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In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honoré5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, people are dealing with insomnia, migraines, hypertension, asthma and gastrointestinal trouble at higher numbers and at younger ages than ever before. ![]() Even back in 1982, Larry Dossey, an American physician, coined the term “time-sickness” to describe the obsessive belief that “time is getting away, that there isn’t enough of it, and that you must pedal faster and faster to keep up.” The book opens with a bit of a dark premise - our lives are maddeningly fast, and we are rushed, hurried, and burnt out as a result.Īnd it has been that way for a long time. ) Enjoy! The Premise: We Are Time-Starved and Time-Sick Perhaps these notes might inspire you to do the Slow thing and read the whole book, savoring it, instead of just skimming through someone else’s summary notes. This book is one of those that will likely become a timeless classic, continually relevant as humans everywhere strive to make the most of the time we have been given, while trying to maintain balance. Reading the book was such a breath of fresh air that I thought it was worth taking notes and sharing them. But it was only this year that I got around to reading the book that helped this movement make its way around the world: In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed by journalist Carl Honoré. I’ve been following several Instagram accounts over the past few years promoting the Slow movement, and have been fascinated by it ever since. ![]()
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William h armstrong books5/30/2023 ![]() Readers who enjoy timeless dog stories such as Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows will find much to love in Sounder. This classic novel shows the courage, love, and faith that bind an African-American family together despite the racism and inhumanity they face. ![]() The ever-loyal Sounder remains determined to help the family he loves as hard times bear down on them. But the sheriff and his deputies are not far behind. When food suddenly appears on the table one morning, it seems like a blessing. His first book, Study is Hard Work, was published in 1956. Each night, the boy's father takes their dog, Sounder, out to look for food and the man grows more desperate by the day. Set in the Deep South, this Newbery Medal-winning novel tells the story of the great coon dog, Sounder, and the poor sharecroppers who own him.ĭuring the difficult years of the nineteenth century South, an African-American boy and his poor family rarely have enough to eat. Please see our guide to book conditions for more details. ![]() DJ has a small rip on the bottom edge on the back. ![]()
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The book of ser marco polo5/30/2023 ![]() ), he speaks of the Caramoran or Ilwang-Ho in its lower course, as " coming from the lands of Prester John." lx., lxi.), whilst in a later passage (Bk. The general position entirely agrees with Marco's indications it lies on his way eastward from Tangut towards Chagannor, and Shangtu (see eh. Thianté-Kiun was the name of a district or group of towns to the north of that bend, a name which he supposes to be the original of Polo's Tenduc. ![]() Klaproth pointed out the true position of Tendue in the vicinity of the great northern bend of the Ilwang-Ho, quoting Chinese authorities to show that Thianté or To the last piece of information he can speak as a witness, and he is corroborated by other evidence but the second statement we have seen to be almost certainly erroneous about the first we cannot speak positively. ![]() Was still the residence of his descendants in their reduced state. ![]() Our traveller says that Tenduc had been the seat of Aung Khan's sovereignty he has already said that it had been the scene of his final defeat, and he tells us that it ![]()
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Murder on the rocks by karen macinerney5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Karen MacInerney writes with verve and vitality, and her Natalie Barnes is a Maine original. "All thumbs up for Murder Most Maine, another in the engaging series of Cranberry Island mysteries. "MacInerney adds a dash of the supernatural, throws in some touristy tidbits and finishes with some tasty diet-right recipes."- Publishers Weekly ![]() To find the true killer and ease her own aching heart, Natalie must untangle the knot of jealous girlfriends and spurned admirers that once surrounded the hunky trainer. The police pin the blame on Natalie''s boyfriend who-to her dismay-had a long-ago fling with Vanessa. The second is a corpse of the fresh variety-the handsome Dirk! Could the spirit that once embodied the skeletal remains-perhaps the lighthouse keeper who disappeared a century ago-be responsible for Dirk''s death? The first is a skeleton walled up at the island''s lighthouse. The mood on the island darkens when two grisly discoveries are made. He and his equally-gorgeous business partner, Vanessa Black, are leading a weight-loss retreat at the Gray Whale Inn-forcing innkeeper Natalie Barnes to lighten up her butter-laden breakfast menu. Critically acclaimed writer Karen MacInerney is the author of Howling at the Moon and the Gray Whale Inn mysteries Dead and Berried and Murder on the Rocks, which was selected as an Agatha nominee for Best First Novel. It seems like every woman has the hots for buff trainer Dirk De Leon. It''s springtime on Cranberry Island-and love is in the air. ![]()
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Mh herlong books5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Li’l T finds Buddy when his family accidentally hits the stray dog while driving to church. In Herlong’s “Buddy,” the relationship between Tyrone “Li’l T” Roberts and his dog, Buddy, is the backdrop to a larger story of surviving Hurricane Katrina and rebuilding. But they have such a bad reputation! I liked that contrast.” The contrast led to “Malcolm at Midnight.” “I read all these incredible facts about rats - they can fall from tremendous heights and be fine, they can squeeze through spaces the size of a quarter, they can gnaw through cement and lead and glass - and it struck me that rats really were quite amazing. “Malcolm came to me as I was researching animals for a nonfiction series I was working on,” said Beck. When the Academy’s iguana leader is kidnapped, Malcolm is a prime suspect because rats have a horrible reputation. Other classroom pets are part of the Midnight Academy, a secret society that works to keep the nutters (schoolchildren) safe. He’s a pet at McKenna School, and he revels in the attention. Malcolm, the title character in Beck’s book, is a class rat - the four-legged kind with a tail. ![]() Herlong, was selected by voters in Grades 6 through 8. Beck was selected by voters in Grades 3 through 5. ![]() ![]() Stories that feature animals again take center stage in the books selected by Kansas schoolchildren as the winners of the 2015 William Allen White Children’s Book Awards. ![]()
