![]() ![]() As they fumble toward understanding each other, Esme searches for her American father and pursues higher education. Khai resolves to make the best of things until he can send Esme home, but their instant mutual attraction complicates matters. ![]() ![]() Ten years later, he’s a wealthy accountant, and his matchmaking mother informs him that Esme, an uneducated janitor she met in Vietnam, will be staying with him for the summer and is meant to be his eventual wife. California-born Khai processes emotions differently than most people do at age 16, when he doesn’t grieve in a conventional way over the death of a cousin, he thinks he’s incapable of feeling love. Hoang’s touching second contemporary romance (after The Kiss Quotient) explores what the American dream might mean to a young, mixed-race Vietnamese woman and the autistic Vietnamese-American man she’s matched up with. ![]()
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![]() In a previously unpublished essay, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history-from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin-through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and lament. These pieces, dedicated to classical and popular artists alike, are at once erudite and lively. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, showcases the best of his writing from more than a decade at The New Yorker. ![]() ![]() One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Download Listen to This Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle ![]() ![]() ![]() Judgment of Mars (Trade Paperback / Paperback)Ī war fought in the shadows A conspiracy shattered in fire A moment of weakness. In the political heart of the Protectorate of Mars, he finds he may be forced to choose between honoring the oaths he swore and preserving the survival of the Protectorate itself. ![]() As a wave of murder sweeps Mars and the consequences of the Keepers' conspiracy sink home, Damien is summoned before the Council of the Protectorate to answer for the deaths of two other Hands. Someone else is hunting down the survivors to make sure they never answer Damien's questions-or anyone else's. When he seeks out the remaining Keepers for answers, he discovers only violence. The destruction of the secret archive of the Royal Order of Keepers on Mars has left Damien Montgomery, Hand of the Mage-King, with his enemies defeated, his lover dead-and his questions unanswered. ![]() ![]() ![]() We see how they managed farms, plantations, and businesses while their men went into battle, and how they served as nurses and cooks in the army camps, risked their lives seeking personal freedom from slavery, and served as spies, saboteurs, and warriors. We see women boycotting British goods in the years before independence, writing propaganda that radicalized their neighbors, raising funds for the army, and helping finance the fledgling government. Berkin takes us into the ordinary moments of extraordinary lives. ![]() The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American, and Carol Berkin shows us that women played a vital role throughout the struggle. ![]() ![]() Patrick's Day parade in Detroit earlier this month. The journalist, most recently the author of the New York Times bestseller, Detroit: An Autopsy of an American City, was charged with aggravated assault after a boozy brawl at a St. And now it seems that Charlie LeDuff, like the city he covers, may have come a bit undone. But in the five years since Charlie Le Duff came home to the Motor City to cover the city's cataclysmic unraveling, the hell-bent, Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter has destroyed the careers of at least a dozen Detroit politicians, helped send about half those corrupt officials to prison and simply made a damned fool out of several more.īut he has not been able to shake the torment of this long-suffering metropolis. Corruption and anomie were the orders of the day. The population had cratered, once-grand buildings moldered, whole neighborhoods had been emptied and left to nature. ![]() When Charlie LeDuff came home to Detroit five years ago, it was a wasteland. ![]() ![]() Buy you a new bike and a case of decent reagent and that sludge you drink. student who does not believe in her ability to be in love. Is there anything I can do for you? I’ll take you grocery shopping and fill your fridge when we’re back home. It’s been going on for a while, longer than you think, longer than you can imagine, and I should have told you, but I have this impression, this certainty that you’re half a second from running away, that I should give you enough reasons to stay. Then I dream of you, and when I wake up my head’s still there, stuck on something funny, beautiful, filthy, intelligent that’s all about you. Sometimes, often, always, I think about you before falling asleep. ![]() I liked you when I didn’t know you, and now that I do know you it’s only gotten worse. I like no one, absolutely no one, but I liked you from the start. An issue, since I remember a little too well. The Love Hypothesis Author Ali Hazelwood Country United States Language English Genre Romance Publisher Berkley Books Publication date SeptemMedia type Print ISBN 9780593336823 The Love Hypothesisis a romance novel by Ali Hazelwood, published Septemby Berkley Books. ![]() “Pretty fucking tragic twist of fate, but you don’t seem to remember that we first met years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “We are paying homage to the cathedral after all that has confronted Paris, from the tragedy of the fire to the crisis of the pandemic,” said Sylvie Robin, chief curator of the crypt, who helped organize the exhibit. The crypt celebrated the opening with an exhibition on the two 19th-century men who helped restore the 850-year-old medieval monument to greatness: the novelist Victor Hugo and the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. In a sign that the universe of Notre-Dame Cathedral is returning to life, the archaeological crypt that sits under its courtyard reopened today-for the first time since flames devoured the cathedral’s roof and toppled its spire in April last year.īefore the crypt could reopen, masses of toxic lead dust from the fire had to be removed, ancient stones cleaned, ventilation systems vacuumed, lighting and interactive programs reorganized, molds eliminated and anti-Covid measures imposed, including rules for physical distancing, mask-wearing, touching interactive screens and limitations on the number of visitors. ![]() ![]() The rest of the cast includes Ramy Youssef ( Ramy, Mr. Godwin Baxter and Mark Ruffalo as Duncan Wedderburn. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation in this Frankenstein-style story.ĭirected by Yorgos Lanthimos from a screenplay by Tony McNamara, and based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Alasdair Gray, Poor Things stars has amassed a stellar cast to tell this bizarre story with Emma Stone starring as Bella Baxter alongside Willem Dafoe as Dr. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. ![]() Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Poor Things tells the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Johann discovered there are twelve deep cases of this crisis, all of which have robbed some of our attention. This has been done to all of us by powerful external forces. ![]() We think our inability to focus is a personal failing – a flaw in each one of us. He interviewed the leading experts in the world on attention, and learned that everything we think about this subject is wrong. Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And, most importantly, how do we get it back?įor Stolen Focus, internationally bestselling author Johann Hari went on a three-year journey to uncover the reasons why our teenagers now focus on one task for only 65 seconds, and why office workers on average manage only three minutes. 'A beautifully researched and argued exploration of the breakdown of humankind's ability to pay attention' ![]() ![]() ![]() It wasn’t until later on that it started to get better, and that had a lot to do with the introduction of Eithan, who is a tremendous character with a funny personality that I’m going to enjoy getting to know. The reason for the 4 stars is because I felt Lindon was a bit boring for most of the book and it just felt like it dragged. Leaving her alone, where no one can save her, and forcing her to rely on her own knowledge to escape. The world building is taken up another notch with the new places we get to visit, and as we visit new places, we get to be introduced to new and exciting complex characters along the way, among those are Fisher Gesha, Jai Long and Eithan. I love that Will Wight expanded even deeper into the ranking system and also the magic system giving us some really cool scenes of madra use that we didn’t get to see in Unsouled. “When you’re alone, first look for a weapon.” He does a great job with all the voices and emotions of the characters. ![]() It’s fast paced, with great action and Travis Baldree’s narration continues to be a huge bright spot in this series. ![]() Soulsmith continues immediately after the events of Unsouled with Lindon and Yerrin leaving Sacred Valley together. ![]() |