Sin Eater by Megan Campisi5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s a devastating sentence, but May’s new invisibility opens new doors. When she’s arrested for stealing a loaf of bread, however, and subsequently sentenced to become a Sin Eater, finding food is suddenly the last of her worries. Recently orphaned May Owens is just fourteen, and has never considered what it might be like to be so ostracized she’s more concerned with where her next meal is coming from. Stained by the sins they are obliged to consume, the Sin Eater is shunned and silenced, doomed to live in exile at the edge of town. It is always women who eat sins – since it was Eve who first ate the Forbidden Fruit – and every town has at least one, not that they are publicly acknowledged. ![]() Can you uncover the truth when you’re forbidden from speaking it?Ī Sin Eater’s duty is a necessary evil: she hears the final private confessions of the dying, eats their sins as a funeral rite, and so guarantees their souls access to heaven. ![]()
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Lifeblood by P.N. Elrod5/22/2023 ![]() "Depends." His face was as carefully blank as the lobby's marble floor. As long as the trysting couples were quiet about it, he was conveniently blind and deaf disturb the other guests and the offenders were out on their ears. "Slow, but there's the weekend coming up." He didn't look like much, but Bobbi said he could take care of himself and knew where to go for help if he needed it. He was a medium-sized, slightly tubby man in an old derby and a loose collar. Leaning against it, just out of my line of sight, was the house dick, Phil. This sort of behavior makes me curious, so I walked over to see what made the pillar such a fascinating conversationalist. I waved at the night clerk as usual, he nodded back, turned to a pillar near his desk, and resumed talking to it. My hopes panned out or I was lucky again the next night I was back in the familiar and relative sanity of Chicago. Not the best kind of subterfuge, but I was hoping Braxton was not that good a detective. ![]() My car was left several blocks away in another hotel's garage. AGAIN TAKING REFUGE in a large, anonymous hotel under a different name, I stopped for the day in Indianapolis. ![]() The road back to you com5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Enneagram is an ancient personality typing system with an uncanny accuracy in describing how human beings are wired, both positively and negatively. Do you want help figuring out who you are and why you're stuck in the same ruts? What you don't know about yourself can hurt you and your relationships-and even keep you in the shallows with God. Ignorance is bliss-except in self-awareness. Witty and filled with stories, this unique approach gives you a peek inside each of the nine Enneagram types, taking you further into who you really are and leading you into spiritual discovery.įoreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile share their Enneagram wisdom and help you grow in knowledge of yourself, compassion for others, and love for God. ![]() The history of clarissa harlowe5/22/2023 ![]() Eventually they forbid her to either leave her room or send letters to her friend, Anna Howe, until Clarissa apologises and agrees to marry Solmes. The Harlowes begin restricting Clarissa's contact with the outside world by forbidding her to see Lovelace. This makes her family suspicious of her supposed dislike of Lovelace and they begin to disbelieve her. The entire Harlowe family is in favour of her marrying Roger Solmes, however Clarissa finds Solmes to be unpleasant company and does not wish to marry him, either. These feelings combine with resentment that their grandfather had left Clarissa a piece of land and lead the siblings to be aggressive to Clarissa. ![]() James, also, dislikes Lovelace greatly because of a duel the two had once fought. Clarissa insists that she dislikes Lovelace, but Arabella grows jealous of Lovelace's interest in the younger girl. Lovelace quickly moves on from Arabella to Clarissa, much to the displeasure of Arabella and their brother James. However, she rejects him because she felt slighted by his more ardent interest in her parents' approval than in her. Robert Lovelace, a wealthy " libertine" and heir to a substantial estate, begins to court Arabella, Clarissa's older sister. In 2013 The Guardian included Clarissa among the 100 best novels written in English. ![]() In 2015, the BBC ranked Clarissa 14th on its list of the 100 greatest British novels. Picture from "Lettres angloises, ou histoire de Miss Clarisse Harlove." 