![]() ![]() ![]() All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. It is the continuously amusing, wise revelation of an American writer journeying around the often strange and always exciting world he loves.Ĭhoose your shipping method in Checkout. He meets and brings to life the famous and the humble, from Arthur Koestler to Emma, the Black Mammy of Moscow. ![]() His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. ![]() In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. It is the continuously amusing, wise revelation of an American writer journeying around the often strange and always exciting world. His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central. His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. ![]()
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![]() “Despite the obvious talents of its author,” one reviewer wrote, the over-all effect was “a bit thin.” And yet “The Easy Life” is constructed with the same torqued intensity as all her fiction, seeding the problems that will eventually become Durassian preoccupations: the anguish of poverty, the vertigo of young love, the pull of biological conformity, and the struggle of women to reconcile the requirements of feminine competence with the disorganizing effects of sexual desire. The book sold out on its first printing, but its critical reception was lukewarm. In a style differing from the bald obliquity that characterizes Duras’s more famous books and films, feelings and adjectives stick together like plums that have fallen from a tree and formed a putrid mass. Here, Duras’s sentences assume a voluptuousness that Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan do a remarkable job of translating. ![]() “La Vie Tranquille” (1944), Duras’s second novel-translated into English as “ The Easy Life”-is a coming-of-age story that dwells on what a young woman must relinquish to the activity of tidying up life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, he listens carefully for clues to expose the underlying personality. Even though Seer is blind, Matty concludes that he sees more than most people because he is not deceived by a person's outer appearance. Leader then gives him the true name Healer. In the end, he sacrifices his life to defeat the forest. Soon he discovers his special gift, which is his ability to heal. Matty completes his tasks dutifully and therefore wishes to receive the true name Messenger. ![]() Matty's job in the village is to deliver messages to other towns across the hostile forest because for some reason the forest does not attack him like the others. Matty likes Jean, the teacher's daughter but does not openly admit his crush on her. Matty enjoys living with the blind man even though sometimes his impatience gets the best of him. Seer, his guardian, tries to make him adopt the values of the village. It took Matty a while to quit his habit of lying, and even now he still lies once in a while because he thinks it makes things easier. When he arrived at village, he could neither read nor write, so the schoolteacher Mentor gave him the necessary education. ![]() His mother raised him and his brother alone after his father left the family. Matty used to be a mischievous boy who called himself the fiercest of the fierce. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() She self‑publishes her work in South Korea and specializes in the black‑and‑white manga style. 2: The Manga: Volume 2 1 by Rainbow Rowell, Gabi Nam, Sam Maggs (ISBN: 9781974718092) from Amazons Book Store. Gabi Nam is a South Korean artist who has lived abroad in Japan and France. She’s been a senior games writer, including work on Marvel’s Spider-Man the author of many YA and middle-grade books like T he Unstoppable Wasp, Con Quest!, Tell No Tales, and The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy and a comics writer for beloved titles like Marvel Action: Captain Marvel, My Little Pony, and Transformers. Sam Maggs is a bestselling author of books, comics, and video games. Sold by VIZ Media LLC 4.4 star 9 reviews Ebook 224 Pages Bubble Zoom familyhome Eligible info 11.99 Ebook Free sample About.Her comics credits include Marvel’s Runaways and She-Hulk, and the graphic novel Pumpkinheads. Fangirl: The Manga Rainbow Rowell Jun 2022 ![]() ![]() She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Attachments, Eleanor & Park, Landline, and the Simon Snow Trilogy. Rainbow Rowell lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with her family. ![]() ![]() Scobell will star alongside Leah Sava Jeffries, as Annabeth, and Aryan Simhadri, as Grover. “It was obvious to me and the rest of the team that Walker had the perfect mix of comedic timing, sweetness, rebelliousness, snark and heroism to embody our hero Percy Jackson.” ![]() “Scobell is an incredibly talented young man who blew us away with his audition tapes for the role of Percy,” Riordan wrote at the time of the casting announcement. The series will premiere in 2024 and stars The Adam Project’s Walker Scobell in the title role. “I am thrilled to be the first to tell you that Percy Jackson and the Olympians is really, truly, and for sure coming to your screens.” “The wait is over, demigods,” Riordan said in a video announcing the series pickup in January. The news of The Chalice of the Gods comes a few months after a Disney+ series based on the first book, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, began production. PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS: THE CHALICE OF THE GODS will go on sale September 26, 2023! - Rick Riordan October 18, 2022 ![]() ![]() Nearly a decade after the release of THE BLOOD OF OLYMPUS, Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Grover Underwood will star in a brand new adventure from Rick Riordan! ![]() ![]() ![]() As the grandson of Verna Rose, the disgraced singer who had a famous falling out with Wanda Jean, Luke knows how much pain country music has brought his family. But for now, he's happy to do the next best thing: Stay with his aunt in Jackson Hollow, Tennessee, for the summer and perform at the amusement park owned by his idol, country legend Wanda Jean Stubbs. ![]() Perfect for fans of Erin Hahn, Phil Stamper, and David Levithan.