But when a local child goes missing, both women are forced to confront the secrets they've promised to keep buried. Still, Alex will help Ruth under one condition: we will never, ever, talk about the past. Growing up, Ruth was always the troublemaker, pulling Alex into her messes, and this time will be no different. Every day, Alex goes above and beyond to save children at risk.īut when her long-lost sister, Ruth, unexpectedly shows up at her door, Alex's perfect life is upended. She lives in an idyllic resort town tucked away in the Rocky Mountains, shares a designer loft with her handsome boyfriend, Chase, and has her dream job working in child protection. And it could cost you everything.Īlexandra Van Ness has the perfect life. From the bestselling author of Our Little Secret comes a suspenseful new thriller featuring two estranged sisters desperate to keep their deepest and darkest secret where it belongs-in the past.īlood is thicker than water.
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“Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?” “Are we in hell?” the people of the portal ask themselves. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. When existential threats-from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness-begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal’s void. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms “the portal,” where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. I really think this book is remarkable.” -David Sedarisįrom “a formidably gifted writer” ( The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet?Īs this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. What an inventive and startling writer…I’m so glad I read this. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book. “A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving.” - New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice FINALIST FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE & A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021 Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. It is also a haunting, aching description of how hard it is to believe in your own talent and the unexpected influences that bring us into ourselves along the way. Razor sharp, darkly comic, sexually charged, socially disruptive, Luster is a portrait of a young woman trying to make her sense of her life in a tumultuous era. Edie is the only black woman young Akila may know. She becomes hesitant friend to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics weren't hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and falling into Eric's family life, his home. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage - with rules. She's also, secretly, haltingly figuring her way into life as an artist. Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781529036008 Number of pages: 240 Weight: 172 g Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 16 mm MEDIA REVIEWS A taut, sharp, funny book about being young now. Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani's debut novel, Luster, sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else's open marriage Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties - sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. Razor sharp, provocatively page-turning and surprisingly tender, Luster by Raven Leilani is a painfully funny debut about what it means to be young now. The Swerve is the story of how that happens.Ĭhapters 1 and 2 describe how, in the 1300s, ancient tomes long lost are brought back to life, beginning with the rediscovery of Titus Livius’ History of Rome. It describes the ideas of an ancient sect, the Epicureans, whose beliefs will overturn many of the medieval church’s most cherished tenets and remake the western world. Poggio scours Europe and finds many such manuscripts one of these is a long and beautiful poem by Titus Lucretius Carus, On the Nature of Things. In 1417, papal secretary Poggio Bracciolini sets out on a search for the lost books of the Roman Empire. Most of the literary works of ancient Greeks and Romans are lost through neglect or destruction the rest lie unused in the moldy recesses of monastic libraries. With the collapse of the Roman Empire in 476 CE, Europe moves into the Middle Ages, and Christianity is the only permitted religion. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.Īll he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.Įxcept that right now, he doesn't know that. One of the most plausible science fiction books I've ever read' TIM PEAKE, astronaut This one has everything fans of old school SF (like me) love.' GEORGE R.R. 'If you like a lot of science in your science fiction, Andy Weir is the writer for you. This is the one book I read last year that I am certain I can recommend to anyone, no matter who, and know they'll love it.' BRANDON SANDERSON 'The most enjoyable hard SF I have read in years' GUARDIAN The SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES bestselling novel from The Martian author, Andy Weir. It reads like “Spill Zone” was one book ripped in half like the second volume of a single book, in much the same way that old novels were published in a series of volumes due to printing limitations. This is not a follow-up to a self-contained story, nor is it the continuation of an ongoing story. The thing is, “sequel” is kind of the wrong word for what “Spill Zone: The Broken Vow” is. “Spilll Zone” was a highlight of 2017 for me-the book hooked me at once, especially the sequences with Addison Merritt exploring the Po’Town spill zone-so I was looking forward to the sequel. Now Addison, Don Jae, and, curiously, a rag doll named Vespertine, share an unholy bond and uncanny powers.