Blue Lines by Toni Aleo5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() So when Piper shows up at his house with a baby-bomb to drop, it doesn’t take much for Erik to suggest the nuclear option: marriage. But since their crazy-sexy night together, he’s been trying to forget about her alluring body by falling into bed with every woman in Nashville, and it’s not working. ![]() Only a check to the head could make Erik fall for a nice girl like Piper. And then, a few weeks later, a very big surprise: two blue lines on a pregnancy test. followed by inevitable heartbreak the next morning. ![]() What follows is the wildest night of her life. So when he sidles up to her at a bar and slinks his arm around her waist, she’s lost. The instant Piper Allen sees Erik Titov, she wants him-wants his rock-hard body, sure, but the strength and mystery that lie behind that superstar hockey jock demeanor, too. Opposites do more than just attract in USA Today bestselling author Toni Aleo’s latest Nashville Assassins novel about a very bad boy and the good girl he can’t resist. ![]()
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Alice munro's best selected stories5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “The Albanian Virgin” destroys the idea that her stories are set in B.C. “A Wilderness Station,” for example, breaks “short story rules” by taking us right back to the 1830s then jumping forward more than 100 years. The 17 stories are carefully arranged in the order in which she wrote them, which allows us to follow the development of her range. ![]() Readers lucky enough to have found her recently will be delighted, as one masterpiece succeeds another. Among writers themselves, her name is spoken in hushed tones.” This splendid gift edition is sure to delight Alice Munro’s growing body of admirers, what Atwood calls her “devoted international readership.” Long-time fans of her stories will enjoy meeting old favourites, where their new setting in this book may reveal new sides to what once seemed a familiar story devoted followers may even dispute the exclusion of a specially-beloved story. In her lengthy and fascinating introduction Margaret Atwood says “Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time. You can read this before Alice Munro’s Best: Selected Stories PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Alice Munro’s Best: Selected Stories written by Alice Munro which was published in 2006–. Brief Summary of Book: Alice Munro’s Best: Selected Stories by Alice Munro ![]() ![]() ![]() 00:57 Some centuries ago there lived at Akamagaseki a blind man named Hoichi, who was famed for his skill in recitation and in playing upon the biwa. Though China’s political fate seems uncertain and its people set in traditional ways, Lafcadio Hearn-a Japan-based journalist known for his writings on East Asian culture-predicts that China will one day pose a formidable economic threat to the West. This story is also by Koizumi YakimoLafcadio Hearn, and it’s called the story of Mimi-Nashi Hoichi, or, Hoichi The Earless. ![]() Insurgent book5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Carve the Mark series revolves around Cyra and Akos, two individuals from very different cultures and walks of life whose paths inevitably cross, bringing great upset and change to the whole universe. Here are all Veronica Roth books in order so you can make sure you’ve read everything by this talented author. However, she has put out quite a few more titles than just the three Divergent series books (including Divergent spinoffs and short stories). That’s thanks in large part to her Divergent series. Veronica Roth is one of the biggest names in literature today, namely YA novels. Veronica Roth books: Her previous releases But we expect to see more of the Chosen Ones themselves, in both past and present day, as well as the new allies (and villains) they’ve met along the way, including Mox, of course. Not much is known about the Chosen Ones sequel plot as of right now, beyond the loose threads left dangling at the end of the first book. ![]() The two books in Veronica Roth’s previous duology, the Carve the Mark series, released a little over a year apart, so we should expect the Chosen Ones sequel release date to be sometime in mid-to-late 2021. ![]() However, we do know that a sequel is not only coming but should be releasing sooner rather than later. The currently untitled ‘Chosen Ones’ sequel release dateīecause Chosen Ones just came out recently, we don’t yet have a release date or even title for the Chosen Ones sequel. ![]() The drawing of the three5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() They will learn to love, respect and fight for each other. These four will be travelling companions in search of the dark tower. We meet Jake this time, just before he will be pushed in front of a car by the same man who is responsible for Odetta’s missing legs. ![]() Odetta/Detta seems to be two people, and one of them is stealing from a fancy store and about to be caught.Īnd he draws Jake, a young boy from 1977, who he already met in the waystation. He draws Odetta Holmes, a black woman in a wheelchair from 1964. When Roland finds Eddie, there is cocaine taped to his body, he is on an airplane, and the stewardess is already suspicious. He draws Eddie Dean, a drug pusher, from 1987. This book has Roland “draw” three people from our world. He is attacked by some “lobstrosities”, and loses a few fingers, which is going to prove interesting for the gunslinger, and most of a toe. This book starts on the beach, where Roland wakes up after his palaver with The Man in Black. The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King is the 2nd in the Dark Tower Series. ![]() 2016 curtis sittenfeld5/30/2023 ![]() Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, and Vanity Fair, and on public radio's This American Life. ![]() In addition, her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post Magazine, Esquire, and The Best American Short Stories, for which she has also been the guest editor. Her books have been translated into thirty