5/30/2023 0 Comments The godmakers frank herbert![]() ![]() But equally, the treatment of these ideas often felt heavy-handed and did not leave a welcome impression, somehow oddly contrived and disappointingly banal. The themes of religion, spirituality, authority, good, evil and the relativism of both, are all present and thoroughly explored and well integrated into the journey the story takes. ![]() And I found myself having to re-listen to whole chapters to maintain the thread of the story. GM is simply too wrapped up within its own introverted philosophy and internal monologues. The story and narration felt overly slow and ponderous, even with the playback speed increased, and it really did not take me anywhere enlightening, and mostly just gets weirder and more irrelevant as the chapters pass. The premise of the Godmakers is an intriguing choice, with the prospect of a solid story wrapped around it elevating this novel to the top of my listening list. A good idea that gets quickly lost in the desert ![]()
0 Comments
5/30/2023 0 Comments Sarah macdonald books![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. With the help of the Dalai Lama, a goddess of healing hugs and a couple of Bollywood stars - among many, many others - Sarah discovers a hell of a lot more." It's enough to send a rapidly balding atheist on a wild rollercoaster ride through India in search of the meaning of life and death. After being cursed by a naked sadhu smeared in human ashes Sarah almost dies from double pneumonia, but not before facing some serious questions about her fragile mortality and inner spiritual void - not to mention some unsightly hair loss. ![]() ![]() It seems like the ultimate sacrifice for love and it almost kills her - literally. When the love of her life is posted to India, Sarah follows him to the most polluted city on earth, New Delhi. When a beggar reads her palm and insists she will one day return - and for love - she screams 'Never!' But twelve years later the prophecy comes true. ![]() After backpacking her way around India Sarah Macdonald decides she hates the country with a passion. " A rollercoaster ride through a land of chaos and contradiction with a woman on a mission to save her soul, her love life - and her sanity. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Director's Cut by Vanessa Acton![]() ![]() He was also the firm’s Chief Operating Officer for a period of three years and also spent ten years as a Portfolio Manager for AEW’s flagship core, open-end strategy. Martin became CEO of North America in 2021. Prior to assuming his role as CEO of AEW Capital Management, Mr. Martin has nearly 30 years of real estate experience and has been with AEW since 2001. He is also the executive sponsor and member of AEW’s Environmental, Social, Governance & Resiliency Committee, and the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee. He chairs the firm’s Senior Leadership Team and is a member of its Investment Committee, Risk Management Committee, and Audit Committee. ![]() Jon Martin is AEW's Chief Executive Officer responsible for the oversight of the firm’s Private Equity & Debt platform, Global Securities platform, Investor Relations team, and Corporate Operations. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Thick cottom![]() McMillan Cottom moves from the finite to the expansive, exacting in her deconstructions of race, class, and gender work in tandem with the sprawling realities that shape policy that governs black bodies in the public square. As a sociologist, she is able to strip away social conventions to interrogate how limiting we view black women. Thick is incisive and heady, cerebral and “black-black,” layered in its storytelling and sharp in its rigor. In these eight essays covering her own pregnancy, beauty, culture of competence, and black girlhood, as well as eviscerating critiques of whiteness in American life, Thick centers black women experiences and asserts black women wisdom. ![]() “We are social issues to be solved, economic problems to be balanced, and emotional baggage to be overcome.” McMillan Cottom situates her personal stories as the lens to delve deeper into social constructions that perpetuate inequities and harm. That is not the same thing as causing problems,” writes McMillan Cottom in Thick. ![]() “Black girls and black women are problems. American society is selective when choosing to recognize the fullness of my humanity-and too often, it chooses to deem my existence a problem. ![]() I don’t fit the projected expectations of what a woman of my size and shade should be. I don’t quite fit the contours of our society: I’m at an age that firmly situates me between boomer and millennial. Too often, I’m led to believe that I don’t belong anywhere. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Savage rivals becca steele![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. ![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Lord and Lady Spy by Shana Galen![]() ![]() “You want to have an argument, and I would rather kiss you.” also have i mentioned how much i fucking love the name adrian? OF COURSE I IMAGINED HIM AS A FINE STRAPPING HISTORICAL BRAD PITT BECAUSE WHY THE FUCK NOT? In fact, I had so much fun reading this I've already got the rest of the books in this series on hold already.Īn entertaining and fun read that I could not put down! This is just fluff with some fertility & misscarriage issues thrown in for good measure.īut this was just what I happened to be looking for, so none of it bothered me at all. If you're looking for a historically accurate romance, look elsewhere. And (after a rocky start) end up working everything out, catching the bad guy, and falling in love.