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Jean hegland books5/30/2023 There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home. “The absence of knowing is what’s going to be difficult for lots of people. With all forms of mass communication gone besides rumour and Chinese whispers, humans are left very much in the dark. One day the power goes out-with a whimper, not a bang-and then it simply never comes back. Into the Forest haunts with its larger vision of a world in collapse, made all the more affecting because we’re told so little about it. See Dragonfly’s blog post about the movie based off the book. It is currently a movie directed by Ellen Page, airing June 3, 2016. This novel, published in 1998, won the Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Nominee for Fiction (Finalist) (1997), and James Tiptree Jr.
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Andre gide les faux monnayeurs5/30/2023 Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide expressed the conflict and eventual reconciliation of the two sides of his personality (characterized by a Protestant austerity and a transgressive sexual adventurousness, respectively). The author of more than fifty books, he was described in his obituary in The New York Times as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti." Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement, to criticising imperialism between the two World Wars. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Les nourritures terrestres ( The Fruits of the Earth)Īndré Paul Guillaume Gide ( French: 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author whose writings spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. Les faux-monnayeurs ( The Counterfeiters) La Symphonie Pastorale ( The Pastoral Symphony) Les caves du Vatican ( The Vatican Cellars sometimes published in English under the title Lafcadio's Adventures) Cimetière de Cuverville, Cuverville, Seine-Maritime
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Divergente by Veronica Roth5/30/2023 Beatrice Prior, who later changes her name to Tris, is born into Abnegation but transfers into Dauntless she must figure out her life as a Divergent, conceal her true nature, and live with the danger of being killed if her true nature is discovered by the Erudite and Dauntless leaders. The trilogy's society defines its members by their social and personality affiliations, with the five different factions removing the threat of anyone exercising independent will and threatening the population's safety. The trilogy is set in the future in a dystopian society that is divided into five factions. A later short story, We Can Be Mended (2018), serves as an epilogue five years after the events of the trilogy, again from Tobias/Four's perspective. A related book, Four (2014), presents a series of short stories told from the perspective of one of the trilogy's characters, the male love interest Tobias. The trilogy consists of Divergent (2011), Insurgent (2012) and Allegiant (2013). We Can Be Mended: A Divergent Series Epilogue (2018)ĭivergent is a series of young adult science fiction adventure novels by American novelist Veronica Roth set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian Chicago.
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Long Range by C.J. Box5/30/2023 The search for the would-be assassin becomes personal when Joe's best friend, Nate Romanowski -just as he's adjusting to the arrival of his first child-falls under suspicion for the crime. While the judge was not hit, his wife is severely wounded, and it is up to Joe to find answers-and the shooter. Someone has targeted a prominent local judge, shooting at him from a seemingly impossible distance. One survivor of the grizzly's rampage tells a bizarre story, but just as Joe begins to suspect the attack is not what it seems, he is brought home by an emergency on his own turf. When Joe Pickett is asked to join the rescue efforts for the victim of a startling grizzly attack, he reluctantly leaves his district behind. Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must investigate an attempted murder-a crime committed from a confoundingly long distance-in the riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C.
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Peter pan in kensington gardens5/30/2023 With this eBook or online at Title: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever. Project Gutenberg's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J. It was funny, sweet and makes a lovely collection to anyone’s library. I really must go and see if the monuments and sights have changed much since Barrie’s time.This was beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham with over 50 full colour illustrations plus many pen drawings and this was how I found the book even existed. It also talks about Barrie’s visits with the children to the gardens and I am ashamed to admit that while I have been living by London for nearly 10 years I still haven’t been to the gardens. There is a story about how prospective parents ask the birds for a child and that is why children think they can fly as they were born as baby birds.Not all of the stories feature Peter Pan, the first half is a series of short tales about the different sights in the gardens and some of the children who have visited. There is lots of information and anecdotes about Kensington Gardens in London as well as the story of Peter Pan and how he came to be the boy who never grew up. This was written after Peter Pan but is a prequel.
