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To be or not to be by ryan north6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Ryan's prose is, as always, colloquial and familiar but full of clever references, vivid imagination, and only the most choice of jokes. Each ending in the book is accompanied by a full-color, full-page illustration by one of the 65 most excellent artists working today, so each rereading yields new surprises and rewards. It's pretty awesome! Readers can follow Yorick skull markers to stick closely to Shakespeare's plot, or go off-script and explore alternative possibilities filled with puzzles and humor. ![]() Play as Hamlet, Ophelia, or King Hamlet-if you want to die on the first page and play as a ghost. To Be or Not To Be is a choose-your-own-path version of Hamlet by New York Times best-selling author Ryan North. ![]()
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The gift cecelia ahern summary6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() While all his books are stellar and having read each one of them, I am still to find one that I don’t love, I have a special place for “Message in a Bottle”. If you are looking for heartfelt, memorable romances that will have you shedding tears of heartbreak and then sighing in happiness as you experience the many facets of true love then Nicholas Sparks’ romance books are your go to stop. ![]() Bring your friends and family together with a good meal and a good book. From beautiful petit fours and delicate sugar and spice cake, to Linzer tarts and French macaroons. In this edition of the book, apart from the gorgeous cover and illustrations, plan a fancy tea party or book club gathering with recipes for sweet confections and pastries. Full of witty banter, a meddling mother, five unmarried sisters and one eligible bachelor, this book is a must read classic that is a book worth reading before you die. Darcy who against his wishes falls for the spunky Elizabeth Bennett is not-to-be-missed. Perfect gifts for teenage girls, your girlfriend, female friend as well as all romance lovers, this romance that features the broody Mr. No Best romance books to read and gift list is complete without mentioning Jane Austen’s fabulous romances that include this evergreen love story that has influenced and entertained generations of romance lovers. ![]()
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May sarton recovering a journal6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Some felt deceived that she did not have as much solitude as her memoirs described, but I remember May often writing in distress about interruptions and too much company. I also checked out some blog posts about May and felt distressed that some readers had completely gone off re-reading her journals because of the biography. The prolific letters took me two days to read (and I have since put in a request for volume one). I feel an affinity with old age because of my childhood spent with my grandma and her peers. I read both of their journeys into old age when I was in my 40s and must read them again now that I am almost there. ![]() In the 1990s, May’s journals had led me to the memoirs of Doris Grumbach. I loved finding a photo of May and Carolyn… I immediately put in an interlibrary loan for the second volume (since her later life interests me the most). Thus it was a relief to me when I read The Last Gift of Time in December 2019 to find a thoughtfully critical but loving chapter all about May, in which Carolyn Heilbrun mentioned May’s books of letters. (I learned this month in May’s letters that May herself had a bad feeling about what Margot was going to write.) I was horrified soon after that to read the truly mean biography of May written by Margot Peters. Back in the 1990s, I read and loved all of May Sarton’s memoirs, Plant Dreaming Deep (plant is a verb, not a noun!), Journal of a Solitude, The House by the Sea, At Seventy, Recovering, After the Stroke. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I had two events in New York, organized with my friends. When “Perks” was released, it was a midlist trade paper original. I guess the fact that I’m doing a tour is the big change. You’re on tour with your first book in 20 years. Having spent the last 10 years percolating the ideas in “Imaginary Friend,” the author knows horror works best when audiences are truly invested in the characters. To say any more would spoil the many surprises in a book filled with imagery and themes that run the gamut, from biblical references to fairy tales.īut even in the horror genre, there is the DNA of a Chbosky project: complexly drawn characters, deep friendships and the bonds between family. ![]() After Christopher goes missing for six days, a series of strange occurrences take place, including a lottery windfall and Christopher’s sudden intelligence. “Imaginary Friend” tells the story of 7-year-old Christopher who moves with his mother to a new town when she flees an abusive ex. ![]()
