I love this book: it’s creative, witty, pretty, and insightful.Ĭhicago Tribune: 18 affordable ways to make adulting much easierĪuthor Michelle Rial helps to separate what's important and what's not in a humorous, artful, and digestible way. If decisions feel daunting, refer to this book of amusingly overwrought charts and diagrams.īook Riot: 24 of the best books to gift your loved ones in 2019: Real Simple : Everything our editors are buzzing about this month Her delightful visuals dissect modern anxieties with real-life objects: reliance on single-use plastics plotted with a flexi straw, the rate of climate change measured on an X-Y graph using a burnt, upwardly curved matchstick. Am I Overthinking This: A Journal Diary Maby Michelle Rial (Author) 10 ratings See all formats and editions Diary 14.95 12 Used from 2.94 9 New from 10.95 1 Collectible from 39.53 Try not to overthink it. Am I Overthinking This: Over-answering life's questions in 101 charts (Humor Books, Self Help Books, Books About Adulthood) Author Michelle Rial Edition illustrated Publisher Chronicle. Am I Overthinking This: Over-answering life's questions in 101 charts (Humor Books, Self Help Books, Books About Adulthood) Rial, Michelle Published by Chronicle Books (2019) ISBN 10: 1452175861 ISBN 13: 9781452175867 New Hardcover Quantity: 1 Seller: Lakeside Books (Benton Harbor, MI, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Condition: New. Wired: 52 Amazing Gifts You'll Want to Keep for Yourself:
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Roberts also explains in great detail the dynamics between the British parliament and the nascent American government, including a fascinating account of the writing of and subsequent British reaction to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. In this interview and in his book, Roberts goes to great lengths to deconstruct that distortion and, in the process, give us an extremely nuanced and detailed portrait of the man who created the conditions for America’s independence. Roberts’s new book is The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III, a biography of the monarch who led England during the American Revolution and who has been made into something of a caricature by Americans, most recently by his portrayal in the musical Hamilton as a preening, stuck-up (but funny) king of England. In his long and distinguished career, British historian Andrew Roberts has produced world-class biographies of Winston Churchill, and Napoleon, several histories of World War II and the men who led the countries who fought that war, and other great conflicts in world history. We meet Tilo, an architect, who although she is loved by three men, lives in a ‘country of her own skin’. We meet Anjum, who used to be Aftab, who runs a guest-house in an Old Delhi graveyard and gathers around her the lost, the broken and the cast out. FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF SMALL THINGSLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE 2018THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE and THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER’At magic hour when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard and drift across the city like smoke…’So begins The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy’s incredible follow-up to The God of Small Things. He describes his stunning transformation from a naive, middle-class teenager from southern California to a hardened killer during his tour in Vietnam. invasion of Cambodia, one of the most impressive demonstrations by the Cobra in the war. Randy Zahn arrived in Vietnam shortly before the 1970 U.S. It dramatically changed the nature of the war in Vietnam by offering the Army, for the first time, its own powerful and highly accurate weapons platform for close-air-support missions. First deployed in Vietnam in 1967 and loaded with a formidable arsenal of weaponry, the Cobra was the first helicopter designed from inception as an attack aircraft. Based on audiotapes he recorded during the war and sent home to his family, Randy Zahn's Snake Pilot recounts his experiences flying AH-1 Cobra helicopters during the Vietnam War. The guard seen me, but I flew past him before he could pull his cleats up out of the ground. "First, I charged in like I was aiming for the tailback, but instead I dodged right into the backfield. Blaine told me to get them suckers for him, and by God, I was going to get them. "The easy thing to do would be to just lay back and wait for the split end to cut across the middle and bat the pass down or maybe even intercept it, but right now wasn't about the easy thing. "No, they was pulling the same play they nearly fooled me on a while ago. The guard was already starting to pull back, which he wouldn't do on a run - nobody would run off tackle in this situation unless they was crazy or stupid. The tailback froze behind the left tackle, the quarterback leaning towards him like he was going to hand the ball off. "The center snapped the ball on a quick count, and the quarterback swiveled towards the tailback, and that's when I stopped time again. They'd try and be too smart for their own good. The smart play would be to shoot a short one out to the sideline, get out of bounds, maybe move the chains, but something told me that old camel-faced Titans coach would think that was too obvious right now. "Taking up my middle linebacker spot, I knew Wynette had to pass. What is this world coming to? Two football stories worth my talking about in the same year? What is next - me out there barbecuing tofu at a tailgate party? 