![]() ![]() ![]() Chipotle burritos are the most expensive in New York state. Rihanna spoke the truth when she said "All I see is dollar signs." The cost of living in New York City is incredibly high and continues to rise every day. ![]() Have you ever noticed that those really cool sounding sweepstakes usually include a trip to New York City? A free trip seems awesome, right? Yeah, if you don't already live here. Why do we keep using this childish phrase meant to shrug off childish behavior to justify sexual assault? People are often so surprised why we continue to use this kind of logic allegation after allegation. However, this logic is what makes 994 rapists that will walk free out of 1000. What does this kind of logic look and sound like? Parochial, vindicate using survivors to support, defend, blame fend, blame, or have to ever support a political after years of therapy, trauma, and fear has decided to come forward with her story in an attempt to prevent Brett Kavanaugh, the Republican Supreme Court Nominee, from sitting on a panel that is supposed to stand for equality and justice. Why do people protect the predators and blame survivors for calumny? The answer is never as simple, but the logic behind it Why do people believe that sexual trauma convicting sexual predators is a "steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action?" " Do you have anything to gain by coming here? Has anybody promised you anything for coming forth with this story now?" - Sen. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with Landreaux’s five-year-old son, LaRose. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor’s five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich. He shoots with easy confidence-but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he’s hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves, wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale of a tragic accident, a demand for justice, and a profound act of atonement with ancient roots in Native American culture. ![]() Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() Among these events we see the changed world through the experiences of four generations of women – Lily Duggan, Emily Ehrlich, Lottie Tuttle, Hannah Carson – though it is not always clear why the incidents we are witnessing are important to them. From this point we pivot backwards to a famine-ravaged Ireland, the Abolitionist movement and the American Civil War, and forward to the financial crash of 1929, the Good Friday Agreement, and the taming of the Celtic Tiger. TransAtlantic opens in 1919 with a reconstruction of Brown and Alcock's attempt to fly the Atlantic non-stop. Through an ambitious structure, McCann shows how the thrum of history binds the two countries tighter than any politically forced "special relationship", and the transformative power of the past over the present. I spoke with McCann at last week’s Book Expo America in New York. ![]() He is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts program at Hunter College, New York and a regular visitor to the European Graduate School. As its title suggests, TransAtlantic – Colum McCann's first novel following the breakout success of Let the Great World Spin, and now long-listed for the Man Booker Prize – is a novel of both destinations and arrivals, of home and away: its subject, the complex relationship between the US and Ireland. McCann is an Irish writer who writes more authentically about America than most American writers. Colum McCann is an Irish writer of literary fictiontwo collections of short stories and several novels, most recently TransAtlantic (2013). ![]() ![]() ![]() Later Bond is assigned to a case and lo and behold, the target just so happens to be the same card-cheating rich jerk that Bond just humiliated. Bond proves he's cheating and utterly humiliates him. Bond is hired to prove a guy is cheating at cards. I'll start with the Bad: 1) Fleming uses the same gag he pulled in Moonraker. Talk about a Love/Hate feeling toward a book. ![]() I think the best summary of this book came from Roy Perrott, writing for the Manchester Guardian, who said the novel was "hard to put down but some of us wish we had the good taste just to try." I loved the car chase, the golf game, etc. Enemy Action), with each run-in becoming more and more over-the-top. I loved the way the novel was structured into the three run-ins with Goldfinger (I. ![]() It produced one of the best Bond movies of all time and also introduced one of the worst-named, but most-interesting characters (Pussy Galore) in the James Bond universe. I would have given this over-the-top spy thriller four stars, except for the sexist/racist complaints above. While I wasn't alive in the 50s, and I suspect it was more normal 60 years ago, it still reads a bit too heavy with white, masculine overcompensation. I hate Fleming/Bond's attitude towards Asians (Koreans in this book, but it was Chinese in Dr. "Fear, Mr Bond, takes gold out of circulation and hoards it against the evil day." - Ian Fleming, Goldfinger A very enjoyable read except for a couple nagging complaints. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you wish to checkout your consolidation thru Shopee, we'll have to fully refund you everything under the consolidation and you have to check them out again on Shopee (plus the 4% Shopee service fee).Take note that external purchases cannot have Bonbon points. ![]() To do so, just chat us there and we'll transfer stocks there. To save on shipping, we encourage you to checkout your orders on Shopee.Anything exceeding that and we'll be charging from zero again. Our maximum weight for shipping is 9 kilograms.Should your order include a larger trim / oversized / thick or hugely-trimmed light novel book, the shipping fee may increase accordingly as these have heavier weights. 