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Wait For It by Jenn McKinlay5/30/2023 Nick suffered from a stroke a year ago, and while there’s no physical reason for him not to recover, he is struggling to overcome the paralyzing fear that has kept him a prisoner in his own home.ĭespite her promise to herself not to get involved, Annabelle finds herself irresistibly drawn to Nick. Annabelle is shocked when she finally meets Nick and discovers that he’s her age and uses a wheelchair. Based on the cranky, handwritten notes Nick Daire leaves her, she assumes he is an old, rich curmudgeon. When she arrives in the Valley of the Sun, Annabelle is instantly intrigued by her anonymous landlord. When she’s offered her dream job as creative director at a cutting-edge graphic design studio in Phoenix, she jumps at the opportunity to start over. She’s not even thirty years old, twice-divorced, and has just dodged a marriage proposal… from her ex-husband. Stuck in a dreary Boston winter, Annabelle Martin would like nothing more than to run away from her current life. A woman looking for a new lease on life moves to Arizona where she rents a guest house on a gorgeous property with a mysterious owner-a man who teaches her about resilience, courage, and ultimately true love, in this funny, bighearted novel about hope and healing from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay.
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Banks look to windward5/30/2023 One of the many casualties of the Indiran War, now eight hundred years past, were the two stars Portisia and Junce, along with every creature who depended on those stars for sustenance and survival. This was my first Culture book, and those of you who have been reading these for years can laugh at everything I missed. There is so much of, well, everything, that you’ll have to forgive me for not dwelling on the nitty gritty details. Yes, Banks tosses you in, bodily, into the deep end, but trust me, absolutely everything (ok, nearly everything) is explained in detail before the book ends. Looking at something like this, even thinking about Banks’ massive creation known as The Culture, it’s easy to feel intimidated. A science fiction story where the detailed science lives in the background, allowing the multi-faceted characters to take center stage. This is the kind of book the phrase “space opera” was invented for: a story that sprawls light years and generations, alien civilizations, political intrigue, gigantic constructs that are controlled by semi-retired artificial intelligences, and thanks to some of the most amazing characters you will ever meet, a story that is as addictive as it is easy to follow. Where I got it: borrowed from a friend (thanks!!!)
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A stillness at appomattox first edition5/29/2023 And though he is a Yankee, he strives very hard to be impartial. His insight makes you believe he was there, that he lived through it, coming from his years of listening to the veterans in his hometown. Bruce Catton writes like no other about the American Civil War. This is the third book in the trilogy of the Army of the Potomac. First Edition thus (1990), Third Printing. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. A handsome, nearly-new reading copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a minor, unobtrusive cosmetic flaw. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows a hint of tanning to the text pages, due to aging else flawless the binding is square and secure the text clean.
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The Gutsy Girl by Wendy MacNaughton5/29/2023 Wendy is the back page columnist for California Sunday Magazine, and co-founder of Women Who Draw.īefore all that stuff, she studied art and social work, worked as a copywriter in advertising, a campaign director for non-profits, a bookseller in a used bookstore, and a counselor on a suicide hotline. Her books include Meanwhile in San Francisco, The City in its Own Words (Chronicle), The Gutsy Girl (Bloomsbury), SALT FAT ACID HEAT (Simon & Schuster), Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology (Bloomsbury), Pen and Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them (Bloomsbury), Knives & Ink: Chefs and The Stories Behind Their Tattoos (Bloomsbury), The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt),The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Becoming a Whiskey Know-It-All (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and the forthcoming Leave Me Alone with the Recipes, The Life, Art and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles (Bloomsbury). Wendy MacNaughton is a NYT best-selling illustrator and graphic journalist based in San Francisco.
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The Fortress by Meša Selimović5/29/2023 That episode apparently affected Meša's later contemplative introduction to Death and the Dervish, where the main protagonist Ahmed Nurudin fails to rescue his imprisoned brother. During the war, Selimović's brother, also a communist, was executed by partisans' firing squad for alleged theft, without trial Selimović's letter in defense of the brother was to no avail. After his release, he moved to liberated territory, became a member of Communist Party of Yugoslavia and the political commissar of the Tuzla Detachment of the Partisans. Goy (Translator), Jasna Levinger (Translator) 347 pages first pub 1970 user-added ISBN/UID: 9788610023855. He spent the first two years of the Second World War in Tuzla, until he was arrested for participation in the Partisan anti-fascist resistance movement in 1943. At that time he participated in the Soko athletic organisation. In 1936, he returned to Tuzla to teach in the gymnasium that today bears his name. His lecturers included Bogdan Popović, Pavle Popović, Vladimir Ćorović, Veselin Čajkanović, Aleksandar Belić and Stjepan Kuljbakin. In 1930, he enrolled to study the Serbo-Croatian language and literature at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology and graduated in 1934. Meša Selimović graduated from elementary school and high school in Tuzla. |