![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() McCann crafts Apeirogon out of a universe of fictional and nonfictional material. When Bassam and Rami learn of each other's stories, they recognize the loss that connects them and they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peace. Their worlds shift irreparably after ten-year-old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet and thirteen-year-old Smadar becomes the victim of suicide bombers. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on, to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend, to the checkpoints, both physical and emotional, they must negotiate. From the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss.Ĭolum McCann's most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon-named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides-is a tour de force concerning friendship, love, loss, and belonging.īassam Aramin is Palestinian. ![]()
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![]() ![]() His eighteenth novel is also the profoundly moving story of a man whom tragedy elevates. What he might know and what he ultimately learns make him suspect among his own colleagues and a target for the profiteers who killed his wife.Ī master chronicler of the deceptions and betrays of ordinary people caught in political conflict, le Carré portrays, in The Constant Gardner, the dark side of unbridled capitalism. ![]() Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Inside, the book is clean and unmarked.įrightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carré's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. ![]() The dust jacket has light bumping to the spine. The Constant Gardener by John le Carré is a 492-page hardcover published in 2001 by Scribner. ![]() ![]() As one of a number of ways of thinking about personality, it is a helpful spiritual analogue to Myers-Briggs typology. ![]() The Enneagram also counsels humility and acknowledges its own limits (“ is not infallible or inerrant,” writes Cron and Stabile)-a welcome modesty in religious understanding today. The beauty of the Enneagram is its charity: the system clearly names the flaws as well as the virtues of each personality type. ![]() Cron ( Chasing Francis), an Episcopal priest, brings his witty, energetic voice to this collaboration with Stabile, a retreat director and expert on the Enneagram-a system of personality typology with roots in Christian and Islamic mysticism. ![]() ![]() This follows a trend toward anthologies in the network's programming. If picked up, the first season will be based entirely on Doom, its creators, and the phenomenon they created. Related: Bourne TV Show Spinoff Treadstone Ordered to Series at USA NetworkĪccording to Variety, the pilot is expected to launch a new anthology series for USA that will focus on watershed moments in gaming history. A new film based on the games, Doom: Annihilation, is set for a Fall 2019 digital release. It spawned an entire franchise that is still going strong over 25 years later. In recent years, the series experienced a resurgence in popularity due to the success of its 2016 reboot and the highly anticipated upcoming entry, Doom Eternal. The original Doom was a massive hit that pioneered first-person shooter games with its (at the time) impressive 3D graphics, violence, and engaging gameplay. ![]() ![]() (Ages 4 to 8) -Karin Snelson About the Author:īook Description Paperback. Marjorie Priceman, the whimsical, masterful illustrator of Elsa Okon Rael's When Zaydeh Danced on Eldridge Street and Jack Prelutsky's For Laughing Out Loud, won a Caldecott Honor Award for this swirling, twirling, colorful musical world worthy of thunderous applause and a standing ovation. ![]() ![]() Moss should be congratulated for creating a playful, musical stream of rhyming couplets that seamlessly, slyly teaches the names of myriad musical groups. We move on! A chamber group of ten! And the orchestra is ready to begin. The flute that "sends our soul a-shiver" makes a sextet, and "with steely keys that softly click," a sleek, black, woody clarinet slips the group into a septet. A trumpet sings and stings along, forming a duo, then a fine French horn joins in, "TWO, now THREE-O, what a TRIO!" The mellow cello ups it to a quartet, then ZIN! ZIN! ZIN! a violin soars high and moves in to make a quintet. ![]() It's what we go to concerts for." In this exuberant tribute to classical music and the passionate, eccentric musicians who play it, author Lloyd Moss begins with the mournful moan and silken tone of one trombone. ![]() "The STRINGS all soar, the REEDS implore, / The BRASSES roar with notes galore. ![]() ![]() I imagine it will generate some great discussion. My book club picked this as our next read and I’m glad. There is a lot of social commentary in this small book, from class and social rank to the obligations a ruler owes to their country to the many virtues of literature. I don’t care who you are, everyone ought to have interests outside of work and support of friends or family. They all treated her like either a dumb old woman in need of humoring or someone who shouldn’t have any personal interests and just do boring duties 100% of the time. I did think it was kind of sad too that no one other than Norman, the former kitchen boy, was at all supportive of her reading. So they came across as boneheads, which I am sure was Bennett’s intention. What was funny though was that all her snobby officials and courtiers didn’t have a clue what she was talking about when making references to some very famous authors and their books. I do know she basically had to ask to be educated because she wasn’t supposed to be the monarch and then, well. I admit I know little of Queen Elizabeth’s personal life so I have no idea if she was never a reader until later in her life or not. Mostly I thought this was a witty little story with several places that made me laugh out loud. Her family, government officials, and courtiers are Not Amused by her newfound obsession, either. The Queen has discovered a love of reading and it’s affecting her ability to do – or rather, her interest in doing – her royal duties. This was a totally delightful little diversion. ![]() ![]() Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe.
