5/27/2023 0 Comments Samantha irby essays![]() ![]() This is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream. ![]() She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife in a Blue town in the middle of a Red state where she now hosts book clubs and makes mason jar salads. Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. irresistible as a snack tray, as intimately pleasurable as an Irish goodbye.”įrom Samantha Irby-beloved author of New York Times bestseller We Are Never Meeting in Real Life-a rip-roaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays. “Stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny. *Elle * Oprah Magazine * Vulture * New York Times * PureWow * AV CLub * Time Magazine * Entertainment Weekly * PureWow * Buzzfeed * The Observer * Bustle * Huffington Post * The Millions * Parade * Electric Literature * Bustle * Lithub * BookRiot * Bitch * Washington Independent * The Rumpus * and more * *AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* ![]()
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5/27/2023 0 Comments Daring to drive![]() Manal al-Sharif’s memoir is an “eye-opening” (The Christian Science Monitor) account of the making of an accidental activist, a vivid story of a young Muslim woman who stood up to a kingdom of men-and won. That’s when the Saudi kingdom’s contradictions became too much to bear: she was labeled a slut for chatting with male colleagues, her school-age brother chaperoned her on a business trip, and while she kept a car in the garage, she was forbidden from driving on Saudi streets. By her twenties Manal was a computer security engineer, one of few women working in a desert compound built to resemble suburban America. ![]() ![]() But what a difference an education can make. In her adolescence, she was a religious radical, melting her brother’s boy band cassettes in the oven because music was haram: forbidden by Islamic law. Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year strict fundamentalism took hold. Daring to Drive | A Saudi Woman’s Awakening by Manal al-Sharif is a firsthand account of a woman attempting to drive in Saudi Arabia. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments The Continuum by Wendy Nikel![]() ![]() Her time travel novella series, beginning with THE CONTINUUM, was published in 2018-2019 from World Weaver PressĪ place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. ![]() Her short fiction has been published by Analog, Nature: Futures, Podcastle, and elsewhere. Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she's left her cup of tea. ![]() for news, giveaways, and other exclusive content! Her time travel novella series, beginning with THE CONTINUUM, was published in 2018-2019 from World Weaver Press Visit for more info! Sign up for my author newsletter at. for news, giveaways, and other exclusive content! Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she's left her cup of tea. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments All the tides and fate![]() ![]() Previous studies show it's also a key spot for rapid ice loss.Īt remote Petermann, where few people have been and there are no base camps, that grounding line zone is more than six-tenths of a mile (1 kilometer) wide and could be as much as 3.7 miles (6 kilometers) wide, the study said. ![]() That's the point where glaciers go from being on land to floating on water. ![]() The study looks at the all-important grounding line area of glaciers on ice sheets. He said this newly found consequence of tidal activity "could potentially double the projections" of global melt. We know that they have a really hard time matching the current record'' of melt. “We know the current projections are too conservative. “It's bad news,” said study author Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at University of California Irvine. If it is happening in the rest of Greenland and the even bigger Antarctic ice sheet, then global ice loss and the sea level rise could jump as much as twice as fast as previously thought, according to the study in Monday's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The rapid melt seen in this study was in the far northwest of Greenland on Petermann Glacier. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments West edith pattou![]() Her favorite child, east-born Elise, dies young and Eugenia conceives another child to replace her, Rose. Years before, Eugenia was told by a skjebne-soke (a fortune teller) that any north child she had would die crushed beneath an avalanche of ice and snow, reinforcing her desire to never have a pure northern child. ![]() According to the birth-direction superstition held by Eugenia's family, the direction a woman faces when giving birth will affect the child's personality each direction foretells a different personality, and Eugenia believes north is wild and uncontrollable. When Arne married the superstitious Eugenia, he agreed to have seven children with her-one for each point of the compass, excluding north. It is an adaptation of an old Norwegian folk tale entitled " East of the Sun and West of the Moon" and was a 2003 ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults. ![]() East (also known as North Child in the UK and Australia) is a 2003 novel by the author Edith Pattou. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Tell by Frances Itani![]() ![]() ![]() A three-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize, Frances Itani is a Member of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a 2019 Library and Archives Canada Scholars Award. Published in seventeen territories, Deafening was also selected for CBC’s Canada Reads. Her novels include That’s My Baby Tell, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Requiem, chosen by the Washington Post as one of the top fiction titles of 2012 Remembering the Bones, published internationally and shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the #1 bestseller Deafening, which won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Join: Please register with Innisfil ideaLab and Libraryįrances Itani has written eighteen books. ![]() Join, Get Inspired, and Learn Together BPL: ![]() ![]() ![]() House of Salt and Sorrows is a spellbinding novel filled with magic and the rustle of gossamer skirts down long, dark hallways. When Annaleigh's involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it's a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family-before it claims her next. ![]() Because who-or what-are they really dancing with? The girls have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Each death was more tragic than the last-the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge-and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.ĭisturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that her sister's deaths were no accidents. Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.Īnnaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. As one by one her beautiful sisters mysteriously die on their isolated island estate, Annaleigh must unravel the curse that haunts her family. Get swept away by the New York Times bestseller that's sold over 100,000 copies. ![]() ![]() Synopsis: "Step inside a fairy tale."-Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Caraval ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Finders keepers by stephen king![]() ![]() ![]() Pete’s life, along with that of his sis, continues to be at risk because of the reality that Morris will definitely quit at absolutely nothing to return what he thinks comes from him. Costs Hodges, a retired polices private investigator, is phoned call to aid Pete Saubers, the youngster that uncovered the trunk in which Morris concealed the note pads he swiped from the popular writer. The human mind can come to be consumed with anything, additionally compositions, the site visitor finds in the one-of-a-kind Finders Keepers byStephen King This one-of-a-kind informs the story of Morris Bellamy that murders the well- well-known author John Rothstein in addition to swipes the job Rothstein has really created thinking about that his retired life from making up. Stephen King -Finders Keepers Audio Book Free ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Dreaming of Love by Melissa Foster![]() ![]() Single father and police officer Caden Grant left Boston with his fourteen-year-old son, Evan, after his partner was killed in the line of duty. That is, until good-time Bella's prank takes a bad turn and a sinfully sexy police officer appears on the scene. ![]() ![]() She's quit her job, put her house on the market, and sworn off relationships while she builds a new life in her favorite place on earth. Only this year, Bella has more on her mind than sunbathing and skinny-dipping with her girlfriends. Bella Abbascia has returned to Seaside Cottages in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, as she does every summer. While each book may be read as a standalone, you might enjoy reading the entire Love in Bloom series. This flirty, fun series features alpha male heroes and sexy, empowered women. SEASIDE SUMMERS are the newest addition to the LOVE IN BLOOM series by New York Times & USA Today bestselling and award-winning author Melissa Foster. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Fawn brodie joseph smith![]() ![]() An investigation of the reasons why Smith was murdered and the actions he took to avoid this fate inevitably makes it difficult to maintain that Smith was “like a lamb led to the slaughter.” A close examination of the term reveals that one must meet specific requirements to be considered a martyr, which involve, for example, the reasons why one is put to death and the way one faces such a death. ![]() It has caused others, however, to raise the question whether someone who dies in a gun battle fighting against his enemies can be considered to be a martyr. He and his brother Hyrum Smith were murdered on June 27, 1844, by an armed mob, an event that has prompted Mormons to classify them as martyrs. ![]() Smith began his own church with just six people and saw it grow and thrive, despite the many persecutions it endured. (1805-1844), the founder and first prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church). Critics and supporters agree that the veracity of Mormonism hinges on Joseph Smith, Jr. ![]() |
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