![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The brief shift to another country is not so terribly jarring given that we face precisely the same cost cutting mania here. It’s a brief reminiscence from Miriam Toews about watching her mother enter the library then settle herself by a sunny window and fall asleep. Although, the book addresses the situation in the UK, Smith includes one interpolation from the Canadian context coincidentally concerning a library in Toronto. Interpolated between the stories, we find statements by ordinary members of the public reflecting on what libraries have done for them and how those libraries have enhanced their communities. In 2015, Ali Smith compiled a collection of short stories as a response to the UK’s cost cutting measures that targeted its public library system. ![]()
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Midsummer moon by laura kinsale7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() In fact, everything about him is disconcerting in her isolated life Merlin has never met anyone who affects her quite like Ransom does. Now this Ransom Falconer wants her to forget her current interest in flying machines and focus on the speaking box she's lost interest in finishing. And maybe she does take everything people say literally, but people ought to say what they mean. Merlin is not absentminded, it's just that she only seems to be able to pay attention to one thing at a time. Now, if he could just get her mind out of the clouds and convince her to marry him. One of the most ingenious inventors in England, she is also one of the country's greatest hopes in the defense against the power mad Napoleon Bonaparte. She is everything he doesn't like: incapable of following orders, unaware of conventional etiquette, preoccupied, disorganized, and unkempt. ![]() ![]() Perhaps more shocking, however, are his feelings for the eccentric genius. Sent by the crown to bring both inventor and invention to safety, Ransom Falconer, Duke of Damerell, is shocked to learn Mr. Merlin Lambourne has invented the "speaking box"-a sort of telephone-which is so valuable that Napoleon has killed for it. A duke's well-ordered world is turned upside down when a female inventor sends his heart soaring in this Regency romance by a New York Times-bestselling author. ![]() Remains of the day author7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() The narrative is first-person, and the story is told via Steven’s reminiscences as he ponders over the past, while traveling through the English countryside. Farraday offers him the use of his car for a road trip, Stevens decides to avail himself of the opportunity to travel and meet a female associate Ms. Steven has served at Darlington Hall from its heydays under Lord Darlington himself, and now muses over the shut-off rooms and the reduced staff. Farraday, who seems to be a very nice man. Darlington Hall is now owned by an American Mr. The Remains of The Day is the story of Stevens, a very proper butler at Darlington Hall, a great English Manor. I chanced upon this audiobook when I really wanted to read something surefire – something so outstanding, that it would keep me from wandering off mentally while it played. This is one of those books that you come across every once in a while, harried and unsatisfied by all these other tomes that have come much recommended, and resolving to read only Booker and Pulitzer prize winners □ hereon. ![]() White knight presents red hood7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() And she's willing to fight alongside him, whatever it takes! In Shops: SRP: $4. ![]() That is until he meets Gan, a local girl from East Backport who needs his help to save her neighborhood from a super-criminal terrorizing its citizens. ![]() Banished by his mentor and damaged by The Joker, the former Robin is left to become something different, something stronger, a relentless force for justice in the city…Red Hood! With nobody to answer to, he walks the dangerous line between hero and villain. Four words that saved Jason's life and destroyed his future forever. The world of Batman: White Knight continues to expand in this exciting new miniseries! 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Sixteen-year-old Eon has a dream, and a mission. This novel has received several awards and honors: it is the winner of the Aurealis Award, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a Locus Recommended Reading Selection, a James Tiptree, Jr., Award Finalist, a CBCA Notable Book, and a Bank Street College Best Book of the Year. OL5954753W Page_number_confidence 95.75 Pages 554 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0143174096 Eon by Alison Goodman has been published as both an adult and a young adult novel in different parts of the world. ![]() Urn:lcp:eondragoneyerebo00good:epub:9ba216a4-42d0-4652-91e7-f18da7133e39 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier eondragoneyerebo00good Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t95743b3x Invoice 11 Isbn 9780670062270Ġ670062278 Lccn 2008033223 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary OL11067379M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:57:56 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA1119508 Boxid_2 CH120201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor ![]() Frida kahlo biography hayden herrera7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Pierced by a steel handrail and broken in many places, Frida entered a long period of convalescence during which she began to paint self-portraits. When she was nineteen, Frida's life was transformed when the bus in which she was riding was hit by a trolley car. ![]() Her father, a photographer, encouraged Frida's artistic interests, and her education at an elite school drew her to new ideas and to a group of irreverent radicals who would become some of Mexico's most respected intellectuals. Her early years were influenced by the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution and a bout with polio, but Frida remained spirited, resilient, and mischievous. Frida Kahlo (1907-54) was born in Mexico City, the child of a Mexican mother and a German father. In Frida, art historian Hayden Herrera vividly portrays of a woman of strength, talent, humor, and endurance. "A haunting, highly vivid biography." - Ms. ![]() Down comes the night by allison saft7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hal also came to Colwick Hall for redemption, but the secrets in the estate may lead to both of their deaths. Worse, Wren's patient isn't a servant at all but Hal Cavendish, the infamous Reaper of Vesria and her kingdom's sworn enemy. The mansion is crumbling, icy winds haunt the caved-in halls, and her eccentric host forbids her from leaving her room after dark. So when a letter arrives from a reclusive lord, asking Wren to come to his estate, Colwick Hall, to cure his servant from a mysterious illness, she seizes her chance to redeem herself. Wren Southerland's reckless use of magic has cost her everything: she's been dismissed from the Queen's Guard and separated from her best friend-the girl she loves. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft's Down Comes the Night is a snow-drenched romantic fantasy that keeps you racing through the pages long into the night. "Fans of Leigh Bardugo's "Grisha Trilogy" and Marie Rutkoski's "Winner's Trilogy" have been waiting for this Darkling-esque romance." - School Library Journal (Starred Review) "A YA fantasy classic in the making." - Christine Lynn Herman, author of The Devouring Gray ![]() Haunting adeline near me7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now into the actual context and structure of this whole book. □□□did i question my sanity while reading this book? abso-fucking-lutely !!! sometimes we just turn left, then ignore all the red flags, then rinse and repeat. ![]() like i’m so dead serious right now when i say there’s something about them that scratches an itch in the deep crevices of my brain.Īnd hear me out. reading this book wasn’t enough, i need to eat it, and inject it into my veins.Įvery minute i was reading about Zade and Adeline doing exactly what they did in this book, i felt like i passed away. i was up all night sweaty and reading until the crack ass of dawn. This was honestly such a fun, jaw dropping, shirt ripping, bedsheet gripping, panties dropping, and knee trembling book. Adeline is better than me because i know if a man that looked like Zade approached me, i’d fold instantly. i thought i was desensitized to smut at this point but i was shocked, to say the least, at the words my eyes were reading. it’s very graphic and i absolutely do not condone any of the actions set in this book.Īnywayyys, I literally smacked my forehead and dragged my hand down my face so many times while reading this book. if you wanna get into dark romance, don’t let this book be your gateway into the genre. Now before i get into it i gotta say that even though this book is marketed at 18+, i personally consider it 21+ it can be very triggering for some so tread lightly. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are lots to read with interesting details on film making, the intricacies of coming up with the script, production design, visual effects, animation, music, influences and other forms of aesthetics when it comes to directing the film. There are other essays by writers critiquing the film. There are several lengthy Q&A interviews included, three with Wes Anderson during different stages of post production, the others with Ralph Fiennes, costume designer Milena Canonero, score composer Alexandre Desplat, production designer Adam Stockhausen, cinematographer Robert Yeoman. The book was more detailed than I expected in terms of writeup. Instead of featuring several films in one book, now we have one book dedicated to one film. The author Matt Zoller Seitz is the same guy that brought us the The Wes Anderson Collection. ![]() Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel is a book that lets you explore the world further by going behind the scenes. I just watched it recently and really like the idiosyncrasy and the weird and humourous storytelling. ![]() |