![]() ![]() ![]() But Tom’s secret is threatened when a horrible murder on his beat seems to have been caused by the same ancient magic that killed his gang.Ĭat shifter Cicero is determined to investigate the disappearance of one friend and the death of another, even though no one else believes the cases are connected. ![]() If anyone finds out he once ran with the notorious O’Connell tunnel gang, he’ll spend the rest of his life doing hard time behind bars. New York copper Tom Halloran is a man with a past. Will a dark history doom their future together? NOTE: Where were provided an audible code in exchange for an honest review. Why I read this book: This week is Out Of Your Comfort Zone, and there are 2 reasons I choose this. Narrated by Tristan James, 8hrs & 36 mins. Published by Widdershins Press on May 6, 2016, 259 pgs. Bethany reviews ‘Hexbreaker’ by Jordan L. ![]()
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![]() "This vivid.thoughtful and empathetic" novel ( The New York Times Book Review) illuminates a world turned upside down, one where the women are in charge and the men take care of the children. Little do the two friends know that forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother's position leading the divers in their village. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator. ![]() ![]() Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. The Island of Sea Women takes place over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility-but also danger.ĭespite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook find it impossible to ignore their differences. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. ![]() ![]() Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. "A mesmerizing new historical novel" ( O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, she thoughtfully-and humorously-offers critical inquiry into why digital spaces have the power to inflict our physical senses offline, without portraying the Internet as this nightmarish entity living under our beds. In nine new essays from her debut collection, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Tolentino doesn’t altogether pour out confessionals strictly damning the Internet, nor does she pinpoint where the future of our screen worlds are going. Years later, Tolentino now writes for The New Yorker while her previous employers include Jezebel and The Hairpin. Savoring her own autonomy to craft her own identity online however she’d like, she began using trailblazing website-hosting platforms like Expage and Angelfire to write about her early encounters with Beanie Baby webpages. Raised in Houston, Texas, Tolentino grew up finding solace in the surge of digital spaces taking over every teen and preteen’s life in the early 2000s. ![]() Before Jia Tolentino was born, her parents moved from the Philippines to Canada and then from Canada to the USA. And before the Internet, there was real life. Before there was Facebook, there was MySpace. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story was later adapted into a film of the same name by Canadian director David Cronenberg. In 1973 the highly controversial novel Crash was published, a story about symphorophilia and car crash fetishism the protagonist becomes sexually aroused by staging and participating in real car crashes. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Ballard focused on an eclectic variety of short stories (or "condensed novels") such as The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), which drew closer comparison with the work of postmodernist writers such as William S. Ballard came to be associated with the New Wave of science fiction early in his career with apocalyptic (or post-apocalyptic) novels such as The Drowned World (1962), The Burning World (1964), and The Crystal World (1966). ![]() ![]() G." Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. ![]() ![]() ![]() The larger work of terraforming requires an initial phase of global warming to release atmosphere from the regolith and to create a water cycle. Nascent industry would begin using indigenous resources: the manufacture of plastics, ceramics and glass. During and after this initial phase of habitat construction, hard-plastic radiation- and abrasion-resistant geodesic domes could be deployed on the surface for eventual habitation and crop growth. Large mall like structures buried in regolith, pressurized habitats would be the first step toward human settlement the book suggests they can be built as Roman-style atria on the surface and then be buried with regolith, with easily produced Martian brick. As initial explorers leave hab-structures on the planet, subsequent missions become easier to undertake. He envisions a series of regular Martian missions with the ultimate goal of colonization, which he details in the seventh through ninth chapters. Chapters 1 and 4 deal primarily with Mars Direct.