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Bombproof by Michael Robotham6/10/2023 Members Reviews: Consistently Excellent! Like all of his other books Bombproof is another Michael Robotham winner! Well written, suspenseful, engaging and exciting! I listened to it in 2 days and really didn't want to turn it off. Fast, funny, hip and violent, Bombproof is a nonstop adventure full of unforgettable characters and a heartwarming hero - Sami Macbeth - a man with the uncanny ability to turn a desperate situation into a hopeless one. Now he's carrying a rucksack through London's West End and has turned himself into the most wanted terrorist in the country. Thirty-six hours ago he slept with the woman of his dreams at the Savoy. Fifty-four hours ago Sami was released from prison. Sami plays guitar and wants to be a rock god but keeps getting side-tracked by unforeseen circumstances. Listen to audiobook in full for free on Title: Bombproof Author: Michael Robotham Narrator: Sean Barrett Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 02-11-14 Publisher: Hachette Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 361 votes Genres: Fiction, Humor Publisher's Summary: A kinetic standalone from "first-class storyteller" Michael Robotham (San Francisco Chronicle).
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Popisho book6/10/2023 This One Sky Day is the wonderfully exuberant third novel from Leone Ross, published in the US as Popisho. From the gods: a thing so inexpressibly your own. Shortlisted for the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize, longlisted for the Women's Prize for FictionĮveryone in Popisho was born with a little something-something, boy, a little something extra. Before it comes, before the end of the day, this wildly imaginative narrative will take us across the islands, their history, and into the lives of unforgettable characters. And graffiti messages from an unknown source are asking hard questions. The governor’s daughter, Sonteine, is getting married, her father demanding a feast out of turn. Anise, his long lost love, is on a march toward reckoning with her healing powers. Xavier Redchoose is the macaenus of his generation, anointed by the gods to make each resident one perfect meal when the time is right. A place of stunning beauty and incorrigible mischief, destiny and mystery, it is also a place in need of change. Somewhere far away- or maybe right nearby- lies an archipelago called Popisho. From the gods: a thing that felt so inexpressibly your own. Everyone in Popisho was born with a little something… The local name for it was cors. A sensual novel, Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are broken, and love awaits.
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Also, I think my son didn't really get the whole moral of the story. My son is a HUGE fan of Mike Mulligan and Choo Choo so we have been checking all her other books out of the library each week. " Just finitely not as great as some of her other books. " What a GREAT look at the San Fransisco cable cars. " i really loved this story as one of tender conservation, but there was a little too much information going on to hold the interest of the kids, even with my voices, noises and faces. Maybelle the Cable Car Paperback Picture Book, Maby Virginia Lee Burton (Author, Illustrator) 234 ratings Kindle Edition 11.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 59.78 1 Used from 59.78 1 New from 132.00 Paperback 11.87 21 Used from 6.25 15 New from 10. " great book that shows SF Cable cars and history of SF. " i really loved this story as one of tender conservation, but there was a little too much information going on to hold the interest of the kids, even with my voices, noises and faces. " Beautiful story about historical cable cars and an effort to save them. Probably not an everyday read but we enjoyed it from the library. " 47 months - a fairly wordy book recounting how the San Francisco trolleys were saved. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.
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The indistractable6/9/2023 Until recently, Eyal was what MIT Technology Review called “Silicon Valley’s most visible advocate of habit-forming technology”. And I shouldn’t worry about being late: “Maybe you can use it in your article, as your introduction.” Obviously, I will have time to think of a better introduction, but I thank him anyway. He dropped his daughter off at science camp this morning, he explains, which is why he picked this spot he hopes it wasn’t inconvenient. Or, at the very least, be on time for appointments.ĭressed in Tech Dad chic – a crisp button-down shirt and jeans – Eyal already has coffee and looks busy when I burst in. The hope is that he will teach me, a chronic procrastinator, how to stop wasting my life scrolling through my phone, and finally write that novel. Being late is never ideal, but it’s particularly embarrassing because I’m meeting Eyal to discuss his new book, Indistractable: How To Control Your Attention And Choose Your Life, a guide to staying focused in an age of constant distraction. I am 10 minutes late for my interview with behavioural scientist Nir Eyal, and run into the Manhattan cafe where we’re meeting, a dishevelled and apologetic mess.
