5/12/2023 0 Comments The deluge tooze![]() ![]() ![]() From the day the United States enters the war in 1917 to the precipice of global financial ruin, Tooze delineates the world remade by American economic and military power. A century after the outbreak of fighting, Adam Tooze revisits this seismic moment in history, challenging the existing narrative of the war, its peace, and its aftereffects. The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrial order. The infinite demands for men and materiel reached into countries far from the front. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York. In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. About the Book "A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath. ![]()
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5/12/2023 0 Comments Chuck wendig wanderers![]() ![]() The survivors, sleepwalkers and shepherds alike, have a dream of rebuilding human society. ![]() Because the sleepwalking epidemic was only the first in a chain of events that led to the end of the world-and the birth of a new one. Their secret destination: Ouray, a small town in Colorado that would become one of the last outposts of civilization. They were followed on their quest by the shepherds: friends and family who gave up everything to protect them. The book, as described by its cover copy:įive years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to sleepwalk across the country to a destination only they knew. (Though some stores are already carrying it, and if you saw me at Doylestown Bookshop on Saturday, you may already have a copy!) Tomorrow, 11/15, Wayward, the sequel to 2019’s Wanderers, is released. ![]() ![]() ![]() He seeks her out and confronts her in an effort to understand what went wrong and to force her to sort herself out.He finds out quickly he's wrong about Dusty Holliday. ![]() Mike thinks she hasn't changed back to the sweet, funny girl he knew but instead continued to be selfish and thoughtless, leaving her family alone to deal with their mourning. After high school, she took off and Mike never saw her again.Tragedy strikes Dusty's family and she comes back to town. As a teen, Dusty had gone off the rails but when she was a kid, she was sweet, she was funny and she had a special bond with Mike. But what he remembers is Dusty, the little sister of his high school girlfriend, who grew up there. Read full overviewįrom the balcony of his house, Mike Haines can see the quiet, commonplace beauty of the Holliday farm. As a teen, Dusty had gone off the rails but whe. ![]() From the balcony of his house, Mike Haines can see the quiet, commonplace beauty of the Holliday farm. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Iceman, Vol. 1 by Sina Grace![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He grapples with his gay identity and his family and how to build a life and legacy he can be proud of.and become the best Iceman he can be! But, whether it's seeking his ex-girlfriend Kitty Pryde's advice on meeting guys, or delivering his latest news to his folks, it won't be easy - and that's before a gang of revenge-seeking Purifiers comes calling! And, still learning to be comfortable in his own skin, Bobby will meet someone who's perhaps too comfortable in his - the son of Wolverine himself, Daken! COLLECTING: Iceman 1-5 Product Details Bobby Drake has been in the super hero game longer than most - but what has he left behind besides a few good one-liners and a string of failed relationships? And now a younger version of himself has emerged from the timestream - and he's more put together than Bobby ever was. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Pineapple street by jenny jackson![]() ![]() ![]() It’s about the peculiar unknowability of someone else’s family, the miles between the haves and have-nots and everything in between, and the insanity of first love. ![]() ![]() Rife with the indulgent pleasures of life among New York’s one-percenters, Pineapple Street is a smart escapist novel that sparkles with wit. Georgiana, the baby of the family, has fallen in love with someone she can’t (and really shouldn’t) have and must confront the kind of person she wants to be. Sasha, middle-class and from New England, has married into the Brooklyn Heights family and finds herself cast as the arriviste outsider, wondering how she might ever understand their WASP-y ways. Pineapple Street Jenny Jackson 3.80 14,628 ratings2,072 reviews Want to read Kindle 14.99 Rate this book Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, carefully guarded, old-money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and inheritance for motherhood, sacrificing more of herself than she ever intended. You can read this before Pineapple Street PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.ĭarley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, carefully guarded, old-money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and inheritance for motherhood, sacrificing more of herself than she ever intended. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Pineapple Street written by Jenny Jackson which was published in Expected publication March 7, 2023. Brief Summary of Book: Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Jefferson Country - A Tale of Love and Revolution in the Onco... by L.T. Kuhlman![]() ![]() The agents of this upheaval have gathered in the hills and dales around Thomas Jefferson's historic residence. They also discover that a great societal reordering is underway and that the world is about to undergo a devastating transformation. ![]() He is drawn into a love relationship with Claire Fox as she helps him decipher the bizarre pictogram on Roberta's body and unravel the mystery that underlies her execution-and saves him from the gallows! In the course of their investigation, Henry and Claire learn that the Age of Aquarius is about to dawn and that a cosmic cleansing must be completed before it can begin. ![]() Jefferson Country's author, who writes under a pseudonym, ties its parallel plots together in the cult murder of Roberta Wiley. Like many other famous works of fiction, Jefferson Country is a roman a clef-it presents real events in a fictionalized framework and uses fictitious characters and real people to advance its conflicts. This tale of love and revolution takes place in 1975 in picturesque Charlottesville, Virginia. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The sanatorium book cover![]() ![]() ' The Sanatorium is an absolutely splendid Gothic thriller.' A. Everyone's in danger - and anyone could be next. ![]() With access to the hotel cut off, the guests begin to panic.īut this is only the first disappearance. And things only get worse when they wake the next morning to find her brother's fiancée is missing. But her estranged brother has invited her there for his engagement party, and she feels she has no choice but to accept.Īrriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge. *COLD AS ICE AWARD WINNER AT 2022 DEAD GOOD READERS AWARDS*Ī beautiful, eerie hotel in the Swiss Alps, recently converted from an abandoned sanatorium, is the last place Detective Elin Warner wants to be. *CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2022 FINGERPRINT AWARDS* 'An eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat.' Reese Witherspoon ![]() This spine-tingling, atmospheric thriller has it all: an eerie Alpine setting, sharp prose, and twists you'll never see coming. ' The Sanatorium will keep you checking over your shoulder. An instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller, it was picked as Waterstones Thriller of the Month. The breakout bestselling crime thriller debut of 2021, The Sanatorium published with rave endorsements from Richard Osman, Lucy Foley and A J Finn. ![]() ![]() ![]() It does not hit home until she moves to a spartan, isolated worksite for higher pay. ![]() Being one of the few women among thousands of men, the culture shock is palpable. ![]() Arriving in Fort McMurray, Katie finds work in the lucrative camps owned and operated by the world's largest oil companies. With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, what the journey will actually cost Katie will be far more than she anticipates. After university, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush, part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Here we go//.Ĭelebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark A Vagrant fame, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beatons, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles and gaelic folk songs. ![]() So it's an exclusive and we're taking it for ourselves. To be fair, we just looked at it on Amazon, but no one else seems to have done that. And Bleeding Cool has a first look at the cover. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is the new collection of Kate Beaton's cartoons from Drawn & Quarterly, to be published on the 22nd of September, telling the story of Canada. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Tethered by Brandi Leigh Hall![]() ![]() But the more she tries to hide her family’s magical secrets from this ever-present stranger, the more quickly she realizes he’s hiding a few doozies of his own. Hunter’s twenty-five, sometimes old-fashioned in a Jane Austen hero sort of way, and more delicious than molten-lava cake. Perfect takes the edge off her endless family drama. As if being an in-the-closet-Seer wasn’t bad enough, now she has to spend summer break with the snarky sister who hates her-and the magical birthright she was hell-bent on denying for all eternity. While struggling to bench-press more guilt than any nineteen-year-old ever should.īut fate intervenes and forces Chloe to return home. Since foreseeing the imminent death of her parents six years earlier, Chloe has lived a simple, not-so-charmed-life away from her remaining Wiccan family. ![]() ![]() No matter how you try to fight it-destiny has a mind of its own! ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Fake law book![]() In Fake Law, the Secret Barrister debunks the lies and builds an hilarious, alarming and eye-opening defence against the abuse of our law, our rights and our democracy. In Fake Law, the Secret Barrister debunks the lies and builds a defence against the abuse of our law, our rights and our democracy that is as entertaining. Thankfully, the Secret Barrister is back to reveal the stupidity, malice and incompetence behind many of the biggest legal stories of recent years. This ‘fake law’ allows the powerful and the ignorant to corrupt justice without our knowledge – worse, we risk letting them make us complicit. ![]() Our unfamiliarity is dangerous because it makes us vulnerable to media spin, political lies and the kind of misinformation that frequently comes from other loud-mouthed amateurs and those with vested interests. 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