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Chosen by National Geographic for their list of 100 Great Adventure books. But when the old man returned nine months later, he had made history by becoming the first person to sail single-handed around the world by the clipper route and in doing so in nine months and one day set a record for the fastest circumnavigation to that time. Dealer's Note: When 65-year-old Francis Chichester set sail on his solitary eastward journey around the world in 1966, many believed he wouldn't return alive. Fine copy in plain heavy paper dj, in matching green solander box, as issued. Bound in full green leather, with raised bands author and title in gilt on spine and facsimile signature of author in gilt angled across bottom fore-edge of front cover. One of a special presentation edition numbered and signed by the author and limited to 500 copies of which this is number 109.
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Wotakoi love is hard for otaku vol 16/26/2023 Because I enjoyed the shit out of everything else. This would’ve been in my top 10 if they progressed properly. And I’m forced to enjoy the side dishes which are the side couples and their progress because when I try to dig in to the main has a thin layered piece of meat between the buns that I have to savor because god knows when I’ll get to bite into more. It’s like I order a delicious burger with 2 sides. Because every time I sat down to read this. But a chance meeting at her new job with childhood friend, fellow otaku, and now coworker Hirotaka Nifuji almost gets her secret outed at work. So she goes to great lengths to hide her hobby from others. I can count the chapters that only focused on the main couples romance on ONE HAND. Summary Narumi Momose has been unlucky in love: every boyfriend she’s had dumped her once they found out she was an otaku. Why are there people making excuses for her and the lack of progress for the main couples in a MANGA that’s about them and their romance? It’s a smokescreen because it’s actually about the side couples progress while the main couple are just a couple of buddies. Also, what was the point of making the female MC dry in terms of affection opposed to the male MC who’s feelings are transparent for her? This makes everyone wonder if she seriously even likes the MC or she’s just convinced herself to settle for someone who she doesn’t really love. And I was enjoying this so much until I got further into the story and realized the author chose to make the main couples progress stagnant compared to the other 2 couples. I know this is a realistic portrayal of adults interacting with each other.
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Bring me their hearts book6/26/2023 The story is wholly original and unlike anything I’ve read in YA. Sara’s book will be one I will never forget. My life currently feels incomplete without them. Or, at least, I’ll be one until I get the next two books. A one-of-a-kind story that will captivate you and leave you wondering: “where has this book been all my life?” I’m pretty sure after reading Bring Me Their Hearts, I became a Heartless. Thank you Entangled Teen for sending me a copy of Bring Me Their Hearts! So begins a game of cat and mouse between a girl with nothing to lose and a boy who has it all. The Prince’s honor has him quickly aiming for her throat. She’s inelegant, smart-mouthed, carefree, and out for his blood. No one can challenge him – until the arrival of Lady Zera. Until Nightsinger asks Zera for a Prince’s heart in exchange for her own, with one addendum if she’s discovered infiltrating the court, Nightsinger will destroy her heart rather than see her tortured by the witch-hating nobles.Ĭrown Prince Lucien d’Malvane hates the royal court as much as it loves him – every tutor too afraid to correct him and every girl jockeying for a place at his darkly handsome side. With her heart in a jar under Nightsinger’s control, she serves the witch unquestioningly. Bound to the witch Nightsinger ever since she saved her from the bandits who murdered her family, Zera longs for freedom from the woods they hide in. Zera is a Heartless – the immortal, unageing soldier of a witch.
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Book the plague by albert camus6/26/2023 Camus was in this village as this was happening, as people were hiding, as they were separated from their loved ones, while he himself was separated from his loved ones. In this small, poor, rural village they banded together and pooled their resources to save somewhere between three and five thousand Jews from the Nazis. The remarkable events that took place there were the basis for the book called Lest Innocent Blood be Shed by Philip Paul Hallie. But one thing that’s really interesting in the background is that, for at least a period of time while writing the novel, Camus was trying to recover from a bout of tuberculosis and he was staying in a village in southern France in the Free Zone (Vichy). Other people have argued that he was reading about plagues during the time that he was writing this. I’m not necessarily sold on that as the exclusive interpretation of the novel. The ‘plague’ is generally taken to be a metaphor or meta-commentary on Nazism during World War II. “It has been said that he did extensive research for The Plague. Foreign Policy & International Relations.