įrom Scott Westerfeld, the inspired imagination behind the New York Times bestsellers Uglies and Leviathan, comes The Broken Vow, the second volume of our highly anticipated new graphic novel series. North Korea has its own Spill Zone, and a young man named Don Jae is the only one who made it out alive. She survived the encounter, but came back changed. Addison got close enough to the Spill Zone to touch it, literally. Strange manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. If we ask how nations are imagined, Anderson provides two quite separate explanations. No one has ever seen a nation except “in their mind’s eye.” Nations, for this reason, only exist since we imagine them to exist. Unlike small communities in which everyone knows everyone else, nations have too many members, and the vast majority of whom will never, and can never, meet. That is, they are not natural, organic, or just plain given, but instead the result of an act of creation. Nations are “imagined communities,” we are told. While the book is a brilliant exposition of the nature of nationalism, and well worth its fame, it is more than anything the title of the book that has been turned into a meme. Google Scholar counts some 112,589 citations, a number which should be enough to give you tenure at a major university at least ten times over. Even forty years after its initial publication, it is widely referenced, and a standard feature on reading lists everywhere. Benedict Anderson’s book on nationalism is a modern classic ( Anderson 2006). Leonnig reports that the agent concerned did not face disciplinary action as neither he nor the agency were official guardians of Vanessa Trump at that point. Vanessa Trump filed for an uncontested divorce in March 2018. In her new book, she writes that Secret Service agents reported that Vanessa Trump, the wife of the president’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr, “started dating one of the agents who had been assigned to her family”. With Philip Rucker, Leonnig also co-authored A Very Stable Genius: Donald J Trump’s Testing of America, a well-received 2020 White House exposé. She was also part of the Post team which won a Pulitzer for its work on Edward Snowden’s leaks about National Security Agency surveillance techniques and reported extensively on Russian election interference and links between Trump and Moscow. Leonnig won a Pulitzer prize in 2015, for her reporting on security failures at the Secret Service. Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, by the Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig, is published next week. Together they cover a wide array of subjects-from sex work to climate change, from race and gender to sex and drugs-building new narratives about how politics can feel good and how what feels good always has a complex politics of its own. Her mindset-altering essays are interwoven with conversations and insights from other feminist thinkers, including Audre Lorde, Joan Morgan, Cara Page, Sonya Renee Taylor, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, she challenges us to rethink the ground rules of activism. How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls "pleasure activism," a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. He finds he must test his mettle and powers of command to emerge a local hero-or the deadest of dupes. cop who goes to a small town only to find a mystery after the other, intervening in a. Against all this, Jesse stands utterly alone, with no one to trust-even he and the woman he’s seeing are like ships passing in the night. Parkers Jesse Stone: Night Passage deals with an L.A. For what is on the surface a quiet New England community quickly proves to be a crucible of political and moral corruption-replete with triple homicide, tight Boston mob ties, flamboyantly errant spouses, maddened militiamen and a psychopath-about-town who has fixed his violent sights on the new lawman. Parker (Author) 8,334 ratings Book 1 of 21: Jesse Stone Novels See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 24.78 89 Used from 3.50 12 New from 13.41 5 Collectible from 14. Once on board, Jesse doesn’t have to look for trouble in Paradise: it comes to him. Parker Actor Richard Masur rises to the occasion and provides a well-acted and engaging reading of this involving thriller by Spenser creator Robert B. Night Passage (Jesse Stone Novels) Paperback Jby Robert B. He can’t help wondering if this job is a genuine chance to start over, the kind of offer he can’t refuse. So he’s shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. Parker introduces readers to police chief Jesse Stone in the first novel in the beloved mystery series-a New York Times bestseller.Īfter a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, thirty-five-year-old Jesse Stone’s future looks bleak. |