![]() ![]() What does it mean to submit to a new reality-or to resist it? How do we compare relative sufferings? What is the relationship between time and work? In our isolation, what do other people mean to us? How do we think about them? What is the ratio of contempt to compassion in a crisis? When an unfamiliar world arrives, what does it reveal about the world that came before it? Suffused with a profound intimacy and tenderness in response to these extraordinary times, Intimations is a slim, suggestive volume with a wide scope, in which Zadie Smith clears a generous space for thought, open enough for each reader to reflect on what has happened-and what should come next"-īook Synopsis " slim collection of essays captures this peculiar moment with startling clarity. ![]() About the Book "Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of reflective essays by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. ![]()
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![]() "He knows exactly what he's doing he's scary, entertaining, and knowledgeable. Walk on the Wild Side: The Best Horror Stories of Karl Edward Wagner, Volume 2 by Karl Edward Wagner, Stephen Jones, et al. ![]() ![]() ![]() his tales of ancient evils working on the present are brilliantly modern." - Washington Post This new edition includes all the stories from the original 1983 edition, plus an additional rare tale and the author's afterword from the Scream/Press limited edition, and features a new introduction by Ramsey Campbell. His seminal volume In a Lonely Place collects eight of his best tales, including "In the Pines," a classic ghost story evocatively set in the Tennessee woods, "Beyond Any Measure," an original take on the vampire story, "River of Night's Dreaming," a surreal and nightmarish masterpiece inspired by The King in Yellow, and the author's most famous tale, "Sticks," a disturbing story thought by many to have been the basis for The Blair Witch Project. Karl Edward Wagner (1945-1994) has earned a reputation as one of the finest horror writers of the modern era, but his work has been out of print and nearly unobtainable for many years. One of the most important horror collections of modern times, back in print at last! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, taps a rich, little-known vein of black history. It's a second novel for Edugyan that, like her first, Victoria writer Esi Edugyan reconciles these two haunted histories in a stunningly original work about black experience in Nazi Germany which was this week short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. It is a bewildering contest to say the least, for there has always been more than enough evil to go around. Recent decades, however, have sometimes found these two peoples at odds, arguing over who has had it worse. In mid-20th-century America, many Jews supported civil rights by marching alongside black demonstrators. For centuries, Africans in the New World have drawn sustenance from biblical stories detailing the exodus of the Jews from slavery in Egypt. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, we’re going to be the next best thing, and that’s best friends because I don’t do things by halves, Andressa. “We’re best friends because”-he leans in close, moving into my space, with his lips next to my ear, and his hot breath makes me shiver-“you won’t let me shag you. So, how are we best friends again exactly?” Moving my eyes back to him, I raise my brows. “So, how has my new best friend been? Aside from being amazing, of course.” ![]() “A simple yes would have sufficed.”Īnd I love the smolder too much, so I look away. “With every fiber of my being,” I deadpan.Ī smile tips up his lips. “Okay.” I slide into the chair, and I try not to be aware of him, but I am. “Sit down, Andressa.” Carrick reaches over and grabs Ben’s now empty chair and pulls it next to him. “I need another,” Ben says, getting up from his seat. His voice hits me in all the right places.Ĭasting my eyes around the table, I greet the rest of them. His eyes meet mine as I approach, and he smiles. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kalquist Kate Lansky Taven Moore Debbie Mumford Jimena Novaro L.M. Brindley Zoe Cannon Connie Cockrell Sally Jane Driscoll Molly Felder Rabia Gale Katharina Gerlach Melinda Hagenson Jessi Hammond Jennifer Johnson A.E. Blackburn Faith Boughan Piia Bredenberg J.P. The Loire Valley and Its WinesJames Seely, American adventure by land and. The authors represented in this anthology are: Russell Adams F.Ted Atchley E.L. TEXTS 01) By Lisle, Holly ( Author )Nov-01-1998 PaperbackHolly Lisle. For the 5th anniversary of her first big writing course, How to Think Sideways, this anthology features the best of her talented students in a great variety of genres. Witness the talent nurtured by writing teacher, Holly Lisle. In thirty-five imaginative stories, emerging authors present the diversity of their creativity. Sew with a mother who lost her daughter in a unicorn quilt, defeat bank robbing super-villains with an unlikely superhero, or join a great mage in the fire. She has to date published more than thirty novels and more than twenty comprehensive writing courses. Witness a solitary drone on Mars or a naive homunculus struggle to become human. Holly Lisle has been writing fiction professionally since 1991, when she sold FIRE IN THE MIST, the novel that won the Compton Crook Award for best first novel. Follow a girl to the Below-World to slay the Sharkshadow, or help a timid girl to overcome the destructive criticism of her art teacher. ![]() ![]() Each author found a different angle for the unifying theme: The Adventure of Creation. With a Foreword by Holly Lisle Adventures and Creativity can be found everywhere as the 35 short stories of this anthology show. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'MAXIMUM RIDE is a fast-paced, action-packed fantasy adventure that children will love' Age, Melbourne 4/6/05 ![]() 'This skilled and compulsive tale is so involved about kids being brave against the. And it proves that girls can be tough, too.' sharp and punchy with plenty of jokes and shocks. 