5/26/2023 0 Comments Layken colleen hoover![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to her immensely appealing main characters, Hoover gives her story considerable depth and humour with strong secondary characters in the younger brothers, Kel and Caulder, off-beat friends Eddie and Gavin, and Layken's conflicted mother, Julia. Colleen Hoovers romantic, emotion-packed series unforgettably captures all the magic and confusion of first love. Layken and Will's shared appreciation for slam poetry strengthens their initial connection, but elation is short lived as circumstances conspire to keep them apart and family responsibilities weigh heavily. Throughout the series, Hoover uses moving and witty slam poetry to help define key characters, and convey strong emotions and pivotal moments. ![]() Will introduces Layken to slam poetry, a form of competition poetry where participants read or recite their work. It's the story of Layken and Will, mature beyond their years due to the challenges they've separately faced, but optimistic when they meet that life is finally giving them a break and a much-needed fresh start. Colleen Hoover blends music and poetry, humour and heartache, in her beguiling and romantic 'Slammed' series. ![]()
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5/26/2023 0 Comments Dead astronauts novel![]() In this shattered landscape, VanderMeer explores urgent ideas about capitalism, greed, and natural destruction. ![]() This is a Mobius strip of a novel, with each chapter containing worlds upon nested worlds, all of them dreamlike and dark. Dead Astronauts is a prequel of sorts, following those three astronauts as they square off against a nefarious biotech corporation known only as the Company, which devastated Earth’s biome by releasing bioengineered creatures into the wild. ![]() Through novels like Borne and the Southern Reach Trilogy (whose first volume, Annihilation, was adapted into a 2018 Natalie Portman movie), VanderMeer has become a pioneer of the New Weird, a genre that subverts cliches of speculative fiction to create something dark, terrorizing, and wonderful.ĭead Astronauts, his latest novel, returns to the post-apocalyptic world of Borne, where three dusty spacesuits fallen from the heavens and embedded in the terrain made for a memorable, mysterious image. His novels and stories exist at the vanguard of art and activism, with each one not only pushing the formal boundaries of literary science fiction, but advancing the conversation about climate crisis. As the prophet of climate fiction, Jeff VanderMeer occupies a singular space in literature. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Marx wage labor and capital![]() ![]() He makes his home with his son Eden in Bangkok and Vrndavana, India. ![]() Geoffrey is a near-life-long student of Bhakti (Devotional) Yoga and an ardent animal rights advocate. He is also a well-known movie actor in such films as 'Mechanic Resurrection and the 'Scorpion King' series, among many. Giuliano is an occasional lecturer at Northwestern University. He can be heard on the Westwood One Radio Network and has written and produced over seven hundred original spoken-word albums and video documentaries on various aspects of popular culture. Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of over thirty internationally bestselling biographies, including the London Sunday Times bestseller 'Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney' and 'Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison'. ©2021 Eden Garret Giuliano (P) 2021 Eden Garret Giuliano Series Producers Sesa Giuliano and India Skye ![]() ![]() These theories were later elaborated in Volume 1 of Capital, published in 1867. These theories outlined include the Marxian form of the Labour Theory of Value, which distinguishes “labor” from “labor-power”, and the Theory of Concentration of Capital, which states that capitalism tends towards the creation of monopolies and the disenfranchisement of the middle and working classes. free wage labor According to Marx a free laborer is free in the double sense, that as a free man he can dispose of his labour power. Originally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labor and Capital were intended to give an overview of Marx’s central theories regarding the economic relationships between workers and capitalists. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Jack of Hearts by Lev A.C. Rosen![]() They claim they love Jack, but not his unashamedly queer lifestyle. Jack's secret admirer knows everything: where he's hanging out, who he's sleeping with, who his mum is dating. He doesn't actually expect that to come true.īut after Jack starts writing an online sex advice column, the mysterious love letters he's been getting take a turn for the creepy. But who cares? Like Jack always says, 'it could be worse'. His sex life makes him the hot topic for the high school gossip machine. ![]() He's seventeen and loves partying, makeup and boys - sometimes all at the same time. I think it's going to be weird for everyone's first time, though.' 'My first time getting it in the butt was kind of weird. ' Jack of Hearts won my heart' Courtney Act ' Jack of Hearts might be the most important queer novel of the decade' Gay Times ![]() This is the (slightly NSFW) book for you! ![]() Couldn't get enough of Love, Simon or The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue? ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Misdeeds by Kathryn C. Kelly![]() Don't worry though it is actually easy to navigate. Again, is a big website with many different features. Just because a book is listed on Bookshelves, does not mean it is available through the Review Team. The Review Team program is a separate part of than Bookshelves. does have a different section of the website called the Review Team, which offers free books in exchange for review. ![]() Bookshelves is not for downloading or buying books directly. ![]() Similarly, books are not available to purchase directly from. One important thing to note is that books are generally not available to download directly from Bookshelves, and nowhere on our website do we represent they are. In one way, Bookshelves is the version of Goodreads, except with Bookshelves you are able to get a much more personalized experience. You can also use it to discover new books to read and learn more about books. has many other features too.īookshelves is a free tool to track books you have read and want to read. ![]() Bookshelves is only one of many features at. Kelly.