I'm a sucker for bookception (books that take place inside of another book), gothic suspense, and an Agatha Christie-esque plot that gives you a taste of that classic crime mystery we all love. This was that sort of case I kept eyeing The Stranger Diaries online because it seemingly contained everything I love in a book. The trick with this game is that sometimes it doesn't work out well for me, but every now and then I stumble across a blessed gem that I may not have had the courage to grasp otherwise. NetGalley and I have been playing this game where it tempts me with a book, I play coy, and then one night after a few glasses of wine I click the READ NOW button and, the next thing I know, I'm the proud owner of a shiny new ARC and a small percentage added stress to get it reviewed before pub date. "Nothing in the world is hidden forever." -Wilkie Collins, No Name
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'The Tonight Show' host Jimmy joked in his opening monologue: “It is a great day to be in New York City … Well, unless you’re one person.” “70 degrees and sunny with a chance of jail.” Stephen opened 'The Late Show' with the quip: “It was an absolutely beautiful day here in New York. He became the first former commander-in-chief to be arrested and face criminal charges, and the historical arrest provided the comedians with plenty of material for their shows. The former president pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in relation to an alleged $130,000 hush money payment to adult star Stormy Daniels ahead of his victorious 2016 American presidential race in New York on Tuesday (04.04.23). Late-night TV hosts Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon were among those to poke fun at Donald Trump after his arrest. Donald Trump is next due in court on 4 December Remarkables REMARKABLES Intriguing, stunning, or otherwise remarkable books These include fine editions, foreign publications exceptional for their interest or production, special editions and some first-rate books from very small publishers.Prices include UK postage postage to other parts of the world will be added when we confirm the details of your order. Our packages are wrapped in brown paper and tied up with coloured paper ribbons. We aim to provide choice for the giver and relish to the recipient.
His subject, Quammen says, is "the extinction of species in a world that has been hacked to pieces." To some, extinctions within an ecosystem are "relaxation to equilibrium." Others say "faunal collapse." Quammen prefers the phrase of the Smithsonian's Tom Lovejoy: "ecosystem decay." He has walked Tasmanian trails where thylacines once roamed and been ambushed on a trail in Indonesia by a Komodo dragon. For all those years and more he has been talking to biologists, sometimes in their university offices, other times on trails in Madagascar, in the Atlantic forest of Brazil, on what is left of Krakatau or on Guam at night, looking for brown tree snakes. (The final one, on his fear that all surviving animals will end up as tame as city pigeons, appeared in the March issue.) For the past eight years he has traveled the world on a Guggenheim grant to see for himself some of the most endangered animals on the planet. This is only fitting because the last sentence will leave more than a few readers on their feet, punching the air with a fist and saying "Yes!"ĭavid Quammen is a Montana novelist who for the past 15 years has written a formidably researched column for Outside magazine. It is also a book of intellectual adventure, in which the excitement of new understanding builds over 600 pages until at last the baton is passed to the reader. This is a book of physical adventure - travels in exotic and even dangerous places to see extraordinary creatures. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote―and perhaps not even to live―the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.īut when the Eastwood sisters―James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna―join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in this powerful novel of magic, family, and the suffragette movement. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR Books.Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel. "―Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling authorĪ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A gorgeous and thrilling paean to the ferocious power of women. I have to conclude that this book is too clever by half for me and frankly, feels like too much hard work. I don't expect to be spoon-fed, but by half-way through, I expected to understand a bit more about the background, hierarchies, cultural norms etc, but constantly felt as if I had either missed something (lots of things!) or had started the series part way through. I frequently had no idea what was going on. I understand books two and three are slower still.Ģ. However, for me, this book has two major issues.ġ. I liked the premise, didn't struggle with the use of the pronoun 'she' for all genders, and got used to the narrative switching back and forth between past and present. This is a difficult book to review, but I will try to keep this brief as there are plenty of more detailed reviews. In fact, stories where they aren't squick her badly, so don't expect to find abuse stories in her journal. Earth Fathers Are Weird Kindle Edition by Lyn Gala (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 502 ratings Part of: Earth Fathers (2 books) See all formats and editions Kindle 4.