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Where the wild things are 19635/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Seine Eltern sind getrennt, seine Mutter ist fast nur mit ihrem neuen Freund und ihrer Arbeit beschäftigt, seine Schwester Claire pubertiert heftig und hat überhaupt kein Interesse mehr an ihrem kleinen Bruder. Herausgekommen ist Bei den wilden Kerlen, eine herzergreifende Geschichte über den jungen Max, der sich und die Welt nicht mehr versteht. Und auch als Maurice Sendak Dave Eggers fragte, ob er die Geschichte von Max nicht in einem Roman erzählen wolle, sagte er ja, er wolle es probieren. 2003 fragte der Regisseur Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) Dave Eggers, ob er nicht mitarbeiten wolle an dem Drehbuch für die Verfilmung von Maurice Sendaks Klassiker aus dem Jahre 1963. Bei den wilden Kerlen, der umwerfende All-Age-Roman von Dave Eggers, entstand auf Anregung von Maurice Sendak und ist doch ein echter Eggers, ein Roman, der besticht durch Witz, psychologisches Einfühlungsvermögen, Phantasie und Herz. ![]() Der Kinderbuchklassiker Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen als Roman: Dave Eggers, einer der besten amerikanischen Gegenwartsautoren, baut Maurice Sendaks nur 333 Worte umfassende Bildergeschichte aus zu einem hinreißenden Roman über den achtjährigen Max, Sohn getrennter Eltern, frech, wild und absolut liebenswert. Die Geschichte von Max aus Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen, erzählt von Dave Eggers, in einem Roman voller Witz und Herzenswärme. Ausgemustertes Bibliotheksexemplar mit Stempel. ![]() Mit zusätzlicher Einbandfolierung versehen. ![]()
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![]() The didactic turn in academic philosophical publishing also has generated a good number of book-length biographies of major philosophers that integrate the presentation of a philosopher's work into an account of his personal and professional life. The major publishers effectively have turned away from making available the revised proceedings of academic conferences on specialized topics, turning instead to more generally-oriented work that is commissioned by the presses and their academic series editors with a close regard to supply and demand in the academic publication market. The auxiliary corps of such handbooks has established itself as a third force in addition to the single-author monograph and the topical multiple-author essay collection in the arsenal of academic publishing. ![]() These companions and cooperative commentaries are designed both as introductions and orientations for the student reader and as surveys of the current state of research for the advanced reader or scholar. ![]() In recent years academic presses have inundated the English-language book market with expository and explanatory publications on individual philosophers or an individual work by a philosopher, typically authored by a select team of international specialists. ![]()
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Eversea by natasha boyd5/26/2023 ![]() When his co-star and real-life girlfriend is caught cheating on him with her married and much older director, A-list hottie, Jack Eversea, finds himself in sleepy Butler Cove, South Carolina. "Can't wait for book 2!" Michelle, All Romance ReviewsĪn orphaned, small-town, southern girl, held hostage by responsibility and self-doubt.Ī Hollywood A-list mega-star, on the run from his latest scandal and with everything to lose.Ī chance encounter that leads to an unlikely arrangement and epic love affair that will change them both forever. I really couldn't get enough." ~ Jess, Book Passion for Life Blog ![]() It is a beautiful coming of age story with lots of lovely romance mixed in." ~ Laura Carter, Bookish Treasure Blog. "I LOVED this book!" and "This book is escapism at its very best. ![]()
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In Search of Hobart by Peter Timms5/26/2023 ![]() From plots to plants, Timms describes the decline of the manicured lawn and the productive home vegetable garden, and our passion for roses and gladioli. ![]() Dogs and chooks, woodsheds, lavatories, fruit trees, fences and even the illuminated Santa Claus at Christmas - Timms has something new and surprising to say about them all. The ordinary suburban block, Peter Timms traces the development of its design, its plantings and its hidden meanings, explaining how we have used our gardens for pleasure, relaxation and food production. Who invented the rotary clothesline, the lawn-mower and the fibreglass swimming pool? Why are our back gardens today so different from those of our grandparents? And whatever happened to the chrysanthemums and marigolds that once made front gardens so colourful? In this fascinating and detailed look at ![]()
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Murder most unladylike books5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() I have kids who started reading when they were 10, they’re now 16, so for the final one I wanted something that you’re desperate to know about – something exciting and terrifying.” Daisy and Hazel were 13 when we first met them at Deepdean boarding school, setting up their own detective society and discovering a dead body in the gymnasium. “I’m getting 20 emails a week reasoning with me, saying ‘Please don’t kill one of them! Please!’” laughs Robin Stevens over the phone from Oxford.įor this last book, though, she “wanted to go big. Fans have been devouring the adventures of 1930s schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong since 2014, but have been tipped off that in the ninth book, Death Sets Sail – a romp through Egypt inspired by Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile – only one of the girls makes it home alive. ![]() W arning: when tween readers get their hands on the final book in the Murder Most Unladylike series, published next week, they may well burst into tears on the very first page. ![]()
