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The best man by kristan higgins5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() They have two homes on a vineyard, the old house (built in the 1700’s) where her grandparents live, and the new house (built in the 1800’s) where she grew up. Faith Holland is the youngest of four, and her family is one of the founding families of the town. Set in a small town surrounded by vineyards in the Finger Lake region of upstate New York, this is a sweet, funny romance with warm, quirky characters. I’m thinking this series will be how I spend my Christmas vacation, if I can wait that long. I may be late to this party but I’m going to be catching up fast! Thanks to my “work daughter,” Caitlin, I read this wonderful book and now have several more to keep me busy. Click to purchase The Blue Heron Series, Book 1 ![]()
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A strangeness in my mind5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() While doing his service, Mevlut begins writing an epic series of love letters to a girl he encounters at a wedding. ![]() ![]() Then it’s into the army for compulsory military service. The novel follows Mevlut through his schooling, which is less about learning than it is about surviving bullies and boredom and dank classrooms Mevlut frequently skips class and roams the streets with friends or accompanies his father on his yogurt rounds. Mevlut and his father claim a piece of land on a hillside outside the city and build a crude home for themselves. Mevlut’s father is a street vendor by trade, who makes a meager living tramping all over the city to sell yogurt. The central figure is Mevlut, who journeys with his father from their village in the country to Istanbul, determined to make their fortune. A Strangeness in My Mind is the latest novel from the prolific, Nobel Prize–winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk. ![]()
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The shape of darkness laura purcell5/30/2023 ![]() Silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Wicked deeds require the cover of darkness.Ī struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead – and to try and identify their killers – in this beguiling new tale from Laura Purcell. ‘It truly kept me guessing to the very last page’ SONIA VELTON ![]() ![]() ‘Dripping with atmosphere with a corkscrew plot, Laura Purcell just gets better and better’ STACEY HALLS ![]()
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Fatal fever by gail jarrow5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() While researching scurvy for a magazine article, I spotted a shelved book on pellagra written by a Cornell professor I had met. Gail Jarrow: It all started with a chance discovery in the Cornell University library stacks. Mary Kay Carson: How did these books come about? Her books have received many honors, including the YALSA Award Nomination for Excellence in Nonfiction, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book, Outstanding Science Trade Book, a NSTA Best STEM book, the Jefferson Cup Award, the Eureka! Gold Award, an Orbis Pictus Recommendation, as well as Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal Best Books and VOYA Honor Book distinctions. Gail is an author of nonfiction books for ages 8-18 about science and history (and the history of science). ![]() Today we’re interviewing Gail Jarrow about her Deadly Diseases Trilogy: Red Madness, Fatal Fever, and Bubonic Panic. Both Red Madness and Bubonic Panic are among this month’s featured health and medicine books. Welcome to STEM Tuesday: Author Interview & Book Giveaway, a repeating feature for the fourth Tuesday of every month.
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The vincent brothers series5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 23 shipping … The Sugden Masterclass ANV-50 Integrated Amplifier (£4,565 / ~$6000) was released in celebration of the British company’s 50th Anniversary. The theme is well-coded and also integrated with schema. 3 … I have to admit–there’s a part of me that missed hearing Vinnie Rossi amplification with Qln speakers. Most people say that their best integrated amplifiers came out between 19. Pair the Nu-Vista 600 with KEF Reference Loudspeakers and they’ll absolutely be singing, according to Tarun. there are 4 gates dedicated for women in the holy masjid nabawi: two in the northern side, one in east north and last one on west north … Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for LUXMAN solid state integrated amplifier SQ606 silver rank B used at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Launched in 1976, it was a well-equipped integrated amplifier, with a solid selection of line-level inputs and a quality moving-magnet phono stage. The fosi audio 70s integrated amplifier looks great, works well. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Technics SU-VX720 Integrated Amplifier Amp Black Phono Stage w/Remote Working at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products! I have to admit–there’s a part of me that missed hearing Vinnie Rossi amplification with Qln speakers. 02% (250mW to 180W, 8 ohms & 4 ohms) Signal to Noise Ratio: >95dB (A weighted, 500mV input) IHF … This Luxman also delivered “room-energizing, deep, tuneful bass response. ![]()
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To the end of june by cris beam5/30/2023 ![]() “To the End of June” finds a truth far more complicated and heart-wrenching at the center of America’s broken, maddening foster care system. ![]() Early in Cris Beam’s remarkable new book, she outlines what she calls the core questions at the heart of America’s foster care system: “Who decides the correct way to raise a child? Who makes the moves on the moral chessboard where a family’s right to privacy opposes a child’s right to protection from harm? And who should get to keep a child: the parents who nurse and tend to him, or the parents who brought him into this world?”īut as Beam discovered in the five years she spent tracking dozens of foster children and their families, those questions apply only to best-case situations. ![]()
