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Whispers from the East by Amie Ali5/21/2023 The title was the result of a huge amount of brainstorming. How did the title of this book come about? I think every woman I have spoken with that is in this type of relationship will see a bit of herself in all the characters. None of the characters are based on any one person or experience. I felt like these stories needed to be heard. Some are wonderful, some are terrible, and some are just like any other relationship that doesn’t cross cultural and religious barriers. The stories I hear from the women who pass through and my friends who have committed to the group are amazing. I am a part of a support group for Western women who are born to non-Western born Muslim men. Where did the idea for Whispers from the East come from? I’m your host Toi Thomas, author of Eternal Curse, and today I’m sharing a special interview with author, Amie Ali, about her fiction book entitled, Whispers from the East. Greetings readers, bloggers, geeks, and authors and welcome to The ToiBox of Words.
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Entangled life hardback5/21/2023 The ability of fungi to digest plastic, explosives, pesticides and crude oil is being harnessed in break-through technologies, and the discovery that they connect plants in underground networks, the ‘Wood Wide Web’, is transforming the way we understand ecosystems. In giving us bread, alcohol and life-saving medicines, fungi have shaped human history, and their psychedelic properties, which have influenced societies since antiquity, have recently been shown to alleviate a number of mental illnesses. They can solve problems without a brain, stretching traditional definitions of ‘intelligence’, and can manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. In this captivating adventure, Merlin Sheldrake explores the spectacular and neglected world of fungi: endlessly surprising organisms that sustain nearly all living systems. Its ability to digest rock enabled the first life on land, it can survive unprotected in space, and thrives amidst nuclear radiation. It can be microscopic, yet also accounts for the largest organisms ever recorded, living for millennia and weighing tens of thousands of tonnes. Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…
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Embassytown book5/21/2023 I had previously started and abandoned his book Perdido Street Station because it was just too much work for me to follow. They actually say things like "I can't speak Language." This book is all about a language that is so important to its people that it's not called the language, or a language, but simply Language, even by the non speakers. Although I do pretty well with English, I've never really been able to learn foreign languages, and boy was the Language that this book is about hard to understand. Perhaps it has something to do with my lack of aptitude for language. But still, not only was it confusing, and not making sense in some parts, but even when I thought I understood what was going on, I still felt I was missing something. The audiobook made it much harder for me for various reasons, so I kept rereading an ebook version to help clear up parts that were unclear (much of the book). At times, I asked myself why I was struggling with it, but out of curiosity or obstinance (I'm not sure which), I continued working my way to the end. I worked very hard to read and understand this book, and I wanted to like it.
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Good wives by louisa may alcott5/21/2023 Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: Being a Sequel to 'Little Women'. Best of Louisa May Alcott (67 books) Discover new books on Goodreads Meet your next favorite book Join Goodreads Listopia Best of Louisa May Alcott flag All Votes Add Books To This List 67 books 9 voters list created May 7th, 2014 by Sarah (votes). A Little Ferry Tale Only 9.99 With Purchase of Any Kids' Book Little Women and Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott, Liz Foley (Editor) Paperback (Reprint) 13.95 Paperback 13.95 eBook 2. Don't let be a stranger to the babies, for they will do more to keep him safe and happy in this world of trial and temptation than anything else, and through them you will learn to know and love one another as you should.” no time is so beautiful and precious to parents as the first years of the little lives given them to train. Each do our part alone in many things, but at home we work together, always. That is the secret of our home happiness: he does not let business wean him from the little cares and duties that affect us all, and I try not to let domestic worries destroy my interest in his pursuits. His place is there as well as yours, and the children need him let him feel that he has his part to do, and he will do it gladly and faithfully, and it will be better for you all. don't neglect husaband for children, don't shut him out of the nursery, but teach him how to help in it. children should draw nearer than ever, not separate you, as if they were all yours, and had nothing to do but support them.
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He's cultivated his reckless reputation as a way to avoid dealing with his family's businesses. But when the dowager's grandson, notorious ne'er-do-well Lord Anthony Trent, requires her assistance with some tasks of his own, Olivia discovers that the charming rogue may be capable of stealing something himself-her heart.Īnthony has his own secret: Numbers get jumbled in his head. Working in a nobleman's home is the perfect guise to gather information, allowing her to exact her own justice on several wicked noblemen. No one would ever guess that Olivia Michaels, companion to an elderly dowager, is really the thief the London newspapers have nicknamed the Phantom. With the proper calculations, even a reckless rake and a secretly infamous woman can find a love they can count on. Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW on Never Mix Sin With Pleasure "A thief and a libertine fall in love on a bed of lies in Miller’s passionate, intoxicating fifth Infamous Lords Victorian romance… Justice, deception, and loyalty form the core of this entrancing affair."
