![]() Sweet, shy, and introverted despite her social media fame, Stella Alonso is a romantic who keeps her heart in a cage. ![]() And when the opportunity to get closer to her arises, he breaks his own rules to offer her a deal she can’t refuse.Įvery monster has their weakness. ![]() She’s the object of his darkest desires, the only puzzle he can’t solve. He has little use for morals and even less use for love, but he can’t deny the strange pull he feels toward the woman living just one floor below him. He’ll do anything to have her…including lie.Ĭharming, deadly, and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in the perfectly tailored suits of a gentleman. She’s his.ĭiscover the addictive world of the Twisted series from TikTokvsensation, Ana Huang! This is the final book in the Twisted series. ![]() And when the opportunity to get closer to her arises, he breaks his own rules to offer her a deal she can’t refuse. THIS IS A PRE-ORDER, RELEASE DATE END AUGUST 2022.Ĭharming, deadly, and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in the perfectly tailored suits of a gentleman. ![]() Warning: The story contains explicit content, violence, profanity, and topics that may be sensitive to some readers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Syphilis, the disease that overcomes Oswald in Ghosts, first emerged in Europe the 15th century. ![]() He is often considered to be “the father of realism” in drama, and is also thought of as a pioneer of Modernism. He is now one of the world’s most famous playwrights, and his work is performed more often than that of any other playwright except Shakespeare. ![]() He returned to Norway in 1891 and died in Oslo in 1906 after suffering several strokes. After his initial unsuccessful years, Ibsen became more popular as a writer, although his plays were often thought of as scandalous and inappropriate. He later moved to Dresden, Germany, where he wrote his most famous play, A Doll’s House. In 1864 he left his wife and his five-year-old son, Sigurd (who grew up to become the Prime Minister of Norway) and moved to Sorrento, Italy. When he first began to write, though, he was quite unsuccessful, rendering himself and his wife extremely poor. After failing his university entrance exams, he decided he’d rather focus on writing than pursuing higher education. Henrik Ibsen was born into into a wealthy family in Skien, Norway in 1828. ![]() ![]() ![]() United Nations Refugee Agency workers distribute bread in 2017 to residents in Avdiivka, Ukraine, following a flareup of fighting between Russian-backed rebels and Ukrainian forces. With food demand projected to increase by more than 50 percent by 2050 in a more climate-stressed world, experts say collaborative approaches - plus rapid adoption of promising innovations - likely will be needed to feed the world. Debates over solutions remain divisive, with some groups calling for more smallholder farms and local approaches, and others saying agribusiness and global trade in food products will still be needed. But even before the pandemic, the world was not on track to eliminate hunger by 2030, a major U.N. ![]() The shortages - which were more pronounced in poor countries than in wealthier ones - were caused by conflicts, climate disruption and economic shocks exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Another 155 million people faced “acute food insecurity,” which can include malnutrition, starvation or famine. Severe food insecurity occurs when someone experiences hunger due to lack of food for a day or more. ![]() Some 928 million people - 12 percent of the world's population - were “severely food insecure” in 2020, about 148 million more than in 2019. ![]() Food Systems Summit this fall face some sobering realities. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Pilgrims crossed the ocean seeking a better life, and built a new society to achieve their vision. ![]() The Mayflower’s story is framed as human triumph. The tales around these two arrivals, the Mayflower and the White Lion, highlight a foundational rupture in the American story. This is the key message: The story of America is deeply entangled with the practice of slavery. Unlike the Pilgrims, we don’t know their names or individual stories, but their arrival in the “New World” is equally significant in American history. These enslaved people were sold as property to Virginia’s English colonists. But inside, it transported about two dozen captives from Angola. Like the Mayflower, this ship had an English crew. The arrival of this ship, White Lion, also deeply shaped the course of America’s history. ![]() ![]() Yet, just a year earlier, another English ship docked farther south along the coast, in Virginia. The story goes on to herald its Pilgrim passengers as some of America’s first non-native residents. In popular mythology, the story of America began in November of 1620, when the English colonial ship, Mayflower arrived on the shores of Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() “You were once my best friend’s boyfriend.” “Just us having this conversation is weird, Jacob.” “Right,” he replied, that word clearly a prompt to get on with it. “That came out of the blue for everybody, honey,” I told him. “I didn’t think so until she dumped me,” he replied and I felt my lips smile. ![]() “Was there bad shit?” I asked hesitantly. “Bad shit?” he asked and I felt my head jerk. “Yeah,” I agreed, climbing into bed and sitting cross-legged on it. ![]() “Girl talk,” he murmured, and I knew he knew what I was saying. ![]() “This is weird,” I said softly, making my way to the bed. Walking into my room and seeing the pretty I’d wrought with my own two hands, some YouTube videos and a lot of elbow grease, I found the courage. I walked down the hall toward the light coming from my room trying to find the courage to say what I needed to say. ![]() ![]() ![]() If only Rachel could keep her mind off mice. Could Melissa be one