![]() ![]() This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. “A book to break your heart and heal it.” ―Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, The SympathizerĪn intimate and poignant debut graphic novel portraying one family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam, from Thi Bui. “Gives powerful context to refugees everywhere.” - New York Times Book Review National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) FinalistĪmerican Library Association (ALA) 2018 Notable Books Selection ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() You'll find out how positive thinking can change your life, build mental resilience, learn how to navigate adversity and discover the unstoppable power of your own voice. In You Are a Champion: Unlock Your Potential, Find Your Voice and Be the BEST You Can Be, Marcus Rashford MBE draws on stories from his own life to show you that success is all about the mindset. ![]() In this inspiring, positive and practical guide, Marcus gives YOU the tools you need to reach your full potential and will show you that your possibilities really can be endless. Marcus Rashford MBE is recognised worldwide for his journey both on-and-off the pitch - but how did a boy from the South of Manchester become not only an International footballer but also one of the leading activist voices in the UK? You are only in competition with yourself. ![]() ![]() This threesome's doings will keep the pages turning, and readers will enjoy having an opportunity to KIT, er, keep in touch, with these caring friends. When Zoe confronts wild Maddie about her drug use, Maddie challenges her good girlfriend to "name 1 thing u've done recently that pushed u out of your comfort zone." Ultimately, both girls realize they have some changing to do-and they do change, with help from each other. A story line about a love triangle among Zoe, Angela and a boy covers well-trod territory, but Zoe and Maddie have a more complex tension between them. ")-Maddie even explains googlewhacks, "where u type in words on google and try to get only 1 hit." The fun format does lead to some occasionally clunky exchanges, however, as the friends at times weave too much exposition into their dialogue. ![]() ![]() The author seems to have a genuine appreciation for online culture she includes emoticons, slang spellings and one character's stage directions (" strikes a tragically romantic pose Meanwhile, Maddie starts smoking marijuana, trying to impress a boy who has another girlfriend, while Zoe worries that she's "frigid" because she's hesitant about getting physical with her new boyfriend. Investigating the effect of a fluoroethylene carbonate additive on lithium deposition and the solid electrolyte interphase in lithium metal batteries using in situ NMR spectroscopy. In this installment, Angela is heartbroken when her father is laid off, forcing her to move from Georgia to California. , again composing her novel entirely in instant messages among the three. Myracle returns to the trio of friends she introduced in ttyl ![]() ![]() Jamie Ford is the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Kyung-sook Shin’s elegantly spare prose is a joy to read, but it is the quiet interstitial space between her words, where our own remembrances and regrets are allowed to seep in, that convicts each one of us to our core. Each chapter adds a layer to the story’s depth and complexity, until we are left with an indelible portrait of a woman whose entire identity, despite her secret desires, is tied up in her children and the heartbreaking loss that is felt when family bonds loosen over time. ![]() Please Look After Mom is the story of a mother, and her family’s search for her after she goes missing in a crowded train station, told through four richly imagined voices: her daughter’s, her oldest son’s, her husband’s, and finally her own. And with this gesture, we catch a glimpse of the depth of love she has for her first-born and the duty-bound sacrifices she’s made on behalf her family. “I can fall asleep better if I’m next to the wall,” she says. At night, they sleep on the floor and she offers to lie next to the wall to shield him from a draft. ![]() He lives in a duty office in the building where he works, because he can't afford an apartment. ![]() Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2011: There is a simple, yet remarkable, scene in Kyung-sook Shin’s novel, Please Look After Mom, where the book’s title character visits her adult son in Seoul. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jeff finds himself a millionaire, owner of a huge investment firm, but he alienates his wife from his previous life. He realizes that he knows the future, and he bets on horse races and the World Series. He wakes up in his college days, in 1963, at eighteen, and at first he can't believe it. Finally, Jeff finds himself replaying over and over the moment of his death, until he comes out the other side with a fresh, unknown future in front of him.