Brit bennett's the mothers5/29/2023 Desiree and Stella, twin girls born and raised in the fictional town of Mallard, make a startling decision after running away in their teens. The smart premise of The Vanishing Half helped to propel it to the top of the bestseller lists in the US, where it appeared as one of the New York Times’s best books of 2020 and was longlisted for the National book award. “Just write the parts that are exciting to you,” she thought, “and figure out later how you’re going to connect it.” Bennett’s rule of composition was this: in a narrative heaving with sadness and disappointment, whenever the writing started to drag like homework, she broke off, only to pick up again when she’d rediscovered the joy. It takes twin girls, Desiree and Stella, and through their divergent fortunes tells a story of race and class in America, in which history appears much closer than one might think. It is a sprawling blockbuster that opens in a small town in Louisiana in 1954 and unspools almost to the present day. T here was a rule to which Brit Bennett adhered during the writing of her novel The Vanishing Half.
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Fever dream by samanta schweblin5/29/2023 Schweblin delivers a skin-prickling masterclass in dread and suspense. “This small debut novel packs a mighty, and lingering, punch. Schweblin, though, is an artist of remarkable restraint… Schweblin renders psychological trauma with such alacrity that the conceit of a poisoned environment feels almost beside the point.” -Washington Post “A spare, hypnotic literary page-turner.” - O, the Oprah Magazine “Never have I ever been so afraid to read a book right before bed” - Marie Claire "Subtle, dreamy and indelibly creepy." - The Economist (Best Books of 2017) "A nauseous, eerie read, sickeningly good." -Emma Cline, The Girls he genius of Fever Dream is less in what it says than in how Schweblin says it, with a design at once so enigmatic and so disciplined that the book feels as if it belongs to a new literary genre altogether.” -Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker By the time I finished the book, I couldn’t bring myself to look out the windows…. I was checking the locks in my apartment by page thirty. “I picked up Fever Dream in the wee hours, and a low, sick thrill took hold of me as I read it. "Samanta Schweblin’s electric story reads like a Fever Dream.” - Vanity Fair “To call Schweblin’s novella eerie and hallucinatory is only to gesture at its compact power the fantastical here simply dilates a reality we begin to accept as terrifying and true. Schweblin’s book is suffused with haunting images and big questions.” - New York Times Book Review The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson5/29/2023 That part was bad enough, but I also knew that, as soon as Ted woke up, he was going to look over at me, and his face was going to look so pleased, and he would say something like, “Hey there, beautiful.” That was the worst. In this spectacularly devious novel by New York Times bestselling author Peter Swansonfeaturing the smart and complex Lily Kintner from his acclaimed novel, The Kind Worth Killinga private eye starts to follow a possibly adulterous husband, but little does he know that the twisted trail will lead back to the woman who hired him. It was infuriating to listen to, and I realized that I was going to spend the rest of my life waking up and looking over at the same face, growing older, and older, and snoring more and more. Peter Swanson The Kind Worth Killing: A Novel Kindle Edition by Peter Swanson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 7,751 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.23 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Karen White, Kathleen Early, Keith Szarabajka. He was snoring, lightly, but each ragged breath began with a little nasal hiccup, like his breath had caught on the edge of something. I studied a little patch of dark stubble under his chin that he must have missed while shaving the previous day. I looked over at Ted, still deep in sleep, his face pillow-creased. Then one morning I woke up in Boston, sun coming through our bedroom window. Not that he really had anything to complain about as far as I could tell, the money would never run out. He let me spend his money without complaining. I didn’t love him, but I liked him enough. Common stocks and uncommon profits book5/29/2023 This book is invaluable reading and has been since it was first published in 1958. His investment philosophies, introduced almost forty years ago, are not only studied and applied by today's financiers and investors, but are also regarded by many as gospel. Widely respected and admired, Philip Fisher is among the most influential investors of all time. Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary subjects Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2023.Hong Kong Golden Dragon Books 2022-2023. Unforgiven lauren kate5/29/2023 there’s a special place in Hell just for him. If he succeeds, Lilith will be allowed back into the world, and they can live their lives together. And his freshest Hell is high school, where Lilith, the girl he can’t stop loving, is serving out a punishment for his crimes.