7/3/2023 0 Comments Inherent vice pynchonIt's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex- girlfriend. In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon-private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era. PublishDate T05:00:00+01:00 publishDateText mediaType eBook shortDescription "The funniest book Pynchon has written." - Rolling Stone StarRating 3.8 title Inherent Vice crossRefId 977873 sortTitle Inherent Vice images OverDrive Product Record id 7d20ea9a-86ec-4e49-a28c-f650304dd39c primar圜reator
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7/3/2023 0 Comments Lisa kleypas devil in disguiseOne: don’t fall in love with the dazzling Lady Merritt Sterling. They couldn’t be more different, but their attraction is powerful, raw and irresistible.From the moment Keir MacRae arrives in London, he has two goals. But then she meets Keir MacRae, a rough-and-rugged Scottish whisky distiller, and all her sensible plans vanish like smoke. So far, she’s been too smart to provide them with one. He does it by tempting them.”Lady Merritt Sterling, a strong-willed young widow who’s running her late husband’s shipping company, knows London society is dying to catch her in a scandal. “The devil never tries to make people do the wrong thing by scaring them. *************************************************************īook Descriptions: New York Times bestseller Lisa Kleypas returns with an enthralling and steaming romance between a widowed lady and a Scot on the run-who may have connections to one of London's most noble families. If you want to Download Or Read Devil in Disguise (The Ravenels, #7) 7/3/2023 0 Comments The silent corner seriesJane is an awesome protagonist with just the right balance of ‘bad ass’ and smarts, and human compassion. The horror she uncovers is a spine tingling world of brain implants and mind control, evil geniuses, bent on control, drunk on power and wealth, armed with technological advances that will both blow your mind and keep you up at night. The FBI agent quickly realizes her findings have made someone very nervous, which prompts her to relocate her son to a safe place, while she goes in search of answers. This is the best Koontz novel I have read in a very long time.Īfter Jane’s decorated husband commits suicide, she detects a noticeable uptick in suicides, prompting her to do a little research into the matter. The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz is a 2017 Bantam publication. What’s more, Margot has her own demons to reckon with, repressed childhood memories that begin to haunt her the second she returns home. And something deeper, darker and more sinister than she ever could have imagined: a twisted secret that threatens to endanger the lives of everyone involved, including Margot. The town is full of secrets-illicit romances, closed-door business deals, prying eyes and hidden pasts. While the evidence seems to point in one direction, as Margot digs deeper into the case, she begins to suspect that not everything is as it seems. She packs up and heads back to the hometown she left at eight years old, hoping to bring justice to January, who was discovered dead in a ditch only hours after her family awoke to find her gone, along with a horrifying message spray-painted on their kitchen walls. With this new information come to light, Margot quickly becomes obsessed with solving the case. Margot Davies is an aspiring investigative journalist stuck in a rudderless job at a small-time newspaper, until one night she stumbles upon a new development in an unsolved, decades-old case that took place in her very own hometown: the infamous murder of six-year-old January Jacobs. If you liked I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and Sharp Objects, you will love this! A gripping debut thriller from the host of the number one podcast Crime Junkie. Audrey Camherst, like her grandmother Lady Trent, is destined to make her mark in the scholarly pursuit of knowledge. Turning Darkness Into Light by Marie Brennanīrennan, author of the eminently readable Lady Trent Memoirs/ Natural History of Dragons series, extends that world even further with a new fantasy of manners. It's up to a wayward band of survivors to save the future for all humans. Thought to be long since defeated, the Sturm have risen again and wipe out mankind's defenses. The Sturm are a "pure" faction of humanity who see themselves as better than those who have been genetically and cybernetically modified. What do you do when a defeated enemy force returns years later to wage a relentless war on humans it deems impure? You fight back. Here's a roundup of the month's best reads, including novels, short fiction and those sequels you've been waiting for! There are still plenty of excellent books hitting shelves in August that you should know about. Summer is not over yet! Neither is summer reading. 