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Confessions by kanae minato7/3/2023 ![]() Now, the teacher is set for her revenge…Ĭonfessions has some of the best character voices I’ve ever read. Everyone thought it was an accident, but the mother is aware that her daughter was actually killed by two of her own students. ![]() She tells a story that will upend everything her students ever thought they knew about two of their peers, and sets in motion a maniacal plot for revenge.Ĭentered on revenge, Confessions told a story about the death of a middle school teacher’s young daughter and the events that unfold before and after the incident. Now, after a heartbreaking accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation.īut first, she has one last lecture to deliver. Now, she will have her revenge.Īfter an engagement that ended in tragedy, all Yuko Moriguchi had to live for was her four-year-old child, Manami. ![]()
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The Three Privileges by A.V. Davina7/3/2023 ![]() The United Nations Organization sends him an invitation that he cannot refuse. Nahuel is a teenager -the most wanted in the world- but he doesn't know it, because his grandfather has managed to hide his true identity from him. When they finally find his trace, his life and the world order change forever. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ![]() This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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The city we became nk jemisin7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() A roiling, ancient evil stirs beneath the earth, threatening to destroy the city and her five protectors unless they can come together and stop it once and for all. ![]() New York City? She's got five.īut every city also has a dark side. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. Jemisin: An Excerpt Buy Book When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. 'Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold'įive New Yorkers must band together to defend their city in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N. Jemisin seems able to do just about everything' An American writer known for her ground-breaking and inventive speculative science fiction, Norah K. 'The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer of her generation. Five New Yorkers must band together to defend their city from an ancient evil in the first book of a stunning new series by New York Times bestselling author N. Submitting the novel to her editor, a few hours before midnight. ![]() An astonishing new fantasy tale from the record-breaking, triple Hugo Award-winning author of THE FIFTH SEASON. She also completed her next novel, The City We Became, the first installment of another trilogy, which is due out this March. ![]()
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![]() It’s not quite right to call Ursula Le Guin’s Tao Te Ching a translation, so much as an interpretation, or a “rendition,” as she calls it. ![]() One famous reader had the audacity to spend decades on her own, non-gendered, non-hierarchical translation, even though she didn’t read Chinese. Not every reader of the Tao is male or approaches the text as the utterances of a patriarchal sage. That’s some heavy company for the rest of us to keep, maybe. ![]() “Every generation of admirers has felt, and continues to feel, a prescience in these ancient teachings so astonishing that they appear to have been written for their own time.” It speaks directly to us, we feel, or at least, that’s how we can feel when we find the right translation.Īdmirers of the Taoist classic have included John Cage, Franz Kafka, Bruce Lee, Alan Watts, and Leo Tolstoy, all of whom were deeply affected by the millennia-old philosophical poetry attributed to Lao Tzu. Perhaps no Chinese text has had more lasting influence in the West than the Tao Te Ching, a work so ingrained in our culture by now, it has become a “changeless constant,” writes Maria Popova. Ursula: There was an old cartoon in The New Yorker with a guy from an advertising agency showing his ad and the boss is saying “I think you need a little more enthusiasm Jones.” And his ad is saying, “Try our product, it really isn’t bad.” ![]() Brenda (laughing): Can you imagine a Taoist advertising agency? “Buy this if you feel like it. ![]()
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Beloved toni morrison cover7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Initially, her act may appear as something unforgivable, but Sethe’s unending regret about taking her daughter’s life suggests that the lesson taught by Beloved’s selfish behavior was learned. Slaveholders also abused others in the story, but only Sethe wanted to protect her children’s future from slavery, so that she attempted to kill them. ![]() All aspects of this story, starting from the plot structure to individual objects, contribute to unraveling the main character’s deep psychological issues that resulted from enslavement and her fierce resistance to it. The genre used in this novel is called magical realism, which is the writing style that contains mystical elements to explore a real-life conflict (Ngom 197). It is illustrated through the story of a black woman haunted by her daughter’s ghost that she murdered to save her from servantry’s fate. Beloved by Toni Morrison is an allegory of emotional and physical trauma caused by slavery. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, By the time any damage is widespread enough to draw attention or warrant intervention, the culprit is probably already gone or at least will be done feeding soon. François Candelon, Fortune, The tweet drew the support of the usual anti-trans crowd and, surprisingly, Snider, who as SF Pride noted - and Snider himself said in a follow-up tweet - has been a longtime ally of the LGBTQ+ community. Nathalie Kirby, House Beautiful, Above all, the rising excitement around the birth of a whole new market has drawn attention to the metaverse. Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, Dining Nook An oversize mirror draws natural light into an otherwise dim space. Peter Georgescu, Forbes, Reaction to Allred’s candidacy drew a mix of optimism and chuckles. Verb With all of these requirements fulfilled, with employees who are happy in their work, an organization has at least the chance to create a reward and recognition structure to draw creative ideas and behavior from their workers at all levels. ![]()
