One Duke Down by Anna Bennett5/13/2023 He implores Poppy to tend to his injuries and hide him on her beach, reasoning it will be easier to find his attacker if that man assumes Keane is already dead. Unfortunately, someone in Bellehaven wants to kill him-and he intends to find out who. The truth is he came to the seaside resort of Bellehaven Bay to escape his life in London. AND A DUKE OUT OF WATER Andrew Keane is the Duke of Hawking, but he's having the devil of a time convincing his fiery-haired rescuer of that fact. Especially one with a head wound-who's convinced he's a duke. The very last thing Poppy expects or wants to find tangled in them is a dangerously attractive man. But she'll do anything for her family, so she cheerfully spends mornings in her rowboat, casting her nets. Her poor widowed father has fallen ill, and her foolhardy brother has moved to London, leaving her precious little time to read or pursue her own dreams. Publishers Weekly A FISHERMAN'S DAUGHTER Miss Poppy Summers is determined to keep her family's fishing business afloat. The next delightful novel in Anna Bennett's Rogues to Lovers series! Tantalizing.readers will be swept away.
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Some readers may find this reassuring, especially given the themes that are explored, while others may find it interrupts the narrative immersion. Throughout the novel Searle includes exposition from adult Winifred, reminding the reader that The Greatest Thing is just one year within a whole lifetime. Searle makes good use of the graphic novel format to temper this emotionally intense content with backgrounds in soothing pastel tones and intimate, close-up shots of the characters supporting each other and accessing professional help. The Greatest Thing delicately handles heavy themes, including depression, self-harm, disordered eating, learning difficulties and gender questioning in an unsupportive family environment. Together they channel their feelings into a collaborative zine which, in a beautiful use of the graphic novel format, Searle shows the reader every page of. Semi-autobiographical in nature, it’s set in America in 2002 where Winifred (Searle) meets Oscar and April-kindred spirits in self-hatred. Greatest Thing is a graphic novel about friendship and self-actualisation, with a dash of queer romance. The power of habit charles5/12/2023 Proposes that habit forming always follows same pattern: If something is a habit, it saves brain power as don’t need to think about it. Habits are framed as an evolutionary way of saving effort. Possible to see brain activity change as habits are formed. The Power of Habit: Why we do what we do and how to change – by Charles Duhigg (Amazon UK link)Ĭhapter 1: The Habit Loop – How Habits WorkĬites various famous cases of patients with brain injuries, and experiments in MIT with rats highlights the importance of specific regions of the brain for habit formation. To think about what of this we connect onto training we currently deliver locally around The Habits of an Improver (Lucas & Nacer)Īnyway I hope you find the summary of interest.
If the oceans were ink by carla power5/12/2023 Never did he try to limit who I talked to, the questions I asked, or what I wrote.Ī decade before, we'd worked together on a team of scholars, some Muslim, some Western, all male except for me, mapping the spread of Islam through South Asia. He encouraged me to interview his family and students. He allowed me to accompany him back to India, where we visited his old madrasa and ancestral village. When I asked to shadow him through a typical day, from the gym to the mosque, he let me. In the course of the year, he endured scores of interviews and numerous visits to his Oxford home. He said yes, not just to the lessons, but to what would be unprecedented intrusions for so private a man. I wanted to immerse myself in his teachings, attending his lectures on the Quran and other Islamic issues and having occasional one-on-one lessons over the course of a year. I approached the Sheikh and proposed a project that would eventually became a book. Tiger Daughter by Rebecca Lim5/12/2023 ( Supplied: Simon & Schuster/Martha Stewart) Koa Beck says white feminism has a "very elite lens" to the way it operates and curates conversations. The last century has seen huge strides forward for women's rights, but that change has not been universal. The story follows the aftermath of two crimes: graffiti scrawled in acid on the hotel wall and the collapse of an international Ponzi scheme. Through The Glass Hotel, we meet Vincent, an intelligent but aimless bartender at a five-star hotel, and Jonathan, a wealthy hotel investor who isn't what he seems. "What kind of a story do you have to tell yourself to make that day job seem OK?" That's crazy," she told Patricia Karvelas. "I just found myself thinking, how weird is that office environment? Think of that camaraderie and think of how much stranger and wilder and more intense it is if you're all showing up at work on Monday to perpetuate a massive crime. Inspired by Bernie Madoff's multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme that collapsed at the height of the 2008 financial crisis, Mandel began reflecting on her own workplace and her relationships with her colleagues. Cover of The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel ( Supplied: Pan Macmillan) Www simonandschuster com sing you home5/12/2023 It was great that he was willing to come out in high school, which is still a very hard time for young kids.