![]() “One of the funniest books of the last few years. ![]() ![]() “A fantastic, weird-as-hell, super funny novel” ( Bustle), Big Swiss is both a love story and a deft examination of infidelity, mental health, sexual stereotypes, and more-from an amazingly talented, singular voice in contemporary fiction. Her attraction to Big Swiss overrides her guilt, and she’ll do anything to sustain the relationship… While Big Swiss is unaware Greta has eavesdropped on her most intimate exchanges, Greta has never been more herself with anyone. One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss’s voice in town and they quickly become enmeshed. ![]() She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. The house is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. ![]() “One of the funniest books of the last few years” ( Los Angeles Times) about a sex therapist’s transcriptionist and her affair with one of the patients. “Wild…hilarious…so good.” - Cosmopolitan, Best Books of the Year * “A laugh-out-loud bad romance for Gen Xers and an ode to misfits who just want to belong.” - Oprah Daily * “Always interesting…too fun to stop.” - Vanity Fair ![]()
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![]() ![]() SPECIES PROTECTION AND CRITICAL HABITATS:Īrkansas Darters are protected by the Kansas Nongame and Endangered Species Conservation Act and administrative regulations applicable thereto. Kansas constitutes the Arkansas Darter’s primary range. The darter’s range extends into eastern Colorado, southwestern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas and northcentral Oklahoma where local populations occur. Viable populations of Arkansas Darters are currently known only in suitable streams south of the Arkansas River in southcentral Kansas and in Spring River drainage in Cherokee County. Because of its specialized habitat requirements, this darter is localized within its range but may be quite common where it does occur. The fish are almost invariably associated with vegetative cover in spring-fed channels and generally are found in near-shore areas away from swift currents. ![]() ![]() During spawning, males are a colorful orange along their lower abdomen.Īrkansas Darters prefer shallow, clear, spring-fed tributary and headwater streams having sand or sandy-gravel substrates. They are olivaceous brown above and yellowish white below with six to nine indistinct dusky saddles over the back. Reaching a maximum size of 2.5 inches, the Arkansas Darter is a stout-bodied member of the perch family. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Slow river by nicola griffith![]() ![]() She points to an attack in a bar when she was in her early twenties as the source of her long-standing rage regarding the narrative of women’s weakness: “I was beaten by two men and I learned the story that most women already knew: that men beat women for no other reason than they could, because they were raised on the story that women are weak. As someone living, even prior to diagnosis, in fear for her safety, she is always on guard against and mistrustful of others, especially men. An accomplished martial artist accustomed to a high degree of control over her body, Mara finds the prospect of being weak and unable to protect herself unthinkable. ![]() The sudden onset of a debilitating illness would be devastating for anyone, but Mara’s self identity is firmly formed around her view of herself as a strong person, physically and otherwise. Mara Tagarelli, the headstrong protagonist of Seattle writer Nicola Griffith’s fierce eighth novel, So Lucky, knows this all too well: in a matter of days her marriage ends, and she is felled by a diagnosis of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Life, as the familiar expression goes, can turn on a dime. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments The dark prophecy book![]() and one of them is the dreaded child of the Dark Prophecy, the person fated to destroy it. One of them is the true heir of Merlin, the only person who can save Avalon. The fate of Avalon now rests with three young people: Tamwyn, a homeless wilderness guide Elli, an escaped slave turned priestess and Scree, an eagleman with a startling secret. Then one night, just as the elusive Lady of the Lake predicted, all the stars in the sky suddenly go dark. Now, though, Avalon reels from brutal attacks, mysterious droughts, and stranger evils yet. ![]() ![]() For centuries, this world has flourished as a land of wonder and mystery, a link between Heaven and Earth, a place where all creatures could live in harmony. Long Ago, Merlin Planted a magical seed that beat like a heart-a seed that grew into the Great Tree of Avalon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This power, which keeps the city from falling to the Dark Empire, could keep Kamarang safe. With his boon companion, Oladahn, the beastman of the Bulgar Mountians, Hawkmoon discovers the peaceful city of Soryandum, which holds the power to transcend the confines of time and space. Here in this universe, Dorian Hawkmoon traverses a world of antique cities, scientific sorcery, and crystalline machines as he pulled unwillingly into a war that pits him against the ruthless and dominating armies of Granbretan.Īfter withstanding the power of the Black Jewel and saving the city of Hamadan from the conquest of the Dark Empire of Granbretan, Hawkmoon set off for Kamarang, where friendship and love await him. ![]() In Michael Moorcock's vast and imaginative multiverse, Law and Chaos wage war in a never-ending struggling over the fundamental rules of existence. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Nyxia book 4![]() But at his core, he’s good, and cares for the people around him. He can be rough, and he feels no shame in beating someone up if they insult him. However, characters that were introduced later on in the book seemed half-formed and unrealistic.