of them? With the help of Jake, Cassie, Tobias and Marco, Rachel plans to enter her friends house as a cat, intent on unlocking the secrets from within. Rachel cant tell Melissa what the ANIMORPHS have learned, but Melissa doesnt seem interested in talking to Rachel these days anyway. And it looks like Melissas dad, who is also the schools Assistant Principal, may be connected to evil aliens. ![]() One of her best friends, Melissa, is acting very strange. But being an ANIMORPH is by no means just fun and games. ![]() Rachel cant tell Melissa wh Morphing is certainly more fun than Sega - you can soar as an eagle and walk as a cat. Applegate are back The Animorphs return in this update of the classic series.Rachel is still reeling from the news that the Earth is secretly under attack by parasitic aliens known as the Yeerks. And it looks like Melissas dad, who is also the schools Assistant Principal, may be connected to evil aliens. Applegate is back The first six books of Animorphs return, with striking new lenticular covers that morph. Morphing is certainly more fun than Sega - you can soar as an eagle and walk as a cat. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Very moving… Shriver has the magic ability to make the reader invested in the fate – fates, I should say – of her characters’ Daily Telegraph ‘I think Shriver’s novels are wonderful… fun, smart and, perhaps because of their author’s unconventional political views, unlike anything else you’ll read’ Financial Times ‘Witty and thought-provoking’ Woman’s Weekly With Should We Stay or Should We Go, she’s added triumphantly to their number’ The Times ‘Shriver said that her favourite novels are those that pack both an intellectual and emotional punch. ‘Thought-provoking, timely, and extremely funny’ Metro ![]() Disgust expands and bursts into belly laughs… a very funny book’ Sunday Times ‘Hilarious… Fiery phrases spit and crackle. A best fiction book of 2021 for The Times ![]() ![]() One day while horseback riding through the countryside, he sees a peasant girl, Pancha García. ![]() He employs natives to work as peasants on the dilapidated land, eventually turning Tres Marías into a successful estate through his use of brute force. ![]() Clara possesses clairvoyant abilities and foresees her own marriage to Esteban Trueba, a miner.Įsteban uses the gold he found from mining to buy a hacienda, Tres Marías. The story is narrated by Blanca Trueba, a young woman from a powerful Chilean family.īlanca's mother, Clara del Valle is a child from a well-off family in Santiago whose father is running for the Senate. Based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Isabel Allende, the film follows three generations of women from a Chilean family during the country’s military dictatorship.Īlthough the film won several awards in Europe, including Best Film at the Lola Awards from the German Film Academy and the Robert Award from the Danish Film Academy, in America it was regarded as a critical and commercial failure. The supporting cast includes María Conchita Alonso, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Jan Niklas. The House of the Spirits ( Danish: Åndernes hus) is a 1993 period drama film directed by Bille August and starring Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas and Vanessa Redgrave. ![]() ![]() ![]() Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage to keep him. Fans of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles will also surely love If Cats Disappeared from the World. Genki Kawamura & Eric Selland (Translator) The international phenomenon that has sold over a million copies in Japan, If Cats Disappeared from the World is a funny, heartwarming, and profound meditation on the meaning of life. This beautiful tale is translated from the Japanese by Eric Selland, who also translated The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide. ![]() ![]() ![]() Genki Kawamura's If Cats Disappeared from the World is a story of loss and reconciliation, of one man's journey to discover what really matters in modern life. īecause how do you decide what makes life worth living? How do you separate out what you can do without from what you hold dear? In dealing with the Devil our narrator will take himself - and his beloved cat - to the brink. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love, of one man's journey to discover what really matters in modern life. ![]() ![]() When Adam makes a wild suggestion, Natalie just may take him up on it, even though she knows he’s moved on. But when she arrives at the wedding rehearsal-late and ragged-Adam is there. Fortunately for Natalie, her old high-school flame, Adam, has a work commitment and can’t be there as best man. ![]() Sierra and Jason, high-school sweethearts, are finally getting married. In the sweet novella GOLDEN SUNRISE, Natalie takes time out of her crazy schedule to fly to Vegas for her best friend’s wedding. Now she can only hope it isn’t too late to show Matt how much she really cares. Then she discovers that perception and reality are completely different things. After all, repeatedly watching Old Faithful erupt and walking through sulfur-smelling gases at Fountain Paint Pot don’t exactly say “romance.” Maybe things with Matt aren’t going anywhere, and it’s time to move on. When Cassie meets up with two college friends who are visiting, their love lives like sound like fairy tales: rose petals, chocolates, candles on the beach… Cassie goes home feeling like she’s missing out. ![]() In OUR SONG, a charming romance novella, Cassie and Matt have been dating in the Yellowstone area for two years, and things are, well, average. Readers will love this selection of three contemporary and three historical romance novellas. ![]() The ANNETTE LYON COLLECTION contains brand new contemporary romance novella OUR SONG, as well as five hand-picked readers’ and reviewers’ favorites of Annette’s popular Timeless Romance Anthology novellas. ![]() |