![]() ![]() Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull's new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets she's fourteen and pregnant. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn't much to save. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. Winner of the National Book Award Jesmyn Ward, two-time National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wistful, charming, surprising, and unfailingly optimistic, Dear Paris is a vicarious visit to one of the most iconic and beloved places in the world. This book title, Dear Paris (The Paris Letters Collection), ISBN: 9781524862534, by Janice MacLeod, published by Andrews McMeel Publishing (March 9, 2021) is. But it’s about more than just a Paris frozen in nostalgia the book paints the city as it is today, through elections, protests, and the World Cup-and through the people who call it home. Now, Dear Paris collects the entirety of the Paris Letters project: 140 illustrated messages discussing everything from macarons to Montmartre.įor readers familiar with the city, Dear Paris is a rendezvous with their own memories, like the first time they walked along the Champs-Élysées or the best pain au chocolat they’ve ever tasted. ![]() What started as a whim in a Latin Quarter café blossomed into Janice MacLeod’s yearslong endeavor to document and celebrate life in Paris, sending monthly snippets of her paintings and writings to the mailboxes of ardent followers around the world. What began as a way to fund travel became ten years of a letter subscription service delivering thousands of painted letters to subscribers who delight in fun mail!Įat, Pray, Love meets Claude Monet in this epistolary ode to Paris. Be transported to the banks of the Seine, a corner boulangerie, or beneath the Eiffel Tower with these beautifully illustrated vignettes of life in the City of Light. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() People burning alive include descriptions of smells and burning bodies. Fantasy violence includes a couple of deaths using magical power and a fantasy creature that drains the blood from a boy who's 9 or 10. Gouging eyes as an interrogation technique is described in detail. Fighting with swords, knives, arrows, and maces with slightly gory descriptions of blood and pain. A villain orders an enslaved person's tongue, uvula, and vocal cords removed to stop snoring. Several mentions of enslaved people forced or coerced into performing sexual acts for the slave owners' pleasure. ![]() No sexual violence is directly narrated, but there's frequent mention of rape, including gang rape and child rape, pedophilia, and sex trafficking of adults and children. ![]() ![]() ![]() there are revelations in abundance.” - The New York Times Book Review ![]() “Exhaustive, quarrelsome, and sometimes maddening. “The definitive book on the subject.” - The Washington Post McDonough gets it all: the chaos, the grandeur, the good times and dreary deaths, the alcohol- and drug-besotted recording sessions, the broken hearts, and the sheer unfettered joy of a seriously gifted artist.” - Salon A must-read for anyone who cares about Neil Young.” - Rolling Stone “An exhilarating match-up of author and subject makes Shakey a great, gripping read. A glorious mess.” - San Francisco Chronicle Book Review A maddening, beguiling portrait of an elusive maverick. “Just as unmanageable, hard-headed, overzealous, and ultimately endearing as Young himself. Hugely original.” - Los Angeles Times Book Review “Jimmy McDonough’s fat, teeming, obsessive, and revelatory biography of Young is a pure shot of all-access pleasure. ![]() ![]() We sailed to Cape Verde (got machine-gunned by the police in Russian-made motorcycles with sidecars off Brava) and then, as the author did, although we were sailing different passages, got stuck in the doldrums. We set off from Las Palmas on Gran Canaria, as did the author, having sailed there from the UK. ![]() The rest of this has only a very small relationship to the book! I've sailed the Atlantic too. It's a fantastic book if you are a sailor or like real-life adventure stories or even just want a good read that isn't like any other book. There is nothing I can write further that wouldn't be a spoiler. He had studied books on surviving at sea, he'd bought all the correct gear, practised the manoeuvres necessary to get off a sinking boat as fast as possible and within hours of setting off from the Canaries, his boat sank. ![]() He was a delivery skipper sailing boats from one place to another and he very much wanted to do a single-handed across the Atlantic. 10 Stars If anyone was going to get shipwrecked and survive alone on the Atlantic it was Steve Callahan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Home of the Brave is Katherine Applegates first stand-alone novel. Katherine Applegate is the author of several bestselling series, including Animorphs, as well as The Buffalo Storm, a picture book. As Kek awaits word of his mothers fate, he weathers the tough Minnesota winter by finding warmth in his few friendships, strength in his memories, and belief in his new country.īestselling author Katherine Applegate presents a beautifully wrought novel about an immigrants journey from hardship to hope. Slowly, he makes friends: a girl who is in foster care, and old woman who owns a rundown farm, and a cow whose name means family” in his native language. But only he and his mother have survived, and now shes missing. ![]() ![]() In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother. He wonders if the people in this new place will be like the wintercold and unkind. In America, he sees the snow for the first time, and feels its sting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now she has had an intriguing invitation to meet her unknown benefactor and urges Holmes and Watson to accompany her. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. ![]() His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman – Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. John Watson, Jonathan Small, Mary Morstan, Thaddeus Sholtoįollowed by: The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesĪs a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. Publisher: Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine ![]() ![]() ![]() Her plan: to win back her employer's trust by destroying the group from within. Desperate to prove she's no traitor, Sil infiltrates the Analog Army, an activist faction working to bring Syntex down. But when a critical mission goes south, Sil is forced to flee the very company she once called home. ![]() In the ten years she's been rescuing field agents for the Syntex corporation - by commandeering their minds from afar and leading them to safety - Sil hasn't lost a single life. ![]() But with only twelve months left before the supercomputer grafted to her brain kills her, Sil's time is quickly running out. Sharp-edged, tense and thrilling, you'll be holding your breath until the last page' Tasha Suri Eighteen-year-old Sil Sarrah is determined to die a legend. 'Mindwalker is a cinematic gut punch of action and espionage. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the past catches up to him-nearly destroying him-Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.Īn unforgettable journey into one man’s remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others.Ībraham Verghese, MD, MACP, is Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine.īorn of Indian parents who were teachers in Ethiopia, he grew up near Addis Ababa and began his medical training there. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. Yet it will be love, not politics-their passion for the same woman-that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. ![]() Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel - an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. ![]() ![]() ![]() I've been nominated for the Nebula Award, Hugo Award, Bram Stoker Award, Shamus Award, and Silver Falchion Award, and I've won the SFX Readers' Choice Award, Golden Duck Award, Scribe Award, and New York Times Notable Book in 2012 at San Diego Comic Con I received the Faust Grand Master Award for Lifetime Achievement. I have over 24 million books in print worldwide in thirty languages. I have written more than 175 books, including 59 national or international bestsellers. After you've tried those, I hope you'll check out some of my other series. ![]() ![]() And my magnum opus, the science fiction epic The Saga of Seven Suns, begins with HIDDEN EMPIRE. My steampunk fantasy adventures, CLOCKWORK ANGELS, CLOCKWORK LIVES, and CLOCKWORK DESTINY, written with Neil Peart, legendary drummer from Rush, are some of my very favorite novels ever. series-newest one is DOUBLE-BOOKED- humorous horror/mysteries, which begin with DEATH WARMED OVER. My newest Dune novel with Brian Herbert is THE HEIR OF CALADAN, end of a new trilogy. My major new fantasy trilogy (all finished!) consists of SPINE OF THE DRAGON, VENGEWAR and GODS AND DRAGONS. If you are new to my work, let me recommend a few titles as good places to start. Yes, I have a lot of books, and if this is your first visit to my amazon author page, it can be a little overwhelming. ![]() |