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Blood and Money by David McNally5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() As the first strikes and wider fightbacks flare amidst a cratering economy and an exploding pandemic, David McNally, a professor of history at the University of Houston and an award-winning author of numerous works including Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance and forthcoming, Blood and Money: War, Slavery and the State, spoke with Snehal Shingavi of Section 44 about what’s behind the crisis - and ahead for the Left.īefore March of 2020, we were already seeing signs of a global economic downturn: India had revised its growth numbers downwards, China was seeing a contraction in exports, and the US had some of its weakest growth numbers in a while. What were some of the features and causes of that economic contraction? Why hadn’t the global economy recovered since the 2008-9 recession? ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Only Benjamin Black, a modern master of the genre, could write a new Philip Marlowe detective novel that has all the panache and charm of the originals while delivering a story that is as sharp and fresh as today's best crime fiction. Soon he is tangling with one of Bay City's richest families and developing a singular appreciation for how far they will go to protect their fortune. Marlowe sets off on his search, but almost immediately discovers that Peterson's disappearance is merely the first in a series of bewildering events. ![]() Then a new client is shown in: young, beautiful, and expensively dressed, she wants Marlowe to find her former lover, a man named Nico Peterson. It is the early 1950s, Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Channeling Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Black has brought Marlowe back to life for a new adventure on the mean streets of Bay City, California. Traffic trickled by in the street below, and there were a few pedestrians, too, men in hats going nowhere." So begins The Black-Eyed Blonde, a new novel featuring Philip Marlowe-yes, that Philip Marlowe. The telephone on my desk had the look of something that knows it's being watched. Raymond Chandler's incomparable private eye is back, pulled by a seductive young heiress into the most difficult and dangerous case of his career "It was one of those summer Tuesday afternoons when you begin to wonder if the earth has stopped revolving. ![]()
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Tenth of december stories5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() And the title character of “Al Roosten” develops a toxic grudge against a neighbor who seems to have the perfect life (beautiful wife, “elflike” children) and a mansion on a hill.Ĭlass envy of a former spouse’s new mate is a pretty predictable theme, and so are the setups Mr. ![]() The narrator of “Home” resents his ex-wife’s new husband, who has a fancy house in a fancy part of town, and three cars for two adults. Keeping up with the neighbors - or feeling envious of them - is the theme of several other stories in this volume too. The hero of “The Semplica Girl Diaries” calls it a “feeling of special destiny” he used to have “when tiny, sitting in cedar-smelling bedroom closet, looking up at blowing trees through high windows, feeling I would someday do something great.” Now this husband and father finds himself stuck on a hamster wheel of familial responsibility, trying to juggle credit card payments to get his daughter the birthday present she wants so she doesn’t feel poor or “poorish” next to her more entitled friends. Before they grew up or things spiraled downward, many of these people recall having had intimations of specialness, a sense that the glittering promises of the American dream were actually within reach. ![]()
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Bound by honor by cora reilly5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() I don’t mind this trope, I love it when the bad boys start to have feelings for the girl. The alpha who has a soft spot for the girl. She was so confusing, in my opinion she changed her mind a lot and it gave me the impression that she wasn’t sure what she really wanted. And talking about characters, I didn’t like Aria. Which is a shame because there were a lot of people mentioned who I would have loved to read more about. ![]() ![]() The characters were not that awesome since we don’t get to know them in depth. The story happened too fast for my liking therefore the romance and everything felt forced, in my opinion. From the synopsis it sounded like something I could have enjoyed, but the book was like two hundred and something pages long. I was so excited to read this book because I was in the mood for some mafia romance, that’s why I had big expectations for it. ![]()
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Bluecrowne a greenglass house story5/25/2023 ![]() Having greatly enjoyed Kate Milford's Greenglass House and Ghosts of Greenglass House, I was eager to pick up Bluecrowne, and learn bit about the family which first built this marvelous house, and the life of Nagspeake in a different time period. Can Lucy, always known for her cool head and strategic thinking, rescue her little brother? And what role will Xiaoming, who is not exactly what she seems, play in it all.? Lucy's feelings about these living arrangements are soon overshadowed however, as two nefarious characters - one a time-travelling villain more than willing to kill to get what he wants, the other a man with a supernatural talent for incendiary activities - target Liao. It helps that she will be living with her stepmother, Xiaoming, and her half brother Liao, and that her father has constructed the marvelous Greenglass House for her, based on all of the houses she has admired over the years, in their various ports of call. ![]() The year is 1810, and Lucy Bluecrowne, dismayed at the prospect of being exiled from her long-time home aboard her father's ship, the Left-Handed Fate, does her best to accept these new "orders," and to reconcile herself to her new life on land. ![]() |