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The book of longings a novel6/27/2023 She is sustained by her fearless aunt Yaltha, who harbors a compelling secret. Ana's pent-up longings intensify amid the turbulent resistance to Rome's occupation of Israel, partially led by her brother, Judas. Their marriage evolves with love and conflict, humor and pathos in Nazareth, where Ana makes a home with Jesus, his brothers, and their mother, Mary. An encounter with eighteen-year-old Jesus changes everything. Ana is expected to marry an older widower, a prospect that horrifies her. She engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes narratives about neglected and silenced women. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. In her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana.
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Behind closed doors ba6/27/2023 Not only does this genre toy with the psychology of its characters but it’ll also play with the reader’s mind, so be aware of that.īehind Closed Doors was written by B.A. Psychological thrillers are usually quite twisted and dark and may get you thinking a little more than you would be reading other genres. While domestic thrillers typically concentrate on a couple or a family and their issues, psychological thrillers as a whole are much broader and can encapsulate psychopaths, abuse, hospitalization, and even violence, crime, and death, depending on the character’s tendencies. These books are typically gripping and very interesting, providing fascinating protagonists and top-quality plot lines that are unpredictable and will leave you on the edge of your seat. As a result, this list will incorporate books from both genres and will also touch on some that flirt with both. If you struggle with any of the above themes, please refrain from reading these novels.īehind Closed Doors fits into both the ‘domestic thriller’ category and the psychological thriller category. For that reason, some people may find these books triggering.
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Waiting by Ha Jin6/27/2023 Three years after their marriage, their daughter, Hua, is born, and Lin decides to remain sexually separate from his wife, even during his annual visit. Lin sees Shuyu for only ten days each year, during his summer leave. In the twenty years that follow, Lin is so ashamed of Shuyu that he never allows her to visit him at the military hospital in Muji City where he works. Lin feels Shuyu is completely inappropriate and begs his parents to break the engagement, but they are adamant and he capitulates out of a sense of duty. As a young man in a China moving toward the Cultural Revolution, he is particularly repelled by her bound feet, an old-fashioned custom acceptable in his small village but mocked by his contemporaries in Shenyang City. Although she is a year younger than he is, she looks much older and Lin finds her singularly unattractive. When he returns home to meet Shuyu, the girl his parents have chosen, he is horrified. Waiting is a story of love in limbo and the lives it leaves on hold as Lin Kong, a doctor in the Chinese Army, battles cultural forces and his own uncertain heart in a quest for love's fulfillment.Īs a twenty-seven-year old military medical student in 1962, under heavy pressure from his ailing mother and his father, Lin agrees to an arranged marriage.
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The best bad things katrina carrasco6/27/2023 This family influenced her creation of “Best Bad’s” Alma. Raised by an Ecuadorian-American mother in Orange County, Calif., “I was fortunate to have a large Latinx community while growing up,” she added. “I often code-switch in my spoken interactions, especially when speaking to other Latinx people or other queer people,” Carrasco said. Then there’s code-switching: changing your speech to signal belonging to a particular group of friends or acquaintances. “It’s a process that fascinates me, the way we may don one persona for work, possibly a muted one to get along with colleagues, and then slip into a different psychic mantle on weekends.”Ĭarrasco, who works in the tech sector by day, doesn’t talk much with co-workers about her other life as a crime novelist. Whatever our era and location, we put those faces on, the author added. “The Best Bad Things” also explores mask-wearing in daily life. I wanted the book to show that time and place through the lens of characters we rarely get to see, but who were certainly present.” “Both Alma and Delphine are queer women of color,” she said, “and while they stand out in the Puget Sound, their presence there is part of the less-seen historical record of the American West.
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Moon chosen book6/26/2023 When a deadly attack tears her world apart, Mari reveals the strength of her powers and the forbidden secret of her dual nature as she embarks on a mission to save her people. A world filled with beauty and danger and cruelty…Mari is an Earth Walker, heir to the unique healing powers of her Clan but she has cast her duties aside, until she is chosen by a special animal ally, altering her destiny forever. Cast brings us Moon Chosen, a new epic fantasy set in a world where humans, their animal allies, and the earth itself has been drastically changed. Cast.#1 New York Times bestselling author P.C. Read the book that started the blockbuster bestselling series by #1 New York Times bestselling author P.C.
