![]() ![]() These strong women won’t let convention or men intimidate them. Their experiences-as well as those of the men they love-become an astonishing drama of devotion, fairness, humanity, and passion. Three further unusual women who take on the moniker “Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky” will join them. Margery, the group’s leader and soon to be Alice’s biggest ally, is a witty, independent woman who has never sought a man’s approval for anything. Alice readily agrees to help when a request is made for a group of ladies to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new mobile library. However, life in small-town Kentucky rapidly proves to be cramped, especially when she lives with her controlling father-in-law. In an effort to leave her oppressive existence in England, Alice Wright marries the charming American Bennett Van Cleve. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To help him find Rusalye, The Darkling blackmails both Mal and Alina to cooperate with the search or he will hurt either one of them. The Darkling is aware of Mal’s tracking abilities and that he is an equally capable tracker on the sea as he is on land. The second amplifier is a sea dragon known as Rusalye or otherwise known as The Sea Whip. The Darkling takes them to Sturmound’s ship, who is a notorious privateer, to find the second amplifier which he plans to give to Alina. He later reveals that he was able to track them because of the trail of expensive payments that Alina and Mal left behind while they were fleeing from Ravka. With his newly found power, the Darkling was able to capture Alina and Mal. Alina tries to fight the Darkling but she realizes that he has grown stronger and he now can summon creatures that are unafraid of sunlight, the Nichevo’ya. However, their plans fail because the Darkling manages to track them in Cofton. ![]() During their stay in Cofton, they started to take odd jobs to finance their escape from their Darkling. They managed to escape and find refuge in Cofton, a town in Novyi Zem. The second book of the Shadow and Bone trilogy is Siege and Storm and it takes place after Alina and Mal flee from the Darkling. You can grab a copy at any major bookstore in Dubai! ![]() ![]() ![]() Having spent an entire day marinating in the obsessional mania of the protagonist, Jean Baptiste Grenouille, the greatest nose in history, a total psychopath who lives entirely through his nose and is oblivious to all else, I almost felt insidiously infected with the pungent madness of not only the character, but also the author. This must be why my re-reading of the book over the last few days is only the second in my life: it is almost just too much. Darkly, almost savagely comic, it is an involving and fast paced sensorial thriller that enters unchartered and unrivaled territory in being exclusively written from the vantage point of smell a sense-drenching immersion into the world of the olfactory, so richly and sensually written that it is almost deranging. How could I not have? Patrick Süskind’s novel, ingeniously centered around an acutely sensitized triptych of the olfactory : an odourless anti-hero with by far the most advanced olfactive apparatus in the world the utterly foul stench of humanity (hilariously disgusting from the off), and the contrasting beauty of perfume, is a work of utter brilliance, translated into 49 languages and a seller of over 20 million copies. Whenever you tell a non-perfume person that you love perfume, the first question they usually ask is : “ Have you read Perfume?” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In his unapologetically candid voice, he moves from African ancestry and surviving the Middle Passage to the creation of the Jheri Curl, the enjoyment of bacon and everything pig, the headline-making shootings of black men, and the Black Lives Matter movement. ![]() ![]() In this collection of thoughtful, provocative essays, Gregory charts the complex and often obscured history of the African American experience. As a leading activist against injustice, he marched at Selma during the Civil Rights movement, organized student rallies to protest the Vietnam War sat in at rallies for Native American and feminist rights fought apartheid in South Africa and participated in hunger strikes in support of Black Lives Matter. As an entertainer, he has always kept it indisputably real about race issues in America, fearlessly lacing laughter with hard truths. Kamau Bell, Damon Young, and Trevor Noah, Dick Gregory has been a provocative and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years. and Medgar Evers, and the forebear of today’s popular black comics, including Larry Wilmore, W. With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America.Ī friend of luminaries including Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() She shows how the pandemic was shaped by the interaction of a virus and the humans it encountered and how this devastating natural experiment put both the ingenuity and the vulnerability of humans to the test. In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I. With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. Pale Rider is not just an excavation but a reimagining of the past' Guardian 'Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story. ![]() Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer - and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic. ![]() Tells the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer. ![]() ![]() With the flooding comes Naglfar, the ship made from the fingernails and toenails of the dead, carrying an army of chaos giants and captained by Loki – and, let’s be clear: this is not the loveable Marvel anti-hero played by Tom Hiddleston, but the murderous, shapeshifting, half-troll trickster god, hell (or Hel) bent on killing his divine brethren in order to bring about the apocalypse. It will advance across the land, spitting poison into the air and sea, and join forces with Fenrir the wolf – a terrifying, half-god monster who “opens his enormous mouth the lower jaw reaches to the earth, and the upper one to heaven,” while “fire flashes from his eyes and nostrils.” ![]() Next, it’s time for the gigantic sea snake Jörmungandr to finally realize it’s been chewing on its own tail all this time and spit it out, causing a huge tsunami-like flooding as the serpent rises up out of its watery lair. The sun and moon will both be eaten by wolves – an event the Eddas somewhat understatedly point out will be “a severe loss for mankind” – and stars will fall to the Earth mountains will crumble and earthquakes will shake trees out of the very ground itself. “No man will have mercy on another.”Īfter close to a year of this frigid dystopia, things get even worse. “It harsh in the world, whoredom rife – an axe age, a sword age – shields are riven – a wind age, a wolf age – before the world goes headlong,” it continues. ![]() ![]() Kristin introduces readers to the Israeli bartenders, Finnish poker players, sexy Bedouins, and Argentinean priests who helped her transform into "Kristin-Adjacent" on the road–a slower, softer, and, yes, sluttier version of herself at home. In addition to falling madly in love with the planet, Kristin fell for many attractive locals, men who could provide the emotional connection she wanted without costing her the freedom she desperately needed. Not ready to settle down and in need of an escape from her fast-paced job as a sitcom writer, Kristin instead traveled the world, often alone, for several weeks each year. Kristin Newman spent much of her twenties and thirties buying dresses to wear to her friends' weddings and baby showers. ![]() ![]() A funny, sexy, and ultimately poignant memoir about mastering the art of the “vacationship”-the inspiration for the upcoming Freeform series While You Were Breeding ![]() ![]() ![]() "Leon Garfield's performance in ''Shakespeare Stories'' is masterly. The New York Times Book Review called Garfield's work "masterly". How do you make Shakespeare accessible to children, from generation to generation? 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