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King of chaos by eva ashwood5/13/2023 It’s one of the more popular clubs in Detroit, and I can tellĬreate a Power Point Presentation to discuss the followingSgt. To the dance floor or over to the tables and couches pressed Way through the crowd of tangled bodies, heading from the bar The patrons of the club I’m in grind onĮach other or hold drinks over their heads as they push their Resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purelyįor all the readers who like their book boyfriends a littleĬ OLORED lights flash in time to the beat of the song thumping Incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Names, characters, organizations, places, events, and Mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or
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When we were magic by sarah gailey5/13/2023 I pull my dress on over it, and struggle to grip the zipper on the side. I put on my bra, but I can’t get the hooks done. I wipe my hands on the rumpled sheets until they’re clean enough that I can pull my underwear on. Now there’s blood everywhere and he’s dead. It’s just that I was nervous, and condoms are more complicated than I was expecting, and one thing led to another and-well. You will continue to receive exclusive offers in your inbox. Click below to sign up and see terms and conditions.Īlready a subscriber? Provide your email again so we can register this ebook and send you more of what you like to read. Plus, get updates on new releases, deals, recommended reads, and more from Simon & Schuster. Get a FREE ebook when you join our mailing list. Thank you for downloading this Simon & Schuster ebook.
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In this elegantly written, searching book Katherine Angel surveys medical and psychoanalytic understandings of female desire, from Freud to Kinsey to present-day science MeToo-era debates over consent, assault, and feminism and popular culture, TV, and film to challenge our assumptions about female desire. In this environment, how can women possibly know what they want-and how can they be expected to? And men are on hand to persuade women that what they want is, in fact, exactly what men want. Sex researchers tell us that women don’t know what they want. They are told that in the name of sexual consent and feminist empowerment, they must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again by Katherine Angel BlurbĪ provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of MeToo
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Anne Neville is someone I knew practically nothing about, and it’s interesting to see how PG chooses to focus on people that have often been neglected during the course of history. I am a very big fan of Philippa Gregory’s novel, and this one certainly lived up to its expectations. Ultimately, the kingmaker’s daughter will achieve her father’s greatest ambition. Anne manages her own escape by marrying Richard, Duke of Gloucester, but her choice will set her on a collision course with the overwhelming power of the royal family and will cost the lives of those she loves most in the world, including her precious only son, Prince Edward. Married at age fourteen, she is soon left widowed and fatherless, her mother in sanctuary and her sister married to the enemy. In this novel, her first sister story since The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory explores the lives of two fascinating young women.Īt the court of Edward IV and his beautiful queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne grows from a delightful child to become ever more fearful and desperate when her father makes war on his former friends. Without a son and heir, he uses his daughters, Anne and Isabel as pawns in his political games, and they grow up to be influential players in their own right. The Kingmaker’s Daughter is the gripping story of the daughters of the man known as the “Kingmaker,” Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: the most powerful magnate in fifteenth-century England.
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Madagascar by Golriz Golkar5/13/2023 The plot is childishly simple naturally but it works OK, it actually gets a little twisted once Alex the lion goes savage when his animal instinct kicks in. The film slides from slightly emotional to sensible to most of the time outright off the wall. You then have the set up that the animals can all talk to each but not to humans, yet they can perform human acts without question. But there is a kind of Tex Avery/Chuck Jones feel to the main characters that is quite nice but also someone childish compared to the backgrounds and vista's we see. Always one step behind the mighty Pixar this feature seemed to be an attempt to try and combat the ever increasing list of Pixar classics that just kept on coming.Ī curious blend of ideas really, the whole film is made to look quite sensible in terms of how things should look in reality. Rating: PG (Mild Language|Crude Humor|Some Thematic Elements)ĭreamworks hit back with an animated tale about lovable zoo animals trying to escape to the wild. Not content to leave well enough alone, Marty lets his curiosity get the better of him and makes his escape - with the help of some prodigious penguins - to explore the world. He and his best friends - Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo - have spent their whole lives in blissful captivity before an admiring public and with regular meals provided for them. Alex the lion is the king of the urban jungle, the main attraction at New York's Central Park Zoo.