19 October 2006 KNIGHTS OF THE HILL COUNTRY by Tim Tharp, Knopf, August 2006, ISBN: 3-5 Libr. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911) was a suffragist, abolitionist, poet, public speaker, educator, and writer. One of the first books to be written by an African American women, “Iola Leroy” is a must read for those with an interest in American history. The children’s African ancestry was hidden from them until the death of their father, after which point Marie and her children were once again legally considered slaves. Set to the backdrop of the Civil War, the story revolves around Iola Leroy, daughter of a wealthy slaveholder who emancipated and married a young slave called Marie after she nursed him through an illness. “Iola Leroy – Shadows Uplifted” is a 1893 novel by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. 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The book, which is largely based on my research, examines what we can learn about others and ourselves from the environments we craft and inhabit. of Snoop cuts to the core of what the book is about but at the same time it is grossly misleading about what a super snooper should do. He applied the “ Test” to his new book, Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You, and reported the following: Sam Gosling is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. This rare celestial event-a total solar eclipse-offered a priceless opportunity to solve some of the solar system’s most enduring riddles, and it prompted a clutch of enterprising scientists to brave the wild frontier in a grueling race to the Rocky Mountains. On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon’s shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana Territory to Texas. This “suspenseful narrative history” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR) brings to life the momentous eclipse that enthralled a nation and thrust American science onto the world stage. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of the Yearįinalist for the Colorado Book Award (Nonfiction)īooklist Editors’ Choice (Science & Technology) Winner of the AIP Science Communication AwardĪn Amazon Best Book of the Year (Science)Ī St. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing series: Dirtiest Secret, Hottest Mess and Sweetest Taboo.įind out how it all began for Damien and Nikki Stark in J. Yet nothing in this world has ever felt so desperately, deliciously right.ĭon't miss the entire sexy Stark S.I.N. And while there are people who have the power to hurt us, it's the truth that threatens us most of all.ĭallas can be mine only behind closed doors, our passion as searing as it is forbidden. Inextricably bound by our past, we keep each other's secrets. Just one look from him can leave me breathless the anticipation of his touch can make me lose control. Yet the Dallas I know is a different man - darker, smarter and unbearably sexy. He is known for his parties, his money and the countless women on his arm. No one can know about our love - and hiding only makes it hotter.ĭallas Sykes has a reputation. For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey, Sylvia Day, Meredith Wild and Jodi Ellen Malpas. From the New York Times bestselling author of the beloved, million-copy selling Stark series, comes Hottest Mess, the provocative second book in the Stark S.I.N. I did kind of call what was going to happen because my mind is dark and I was kind of joking when I said it but then it turned out to be what happened which was even creepier. You get to see the grieving mother trying to find her daughter and the daughter’s perspective of what is happening to her. It was done really well by telling the story from the perspectives of Ellie and Laurel. I felt so many emotions through this book and was so drawn in with it. This book had me pulled in from start to finish and I found myself wanting to jump back into it every time I had to put the book down to do other things. What happened to Ellie? Where did she go? Who still has secrets to hide?Īll I can say is Wow! This was my first time picking up a thriller book by Lisa Jewell and I can gladly say that I will be reading more by this author. And now all those unanswered questions that have haunted Laurel come flooding back. Poppy is precocious and pretty – and meeting her completely takes Laurel’s breath away.īecause Poppy is the spitting image of Ellie when she was that age. It’s been ten years since Ellie disappeared, but Laurel has never given up hope of finding her daughter.Īnd then one day a charming and charismatic stranger called Floyd walks into a café and sweeps Laurel off her feet.īefore too long she’s staying the night at this house and being introduced to his nine year old daughter. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone. She was fifteen, her mother’s golden girl. |