![]() ![]() The slow-burning romance feels believable, and you'll be cheering them on with each sweet moment. It isn't until GeneticAlly offers to pay Jess to spend time dating River that she begins to see past his arrogant facade and realize that maybe there's a method to this love madness after all. River Peña - a man whom she not only already knows, but who also isn't exactly the epitome of friendly charm. It's just too bad that the man Jess ends up scoring an unprecedented 98 percent match with is the company's founder and head scientist, Dr. The last thing she needs is to enter the chaotic dating world again, but if there's one thing that can convince her, it's the numbers and data behind GeneticAlly, a buzzy new DNA-based matchmaking company. In the story, Jess Davis is a statistician and single mom who enjoys her quiet life raising her daughter, Juno, alongside her grandparents and her best friend, Fizzy. ![]() ![]() What if you could find your soulmate through science, and what if the person you're most compatible with just happens to be someone you despise? That's the premise behind bestselling writing duo Christina Lauren's latest novel, The Soulmate Equation (out May 18). ![]()
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![]() Synthesizing years of research, Franchise tells a troubling success story of an industry that blossomed the very moment a freedom movement began to whither. With the discourse of social welfare all but evaporated, federal programs under presidents Johnson and Nixon promoted a new vision for racial justice: that the franchising of fast food restaurants, by black citizens in their own neighborhoods, could finally improve the quality of black life. But how did fast food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods in the first place? In Franchise, acclaimed historian Marcia Chatelain uncovers a surprising history of cooperation among fast food companies, black capitalists, and civil rights leaders, who - in the troubled years after King's assassination - believed they found an economic answer to the problem of racial inequality. Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food restaurants like McDonald's have long symbolized capitalism's villainous effects on our nation's most vulnerable communities. From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL16065784W Page_number_confidence 95.10 Pages 410 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200830083656 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 859 Scandate 20200825085959 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781573222976 Tts_version 4. The Money Book was written to address the specific financial reality that faces young people today and offers a set of real, not impossible, solutions to the problems at hand and the problems ahead. ![]() The last time she dramatically changed her haircut it cost her just over 80,000 followers on Twitter. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 04:04:03 Boxid IA1915422 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Our dear Suze Orman (‘The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke’ author) seems to be looking for a new hairstyle. ![]() ![]() ![]() I always liked Sophia in the other Hex Hall books, but her personality is lacking in Spell Bound. This also had repercussions for the characterisation. ![]() The plot felt rather ill-paced, dwelling too long in some places, and not standing still long enough in others. However, neither did she manage to smooth out the story in such a way that it comfortably fits in the length of Spell Bound. Ms Hawkins didn’t fall into the common trap of making the last book in the series a beast with double the word count of the other books in the series. There is a lot of ground to cover in Spell Bound, and plot developments are thrown at the reader rapidly. She teams up with unlikely allies, and together they fight to ensure safety for all Progidium. This series combines light-hearted humour with a fresh take on the magic boarding school trope.Īfter the happenings in Demonglass, Sophia needs some time to recuperate. Spell Bound is a decent ending to the Hex Hall trilogy. Published March 13th 2012 by Disney Hyperion ![]() ![]() ![]() Via automated recordings, "Nimue" - or, rather, the android with the memories of Lieutenant Commander Nimue Alban - is told her fate: she will emerge into Safeholdian society, suitably disguised, and begin the process of provoking the technological progress which the Church of God Awaiting has worked for centuries to prevent. This "rebirth" was set in motion centuries before, by a faction that opposed shackling humanity with a concocted religion. ![]() In a hidden chamber on Safehold, an android from the far human past awakens. But the Gbaba can detect the emissions of an industrial civilization, so the human rulers of Safehold have taken extraordinary measures: with mind control and hidden high technology, they've built a religion in which every Safeholdian believes, a religion designed to keep Safehold society medieval forever.Ĩ00 years pass. Humanity pushed its way to the stars - and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out.Įarth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, Earth-like Safehold, to try to rebuild. ![]() ![]() The Parrish Mansion was revealed to have been constructed by the direct order of General Angus Parrish with his spoils from the Civil War, having spared no expense in the household architecture and ornaments.The surnames of the two 1800s brothers Caleb and Benjamin are revealed as Sproul.The narrative of the novel closely follows the events and script from the 1995 film, but with some extra or altered word choices and includes scenes that were filmed but cut out from the final cut. All in the comfort of your own living room.įor those few who have played, there has been no turning back.Īnd no one, not a single soul, has ever played it twice. An escape from the mundane and into the savage unknown. ![]() The American edition includes pages of coloured screenshots from the film, while the British edition has monochromatic pictures instead and some different word choices.