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Yoga School Dropout by Lucy Edge7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, you don't have to save these beauties for your next yoga retreat! but do consider this collection of inspirational and transformational reading material for your next peaceful moment: whether it be on a beach or on your sofa. ![]() Here is a list of books I love, have been inspired by, or have inspired others, and I consider to be particularly great if you are seeking a little inspiration. Last night we had our book group meeting in the fabulous Putney Station (one of the Brinkleys. ![]()
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Breaking the diabetes code7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Foreword by Nina Teicholz is an investigative journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller The Big Fat Surprise.Fung has appeared on Fox News and has been interviewed, or had his work mentioned, in Forbes, The Atlantic, Reader's Digest and The New York Post.There are multiple facebook pages dedicated to his work (including a group dedicated to the Obesity Code diet with 24k members, and Fung Shweigh, a fan page, with 9000 members).Fung's previous book The Obesity Code has sold more than 100,000 copies in print, and 50,000 ebooks. ![]() Drawing from the latest in medical research, he outlines the impact of diet and lifestyle in type 2 diabetes and offers simple, easy-to-follow advice for preventing and reversing its course, complete with helpful charts and illustrations. ![]() Fung proposes a new, evidence-based way to break the cycle of high blood glucose and increased insulin resistance. Jason Fung explains the only way to treat type 2 diabetes effectively is proper dieting and intermittent fasting - not medication. About the Book Writing with clear, persuasive language, Dr. ![]()
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Occasionally, this approach can be oblique to the point of frustration. ![]() “I tend to write the same book over and over,” Ishiguro told the Guardian in 2015, “or at least, I take the same subject I took last time out and refine it, or do a slightly different take on it.” They tend to revolve around a single traumatic idea that the narrator is not entirely capable of confronting head-on - that the narrator of Never Let Me Go is a clone who will eventually donate all of her vital organs to someone else that the butler narrator of The Remains of the Day has spent his life tending to a Nazi - and which the book describes in anxious, claustrophobic circles until the reader fully understands it. Ishiguro’s novels are mostly first-person, and mostly told by an unreliable narrator. ![]() In a statement, the Swedish Academy wrote that Ishiguro, “in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.” ![]() Kazuo Ishiguro, the English novelist who wrote Never Let Me Go and The R emains of the Day, has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for literature. ![]()
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Trombone shorty by troy andrews7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Illustrator Bryan Collier brings to life this living legend’s narrative with energy and style, making visible the swirling sounds of jazz. You and your children will love having Andrews share his story. He continues to inspire hope for the next generation in New Orleans and for music lovers everywhere. Today, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews is a Grammy-nominated musician who tours the world with his band, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue. It’s sure to be a favorite with jazz and general music lovers, but its message is universal. It’s a story that will entertain young readers and their parents and resonate with anyone who has had to overcome obstacles to fulfill their dream. ![]() This is the story of how he made his dream take flight. He has worked with some of the biggest names in rock, pop, jazz, funk, and hip hop. He is best known as a trombone and trumpet player but also plays drums, organ, and tuba. Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, where music always floated in the air, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews didn’t always have the money to buy an instrument, but he did have the dream to play music. Troy Andrews, also known by the stage name Trombone Shorty, is an American musician, producer, and philanthropist from New Orleans, Louisiana. Trombone Shorty was lifted in the air and carried through the audience until he reached the stage with Bo Diddley. It was a small child who’d been nicknamed “Trombone Shorty” because his trombone was twice as large as he was. ![]() “Who’s that playing out there?” Bo Diddley asked the New Orleans crowd. will inspire young readers to pursue their passions, despite the challenges.” ― Kirkus Reviews STARRED REVIEW *“Well-told and exquisitely illustrated. American Library Association Coretta Scott King Book Award Winner ![]() |