![]() But do late night texts and impromptu burrito binges mean he feels the same? In the end, Rose will have to decide whether to let her fantasy crush go, or to risk her reputation to be with the charming, handsome, scoundrel-y but sweet pop star she's grown to love. He'll do it, but only if Rose becomes his publicist.Īs the faux-mance between Archie and Raya begins to rehabilitate Archie's faltering career, Rose finds his herself having unexpected, inconvenient and definitely unprofessional feelings for the crooner. The meeting is going badly until Rose suggests a staged romance with up-and-coming, young indie star Raya. Young PR star Rose Reed is thrown into the big leagues when her boss leaves town the day of the firm's meeting with Archie Fox, a young, hot, internationally famous British singer-songwriter. ![]() ![]() A smart and charming romantic comedy about a popstar and the publicist pulling his strings that Kirkus calls a "Cinderella for the modern age." ![]()
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Coldest Winter Ever Love this story I became a fan of Sista Soulja about 11 years ago. Gritty, realistic and often raw, these works typically feature African-American main characters in a contemporary setting and deal with relationships, violence and street life. ![]() With her debut novel “ The Coldest Winter Ever,” first published in 1999, hip-hop artist and activist Sister Souljah spawned the new genre of urban fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The text includes sequences in a tuberculosis sanatorium, an encounter with an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream investigators, and an extended visit to the miniscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide.Ĭombining fiction with autobiography and history- the scientists Nicolae Tesla and George Boole, for example, appear alongside the Voynich manuscript-Solenoid ruminates on the exchanges possible between the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various, monstrous dimensions erupt within the Communist present. Il solenoide dell’eccentrico Nicolae Borina di Crtrescu. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times. The novel is grounded in the reality of late 1970s/early 1980s Communist Romania, including long lines for groceries, the absurdities of the education system, and the misery of family life. Buy a cheap copy of Solenoid book by Mircea Crtrescu. One character asks another: when you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? On a broad scale, the novel's investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art. A highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Cartarescu, author of Blinding: an existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths.īased on Cartarescu's own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. ![]() ![]() NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this clip, Trent encourages those of us who are too busy watching other people live out their dreams to go after our own. Hoping that this Words of Wisdom video from motivational speaker Trent Shelton encourages someone to step up their game. So are you sitting on the sidelines right now, or are you getting in the game? However, I have to actually do the work for myself if I want to continue to see growth and change in my life. This is exactly where I’ve been in my life. ![]() They human just like you,” he wrote in his caption. “Stop being a spectator of other people’s lives, and go elevate yours. As Trent grew (first as a football player and now as a motivational speaker), he realized that he didn’t just want to watch greatness or be around it. It’s time for us to get in the game ourselves. In this clip, Trent talks about how we each have to stop sitting on the sidelines, watching people live their lives and do great things. I hope that it motivates you all today in a powerful way. I rock heavy with this Words of Wisdom clip today from Trent Shelton, especially in this phase of my life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unique settings are a PD James speciality, from a tower on a Dorset hilltop, a nuclear power station on the East Anglian coast and a particular London church to, in this book, an offshore island used as a high-security hideout for VIPs. The earnest viewpoint is combined with playful use of the conventions of the mystery game, a formal pattern in which suspects come forward in turn, as the detectives scrupulously consider a series of clues and motives. The Lighthouse is a whodunit which takes murder seriously this writer never lets her readers forget that death is no joke. ![]() Her people, places and plots are as artful as ever and her dialogue, having always been uncolloquially correct and expletive-free, does not date. ![]() At 85 she is still a working peer, more actively involved with the world than most authors. ![]() Luckily her successor PD James presents no such problems. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons?their love, their sacrifices, their lies.Ī sweeping story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father?s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. But so strong is the bond between the two boys that Amir journeys back to a distant world, to try to right past wrongs against the only true friend he ever had. The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship and betrayal, and about the price of loyalty. Their uncommon bond is torn by Amir's choice to abandon his friend amidst the increasing ethnic, religious, and political tensions of the dying years of the Afghan monarchy, wrenching them far apart. Hassan, his servant and constant companion, is a Hazara, a despised and impoverished caste. ![]() The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini € 14.99 This item arrived at our Amsterdam store within the past 8 weeks If not in stock, the expected delivery time for this item will be 2 - 4 weeksĪmir is the son of a wealthy Kabul merchant, a member of the ruling caste of Pashums. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet by far the most momentous change in the history of this prosperous, capitalist colony was its return in 1997 to 'Mother China', the most powerful communist state in the world."-Book jacket. ![]() ![]() security and history of the Chinese Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Working in parallel with the locals, the British built it up to become a focus for investment in the region and an international centre with global shipping, banking and financial interests. Steve Tsang is Head of School and Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the. As premier power in Europe and an expansionist empire, Britain first created in Hong Kong a major naval station and the principal base to open the Celestial Chinese Empire to trade. The story began in 1842 with the founding of the Crown Colony after the First Anglo-Chinese war - the original 'Opium War'. "This major new history of Hong Kong tells the story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. Broken link? let us search Trove, the Wayback Machine, or Google for you. ![]() ![]() ![]() The encounter reeks of schoolboy fantasies: an insatiable older woman who offers carnal instruction, then repairs to the kitchen to prepare a Sunday roast. It is “the moment from which all else fanned out and upwards with the extravagance of a peacock’s tail”. What happens between them in that quiet cottage will score a line across Roland’s life. Roland fears that the world is about to end, and he will die a virgin. ![]() The boy, Roland Baines, is 14 his teacher, Miss Cornell, is 25. He stands on her doorstep in his drainpipe trousers and sharp-toed winklepickers, twitchy with eroticised terror. ![]() In October 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, an English schoolboy arrives unannounced at his piano teacher’s house. Can earnestness be a form of literary rebellion? It’s compassionate and gentle, and so bereft of cynicism it feels almost radical. McEwan’s 17th novel is old-fashioned, digressive and indulgently long the hero is a gold-plated ditherer, and the story opens with a teenage wank (few books are improved by an achingly sentimental wank). ![]() ![]() ![]() We can talk about postcolonialism from different points of view. In fact, the very different geographical, historical, social, religious, and economic concerns of the different ex-colonies dictate a wide variety in the nature and subject of most postcolonial writing. ![]() ![]() Postcolonialism includes a vast array of writers and subjects. However, it may also refer to the literature written in other countries, which takes as its subject-matter the idea or experience of colonialism. Postcolonialism, discussed from a literary approach, deals with the literature produced in countries that were colonies and by the colonized peoples responding to the colonial legacy by what the British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie called “writing back”, and thus confronting colonial cultural attitudes through literature. ![]() |