Īn invitation to adventure. ![]() The Jumanji 1995 Novel is a paperback novelization of the TriStar film and promotional tie in, written by George Spelvin with contributions from Chris Van Allsburg, which was based on the original 1981 picture book written by Allsburg. Alan Parrish Sarah Whittle Judy Shepherd Peter Shepherd Van Pelt Carl Bentley Nora Shepherd ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stalingrad is a magnificent novel not only of war but of all human life: its subjects are mothers and daughters, husbands and brothers, generals, nurses, political officers, steelworkers, tractor girls. But it will also be the cradle of a new sense of hope. The battle for Stalingrad - a maelstrom of violence and firepower - will reduce it to ruins. The city stands on a cliff top by the Volga River. The war will consume the lives of a huge cast of characters - lives which express Grossman's grand themes of the nation and the individual, nature's beauty and war's cruelty, love and separation.įor months, Soviet forces are driven back inexorably by the German advance eastward and eventually Stalingrad is all that remains between the invaders and victory. As war approaches, the Shaposhnikov family gathers for a meal: despite her age, Alexandra will soon become a refugee Tolya will enlist in the reserves Vera, a nurse, will fall in love with a wounded pilot and Viktor Shtrum will receive a letter from his doomed mother which will haunt him forever. Hundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov receives his call-up papers and spends a final night with his wife and children in the hut that is his home. In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history. 'One of the great novels of the 20th century' Observer This is its first publication in English. Stalingrad is the prequel to Life and Fate, one of the twentieth century’s greatest novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() They’ve led him to found Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a $2 billion investment fund for companies that want to solve difficult climate-change problems. These hard problems are at the center of Gates’s understanding of climate change and of his helpful new book, entitled How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. ![]() As is agriculture, responsible for nearly a fifth of global greenhouse-gas pollution each year. Heating and cooling buildings, which together emit 7 percent of greenhouse-gas pollution, are another. Making concrete, for instance, causes 8 percent of the world’s carbon-dioxide pollution, and we have no way to do it cheaply in a climate-friendly way-that’s one of Gates’s hard problems. No, he means the vital processes of industrial society for which we still have no zero-carbon alternative-the as-yet-unsolved engineering problems that are key to zeroing out global greenhouse-gas pollution. Nor does he mean the associated political challenges of overcoming partisan opposition. He isn’t talking about the challenges that we usually discuss in this newsletter, such as how to generate zero-carbon electricity (use wind, solar, and some nuclear). Lately, Bill Gates has been thinking about what he calls the “hard stuff” of climate change. ![]() Sign up to get T he Weekly Planet, our guide to living through climate change, in your inbox. Every Tuesday, our lead climate reporter brings you the big ideas, expert analysis, and vital guidance that will help you flourish on a changing planet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Joe feels obligated to take care of her, but he wants the job he's been offered. Harper has hallucinations and is addicted to Valium, and she doesn't want to move to Washington. Joe's decision is complicated by his wife, Harper. Cohn offers conservative Mormon Joe Pitt a dream job at the Department of Justice. Meanwhile, high-powered, crass lawyer Roy M. He's afraid Louis will leave him, and his fears are confirmed as Louis immediately begins wondering whether he can stick by Prior through his illness and likely death. The story begins at Louis's grandmother's funeral, when Prior tells Louis that he's been diagnosed with AIDS. Joe faces the ethical dilemmas involved in the politics of his new job opportunity, as well as his dawning realization that he's gay. Joe wants to take the job, but his wife Harper is battling mental problems and addiction to Valium. Meanwhile, Joe Pitt, a conservative Mormon, is offered a position in the Department of Justice by high-powered attorney Roy Cohn. ![]() He leaves Prior, who begins having visions of an approaching Angel. Louis Ironson's lover Prior Walter is dying of AIDS, and Louis can't handle the horrors of the illness. ![]() Set in the mid-1980s, Millennium Approaches tells the story of two couples during the Reagan era and the outbreak in AIDS awareness. ![]() ![]() I couldn’t stop my clit begging and my heart pounding and breath quickening. The fatality of every scrap of my heart when he’d trashed it all to pieces without even looking back. The man who consumed me, promised me the stars, then destroyed me and left me a betrayed mush on the floor, sobbing my guts up and retching myself to sleep at night.īut I couldn’t stop myself. My whole body was screaming out YES, even as my mind was screaming out NO. Title: Poison Genre: Erotic Romance Author: Jade West Release Date: March 16, 2020 ![]() This much passion always comes at a price. Nothing but the lasting thrill of his flesh on mine.īut when poison runs through your veins, the way he runs through mine, it’s toxic and eats you alive. I craved his perverted ways, his smirk, his laughter as he pushed my body way past its limits. When life gets too much and you need to escape, the poison that might kill you becomes oh so tempting. ![]() I swore I’d never speak to him again, that I’d never set eyes on him again as long as I lived. ![]() The monster who left me in pieces over a decade ago. ![]() |