![]() ![]() Britta, a wife, mother, and successful businesswoman, ignores the daily news and concentrates on her family and her work running a clinic specializing in suicide prevention.īut her legitimate business is connected to a secret and far more lucrative operation known as The Bridge, an outfit that supplies terrorist organizations looking to employ suicide bombers. With their democracy facing the wrecking ball, most well-off Germans turn inward, focusing on their own lives. A prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelistsĪ few short years from now, the world is an even more uncertain place than it is today, and politics everywhere is marching rightward: Trump is gone, but Brexit is complete, as is Frexit there's a global financial crisis, armed conflict, mass migration, and an ultrapopulist movement governs in Germany. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In Wisdom of a Yogi, bestselling author, entrepreneur and venture capitalist Rizwan Virk brings out the lessons from Yogananda's classic and reinterprets them for the modern age. But what are twenty-first-century spiritual aspirants, steeped in technology and science, to think of these classic tales of gurus, swamis and miracles in the Himalayas? Do these tales have relevance today? Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi was one of the most impactful spiritual books of the twentieth century and has travelled around the world, inspiring millions to walk the spiritual path. Jobs first read it as a teenager and claimed to have re-read it every year since then.' Steve Jobs, Co-founder of Apple Inc., which became the world's most valuable company, was a big fan and went so far as to say it was one of his favourite books. ![]() 'The impact of the Autobiography wasn't limited to musicians or spiritual seekers. ![]() ![]() ![]() His titles include Tomie and Uzumaki, which have been adapted into live-action films Gyo, which was adapted into an animated film and his short story collections Fragments of Horror, Frankenstein, Shiver, Smashed and Venus in the Blind Spot, all of which are available from VIZ Media. Junji Ito made his professional manga debut in 1987 and since then has gone on to be recognized as one of the greatest contemporary artists working in the horror genre. ![]() Starting with the strikingly bloody “Lovesickness,” this volume collects ten stories showcasing horror master Junji Ito in peak form, including “The Strange Hikizuri Siblings” and “The Rib Woman.” Harboring his own secret from time spent in this town, Ryusuke attempts to capture the beautiful boy and close the case, but… Ryusuke returns to the town he once lived in because rumors are swirling about girls killing themselves after encountering a bewitchingly handsome young man. An innocent love becomes a bloody hell in another superb collection by master of horror Junji Ito. ![]() ![]() Then swept along by its rhythm and the emotional tumult of Frances’s life in Dublin, I came to its final shattering words: “Come and get me.” No one who has read it can forget the shock of that. I duly read it, at first perplexed by the biting, spiky dialogue and the internal thoughts of Frances, the young woman at its core. And I knew that no explanation was needed the message was, “Read this.” There would be something important about it. I recognized the handwriting on the envelope. ![]() The book arrived in the mail, sent from Ireland by my late sister. ![]() ![]() Log In Create Free Accountįive years ago, I read Sally Rooney’s first novel, Conversations with Friends, shortly after it was published. ![]() ![]() It encompasses tender love between divergent species, political downfalls and acts of unspeakable violence. Baby is the first book in the Alien Species Intervention #6609, an alien apocalyptic saga spanning 200 years from the Prohibition to the distant future. The heart-rending and astonishingly brutal climax to their story comes as all three face challenges that ultimately lead to transcendence and the discovery of a new world that promises resurrection. ![]() Baby's miraculous healing powers on the nature around them can't be ignored either. Netty and Baby find happiness and fulfillment until a handsome Italian stranger, Wil, comes into Netty's life, creating a tense love triangle made more fraught by Netty's struggle to hide the bizarre and wondrous changes to her body caused by loving Baby. ![]() After years of enslavement, Netty flees into the night from her rapist husband, traveling back to her parents' farm, where she rescues an enigmatic and damaged creature named "Baby" with whom she falls in love. Netty is a naïve teenage farm girl given in marriage to an older brutal opportunist disguised as a prominent citizen during the Prohibition years in Sussex County, New Jersey. ![]() ![]() Publisher: Orion Publishing Co ISBN: 9781857988826 Number of pages: 336 Weight: 238 g Dimensions: 133 x 200 x 21 mm MEDIA REVIEWS But he soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist world of Anarres.īut Shevek's work is being stifled by jealous colleagues, so he travels to Anarres's sister-planet Urras, hoping to find more liberty and tolerance there. The Principle of Simultaneity is a scientific breakthrough which will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. ' Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER It's so far away from my own imagination, I'd love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin' Roddy Doyle 'A well told tale signifying a good deal one to be read again and again' THE TIMES ![]() One of the very best must-read novels of all time - with a new introduction by Roddy Doyle ![]() ![]() ![]() In ten chapters, each one focusing on a central theme-from recognizing emotions, to establishing boundaries, managing anger, and introducing play into one’s life-Dr. Wang offers readers permission to embrace their mental and emotional self-care while understanding and honoring the richness of their heritage and embodying a new, complete identity. Weaving her personal narrative as a Taiwanese American and insights as a clinician with evidenced-based tools, Dr. Permission to Come Home confronts and destabilizes the stigma Asian Americans face in caring for their mental health. ![]() Yet despite the fact that over 18 million people of Asian descent live in the United States today – 5.6 percent of the population – they are the racial group least likely to seek out mental health services. As Asian Americans investigate the personal and societal effects of longstanding cultural narratives suggesting they take up as little space as possible, their mental health becomes critically important. Asian Americans are experiencing a racial reckoning regarding their identity, inspiring them to radically reconsider the cultural frameworks that enabled their assimilation into American culture. ![]() ![]() She is the editor of Sinister Wisdom, a multicultural lesbian literary and art journal, and a regular book reviewer for the Lambda Book Report and Calyx. ![]() Milk & Honey was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry. She is editor of Milk & Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2011). Her book manuscript, A Fine Bind: Lesbian-Feminist Publishing from 1969 through 2009, tells stories a dozen lesbian-feminist publishers to consider the meaning of the theoretical and political formations of lesbian-feminism, separatism, and cultural feminism.Įnszer is the author of two collections of poetry, Sisterhood (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013) and Handmade Love (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2010). By examining lesbian print culture with the tools of history and literary studies, she reconsider histories of the Women’s Liberation Movement and gay liberation. feminist and lesbian histories, literatures, and cultures. history and literature with particular attention to twentieth century U.S. ![]() Publishing since 1976, Sinister Wisdomworks to create a multicultural, multi-class lesbian. Her scholarship is at the intersection of U.S. Sinister Wisdomis a multicultural lesbian literary & art journal that publishes four issues each year. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Goldfinger" features 007 Sean Connery at his suave best, chasing a memorable villain (with the best evil henchman ever) in the original gadget-laden spy car, while never even wrinkling the tuxedo under his wetsuit. (If you can see two, catch "Diamonds are Forever" too.) If you can see only one of the two-dozen-or-so James Bond movies, this would have to be the one. 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The single most famous name in film history! ![]() ![]() ![]() Cory has been selected for a football team and will be able to go to college, but Troy objects, saying that blacks can never prosper in sport. Troy's brother Gabriel suffered a head injury in the Second World War and now believes that he is the Archangel Gabriel. Troy has a son Lyons (34) by his first marriage, a charming wastrel, and is now married to Rose (43), with whom he has one son Cory, who works in a local store and is a keen footballer. Troy has been complaining that only white men are allowed to drive the trucks, while the blacks have to deal with the rubbish. A: August Wilson Pf: 1985, New Haven, Connecticut Pb: 1986 G: Drama in 2 acts S: Yard of the Maxsons' home, US city, 1957, 1965 C: 5m, 1f, 1 child (f)Troy Maxson, a 53-year-old black garbage collector, arrives home from work with his friend Bono. ![]() |