![]() ![]() Reeling from this discovery, all he wants is a place to lick his wounds far, far away from New Orleans.Įnter Greta and Truman's mutual friend, Ramona, who facilitates a month-long house swap. Truman Belvedere has just had his heart crushed into a million pieces when he learned that his boyfriend of almost a year has a secret life that includes a husband and a daughter. She desperately needs space to figure out who she is. ![]() ![]() Greta Russakoff loves her tight-knit family and tiny Maine hometown, even if they don't always understand what it's like to be a lesbian living in such a small world. For fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Alexis Hall comes a charming, hilarious, and heartwarming LGBTQIA+ romcom about two separate couples finding love over the holidays from acclaimed author Roan Parrish! ![]()
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![]() ![]() Advise and Consent is a timeless story with clear echoes of today’s headlines This novel is a true epic showing in fascinating detail the minds and motives of the statesmen, the opportunists, the idealists.įrom a Senate old-timer’s wily maneuvers, a vicious demagogue’s blistering smear campaign, the ugly personal jealousies that turn a highly qualified candidate into a public spectacle, to the tragic martyrdom of a presidential aspirant who refuses to sacrifice his principles for his career-never has there been a more revealing picture of Washington’s intricate political, diplomatic, and social worlds. ![]() A sweeping tale of corruption and ambition cut across the landscape of Washington, DC with the breadth and realism that only an astute observer and insider can convey.Īllen Drury has penetrated the world’s stormiest political battleground-the smoke-filled committee rooms of the United States Senate-to reveal the bitter conflicts set in motion when the President calls upon the Senate fo confirm his controversial choice for Secretary of State. ![]() Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent is one of the high points of 20th Century literature, a seminal work of political fiction-as relevant today as when it was first published. ![]() ![]() Prof Yuval Noah Harari has a PhD in History from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specialising in World History. '21 Lessons is, simply put, a crucial book' Adam Kay, author of Undoctored ' has teed up a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the 21st century' Bill Gates, New York Times The golden thread running through his exhilarating new book is the challenge of maintaining our collective and individual focus in the face of constant and disorienting change.įaced with a litany of existential and real crises, are we still capable of understanding the world we have created? The world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today's most urgent issues. ![]() How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? ![]() In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo **THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** ![]() ![]() With the laden boat is launched the reader’s suspense about what will strain their vow of obedience to breaking point.ĭonoghue vividly recreates the sacramental elements of their mission, with the Office said in a roiling boat, and the Host made from blackened oatcakes when flour runs out. From the moment the sewn-leather river craft departs, minus the two chosen monks’ essential provisions, the author creates a tension between the humble followers of Christ and their leader. ![]() And Conor leads the musicians, pouring musical balm on the fasting conflict between the travelling scholar Artt and the Abbot.įollowing the instructions of a dream, Artt selects elderly Cormac and 20-year-old Trian to forge a community, away from the temptations of humanity. We meet the trio for the first time in the Cluain Mhic Nois refectory, and Donohue quickly establishes their characters, as Artt grandstands about not eating swan on a Friday, while Trian fills his brothers’ platters despite his own hunger. Set in monastic seventh-century Ireland, the story follows Artt, Cormac, and Trian as they leave their monastery on the Shannon to found a new settlement on Skellig Michael, a jagged rock seven miles off the coast of Kerry. ![]() BLIND faith and charismatic leaders are deftly criticised in Haven. ![]() ![]() Sales are now LIVE for Pictures of Apocalypse by Thomas Ligotti. * Casebound with dust jacket and custom slipcase * Signature page signed by the author and artist Signed and numbered slipcased edition of 250x - $195 each - 180x copies are available ![]() * Offset printed on Mohawk Superfine Softwhite Eggshell archival paper Standard edition of 700x - $70 each - 550x copies are available In his introduction to the forenamed collection, Ligotti considers what purpose is served when we “wallow” in representations of the end of things-as, of course, we have throughout our existence as a sentient species-a query that complements that posed in his book The Conspiracy against the Human Race, namely, “Is being alive all right?” Richly illustrated throughout with illustrations by Jonathan Dennison, Pictures of Apocalypse expands upon and updates a signature theme that is developed throughout Ligotti’s writings, one which may be justly described as the wrongness of being. ![]() ![]() A stylistic successor to previous efforts such as I Have a Special Plan for This World and This Degenerate Little Town, this volume is a cycle of lyric and narrative poems that share the common theme of what Ligotti designates as the Great Going from both individual and collective perspectives. ![]() Chiroptera Press is pleased to announce its publication of Pictures of Apocalypse, a new work by horror legend Thomas Ligotti. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unknown to Anna, Eddie agrees to work for Styles in his gambling operations. Now he makes very little money as a bagman in the criminal underworld, and he tells Styles he needs money to pay for a wheelchair for his brain-damaged and paralyzed daughter, Lydia, Anna's younger sister. Eddie is a former vaudeville performer who switched to become a stockbroker during the Roaring Twenties, then was ruined in the Great Depression. Plot Įleven-going-on-twelve Anna Kerrigan and her father Eddie meet with gangster Dexter Styles in late 1934 at the Styles mansion on the shore of Manhattan Beach in Brooklyn, New York City. Time magazine selected it as one of its top ten novels of 2017. The National Book Foundation listed the book in their 2017 National Book Award Longlist in the Fiction category. Manhattan Beach is a historical novel by American writer Jennifer Egan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Beyond her bold humor lies a compelling quest to recognize the spiritual challenges that surround us." People Magazine Lamott deserves to become a noational treasure." More Magazine "A refreshing mix of both the worldly and the mundane. She starts conversations inside you and helps you begin to talk with yourself in a new way." The Charlotte Observer "To read Lamott is like finding a friend you can talk to about anything. It is further evidence that, as The New Yorker has written, "Anne Lamott is a cause for celebration." It shares with us Lamott's ability to comfort and to make us laugh despite the grim realities.Īnne Lamott is one of our most beloved writers, and Plan B is a book more necessary now than ever. And there are personal demands on her faith as well: getting older her mother's Alzheimer's her son's adolescence and the passing of friends and time.įortunately for those of us who are anxious about the state of the world, whose parents are also aging and dying, whose children are growing harder to recognize as they become teenagers, Plan B offers hope that were not alone in the midst of despair. Environmental devastation looms even closer. Terrorism and war have become the new normal. From the New York Times bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything, a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times.Īs Anne Lamott knows, the world is a dangerous place. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thomas Edward Lawrence was killed in a motorcycle accident in May 1935, at age 46 within weeks of his death, the 1926 abridgement was published for general circulation. After the 1926 release of the Subscribers' Edition, Lawrence stated that no further issue of Seven Pillars would be made during his lifetime. This fantastic account, which is the basis for David Lean's magnificent epic film Lawrence of Arabia was completed in February 1922, but first published in December 1926. Lawrence, of serving as a military advisor to Bedouin forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire of 1916 to 1918. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British Army Colonel T. ![]() Lawrence's adventures / misadventures during what has been characterized as the Arab Revolt. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom 1935 1st trade edition hard cover antiquarian book in very scare slipcase. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mekhennet's background has given her unique access to some of the world's most wanted men, who generally refuse to speak to Western journalists. She then returns to Europe, first in London, where she uncovers the identity of the notorious ISIS executioner 'Jihadi John', and then in France, Belgium and her native Germany, where terror has come to the heart of Western civilisation. In her travels across the Middle East and North Africa, she documents her chilling run-ins with various intelligence services and shows why the Arab Spring never lived up to its promise. In this compelling and evocative memoir, we accompany Mekhennet as she journeys behind the lines of jihad, starting in the German neighbourhoods where the 9/11 plotters were radicalised and the Iraqi neighbourhoods where Sunnis and Shia turned against one another, and culminating on the Turkish/Syrian border region where ISIS is a daily presence. ![]() She has also sought to provide a mediating voice between these cultures, which too often misunderstand each other. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel.įor her whole life, Souad Mekhennet, a reporter for the Washington Post who was born and educated in Germany, has had to balance the two sides of her upbringing - Muslim and Western. ![]() |