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Unsheltered by barbara kingsolver5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The magazine where Willa worked has folded the college where her husband had tenure has closed. How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. ![]() ![]() New York Times bestseller An NPR pick for Best Books of 2018 An O, The Oprah Magazine's Best Book of 2018 A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2018 One of Christian Science Monitor's best fiction reads of 2018 One of Newsweek's Best Books of the year The New York Times bestselling author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, and The Poisonwood Bible and recipient of numerous literary awards-including the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Orange Prize-returns with a timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and compassion in times of great upheaval. ![]()
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Entangled life hardback5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The research, passion, writing, insights. It's fearless in scope, analytically astute, and brimming with infectious joy - HELEN MACDONALD, author of H is for Hawk Few books blew my mind like Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life. One of those rare books that can truly change the way you see the world around you, Entangled Life is a mercurial, revelatory, impassioned, urgent, astounding, and necessary read. ![]() * A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Times, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday, BBC Science Focus and Time Book of the Year 'Urgent, astounding and necessary' Helen Macdonald In Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake takes us on a mind-altering journey into their spectacular world, and reveals how these extraordinary organisms transform our understanding of our planet and life itself. They can change our minds, heal our bodies and even help us avoid environmental disaster they are metabolic masters, earth-makers and key players in most of nature's processes. The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. ![]() Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021 Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing 2021 'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' Robert Macfarlane The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself. A mind-altering adventure through the world of fungi for readers of Robert Macfarlane and Other Minds ![]()
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The Insurgents by Fred Kaplan5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Amid the crisis, they forged a community (some of them called it a cabal or mafia) and adapted their enemies’ techniques to overhaul the culture and institutions of their own Army.įred Kaplan describes how these men and women maneuvered the idea through the bureaucracy and made it official policy. McMaster, and others-many of them classmates or colleagues in West Point’s Social Science Department who rose through the ranks, seized with an idea of how to fight these wars better. But the main insurgency is the one mounted at home by ambitious, self-consciously intellectual officers-Petraeus, John Nagl, H. ![]() ![]() These would be wars not only of fighting but of “nation building,” often not of necessity but of choice.īased on secret documents, private emails, and interviews with more than one hundred key characters, including Petraeus, the tale unfolds against the backdrop of the wars against insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their aim was to build a new Army that could fight the new kind of war in the post–Cold War age: not massive wars on vast battlefields, but “small wars” in cities and villages, against insurgents and terrorists. ![]() The Insurgents is the inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars, led by General David Petraeus, who plotted to revolutionize one of the largest, oldest, and most hidebound institutions-the United States military. ![]()
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The King of the Castle by Victoria Holt5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Feeling the need to expiate his sins, as many did during this time, he decided to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Though Robert was married to highborn lady, he did not live with her and produced no legitimate children. This is Arlette, daughter of a tanner, and she gives birth to William and a daughter. He must have her and her only concession is that she be brought on a horse in plain daylight as his official mistress. The story begins in 1026, when Robert spies a beautiful young woman doing laundry in a stream near his castle. The Bastard King covers the life of William the Conqueror, also known as William the Bastard, as he was the bastard son of Robert, Duke of Normandy circa 1027-1035. The interesting part of the writing is, of course, the personalities and motives she puts to her characters. This is not exactly a review, and I would give a spoiler warning, but the book is written in such a way that it is mostly facts and will only be surprising to those unfamiliar with the time period. This is the earliest century Jean Plaidy ever published: 11th century France & England and, as an era I am currently researching, I felt the need to write a detailed synopsis of the book, to help myself better remember the events that took place. ![]() |