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Who is the mysterious man left for dead inside the cave? But not all crime is buried in the past. A room is unearthed, and it contains a treasure trove of artwork, rare books, a chest of jewelry…and a perfectly mummified body.Ī closer examination of the murdered man’s possessions reveals a valuable first edition of Jules Verne’s A Journey to the Center of the Earth. When book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright temporarily relocates to her parents’ place in Northern California, she finds that wooden barrels aren’t the only things buried in the wine caves of Sonoma….Įxcited to explore the secrets of wine country, Brooklyn attends an excavation of the caves hidden deep under her parents’ commune-and the findings are explosive. ![]() ![]() Ripped From the Pages (Bibliophile Mystery #9) ![]() ![]() ![]() "Reinhart is committed to offering an honest picture of her world rather than crafting a sanitized facade. ![]() Navigating her way through fame her own way, not for a second trying to be anyone she's not, and showing every one of her millions of fans that it's OK to be who you are. "Reinhart is a force to be reckoned with." -Who What Wear We're not crying, you're crying." - The Skimm "With a raw voice that's all her own, the short collection might make you a bit emotional (grab your tissues), as she covers everything from heartbreak to mental health, and more. She's been outspoken on various platforms about deeply personal topics." - Glamour "There's a reason her fans feel they know her. "Reinhart is committed to authenticity.and candid about her battles with anxiety and depression.”- Harpers Bazaar ![]() “Poetry can be a form of self-care … Lili Reinhart has taken this idea to heart.”. “A book of dreamy prose exploring love, heartbreak, anxiety and fame.”. One of "20 of the Best-Ever Books by Celebrities"- The Skimm ![]() ![]() Stunning, kind, necessary." -Sarah Gailey This is a book that, for one night, made me stop asking 'what am I even for?' I'm prescribing a preorder to anyone who has ever felt lost. "Chambers' writing is always tender and healing, but this book has something else braided into it - something more. "Hugo Award-winning author Becky Chambers begins a new series with this delightful and quietly philosophical novella that presents a hopeful glimpse into a future where humanity actually does the right thing." - Buzzfeed With a pervading sense of optimism and warmth, A Psalm for the Wild-Built inaugurates an exciting series from one of science fiction's brightest stars." - Shelf Awareness starred review "The gentle touch with which Chambers handles her material makes the book's loftiest philosophical aims feel grounded. " A Psalm for the Wild-Built begins a series that looks optimistic and hopeful, pursuing stories that arise from abundance instead of scarcity, kindness instead of cruelty, and I look forward to seeing where it goes from here." -NPR ![]() ![]() A USA Today Bestseller and Hugo Award Nominee!Ī Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize Finalist! ![]() ![]() ![]() Annabelle is such a kind soul and she knits things for everyone and everything. In this town there lives a young girl called Annabelle who comes across a box filled with colourful yarn.Īnnabelle decides to knit things using the yarn that she has found but each time she makes something she always has extra yarn. We are told of a town that is cold and white and black. Written by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen, this fantastic duo have created a brilliantly, thought provoking tale. ![]() I had a feeling that my family and I would enjoy this read after seeing it recommended so much and my instinct was right. Guess where I came across it? Yes, my lovely local library. I am so late to the party with this book but I am so excited to share it with you as Extra Yarn is great read aloud. ![]() ![]() ![]() He even extolled the élan of the Japanese guards, and recounted his childhood admiration for them-just one of the myriad examples in his work and life of how Ballard always sought to épater the bourgeoisie of a native land he never felt himself to be a native of. In a late conversation he spoke of how:īut at other times he hymned the liberty the camp afforded him: 'We children were playing a hundred and one games all the time' ( From Shanghai to Shepperton, 112). But beside this repression-if it existed-was a relentless recycling of wartime imagery in his fiction: the Ballard mise en scène is never complete without an abandoned swimming pool, a huddling of fugitives, and the detritus of those who have already fled-which is usually employed by Ballard's protagonists as a means of forensically determining their psychological state.īallard's attitude towards his time in the camp remained profoundly ambivalent until his death. Ballard said in interviews-of which he gave many: they were his favoured form of self-mythologizing-that he didn't think of the two years he spent in the camp, and the events surrounding his and his family's internment, until years later when he began work on Empire of the Sun (1984), the semi-autobiographical novel for which he became best known. ![]() Ballard was eleven when the Japanese army occupied the Shanghai International Settlement, and twelve when he and his family were interned at the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Centre. ![]() |