6/28/2023 0 Comments Amsterdam author ian![]() ![]() On a broader scale, McEwan's portrayal of the mutually parasitic relationship between politicians and journalists is as damning as it is comic. "McEwan writes the sort of witty repartee and scathing retort we wished we thought of in the heat of battle. masterfully wrought, sure to delight a reader with even half a sense of humor." - The Atlant Journal-Constitution an energizing tightrope between feeling and lack of feeling, between humanity's capacity to support and save and its equally ubiquitous penchant for detachment and cruelty." - The San Diego Union-Tribune Chilling and darkly comic." - Chicago Tribune "Ian McEwan has proven himself to be one of Britain's most distinct voices and one of its most versatile talents. ![]() "At once far-reaching and tightly self-contained, a fin de siécle phantasmagoria." - New York When you buy books using these links the Internet Archive may earn a small commission. "Beautifully spare prose, wicked observation, and dark comic brio." - The Boston Globe Amsterdam by Ian McEwan, 1999, Nezavisimaia gazeta edition. Ruthless and amusing." - The New York Times Book Review "A dark tour de force, perfectly fashioned." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times ![]()
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6/28/2023 0 Comments World guinness record 2023![]() ![]() ![]() What can you find in the 10 record breaking chapters: It feels like we are living in a new world As lockdown restrictions eased, our horizons expanded once again, and it's fair to say our world is experiencing unprecedented change - in the environment, culture, technology and society! Fielding thousands of applications a month the team at World Records have been busy with a unique mix of the tallest, shortest, strongest and hairiest on the planet, history's bravest two and four-legged heroes and pioneering space tourists, among many more. The new Edition of the Guinness World Records 2023 takes us on a journey that's out of this world, revealing the latest and greatest record-breaking achievements here on Planet Earth. Fast forward 70+ years it has long since been a bestseller and one of the most recognised and trusted book brands in the world. ![]() Not being able to find the answer in any reference book and with the idea of creating a book to settle all pub arguments, the Guinness Book of World Records was published in 1954. ![]() The idea for a book of records started in 1950, when Sir Hugh Beaver, Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery attended a shooting party and had an argument with fellow guests about what game bird was the fastest. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The following list is an attempt to rank King’s published work in all its darkness, weatherworn beauty, and surprising weirdness. Of course, in so long and varied a career, there are exhilarating highs, a few bewildering lows, and many unexpected diversions. Nat Cassidy, author of this year’s Mary: An Awakening of Terror, put it best, describing King as his “mother tongue.” He is not just a writer he is an industry, an aesthetic, a genre of one. ![]() I have interviewed hundreds of horror writers from all across the genre’s wide spectrum, and when asked for their inspirations and their gateways to fearful fiction, so many leap immediately to King. But for millions of readers and writers, he is our North Star, our Southern Cross. Such prolificacy has often led to sniffing criticism from those who consider him “merely” a horror writer (as if horror is anything “mere”). Almost everything he has ever written has been optioned or adapted for the screen, in some cases several times. King has regularly published two or three books per year, a stream of words that flows incessantly west towards Hollywood. He arrived during a resurgent interest in all things frightening–following the success of Ira Levin's Rosemary’s Baby (1967) and William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist (1971)-and quickly set about reshaping the genre in his own image. Since the publication of his first novel Carrie, just shy of fifty years ago, King has held dominion over the landscape of horror. There will probably never be another author like Stephen King. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The deal series elle kennedy![]() ![]() Now he just has to convince Hannah that the man she wants looks a lot like him. But when one unexpected kiss leads to the wildest sex of both their lives, it doesn't take long for Garrett to realize that pretend isn't going to cut it. ![]() If helping a sarcastic brunette make another guy jealous will help him secure his position on the team, he's all for it. If she wants to get her crush's attention, she'll have to step out of her comfort zone and make him take notice.even if it means tutoring the annoying, childish, cocky captain of the hockey team in exchange for a pretend date.Īll Garrett Graham has ever wanted is to play professional hockey after graduation, but his plummeting GPA is threatening everything he's worked so hard for. But while she might be confident in every other area of her life, she's carting around a full set of baggage when it comes to sex and seduction. Hannah Wells has finally found someone who turns her on. ![]() She's about to make a deal with the college bad boy. Buy a cheap copy of The Deal book by Elle Kennedy. New York Times bestseller Elle Kennedy brings you a sexy new Off-Campus novel that can be read as a standalone. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In On the Run, Goffman does not just recount the stories of men and women that were at one point ‘on the run’ from the law enforcement officials in Philadelphia. ![]() Alice Goffman, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and daughter of sociologists Erving Goffman and Gillian Sankoff, takes up her discipline’s special role of informing Americans in her book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, the culmination of six years the author spent studying a poor, predominately African American community in Philadelphia. Sociologists thus occupy a special place in shaping and reshaping the nature of public debate. Of all the disciplines in the humanities, sociology is particularly well-poised to provide the academy and policy makers with appropriately timed, persuasively human, and powerful scholarship that can carve out space for informed debate in the public square. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Verne from the earth to the moon![]() Several parameters are known from the book. I was always wondering….how accurate was he in describing the trajectory? Let’s find out. Having worked for years on Lunar transfers. Jules Verne is very descriptive when it comes to the trajectory, quoting numbers with several digits at times. The crew are launched in a large bullet-like projectile (called ‘Columbiad’) using a giant canon (the creators are the Baltimore Gun Club, after all). The books are an easy and fun read, and certainly a must-read for any space enthusiast. Unfortunately they miss the Moon and four years later the struggles of getting back to Earth are described in the sequel ‘Around the Moon’. ![]() ![]() The book describes the adventures of three men: Barbicane, captain Nicholl, and the French poet Ardan, in launching themselves to the Moon in order to land there. In 1865, the book ‘From the Earth to the Moon’ by Jules Verne was published. ![]() ![]() ![]() But now, a drowning and gruesomely injured boy, tattooed with the mark of a witch, is pulled from a river and the villagers suspect the local midwife, Martha Stechlin. It is 1659, the Thirty Years' War has finally ended, and there hasn't been a witchcraft mania in decades. And her father's wisdom and empathy are as unusual as his despised profession. Taking us back in history to a place where autopsies were blasphemous, coffee was an exotic drink, dried toads were the recommended remedy for the plague, and the devil was as real as anything, New York Times bestselling author Oliver Pötzsch's The Hangman's Daughter is the rollicking start to an exciting series of historical mysteries, bringing to cinematic life the sights, sounds, and smells of seventeenth-century Bavaria, telling the engrossing story of a compassionate hangman who will live on in readers' imaginations long after they've put down the novel.Magdalena, the clever and headstrong daughter of Bavarian hangman Jakob Kuisl, lives with her father outside the village walls and is destined to be married off to another hangman's son - except that the town physician's son is hopelessly in love with her. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Books by stephen chbosky![]() And there's this one moment I'll never forget when, you know, he walks into the woods late at night, where there's this tree. He comes out, and there is a voice, a presence that he feels. it becomes very real to you, even the very notion of what is real and what is imaginary changes as you throw yourself into all these pages. But I always loved him, and always loved the idea of this kind of wild kid. He moved away to Appleton, Wisconsin and I lost touch with him. And Eric, I'll never forget, he drove his father's car, when he was I think three years old, across the street and into the neighbor's yard. he's loosely, loosely based on this boy that I knew as a little, little kid, named Eric Olson, who lived up the street. ![]() And a 10 year journey later I have all the answers.Įddie, that they all call Special Ed. And I wanted to know where that cloud was going, and I wanted to know why it was going, and I wanted to know what was behind it. ![]() So he says, "If you can hear me, blink your left eye." And the cloud slowly does, unblinks, and then it floats away. And he says to the cloud, "Hello, can you hear me?" And there's a little thunderclap in the distance that could be a coincidence. And then I thought of this moment outside of his school, where he's all alone and the last of the buses pull away, and he looks up - and what was a small face is now almost as big as the sky. Movies The Pangs And 'Perks' Of High School, Revisited ![]() ![]() ![]() Upon returning home, Geordie Buchanan finds the castle overrun with potential brides, thanks to his loving but interfering family. Just like the others, it is filled with adventure, family, romance, humor, and passion. ![]() But the real test lies ahead: eliminating a hidden enemy, so that he and Dwyn can seal their Highland passion with a vow. Lynsay Sands’ Hunting For A Highlander is the book 8 of the Highland Brides series. Her lush figure and eager kisses delight him, as does her honesty. ![]() Lady Dwyn is not nearly as plain as she thinks. But one lass in particular draws his attention from the moment he spies her climbing a tree. Yet a chance encounter with a stranger in the orchard awakens her to a new world of sensation and possibility.Īfter weeks away, Geordie Buchanan returns to find his home swarming with potential brides, thanks to his loving but interfering family. Since her betrothed died, Dwyn has resigned herself to becoming an old maid. She isn’t long-legged and slender like her sisters, or flirtatious and wily like other lasses. See search resultsfor this author Lynsay Sands(Author) 4. Lady Dwyn Innes feels utterly out of place among the eligible women who’ve descended on Buchanan Keep, vying for the attention of the last unmarried brothers. Hunting for a Highlander (Highland Brides) Audio CD Unabridged, Januby Lynsay Sands (Author) Visit Amazon's Lynsay Sands Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Four Buchanan brothers have found their brides…only three more to go in this scintillating romance from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands… ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments River of Shadows by Karina Halle![]() ![]() Turns out Death is intrigued by Hanna’s beauty and fierceness and makes a bargain with her. Only for her to be captured and held prisoner by the God of Death himself. Willing to do anything to have a second-chance with her father, Hanna accompanies Rasmus into the dark and bloody realm, traveling via the River of Shadows, stalked by dangerous creatures, monsters, and the living dead, until they finally come into the haunted kingdom ruled by Death and his family. ![]() The only way her father can be freed is if she travels with Rasmus into the mythical underworld to rescue him. A mysterious man, Rasmus, tells Hanna the truth: her father was a powerful shaman who went into Tuonela, the Realm of the Dead, in order to barter for more life, and has been held captive by Tuoni, the God of Death. Being in the enchanting land of ice and snow feels miles away from Hanna’s busy life back in Los Angeles, especially under the complicated circumstances.īut when Hanna discovers that her father’s body is missing, that’s when things really get weird. When 24-year old Hanna Heikkinen’s estranged father dies, she reluctantly makes the trip to Northern Finland for his funeral. River of Shadows is an adult dark fantasy romance based on Finnish mythology and the underworld of Tuonela. ![]() “In order to save my father, I have to marry the God of Death.”ĭownload today or read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited ![]() River of Shadows by Karina Halle is now live! ![]() |