![]() ![]() ![]() She can’t be thrust into the spotlight- again.īut instead of grieving this tragedy, people are gossiping, the police are getting suspicious, and Ellice, the company’s lone black attorney, is promoted to replace her boss. Why? Ellice has been keeping a cache of dark secrets, including a small-town past and a kid brother who’s spent time on the other side of the law. But everything changes one cold January morning when Ellice arrives in the executive suite and finds him dead with a gunshot to his head.Īnd then she walks away like nothing has happened. A debut perfect for fans of Attica Locke, Alyssa Cole, Harlan Coben, and Celeste Ng, with shades of How to Get Away with Murder and John Grisham’s The Firm.Įllice Littlejohn seemingly has it all: an Ivy League law degree, a well-paying job as a corporate attorney in midtown Atlanta, great friends, and a “for fun” relationship with a rich, charming executive, who just happens to be her white boss. Morris crafts a twisty mystery about a black lawyer who gets caught in a dangerous conspiracy after the sudden death of her boss. Morris brings a vibrant and welcome new voice to the thriller space.” -Karin Slaughter, New York Times and international bestselling author “ All Her Little Secrets is a brilliantly nuanced but powerhouse exploration of race, the legal system, and the crushing pressure of keeping secrets. ![]()
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The big friendship7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() They are probably struggling and going through the same tough stuff that you are and would love for someone to hear them out. I think a better question to go back to your friends with is, "Hey, can we make some meaningful time to catch up?" Or "Can you tell me about what's keeping you busy these days?" I think people underestimate how much impact a direct question can have. When people do not have time to get back to you or you feel that they're being terse or short, the question really is, "What's up with them?" And a lot of times it just means that they're incredibly busy and it usually doesn't have anything to do with you at all. Your "What's wrong with me?" question is so telling. ![]() It is hard, and it takes work for everyone. And so something embedded in this question tells me that you think it should be easy or that it's easy for other people, and I just want to start with that. T he self-help section of the bookstore is filled with guides on how to fix your marriage, but experts have offered little advice on how to. What's wrong with me? - Fading friendshipsįirst, I want to say that it's really hard to make and keep friends even if they are people you've known for decades. Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman. I still reach out, but their responses come slower and slower. In this book, they bring that energy to their own friendshipits joys and its pitfalls. Life Kit Accept The Awkwardness: How To Make Friends (And Keep Them)Įveryone I know has friends from decades ago. ![]() ![]() After the stint, he worked as a teacher in various schools until 1967. After graduating from the school in 1954, he worked as a teacher in an English school in Kuala Terengganu. ![]() He and one sibling of his were able to attend their studies at the Sultan Abdul Hamid College in Alor Setar through financial aid provided by the intelligence services as a reward to their father for his services - amidst common fears by most villagers that their children might embrace Christianity if they were educated in such schools at that time. Shahnon's father had been previously working as a staff at the surveyor department, then a postman until the Second World War when the British forces hired him as a clandestine spy. ![]() Shahnon was born on 13 January 1933 as the youngest child to a peasant family in Banggol-Derdap, Sik, Kedah his father Ahmad Abu Bakar hailed from Medan in the Dutch East Indies while Kelsum Mohd Saman was a Pattani native whose father came to settle in Malaya from Kampong Poseng in southern Thailand in the late 19th century. ![]() ![]() He was also a Professor Emeritus at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang. He was awarded with the National Literary Award in 1982. Dato' Haji Shahnon bin Ahmad (Janu– December 26, 2017) was a Malaysian writer, a National Laureate, and a Member of Parliament. ![]() A world of curiosity louise penny7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Gamache and Beauvoir's memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Now they've arrived in the village of Three Pines. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. ![]() A young man and woman have reappeared in the Surete du Quebec investigators' lives after many years. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge.Īs the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. But not everything buried should come alive again. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. Gamache is a fascinatingly complex protagonist' BOOK OF THE MONTH, THE TIMES the bodies pile up, the intensity and horror are reminiscent of Thomas Harris at his finest. *** SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN *** ![]() Graphic novel by alan moore7/6/2023 ![]() Was this real? Some clever forgery? The lengthy document went on to lay out a deliriously complicated story, seen by Moore as his follow-up to Watchmen. Then, in the early 90s, someone anonymously posted a file on the still-new internet: TwilightOfTheSuperheroes_djvu.txt.Īn unpublished series proposal for DC Comics by Alan Moore Whatever it was, this mystery project would change comics forever-that is, if it actually existed.