Ĭam made a bet with Lucifer: he has fifteen days to convince the only girl who really matters to him to love him again. He’s spent more time in Hell than any angel ever should. Read no further if you're planning on reading this series and don't want it spoilt for you.Ĭam knows what it’s like to be haunted. Unforgiven by Lauren Kate (review copy) - WARNING! I cannot review this book without spoiling the others in the series. Sea Star by Marguerite Henry5/28/2023 Many Cardiacs fans consider it the band's best album. Promoted by the single "Baby Heart Dirt", On Land and in the Sea received mixed reviews from music critics, although attracted more favourable notices than the group's previous work. It was their final album with their "classic" six-piece line-up. Critics have described the record as art rock and pop in style. The record features a complex sound, with songs moving through rapid shifts in tempo and key, as well as more experimentation with song structures than the group's previous album. Produced by band leader Tim Smith, it was recorded and mixed in 1988 at The Slaughterhouse studios in Yorkshire and released in May 1989 by the band's label Alphabet Business Concern. On Land and in the Sea is the second studio album proper by the English rock band Cardiacs. But when a number of people mysteriously begin to disappear in Widowsbury, the girls work together, along with Steffen Weller, son of the cook at Rudyard School for Boys, to find out who is behind the abductions. Īdelaide Foss, Maggie Borland, and Beatrice Alfred are known by their classmates at Widowsbury's Madame Gertrude's School for Girls as "scary children." Unfairly targeted because of their peculiarities-Adelaide has an uncanny resemblance to a werewolf, Maggie is abnormally strong, and Beatrice claims to be able to see ghosts-the girls spend a good deal of time isolated in the school's inhospitable library facing detention. She’s also the author and illustrator of Skary Childrin and the Carousel of Sorrow (Knopf) and Charlie and the Grandmothers (Knopf). Strange things and strange people were no longer welcomed in Widowsbury, for one could never be sure of what secrets waited under the surface. Towell is an animator, writer, illustrator and designer in the Philadelphia area with dreams of one day being the scary old lady in the house about which all the neighborhood children tell ghost stories. I would not really describe myself as an adventurous reader. Twelve years ago, for 12 days straight, the town of Widowsbury suffered a terrible storm, which tore open a gate through which escaped all sorts of foul, rotten things. Skary Childrin and the Carousel of Sorrow by Katy Towell. Dirty Pleasures by Meghan March5/28/2023 She’d throw out accusations and assumptions at every corner, and it became an exercise in frustration for me.ĭirty Pleasures was another sexy little rump in the Dirty Billionaire Trilogy. While I understood some of her attitude toward Creighton, a lot of it almost seemed like hot air. Holly is just as sassy as ever, even overwhelmingly so. When Creighton finally finds Holly he’ll make sure that she understands exactly what his intentions are and what he wants. With Holly leaving Creighton with nothing but a note in the end of book 1, we already know that the hunt will be on. Actually, scratch that, I was utterly salivating for the slightest detail about him. Better get ready, because I’m fucking coming for you.”Īfter the delicious smut fest that was Dirty Billionaire, I was expecting a little more depth with the second installment in this sexy serial. Where the fuck are you? And if you think you’re fucking done with me, you’re dead wrong, sweetheart. I have no idea how this marriage is going to go, but holding onto a piece of myself while succumbing to his dirty pleasures is shaping up to be the ride of a lifetime. There’s only one problem: I might actually be falling for him… Now his rules are taking over my world, but I’m not the kind of girl to just obey. I may have taken vows, but I’m still determined to be me. My reasons are my own, but the last thing I expected was to feel owned. 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Eric metaxas fish out of water5/28/2023 But here he reveals a personal story few have heard, taking us from his mostly happy childhood-and riotous triumphs at Yale-to the nightmare of drifting toward a dark abyss of meaninglessness from which he barely escapes. Renowned for his biographies of William Wilberforce, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Martin Luther, Metaxas is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, the witty host of the acclaimed Socrates in the City conversation series, and a nationally syndicated radio personality. What Happens When One of America's Most Admired Biographers Writes His Own Biography? For Eric Metaxas, the answer is Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life-a poetic and sometimes hilarious memoir of his early years, in which the Queens-born son of Greek and German immigrants struggles to make sense of a world in which he never quite seems to fit. AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |