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Shades of gray books5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is divided right into three areas: “thieves as well as prostitutes” defines the weeks of traveling from Kaunaus to the first compelled labor camp they stay at– a beet ranch in the Altai area of Siberia “maps as well as serpents” information the Vilkas’s life at the Altai labor camp and “ice and ashes,” which is an account of Lina and also her family members’s trip to the Trofimovsk camp over the Arctic Circle, where they discover of Lina’s father’s execution in Krasnoyarsk jail and where her mom ultimately passes away of pain as well as starvation. It chronicles her family’s apprehension by the Soviet authorities and their trip from Kaunaus in Lithuania to Trofimovsk, near the North Post, a trip that takes control of a year and also ends with their jail time at the North Pole for over a years. The novel is distinguished the first-person perspective of a fifteen-year-old musician, Lina, as well as starts with the dramatic declaration, “They took me in my nightgown” (24 ). Thousands of citizens of these nations were deported as well as locked up, as well as many of them ended up in Siberian compelled labor camps like the ones Lina Vilkas and her mom and brother are sent out to in guide. ![]() Between Tones of Gray is a fictionalized account of exactly what happened to several Lithuanians– and others from Estonia and also Latvia– after the Soviet Union linked and inhabited the Baltic States in 1940. ![]()
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Valiant Masters by David Michelinie5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Collecting RAI (1992) #1-8 in a deluxe hardcover format for the first time anywhere, revisit the future of the original Valiant Universe with Rai's critically acclaimed, highly sought-after adventures from legendary creators David Michelinie (Amazing Spider-Man, Iron Man), Joe St. As humanist factions war with mechanist loyalist for control of the future, the masterless Tohru is about to become the first Rai that must choose for himself how best to defend his people, his family, and his honor. ![]() For forty generations, Grandmother's benevolent dominion has endured, but in the wake of her sudden disappearance, Rai will become all that stands between his nation and all-out chaos. Infused with the energy of his ancestors and dedicated to the way of the samurai, Rai is sworn to the service of Grandmother ― the personified, artificial intelligence that governs the island nation of Japan. ![]() ― Tohru Nakadai is the 42nd Rai, the spirit guardian of Japan. ![]()
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After Atlas by Emma Newman5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() There's more to Casales's death than meets the eye, and something much more sinister to the legacy of Atlas than anyone realizes. But the deeper he delves into the case, the more he realizes that escaping the past is not so easy. To figure out who killed one of the most powerful men on Earth, Carlos is supposed to put aside his personal history. And now, on the eve of the fortieth anniversary of Atlas's departure, it's got something to do why Casales was found dead in his hotel room-and why Carlos is the man in charge of the investigation. Atlas is what took his mother away what made his father lose hope what led Alejandro Casales, leader of the religious cult known as the Circle, to his door. Set 20 years after the Atlasmission landed, it details the idyllic lives of the missionaries, who while away their days at the edge of an incomprehensible alien structure. But in that moment, the course of Carlos's entire life changed. Emma Newman’s Planetfall is a devastating novel, set among a colony of pilgrims who left Earth to find God on another planet. ![]() Gov-corp detective Carlos Moreno was only a baby when Atlas left Earth to seek truth among the stars. Last year, Emma Newman’s novel, Planetfall, chronicled the aftermath of an interstellar expedition whose participants thought they had found the resting place of God. ![]() ![]() Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man's murder is much more than it seems. Emma Newman Roc Release Date: NovemISBN 978-0-42. ![]()
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John bogle common sense on mutual funds5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Samuelson, Nobel Laureate, Economics "Were I allowed to recommend only one investment volume to friends and family, the updated edition of Common Sense on Mutual Funds would be it it is even better than the first edition was ten years ago." William J. Buffett Praise for Common Sense On Mutual Funds fully updated 10th anniversary edition "The only thing better than Bogles original book is its improved revision. ![]() Praise for The Original 1998 Edition "Cogent, honest, and hard-hitting a must read-for every investor." Warren E. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately for Michael, however, Francesca’s surname was to remain Bridgerton for only a mere thirty-six hours longer-the occasion of their meeting was, lamentably, a supper celebrating her imminent wedding to his cousin. ![]() After a lifetime of chasing women, of smiling slyly as they chased him, of allowing himself to be caught but never permitting his heart to become engaged, he took one look at Francesca Bridgerton and fell so fast and hard into love it was a wonder he managed to remain standing. For Michael Stirling, London’s most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one’s life will never be the same. FRANCESCA’S STORY In every life there is a turning point. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Francesca Bridgerton, in the sixth of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. This book was released on with total page 432 pages. Download or read book When He Was Wicked written by Julia Quinn and published by HarperCollins. ![]()
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The washingtonienne book5/12/2023 ![]() It's a town where a girl has to make her own excitement-and Jacqueline Turner is just the woman for the job. turns out to be a lot more buttoned-up and toned down than she'd hoped. Where better to get a fresh start than the nation's capitol? Alas, D.C. She needs an exciting new life-not to mention real employment. When Jacqueline Turner's fianc gives her two days to move out of his apartment, she has no choice but to leave New York City and crash with her best friend in Washington, D.C. ![]() The Capitol Hill aide who scandalized Washington, D.C., with her blog has now written a sharp, steamy, utterly unrepentant novel set against the backdrop of the nation's capitol. ![]()
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The Detective's Wife by Joanne Clancy5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Gemma, the only Ashbourne to possess magic meets the extremely handsome Talan d'Astier, the only survivor of a family who dabbled in forbidden magic in the first novel of a new trilogy from the author of the Empirium Trilogy. ![]() When a social media influencer buys a Burmese python from her local pet shop, she sets in motion a series of increasingly dire events that ensnares her entire family in the new novel by the author of World's End.Īfter an extraordinarily bad day during which Cassandra Dankworth's boyfriend breaks up with her and she is fired from her job, she wakes up the next day and has the chance to do it all again, differently.Ī Crown of Ivy and Glass by Claire Legrand Princess Atlanta, left to die by her parents who wanted a son, is raised by a mother bear under the protection of the goddess Artemis in the new novel by the best-selling author of Elektra. ![]()
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Amberlough5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Cyril participates in a mission that leads to disastrous results, leaving smoke from various political fires smoldering throughout the city. ![]() They suit each other: Aristide turns a blind eye to Cyril’s clandestine affairs, and Cyril keeps his lover’s moonlighting job as a smuggler under wraps. Trust no one with anything – especially in Amberlough City.Ĭovert agent Cyril DePaul thinks he’s good at keeping secrets, especially from Aristide Makricosta. ![]() From author Lara Elena Donnelly comes a debut spy thriller, Amberlough, where a gay double agent schemes to protect his smuggler lover during the rise of a fascist government coup. ![]()
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Aphra behn oroonoko full text5/11/2023 ![]() Exploring the implicit struggle that is staged between the two women over the possibilities of “reproducing” Oroonoko, it is suggested that Behn pits her miscegenated and marketable text against the reproductive capacities of Imoinda's body. The author compares the role played by Aphra Behn, as the white, educated, bourgeois narrator, with that played by Imoinda, Oroonoko's African bride and fellow slave in the Indian colony of Surinam. The “New World Woman” figures in this analysis as both a meta-critical abstraction against which Behn measures her text's achievement, and as a central character in the drama of the novel. ![]() It argues that Behn's ambivalent deployment of colonial rhetoric, particularly the discourses of sexual and racial difference, provides an important context for understanding her text's negotiation of generic categories such as romance, realism and True History, and her narrator's professions of textual fidelity and authority. Full Text: Aphra Behns Oroonoko (1688), an intensely stirring work, has captivated scholars of Restoration English literature in the last two decades with. ![]() ![]() This article examines the gendered and racialised dimensions of Aphra Behn's rhetorics of representation. For the modern reader and critic, a novel is a novel by virtue of its not being the story of real people but being. ![]()
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Geography Club by Brent Hartinger5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But are they? "Geography Club" is a smart, fast, moving and funny account of contemporary teenagers as they discover their own sexual identities, dreams and values and not merely live out their parents' desires and ambitions. Their secrets will be safe from classmates. Nobody else will discover the truth about them as no other students in their right minds would ever join a club that sounds so boring. But the truth is too hard to hide - at least from each other - so they form the Geography Club. Russell is still going on dates with girls, while Kevin will do anything to prevent his football teammates from finding out what he is concealing, Min and Terese tell everyone they're really just good friends, and Ike can't figure out who he is or what he wants to be. "GEOGRAPHY CLUB" is based on Brent Hartinger's best-selling critically acclaimed novel: "What am I looking for?" asks 16-year old Russell Middlebrook of himself as he heads off on his newest adventure. ![]() |