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Captain Maxwell Davis and his entire unit scrambled to engage alien ships over Iowa. In her worlds, tops and bottoms are all mature, consenting adults. Some of her stories focus on power exchange, bondage or bdsm. She prefers to focus on plot: mysteries and monsters and disasters, oh my, but sex can and does happen. She first cut her teeth on fanfic: gen, slash, het, and femslash. : Earth Fathers Are Weird (9781393605461) by Gala, Lyn and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. When she isn’t writing, Lyn Gala teaches in New Mexico. Her characters seek to better themselves and find the happy ending (or happier anyway), but it’s writing the struggle that inspires her muse. Even the purest heroes have pain and loss and darkness in their hearts, and that’s where she likes to find her stories. Westerns starring men with shady pasts gave way to science fiction with questionable protagonists which eventually gave in to any story with a morally ambiguous character. Lynsey "Lyn" Gala started writing in the back of her science notebook in third grade and hasn’t stopped since. In all religions, on all spiritual paths, one of the most sacred and mystical physical places is the threshold one crosses to enter the temple, cathedral, prayer hall, synagogue, teepee, or space of worship. De Angelis offers a practical handbook for awakening, and a brilliant revisioning of the journey of personal and spiritual transformation that will inspire and enlighten longtime seekers as well as new arrivals to the path of growth. Now, in her most powerful offering yet-and the culmination of her life’s work-Dr. Soul Shifts is the groundbreaking new book from New York Times best-selling author and renowned transformational teacher Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D. Four Guided Meditations for Healing, Centering and Awakening – Soul Shift Inner Journey.ICDI Pasadena Audio Lecture – Transforming Your Life from the Inside Out.A two-part audio course - Living and Loving with Compassion.Order Soul Shifts and receive these special Thank You gifts: We don’t just want to rearrange the pieces of ourselves so that they look better temporarily. At these times what’s needed is not simply more change or an adjustment in our outer life, but profound transformation. We know we’re being called to something more signi¬ficant and expanded-we can feel it. How we have been living, working, and loving just isn’t enough or even acceptable anymore. There are pivotal moments in the lives of all seekers when we realize that we’ve been traveling on our path of growth toward happiness and ful¬fillment, but, simply put, we want to go faster. And it is the story of the King’s men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known.Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCullough’s 1776 is another landmark in the literature of American history. The Americans fired on British soldiers at Lexington and Concord, but King George III wanted to. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. In October of 1775, the Revolutionary War was just beginning. Annotation: America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that placed America’s survival in the hands of George Washington.In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence-when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality.Subject: History and Historical Fiction. Chaudhuri spent much of his childhood in Bombay and later lived in England, returning to stay in Kolkata only recently. Chaudhuri's new book Calcutta: Two Years in a City is about a city that was, the city that is and the one that it perhaps will be in the future. Nobody writes about life and its frailties like Sankar does, but Amit Chaudhuri comes very close when he writes about Calcutta (or Kolkata as it's known now). Since then I have read Sankar translations in both English and Hindi. I discovered Sankar's writing a few years back when someone recommended his book Chowringhee to me. My favourite Bengali author is Mani Shankar Mukherjee who wrote using the pseudonym Sankar. Harford's The Undercover Economist Strikes Back now comes a close second.Ĭalcutta: Two Years in the City by Amit Chaudhuri (Hamish Hamilton, Rs 599) In fact, Henry Hazzlit's Economics in One Lesson (first published in 1946) remains my favourite book, when it comes to books that explain the dismal science in a language that everybody can understand. In this new book, Harford tries to explain macroeconomics and the current financial crisis to the lay reader in simple English. His focused approach to his subjects ensures the reader understands what he is trying to say and that possibly explains why his books, like The Undercover Economist, The Logic of Life and Adapt, have been bestsellers. Tim Harford is my favourite writer when it comes to non fiction. The Undercover Economist Strikes Back - How to Run - or Ruin - an Economy by Tim Harford (Little, Brown Rs 599) |