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Twice tempted by a rogue6/25/2023 OL21732295W Page_number_confidence 97.42 Pages 390 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200826190406 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 636 Scandate 20200825033256 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781445823690 Tts_version 4. Rhys gets in all these fights and can’t lose because he is. His death wish went unanswered on the battlefield, while fate allowed the murder of his friend in the elite gentlemen’s society known as the Stud Club. Maur, a war hero with an insane amount of luck. Twice Tempted by a Rogue Stud Club Trilogy, Book 2 How long could she resist him Luck is a double-edged sword for brooding war hero Rhys St. However, unlike YA, I notice romance can standalone even when in a series (take note) In this steamy read, the focus is on member Rhys St. Urn:lcp:twicetemptedbyrogue0000dare:lcpdf:44379cdf-b3e7-4043-b2f9-5fd545d840c1 Twice Tempted by a Rogue: A Rouge Regency Romance (The Stud Club Series Book 2) eBook : Dare, Tessa: . H’okay, so Twice Tempted By A Rogue by Tessa Dare is book two in the Stud Club trilogy. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:08:25 Boxid IA1915202 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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Mirror, Mirror by Simon Blackburn6/25/2023 Drawing on philosophy, psychology, literature, history, and popular culture, Blackburn offers an enlightening and entertaining exploration of self-love, from the myth of Narcissus and the Christian story of the Fall to today’s self-esteem industry.Ī sparkling mixture of learning, humor, and style, Mirror, Mirror examines what great thinkers have said about self-love-from Aristotle, Cicero, and Erasmus to Rousseau, Adam Smith, Kant, and Iris Murdoch. But are narcissism and vanity really as bad as they seem? Can we avoid them even if we try? In Mirror, Mirror, Simon Blackburn, the author of such best-selling philosophy books as Think, Being Good, and Lust, says that narcissism, vanity, pride, and self-esteem are more complex than they first appear and have innumerable good and bad forms. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or proudly aware of their behavior. Everyone deplores narcissism, especially in others.
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Atonement by ian mcewan6/25/2023 He is bringing a wealthy friend, Paul Marshall, and there are three cousins just arrived from the north, the Quinceys-Lola, fifteen, and nine-year-old twins, Jackson and Pierrot-who are to act in Briony’s play. She has just composed a play, “The Trials of Arabella,” to be performed in honor of her brother’s homecoming. The novel’s first half takes place over two summer days in 1935, on a Surrey estate occupied by the Tallis family: Jack, the head of the household, whose work for the Ministry of Defense keeps him night after night in London Emily, his wife, who is prone to migraines and long spells of daydreaming in her bed Leon, the eldest child and only son, twenty-five and working in London in a modest position at a bank, though he has a law degree his sister Cecilia, younger by two years, fresh from her finals at Cambridge, bored and at loose ends and our heroine, thirteen-year-old Briony, given to posing philosophical questions and perusing the thesaurus, and for the past two years an increasingly active writer. Ian McEwan, whose novels have tended to be short, smart, and saturnine, has produced a beautiful and majestic fictional panorama, “Atonement” (Doubleday $26). In his fictional panorama “Atonement,” McEwan captures the tastes and sights of a past he did not witness as a child.
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Avalon high coronation 2 homecoming6/25/2023 After six years as an undergrad at Indiana University, Meg moved to New York City (in the middle of a sanitation worker strike) to pursue a career as an illustrator, at which she failed miserably, forcing her to turn to her favorite hobby-writing novels-for emotional succor. Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse - at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flunked freshman Algebra twice, then decided to cut her own bangs. Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. Librarian note: AKA Jenny Carroll (1-800-Where-R-You series), AKA Patricia Cabot (historical romance novels).
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The flimsy "story" is an excuse for the author to rant about animal rights, and she undermines her cause by stacking the deck in her favor. There are many needless descriptions of cruel experiments on animals. Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not? I would have no problem recommending it to anyone. This story resonated with me and is one of my better reads/listens of the year. Book endings can be funny business sometimes and I feel that this one was just about right. The book does start off in a strange place, in the middle of the story, but don't let that put you off because it doesn't take long for her to go back to the beginning of all that happened. This is a beautiful and sad story, one that pulled at my heartstrings. I don't want to reveal much more of the story because I think it might be more enjoyable the less the reader knows about it to begin with. I checked more than once to make sure that this wasn't a memoir because she made it seem so believable from the 1st person narrative. Fowler is able to write this story as if the story had happened to her, as if she were Rosemary. The story is narrated by Rosemary, and her view of how this tragedy affected herself and the other members of the family. This story is about a family being broken apart in the most unusual way. The title, "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves," sums the book up perfectly.
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Blowout maddow review6/24/2023 Its bad actors, its ‘colorful’ characters, the political corruption it has long engendered, and the ugly black messes it so gleefully makes and leaves in its wake wherever it travels. Thus unlike most readers, I already knew quite a lot about that state’s contributions to the industry. Confession here: I spent my teen years in Oklahoma, when a gallon of gasoline for my Volkswagen bug cost all of 19.9¢, and still have family ties to the state. It takes us on a grand, in-depth tour of the American oil and gas industry from its beginnings in the mid-1800s all the way to today, where interesting and insidious international wheeling and dealing by a more familiar cast of characters helps to explain the current state of world tensions as well as why it’s so much harder than it should be to confront head-on the worsening climate change situation that threatens all of us well into the future.įor fans of Maddow’s reporting style on MSNBC, there is a wealth of knowledge to be gained about things we may never have been interested in knowing before. That means it’s dense and scholarly in the good doctor’s inimitable way, including long histories, seemingly divergent facts and associations, and a parade of villains a majority of people never heard of. Rachel Maddow’s new book Blowout isn’t so long (at a mere 367 hardcover pages sans notes and index) that it looks daunting to the interested reader. |