![]() ![]() The case is a complicated mix of hard facts, mysterious occurrences, and uncooperative witnesses. ![]() They turn to Veronica to disproveor provethe womans story. When a woman claims that she was brutally assaulted in one of its rooms and left for dead by a staff member, the owners know that they have a potential powder keg on their hands. The Neptune Grand has always been the seaside towns ritziest hotel, despite the shady dealings and high-profile scandals that seem to follow its elite guests. When a woman claims that she w In the second book in the New York Times bestselling mystery series, Veronica Mars is back with a case that will expose the hidden workings of one of Neptunes most murderous locations. ![]() In the second book in the New York Times bestselling mystery series, Veronica Mars is back with a case that will expose the hidden workings of one of Neptunes most murderous locations. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The cover features the main character, Felix, in a beautiful artistic representation where he has a colorful flower crown, tattoos on his arms, and he is proudly showing his top surgery scars under his loose tank top. That being said, what spoke to me most about this book before I picked it up was the beautiful cover. Likewise, Kacen Callender, the Black nonbinary author writes from their perspective of questioning identity. ![]() After this sudden revelation for many, Felix Ever After became huge in the book community because of its representation of a Black queer trans character as the protagonist. ![]() When I am writing this review it is early June and we just entered a time when white people (including myself) are realizing the internal bias we have in our reading habits and how few Black authors we have read. “But above all else, I hope Felix can do for even just one reader what Adam did for me: that a reader picks up Felix Ever After and learns more about themselves and their identity, and that becoming who they truly are is a possibility” -Kacen Callender ![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. I can’t decide whether that’s because I fit perfectly with their idea of what an office worker looks like, or whether people hear the phrase work in an office and automatically fill in the blanks themselves – lady doing photocopying, man tapping at keyboard.Įleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive - but not how to live In almost nine years, no one’s ever asked what kind of office, or what sort of job I do there. When people ask me what I do – taxi drivers, dental hygienists – I tell them I work in an office. ![]() Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2018 Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 ![]() Winner of the 2017 Costa Book Awards First Novel Award Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for February 2018 Winner of the British Book Awards Book of the Year 2018 ![]() ![]() OL1884867W Page_number_confidence 82.50 Pages 282 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20190813213459 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1272 Scandate 20190806150924 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog trent Scribe3_search_id 0116302237478 Tts_version 2. ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:seaaroundus0000cars:lcpdf:469c2100-0036-43ca-8967-53beb8e8c195 The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson was published in 1951 and has since then remained as one of the most popular and interesting books on natural science. The Sea Around Us presents an overview of the subject, a natural history of the oceans in which Rachel Carson discusses such matters as their origins. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:46:17 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1420110 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set trent External-identifier Published in 1951, The Sea Around Us is one of the most remarkably successful books ever written about the natural world. ![]() ![]() He began putting on airs to live up to his important-sounding name, but after much teasing from his friends, soon returned to his original name, because, as he put it, "There's nothing like the old name after all." In the 26-chapter book, he takes on the new name partway through chapter 2, and returns to his "real" name, Peter Rabbit, at the end of chapter 3. Four years later, in The Adventures of Peter Cottontail, Peter Rabbit, unhappy at his plain-sounding name, briefly changed his name to Peter Cottontail because he felt it made him sound more important. Peter Cottontail is a name temporarily assumed by a fictional rabbit named Peter Rabbit in the works of Thornton Burgess, an author from Sandwich, Massachusetts In 1910, when Burgess began his Old Mother West Wind series, the cast of animals included Peter Rabbit. ![]() For the popular Easter song, see Peter Cottontail (song). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Clark brilliantly puts this illogical conflict into context, showing how pre-1914 Europe was inherently unstable, riven by ethnic and nationalistic factions. The more convincing and terrifying reality is that no nation really meant to wage war, but each sleepwalked into it. Germany has usually been blamed for escalating the conflict, but Clark refuses to play the blame game, arguing that the Germans were not alone in their paranoid imperialism. They went on to organise the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, which resulted in the bloodbaths of the Somme, Verdun and Gallipoli. T his superb account of the causes of the first world war begins in 1903 with the murder of Alexander I of Serbia by a secretive terrorist network called the Black Hand. ![]() ![]() ![]() Turning down the little girl's request, the owner explained to her the reason behind his refusal. ![]() Because she could not afford to purchase both dolls, and because she really preferred the "beautiful girl doll", she asked the toyshop owner if he would be willing to unstitch the hands so that she could buy "the beautiful girl doll". The story of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy begins when a little girl in a toy shop sees two rag dolls whose hands are sewn together. The cartoon depicts Raggedy Ann and Andy as sweethearts as opposed to siblings in the books. This cartoon marks the only appearances of her brother Raggedy Andy and The Camel with the Wrinkled Knees. It was the first Paramount cartoon to feature Raggedy Ann. It was co-written by Johnny Gruelle's son, Worth. Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy is a two-reel cartoon produced by Fleischer Studios and released on April 11, 1941. ![]() ![]() ![]() At some point early in her life before 1746, Betty became the property of Francis Eppes IV, owner of the Bermuda Hundred plantation in the colony of Virginia. The records are less clear as to Betty's birthplace, but many sources suggest it was Williamsburg, Virginia. ![]() ![]() "Hemings," records state, is the last name of her father, the English captain. Betty was born in 1735 to the white "captain of an English trading vessel" and a "full-blooded African woman" believed to be named Parthenia. Gordon-Reed unearths records of the Hemings family going back to Sally's mother, Elizabeth "Betty" Hemings. However, unlike most scholarship on the slaves of Monticello, Gordon-Reed's book is about much more than just Sally. Born Sarah Hemings around 1773, there is a near-complete historical consensus that Sally and Thomas Jefferson were engaged in a long-term relationship-inasmuch as an extended period of regular sexual congress between a master and his slave could be termed a "relationship"-and that Jefferson was the father of her five children. The most famous member of the Hemings family is undoubtedly Sally Hemings. The year after its publication, the book won the Pulitzer Prize for History, making Gordon-Reed the first African-American to win this award. ![]() American author and historian Annette Gordon-Reed’s non-fiction book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2008) tells the history of four generations of the Hemings slave family who were eventually owned by President Thomas Jefferson until his death in 1826. ![]() ![]() ![]() Under the precise and often humorous pen of Francis Kirps, texts by Virginia Woolf, Kurt Tucholsky, Franz Kafka, Propser Mérimée, Heinrich von Kleist, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Ingeborg Bachmann as well as the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood are revisited. ![]() The title-giving ‘mutations’ are programmatic in two major regards: thematically, as the stories cast moments and instances of transformation of the characters as central to the plot and conceptually, as each story is in fact a rewriting of a preexisting text from European literature. 7 Geschichten & 1 Gedicht by Francis Kirps is a collection of seven short stories and a poem written in German, with one story featuring passages written in Luxembourgish. 7 Erzählungen und ein Gedicht (Hydre Éditions, 2019).ĭie Mutationen. "The jury is delighted to announce that the European Union Prize for Literature for Luxembourg is awarded to Francis Kirps for his work Die Mutationen. ![]() Collection of Cards, Maps, Atlases and ViewsĬollection of the History of Libraries and Books in Luxembourgįrancis Kirps, the Winner for Luxembourg 2020 ![]() ![]() ![]() Tan’s writing is so relaxing and cozy, almost lyrical at times. After a glut of nonfiction, Daughter of the Moon Goddess was a refreshing foray back into fiction. This book was exactly what I needed after coming out of a reading slump in April. ![]() Dark forces gathering on the border of the empire, however, threaten to upset Xingyin’s plans. And so Xingyin wanders, eventually becoming the companion to the crown prince-Liwei-and formulating a plan to secure her mother’s pardon (and freedom). She sends Xingyin away when Xingyin is quite young to avoid discovery. ![]() However, the Celestial Emperor banished her to the moon, where she must light the lanterns each night. ![]() Her mother was mortal but drank a potion that granted her immortality. Xingyin is the eponymous daughter of the moon goddess. Sue Lynn Tan has written something that I dare call fantasy opera (as opposed to space opera)-which is to say, there is something very epic going on here. Fortunately, our friendship can continue. So, you know, no pressure to love it or anything. It was one of her favourite books last year-so much so that she jumped at the sequel. Although I would have got around to Daughter of the Moon Goddess eventually, in all likelihood, my bestie Rebecca putting this into my hands (quite literally), got me reading this sooner rather than later. ![]() |