Įmmett: Emmett is a sort of antagonist-y protagonist that you can’t help but root for. ![]() I felt their pain and their joy, and they seemed very real to me. When they were in the training scenes, I had a good grasp on what was going on, but it was hard to completely understand because the setting was never fully explained. Unfortunately, I have a fairly large issue with the writing: the settings aren’t explained thoroughly or well enough. ![]() The writing was great! It made me feel as if I was really inside Emmett’s head, going through the experiences he was going through, meeting the people he was meeting. It pulled me in by the first chapter and I couldn’t stop reading (which would explain why I finished it in eight hours with only one break). The plot was intriguing, twisting when I least expected it. It would make a pretty great movie! However, I had some issues with its cleanness that I will discuss later. It was like Survivor and The Hunger Games in space! The characters were incredibly diverse and well-developed. The eight who pass get unlimited riches and search a recently discovered planet for the new “black gold,” nyxia. ![]() Nyxia tells the story of fifteen-year-old Emmett, who is enlisted along with nine other teens to partake in a competition. ![]() ![]() ![]() The life of Jonathan’s fake trophy wife inside “the kingdom of money” is vacuous and unfulfilling. There’s something fascinating in that to me. But to be able to split your life in that way: to devote your professional energies to running a massive fraud and at the same time be a husband and a friend and a father. We all compartmentalise to some extent: you’re a different person at work than you are at home, a different person with your family than with acquaintances. What is it about that personality type that interested you? It’s not Madoff’s story but your protagonist, Jonathan Alkaitis, is a very similar character. And here was this fabulously wealthy conman who’d been gambling with retirement savings. There was such popular rage directed against him because we thought our economies were solid and it turned out to be something of a house of cards. Madoff almost seemed like the embodiment of that era. The Glass Hotel is not about Bernie Madoff or his staff, his family or his investors. In particular, I was fascinated by the Bernie Madoff story. It’s a period in recent history that I remember so vividly. Why was that a period you wanted to explore? The Glass Hotel centres on the 2008 financial crash. ![]() It was a bestseller in both the UK and the US, winning the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction, and nominations for the National Book Award and the Pen/Faulkner award. ![]() Her fourth novel, the dystopian fiction of Station Eleven, propelled her to fame in 2014. ![]() Emily St John Mandel is a Canadian novelist now residing in New York. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Rose matter stephen king![]() ![]() King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947. National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature. In 2015, he was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the U.S. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his entire bibliography, such as the 2004 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections. King has published 64 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. Described as the " King of Horror", his books have sold more than 350 million copies as of 2006, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. ![]() Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments The bully book sophie![]() ![]() ![]() His life story as well as his writings evoke compliments, controversy, and contradictory responses from both critics and readers. For others he was a bully, a misogynist, and even an anti-Semite. For some he was a war hero, a philanthropist and a profoundly altruistic man. And his tales of the unexpected continue to have a magical pull on readers’ imaginations with the BFG, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory all loved by children old and young.Įarlier this year, a new film version of the BFG directed by Steven Spielberg was released to rave reviews – giving another generation the chance to fall in love with the author for the first time – and existing fans the opportunity to fall in love all over again.Īnd yet, despite the global appreciation of Dahl as a children’s author, Dahl himself is not quite as straightforward as readers of his books might like to think. His books have received enthusiastic responses from millions of children all around the world. It is 100 years since the birth of Roald Dahl – considered by many to be the world’s number one storyteller. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments In europe by geert mak![]() ![]() The peasant co-operatives had long since been dismantled, the people gone to the cities, the land returned to private use. But in 1999 he found only two people left who had been there on that day. It was, he writes, "one huge rolling celebration". They were filmed on their way to take over the local estates in their tractors and decorated carts. Mak visited Couco, one of the many Portugese villages where peasants seized the land in 1975. Partly, of course, this was the result of what Abraham Lincoln called "the slow artillery of time". Let the stones speak! That was the plan, but the stones did not give up their tale so easily. ![]() Self-examination and awareness, on the one hand, the refusal to know or care, on the other - these turned out to be the dominating themes of his reporting and his book. ![]() The Netherlands had only a few years before been shocked into a degree of self-examination, and of awareness of the outside world, by the disaster of Srebrenica, where hapless Dutch troops could not prevent a massacre. And he was an intellectual from a country with wide international connections but rather parochial preoccupations. He was a journalist of a scholarly and even philosophical bent. He was the author of Amsterdam, a brilliant portrait of that city, and of Jorwerd, perhaps the best single book on the slow death of the European countryside. A "final inspection" was an ambitious aim, but Mak had unusual qualifications. ![]() |