![]() ![]() Short chapters written to capture his perspective alternate with longer ones that find his human enablers attempting to deal with whatever mischief he has made. ![]() ![]() As the characters in this novel respond to animal urges and instincts, Sam emerges as the most complex. The chimp, named Sam, also falls in love with Aimee because of the same animal magnetism that attracts Guy. After his marriage falls apart, he falls in love, or lust, with Aimee, whom he's hired to help with his live-in chimpanzee. Guy Schermerhorn is a professor who's deeply invested in researching the communicative possibilities between humankind and the simian world and who parlays that work into TV appearances. She is a cliché of the innocent young coed when that term was used often and seemingly without condescension. Yet she refuses to use her beauty to manipulate and thus provides this novel with its heart. Aimee Villard is naïve and beautiful, a college student who recognizes how attractive she is because of her effect on men-and a certain chimpanzee. There’s an antic energy to Boyle's latest which comes at the expense of character development. Farce meets tragedy and science meets show business in this romantic triangle featuring a student, a professor, and a chimpanzee. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In Chatter, acclaimed psychologist Ethan Kross explores the silent conversations we have with ourselves. But, just as often, our inner critic sinks us entirely: I’m going to fail. When we’re facing a tough task, our inner coach can buoy us up: Focus-you can do this. When we talk to ourselves, we often hope to tap into our inner coach but find our inner critic instead. But the truth is that we all have a voice in our head. Tell a stranger that you talk to yourself, and you’re likely to get written off as eccentric. An award-winning psychologist reveals the hidden power of our inner voice and shows how we can harness it to live a healthier, more satisfying, and more productive life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "A powerful paperback that doesn't pull any emotional punches, Sugar Land is a debut you don't want to miss." - Bustle ![]() SUGAR LAND is a triumphant novel that manages to be funny and endearing even as it tangles with race, class, and the fate of misfits. Once there, she befriends inmate and soon-to-be legendary blues singer Lead Belly, who sings his way out (true story)―but only after he makes her promise to free herself from her own prison. Terrified, Miss Dara takes a job at Imperial State Prison Farm for men. It's 1923 in Midland, Texas, and Miss Dara falls in love with her best friend―who also happens to be a girl. A southern fried novel about love, Lead Belly, and liberation that's been called a "ravishing debut" in a starred Kirkus Review and "writing at its finest" by the NY Journal of Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() What may break her, though, is a terrible family secret, one she can't hide from anywhere. In both summers, she will fall in love and discover new sides of herself. ![]() In the other, she remains home, in her ordinary suburb, where she expects her ordinary life to continue - but nothing is as it seems. In one, she travels to France, where she’s dreamed of going: a land of chocolate croissants, handsome boys, and art museums. When Summer Everett makes a split-second decision, her summer divides into two parallel worlds. ĪNOTHER SUMMER in upstate New York, along familiar roads that lead to surprises. ONE SUMMER in the French countryside, among sun-kissed fields of lavender. Two Summers by Aimee FriedmanĪlso by this author: Mistletoe, Snow in Love I promise that this does NOT affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free (hey, thanks!) in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() On one side was the Popular Front government – the Republic – whose socialist leader, Largo Caballero, had openly threatened civil war if the Right won. ![]() After the election of February 1936 the division was stark. “When Marx has more effect than hormones, there is nothing to be done.” He never forgot the hate on the face of a tram driver as a beautiful, well dressed young woman stepped off. In one of the many telling anecdotes which bring the book alive, Beevor repeats a story told by the philosopher Julián Marías. ![]() It was a bloodbath which transformed brothers into anonymous ideological enemies. It was published first with great acclaim in Spain, where, even after 70 years, the wounds of this terrible conflict are still open.Īs Beevor points out, it is wrong to describe the Civil War as a “fratricidal” conflict. The Battle for Spain is a heavily revised version of his 1982 book and takes into account material available in the newly-opened Russian archives. Antony Beevor, the acclaimed author of Stalingrad and Berlin: The Downfall, has now thrown his contribution onto the growing pile. There has been an explosion of scholarship about the Spanish Civil War since the death of El Caudillo, Generalísimo Francisco Franco, in 1975. ![]() The Battle For Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1938 ![]() ![]() Imogen is an heiress, a runaway, and a cheat. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. ![]() She’s no angel this girl, but I loved her character and that we found out what drove her to be the person she is now. We Were Liars by the same author is one of my favourite reads ever and Genuine Fraud is one to match it. Allen & Unwin, Young Adult Fiction - 272 pages. ![]() The plot went back and forth and I had to keep track of the dates, but it just added to the enjoyment of the book as things were revealed, piece by piece, for the past year or so of Jules life to click together – but the finale could blow it all apart again! There were hints along the way that she wasn’t supposed to be who or where she was, and I wanted to know how on earth she got there. The more I read, the more intrigued I was. But things are unravelling and she is having to run faster to keep up with it all. I loved the way this story was structured with the main character Jule living a charmed life of luxury, and then the further you read the more you learn, all the things she did, had to do, or was lucky enough to happen, to allow her this life. ![]() This book is in effect written backwards. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() * How he broke the Moon into four pieces and made the Man in it fall into the back garden * How the accident-prone Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas's house into the dining-room * How all the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place. They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: Inside would be a letter in strange spidery handwriting and a beautiful coloured drawing or some sketches. It turned the North Pole black!'Įvery December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J. It was the biggest bang in the world, and the most monstrous firework there has ever been. 'My dear children, I am more shaky than usual this year. It contains brand new high-quality digital reproductions of his amazing letters and pictures, including a number them that have never been printed before. ![]() This classic festive book of Tolkien's amazing Father Christmas letters written to his children between the 1920s and the 1940s has been reworked into a new and attractive edition. The perfect Christmas gift for Tolkien lovers of all ages. This revised edition of Tolkien's famous illustrated letters from Father Christmas to his children includes a number of pictures and letters that have not been seen in print before. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (1962) and Shadow (1982), which all won Caldecott medals. Since she has published over twenty books with Scribners, including Cinderella (1955), Once A Mouse. In 1946, with the publication of her first book, The Little Carousel, Charles Scribner's Sons Books of Young Readers launched Marcia Brown's career in children's books. ![]() As a child, Marcia drew whenever possible, even in her book margins at school, and by the time she was twelve, she knew that she wanted to illustrate books. Because her father was a minister, the family lived in many towns. These numerous accolades attest to Marcia Brown's distinction as one of Americas's most revered creators of children's books.In 1918 Marcia Brown was born in Rochester, New York, the youngest of three girls. Marcia BrownMarcia Brown is the first and only author-illustrator to be awarded the Caldecott medal three times and to receive six Caldecott Honor Book citations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Windsor Knot () – the most comprehensive and authoritative account yet of the Diana/Charles/Camilla triangle. Currently writing a biography of the Queen’s uncle – Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902-42) – his other books include:. He is a regular contributor to TV debates and documentaries on the British royals, and he lectures widely on all aspects of royalty. ![]() This research was the basis for Channel 4's documentary on Kate, Meet the Middletons, which he also co-produced. His pioneering research work on Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is the prime reference-source for all current biographies of Kate, and his own take on Britain's newest royal will be published in 2012, entitled Daughter of the Nation. The book, A Greater Love - Charles and Camilla, was turned into a top-rated TV documentary which he co-produced and which was screened in the USA, UK, and 26 other countries around the world. For 20 years a leading Fleet Street journalist with columns in The Times, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Express and Today, Christopher Wilson is now a best-selling author whose seminal biography of Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, is the acknowledged source material for all other books and TV films on the subject. ![]() ![]() IN the first books… Tanner was discovering his strength as an Alpha. Each of the pack members has been driven from their packs of origin but they were saved by Tanner. The books are about a rebel pack… they are a mixed species pack with a predilection toward same/sex partnerships. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is the third installment of the Chevalier series. Despite managing the Enclave, dealing with increasing threats from the McBane Pack, and forging new alliances, Theran and Colby are determined to find their happy ever after. With the Sorcerer’s Enclave now interested in the Chevalier Pack, Colby attempts to protect Theran by kidnapping him, which only results in a deeper involvement with the pack. Learning the wolf he’s been dreaming about is real is only compounded by learning the wolf is his mate. When he first saw the wolf in the forest, he was stunned. ![]() He hides his paranormal identity well, flirting for tips while using sarcasm to keep others away. He’s certainly not looking for his mate when the pack congregates at Elysium for a meeting, but that’s exactly what Theran finds when he runs into the sorcerer a second time.Ĭolby has been the bartender at Elysium for a year, and he’s been relatively happy. He was not looking to be nearly decimated when he stumbled across a sorcerer near the pack’s hunting grounds. A moment of quiet was all Theran was looking for. ![]() |