7/2/2023 0 Comments Inferno by jonathan hickmanThe scenes with Mystique and Destiny are more intimate, structured similarly to their initial faceoff in House of X, making use of a 9-panel grid being careful to keep the conversational scene tense and fast-paced. The battle with Nimrod should have a familiar cadence to fans following this era of X-Men by now, with plenty of half-splashes to bring a sense of scale without taking up too much space. Valerio Schiti and Stefano Casselli split art duties on the issue, but it still manages to feel cohesive with the help of colorist David Curiel. The other sees Mystique and Destiny finally getting their hands on Moira MacTaggert and, reversing the tables, deciding what will become of Moira X. The first sees Magneto and Professor X lured into an Orchis trap and forced to face their greatest fear, a fully online Nimrod with the Omega Sentinel at its side. Hickman splits the issue's structure into two separate narratives following two different sets of repercussions. Picking up from the previous issue, Inferno #4 sees Moira MacTaggert's secret, which Magneto and Professor X righteously guarded, laid bare to a few rightfully outraged others. 7/2/2023 0 Comments Factfulness hansOur problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. It reveals the ten instincts that distort our perspective―from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.įactfulness offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. When asked simple questions about global trends― what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty why the world’s population is increasing how many girls finish school―we systematically get the answers wrong. 7/2/2023 0 Comments The scarlets madeleine rouxWith its abundant jump scares, horror readers and fans of the TV show American Horror Story will delight in the fast-paced plot., "With all the elements of a perfect horror book, including illustrations from actual cemeteries and other haunted places in New Orleans, fans of Madeline Roux's Asylum series will be glad to see a return to Brookline." - Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) Praise for Asylum - "The plentiful illustrations both advance the story line and immeasurably contribute to the spooky atmosphere. A good choice for readers who enjoy books with scary situations that lead to a solid climax., The plentiful illustrations both advance the story line and immeasurably contribute to the spooky atmosphere. Roux (aided by unsettling photo illustrations of abandoned asylums and tormented patients) creates an entertaining and occasionally brutal horror story that reveals the enduring impact of buried trauma and terror on a place., Madeleine Roux's Asylum takes the fondest dream of our collective nerdy childhood and handily turns it into the scariest collective nightmare., Illustrations used in this book are from actual asylums, and the author builds the tension nicely as Dan receives what may be messages from an inmate. Ultimately seeking Biddy's approval in everything she does, Kate finds the parameters of her life shrinking before her eyes, and feels powerless to stop it. From her first crush, local bad boy Barry Finch, through to her scandalous period of 'living in sin' during her years at teacher training college, right up to her passionless marriage to Rodney, Kate seems to have a talent for picking the wrong men. Undaunted, Kate jumps headfirst into the thrills and heartaches of her teenage years, albeit under the watchful eye of her mother, Biddy, a woman so repressed and controlling she gives new meaning to the word 'matriarch'. It's a watershed moment, even if she hates the way the girdle chafes the tops of her thighs, and even though what she really wanted was a polka-dot shift dress with a cool Peter Pan collar. The year is 1965, and Kate Cadogan has just got her first bra and corset. 7/2/2023 0 Comments William h armstrongRunning against incumbent Gerald Ford, he won 50.1% of the popular vote to Ford's 48.0%. In 1977, when he was 46 years old, on January 20th, Jimmy Carter became the 39th President of the United States. In 1964, by the time he was 33 years old, on June 11th, activist Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa for conspiring to overthrow the state (because of his numerous anti-apartheid activities). A generation of Baby Boomers were raised by the advice of Dr. Aside from the Bible, it became the best selling book of the 20th century. It sold half a million copies in the first six months. Benjamin Spock's book "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" was published. In 1946, he was merely 15 years old when pediatrician Dr. (It is now the 34th tallest.) Opening at the beginning of the Great Depression, most of the offices in the Empire State Building remained unoccupied for years and the observation deck was an equal source of revenue and kept the building profitable. At 1,454 feet (including the roof and antenna), it was the tallest building in the world until the World Trade Center's North Tower was built in 1970. In 1931, in the year that William H Armstrong was born, on May 1st, the Empire State Building opened in New York City. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during William's lifetime. |