Įmmett Maguire wants to be country music's biggest gay superstar-a far reach when you're seventeen and living in Illinois. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this heartfelt and funny contemporary romance inspired by Dollywood, about two boys who fall in love against the backdrop of a country music-themed amusement park, from debut author Brian D. About the Book While working at country music legend Wanda Jean's amusement park, polar opposites Emmett and Luke become inseparable until a long-lost secret about Emmett's idol and Luke's grandmother, a disgraced singer, comes to light.ĭumplin' meets Simon vs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though, I'm glad he did, so we could read about it. His book could have alternatively been titled, Life on the Line. To go through learning all the steps, from hours, months of mundane prep work, to apprenticing at the stations for pasta, grill work and plating, not to mention, of course, enduring the intense heat (physically and emotionally) back there in the kitchen, including real abuse from some of the chefs. I truly admire Buford's incredible verisimilitude in reporting. ![]() ![]() Heat incorporates all that and much more, with frequently humorous reflections on food, cultural influences and history. This book is his account of the experience, which brought him to not only hook up with Batali, but to work for him, learning the food business firsthand, which he continued to do, even after his profile, The Secret of Excess, was completed. Buford, a reporter and editor at the New Yorker, took on the commission of a profile on Mario Batali, larger than life, restaurant owner, Chef, TV personality, and author, with an extreme dedication. Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany, by Bill Buford, our current Cook the Books Club selection, was a fascinating glimpse into life behind the scenes, at the three-star New York restaurant, Babbo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() DO NOT buy unless you’re ready to have your heart hardcore warmed! But reader: BE WARNED! This novel is so freaking romantic. ![]() No matter what anyone else says.including me.īut most of all, I’m scared he’ll get what he wants.only to destroy me all over again.Īre you ready to give love a second chance? Find out what happens in the latest smoking hot paranormal shifter romance from Theodora Taylor’s wildly popular 50 Loving States series. ![]() But all he truly wanted was to get in my pants before ghosting out.Ĭan you blame me for never wanting to fall again?Īnd yeah, participating in a Chivaree-a barbaric ritual during which I give my hand in marriage, and a baby, to whoever catches me first-isn't the most civilized way to declare I'm over the "one who ran away." But hey, it's not like I believe in true love anymore, so why not help secure the future of my state pack with the money a Chivaree auction will bring in?īut then Nago Nightwolf shows up on the eve of my Chivaree, determined to win me. Then he disappeared from my life without so much as an apology. But Nago Nightwolf was the sweetest, gentlest, most wonderful boyfriend a poor she-wolf from a mange state pack could ever ask for.until I needed him most. I’m still not exactly sure how a nobody like me managed to catch the eye of a billionaire alpha prince. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the fiercest warriors from the team are lost or sacrifice themselves on missions in Book II, and the men are given the option of enacting retribution against those invaders who attempted to destroy their nation. The team encounters things they cannot explain, and are helped by someone from their past who was given unique talents through his time in a classified CIA Special Projects assignment.Rob also meets Natalie, a woman with special abilities of her own to whom he finds himself magnetically drawn. ![]() The Masonic connection to the resistance is further explained, as well as a hidden part of Rob’s past that is brought to light with a unique twist. ![]() His job is to capture the men and inflict as much pain as possible, as Rob learns when he lands in Dmitri’s grisly interrogation. The men come into contact with other freedom fighters and are taken to the front lines of WWIII.As they spread out to take part in the national battle plan, the team is hunted by Dmitri, a former Spetsnaz-turned SVR operative. ![]() The Pact Book II follows Rob and the men of ODA 022 from their battles against the invaders (China, Russia, Iran & Hezbollah) in Colorado to joining the resistance to take back the nation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is a narrative by the 17th century philosopher Voltaire with Candide as. But this is not so, Candide and his companions encounter nothing but ludicrous calamities in their madcap travels around the world – war crimes, earthquakes, inquisitions and chain gangs – all based with horrible closeness on real events of the 18th century. Candide: Thoughts of Voltaire on Optimism, Philosophy and The Other. Following an indiscretion, Candide is cast out into the world which according to Pangloss is ‘the best of all possible worlds’. Young nobleman Candide lives a sheltered and comfortable life under the tutorship of the ridiculous Dr Pangloss who espouses the prevailing 18th-century philosophy of Optimism. This classic of French literature features an introduction by Dr Marine Ganofsky. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. This classic of French literature has been a bestseller for over two hundred years. Candide, or the Optimist is Voltaire’s hilarious and deeply scathing satire on the Age of Enlightenment. ![]() |