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Life on the line emma goldberg5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Goldberg delves into the challenges her subjects, including the daughter of immigrants who practice traditional Chinese medicine and a young Hispanic woman raised by a single mother, faced as the health-care system failed to keep up with the demand for ventilators and personal protective equipment. ![]() ![]() As the surge of cases “hit New York hospitals like a tsunami” in March and April 2020, some medical schools graduated fourth year students early so they could work at understaffed hospitals. New York Times reporter Goldberg debuts with a vivid and heart-wrenching portrayal of six doctors who graduated from medical school during the “first-wave peak” of Covid-19 in New York City. ![]()
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Under the Lights by Dahlia Adler5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() And she'll have to choose between the one thing she's always loved.and the person she never imagined she could. But as feelings unexpectedly evolve beyond friendship, Van's life reaches a whole new level of confusing. ![]() When she meets her new career handler, Brianna, Van is relieved to have found someone she can rely on, now that her best friend, Ally, is at college across the country. But with all her relationships currently in upheaval, she's painfully uncertain about everything else. Vanessa Park has always been certain about her path as an actor, despite her parents' disapproval. Now that he's in the spotlight-under everyone's terms but his own-Josh has to decide whether a life as a superstar is the one he really wants. ![]() (Not that he's trying to charm her, of course.) Meanwhile, his drama-queen mother blackmails him into a new family reality TV show, with Josh in the starring role. To help out his best friend, Liam, he joins his hit teen TV show, Daylight Falls.opposite Vanessa Park, the one actor immune to his charms. But his laid-back lifestyle is about to change. ![]() Josh Chester loves being a Hollywood bad boy, coasting on his good looks, his parties, his parents' wealth, and the occasional modeling gig. Under the Lights Young actor Josh Chester has never been sure that acting is for him-hes mostly interested in the parties and the hot Hollywood girls. ![]()
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Darth maul shadow hunter5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Now the future of the Republic depends on Darsha and Lorn. ![]() Then, in the labyrinthine alleyways and sewers of Coruscant, capital city of the Republic, Lorn crosses paths with Darsha Assant, a Jedi Padawan on a mission to earn her Knighthood. The secret has already passed into the hands of information broker Lorn Pavan, which places him right at the top of Darth Maul's hit list. He orders his apprentice, Darth Maul, to hunt the traitor down.īut he is too late. Then one of his Neimoidian contacts disappears, and Sidious does not need his Force-honed instincts to suspect betrayal. Key to his scheme are the Neimoidians of the Trade Federation. "Full of lightsaber battles, the Jedi philosophy, and lots of new life-forms." -Chicago Sun-TimesĪfter years of waiting in the shadows, Darth Sidious is taking the first step in his master plan to bring the Republic to its knees. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - For the infamous, power-hungry Sith, beholden to the dark side, the time has come to rise again. ![]()
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The silent patient novel5/10/2023 ![]() I can tell you now: myth was in the air there as well. I met Michaelides in New York in October at the rooftop launch party for Celadon, Macmillan’s brand new imprint-right before, coincidentally, I was leaving for a writers residency on the Greek island of Rhodes. “Myth was everywhere-it was in the very air,” he says. ![]() Michaelides grew up with a Greek Cypriot father and an English mother on Cyprus, where, he tells me, the Greek tragedies were always being performed. ![]() Rescued from Hades by Hercules, she’s brought back to life but remains silent. The story was inspired by Alcestis, one of Euripides’s plays, in which the woman of the title agrees to die to save her husband. In the novel, a famous painter, Alicia Berenson, fatally shoots her successful fashion photographer husband in the face one evening and stops speaking. ![]()
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The Queen's Man by Sharon Kay Penman5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Whilst there isn’t one specific The Last Kingdom true story, plenty of the Anglo-Saxon royals in particular were historical figures and King Aethelstan is no exception. Was Aethelstan in The Last Kingdom a real person? And with all the historical details and him succeeding to the throne many might now be wondering whether Aethelstan in The Last Kingdom was a real 10th century monarch. ![]() He achieves Alfred the Great’s dream of uniting the kingdoms after Uhtred concedes Northumbria to him in return for Aethelstan making his younger half-brother Edmund his heir. Along the way many are lost but amid all the bloodshed fans do see Aethelstan in The Last Kingdom become King of the English by the end, making him one of the most important characters in the movie. This is a battle that ultimately Aethelstan goes on to win as he becomes King of the Anglo-Saxons and continues his quest to become King of a united England. ![]()