Īlright. Of course, for contrived reasons, they decide to work together despite their trust issues. ![]() Turns out, there's a lot of pent-up sexual frustration between these two. Smythe learns what the term fight like a girl really means. ![]() Complete with the meet-cute fight scene - during which Mr. This is a cliche, silly, over the top, Regency (is this Regency?) version of Mr. Which leads to all kinds of surprises for both parties. With the same average, everyday, boring problems.Įxcept for the part where they're each (unbeknownst to the other) spies for the British government, who end up vying for the same contract in order to win the prized spot on the intelligence team. Just your average, everyday, boring members of the ton. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Hartnell medieval bodies![]() ![]() MORE: Read an extract from 'Medieval Bodies'īringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy and social history, there is no better guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages. Unfolding like a medieval pageant, and filled with saints, soldiers, caliphs, queens, monks and monstrous beasts, it throws light on the medieval body from head to toe - revealing the surprisingly sophisticated medical knowledge of the time in the process. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this richly-illustrated and unusual history, Jack Hartnell uncovers the fascinating ways in which people thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves in the Middle Ages, from Constantinople to Cairo and Canterbury. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different to our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule. With wit, wisdom, and a sharp scalpel, Jack Hartnell dissects the medieval body and offers a remedy to our preconceptions. Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Crystal singer series![]() “Killashandra thought her world had ended when she was told she would never become a concert singer. Regardless, after two years of sitting on my shelf, the book found its way into my hands in December’s to-read stack. When taking the rest of McCaffrey’s bibliography into scope, words like “dragon”, “unicorn” and “Pegasus” are notable, all of which instantly turn me off… but her popular Dragons of Pern series, often recommended by others, is a testament to her talent, so I assumed. ![]() The synopsis is obviously science fiction but the word “crystal” carries many fantasy connotations with it, a cousin of the science fiction genre which I scorn. With her passing, I took advice from a number of posts on Amazon’s Science Fiction forum and bought one of the author’s novels: The Crystal Singer. ![]() Prior to Anne McCaffrey’s death in November 2011, I had heard only good things about the author’s work – her ability to snare the reader with wonder and enrapture the reader in adventure. The Crystal Singer, Anne McCaffrey (1982) ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Lynsay sands the deed series![]() Lynsay Sands was raised in Southern Ontario, Canada. Sands is perhaps best known for writing the Argeneau series, which focus in on a modern family of blood sucking vampires and different characters within. She won the 2000 P.E.A.R.L Best Paranormal Anthology for her Mistletoe & Magic books in addition to having placed for the Favorite Funnies awards list by All About Romance. award (the Paranormal Excellence Award for Romantic Literature) and also been nominated several times. She has placed three times in the awards for the Reviewers International Organization and placed three times in the bracket for the Awards For Excellence. Sands has been nominated for the Romantic Times Best Paranormal Romance awards as well as the Romantic Times Best Historical Romance awards. ![]() ![]() Sands’ books have been translated into over six languages and are published and read in over twelve countries. Her books have made the Bestsellers lists for Waldenbooks, USA Today, Barnes & Noble and The New York Times. She has written for three publishing houses in total, Dorchester, HarperCollin, and Kensington. Sands has written historical as well as paranormal focused novels. She is known for her take on the paranormal, contemporary and the supernatural and the humorous take she often writes in these books. ![]() ![]() Lynsay Sands is a Canadian author who has own many awards and written over 30 books as well as anthologies. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Allen eskens the guise of another![]() ![]() “The talented Allen Eskens fulfills the rich promise of his Edgar®-nominated debut with this chilling, dark, and sinister thriller. Michael Sears, award-winning author of the bestselling Jason Stafford series Eskens’s characters will haunt you long after you finish reading.” “Another great, dark, and brooding page-turner from Allen Eskens, with a tragic protagonist who will break your heart. William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author of the Edgar® Award-winning Ordinary Grace After each unexpected twist, you’ll tell yourself things can’t get any worse. It’s a taut, intelligent, heart-ripping story that explores the darkest places in the human psyche. ![]() “Eskens has conjured up a marvelously black spirit of a novel. “Readers looking for a new voice should pay attention to Eskens.” “With just two books to his name, I have put on my ‘must read’ list.” “Eskens’s elegant but chilly prose, like winter in the blood, is well suited to this fiercely told morality tale (and its deeply cynical ending), which is sure to send all of us wretched sinners straight to hell.” ![]() |