![]() "This is a an important book, one that is unafraid to face all of the horror of the century. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of our worst appetites and weaknesses-and humanity's ultimately exhilarating spirit. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. Blindness by Jose Saramago - Penguin Books Australia Published: 3 June 2013 ISBN: 9780099573586 Imprint: Vintage Classics Format: Paperback Pages: 320 RRP: 14. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. ![]() ![]() "This is a shattering work by a literary master."-Boston GlobeĪ city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. ![]() A stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Testaments, letters, and narrative convincingly capture Mary’s immediate and moving voice as she becomes part of the circle of disciples and comes to grips with the divine. Brilliantly grounded in both biblical and secular historical research, it depicts Mary of Magdala in the first hundred years of the first millennium even as it peels away layers of legend. Was she a prostitute, a female divinity figure, a church leader, or all of those? Hallmarked by bestselling author Margaret George’s dazzling mix of history and creativity, Mary, Called Magdalene is George’s most ambitious work yet. We know more about her than about many of Christ’s male disciples, and her significance is enshrined in her ancient honorific ‘Apostle to the Apostles.’ But still, as a woman, she remains in shadow. ![]() ![]() Magdalene are tantalizingly brief, yet she continues to spark controversy, curiosity, and veneration. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Governess Affair is a novella of about 32,500 words. He'll have to choose between the life that he needs, and the woman he is coming to love. But everything he has worked for depends upon seeing her gone. Unfortunately, fair means don't work on Serena, and as he comes to know her, he discovers that he can't bear to use foul ones. When his employer orders him to get rid of the pestering governess by fair means or foul, it's just another day at the office. Hugo Marshall is a man of ruthless ambition-a characteristic that has served him well, elevating the coal miner's son to the right hand man of a duke. But she can't stop trying-not with her entire future at stake.He cannot give in. The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan 4.0 (220) Paperback 9.99 Paperback 9. The formidable former pugilist has a black reputation for handling all the duke's dirty business, and when the duke turns her case over to him, she doesn't stand a chance. It's his merciless man of business-the man known as the Wolf of Clermont. ![]() Unable to find new work, she's demanding compensation from the man who got her sacked: a petty, selfish, swinish duke. Three months ago, governess Serena Barton was let go from her position. A new series from New York Times bestselling author Courtney Milan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Having been given Roth’s blessing before his 2018 death, David Simon and Ed Burns adapt the story with great care for their HBO limited series, expanding upon characters’ stories in compelling ways and including their own personal touches. ![]() ![]() His father, Herman, lives in a cocoon of outrage, hanging on the declarations of his favorite radio commentator, Walter Winchell, and clinging to an all-American notion of fairness his older brother, Sandy, starts to associate non-Jewish society with a sense of liberation his hooligan cousin Alvin leaves Jersey to fight on behalf of the Canadians his mother, Bess, struggles to shoulder everyone’s pain along with her own anxieties and his Aunt Evelyn becomes romantically involved with the superstar Rabbi Bengelsdorf, who is either a forward-thinking Jewish-American leader or a pawn in a game that ensures the Jews will lose. The impact of Lindbergh’s ascendancy in Plot Against America, parallel to an uprising in Fascist policy that directly seeks to uproot Jewish-Americans, is depicted as a devastating experience for the Roth family in New Jersey, as young Philip watches his loved ones clash ideologically. Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America vividly depicts a creepy what-if scenario: What if anti-Semite and revered wonder pilot Charles Lindbergh beat Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election on an “America First” campaign that promised to keep the United States out of World War II? ![]() ![]() ![]() After winning the Amazon-sponsored Comic Strip Superstar Contest in 2009, Universal Uclick signed her to a development deal for Heavenly Nostrils. She eventually graduated from The Evergreen State College, despite having spent all her time drawing, and not always for credit.Īttempts at doing real work along the way are hardly worth mentioning the relevant fact is that, from 1998 to 2008, she drew the internet comic strip Ozy and Millie. After winning the Amazon- Dana Claire Simpson grew up in Gig Harbor, Washington, drawing the entire time. ![]() Attempts at doing real work along the way are hardly worth mentioning the relevant fact is that, from 1998 to 2008, she drew the internet comic strip Ozy and Millie. ![]() She eventually graduated from The Evergreen State College, despite having spent all her time drawing, and not always for credit. Dana Claire Simpson grew up in Gig Harbor, Washington, drawing the entire time. ![]() ![]() I didn't like how the couple seemed to revel in their latex allergy, despite the fact that both of them had been with other people. The scenes with the therapist felt way too similar to The Sopranos, like it was a cheap attempt to show us that Christian was deep. ![]() It's still leagues better than any mafia romance I've read but it didn't have the vivid, cinematic, larger-than-life element that drew me into the first book. Gianna's sarcasm started to get less witty and more childish and Christian just felt like a pale, washed-out imitation of Nico. something went wrong and it took me forEVER to get through this book. ![]() I thought this would be just as amazing as the prequel.