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Of blood and bone series nora roberts6/28/2023 ![]() I was anxious for her to be finished so that she could join the actual fight with the rest of the characters. ![]() ![]() I was often more interested in finding out what Duncan and Tania were doing (talk about badass twins) instead of constantly following Fallon through her training. I loved getting to see all the characters grow up, but I felt that Fallon's two years of training went on for a really long time. This is equally important for when the plot lines begin to overlap we know it's going to happen and Roberts makes sure to ease characters and readers into it, strengthened the relationships of characters to each other and readers to the characters. There are so characters in this series that it could become overwhelming to follow them all, but Roberts does a wonderful job (as always) ensuring that we have a good amount of time with each character, ensuring we develop a relationship with key characters and are invested in their storylines. After reading it last year, I was equally excited for its sequel, Of Blood and Bone, to come out this year so we can see where the time jump brings us. It was a great introduction to the destruction of our current society and its transition into a world divided. ![]() ![]() I've always loved Nora Roberts (she nails the happy endings I'm looking for) and I was incredibly excited when she decided to branch into dystopian/paranormal fiction with Year One (review here). ![]()
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Like No Other by Una LaMarche6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Some readers might find the romance a bit too abrupt, but, hey, if it happened in one night in Shakespeare, who can blame LaMarche for having Devorah and Jaxon fall in love quicker than would seem wise, considering all their obstacles? The two aren't actually together nearly as often as they're thinking about being together, and that's what makes their scenes with each other so heightened with emotion.Īlthough LaMarche employs the popular dual narration, alternating perspectives between Dev and Jax, the story often favors Devorah's experience and gives her more page time than Jaxon. ![]() The book's as much a compelling study of Brooklyn's ethnically and religiously diverse yet segregated Crown Heights neighborhood as it is a touching forbidden romance. Una LaMarche's LIKE NO OTHER, her second novel, is a multicultural Romeo and Juliet-like story that comes at a time when diversity in young adult books is desperately needed. ![]()
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Amazonia by james rollins6/28/2023 ![]() But each step brings the team closer to an ancient, unspoken terror that even the native people dread. ![]() For somewhere in the dark, impenetrable depths of Earth's most dangerous region lie mysteries that must be solved.whatever the cost.Īs Nate Rand and his party push on into the jungle, they are haunted by a truth: that they are not alone. Now Nate is to follow the elder Rand's trail, along with a team of scientists and experienced US Rangers. Nathan Rand's father led a scientific mission into the rainforest and never returned - the same expedition that took Clark into the jungle. The photograph of Agent Clark's corpse in the Brazilian morgue shows two intact upper limbs, yet Agent Clark had only one arm, the other lost to a sniper's bullet. ![]() Soon the CIA operative and former Special Forces soldier, his eyes wide with terror, is dead. Out of the inhospitable Amazon rainforest a man stumbles into a missionary village. From the author of ALTAR OF EDEN and MAP OF BONES comes another fantastic mystery adventure, this time set deep in the Amazon jungle. ![]()
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Nancy isenberg white trash review6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() White Trash documents in exhaustive detail how every stage in the continent’s development – from the arrival of the Pilgrims to the inauguration of President Donald Trump – has seen its elites construct their own taxonomies of deplorable (and expendable) white people. Usually, the answer has been that the people whom the upper classes have alternately called offscourings, bogtrotters, clay-eaters, swamp people, mudsills, hillbillies and rednecks are indeed a breed apart, deserving of sympathy or scorn but rarely solidarity. 2017.Īs Nancy Isenberg describes in her new book, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, one question that polite American society has always asked itself is whether poor whites can really be considered white (or even truly human). White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. ![]() While questioning whether the book fully steers clear of the elitism it otherwise aims to uncover and question, Daniel Falkiner finds much food for thought in its pages. In White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in Americ a, Nancy Isenberg traces the historical emergence and instantiation of ‘poor white trash’ as a chastised category within the US social fabric, as a further challenge to any continued assumptions about the supposedly classless nature of US society. ![]()
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Ignite by Sara B. Larson6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() This novel seems to have less violence and plot than Defy, but as a middle book, it’s meant to bridge the gap between the beginning and ending. It’s a very casual read only took up about three hours of my time to read. ![]() The story moves very quickly, lots of issues are quickly resolved, and the author has painted the scene to lead us into book three, coming out later this year. Overall, it was an okay book much like Defy. This story follows the characters as they try to unravel all this in their quest for peace. Now that the war is over, they face a new threat from Blevon, though Damien, Alexa, and Eljin all do not believe they are responsible, especially when the kingdom of Dansii sends people to Antion and strange things happen, all making them highly suspicious of the motives of Damien’s uncle, the Dansii king. ![]() Alexa is keeping with her rejection of his affections for the sake of the country while still acting as his guard. Book #2 in the Defy trilogy, we continue from the last book into the first month of Damien’s reign. ![]()
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Portraits de femmes by Judith Cernogora6/28/2023 ![]() These processes that imply sacrificing oneself to high ideals, ultimately give the lady a Christian aura. A lady is a woman, necessarily, and as James imagines her, she goes through cultural and ontological processes that turn her into a lady. A lady can only be in French une grande dame, someone “clever, cold, self-possessed, ineffably elegant” (James, Literary Criticism 64), as the master himself wrote in a critical paper on Balzac.Ģ The purpose of this article is to explore the concept of ladyhood in order to grasp Henry James's artistic vision. James who was a self-conscious writer with a love of French literature and language would have frowned on this inadequate translation because it not only tones down the artistic banner he chose for his novel, but it also alters the problematics of the novel. 1 And Jane Campion’s 1986 film in its French version has retained the same title. The French translation of the title The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is Portrait de Femme. All references to the En (.)ġ The germ of this article comes from a reaction to a shift in language. 1 The French edition, Portrait de femme, was translated by Claude Bonnafond. ![]()
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The last viking sandra hill6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Urn:oclc:877991564 Republisher_date 20171111170108 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 463 Scandate 20171110201652 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Tts_version v1. Sandra Hill The Last Viking (Viking (Love Spell)) Paperback Apby Sandra Hill (Author) 4.6 out of 5 stars 113 ratings Book 1 of 5: Viking II Kindle 7.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback 20.50 32 Used from 1.81 5 New from 5.20 1 Collectible from 2.99 Mass Market Paperback 7.99 20 Used from 1.46 3 New from 7. The medieval historian told herself he was part of a practical joke, but with his wide gold belt, callused hands, and the rabbit roasting in her fireplace, the brawny stranger seemed so. ![]() OL761280W Page_number_confidence 93.60 Pages 408 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0062019058 He wore nothing but a leather tunic, spoke in an ancient tongue, and he was standing in Professor Meredith Foster's living room. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Urn:lcp:lastvikingviking00sand:epub:d7de5f37-9c69-482b-b94a-37aaba10fef8 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier lastvikingviking00sand Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9h45sw3t Invoice 1213 Isbn 0505522551ĩ780505522559 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition The Last Viking is written by Sandra Hill and published by Avon. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:43:21.437304 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA1159716 Boxid_2 CH129722 City New York Donor ![]()
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The dark portal by robin jarvis6/27/2023 ![]() The goth kids also are into gothic literature as well, including the author Edgar Allan Poe and HP Lovecraft. However, they quickly leave the cult after seeing nothing has changed and assist Mysterion in learning Cthulhu's weakness.ĭespite hating conformists, Michael ironically tells Stan in " Raisins" that in order to hang out with them, he would have to dress like them and do whatever they do. Coon and Friends figure this is because the cult's ideals fit in with their goth lifestyle. ![]() They have also joined a cult group that worships Cthulhu and is involved with the Necronomicon. They hate the South Park Vampire Society more than conformists, as everyone else mistakes them for being vampires rather than Goth. To them, everyone who follows along with life as usual and the path of average citizens are "conformists", whom they despise, they state that their purpose in life is to make life more miserable for the conformists. ![]() They also dance by looking down at the ground, with their hands at their sides, and every three seconds they take a drag on their cigarettes. They take to calling those who are not goths " Britney (Spears) and Justin (Timberlake) wannabes". They go to the cemetery often, where they write poems about death and sorrow. They constantly go on about how pointless and painful life is. ![]() They rarely go to school and prefer to sit around all day drinking coffee and smoking. The Goth Kids are very stereotypical goths.
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Taleb fooled by randomness6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() One needs to buy the lottery ticket to actually win. Hard working people show up on time in a white clean shirt with deodorant and have qualities such as persistence, doggedness and perseverance – all the conventional ingredients that contribute to success. But in saying that doesn’t mean that everything is random and success is based on luck alone. Nassim Taleb believes that the world is much more random than we think. Or a talented trader, only to realise that 99.9% of past performance is attributed to chance alone. We often have the mistaken impression that a strategy is an excellent strategy, or an entrepreneur is a person endowed with unique vision. We underestimate the role of randomness in just about everything. ![]() If you ask a profitable investor to explain the reasons for success, he will offer some deep and convincing interpretation on the results. If you go to the bookstores, they’re full of biographies of successful men and woman presenting their specific explanation on how they hit their own home runs in life. ![]()
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Dangerously Happy by Varian Krylov6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() “ It doesn’t seem like your band’s usual style, but it will probably sound different with the whole group playing.” “ Thanks.” It felt like a lame reply to such an effusive compliment, but that was all I could come up with. ![]() It’s nice to hear you singing like this, no amps, just the delicate-intricate, but delicate-accompaniment of your one guitar.” “It gets a bit buried under all the instruments, I think, when you all play together. ![]() ![]() When I finished, after what felt like ten minutes even though the song is less than five minutes long, Dario said, “You really have a beautiful voice,” his tone slightly changed, as if the song had genuinely touched him. Maybe it was because the song was more personal than what I usually wrote for the group. I didn’t forget the notes or the words, I just felt weirdly exposed. But as soon as I got going, seeing how intently he was listening and watching me, I got as nervous as I did the first time I played on stage. I’ll feel all the more privileged.”Įven though I’m not so great at socializing, I’m not usually shy at all about playing or singing, so I grabbed my guitar and gave it a quick tuning. “ The one you were going to play for the group.” I’d already emptied the bottle without realizing how fast I was drinking. ![]() |