![]() ![]() This book had so many twists and turns it left my head spinning. If you had questions, you better sit down and buckle in because you are not ready for the answers. The Revenge picks up right where the doozy of a cliffhanger from The Damaged left off and this book leaves no stone unturned. And let me tell you, The Revenge is everything fans of The Insiders series have been waiting for. I have been hooked on Kash and Bailey since the very first book and have immensely enjoyed their journey. ![]() Win or lose, for Bailey and Kash, everything is on the line.įinally! The epic conclusion we’ve been waiting for. ![]() Even bigger secrets and twists are coming to light. Bailey is reeling from the greatest loss she has ever suffered.ģ. Together, they can do anything, but undeniable danger and seemingly insurmountable challenges threaten the love and passion that binds them.ġ. The Revenge is the taut, edgy, sexy, explosive conclusion to The Insiders trilogy by New York Times and USA Today bestseller Tijan!īailey and Kash were used to living in the shadows. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Levithan leaves a lot unsaid, but the narrative never feels incomplete the non-linear format leaves the reader wholly encompassed by the relationship. The slender book chronicles a relationship between a first-person narrator and an unnamed (and un-gendered) “you.” The story is non-linear, jumping between the couple moving in together, the first few dates, the possible break-up, and the everyday realities, some mundane, some extraordinary, of a long-term relationship. ![]() Sometimes it’s even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lover’s face. It stands the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. If the moment doesn’t pass, that’s it-you’re done. There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() The stars of this narrative are the walls themselves - rising up in places as ancient and exotic as Mesopotamia, Babylon, Greece, China, Rome, Mongolia, Afghanistan, the lower Mississippi, and even Central America. Ultimately, those same men would create edifices of mud, brick, and stone and with them effectively divide humanity: On one side were those the walls protected on the other, those the walls kept out. ![]() With Frye as our raconteur-guide, we journey back to a time before barriers of brick and stone even existed - to an era in which nomadic tribes vied for scarce resources, and each man was bred to a life of struggle. It is a haunting and frequently eye-opening saga - one that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live. In Walls historian David Frye tells the epic story of history’s greatest man-made barriers, from ancient times to the present. ![]() ![]() Yet, the connection between them is too intense to ignore. ![]() ![]() But two months before she’s finally free to change her life for the better, an unexpected death leaves her homeless and forced to spend the remainder of her summer in Texas with a father she barely knows.ĭevastated and anxious for the summer to go by quickly, Beyah has no time or patience for Samson, the wealthy, brooding guy next door. Moving, passionate, and unforgettable, Colleen Hoover's novel follows two young adults from completely different backgrounds embarking on a tentative romance, unaware of what the future holds.Īfter a childhood filled with poverty and neglect, Beyah Grim finally has her hard-earned ticket out of Kentucky with a full ride to Penn State. ![]() From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us and It Starts with Us! ![]() ![]() ![]() So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” “In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. “Uniting essays from Oliver’s previous books and elsewhere, this gem of a collection offers a compelling synthesis of the poet’s thoughts on the natural, spiritual and artistic worlds. “There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged is Oliver's language. The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is a pervasive and familiar guilt. But culture inhibits his instinctual drives. Man, by nature aggressive and egotistical, seeks self-satisfaction. ![]() In it he states his views on the broad question of man's place in the world, a place Freud defines in terms of ceaseless conflict between the individual's quest for freedom and society's demand for conformity.įreud's theme is that what works for civilization doesn't necessarily work for man. It is both witness and tribute to the late theory of mind-the so-called structural theory, with its stress on aggression, indeed the death drive, as the pitiless adversary of eros.Ĭivilization and Its Discontents is one of the last of Freud's books, written in the decade before his death and first published in German in 1929. It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he had been developing since the turn of the century. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can. Their case seems ironclad.Īs the investigation expands and horrifying answers begin to emerge, King’s propulsive story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. ![]() Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. ![]() Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories.Īn eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. ![]() ![]() Ari and Dante discuss that they’re budding intellectuals, and Dante says he’s trying to not be ashamed. ![]() Ari learns that Dad studied art before he went to Vietnam. A few days later, Dante introduces himself to Mom and Dad, and gives Dad a book of Mexican art. Dante cleans his room while Ari reads poetry, which Ari is surprised to enjoy. Quintana is “inscrutable.” Ari doesn’t know what the word means, but he thinks that Dad is inscrutable too. Quintana is happy, open, and inquisitive, but Dante says that Mrs. After a few swimming lessons, Dante introduces Ari to his parents. A skinny and squeaky boy named Dante offers to teach Ari to swim. At the pool, Ari doesn’t know how to swim and hates the sexist lifeguards. ![]() Ari doesn’t know what crime Bernardo committed. On the walk there, he thinks about how Vietnam changed Dad, and how Dad won’t talk about Vietnam or Ari’s older brother, Bernardo, who’s in prison. ![]() In order to escape Mom’s church friends, Ari goes to the pool. Fifteen-year-old Ari wakes up on the first day of summer vacation feeling miserable. ![]() ![]() He moved to Minneapolis and helped found an alternative weekly newspaper, Metropolis. Biography Ī native of New York City, Gleick attended Harvard College, where he was an editor of The Harvard Crimson, graduating in 1976 with an A.B. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2012 and the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012. Three of his books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists and The Information was awarded the PEN/E. ![]() Gleick's books include the international bestsellers Chaos: Making a New Science (1987) and The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (2011). He is part of the inspiration for Jurassic Park character Ian Malcolm. Recognized for his writing about complex subjects through the techniques of narrative nonfiction, he has been called "one of the great science writers of all time". ![]() James Gleick ( / ɡ l ɪ k/ born August 1, 1954) is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He makes three main points: first, that Borges was highly influenced by his wide and obscure reading, making the assertion that, "His sources are innumerable and unexpected. Stories 1–13 are from Ficciones 14–23 are from The Aleph.Īll essays are from Otras inquisiciones (1952), except "The Argentine Writer and Tradition" and "Avatars of the Tortoise" which are from Discusión (1932).Īndré Maurois in the Preface of Labyrinths provides a critical overview of Borges's work. " Story of the Warrior and the Captive"." Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote". ![]() Yates, with a preface by André Maurois of the Académie française and an introduction by Irby.īesides the different stories and essays by Borges mentioned below, the book also contains a preface and introduction, an elegy for Borges, a chronology of Borges's life, and a bibliography. The edition, published only in English, was edited by James E. It includes, among other stories, " Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", " The Garden of Forking Paths", and " The Library of Babel", three of Borges's most famous stories. It was translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett. Labyrinths (1962, 1964, 1970, 1983) is a collection of short stories and essays by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. ![]() |