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Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier5/22/2023 ![]() In its statement, the nonprofit apologizes for its inclusion of "an anti-trans book." ![]() On July 14, ABA released a statement apologizing for including "Irreversible Damage" in its July white box, which promotes new titles for booksellers and buyers across the country. Their complicity in the growing popularity of "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters" by Abigail Shrier is raising fierce debate about the responsibility of book publishers and sellers when it comes circulating transphobic, inaccurate and dehumanizing content. ![]() Just one month after Pride in June, the American Booksellers Association, Amazon and Target are in hot water over their promotion of a controversial book that presents transgender identity as a mental illness. ![]()
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Come fly with me julia cooke5/22/2023 ![]() Finally, with Operation Babylift-the dramatic evacuation of 2,000 children during the fall of Saigon-the book’s special cast of stewardesses unites to play an extraordinary role on the world stage. Cooke brings to light the story of Pan Am stewardesses’ role in the Vietnam War, as the airline added runs from Saigon to Hong Kong for planeloads of weary young soldiers straight from the battlefields, who were off for five days of R&R, and then flown back to war. ![]() Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 19 also had to be between 5′3″ and 5′9″, between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of hire.Ĭooke’s intimate storytelling weaves together the real-life stories of a memorable cast of characters, from small-town girl Lynne Totten, a science major who decided life in a lab was not for her, to Hazel Bowie, one of the relatively few Black stewardesses of the era, as they embraced the liberation of their new jet-set life. Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men–era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up. ![]()
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![]() Goodbar," the right bar, is always the next one - the final escape from another restless night at home. In this spellbinding novel, Judith Rossner writes with haunting intensity of the temptations and problems of a young woman of today alone in a big city where there are opportunities for a different kind of life - a life that relieves the boredom of work or dispels the chill of solitude, a life where you can have sex with strangers, where "Mr. until one New Year's Day when she is murdered. Goodbar is the story of the life and death of Terry Dunn - an attractive young schoolteacher, educated in parochial school, from a respectable family - the kind of girl you don't notice very much, the kind of girl who seems to have everything under control. ![]() MOVIE TIE-IN: This novel was the basis for the 1977 feature film of the same name. ![]() DUST JACKET: Repaired Lightly Creased Heavily Chipped (Portion of Spine Area Missing) Slight Fading Due to Sun Exposure Slight Yellowing Due to Age In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. ![]() New York: Simon and Schuster BOOK: Front Free Endpaper Missing Corners, Spine Bumped Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards Spine Moderately Cocked. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her weekend vodka-drinking seems excessive. Her plan to marry a local rock star in order to impress Mummy is just weird. Though I was instantly won over by her cheerful narration, it wasn’t long before I began to suspect that Eleanor is not as fine as she pretends. In fact, she’s "completely fine." Um, yeah, no. ![]() Sure, she doesn’t have friends, but in general, Eleanor is doing okay. ![]() Thirty years old, she’s a mid-level accountant whose life runs along several well-worn, if lonely, tracks: dinners for one, weekly calls with her spritely, acid-tongued "Mummy," and, most of all, taking pains to avoid humanity. Did they wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Are they just clueless about how conversations work? Or could it be that their life experiences give them reason to be guarded, to be wary of giving other people even the tiniest of ins?Įleanor Oliphant falls-mostly-into the latter category. Ever meet one of those people who, for no clear reason, treats you like you’re not worth the time of day? I often wonder what their reason is for acting like that. ![]()
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X by sue grafton5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Christian was imprisoned for robbing banks, and Hallie wants to contact him. It is a wealthy woman, Hallie Bettancourt, who wants Kinsey to find the contact details of Christian Satterfield, who has just been released on parole. We learn that after inheriting the money from the homeless person who turned out to be a relative of her dad’s, she decided to invest some and kept a part in the bank. Then the book moves to the first person of Kinsey. So what Teddy thought that she should need to steal the painting because there was no way she could tell her ex-husband about the painting. When she went to see the painting, Ari had removed all the contents of the house. Then someone drew Teddy’s attention to a picture in one of the houses, and she was told that it could be a Turner, worth millions of dollars. They had several properties which they divided accordingly. ![]() ![]() The prologue in this book explains that Teddy Xanakis and Ari were a married couple, but when he left her for her best friend, Stella, they got divorced. ![]()
