Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, Sumaiya refuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. WINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTIONīy National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island.
0 Comments
Her spirit runs free and her passions run hot-though her affections may not be returned upon the King. Katherine Howard is the young, beautiful woman who captures Henry’s eye, even though he is set to marry Anne. The Boleyn Inheritance follows three women whose lives are forever changed because of the king’s decision, as they must balance precariously in an already shaky Tudor Court.Īnne of Cleves is to be married to Henry to form a political alliance, though the rocky relationship she has to the king does not bode well for her or for England. From “the queen of royal fiction” ( USA TODAY) comes this New York Times bestseller featuring three very different women whose fates are each bound by a bloody curse: the legacy of the Boleyn family.Īfter the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII of England decides to take a new wife, but this time, not for love. The daughter of free-thinking philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, she lost her mother days after her birth. Mary Shelley led a life nearly as tumultuous as the monster she created. The story explores philosophical themes and challenges Romantic ideals about the beauty and goodness of nature. The ideas for both Frankenstein, and Polidori's The Vampyre, which was published in 1819, were both born that day.Īlthough serving as the basis for the Western horror story and the inspiration for numerous movies in the 20th century, the book Frankenstein is much more than pop fiction. The group, trapped indoors by the inclement weather, passed the time telling and writing ghost stories. Mary Shelley created the story on a rainy afternoon in 1816 in Geneva, where she was staying with her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, their friend Lord Byron and Lord Byron's physician, John Polidori. Cruelly rejected by its creator, it wanders, seeking companionship and becoming increasingly brutal as it fails to find a mate. The gentle, intellectually gifted creature is enormous and physically hideous. In Shelley’s tale, a scientist animates a creature constructed from dismembered corpses. The book, by 20-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, is frequently called the world’s first science fiction novel. Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus is published. But when Fable finds Saint, the welcome she hoped for, is far from forthcoming. As the prickly crew begins to embrace their newest crewmate, Fable begins to feel, for the first time in forever, that she has found a family. When the predatory gang of divers on Jevali threaten Fable, West and his crew reluctantly agree to take Fable across the Narrows. A scoundrel who happens to be her father. Dredging up precious gems from the tropical waters, she sells them to a trader named West, hoping to someday earn enough coin to get herself off this island and back to the scoundrel named Saint who marooned her. Survival is paramount, and only the strong survive.įor Fable, a young woman stranded on the island of Jevali, her skills as a diver mean the difference between life and death. The flashbacks and flashforwards worked well here, as they served to deepen Candace's character and backstory while also propelling the narrative forward. While reading, I felt claustrophobic, trapped, and hooked into the story all at the same time - similar to how a lot of millennials feel within late-stage capitalism. Ling Ma creates an excellent atmosphere in Severance. The story flashes between Candace's life before the Shen Fever hits, as well as after, when she travels with a group of survivors led by a power-hungry, authoritarian man named Bob. Candace thus feels little emotion when the Shen Fever hits, a plague that renders people into non-violent zombie versions of themselves, doomed to repeat the same rote tasks over and over until they become fully unconscious. With both of her parents recently deceased and no other family or close friends, she has little else to do, aside from going to work and watching movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. In Severance, Ling Ma shares the story of Candace Chen, a self-described millennial worker drone who spends much of her life sequestered in a Manhattan office tower. I read it in the span of five hours I could not put it down. This book stopped me right in my tracks - literally. The recent poisoning cases of Sergei and Yulia Skripal remind us of the long tail that continues to wag long after the official end of the Cold War, a time when the world split in two. The Spy and The Traitor represents Macintyre’s finest work to date and has the makings of an instant screenplay. It carries all the qualities of what Macintyre has so justly become known for – precise research leading to even-handed assessments, and, where possible, using first-hand accounts to reduce the level of speculation that is otherwise so enticing to those attempting to understand the past. Portions of Gordievsky’s life have been retold since his dramatic escape from the Soviet Union in the 1980s, but only now, with publication of Ben Macintyre’s The Spy and The Traitor, do we get the full meaning of the Gordievsky file.įans of Macintyre’s previous non-fiction accounts such as Operation Mincemeat and Agent Zigzag will pounce on this latest offering. In each installment, the author keeps us up to date with Samantha and Josh and the hedgehog rescue operation. In this story, we learn about Lauren with a few chapters from Samantha’s point of view. While Samantha and Josh are the main characters in book one of the series, each of the subsequent installments features a family member or a character in the community who is close to the couple. All opinions are my own.Ĭhasing Dreams at Hedgehog Hollow is #5 in the Hedgehog series. Thank you #NetGalley for a complimentary eARC of #ChasingDreamsAtHedgehogHollow by Jessica Redland upon my request. *This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Genre/Categories/Setting: Women’s Contemporary Fiction, Complicated Relationships, Animal Rescue, Rural UK Chasing Dreams at Hedgehog Hollow by Jessica Redland From age play to masochism, these chapters cover some of the edgiest, most taboo and controversial elements of kink in depth. The second section is dedicated to role-playing fantasies and personal manifestos. Divided into two sections, the first section features thorough, thoughtful pieces-on everything from flogging to bondage-packed with techniques and beautifully illustrated with original images from artist Katie Diamond. The book brings together diverse voices from the kink community in an unprecedented way: each chapter is written by a different sexuality/BDSM educator. The Ultimate Guide to Kink is the first major guide to BDSM in a generation-a bold and sexy collection of essays that run the gamut from expert how-to tutorials to provocative essays that delve into complex questions about desire, power, and pleasure. OL14917748W Page_number_confidence 97.01 Pages 906 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200826090809 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1630 Scandate 20200818071041 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780340992562 Tts_version 4. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 12:08:39 Boxid IA1913202 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Although mass shootings are not unique to the United States, their scope and frequency are. We know deaths would rise if we loosened seat-belt laws or car safety regulations. Yet it is inescapable that mass shootings, while the result of many variables, are inextricably connected to America’s gun laws. This can be accomplished in countless ways that defy partisan lines. With devastating frequency, mass shootings tragically underscore this fact. The Monitor does not exist to advocate for any particular policy, but for the expansion of universal values such as compassion, freedom, responsibility, or honesty, to name a few. So much of American politics today promotes a profound sense of impotence – the inability to move entrenched forces, even a degree. |