įor the better part of the late 80s, all comics fans knew was the name: Twilight of the Superheroes. More of Moore: his trademark noir style, novelistic storytelling, violence and grit, and playful intertextual games. They’d heard it would be like Watchmen, only even better. That the legendary Alan Moore, writer and creator of From Hell and V for Vendetta, had written another masterpiece, something no one had ever seen. Whispers in the halls of the DC Comics offices buzz among fans as they gathered at annual conventions. ![]() ![]() It was just a rumor, but a persistent one. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work. ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:wretchedofearth0000fano_i4t5:epub:2c0e4144-1e71-45dc-b5f4-3155d6fce564 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier wretchedofearth0000fano_i4t5 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2fvj4fjmtk Invoice 1652 Isbn 0802150837 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9908 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA15171 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:05:18 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40310911 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() Exhalation stories by ted chiang7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Black Mirror, a reworking of the immortal Twilight Zone, first ran on Channel 4 in 2011 but slowly gathered notoriety and ended up on Netflix, revitalized and Americanized, in 2016. This all isn’t to disparage escapism, but to apply a critical eye to a wider scope of science fiction stories - many of which have become popular in recent years. ![]() It’s not unlike imagining life in a new city, with the idealism of a fresh start giving way to banality once the unknown becomes routine. ![]() Science fiction and fantasy, across all art forms, is frequently a clever vessel for nostalgic escapism the fact that these wondrous places and lives are so foreign to us is intentional, the allure so potent as to be almost promising even if unachievably so. Much like a dictator’s reign becomes increasingly normalized, the proliferation of AI, flying cars, and even the end of the world will not be particularly extraordinary to those alive at the time. As much as we can be sure that the world will end someday, we might also find solace in the fact that even the most dire of circumstances will always find a way of becoming mundane. Our tendency, as a culture, to explore science fiction either as a gimmick or as a means of forecasting the apocalypse can be limiting in scope. ![]() Succubus on Top by Richelle Mead7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Georgina is going to have to work solo on this one-and fast, because soon, Doug's life won't be the only one on the line. Praise for Richelle Mead and her Succubus series 'Richelle Mead delivers sexy action and tongue-in-cheek hellish humorif damnation is this fun, sign me up'Lilith Saintcrow, author of The Devil's Right Hand 'This is one of those series I'm going to keep following. She could use an assist from Bastien, an irresistibly charming incubus and her best immortal friend, but he's giving Georgina some highly distracting come-hither vibes. We have dispatched from our book depository items of good condition to over ten million satisfied customers worldwide. Simply Brit Shipped with Premium postal service within 24 hours from the UK with impressive delivery time. ![]() Doug, Georgina's co-worker at a local bookstore, has been exhibiting bizarre behavior, and Georgina suspects something far more demonic than double espressos. Succubus On Top (A.K.A.: Succubus Nights): 2 by Richelle Mead. It's not just her personal life that's in chaos. Admittedly, the shape shifting and immortality perks of a succubus are terrific, but it's completely unfair that a she-demon whose purpose is seduction can't get down with the one mortal who accepts her for who she is. If she so much as kisses Seth Mortensen, the shy, sexy writer she's been dating, she'll drain his life force. ![]() Love hurts, and no one knows it better than Georgina Kincaid. Succubus On Top is the second book in the Georgina Kincaid series. ![]() Thomas piketty 21st century7/5/2023 ![]() Piketty’s contention is that in the 21st century wealth has become more and more concentrated in the form of capital, owned by a minuscule few who sit happily on its colossal growing income – like the aristocrats of pre-revolutionary Europe and non-revolutionary Britain – and that the politically galvanising forces of the Industrial Revolution and vast democratising movements of the 20th century – the New Deal, the welfare state, bank regulation, rent controls etc – are increasingly looking like a blip.Īfter a slightly perfunctory look at the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Soviet communism, the film takes us through the triumph of capitalism and its egregious excesses, this with the help of bling montages that reminded me of the opening credits to HBO’s TV show Succession. ![]() J ustin Pemberton’s documentary, based on the bestselling book by French economist Thomas Piketty, tells us a story no less depressing or gruesomely hypnotic for being so familiar – like observing a slo-mo driverless car crash from the passenger seat. ![]() American doll birthday party7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The first surprises were a bed, robe, and slippers for Melody in the room. What my daughter didn’t know at the time is that she was going to get the full American Girl experience at the hotel. It all started on Saturday afternoon when we checked into the Omni Berkshire Hotel here in New York City which is an American Girl partner hotel. I knew no regular gift or party would do the trick so when I realized how much she loves her American Girl doll, Melody that she received last month I thought an American Girl Birthday celebration would be perfect for her. Well, this turned out to be an American Girl Birthday dream come true for The Princess Fairy. The Princess Fairy’s been counting down her birthday for the last 12 months! Yes, since she went to bed the night of her last birthday, the countdown to this birthday started. ![]() |