languages. Curtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including Rodham, Eligible, Prep, American Wife, and Sisterland, as well as the collection You Think It, I'll Say It. ![]() ![]() ![]() Curtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including Rodham, Eligible, Prep, American Wife, and Sisterland, as well as the collection You Think It, I'll Say It. Around the time of the 2016 election, I realized that school children who knew that Hillary was running for president often, literally, didn’t know that Bill existed, Sittenfeld told Vogue. ![]() Gentlemen prefer blondes by anita loos5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This essay reads Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as a sentimental novel, one that exemplifies the aesthetic category of “modern sentimentalism.” As described below, modern sentimentalism reinvents the sentimental mode through experimental aesthetic practices, including, in Loos’s epistolary “diary of a professional lady,” stream-of-consciousness narration, dialectical writing, and an extensive use of irony. 1 What would it mean to treat Loos’s ironic sentimentalism sincerely, as a revision rather than a rejection of the literary mode? Pitted against Loos’s cynical persona, the “witless blonde” evokes Blondes’s protagonist, a woman whose allure derives from apparent sincerity, sympathy, and naiveté, combined with the hint that she may not be as innocent or inexperienced as her exterior suggests. Rather, in this quip as in her 1925 bestseller, Loos’s ironic rhetoric gestures toward and plays with sentiment’s various nineteenth-century connotations. Juxtaposing mere “liking” with the alternative embodied by the “witless blonde,” Loos does not exclusively redefine “sentiment” in terms of erotic desire. Menck liked me very much indeed but in the matter of sentiment, he preferred a witless blonde.Anita Loos, “The Biography of a Book”Īnita Loos’s euphemism for sex in her 1963 preface to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes invokes a long literary tradition of implicit physical intimacy. ![]() Jeff vandermeer city of saints5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Unsettling, erudite, and shot through with unexpected humor…Ambergris is one of my favorite haunts in fiction. “Somewhere at the intersection of pulp and surrealism, drawing on the very best of both traditions, is Jeff VanderMeer’s Ambergris. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced he has made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago.īy turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and “eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose-and find-yourself again. In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinve. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading-and finds himself enchanted. Read 564 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. ![]() You hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited-an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.Ĭity of elegance and squalor. ![]() In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris Wildside Press/Cosmos Books, 219 pages Jeff VanderMeer Jeff VanderMeer was born in Pennsylvania in 1968, but spent much of his childhood in the Fiji Islands, where his parents worked for the Peace Corps. ![]() Winners never quit by mia hamm5/29/2023 ![]() Women's Professional Soccer, a professional soccer league that launched in 2009, features Hamm's silhouette in its logo. In 2007, her first year of eligibility, she was selected for induction into the National Soccer Hall of Fame by having 137 votes of the 141 ballots cast. women's national team's victory in the 2004 Olympics. She retired from the sport in 2004, when she played her last game in the 2004 Fan Celebration Tour to commemorate the U.S. Washington Post columnist Michael Wilbon called Hamm, "Perhaps the most important athlete of the last 15 years." She was named the women's FIFA World Player of the Year the first two times that award was given (in 20), and is listed as one of FIFA's 125 best living players (as chosen by Pelé). As part of the first generation of women to grow up with gender equality rights after Title IX passed, she received the college scholarships, endorsements and training opportunities necessary to become a top athlete. Hamm is an iconic symbol of women's sports and an inspiration and role model to a generation of sports-minded girls. ![]() Hamm has scored more international goals in her career than any other player, male or female, in the history of soccer (158). Hamm played many years as a forward for the United States women's national soccer team and was a founding member of the Washington Freedom. ![]() Mariel Margaret Garciaparra, best known as Mia Hamm, is a retired American soccer player. ![]() Capital book by thomas piketty5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Critics of Piketty’s book abound in all parts of the political spectrum, but it cannot be denied that Capital in the Twenty-First Century symbolized an emerging ethos in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Increasing inequality is thus part of the very nature of capitalism, Piketty observed, and can only be checked through various kinds of state intervention. The rate of return on inherited wealth in an economy, he argued, will always grow faster than the income one earns through compensated labor. ![]() It did so by playing a major role in offering a specific explanation for growing inequality, supported by an incredible amount of historical and statistical evidence going back to the 18th century in France, the United States, Britain, and Germany. Thomas Piketty’s voluminous 2013 book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, created a rare academic frenzy in this country and beyond. Please subscribe to support our writers and staff, and stay healthy. For that reason, this article, and all of our coronavirus coverage, is now free. EDITOR’S NOTE: The Nation believes that helping readers stay informed about the impact of the coronavirus crisis is a form of public service. ![]() |