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The best man by kristan higgins5/13/2023 I found parts of it so amusing that the part of me that just wants to laugh and have mindless fun really liked this book. Honestly, I wish I’d hated The Best Man on principle alone.īut I didn’t. (Don’t even get me started on the cheap shot it takes at transexuals everywhere.) It also comes across as a bit sloppy–it contradicts itself, drops major plotlines, and its characters veer from persona to persona. It’s condescending to gays, full of unbelievable emotional choices, overly wedded–pun intended–to the excessive elevation of marriage as the goal of true love, and shamelessly milks the pain a child feels at a parent’s death. The Best Man isn’t an awful book–in fact I had fun reading it.But this novel has far too many pitfalls. When I was growing up, I always got these annoying reports cards that said “Dabney could try harder.” Well, Ms Higgans, so can you. FebruREVIEW: The Best Man by Kristan Higginsĭabney C Reviews Contemporary romance / opposites attract 27 Comments
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Assassin by grace cavendish5/12/2023 Lady Grace is a fairly plain beanpole of a Maid of Honour, who sets herself apart by being, realistically, uncaring of men. The setting is rich of descriptions of food, clothing, events, and historical people, but never is it a boring laundry list. I'm now on the fourth book of this series, and that should tell you how much I've enjoyed her adventures. Lady Grace Cavendish is someone completely set apart from these other characters, given that she is 13 when the series commences and she is incredibly likable in first person narrative. There's the Lady Julia Grey, Lady Emily, Lady Arianna, Lady Rose Summer.well, there are simply endless numbers of these lady sleuths floating around the historical fiction archives, and they all blend together in one conglomerate of snobby, unlikable gals who are either casting eyes at their Sherlock Holmes counterpart or are "flouting conventions" because they are so incredibly original, despite being unbelievably beautiful and rich and etc., etc. Having tried a whole host of these historical mysteries written from the viewpoint of some lady or another, I haven't, until this series, found one that I so thoroughly endorsed.
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The book of awesome by neil pasricha5/12/2023 Organifi makes the highest quality nutritional products, which are made from whole food ingredients (not synthetic vitamins) that I enjoy nearly every day, and have for many years. Readers are leaders! Learn how Neil manages to read 100+ books a year.Why you need to learn how to be happy so you can be successful.You might be practicing gratitude wrong. With practice, you’ll get better with time.
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Annaburns5/12/2023 “I’d hate to be bystanding this on my own.” “Thanks for being here with me,” the narrator says to the reader as the novel’s craziness reaches its tipping point. Each Doe has been on the receiving or delivering end of more violence and sexual assault than any of them can acknowledge, even to themselves. Burns’s irreverent, omniscient narrator moves from the combusting mind of a gun-shop owner named Tom to various members of the homicidal Doe family, whose first names begin with an absurd fill-in-the-blank blur of J’s, ranging from Jetty to Jotty to JanineJuliaJoshuatine. The question serves as a kind of humorous warning, since the novel that follows contains an astonishing range of breakdowns. “Aren’t breakdowns amazing in their versatility?” the narrator remarks in the opening pages. Like “Milkman,” “Little Constructions” features a large cast of relatives in a criminal-run Irish town during the Troubles, all of them internally detonating in their respective ways. “Little Constructions” is her second novel, written before her widely acclaimed fourth book, “Milkman,” received the Man Booker Prize in 2018. Why do certain relatives get “squashed explosively” in a person’s psyche? Over four works of fiction, Anna Burns has developed a singular prose style for simulating the internal explosion of familial voices in a character’s head.
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Hamilton and Peggy! by L.M. Elliott5/12/2023 A fast friendship forms between the two, but Alexander is caught in the same war as her father, and the danger to all their lives is real. When a flirtatious aide-de-camp, Alexander Hamilton, writes to Peggy asking for her help in wooing the earnest Eliza, Peggy finds herself unable to deny such an impassioned plea. But it’s in the throes of a chaotic war that Peggy finds herself a central figure amid Loyalists and Patriots, spies and traitors, friends and family. She is the award-winning author of young adult novels, including Under a War-Torn Sky (2001), Flying South (2003), Give Me Liberty (2008), A Troubled Peace (2009), and Suspect Red (2017). (Katherine Tegen astutely suggested I write something about Hamilton)to completion I chose Peggy, who pops into the Schuyler Sisters song with that exuberant And Peggy. She was born on September 17, 1957, not far from Washington, DC. Elliott (Louisa June and the Nazis in the Waves) & Giveaway US/CAN. Perfect for fans of the smash Broadway musical sensation Hamilton.Peggy Schuyler has always felt like she’s existed in the shadows of her beloved sisters: the fiery, intelligent Angelica and beautiful, sweet Eliza. Elliott is pen name of Laura Malone Elliott. Drawing from historical journals and letters, New York Times bestselling author Laura Elliot weaves a richly detailed tale about the extraordinary Peggy Schuyler and her revolutionary friendship with Alexander Hamilton. |