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Jonathan unleashed5/9/2023 ![]() When his brother asks him to look after his dogs, Jonathan's world view begins to shift. ![]() He doesn’t remember life being this confusing, back before everyone expected him to act like a grown-up. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him-only richer and with a different sense of humor. Jonathan Trefoil’s boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling, and his apartment just the wrong side of legal. National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Meg Rosoff's charming, hilarious new novel about a young New Yorker’s search for happiness and the two dogs who help him find it-the perfect summer read ![]()
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Sedaris me talk pretty5/9/2023 ![]() Entertainment Weekly on Barrel Fever Sidesplitting Not one of the essays in this new collection failed to crack me up frequently I was helpless. At last, someone even meaner than the French! The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humour that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had had a love child. ![]() Sedariss essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest hes ever written. Sedaris is an amazing reader whose appearances draw hundreds, and his performancesincluding a jaw-dropping impression of Billie Holiday singing I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weinerare unforgettable. Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris has become one of our best-loved authors. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. ![]() His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. ![]() A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. Download Print In Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, the author spends the first part of the book describing his childhood years in North Carolina with his many siblings. David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day Paperback Jby David Sedaris (Author) 8,385 ratings Part of: Me Talk Pretty One Day (1 books) See all formats and editions Kindle 10. ![]()
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Kingdom of the wicked series5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But when it comes to the Wicked, nothing is as it seems. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. Wrath claims to be on Emilia's side, tasked by his master with solving the series of women's murders on the island. A new series from the 1 New York Times bestselling author of Stalking Jack the Ripper. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister's killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that's been long forbidden. Then Emilia meets Wrath, one of the Wicked-princes of Hell she has been warned against in tales since she was a child. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved secrated beyond belief. Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself. Kingdom of the Wicked Box Set by Kerri Maniscalco, 9780316495028, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. ![]() A James Patterson Presents Novel From the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Stalking Jack the Ripper series comes a new blockbuster series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The JournalistSera Aquinas doesn't trust the charming amber-eyed Prince when he says he doesn't want to take over her planet. Perhaps this stubborn journalist called Sera Aquinas, who thinks she can just walk up to his front door and ask for an interview, might be able to help him.But first, he has to gain her trust, and that's not so easy when her presence drives him to distraction. It's easier said than done, especially when one's race has a reputation for brutally conquering the Nine Galaxies. ![]() Now that the Kordolians have landed on Earth, he somehow has to convince an entire planet of Humans that his people mean them no harm. The PrincePrince Xalikian Kazharan has a dilemma on his hands. ![]()
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![]() In its reliance on grief and pop culture, The Lost Language of Cranes can be said to give voice to what is essentially inarticulable, thus questioning the disturbing mechanisms of melancholia. And yet, both the novel and the film emphasise the significance of pop culture, gay clubbing, and increasing commodification by means of intertextual references to cinema, TV, and music icons that offer a snapshot of a generation lost in “its new alphabets of images” (Leavitt 1985). ![]() ![]() ![]() As suggested in these lines, The Lost Language of Cranes is then concerned with the search for self-definition and in many ways evinces a poetics of melancholia by privileging a tendency to narcissism and elegiac lamentation. By investigating the incorporative mechanisms of queer melancholia and its unspeakable sense of loss, my article addresses the paradoxical search for language as a means to externalise melancholic grief. Leavitt’s coming(out)-of-age tale juxtaposes the precarious condition of male homosexuality, threatened by the spectre of the AIDS epidemic, with the disruption of the Benjamins’ family unity, thereby exhibiting the debilitating effects of queer melancholia. ![]() My paper offers a reading of David Leavitt’s novel The Lost Language of Cranes (1986), and of its cinematic version directed by Nigel Finch (1991), aimed at illustrating the paralysing sense of loss that pervades the American cultural climate in the 1980s. ![]() |