![]() ![]() ![]() A Hundred Thousand Words by Nyrae Dawn (NA).The Best Laid Plans by Lauren Gallagher – Bīest Friend’s Sibling/Sibling’s Best Friend.Permanent Ink by Avon Gale and Piper VaughnĪthletes (see “Sports Romance”) Baby Mama Drama.Off the Ice by Avon Gale and Piper Vaughn.Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner.The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith.The Mystic Marriage by Heather Rose Jones (Historical).If You Kiss Me Like That by Harper Bliss ( Amz).Finding Jessica Lambert by Clare Ashton.All should be readable as standalones, however, unless noted otherwise.Īdditionally, please be advised that this is more of a database than a rec list I have not read most of these titles, and strongly advocate reading reviews for potential triggers etc. Please note that as is common with Romance, many of these books are in a series with recurring characters. A small percentage of each purchased using this link earns money for the site, so please use these if you’re so inclined! *Beginning of a romantic ARC in a series but not resolved in this book alone T/NB/GQ = MC and/or LI identifies as transgender, non-binary, and/or genderqueer Find LGBTQIAP+ Romances by trope, archetype, and/or theme here! All Romances are adult and contemporary unless otherwise listed.ī/P notes MC and/or LI identifies as bisexual or pansexualĪ/D/Aro = MC and/or LI identifies on the asexual spectrum, as demisexual, or as aromantic ![]() ![]() He worked ten to twelve hours each day, completing at least one story or article each week. Now, I worried about being over-nourished in Carmel." Īs for his career, the time between 19 spent in Carmel is considered by Hughes to be the first extended amount of time that he could stay in one community and devote himself to his craft. ![]() In a letter to close friends, Matt and Evelyn "Nebby" Crawford, he laments: "A few months ago I was worried about being undernourished in Tashkent. Hughes’ stay in Carmel is marked by notable sense of deep community connection and sustenance. While working, he primarily lived in a cottage, fondly known as “Ennesfree.” The cottage was provided by Noel Sullivan, one of several of Hughes’ patrons. He finished the book in the year he spent in Carmel, California, immediately upon return from an extended trip to Russia. According to Hughes, the short stories are inspired either by his own lived experiences or those of others he encountered. ![]() The collection addresses multiple dimensions of racial issues, focusing specifically on the unbalanced yet interdependent power dynamics between Black and White people. ![]() Hughes wrote the book during a year he spent living in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. The Ways of White Folks is a collection of fourteen short stories by Langston Hughes, published in 1934. ![]() ![]() Do Not Say We Have Nothing is her fourth novel. Madeleine Thien was born in Vancouver and has been the recipient of numerous awards in her native Canada and further afield. ![]() Their fates reverberate through the years, with lasting consequences for Ai-Ming – and for Marie. It’s a history of revolutionary idealism, music and silence, in which three musicians struggle to remain loyal to one another and to the music they have devoted their lives to during China’s Cultural Revolution. She tells Marie the story of her family in revolutionary China, from the crowded teahouses in the first days of Chairman Mao’s ascent to the Shanghai Conservatory in the 1960s and the events leading to the Beijing demonstrations of 1989. In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman, Ai-Ming, who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. ![]() In Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien brings to life one of the most significant political regimes of the 20th century and its traumatic legacy with intimacy, wit and moral complexity. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 | Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2017 Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2016 ![]() |