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Yolk by mary hk choi5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yolk acquaints us with two sisters who lead starkly different lives but remain inextricably linked, not only through DNA but also a history spanning the mundane and the unforgivable. And Jayne becomes the only one who can help her.įlung together by circumstance, housing woes, and family secrets, will the sisters learn more about each other than they’re willing to confront? And what if while helping June, Jayne has to confront the fact that maybe she’s sick, too? Once thick as thieves, these sisters who moved from Seoul to San Antonio to New York together now don’t want anything to do with each other. Jayne is an emotionally stunted, self-obsessed basket case who lives in squalor, has egregious taste in men, and needs to get to class and stop wasting Mom and Dad’s money (if you ask June). June’s three years older, a classic first-born, know-it-all narc with a problematic finance job and an equally soulless apartment (according to Jayne). ![]() Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters and how far they’ll go to save one of their lives - even if it means swapping identities. “Sneaks up on you with its insight and poignancy.” ( Entertainment Weekly )įrom New York Times best-selling author Mary H.K. ![]()
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Something Upstairs by Avi5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Tour groups, departing the John Brown House Museum at 1pm, will walk the same streets as characters Kenny and Caleb, visit the waterfront, and see the very house in which the story is set.? Participants can join the RIHS?s expert guides in exploring the streets of Providence through the lens of Avi’s Something Upstairs, a book that has been captivating young readers for three decades with its blending of time travel, ghosts, fact, and fiction. (PROVIDENCE, R.I.) ? One of the Rhode Island Historical Society?s most requested private walking tours will welcome a wider audience for one day only on Saturday, October 15. School Group Walking Tour, a Perennial Favorite, Open to Public for One Day Only ?Avi Tour? Brings Popular Providence-Based Young Adult Novel to Life ? $15 for one child and adult each additional child, $5 each additional adult, $10 ![]() Departs from John Brown House Museum (52 Power St.) ![]()
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Devils Larder by Jim Crace5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Adelaide '02." Size: Octavo (standard book size). Author's inscription reads "For Rose,My long - lasting correspondent from Oz. Pages are bright and clean with only some age-toning. In the publisher's original binding, with unclipped dustwrapper showing ?12.99 price. Utilising hilarious and subversive ingredients, Crace's 'The Devil's Larder' is a startling patchwork portrait of a community's passion. ![]() First edition, with unclipped dustwrapper. Crace was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2013, and has won the Whitbread, International Dublin and James Tait Black Memorial awards. ![]() This signed first edition of acclaimed novelist Jim Crace's cumulative novel 'The Devil's Larder' collects sixty-four shorter pieces that cater to appetites of all kinds, from the taste buds to the cultural, sexual and imaginative delights contained within. An excellent signed first edition of Jim Crace's cumulative novel. ![]()
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Kennedy an unfinished life5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() This book written by Davis can help first-time readers in understanding the life of the famous Kennedy family from the first-generation to the most significant ones. Finally, this book would expound on Kennedy's popularity.ĭavis, J. This book would also be used to provide arguments on domestic policies which is explained in an easier narrative than other biographies of the President. ![]() This book would be used first and foremost to provide background on his congressional term from his election to his policies while in Congress. A chapter is also provided for his legacy, popularity and his assassination. This book written yet again by Dallek is somewhat an installment to the first book "An Unfinished Life" as the book expounds on Kennedy's policies in his presidency for both foreign and domestic issues. ![]() ![]() The second use this book would have is how Kennedy would have been like if he did not die in Texas.ĭallek, R. One, it would be used to provide insight as to what was Kennedy's strengths and weaknesses when growing up. The scope Dallek provided in the book would be used in two different ways. Dallek had also expounded in an excellent narrative how JFK grew as a person people have admired even at the present day. In this book written by renowned biographer Robert Dallek, he takes another look at what kind of person President Kennedy was, tackling issues such as his health, love life, presidential appointments and even his policies. ![]()
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Heart of darkness the horror5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() The words “The horror” can be considered to describe this entire situation that Africans faced. ![]() Instead, the people ended up loosing more than gaining in the long run. As a consequence, it becomes easier to take advantage and thus exploit the available resources. ![]() In all these aspects, the Europeans did everything they could to humiliate and create fear among Africans and thus making it difficult for them to resist. During the colonization period, the Europeans did various things to Africa in the name of progress such as slave trade. It is something terrifying and thus pushed for his terms “The horror. The terms horror depicted the exploitation that was seen in Africa and the evil practices of humans. First, the words show his reaction to what he witnessed in Africa. Kurtz’s last words in the “Heart of Darkness” were “The horror. ![]()
