![]() ![]() ![]() But one fateful day Stella fails to find a bomb that explodes, killing Connie and leaving Stella traumatized.Īs the novel begins, Stella is living with a foster parent and struggling to understand what has happened to take Connie away from her. They worked as a team at the airport, where Stella’s job was to sniff out bombs and other dangerous items. Stella is a beagle who lived a happy and fulfilled life with her beloved handler Connie. ![]() I thought about Maisy as I read Stella, McCall Hoyle’s first book for middle schoolers. She often retreated to the security of her crate, looking sad and confused. She wasn’t sure where she should sit, or how to let someone know that she needed to go outside to ‘squat.’ Going in and out of doors spooked her, and she was hesitant around new people. She is a sweet girl and wanted to be good but didn’t know exactly what was expected of her. When my son and his wife brought her home, she was fearful of everything. My new granddog Maisy spent the first six months of her life in an animal shelter. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Divorced and shunned by the locals in the nearest small town of Balamara for committing one of the cardinal sins of the Outback, he spends most of his time on his own except for when his ex-wife, Jacqui, allows their 16-year-old son, Xander, to stay with him. It’s a week before Christmas in Queensland, Australia.Ĥ2-year-old Nathan Bright runs a failing cattle farm deep in the Australian Outback. I earn commission on any purchases made through these links. You can order THE LOST MAN by Jane Harper from Amazon UK, Waterstone’s or UK. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book. ![]() Did he choose to walk to his death? Because if he didn’t, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects … The family’s quiet existence is thrown into grief and anguish. But today, the scant shadow it casts was the last hope for their middle brother, Cameron. They are at the stockman’s grave, a landmark so old that no one can remember who is buried there. In an isolated part of Australia, they are each other’s nearest neighbours, their homes hours apart. Two brothers meet at the remote border of their vast cattle properties under the relenting sun of the outback. Whatever had been going through Cameron’s mind when he was alive, he didn’t look peaceful in death. He had started to remove his clothes as logic had deserted him, and his skin was cracked. ![]() ![]() ![]() The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master "whose charm was as conspicuous as her fatness" and "thin, plain, tense, sour" Alice B. Toklas's legendary 40-year partnership with the brilliant modernist Gertrude Stein in Two Lives, clearing up a few mysteries along the way-including how two Jewish women were able to survive World War II in their provincial French ch'teau with the help of a Vichy collaborator."- Vogue "Shrewd, humane, and beautifully written."- John Gross, Wall Street Journal "How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. Toklas "Janet Malcolm deftly captures Alice B. ![]() ![]() Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography: the story of the mystifying relationship between the brilliant and affable Gertrude Stein and her brooding companion, Alice B. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Virginia Woolf was born in 1882, horses and carriages rattled past her home in Kensington by the time she died in 1941, formations of jet aircraft roared overhead and threatened oblivion from the air. The impact of two world wars, prolonged economic depression in the 1930s, and the rise of the USA and the Soviet Union as rival world powers meant that by the latter half of the twentieth century, Britain had lost its global pre-eminence, and witnessed radical social, cultural, and political changes. Yet between the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, when Woolf was 19, and the end of the Second World War, almost every aspect of British life changed. ![]() In people’s daily lives the church occupied a central place, and class positions and gender roles seemed fixed. The British Empire was at the height of its power and influence. In the nineteenth century, the industrial revolution had made Britain the ‘factory to the world’ and solidified its economic power. The period of Virginia Woolf’s life spanned the transition from the Victorian to the modern world. Photograph of Queen Victoria taken by Alexander Bassano in 1882, the year of Virginia Woolf’s birth. ![]() ![]() With lives and love on the line, the stakes couldn’t be higher in this fast-paced, thrilling novel from the #1 bestselling author of The Inheritance Games, perfect for fans of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder and One of Us Is Lying. As personal issues and tensions between the team mount, Cassie and the Naturals will be faced with impossible odds - and impossible choices. For the first time in years, there's been a break in her mother's case. ![]() Meanwhile, Cassie is dealing with an equally dangerous and much more painful mystery. Hidden in the numbers is a code - and the closer the Naturals come to unraveling the mystery, the more perilous the case becomes. And each victim has a string of numbers tattooed on their wrist. All of the victims were killed in public, yet the killer does not show up on any security feed. But even with the team's unique profiling talents, these murders seem baffling: unlike many serial killers, this one uses different methods every time. ![]() After a string of brutal murders in Las Vegas, Cassie Hobbes and the Naturals are called in to investigate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Regardless of attributed name, Dolan/Brecher is an astute observer of modern warfare who now turns that keen analysis to the most classical of documented battles, The Iliad. Dolan's version of The Iliad is sapped of the usual saccharine romance attributed to "heroes" and lets the action tell the story. John Dolan's work under the nom de guerre "Gary Brecher The War Nerd" has been met with both acclaim and controversy. He strips away clunky, archaic language to reveal the true meaning and themes that animate this tale of war and futility. But in Dolan's version, you'll be amazed at how funny, raw, and terrifying this doomed world of war really is. The Greeks and Trojans are still fighting. Poet, novelist, essayist, and former teacher John Dolan revisits this ancient tale and restores it to its ancient glory. ![]() But who has really read the text? Until now, The Iliad was hijacked by academics and used to bludgeon schoolchildren as a boring-yet- mandatory reading. We're taught that The Iliad is a foundational text of civilization. We recognize the names: Achilles, Odysseus, Zeus, and Apollo. ![]() ![]() Most characters are white except for some secondary characters whose names suggest ethnic diversity Ethan is gay.