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Tell by Soraya Peerbaye6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() I thought one of the strongest qualities of the book was that Peerbaye makes the landscape witness to the horror so that these poems are heavy with the terror of tides, the outrage of the hills surrounding, and the keen grief cast on the eelgrass and shoreline. These 48 poems are the unfolding of a tragedy of the worst sort which takes possession of a community and the lives in it. ![]() ![]() They speak of racism and a rivalrous rage these kids hardly understood but which was fueled in part by their admiration for Los Angeles gang culture. They're full of teenage anxiety and confusion. These 48 poems are haunting and dream-like. Tell: poems for a girlhood relates the events of that night as well as the subsequent investigations and trials in which a boy and a girl were found guilty of murder. She managed to get away across the bridge but was followed by 2 of the group who beat her again, and then one of the girls held her head under the water until she drowned. There she was swarmed by 8 of the group and savagely beaten. In November 1997 a 14-year old high school girl of South Asian descent named Reena Virk, living in a community just north of Victoria on Vancouver Island, was murdered by a group of kids who'd invited her to a gathering near a local bridge. ![]()
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Blackshirts and reds by michael parenti6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Written with lucid and compelling style, this book goes beyond truncated modes of thought, inviting us to entertain iconoclastic views, and to ask why things are as they are. He affirms the relevance of taboo ideologies like Marxism, demonstrating the importance of class analysis in understanding political realities and dealing with the ongoing collision between ecology and global corporatism. He also maps out the external and internal forces that destroyed communism, and the disastrous impact of the “free-market” victory on eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. ![]() Parenti shows how “rational fascism” renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege. Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology-terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti’s trademark. ![]()
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I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Kimi embodies every self-discovering young adult in this book. Taking advantage of her grandparents’ sudden request to visit them in Japan for spring break, she finds herself in the beautiful city of Kyoto with a limitless expanse of adventure to find herself and the sweet discovery of a certain mochi stand. A complicated adventure in itself, it becomes harder for Kimi when she learns about her mother’s disappointment and disapproval of her fashion hobbies. With the talent and passion of transforming her fashion ideas into the bold and wondrous Kimi Originals, Kimi finds herself lost in the reality of figuring out her future in I Love You So Mochi. ![]() Just as sweet and colorful as mochi, Sarah Kuhn’s I LOVE YOU SO MOCHI leads you on an international journey of self-discovery, familial hardships and a romance that blooms just as quick and beautiful as cherry blossoms. ![]()
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![]() Jüdische Riten und Symbole by: Vries, Simon Ph. The Hutchinson dictionary of symbols by: Tresidder, Jack Published: (1997) by: Philosophia Reformata, Editors Published: (1961)Ī dictionary of symbols by: Cirlot, Juan Eduardo 1916-1973 Published: (1962) KUYPERS, Amsterdam Brussel, Elsevier, 1960. ![]() 1938- Published: (1991)Įlseviers Kleine Filosofische en Psychologische Encyclopedie, met medewerking van Prof. Published: (2011)ĭictionary of symbols by: Ljungman, Carl G. Zondervan dictionary of biblical imagery by: Beck, John A. Published: (1984)ĭictionary of biblical imagery Published: (1998)ĭictionary of biblical imagery Published: (2005) ![]() ![]() Dictionary of symbols and imagery by: Vries, Ad de,, Niederlande 20. ![]()
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Capital and ideology piketty6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Nothing less than a global history of inequality and the stories that societies tell to justify it, from pre-modern India to Donald Trump’s U.S. “Ventures to trace the origin of inequalities and propose methods of eradication… Lands on the world’s doorstep in the midst of an unfolding economic crisis, when the shutdown required to prevent the spread of the coronavirus is sending the world into a spiraling recession… Piketty has put forward proposals for long-term, permanent change, but impressively, they would also be immediately useful in speeding along the recovery. “In an election cycle where the political discourse has been thoroughly shaped by Piketty’s work, his new book feels especially urgent. It also contains a penetrating analysis of contemporary politics, especially the failures of what Piketty calls the ‘Brahmin Left,’ along with a radical new program of socialist egalitarianism. “This is an immense work of scholarship on the history of inequality. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But as Beauty explores the island she's now marooned on, the girl discovers secret treasure. Just as he sinks beneath the waves, something horrible rises-a kraken Without hesitation, Beauty makes a deal to become the giant squid's prisoner if it rescues her dad. Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S. Beauty is sailing the ocean when pirates attack and her dad is thrown overboard. ![]() |