![]() ![]() ![]() Seductive, unsettling, and beautifully written, The Truants is a debut novel of literary suspense perfect for lovers of Agatha Christie and The Secret History-a thrilling exploration of deceit, first love, and the depths to which obsession can drive us. Together, the two seek refuge on a remote Italian island, where Jess tastes the life she's long dreamed of - and uncovers a shocking secret that will challenge everything she's learned. Swept up in Lorna's thrall, Jess falls in with a tightly-knit group of rule-breakers - Alec, a courageous South African journalist with a nihilistic streak Georgie, a seductive, pill-popping aristocrat and Nick, a handsome geologist with layers of his own.īut when tragedy strikes the group, Jess turns to Lorna. Jess Walker has come to a concrete campus under the flat grey skies of East Anglia for one reason: To be taught by the mesmerizing and rebellious Dr Lorna Clay, whose seminars soon transform Jess's thinking on life, love, and Agatha Christie. ![]() People disappear when they most want to be seen. ![]()
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![]() ![]() (None of my ebooks are DRM-enabled, so there’s no copy protection to fight. ![]() If you don’t have a Kindle, you can read it on the desktop, or download the MOBI file to convert it to a format of your choice in Calibre. The short story is only available on the Kindle right now because I’m running an experiment with KDP Select, which requires that the content stays exclusive to Amazon for a while. I fixed the typos found by readers (and thank you for the ones you’ve emailed me), improved the formatting a bit, and added a Table of Contents. I’ve also uploaded a revised version of “Terms of Enlistment” that should make its way to all the purchasers automatically within the next 48 hours. It’s a very slightly edited version of the one some of you may have read already when I released it on the blog a year or two ago, so if you’ve already read that version, those 0.99 won’t get you anything new except a cover and a convenient Kindle download. ![]() It’s a short story in the “Terms of Enlistment” universe–the tale of rookie Lt. by Marko I released my short story Lucky Thirteen on Amazon Kindle. If you haven’t read the story yet, then THIS IS TOTALLY FOR YOU. In the past, he was a soldier, bookseller, freight dockworker, and corporate IT administrator before he decided that he wasn’t cut out for anything other than making up stuff for a living. It’s a very slightly edited version of the one some of you may have read already when I released it on the blog a year or two ago, so if you’ve already read that version, those $0.99 won’t get you anything new except a cover and a convenient Kindle download. Marko Kloos was born and raised in Germany, in and around the city of Mnster. I released my short story “Lucky Thirteen” on Amazon Kindle. ![]() ![]() She soon realizes that surviving in the Dauntless faction is not easy, and she has to face many challenges. Why? Because she is Divergent and does not want to be a part of any group. On the day of choosing the faction, she surprisingly chooses Dauntless. The story revolves around Beatrice "Tris" Prior (Shailene Woodley), who belongs to the Abnegation faction. But what if someone doesn't fit into any of these factions? They are termed Divergent and are considered a threat to society. The people of a particular faction must follow a specific set of rules and regulations. The divergent series takes you to a dystopian city, Chicago, where the society is divided into five factions: Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless, and Erudite. ![]() If you're a fan of the genre or just looking for a good movie to watch, be sure to check out the Divergent series. The Divergent movies are some of the most popular dystopian films of the past few years. The movies are based on the Divergent book series by Veronica Roth. ![]() The series follows Tris as she tries to survive in this dangerous world. People who don't fit into any section are killed. When she discovers she's Divergent, she's forced to choose between staying with her family or fleeing to another faction. The Divergent series is the story of Tris, a girl who lives in a dystopian world where people are divided into factions based on their personalities. ![]() ![]() ![]() Transgender History includes informative sidebars highlighting quotes from major texts and speeches in transgender history and brief biographies of key players, plus excerpts from transgender memoirs and discussion of treatments of transgenderism in popular culture. ![]() Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of The Transsexual Phenomenon, and lasted through the early 1970s the mid-'70s to 1990, the era of identity politics and the changes witnessed in trans circles through these years and the gender issues witnessed through the '90s and '00s. Find step-by-step solutions and answers to Transgender History: The Roots of Todays Revolution - 9781580056892, as well as thousands of textbooks so you can move forward with confidence. Transgender history: the roots of todays revolution. ![]() A timely second edition of the classic text on transgender history, with a new introduction and updated material throughoutĬovering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Transgender History is a non-fiction book by professor Susan Stryker that provides a concise. ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, Heidegger was a major influence of postmodernist thought. Philosopher Philippe Lemoine describes Heidegger, half-jokingly, as “The only man about whom one can truly say that being a Nazi was the least of his sins.” However, even if you do separate Heidegger’s politics from his philosophy, he may have bigger problems. Especially around 1927 when this book was published. ![]() It’s not clear how much Heidegger’s politics influence his writing. Of what was written, the second division is so muddled, that even after taking a companion class with dozens of hours of lectures, I still have no idea how to make sense of it. The reasons not to read Being and Time are obvious. This post is my attempt to reconcile those two beliefs. It’s also one of the most interesting and thought-provoking books I’ve read in the last decade. I just spent the last two months doing a deep dive trying to understand Martin Heidegger’s seminal work, Being and Time. ![]() ![]() The formidable Tara Moss helmed the opening event, launching the Black and Blue art and poetry exhibition at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, featuring the work of Varuna Alumnus, poet and novelist Mark O’Flynn. With some of the best local and international talent appearing at Varuna, Katoomba’s Carrington Hotel and the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, the Blue Mountains program, presented by Varuna and the SWF, has established itself as a significant satellite to the Sydney events. ![]() Yours truly was lucky enough to participate in the SWF for the second year running, although frantic preparations for my Saturday night event and inadequate childcare unfortunately laid waste to cunning (if transparent) plans to escape to the mountains for a couple of days to attend some of the Varuna events, which I’m sorely sorry to have missed. The 2014 festival was also blessed with picture perfect conditions, the unbroken string of cloudless, warm sunny days rivalling any of summer and perhaps contributing to the record crowds that descended upon the historic Hickson St Wharf precinct. ![]() ![]() Artistic Director Jemma Birrell’s second program was a rich cornucopia of writers, books and ideas, spread across over 300 events and a growing cluster of venues. ![]() May’s annual Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) brought Thinking Season to Sydney and the Blue Mountains. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Harrower’s version and Polly Findlay’s production hover above judgment and go deep into sadness. Having been a writer, Sandy is now about to become a nun: the power of institutional life is evoked in the meshing of school and convent, with acute, suggestive Sylvestra Le Touzel as both mother superior and a headmistress who has sympathetic glimmers beneath her starch. ![]() She ends, shrunken, on a note of terrible plaintiveness.ĭavid Harrower’s version retains Spark’s diamond-edged dialogue but recasts the narrative so that it is seen retrospectively, through the eyes of Sandy, who as a girl was famous for staring. Williams has an extra electric purr to her voice, a shimmy in her movement: it is as if underneath her marvellous red dress (hip-hugging, with three buttons aslant on the shoulder) she is stepping out of a silk slip. A teacher who lifts her pupils’ expectations – and traps them in her own dreams. ![]() Now she shimmeringly incarnates this ambiguous creature: a mixture of the alluring and the ridiculous, a woman who makes her chosen girls long to get out of their gymslips and nibble biscotti while reverencing Giotto. Anyone in doubt that she is one of the strongest and most supple of actors need only glance at her range – from her impeccable Wallis Simpson in The Crown to her magnificent Clytemnestra. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is also home to an orphan named Odie O’Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath. Sort of…ġ932, Minnesota-the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. When I saw that this book had an average of 4.6 stars on Goodreads and that all of my friends had rated it five stars, I thought No way. Sre, this is hard work bu it’s good work because it’s oart of what connects us to this land. ![]() in the dirt, the rain, the sky, the trees, the appls, the stars in the cottonwoods. Many thanks to Atria Books for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest reviewĪnother thanks to Recorded Books for sending me an Audio CD in exchange for an honest reviewĪsk me, God’s right here. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1995 the novel was selected by the Mystery Writers of America as Number 93 of The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time. The Choirboys ( ISBN 8-9), a novel, is a controversial 1975 work of fiction written by Los Angeles Police Department officer-turned-novelist Joseph Wambaugh. The cover of Joseph Wambaugh's classic police fiction story, The Choirboys. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To listen to the rest of the episode, as well as the whole archive of Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine, subscribe and listen on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or wherever else you find your favorite podcasts. The witty, observant, thoughtful essays touch on the pandemic, womanhood, America, families, classism and racism, reading and writing, and what makes life worthwhile. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Michele Cobb discuss Smith’s audiobook, which she reads with a smooth, warm, London-born voice and a quick but not too fast pace. Listening to award-winning author Zadie Smith read Intimations, her collection of six personal essays about life in the year 2020, is such a transcendent experience that when done, you’ll want to start again from the beginning. We keep our daily episodes short and sweet, with audiobook clips to give you a sample of our featured listens. Every Monday through Friday, AudioFile’s editors recommend the best in audiobook listening. ![]() |