Ī just-right combination of sweet and cheesy. ![]() Amid all the digital hoopla is an engaging story about family loyalty and pursuing one’s own passions. ![]() From meme wars to social media marketing, Lord accurately depicts various sides of today’s online culture. While their public slam down goes viral, Pepper and Jack anonymously confide in one another through an online messaging app called Weazel, which Jack developed himself. Unbeknownst to him, Pepper, instructed by her mother, claps back, and a battle ensues. When Big League Burger announces the release of a new menu item called “Grandma’s Special,” a sandwich that is a copy of a Campbell family classic, Jack tweets a snarky response through Girl Cheesing’s account. ![]() Classmate and funny guy Jack Campbell feels overshadowed by his gifted identical twin brother, Ethan, a feeling that grows when their father hints that he expects Jack to take over their family’s deli, Girl Cheesing, while Ethan goes on to greater things. Though unsure of her aspirations after high school, high-achieving student Pepper Evans is sure that good grades and entrance into a top college will please her mother, co-founder of Big League Burger, one of the country’s top fast-food franchises. Romance and a Twitter war brew between two New York teens whose families run competing eateries in this fresh debut. ![]() ![]() ![]() He also presented Nietzsche as a pioneer of modern psychology and argued that a key to understanding his overall philosophy is to see it as a reaction against Christianity. ![]() More positively, he presented Nietzsche’s ideas about power as one of the great accomplishments of modern philosophy, arguing that his conception of the “will to power” was not a crude apology for ruthless self-assertion but must be linked to Nietzsche’s equally profound ideas about sublimation. ![]() Without ignoring or downplaying the ugliness of many of Nietzsche’s proclamations, he set them in the context of his work as a whole and of the counterexamples yielded by a responsible reading of his books. Responding to the powerful myths and countermyths that had sprung up around Nietzsche, Kaufmann offered a patient, evenhanded account of his life and works, and of the uses and abuses to which subsequent generations had put his ideas. Kaufmann rehabilitated Nietzsche nearly single-handedly, presenting his works as one of the great achievements of Western philosophy. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. ![]() Softcover.”This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. One superficial surface crease to the rear cover, else, bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding near fine. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1974. Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tripp's manifesto is about more than simply our duty as parents - it's about our privilege of being ambassadors of Jesus Christ to our kids. "This is Tripp at his best: he shows us the big picture of life with Christ and gets down to the nitty-gritty specifics of walking by grace through faith. Rather, we need the rescuing grace of God - grace that has the power to shape how we view everything we do as parents. Outlining fourteen foundational principles centred on the gospel, he shows that we need more than the latest parenting strategy or list of techniques. Instead, he presents us with a big-picture view of God's plan for us as parents. In this book, Paul Tripp offers parents much more than a to-do list. Feeling pressure to do everything 'right' and raise up 'good' children, it's easy to lose sight of our ultimate purpose as parents in the quest for practical tips and guaranteed formulas. ![]() Best-selling author Paul David Tripp weaves together his personal story, years of counseling experience, and biblical insights to help us in the midst of suffering. In the midst of folding laundry, coordinating carpool schedules, and breaking up fights, many parents get lost. Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family 224. Seminary The strength of this book lies in the way Tripp shapes his treatment of leadership by two things. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mereka Bilang, Saya Monyet!, published in English as They Say I’m a Monkey, Jangan Main-Main (dengan Kelaminmu), and Nayla: these are the well-known and much-debated works of Djenar Maesa Ayu. Her writing also extends to other genres from four prize-winning books of The Jakarta Good Food Guide to opinion articles for the Guardian, poetry, short stories, philosophical essays, and she has many more in the pipeline. ![]() Aruna and Her Palate, Laksmi’s second book, also follows Amba’s footstep in getting translated to English. Read on to love Indonesian works, and, we hope, you will love to read about them.Ĭrossing the turbulent period of mass killings in Indonesia from 1965 to 1968 and ancient India’s epic narrative Mahabharata on the Kuruksetra War, Laksmi Pamuntjak’s Amba both won Germany’s Liberaturpreis in 2016 and became a national bestseller. Here we compile seven out of many notable Indonesian writers who paved the future in their own way throughout the decades. Young and productive writers are also growing-sisters Nadia Shafiana Rahma, aged 13, and Nadjma Alya Jasmine, age 14, for example. ![]() Much-loved within Indonesia’s fertile literary scene, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival is always highly anticipated with its exciting international and local lineups. “We, the sons and daughters of Indonesia, respect the language of unity, Bahasa Indonesia.” These words that close off the last lines of the Youth Pledge, first recited on October 28, 1928, during the Second Youth Congress, are resonating even louder this month of Literature and Language. ![]() |