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Hillerman listening woman5/22/2023 ![]() It's also not one of the more high profile (read: multi-awarded, movie-versioned) novels. Jim Chee is introduced relatively early on in the series. A little further research and I now know that this is one of the few Hillerman mysteries featuring just Joe Leaphorn his counterpart (and subordinate) Sgt. ![]() This ended up being a good introduction, I think, even if it was pretty arbitrary. I started with Listening Woman because I was able to buy it for a dollar. (I was told by an enthusiastic library volunteer in Oro Valley, AZ that I should just start at the beginning and work my way through, but that seemed a little more time consuming than I was ultimately prepared for.) In the end, a discount book rack in Portland, Maine made my decision for me. The problem was I didn't really know where to start. When he died earlier this year, I decided to make like a good Southwesterner and rectify this omission in my reading list. ![]() Had it not been for some unfortunate connotations that I had with Hillerman (he was the author of choice for a particularly Wicked Stepmother), I would have most likely read his whole oeuvre by now. ![]()
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Fortunately the milk book5/22/2023 ![]()
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The count of monte cristo full book5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Longest novels in literature (10 longest Penguin Classics/Modern Classics Article).Crime fiction ( 1000 novels everyone must read, crime section, Guardian newspaper, 2009).Romance fiction ( Top Romance Novels of All Time Voted no.43, Good Reads).Britain’s favourite novels ( The Big Read Voted no.20, BBC, 2003).Adventure stories ( Best Action-Adventure Novels Voted no.9, Good Reads).Children’s novels (in an abridged version).In my own library I might catalogue this story under ‘Revenge fiction’, but I could equally place it under any of these: It is also the story of an individual victorious in the face of gross injustice, an evergreen theme. ![]() It is a tale that can satisfy the fantasies of anyone that has ever dreamed of winning the lottery. There is a limit to how many books you can read in a lifetime, so why not read the best or the most fun first? This one is a thumping good read and the ultimate revenge story. I read the Penguin Classics edition with the Robin Buss translation. The Count of Monte Cristo is a 1250 page adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas (working with a collaborator), originally serialised in a French Journal between 1844 to 1846. ![]() “Hatred is blind rage carries you away and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.” Penguin edition Book review – The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844) ![]()
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Capital in the twenty first century5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() That stark reality is the taking-off point for “ Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” a nimble and eye-opening documentary that puts you in the revelatory position of looking back over the last 300 years - where we’ve been and where we’re going - from a God’s-eye economic view. ![]() Their lives, in effect, were a death sentence. (Not that being a landed servant was any picnic.) They existed in poverty, without health care or schooling or much of anything else. In Europe, the majority of people were hand-to-mouth laborers who drifted from place to place, lacking the benefits of being landed servants. ![]() It was about the staggering inequality that society was built on. (You read that right.) No, this wasn’t just about the fact that human beings back then tended to live less long. Do you know what the average life expectancy was in the 18th century? It was 17. ![]()
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Candide text5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Candide was a satire comic and novel meant to give enlightenment to real-world issues while keeping the reader interesting. When Candide is in battle Voltaire mocks the army by calling them heroes while describing the explicit and violent act the soldiers are doing. The Seven Years War ended with The Treaty of Paris in 1763. The Seven Years War or French and Indian War from 1754 to 1763 involving Every great European power at the time EX: France Britain etc. The Seven Years War was also another event that helped influence the creation of Candide. After the shipwreck with Candide and Pangloss, they wash up to a town in ruins from the earthquake scavenging for food to survive. This earthquake followed by the tsunamis killed 60,000 people and destroyed around a couple thousand buildings. Many events influenced Voltaire to write Candide one major event was the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 this occurred in the kingdom of Portugal. Things needed to change for the greater good and everything was not alright. He believed social progress could be achieved through reason and that no authority-religious or political or otherwise-should be immune to challenge by reason.”1 Voltaire most likely wrote Candide to show the world or naive people the horrors peasants would go through or corruption there is in the world. “Voltaire believed above all in the efficacy of reason. ![]() |