Īs the story begins, in October 1988, Jeff is dying. Soon, they will die, and they search desperately for answers, only to cause more problems. Then they realize their replays are becoming shorter and shorter. Eventually he meets and falls in love with Pamela, a "replayer" like himself. He struggles with the meaninglessness of this repetitive life without a future, sometimes taking respite in drugs and sex. In Replay, Jeff Winston repeatedly dies and wakes up earlier in his life, living out 25 years over and over. ![]() ![]() (I may have come to find out who committed the murder, but I left with a recipe for ube crinkle cookies.) I bring up Manansala’s food writing because it was one of my favorite aspects of this book - I had numerous issues with the plot and mystery itself, but the way she writes about dishes like almondigas and mamón was truly stunning, with entire lines dedicated to describing a food’s appearance, scent, texture, and taste. Mansala’s food writing was so evocative and immersive that the smell of a Filipino bakery never left my mind as I read. Have you ever been to a Filipino bakery? If you have, you know that they, not Disneyland, deserve to be named “The Happiest Place(s) on Earth” - the sweet smell of freshly-made pandesal, little towers of hopia, and bright splashes of purple in various ube desserts are almost unmatched in their ability to bring me comfort and joy.ĭespite ARSENIC AND ADOBO being a murder-mystery, with dead bodies and vicious attacks galore, Mia P. When someone rejected her food, they were really rejecting her heart.” Food was how she found her place in the world. “In typical Filipino fashion, my aunt expressed her love not through words of encouragement or affectionate embraces, but through food. ![]() ![]() Special Agent Ethan Burke is involved in an accident on his way into Wayward Pines, Idaho - a place where two missing agents were last supposed to be. Perhaps I wouldn't have picked up on it if I hadn't already seen a diverse cast in the show, but it was like coming to a lesser, whitewashed version of the story I've come to love. ![]() And the pearly-whiteness of the cast of characters practically glows from the pages. It's impossible not to notice how every woman becomes hot or "cute". ![]() Pines is built on a fantastic idea - no, really, a truly epic idea - and that strength just about manages to carry the book despite some poor writing, an asshole protagonist, and an exceptional lack of diversity that, given the situation, has even more troubling implications than usual.Ĭoming into this book after watching the show definitely affects how you view it. Yes, I know the "reveal" has been spoiled, but that really wasn't my problem with it. The strengthening sense that something was very, very wrong.Īs with The Magicians, I have to confess I like the TV series Wayward Pines far better than the book. And the base emotion underlying it all that was getting harder and harder to ignore. ![]() ![]() ![]() He says the opposite, of course, but decades of the applications of his prescriptions have turned America into a grossly and increasingly unequal society. Naturally, this freedom he is so fond of generally equates to a freedom for the majority to have less while the few are given much more. ![]() It is hard to imagine anything more mean-spirited than such a person. He rails against equality as all liberals (in the traditional definition of that term) tend to. Friedman is only interested in what he refers to as freedom. The French Revolution was fought under a flag of three colours and for three causes, Liberté, égalité, fraternité – Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood. If one needed proof that much of modern economics is an exercise in ideology and self-interested appeals on behalf of the obscenely wealthy then this book provides ample evidence. This book is an interesting case of modern day sophistry – where the worse argument is made to appear the better. ![]() ![]() ![]() You do not need to be registered with a GP. Now correctly diagnosed and medicated (and with a healthy dose of inspiration from Elvis), Greg is concentrating on getting back to his first love - music. ![]() You can find a walk-in COVID-19 vaccination site to get a vaccine without an appointment. You can use textphone 18001 or the NHS 119 British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter service if you have difficulties communicating or hearing, or if you are a BSL user. If you have difficulties communicating or hearing You can speak to a translator if you need to. You can call 119 free of charge to book over the phone if you are not able to book online. To change or cancel your appointment, you’ll need the booking reference number we sent you. The service will check if you need a vaccine before you book. Find out how to register with a GP surgery if you're not registered. You can use this service if you're registered with a GP surgery in England. check your existing appointment details. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The purpose of this library is to assist the students and the lifelong learners of India in their pursuit of an education so that they may better their status and their opportunities and to secure for themselves and for others justice, social, economic and political. This item is part of a library of books, audio, video, and other materials from and about India is curated and maintained by Public Resource. Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-540) and index By the end, the gap had shrunk in places to 20 miles When the encounter began the frontiers of Russia and British India lay some 2000 apart. Xiv, 562 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cmĪn account of the encounter last century between the British in India and Tsarist Russia in Central Asia which became known as the "Great Game". ![]() We encourage you to visit them, and subscribe to their list for updates on new books as they are uploaded. This book was copied from the amazing and wonderful PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset, a labor of love by two dedicated and talented historians. ![]() |