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Drops of gold sarah m eden6/9/2023 Her novel, The Lady and the Highwayman, won gold in the 2019 Foreword Indies Book of the Year awards.Įden won two 2014 Whitney Awards, one for best romance and one for best novel of the year. Since that beginning, she has written numerous others, including, For Elise, Glimmer of Hope, As You Are, The Kiss of a Stranger, Friends and Foes, Courting Miss Lancaster, Seeking Persephone, Drops of Gold, An Unlikely Match, Healing Hearts, The Heart of a Vicar, and the Longing for Home series as well as the Gents series. Her first novel, The Ramshackle Knight, was published in 2007. Due to a background in social science research, Sarah devoted the next year learning how to write before she started to write. One day she complained to her mother that she found it difficult to find the kind of “less steamy” romance novels that she preferred to read, and her mother told her she should write one. She had read historical romance for many years but never thought to write one. Sarah Miller Eden is an award-winning historical romance novelist.
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The communist manifesto by karl marx6/9/2023 Formulating the principles of dialectical materialism, they believed that labor creates wealth, hence capitalism is exploitive and antithetical to freedom. Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, "The Communist Manifesto" is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels developed during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration. The Communist Manifesto still remains a landmark text: a work that continues to influence and provoke debate on capitalism and class. This vision provided the theoretical basis of political systems in Russia, China, Cuba and Eastern Europe, affecting the lives of millions. They argue that increasing exploitation of industrial workers will eventually lead to a revolution in which Capitalism is overthrown. After four years of collaboration the authors produced this incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage a society without classes, private property or a state. The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes, is one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated.
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Country for old men book6/9/2023 In his book Aerial Odyssey, he offered the following introduction to Mexico, “without charge, to any transportation, tourist agency, or hotel which cares to use it”: Alexander Powell flew to two dozen republics and colonies “fringing and dotting the Caribbean,” in “half that number of weeks,” relying heavily on Pan Am clippers, a flying boat.
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This beautifully illustrated book explores the meaning behind Hokusai's Great Wave, in the context of the Mount Fuji series and Japanese art as a whole. One of the most famous pieces of Japanese art, this extraordinary artwork has had a huge impact worldwide and has served as a source of inspiration to artists, both past and present. One of a monumental series known as 'Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji', Hokusai's Great Wave - with the graceful snow-clad Mount Fuji on the horizon, unperturbed but wittily dwarfed by the towering strength of the wave that threatens to engulf the struggling boats - has become an iconic image of the power of nature and the relative smallness of man. The print, of which numerous multiples were made, shows a monster of a wave rearing up and about to come crashing down on three fishing boats and their crews. 'The Great Wave' is a colour woodblock print designed by Japanese artist Hokusai in around 1830.
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Fox in socks first edition6/8/2023 Seuss's best-selling books, including such perennial favourites as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and Fox in Socks. As part of a major rebrand programme, HarperCollins is relaunching 17 of Dr. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranked among the UK's top ten favourite children's authors, Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller, with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Knox some of the slickest, quickest tongue-twisters in town, and you can read along too - if your tongue can manage it! With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Knox some of the slickest, quickest tongue-twisters in town. In this hilarious book, the irrepressible Fox in Socks teaches a baffled Mr.
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Soma wasson6/8/2023 Psilocybin was declared to be schedule one drug and because of the stigma attached to it, research on the compound was kept to a minimum, until very recently.Ī controlled study funded by the US government at the Johns Hopkins University has now validated what Mr Wasson had been preaching all along: volunteers who took the psychedelic mushrooms had ‘mystical’ experiences. That did not, however, prevent the subsequent public backlash against psychoactive drug abuse and the flower-power lifestyle associated with it. Mr Wasson was the first to suggest that the divine ecstasy produced by Soma was ‘entheogenic’, a term he coined to avoid the more popular but profane label ‘psychedelic’. Prior to his research, it was widely believed that Vedic rites of the Aryans involving Soma were based on alcoholic beverages that produced inebriation. Mr Wasson’s work helped change our understanding of the origin of religion. |