![]() ![]() Even though he has a wonderful, loving, younger, second, 'trophy' wife, he wants more and more. But Maurice has bigger issues than theirs for one, his non-stop drinking, becoming more and more pronounced as his day wears on. In fact, were it not for the circumstances within its pages, this novel could just as well be the memoir of a brilliant man whose avocation of preparing meals, tending bar, purchasing wine and sundries, and entertaining guests would fit nicely on a shelf with memoirs, say, from Elizabeth Gilbert or Francis Mayles. ![]() The Green Man describes, in beautifully delineated prose, his workday in loving detail, as he manages the 17th century hotel he owns on the outskirts of Cambridge. Maurice Allingham, a 1960's Englishman to the core, is one busy man. ![]()
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![]() ![]() " insightful, briskly plotted novel.Garrett explores racism and sexism with aplomb, as shown by the sarcasm Lena displays when others underestimate her because she's a young Black woman. So why is no one listening to her?ĭespite the bitter truth that the two haven't spoken in two years, torn apart by Desiree's partying and by their father, Mel, a wealthy and influential hip-hop mogul, Lena becomes determined to find justice for her sister, even if it means untangling her family's darkest secrets-or ending up dead herself. And Desiree would never travel above 125th Street. A graduate student at Columbia, Lena has spent the past decade forging her own path far from the spotlight, but some facts about Desiree just couldn't have changed since their childhood. It's a tragedy, certainly, but not a crime.īut Desiree's half-sister Lena Scott knows that can't be the case. ![]() When the body of disgraced reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found on a playground in the Bronx the morning after her 25th birthday party, the police and the media are quick to declare her death an overdose. I found out she'd died from the New York Daily News." ![]() "I found out my sister was back in New York from Instagram. ![]() In this "tense, twisting mystery" and "absolutely can't-put-it-down read" (Megan Miranda), no one bats an eye when a Black reality TV star is found dead in the Bronx - except her estranged half-sister, whose refusal to believe the official story leads her on a dangerous search for the truth. ![]() ![]() ![]() But now Caleb is the one in trouble, because he’s fast realizing that Sesily isn’t for forgetting…she’s forever. If you ask him, he’s been a saint about it, considering the way she looks at him…and the way she talks to him…and the way she’d felt in his arms during their one ill-advised kiss.Įxcept someone has to keep Sesily from tumbling into trouble during her dangerous late-night escapades, and maybe close proximity is exactly what Caleb needs to get this infuriating, outrageous woman out of his system. No one, that is, but Caleb Calhoun, who has spent years trying not to notice his best friend’s beautiful, brash, brilliant sister. No one looks twice when she lures a gentleman into the dark gardens beyond a Mayfair ballroom…and no one realizes those trysts are not what they seem. After years of living as London’s brightest scandal, Lady Sesily Talbot has embraced the reputation and the freedom that comes with the title. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately some of the classic questions Moyo tackles (such as, what is the relationship between aid and accountability?), and some of the criticism of how she uses evidence to support her arguments (the extent to which she's mistaken the coincidence of low growth rates and high aid flows for proof that the former is caused by the latter, for example), has been drowned out by the backlash from those who defend development aid at all costs (Moyo's core argument that aid has increased poverty, corruption and dependency in Africa is not directed at humanitarian assistance). ![]() Four years after her 2009 polemic Dead Aid hit the shelves, Moyo – branded the " anti-Bono" by the New York Times – is still one of the go-to thinkers for anti-aid soundbites. ![]() The Zambian economist's reputation for provoking extreme reactions has clearly helped her rise to fame, putting her among the most recognisable faces on current affairs programmes and securing a frequent slot on the high-flying international lecture circuit. Dambisa Moyo is certainly no stranger to controversy. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the cost of her information is perilously high, since she has plans for both Nora and Diaz. Nora eventually becomes his student in the fighting arts, and they all head to the temple/brothel of Shinar where the immortal seer Suranna can provide insight to the blade’s location. Fortunately, Diaz has followed her and is able to lend assistance when necessary. Owen joins the party, hoping to become a pilgrim himself Nora decides to return home, but that option is removed from her as the village has been taken over by bandits. Assisting him is the half-wight Telen Diaz, a pilgrim/fighter. He is scouring the country in search of a magical artifact called the Living Blade, which will grants its wielder great power. ![]() Brought up as charcoal burners, they leave their village so Nora can avoid an arranged and unwanted marriage, and have the forture – whether good- or ill- remains to be decided – quickly to encounter the party of Prince Basham. ![]() Owen and Noraya Smith are twins, in a world where such siblings are looked upon as cursed. ![]() ![]() ‘Weaves together global history and medical science to great effect. Laura