īookshelves is one feature of Bookshelves is found under the /shelves/ subfolder at. You are currently viewing the details page on Bookshelves for the book Misdeeds: (Death Dwellers MC #2.5) by Kathryn C. ![]() ![]() ![]() " Infamous is exactly the kind of story I love to curl up with-unforgettable characters, big secrets and bigger reveals, and plenty of heat with two couples to root for. Will it put an end to the love blossoming between them? Does she have the courage to find out? "Readers will be delighted." - Publishers Weekly He still seems intrigued, but Celia has acquired a shocking secret along with her hard-won humility. As a youth, Richard was infatuated with Celia. ![]() Then there is Richard, the studious boy Celia used to ridicule, who is now gorgeous, wealthy, and more-than-a-little famous. ![]() When Celia is forced to attend a society wedding as a companion to an elderly guest, she must confront the clique she once commanded the gentleman she'd once hoped to marry-who is now wed to a girl Celia relentlessly taunted and the powerful man who ruined her life a decade before-and is threatening to do so again. Once the reigning beauty of her social set, Celia-whom the newspapers dubbed Lady Infamous-has fallen on hard times and is practically destitute, her reputation in shreds. romance readers need this splendid book!" -USA Today bestselling author Vanessa Kelly A mean girl reformed. Jackson won't want to miss this smart and stirring new holiday love story from the acclaimed author of Outrageous. Bridgerton fans and readers of Scarlett Scott, Darcy Burke, and K.J. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Area X by Jeff VanderMeer![]() ![]() ![]() The writing seems biblical, like something out of Revelations. They discover cursive lettering on the interior walls of the tower composed of living fruiting bodies. Team Twelve's first night at base camp is uneventful, except for the discovery of a spiral staircase that goes into the ground, which the biologist refers to as a tower. The biologist's husband died six months after his return from the same inoperable cancer suffered by the other members of his expedition. The same strange fugue is repeated by the other seven members of his expedition. After being missing for a year, he returned to their home one night with little recollection of the trip or of how he had suddenly found himself back across the border. The biologist joins the expedition in part because of her husband's participation in the eleventh expedition. She and her companions-an anthropologist, a surveyor, and a psychologist-are all part of the twelfth expedition into Area X. The story of what happens next is recorded by the biologist in her field journal. Four nameless women cross the border into Area X, which has been contained for thirty years by the mysterious Southern Reach agency. ![]() ![]() Exhibitions: Retrospective staged at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2003. ![]() ![]() Member of faculty at Yale University School of Drama, 1972-73, Northwestern University, 1996, and Southampton College, 1999 – senior fellow of national arts journalism program, Columbia University, 1997. Assistant to cartoonist Will Eisner, 1946-51 drew syndicated cartoon series "Clifford," 1949-51 held various art jobs, 1953-56, including making slide films, as writer for Terrytoons, and as designer of booklets for an art film freelance cartoonist, with work published in Village Voice, New York, NY, 1956-97, in Observer, London, England, 1958-66, 1972-2000, and in Playboy, 1959 – cartoons syndicated by Publishers-Hall Syndicate and distributed to more than one hundred newspapers in the United States and abroad, 1956-2000. Playwright, cartoonist, and author/illustrator. Agent - Royce Carlton Inc., 866 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017. Home - New York, NY Martha's Vineyard, MA. Education: Attended Art Students' League, 1946, and Pratt Institute, 1947-48, 1949-51. ![]() ![]() Born January 26, 1929, in Bronx, NY son of David (a dental technician, then salesman) and Rhoda (a fashion designer maiden name, Davis) Feiffer married Judith Sheftel (a motion picture executive), Septem(divorced 1983) married Jennifer Allen (a journalist), Septemchildren: (first marriage) Kate (second marriage) Halley. ![]() 5/25/2023 0 Comments Sandeep jauhar heart a history![]() ![]() Throughout, Jauhar is thoughtful, self-reflective, and profoundly respectful of doctors and patients alike readers will respond by opening their own hearts a little bit, to both grief and wonder. ![]() Though continuous flow can keep us alive, it alters ours physiology in idiosyncratic and unpredictable ways. Jauhar achieves a balanced tone throughout, sharing profound admiration for what can be accomplished by treating the heart as a machine, while also urging the reader, and the medical community, not to undervalue of the significance of the “emotional heart.” To this end, he points to the fraught emotional dynamics of providing devices like defibrillators that can prolong life but also provoke traumatic stress and constant fear in the patients who use them. Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: A History 2 likes Like Continuous blood flow is antithetical to the way that humans, pulsatile beings, evolved. Alongside these medical success stories, Jauhar shares personal encounters with heart disease, through the deaths of family members and through his own diagnosis with coronary blockages. ![]() Covering enough physiology to make scientific details easily understood, Jahaur emphasizes how brave, desperate, and sometimes foolhardy experiments led to important developments, such as the heart-lung machine, which allows doctors to perform heart surgeries that take longer than a few minutes without causing brain damage. ![]() but also what was in my heart,” with passages of memoir counterbalancing a lay-reader-friendly history of the development of cardiac medical technology. Cardiologist Jauhar ( Intern) moves beautifully between “dual tracks” of “learning about the heart. ![]() 5/25/2023 0 Comments An enchantment of ravens ending![]() ![]() Their alliance blossoms into trust, then love-and that love violates the fair folks’ ruthless laws. Waylaid by the Wild Hunt’s ghostly hounds, the tainted influence of the Alder King, and hideous monsters risen from barrow mounds, Isobel and Rook depend on one another for survival. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes-a weakness that could cost him his life.įurious and devastated, Rook spirits her away to the autumnlands to stand trial for her crime. ![]() But when she receives her first royal patron-Rook, the autumn prince-she makes a terrible mistake. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel’s paintings are highly prized. Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. A skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie courts-even as she falls in love with a faerie prince-in this gorgeous debut novel. ![]() |