5/30/2023 0 Comments Free Fall by Joyce Sweeney![]() ![]() ![]() But to escape, Neil and David are going to have to figure out a way to put the past behind them and work together. Hopelessly lost, angry, hungry, and terrified, the boys are willing to do just about anything to find a way out of the cave before they end up killing one another. As tension builds between the boys, Neil and David try to address what they’ve kept hidden for years: the truth about David that can never be forgotten-or forgiven. Neil knows it’s not David’s fault that they’re lost, yet he still lashes out at his brother with every wrong turn, and Randy and David’s constant bickering isn’t helping to calm his nerves. What starts out as an exciting expedition soon turns dangerous when the four boys get lost in the cave’s labyrinth of winding passages. But when Neil’s little brother, David, finds out, Neil is forced to bring David and his timid friend Terry along for the ride. Neil and his best friend, Randy, can’t wait to explore a nearby cave for the afternoon. ![]() ![]() Join Facebook to connect with Joyce Sweeney and others you may know. When four boys decide to spend the day exploring a cave, they have no idea that their fun afternoon is about to become a fight for survival Laurel Leaf Library, 4.99 (240pp) ISBN 978-5-0 In this ''suspenseful adventure story,'' four teenage boys get trapped in a cave for 24 hours. View the profiles of people named Joyce Sweeney. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Ha joon chang edible economics![]() ![]() Through rich anecdotes and surprising histories, Chang shows us how acorns can prove that culture is not as important as we think in determining economic outcomes or how milk contradicts the notion that competition is the only way to ensure economic efficiency and growth. ![]() With each ingredient, condiment or beverage, he constructs a vivid narrative that grapples with the most pressing concerns of our global markets, supply systems, and more. ![]() Through familiar foods, from pasta to Coca-Cola to coffee, Chang weaves together impressive arguments and adds needed clarity to describe how our economies function and falter. A creative and fun smorgasbord of economics through the lens of food from one of today's foremost thinkers What can the anchovy tell us about industrialization? How can we understand inequality through chicken or the welfare state through rye? In Edible Economics, leading economist Ha-Joon Chang uses everyday food and ingredients to teach us about the most important economic issues of our time. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Novel the remains of the day![]() ![]() This diversity exists because the term postcolonialism is used both as a literal description of formerly colonial societies and as a description of global conditions after a period of colonialism. We can talk about postcolonialism from different points of view. ![]() Postcolonialism includes a vast array of writers and subjects.In fact, the very different geographical, historical, social, religious, and economic concerns of the different ex-colonies dictate a wide variety in the nature and subject of most postcolonial writing. However, it may also refer to the literature written in other countries, which takes as its subject-matter the idea or experience of colonialism. ![]() “The Remains of the Day” -post-colonial novel- Postcolonialism, discussed from a literary approach, deals with the literature produced in countries that were colonies and by the colonized peoples responding to the colonial legacy by what the British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie called “writing back”, and thus confronting colonial cultural attitudes through literature. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The good earth novel![]() Her brilliant novel-beloved by millions of readers-is a universal tale of an ordinary family caught in the tide of history. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions and rewards. This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-Lan is must reading for those who would fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during the last century. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings. Though more than seventy years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. Buck’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and Oprah Book Club selection about a vanished China and one family’s shifting fortunes. Please see Disclosures for more information. Setting: Early nineteenth century China (Anhwei and Kiangsu) Climax: Wang Lung sitting in the Old Mistress’s chair and deciding to rent the House of Hwang. ![]() ![]() ![]() That means if you click and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Forgotten Places by Johanna Craven![]() ![]() The story was fascinating, distinctive and well written. ![]() Johanna Craven has created a cast of fictional characters and built a story around actual historical events of the Australian Penal Colonies, during the early 1800s. I picked this up as a break from my usual kind of reads and I was quite intrigued. And while she searches for answers, he will do anything to keep his secrets inside.īased around the true story of the Macquarie Harbour bolters one of the most horrifying events from Colonial Australia's bloody history. When Violet disappears, Grace's fragile trust in Alexander is put to the test. Hiding from civilisation in an attempt to forget his horrifying past, Alexander struggles to let Grace into his world. She and Violet find themselves lost in a beautiful but deadly land where rain thunders down the sides of mountains, the earth drops away without warning and night brings impenetrable darkness.ĭeep in the wilderness, they find a crude hut inhabited by Alexander Dalton, an escaped convict long presumed dead. ![]() But the terrain beyond the settled districts is more wild than Grace could ever have imagined. In her head, escape is easy: find work in the northern settlements and earn enough for passage home to London. English settler Grace Ashwell flees an abusive lover in Hobart Town, with six-year-old Violet in tow. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Truly madly royally![]() ![]() She has immense pride in her hometown in New Jersey and a lot of affection for her family–even when it looks like her brother and her best friend might be making some questionable dating decisions. She is a practical, passionate Black girl and she is more than ready to speak her mind when the situation calls for it. ![]() Truly Madly Royally is a standalone contemporary perfect for anyone who can’t get enough royal romances. Soon Zora has to decide if dating Owen is worth the media attention–and if she can still stay true to herself while dating an actual prince in Truly Madly Royally (2019) by Debbie Rigaud. But it also sets Zora up for more scrutiny (and criticism) from strangers than she ever imagined. When Owen invites Zora to be his date at his older brother’s wedding, it’s a dream come true. But it’s hard to focus on her courses when thinking about Owen is taking up so much of her attention. But even with all of her confidence, no one is more shocked than Zora by her immediate connection with Owen–the actual prince of an island off the coast of England.Īttending a prestigious summer program should give Zora all the skills she needs to grow her after school helper program to reach even more of her neighbors. ![]() Zora Emerson knows exactly who she is and she knows that she has everything she needs to make big changes in her part of the world. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The lords of discipline book![]() +++ Burning for the Baron contains fire play and steamy sex scenes. Now that he knows what it truly means to love, he’ll do anything to protect Colleen, even if it means watching their future together go up in smoke. When an enemy from Max’s past resurfaces and takes aim at Colleen, Max is torn between duty … and revenge. ![]() …a secret that could send her life up in flames. But she won’t allow the searing heat she and Max create to melt her heart. …and she has no idea he killed her husband.Ĭolleen Bonner’s scandalous new job as manager for a bawdyhouse provides security and independence. She not only works for him, she haunts his dreams and sets his body on fire. Now a retired spy, he can’t avoid the woman he hurt the most. ![]() The lives Maximillian, Baron of Sutton, has saved are never enough to atone for those he destroyed. ![]() Three sizzling standalone romances in the Lords of Discipline series in one box set! ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Freud & Jung by Anthony Stevens![]() Jung, often linking him vaguely with Sigmund Freud and although the terms 'complex', 'introvert', and 'extravert' are often used in everyday speech, few realise they were coined by him. She wrote: 'Most people have heard of the late C. Mrs Fordham explains her reason for attempting the work. Originally issued in 1953, this Introduction immediately became the standard first step for those eager to understand the varied work and thought of this remarkable man. I am indebted to her for this admirable piece of work.' ![]() She has delivered a fair and simple account of the main aspects of my psychological work. In his personal foreword, he wrote: 'Mrs Frieda Fordham has undertaken the by no means easy task of producing a readable resumé of all my various attempts at a better and more comprehensive understanding of the human psyche. This classic introduction to the psychology of Carl Gustav Jung is important because it is the only English original text he sanctioned in his lifetime. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Megahex by Simon Hanselmann![]() ![]() And what you'll leave with is far scarier than any spook house frights the fear of looking deeply at yourself in the mirror and finding a monster (or nothing) in your place.-Gareth Branwyn - Boing Boing ![]() ![]() There are plenty of hysterical Darwin Award-worthy situations in Megahex, but that's not likely to be your takeaway. But there's so much lurking beneath the seemingly superficial surfaces - questions about friendship, loyalty, love, drug addiction, sexual identity, and hopelessness. It would be easy to dismiss Megahex as another stoner comic. is an existential stoner tale that is part Furry Freak Brothers, part Beavis and Butt-Head, and part Jean Paul Sartre (with some Jackass thrown in for good measure). He Captures that stoner stay-at-home life so accurately that I actually find his comics really depressing and thank God I don't ever have to hang out with anybody like that ever again.-Daniel Clowesįor a series about slackers, these books are remarkably emotionally visceral and intense.-High-Low ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Marvel inferno 2021![]() Still, the issue balances the plot-heavy structure with some really great character moments. ![]() The Hickman-written X-books have tended to be very plot-driven, and there’s certainly plenty of plot in Inferno #1. Inferno #1 picks up on loose HoX/PoX threads, pulls in seeds from Hickman’s X-Men series, and ties it all together for an intriguing kickoff to the series. Now, as Hickman’s time on the X-books nears its end, it’s time for the writer to settle family business. There were a lot of corners of the new mutant status quo to explore, and a lot of new series in which to explore them, which meant X-Men could continue the work of HoX/PoX, expanding on the foundation created by the event series and seeding new stories and cultivating them over a period of time. ![]() ![]() Writer: Jonathan Hickman Artist: Valerio Schiti Color Artist: David Curiel Letterer: VC’s Joe Sabino Design Work: Tom Muller Cover Artists: Pepe Larraz & Marte GraciaĪfter the absolute frenzy of new ideas and plotlines to explore introduced by the twelve-issue House of X and Powers of X series, it feels safe to say writer Jonathan Hickman’s time on Marvel’s main X-Men title was, at least comparatively, a slow burn. ![]() |