Īnd then. I loved her outfits and in the beginning, I loved her smart mouth and her attitude. She's basically like Harley Quinn if Harley Quinn were a mafia princess (so basically Margot Robbie a la Birds of Prey). And who is his love interest but Gianna, Nico's stepmother. Obviously that meant I couldn't wait to jump into the sequel, THE MADDEST OBSESSION, which is about Christian Allister, the dirty fed who's in deep with the Abellis. ![]() It was like watching a movie unfold in book form and I couldn't put it down. I normally hate mafia romances but after I finished TSO, I was thinking about Nico and Elena for days and how explosive their chemistry was, and how much I loved the action sequences and the show-not-tell elements of the story. I was obsessed with book one, THE SWEETEST OBLIVION. ![]() ![]() ![]() The series features characters from Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments, Infernal Devices, Dark Artifices and the upcoming Last Hours series. ![]() In the Market is hidden a lost heir and a beloved ghost, and no one can save you once you have traded away your heart. Valentine Morgenstern buys a soul at the Market and a young Jace Wayland finds safe harbour. But once he was a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs, and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray.įollow Brother Zachariah and see, against the backdrop of the Shadow Market's dark dealing and festival, Anna Lightwood's doomed romance, Matthew Fairchild's great sin and Tessa Gray plunged into a world war. As a Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah is sworn keeper of the laws and lore of the Nephilim. Product Details Resources and Downloads Ghosts of the Shadow Market Plus, receive recommendations and exclusive offers on all of your favorite books and authors from Simon & Schuster. Through two centuries, however, there has been a frequent visitor to the Shadow Market from the City of Bones, the very heart of the Shadowhunters. There, the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. ![]() ![]() The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks and vampires. A collection of all ten Ghosts of the Shadow Market stories about characters from Cassandra Clare's internationally bestselling Shadowhunters series. ![]() ![]() Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election, Long split with Roosevelt in June 1933 to plan his own presidential bid for 1936 in alliance with the influential Catholic priest and radio commentator Charles Coughlin. He was an ardent critic of the policies of the Federal Reserve System.Ī supporter of Franklin D. To stimulate the economy, Long advocated federal spending on public works, schools and colleges, and old age pensions. ![]() Long is best known for his Share Our Wealth program, created in 1934 under the motto " Every Man a King." It proposed new wealth redistribution measures in the form of a net asset tax on corporations and individuals to curb the poverty and homelessness endemic nationwide during the Great Depression. ![]() He established the political prominence of the Long political family. A Democrat, he was an outspoken populist who denounced the rich and the banks and called for "Share the Wealth." As the political boss of the state he commanded wide networks of supporters and was willing to take forceful action. ![]() ![]() (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), nicknamed The Kingfish, was an American politician who served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. ![]() ![]() ![]() My shaking hands were no longer wholly a symptom of the sharp sudden panic that had gripped me from that first shouted word, but were now from a new feeling entirely: anger. It was only after I pulled out of the parking lot onto a familiar street that I began to feel anything other than all-consuming fear. ![]() Instead, I said nothing and lengthened my strides until I was practically jogging by the time I reached the safety of my car. ![]() I wish I had said something, anything, in response. I wish I had stopped walking and asked them why they thought I cared that they liked “girls with short hair.” I wish I told them just how pathetic they were to follow me. So, the group of men clustered by the entrance to the mall parking lot felt a little too coincidental. ![]() While sitting in the musty, dimly lit break room, as the store’s muffled playlist droned in the background, I shrugged off the interaction and decided to just get through the next hour of work. Eventually when I ran out of plausible non-answers and it became clear that I wasn’t going to tell them my schedule, my manager had to intervene. Earlier that day I had been cornered and solicitously asked what time my shift ended. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Centuries later, in the city of Cerr Cawnen, the old evil awakens yet again when the sorceress Raena schemes to destroy Rhodry Maelwaedd, her bitter enemy during life after life. At the historic end of the Civil Wars, Lilli, newly apprenticed to the dweomer, fights with her untried powers to save her beloved Prince Maryn from evil. Kerr’s latest tale shifts effortlessly between the shattered lands of the Rhiddaer and Dun Deverry itself. Little does she dream that the slaughter she invites, and the malevolence she defies, could stalk her across the ages…twisting and twining the strands of timeless destinies. But soon she must choose between her own clan and the true king who fights to claim his rightful throne, between sanctuary and blood feud, loyalty and love. Mistress of a magic that, untamed, could kill her, Lilli brings her terrifying visions under the kindlier tutelage of the mysterious dweomermaster, Nevyn. In a kingdom torn by civil war, young Lillorigga seeks to shield her dawning powers from her cruel mother Merodda’s manipulation. ![]() Katharine Kerr returns to Deverry’s war-ravaged past in the third arc of the Deverry Cycle. ![]() |