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Harrow the ninth by tamsyn muir6/26/2023 Harrow, though? Harrow is all black crepe and rosaries. She's that one goth girl from high school gone full dark supernova with her sacramental face paint and unfathomable necromantic powers. Seriously awesome, because the coolest thing about it was that we got to see it all and experience it all through the aviator-shaded eyes of Gideon Nav, unwilling cavalier of the Ninth House, who kicked ass, took names, always had a dirty joke handy and so loved her icy, genius Ninth House necromancer, Harrowhark Nonagesimus, that (spoiler alert) she ultimately gave her life to turn Harrow into a Lyctor - a kind of superhero bodyguard and magical ghost assassin working at the right hand of the undying God-emperor of Muir's expansive, creaking world. She created a crumbly, dusty, deeply haunted and wonderfully goopy horror-universe with Gideon the Ninth, peopled it with creepy, sepulchral wizards, dipped it all in the reverential tones of quasi-Catholic religious fanaticism, wrote it like a science-fantasy parlor romance full of murder and then gave it to us, still warm and dripping, like a cat bringing home a particularly juicy mouse.Īnd it was awesome. Last year, Tamsyn Muir absolutely owned the lesbian-necromancers-in-space genre. You know how sometimes people say, It's like everything you loved about the first book, only MORE. You don't have to read the first book in this series to dive right into the second. You know how sometimes people say, Oh, it's okay.
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Ashes of roses by mary jane auch6/26/2023 He slept with Ma, although for the amount of sleepin' he did he might as well have kept his eyes wide open. I heard poor little Joseph begin to whimper. I don't remember bein' that stubborn at twelve. Next to us was Maureen, the middle sister, who made it clear from the beginnin' that she wasn't sharin' a bunk with anyone. Ma had staked out a claim to four bunks in a row on the lower level when we first boarded the ship, but Bridget whimpered that she was lonely and moved into my bunk the first night. She was barely four, and small for her age, but she took up more than her share of the narrow shelf we were supposed to call a bed. I shifted in my cot, tryin' to nudge my little sister, Bridget, over. We were due to pull into New York Harbor at dawn, puttin' an end to the most unbearable two weeks of my life. This was the last night we'd be tossed by the waves in our narrow bunks.
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Mission unpluckable6/24/2023 S: So then there is a wolf, a piranha, a snake, and a shark. S: Just like the other four friends, right? S: Tell me about the one who joins the team.Ĭ: He is a tarantula named Legs. It follows the adventures of the same four “bad guys” from the first book, right?Ĭ: Yep. S: Wow, Caramel, let us not give away so much all at once! Yes, this is a funny book. Sprinkles: So Caramel, how do you want to start this review today?Ĭaramel: If you like funny books, and if you like books with evil guinea pigs who are mad scientist billionaires, this might be the book for you! Caramel reviews The Bad Guys in Mission Unpluckable by Aaron Blabey (Bad Guys #2). Sprinkles is taking notes and asking followup questions, as usual. And today he is reviewing the second book in the series: The Bad Guys in Mission Unpluckable. Last week he reviewed the first book: Bad Guys. Caramel continues to be very taken by the Bad Guys series of Aaron Blabey.
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Unanswered Verses by Tajammul Kothari6/24/2023 The purpose of this article is to introduce the reader on Customer value of shampoo. Only very few studies are focused on products. In recent years both academics and managers have increasingly emphasized the need to consider customers as a key asset of the firm. Traditionally, research on Value in business markets have been oriented towards the assessment of how suppliers create value for their customers and how customers perceive superior value in a suppliers offering compared to competition (the buyers perspective). Customer Value is a topic of growing interest to managers and researchers in business marketing. As a result, customer value becomes paramount to being competitive in the market place. With the globalization and continual technology innovations, consumers have greater access and more purchase alternatives, and opportunities to be less store and product loyal. In today’s highly competitive markets, business is more challenged to increase, or even maintain market share.
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But Zeke sits on that mountain all alone, longing for the one thing money cannot buy: the true love of a lifelong partner. Before they know it, the mismatched pair are all tangled up in a reckless desire and headed for trouble-trouble in the name of love. Claire 3.80 3,423 ratings307 reviews Zeke Nicholas has turned his mathematical genius skills into a mountain of money. In the midst of convincing the hesitant blue blood to take a chance on her dream, Aurora awakes his hidden streak of red-hot passion. Propelled by a lifelong dream to buy the island home reportedly haunted by her colorful ancestors, Aurora desperately needs Chance’s help in securing a business loan and she won’t take no for an answer. Claire crosses his path, Chance recklessly plunges into uncharted territory with nothing but his heart to guide him-and a beautiful woman to tempt him. Destined to take his place in his family’s bank, Chance is content with the future that’s been mapped out for him, right down to his upcoming engagement to a prim debutante. Full-Speed-Ahead? The forecast is smooth sailing for Oliver Chancellor, one of Galveston’s premier financier. Slow and Steady finds himself on a collision course with Ms. |