Īll of a sudden this book that I was writing became a very personal mission for me as a mom because, by the time my own son wants to get married and have children, I would really like to know that he doesn’t need to jump through hoops in the US in order to do that. It was wonderful that Kyle felt comfortable enough to speak to us about it, and, of course, we didn’t mind at all. I am sure I knew he was gay when he was three, but it was more of a revelation to him. I was in the middle of writing the book, however, when my oldest son - who was 17 at the time - came out to my husband and me. I think that it is one of the last sets of human rights that haven’t been granted in our country. Jodi Picoult: I actually began this book thinking that I wanted to write something that specifically focused on gay rights in America because unfortunately, we are not as progressive in America as you in other countries, and it was important to me. Xtra: Why did you decide to write a novel on reproductive rights and the obstacles that same-sex couples face? And there was light jon meacham review5/12/2023 This illuminating new portrait gives us a very human Lincoln-an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment, essential to the story of justice in America, began as he grew up in an antislavery Baptist community who insisted that slavery was a moral evil and who sought, as he put it, to do right as God gave him to see the right. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.Īt once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen as the greatest of American presidents-a remote icon-or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction. Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. One of the Best Books of the Year: The Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus ReviewsĪ president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis.Longlisted for the Biographers International Plutarch Award.Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize “Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.”-Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how-and why-he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. The strange case of origami yoda5/12/2023 Tommy confronts the ethical dilemma of standing up for the weird kid and the angst of school dances: My hands were shaking and my stomach was excited like the time my dad accidentally drove into a fire hydrant. Angleberger peppers his chapters with spot-on boy banter, humorously crude Captain Underpants style drawings, and wisecrack asides that comically address the social land mines of middle school. Compiling a series of funny, first-person accounts of Yoda's wisdom from his friends, Tommy hopes to solve this mystery to determine whether to trust Yoda's advice about asking a certain girl to dance. From another, he is simply the green paperwad animated by Tommy's misfit friend, Dwight, who wear shorts with his socks pulled up above his knees and stares into space like a hypnotized chicken. From one perspective, Origami Yoda is a finger puppet that offers cryptic but oddly sage advice to Tommy and his classmates. Is Origami Yoda real? is the question that plagues sixth-grader Tommy and drives the plot of this snappy debut. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson5/11/2023 What was the attraction? As Henri writes, Napoleon “…was in love with himself and France joined in. His village priest was an admirer of the man, and young Frenchmen enlisted by the thousands. His personal love of and devotion to Napoleon is not unusual. He ends up a kitchen boy and personal waiter to Napoleon, which leaves him practically breathless with joy and pride. Henri is a teen, freshly recruited for Napoleon’s army and eager to go. The novel begins in 1804 in a French army camp in Boulogne. Some can find their way back from it, others cannot. Using her characters, history, and geography, Winterson examines how passion develops among “lukewarm people” and how it can bleed over into debilitating obsession and the loss of self. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion is a novel about passions, obsessions, and madness. Somewhere between God and the Devil passion is and the way there is sudden and the way back is worse. Somewhere between the swamp and the mountains. Resurrection Row by Anne Perry5/11/2023 As Pitt follows leads into the slums and rookeries, Charlotte, too, is drawn into the politics and horrors of greed and exploitation. For Pitt and Charlotte, what begins as a mysterious case of musical corpses, becomes a deadly pursuit through the London underworld of pornographic photographers, brothels, and sweatshops. The case grows increasingly bizarre as other disinterred bodies appear. A new mother, Charlotte Pitt only takes a cursory interest in the grave robbing case until she hears Thomas mention the name of her late sister’s husband, Dominic Corde, as a possible suspect. But when the macabre joke is repeated, and the man’s corpse is found sitting in the family pew the Sunday following his second interment, Pitt begins to wonder if perhaps there’s some message in it. Grave robbing, though a crime, isn’t Inspector Thomas Pitt’s usual fare. Lord Fitzroy-Hammond of Resurrection Row has been dead and buried three weeks when he turns up sitting atop a hansom cab. “For readers longing to be in 1890s London, Perry’s tales are just the ticket” ( Chicago Tribune). |