Spinney demonstrates that the Spanish flu was as significant – if not more so – as two world wars in shaping the modern world in disrupting, and often permanently altering, global politics, race relations, family structures, and thinking across medicine, religion and the arts. ![]() She shows how the pandemic was shaped by the interaction of a virus and the humans it encountered and how this devastating natural experiment put both the ingenuity and the vulnerability of humans to the test. In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa. Looking for books by Laura Spinney See all books authored by Laura Spinney, including Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I. With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. Pale Rider is not just an excavation but a reimagining of the past' Guardian 'Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story. ![]() ![]() Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer – and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic. ![]() ![]() ![]() One wrong move could be the spark that sets the world on fire. With the fate of a generation in their hands, there is no room for error. On the run, she joins a group of kids who escaped their own camp: Zu, a young girl haunted by her past Chubs, a standoffish brainiac and Liam, their fearless leader, who is falling hard for Ruby. As tensions rise, competing ideals threaten the mission to uncover the cause of IANN, the disease that killed most of America's children and left Ruby and others with powers the government will kill to keep contained. Freeing them-revealing the governments unspeakable abuses in the process-is the mission Ruby has claimed since her own escape from Thurmond, the worst camp in the country.īut not everyone is supportive of the plan Ruby and Cole craft to free the camps. There are still thousands of other Psi kids suffering in government "rehabilitation camps" all over the country. When the Children's League disbands, Ruby rises up as a leader and forms an unlikely allegiance with Liam's brother, Cole, who has a volatile secret of his own. But with Clancy Gray, there's no guarantee you're fully in control, and everything comes with a price. ![]() Only Ruby can keep their highly dangerous prisoner in check. Fractured by an unbearable loss, she and the kids who survived the government’s attack on Los Angeles travel north to regroup. Book three in the hit series that's soon to be a major motion picture! ![]() ![]() ![]() Her Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy and Love and Saint Augustine are also published by the University of Chicago Press. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the leading social theorists in the United States. ![]() A classic in political and social theory, The Human Condition is a work that has proved both timeless and perpetually timely. This new edition, published to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of its original publication, contains an improved and expanded index and a new introduction by noted Arendt scholar Margaret Canovan which incisively analyzes the book's argument and examines its present relevance. The problems Arendt identified then-diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox that as human powers increase through technological and humanistic inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions-continue to confront us today. ![]() In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. By Arendt, Hannah (2013) Abstract A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was strange and dark, occasionally heart breaking and beautifully done. I read Confessions from this author and loved it, a one sitting read and Penance was another one sitting read. Asako, Emily’s mother, curses the surviving girls, vowing that they will pay for her daughter’s murder. Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko weren’t able to accurately describe the stranger’s appearance to the police after the Emili’s body was discovered. ![]() Then the unthinkable occurs: Emily is found murdered hours later. When they were children, Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko were tricked into separating from their friend Emily by a mysterious stranger. Publication Date: Available Now from Mulholland ![]() ![]() ![]() There are some quite moving sections of this book, before the satisfying (if somewhat predictable) conclusion. She has to make some difficult decisions, which help her as she matures further and discovers where her long-term future lies. ![]() She realises how pampered she has become, and how much she has got used to fashionable clothes and a life where servants (albeit loved ones) do most of the hard work. But she soon discovers that she is no longer the naive young woman who left home. As she goes home, she looks forward to spending time where she belongs, and wonders if she will ever want to return to Boston. I thought there was very good character development in Belinda. She wonders if there is something wrong with her, since she seems to have no desire to marry, even though her two similar aged nieces now have homes and families of their own. She manages to visit her home town for a few weeks, where she renews old friendships and catches up with her beloved family. ![]() In 'Love finds a home', Marty and Clark's youngest daughter Belinda is now well established as nurse/companion to a wealthy woman in Boston. Having read the others in the 'Love Comes Softly' series by Janette Oke recently - in particular the seventh, ' Love Takes Wing' - I decided to read the eighth and last immediately afterwards. ![]() |