'The first in a series from adult-thriller writer Patterson has all the characteristics of his work for grown-ups: pace, action, mystery and cool. Infiltrate a secret facility to track down the flock's missing parents. THE MISSIONS: Rescue Angel from malicious mutants. Aside, of course, from the fact that they're prime prey for Erasers - wicked wolf-like creatures with a taste for flying humans. They grew up in a lab, living like rats in cages, but now they're free. Six kids who are pretty normal in most ways - except that. YOUR FAITHFUL COMPANIONS: Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman and Angel. STRAP YOURSELF IN for the thrill ride you'll want to take again and again! From Death Valley, California, to the bowels of the New York City subway system, you're about to take off on a heart-stopping adventure that will blow you away. I'm risking everything by telling you - but you need to know. I'm dead serious - your life could depend on it. ![]() WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE Do not put this book down. The brilliant 1st novel in James Patterson's Maximum Ride series. Description for Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment Paperback. ![]() ![]() The fact that we don’t know who that is, wrecked me and kept my nerves tensed until getting to a lead on who might that be. ![]() For my POV the most treacherous of them all was the first scene, with Maverick in the hospital, crying for the one that she loves. The book is from a dual POV, sharing stories between Kael and Maverick and will torture us with past and present scenes, that will leave us hanging until the very end. I know, this is the twisted hand of destiny. But of course things in this book are not simple, so Maverick will end up marrying Kael and Killian will marry her sister, Jillian. And we have Killian, Kael’s older brother and the love of Maverick’s life. We have Kael, her best friend, who shared with her everything since she was 13, who loved and support her no matter what. So, Maverick is our leading lady here and 2 boys will fight for her love. Although I prefer sweet and sometimes overly sweet love stories, I realized this book will be different because it will not show you only the bright side of love, but a more darker and dramatic one.Īnd I was right. I’ve read so much about this book and a lot of my book friends were absolutely emotionally wrecked because of it. ![]() ![]() Well…It has been a very interesting journey for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t kiss married men or guys I work with, I don’t text people pictures of my genitalia, I don’t go home with boys I meet in bars before they have at least purchased me a couple of meals, I’ve never shown my boobs for beads. I have rarely had a fewer-than-four-night stand in the Land of the Free. I am not a slut in the United States of America. Equal parts laugh-out-loud storytelling, candid reflection, and wanderlust-inspiring travel tales, "What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding" is a compelling debut that will have readers rushing to renew their passports. ![]() Kristin introduces readers to the Israeli bartenders, Finnish poker players, sexy Bedouins, and Argentinean priests who helped her transform into "Kristin-Adjacent" on the road-a slower, softer, and, yes, sluttier version of herself at home. In addition to falling madly in love with the planet, Kristin fell for many attractive locals, men who could provide the emotional connection she wanted without costing her the freedom she desperately needed. Not ready to settle down and in need of an escape from her fast-paced job as a sitcom writer, Kristin instead traveled the world, often alone, for several weeks each year. A funny, sexy, and ultimately poignant memoir about mastering the art of the "vacationship." Kristin Newman spent much of her twenties and thirties buying dresses to wear to her friends' weddings and baby showers. ![]() ![]() The early settlers, “their minds gloomy and discontented,” frequently fasted to seek relief from their distress, he recounted. The twinkle behind his bifocals reassures us that things will turn out all right.įranklin’s optimism about the American experiment is reflected in an essay he wrote about our first Thanksgiving. “The birds killed in this manner eat uncommonly tender,” he wrote.Īfter election seasons such as the one past, and when facing “fiscal cliffs” like the one looming, it’s therapeutic to gaze back through history’s haze and catch the eye of Franklin, the Founding Father who winks at us. Thus he added yet another invention to his list: the fried turkey. When he was a young man, Benjamin Franklin wired together a set of batteries he had just invented and used them to shock turkeys slated for a Thanksgiving feast. ![]() ![]() He has written biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jobs and Henry Kissinger. ![]() Walter Isaacson is chief executive of the Aspen Institute. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells in the cell cycle. Paul Maxime Nurse is an English geneticist, former President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute. To survive the challenges that face us all today―climate change, pandemic, loss of biodiversity and food security―it is vital that we all understand what life is. Nurse writes with delight at life’s richness and with a sense of the urgent role of biology in our time. ![]() He introduces the scientists who made the most important advances, and, using his personal experiences in and out of the lab, he shares with us the challenges, the lucky breaks, and the thrilling eureka moments of discovery. ![]() It is a shared journey of discovery step-by-step Nurse illuminates five great ideas that underpin biology―the Cell, the Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as Chemistry, and Life as Information. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every reader can understand. The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. The Nobel Prize–winning scientist’s elegant explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and their uses today. ![]() |