įor Robert Zubrin, the attractiveness of Mars Direct does not rest on a single cost-effective mission. ![]() ![]() The Case for Mars is, according to Zubrin, a comprehensive condensation for laymen of many years' work and research. The Mars Direct plan was originally detailed by Zubrin and David Baker in 1990. ![]() ![]() The Exorcist and Exorcist III are modern horror fans favorite, but the Exorcist II: The Heretic doesn't really seem like one sequel worth sitting through. Includes technical help requests.įor the complete flair guide, visit the Flairs tab.įinally after fixing my mistake, The Trilogy of Faith is ready for viewing pleasure. ![]() Restoration/Preservation is for old movies that have been restored.Īnnouncement is for fan editors to announce new upcoming projects or make a post about a work in progress.įanedit Request is for users in searching for a specific fanedit that they cannot find, or requesting a fanedit to be made.ĭiscussion is for discussing fanedits, ideas for new edits, and editing. Series is for edits that retain an episodic form. ![]() Short is for standalone fanedits that are under 40 minutes. Includes FanMixes, FanFixes, and TV-to-Film.įeature Trailer is for trailers of upcoming features or series.Ĭlip is for clips from feature-length fan edits, as a way to preview specific changes, or a stand-alone clip. Rules > Post Flairs Explained > Online Fanedit List > Message the Mod Team >įeature is for posting fully recut films & TV series, also known as feature-length fanedits.Please read the rules before contributing and have fun. Find fanedits, post your own, get help editing, post fan edit news, and share reviews. A community for faneditors and their audiences. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Penguin Classics launches a new hardcover series with five American classics that are relevant and timeless in their power, and part of a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from almost seventy-five years of classics publishing. The groundbreaking feminist's timely collection of nonfiction writings on race, gender, and LGBTQ issues is now for the first time in Penguin Classics as part of the Penguin Vitae series, with a foreword by poet Mahogany L. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde,Ĭelebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature, with a foreword by Mahogany L. 's teachings, by one of our most revered elder stateswomen, should be read by everyone. It's always great to have an intersectional tome on hand." -Amanda Gorman A collection of essays and speeches by the pioneering feminist Audre Lorde, is one of my all-time-favorite books ![]() ![]() Draw up a top five of such books, and straight in at number one would be – this is so obvious, it hardly needs saying – Edmund Gosse’s 1907 tender and wonderfully comic Father and Son (Gosse was reared in a sternly religious Plymouth Brethren home whose values he would eventually reject). I’ve a particular thing for stories in which a certain kind of clever, wryly humorous narrator describes their complicated relationship with a parent. ![]() She hates me.” It’s a brilliant book, a classic of its kind, and I commend it to you. ![]() On the streets of Manhattan, her mother would stop complete strangers and announce: “This is my daughter. What do I mean by “difficult”? Oh, you know. L ast week, Daunt Books republished Fierce Attachments, Vivian Gornick’s 1987 memoir about her difficult relationship with her mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() from Columbia University in 1942 and continued with field work and direct experience throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Army in Europe and the Philippines.įrom 1933 through 1937, Hall lived and worked with the Navajo and the Hopi on native American reservations in northwestern Arizona, the subject of his autobiographical West of the Thirties. The foundation for his lifelong research on cultural perceptions of space was laid during World War II, when he served in the U.S. Born in Webster Groves, Missouri, Hall taught at the University of Denver, Colorado, Bennington College in Vermont, Harvard Business School, Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern University in Illinois and others. ![]() ![]() ![]() First of all, he admits that he slept with his friend Alex but doesn’t tell Becca it was only a few months prior (that ripping clothes off friends thing is a habit for him, evidently) AND then of course she’s pregnant. He is basically a whiny rich white boy who has no consideration for others. Spoilers ahoy! Seriously, SO MANY SPOILERS.įinally we get Nate and Becca’s story! Yay! Becca is awesome! It was a serious disappointment on many levels. This is book #4 in the Brooklyn Bruisers series. So why can’t we keep our hands off each other? She says we’re too different, and it can never happen again. But what friends don’t do is rip off each others’ clothes for a single, wild night together. When Rebecca gets hurt, I step in to help. ![]() All I know is that one whiff of her perfume ruins my concentration. I don’t know when I started waking in the night, craving her. She manages both my hockey team and my sanity. You’d be wrong.įor seven years Rebecca has brightened my office with her wit and her smile. ![]() You’d think a billion dollars, a professional hockey team and a six-bedroom mansion on the Promenade would satisfy a guy. ![]() |