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Tomie by Junji Ito5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() But like Tomie herself, there’s no telling if the franchise is done for good, since these don’t share any real continuity and are largely self-contained stories. The movies each have their own take on the immortal girl, with the last Tomie movie released in 2011. ![]() She’s also lent inspiration to one of the most enduring horror movie series in Japan, with a franchise spanning nine films over 12 years. ![]() Since then, she’s been a focal character in many of Ito’s shorter fiction and subject to many a death scene: On paper and onscreen, she’s been incinerated, stabbed, hacked to pieces, ground to a pulp, and buried alive. An alluring sociopath whose machinations inevitably drives her lovers to a murderous rage, Tomie and her famous beauty mark made their first appearance in 1987-marking Ito’s own foray into manga. So much of horror mangaka Junji Ito’s body of work is distinctly female-driven, such as in multi-volume series like Uzumaki and Hellstar Remina, but none of his leading ladies are quite as memorable as Tomie. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As one character in the novel observes, "Hell, ain't nothing strange when Colored go crazy. What made her that way? Layer by layer, all is revealed.Īs with Pecola Breedlove in The Bluest Eye and Janie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ruby's pain is born of her own experience-her very existence is the result of a white man's rape of her mother she was sexually abused as a child she worked as a prostitute-but it's also the embodiment of slavery's legacy. The rumors that she's crazy are fueled by her actions, as when, in an early scene, she stands still outside and urinates, in full view of everyone. But no one is disapproved of more than Ruby. It's a place of paradoxes where drunken, cheating men chew tobacco outside juke joints, then stumble home to churchgoing wives who disapprove of their behavior yet never say so. ![]() The title character, when we first encounter her, is a once beautiful, now ravaged woman-filthy and barefoot-who wanders the streets of all-black Liberty Township, Texas. It's a love story, a ghost story, a story about the legacy of racial injustice and sexual abuse. ![]() ![]() Believe me, it's not easy finding words to describe Ruby, because nothing comes close to the experience of reading it. ![]()
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Oguz atay disconnected5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Arguably the most influential author of 20th century Turkish literature, Oğuz Atay is gradually making his name known on the world stage, thanks to the daring publishers taking up the challenge of publishing his work in their respective languages. Commonly referred to as “Turkey’s answer to James Joyce,” Oğuz Atay, is a modernist, trailblazing author, his work at once strongly infused by the culture, politics, and history of Turkey, while also heavily shaped by the author’s predecessors and contemporaries in world literature, in which he has firmly established his own place. It is my great pleasure to announce that we have sold World English rights in Oguz Atay’s TUTUNAMAYANLAR (THE DISCONNECTED) to Juliet Mabey at Oneworld Publications. German cover of THE DISCONNECTED (binooki 2016)ĭutch cover of THE DISCONNECTED ( Athenaeum, Polak & Van Gennep, 2011) Previous titles sold to: Albanian (Botimet Living), German (Unionsverlag & Binooki), French (Editions Harmattan), Italian (Lunargento) Foreign rights: Dutch (Athenaeum-Polak & v Gennep), German (binooki), Greek (Stereoma) ![]()
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Signed, Mata Hari by Yannick Murphy5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() S igned, Mata Hari has a dreamlike quality as it moves back and forth in time from Margaretha's childhood in the Netherlands, where her father deserted the family, her mother died, and she was raised by nuns - to her abusive marriage to Dutch naval captain Rudolph MacLeod on leave from his post in Java the poisoning of her children - and death of her beloved son Norman in Indonesia her husband's and her own affairs there their return to Europe, where MacLeod took her daughter away from her how Margaretha worked to support herself as an artist's model and then an exotic dancer (using what she had seen of temple dancers in Java) and her relationships with many wealthy lovers across Europe (which led to suspicion that she acted as a spy for the Germans).Īccording to Wikipedia, the historical record leaves doubt that Mata Hari really was a German spy. ![]() She tells folktales from her time in Indonesia to her interrogator, and writes letters to the daughter, Non, from whom she has long been separated. Now Yannnick Murphy brings us a historical novel in which Margaretha Zelle reminisces about her life - and how her reputation grew - from her prison cell in 1917 Paris. ![]() ![]() Who hasn't heard of the infamous World War I spy/femme fatale, Mata Hari? But how much else do we know about her? Very little, on my part. ![]()
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Abby cooper psychic eye books in order5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() For information about upcoming novels and appointments for readings, visit her Web site at. She lives in Arlington, Massachusetts, with her two spoiled dachshunds, Lilly and Toby. Now, with the police suspicious of her abilities and a killer on the loose, Abby's future looks more uncertain than ever.Ībout the Author Real-life professional psychic Victoria Laurie drew from her career as a gifted clairvoyant and police psychic to create the character of Abigail Cooper. But her insight failed her when she didnt foresee the death of one of her. But her insight failed her when she didn't foresee the death of one of her clients-or that the lead investigator for the case is the gorgeous blind date she just met. Abby Cooper is a P.I., psychic intuitive. Original.īook Synopsis Abby Cooper is a P.I., psychic intuitive. Turns out she knows too many details about the murder for her own good. Lot of 7 Psychic Eye Mysteries: Abby Cooper: Psychic Eye + Better Read Than Dead + A Vision of Murder + Crime Seen + Death Perception + Doom with a View + A. ![]() But when a client turns up dead, the clues start pointing toward Abby. ![]() Abby's work as a "psychic intuitive" can be rewarding. About the Book Psychic Abigail Cooper makes her debut in this first title of a new chick lit mystery series. ![]() |