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Harry potter box set jk rowling5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Rowling’s original intention for writing as Robert Galbraith was for the books to be judged on their own merit, and to establish Galbraith as a well-regarded name in crime in its own right. The series has also been adapted for television by the BBC and HBO. The six novels in the series so far, The Cuckoo’s Calling (2013), The Silkworm (2014), Career of Evil ( 2015), Lethal White (2018), Troubled Blood (2020) and The Ink Black Heart (2022) all topped the national and international bestseller lists. Galbraith’s debut into crime fiction garnered acclaim amongst critics and crime fans alike. Robert Galbraith’s Cormoran Strike series is classic contemporary crime fiction from a master story-teller, rich in plot, characterisation and detail. She wanted to write a contemporary whodunit, with a credible back story. ![]() ![]() After Harry Potter, the author chose crime fiction for her next books, a genre she has always loved as a reader. ![]()
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The rooster grisham5/22/2023 ![]() Within minutes of arrival the GM Pierre-Jean came bounding up to us to welcome us, totally unexpected, but his enthusiasm is infectious. We were greeted by an always smiling Louise, who continued to look out for us throughout our stay, she made us feel so welcome. From the moment we arrived it was a lovely experience. We have just got back from the most terrific week at Club Med Magna Marbella. Resort Fuerteventura Origo Mare by Pierre & Vacances.Holiday Village Majorca - Protur Monte Safari.Hotels near Kamaga Bike Tours & Rentals.Hotels near private chefs & exclusive catering Marbella.Hotels near Estacion de Autobuses de Marbella.The Leading Hotels Of The World in Marbella.Club Med Magna Marbella - Andalusia Rooms.Club Med Magna Marbella - Andalusia Pool.Club Med Magna Marbella - Andalusia Features. ![]() ![]() Hotels near Club Med Magna Marbella - Andalusia. ![]()
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Fallen in love lauren kate series5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() The stories included are: Love Where You Least Expect It: The Valentine of Shelby and Miles, Love Lessons: The Valentine of Roland, Burning Love: The Valentine of Arriane and Endless Love: The Valentine of Daniel and Lucinda. This series has delivered glorious settings, fast- paced action and a love that transcends death.Justine magazine Readers will pine right alongside Luce. Set in the Middle Ages, the stories involve characters intertwined by Luce and Daniel – the main characters in the Fallen series. Luce will do anything to find out what draws her to him, even if it kills her.įallen in Love is a collection of four original stories by Lauren Kate. However, Daniel wants no part of her and she can’t accept it. Apparel A new series on Disney+ and Hulu tells the story of Miep Gies. Fallen in Love by Lauren Kate 3.75 44,258 Ratings 1,970 Reviews published 2012 70 editions And in a twist of fate, four extraordinary love st Want to Read Rate it: Book 4 Rapture by Lauren Kate 3. For her, the mysterious boy is the one bright spot in a school full of screw-ups, cameras and no cell phones. Lush hips of mature women attract men who love when there is something to hold on. ![]() ![]() Daniel Grigori has caught Luce Price’s attention at their boarding school in Savannah, Georgia. Fallen Synopses: Fallen is the first of four novels in Lauren Kate’s Fallen series. ![]()
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Deb spera novels5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two of her three children. Told in the pitch-perfect voices of Gertrude, Retta, and Annie, Call Your Daughter Home is an audacious, timeless story about the power of family, deep-buried secrets, and the ferocity of motherhood.ĭeb Spera was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Annie is the matriarch of the Coles family and owner of the Branchville Sewing Circle, a business left to her by her father when he passed. ![]() Retta is navigating a harsh world as a first-generation freed slave, still employed by the Coles, influential plantation proprietors who once owned her family. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters from starvation or die at the hands of an abusive husband. ![]() About the book: It’s 1924 South Carolina and the region is still recovering from the infamous boll weevil infestation that devastated the land and the economy. ![]()
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The book of lights chaim potok5/21/2023 ![]() With an artist's eye, Potok vividly depicts an intense baseball game between Reuven and Danny's teams, where the two meet for the first time. The book provides memorable insight into the conflictions of American Jewish realities and Holocaust-era European Hasidism. The boys help one another choose a path of service from within each other's context. Danny Saunders is the son of a Polish hasidic rebbe who fled the Shoah and brought his followers to America. ![]() ![]() Reuven Malter is the son of a yeshiva teacher who holds (in the eyes of Orthodox Jews) modernist, heretical views on Judaism and Jewish texts. This novel is about two Jewish teenagers growing up in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, during and after the Second World War.īoth are studying to become rabbis. (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, 1967) They change our road choices, confirm (or demolish) our ideas, lead toward or away from God. Hebrew Streams: Book Review: The Chosen (Chaim Potok)fīooks shape us. ![]() |