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The victorian city by judith flanders5/20/2023 No one who reads it will view London in the same light again. For the past few days Ive occasionally been leaving my quiet. The Victorian City is a revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets, bringing to life the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens London, Judith Flanders. Now, Judith Flanders follows in his footsteps, leading us through the markets, transport systems, sewers, slums, cemeteries, gin palaces, and entertainment emporia of Dickens' London. Charles Dickens obsessively walked London's streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities and cruelties. In only a few decades, London grew from a Regency town to the biggest city the world had ever seen, with more than 6.5 million people and railways, street-lighting, and new buildings at every turn. The Wall Street Journal Flanders uses secondary historical sources alongside Dickens's own impressions of the city to take us on a dazzling journey through an imperial city plagued by poverty and deeply divided by class. 1810 : The Berners Street Hoax Early to rise On the road Travelling (mostly) hopefully. The Victorian City is the perfect companion to Dickens's work. The 19th century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. Available in National Library (Singapore). From an acclaimed popular historian comes a masterly recreation of Victorian London, whose raucous streets and teeming denizens inspired and permeated the works of one of the world's greatest novelists: Charles Dickens
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Summerlong by Peter S. Beagle5/20/2023 But lingering in Lioness's past is a dark secret ? and even summer days must pass. Her new family thrives, even as they may be growing apart. A rare story of summer that feels like the summerlike dreamy intense passions rising and arcing and. Lioness grows more captivating as the days grow longer. Buy a cheap copy of Summerlong book by Peter S. With Lioness in their lives, they are suddenly compelled to explore their deepest dreams and desires. She is taken in by two disenchanted lovers?dynamic Joanna Delvecchio and scholarly Abe Aronson ? visited by Joanna's previously unlucky-in-love daughter, Lily. And as an impossibly beautiful spring leads into a perfect summer, Lioness is drawn to a complicated family. An enigmatic young waitress with strange abilities, when the lovely Lioness comes to Gardner Island even the weather takes notice. Beagle, Volume 1: Lila the Werewolf and Other Stories by Peter S Beagle (9781616963880) from Boomerang Books, Australias Online. It was a typically unpleasant Puget Sound winter before the arrival of Lioness Lazos. Beagle (The Last Unicorn) returns with this long-anticipated new novel, a beautifully bittersweet tale of passion, enchantment, and the nature of fate. A rare story of summer that feels like the summer?like dreamy intense passions rising and arcing and then spinning away like beauty underlaid with a tinge of sadness because it is ephemeral."īeloved author Peter S.
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Book the lincoln highway5/20/2023 The characters surrounding both Emmett and Ulysses serve essential roles in propelling their journeys forward, whether through providing assistance or presenting obstacles. At the center of the novel, Emmett figures as the main hero, but the story of Ulysses also provides a direct link between two men whose experiences, separated by thousands of years, mirror one another, and through which Ulysses Dixon seeks the path to his own retribution. Through these comparisons, it is gradually revealed that The Lincoln Highway is itself a hero’s story of redemption and self-discovery. Of the 25 celebrated figures featured, some are featured more prominently than others, but the relevant details of the lives of heroes specific to the circumstances at play are introduced at regular intervals through Billy’s incorporation of the Compendium into all of his interactions and private thoughts. The Lincoln Highway weaves the stories of the hero figures in Professor Abernathe’s Compendium throughout the narrative, juxtaposing the similarities between the lives of the heroes with the unfolding of the events over the 10 days covered in the novel.
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Sanctuary caryn lix series5/20/2023 Lix leaves readers just where she wants them: satisfied by a complete story arc but ready to follow the surviving renegades into space, with good guys and bad guys undoubtedly in hot pursuit. The themes and characters may derive from familiar sci-fi repertoire, but Lix’s breakneck pacing keeps the pages flying, and Kenzie’s barely tapped superpower and the unplumbed depths of Omnistellar’s presence provide plenty of scope for later adventure. There’s an enjoyable B-movie vibe to the plotting, as Kenzie outmaneuvers monsters, discovers her own technologically repressed superpower, learns the tightly circumscribed boundary of her mother’s love, and kindles a romance with the Sanctuary prisoner leader, all within the time-frame of a couple of days. When Kenzie and her friends find themselves trapped on a strange planet, they must risk everything to. Her aspirations, faith in Omnistellar, and belief in her parents come crashing down when a prisoner escape plan coincides with an alien invasion, turning Kenzie from guard to prisoner, fighting for her life among the kids she had been taught to fear. Raised by her parents to appreciate the benefits of corporate citizenship and to maintain unwavering loyalty to their employer, Omnistellar Concepts, Kenzie is following in their footsteps and guarding the space station Sanctuary, a prison for children and teens imbued with superpowers.
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Book the color monster5/20/2023 Catalog printing contracts, from Sears to Victoria's Secret, generated more than a fifth of total revenues in 1993 and represented the company's fastest growing division. Donnelley & Sons in the United States-has expanded its operations into a number of specialty services. While fostering its long-term relationships with most of the major publication companies in the United States, the printing giant-second only to R.R. News & World Report, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, and Forbes, accounted for approximately half of the company's 1993 revenues. The company's core business is magazine printing contracts with hundreds of leading periodicals, including U.S. Headquartered in New York, World Color Press operates 17 production, distribution, and sales facilities throughout the country and is recognized as a leader in various segments of the printing industry. is the largest printer of consumer magazines in the United States and the third largest commercial printer in North America. SICs: 2721 Periodicals 2741 Miscellaneous Publishing 2754 Commercial Printing Gravure 2759 Printing, Not Elsewhere Classified Incorporated: 1903 as World Color Printing Company Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Printing Holdings L.P. |