1751. ![]() Until You by T.J. Klune5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio's former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled "HAP," he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio-a past spent hunting humans. ![]() In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots-fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. ![]() The pi book5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() But when the boat sinks, he finds himself stuck in a lifeboat with a jaguar formerly of the Berlin Zoo. In this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it allusion, Martel acknowledges that his story is based on Scliar’s own Max and the Cats, in which a young Jewish man flees Nazi Germany on a ship bound for Brazil. Buried in Martel’s author’s note is an oft-overlooked detail: he thanks Moacyr Scliar for the ‘spark of life’ that inspired his story. Thanks to huge critical acclaim, as well as a 2008 film adaptation directed by Ang Lee, the novel has sold over a million copies and regularly finds itself discussed in schools, bookclubs and wherever anybody loves fiction with a magical-realist twist.Īctually, the novel was embroiled in controversy when it was first published. Pi must draw on all the knowledge gleaned from his childhood growing up in Pondicherry Zoo, as well as his inner reserves of faith and endurance, to survive this desperate ordeal. Even those who haven’t read the novel have probably heard of the story: its the tale of a devout Indian boy who becomes stranded in a lifeboat with a 450-pound Bengal tiger as his only companion. Introductionįaith, friendship, fiction, floating adrift at sea – all are themes explored in Life of Pi, a 2002 Man Booker Prize winning novel by Yann Martel. ![]() Watch this Moral of the Story video explainer exploring the hidden meanings behind The Life of Pi by Yann Martel. ![]() The Golden Sword by Janet E. Morris5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Given its 4ft (121cm) length and 8lb (3.5kg) weight, this is no mean feat, as evidenced by her shaking arms, when she handed the historic weapon to King Charles. The sword, decorated with royal symbols including the lion and union and fleur de lis, is also used during the state opening of Parliament. For the ceremony, Mordaunt was required to carry the 17th-Century Sword of State into the Abbey in the King's Procession, and continue to hold it aloft for much of the service – specifically at right angles to her body. Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt has emerged as the quiet star of the Coronation ceremony – one that nobody saw coming.Ĭarrying out her role as Lord President of the Privy Council, Mordaunt’s stylish appearance soon sparked comparisons to Pippa Middleton’s show-stealing performance at the Prince and Princess of Wales’s wedding in 2011. ![]() The sum of us heather mcghee review5/21/2023 ![]() But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policymaking. Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy-and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. ![]() Look for the author’s new podcast, The Sum of Us, based on this book! Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist “This is the book I’ve been waiting for.”-Ibram X. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, St. ![]() WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD ![]() One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone-not just for people of color.LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. ![]() Yours Until Dawn by Teresa Medeiros5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:oclc:877985505 Scandate 20100422212949 Scanner . Veteran Medeiros (Yours Until Dawn ) deftly melds romance and vampire lore in this thoroughly readable Regency. All of her books have been national bestsellers, featured on the New York Times, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. OL1961529W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.14 Pages 394 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0060828676 Teresa Medeiros OctoNew York Times bestseller Teresa Medeiros wrote her first novel at the age of twenty-one and has since gone on to win the hearts of both readers and critics. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:44:18 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA115904 Boxid_2 CH107301 Camera Canon 5D City New York Donor ![]() ![]() ![]() Harel’s meditative, playful, and lyrical musings draw on the tools of varied disciplines-aesthetics, astronomy, biology, evolutionary theory, history of science, philosophy, psychiatry, and more-while remaining unbounded by any particular one. ![]() Closing the book is a profile of Darwin’s marriage to Emma Wedgwood, his first cousin, a woman gifted in music and medicine who shared her husband’s love of life. ![]() She argues that much of what Darwin described, envisioned, and felt was biophilia in action. Harel traces the influence of biophilia on Darwin’s views of dogs, facts, thought, emotion, and beauty, informed by little-known material from his private notebooks. ![]() In a set of interrelated essays, she considers how the love of life enabled him to see otherwise unseen evolutionary truths. In this unconventional book, Kay Harel uses biophilia as a lens to explore Charles Darwin’s life and thought in deeply original ways. Darwin’s Love of Life: A Singular Case of Biophilia by Kay Harel (Columbia University Press/2022) | Publisher’s description: “Biophilia-the love of life-encompasses the drive to survive, a sense of kinship with all life-forms, and an instinct for beauty. ![]() |