultimately give the writing its depth, its magnitude, its grace.” The essays Aciman selected center on people facing moments of deep uncertainty, searching for a greater truth. “An essay is the child of uncertainty,” André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. A collection of the year’s best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Curious ian leslie audiobook![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How to Disagree was previously published in 2021 under the title Conflicted. Here he talks to everyone from hostage negotiators to divorce lawyers to show how conflict has driven successful companies and technological advances, and to offer ways to harness it in daily life.’ ‘Leslie has a way of bringing fresh perspectives and telling anecdotes to obdurate subjects. Free with your Audible trial : Hardcover 'Please retry' 38.43. If you want to argue better, Leslie’s manual will be invaluable.’ Audible Audiobook, Unabridged 'Please retry' 0.00. ‘I nodded and underlined my way through the book’s nearly 300 pages of eloquent, thoughtful advice. How to Disagree is about how to do that successfully.ĭrawing on essential lessons from world-class experts on how to disagree well and combining them with inspiring stories of productive disagreements from science, technology and the arts, Ian Leslie reveals how we can reap the benefits of diverse viewpoints in an era that feels more divided than ever. Whether it’s at work, at home or in public, confronting our differences is the only way to make the most out of them. What lies behind some of the greatest scientific and creative breakthroughs? How do companies build collaborative cultures? What is the secret of happy relationships? ‘Perspective-shifting in important ways.’ ‘A cool bath of sanity in a world of frenzied hot takes.’ The world will be a better place if everyone reads this book.’ ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments Jane austen novel susan![]() ![]() Susan is a Jane Austen prequel (or Pride and Prejudice variation) brilliantly capturing Austen’s own Lady Susan as a young girl. Now, let’s take a look at the Publisher’s Summary and after that, I promise to tell you a few things about the author and the narrator. I am sorry it is so, for what is this but deceit?“ (from Jane Austen’s Lady Susan) One is apt to expect that an impudent address will naturally attend an impudent mind – but her countenance is absolutely sweet. “She possesses an uncommon union of symmetry, brilliancy, and grace. In order to help you make an impression about the story, I’ll hopefully entertain you with a quote before continuing this article. The audiobook version of Susan is performed by respected and talented narrator Heather Tracy, it’s 11 hours and a half in duration and it has been published by Warleigh Hall Press. ![]() Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel by Alice McVeigh is the first in a series of six books planned by this award-winning author. Hello again, dear audiobooks friends! Today I want to draw your attention to an award-winning novel that has been released in audiobook format recently. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments Anastasia by sophie lark![]() ![]() While her power grows in secret, boosted by forbidden contact with Damien, Anastasia makes a mistake with terrible consequences.įate grants her a single chance to set it right… but saving what she lost may cost everything she loves. Until she collides with a young Cossack rebel, changing both their lives forever.ĭamien is taken from everything he knows and raised as a ward of the Romanovs.Īnastasia develops a strange kind of magic shared only by the Black Monk Rasputin. Cole is experiencing emotions he’s never known, while Mara blossoms into a successful artist, shaking off the trauma of her youth. Cole and Mara’s relationship has grown to consume them both. ![]() Until she collides with a young Cossack rebel, changing both their lives forever. There Is No Devil (Sinners Duet Book 2) (English Edition) 0. ![]() ANASTASIA, an all-new spellbinding, enemies-to-lovers, dark fantasy standalone romance from bestselling author Sophie Lark, is live now!Īnastasia is the princess no one needs: the fourth daughter born to an emperor without a son, and the only royal lacking a magical gift. Anastasia is the princess no one needs: the fourth daughter born to an emperor without a son, and the only royal lacking a magical gift. Fate grants her a single chance to set it right…īut saving what she lost may cost everything she loves. ![]() |